The Bhopal disaster (commonly referred to as Bhopal gas tragedy) was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes.[1] It occurred on the night of December 2–3‚ 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ India. A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was
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get almost twice that reward‚” explains Narayan. Individual performance coaching is in place; and a relative ranking‚ clearly quantified‚ forces people at the bottom of the performance chart to chart their exit routes. This has had an impact on attrition‚ and not all of it is understandably unwelcome. Four years ago‚ the attrition hovered around 5 to 6 per cent. Today‚ it is between 12 and 14 per cent. This is not an issue of serious concern‚ notes Narayan‚ who estimates 40 to 50 per cent of this
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Ishvar and his brother Narayan saved Ashraf’s shop by claiming it belonged to them‚ leaving Ashraf forever in their debt. Narayan returned to the village and set up a successful tailor business for lower caste people He married and had a son His business was very successful and it gave him enough money to build a proper house All was going well until Narayan discovered that the elections were being fixed by Thakur Dharamsi‚ a powerful land owner Narayan confronted Thakur‚ who
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first instance of humor within the story occurs when an unsuspecting cat gets its head caught in an upturned jug‚ and struggled to free itself. As a result the residents of the block mistake the hysterical cat for a thief‚ and later‚ a spirit. Here Narayan uses dramatic irony as the reader is aware of the fact that the devilish creature’ haunting the store is‚ in fact‚ a cat‚ while the characters do not. Thus‚ one views the resident’s reactions as naïve and comically exaggerated. Furthermore‚ the residents
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partners to the issues talked about on the cutting edge. Note that youngsters‚ not at all like most grown-ups‚ can converge with each other in spite of the fact that they have distinctive convictions about social or religious subjects. In this way‚ Narayan mirrors the resistance to adjustment at school from the eyes of the schoolboys by depicting their whimsical ways to deal with the issue‚ which causes him to render the occasions normally or as they unerringly‚ show up‚ in actuality. In like manner
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Like Narayan‚ Jagan too lost his beloved wife at an early stage. And like Narayan‚ Jagan also never remarried. And more important‚ Jagan and Narayan were almost the same age (Jagan being fifty five‚ Narayan being sixty) at the time the novel was written. Besides‚ Jagan was of the same caste to which Narayan himself belonged. A reader may recall here that almost all the chief characters Narayan has drawn in his novels like Swami‚ Chandran‚ Ramani‚ Krishnan
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Myths often are re-created several times over to relate to modern culture. In Sita Sings the Blues‚ by Nina Paley‚ she takes her own life happenings and uses the story of Ramayana to relate and re- create her own story. For example‚ in the movie‚ she goes back and forth between her life and Sita’s life. Sita Sings the Blues is tethered around the theme of love. She emphasizes the love that Sita has for Rama as well as the love she has for her husband. Although the story mostly remains the same‚
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Aging is inevitable‚ everyone experiences aging regardless of any physical alterations. In the United States‚ aging is not viewed as favorable process as it is in other countries (jrank.org‚ n.d.; Waites & Onolemhemhen‚ 2014). According to the World Health Organization (n.d.) and Waites & Onolemhemhen (2014)‚ individuals are living longer in industrialized and low industrialized nations prompting researchers to focus on the aging process. According to the biological theory of aging‚ the physical
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While women’s oppression exists in virtually every society around the world‚ issues pertaining to women vary by culture‚ race‚ religion‚ economic status‚ and geographic location as well as many other variables and attributes that makes us individual‚ but separate us and our experiences. Global feminism is often separated into two groups‚ the global North which consists of Western feminists from places with greater wealth such as North America and some parts of Western Europe‚ and the global South
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