the city of Trivandrum in Kerala. That afternoon I was to speak at a school‚ what would be the equivalent of what we call a high school in this country. This particular school was attended by and large by students who were the children of former untouchables’. "The
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The conclusion of the novel is that the touchable (Ammu) and the untouchable (Velutha) cannot be together. The Big god‚ who is the society‚ doesn¡¦t allow people of different caste to associate with one another. Small god‚ on the other hand‚ wants to gain individual happiness with the love affair even though he knows that there will be consequences. The love affair of Ammu and Velutha‚ Velutha being beaten up‚ the betrayal of Estha on Velutha and the incest committed by Estha and Rahel are a few
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APJ Abdul Kalam: ’A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure’ Abdul kalam following qualities to be of utmost importance for a creative leader. Leaders cannot go back to a dictatorial style. Who is that creative leader? You have to ask yourself? What are the qualities of the creative leader? The creative leadership‚ I define‚ ‘The creative leadership isexercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach‚ manager to mentor‚ from director to delegator‚ and from one he demands
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Reading novel can be a study on certain society in certain time and place. It is because a novel is not born from inanition‚ it has some phenomena‚ worldviews and reasons that become the background of its present. This idea is the main supporter of studying the extrinsic elements of the novel. And one of the ways for doing it‚ is by applying the sociological approach in analyzing the novel. Arundhaty Roy’s The God of Small Things is the novel that captures many social values of Indian society
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castes could become impure even if a shadow of an untouchable person touches him and to re-gain his purity he had to take a dip into holy waters of the Ganga. Who Are Untouchables? According to traditional Hindu ‘Varna System’‚ a person is born into one of the four castes based on karma and ‘purity’. Those born as Brahmans are priests and teachers; Kshatriyas are rulers and soldiers; Vaisyas are merchants and traders; and Sudras are laborers. Untouchables are literally outcastes. They do not directly
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Dalit Consciousness in Limbale’s Outcast Submitted to MAHATHMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY Ajith P.C SAAA10159974 CMS COLLEGE KOTTAYAM FEBRUARY 2013 Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis entitled “Limbale’s Outcaste as an awakening dalit consciousness” submitted to the Mahatma Gandhi University is an original bonafide record of the research work carried out by me at the department of English‚ C.M.S college Kottayam‚ under the supervision of Dr. Sobhana
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Muslims and the untouchables. These claims were rejected by other Indian participants No agreement could be made and the conference collapsed The new National government decided to deal with only those groups who were willing to work with the administration in India. Gandhi was arrested and by the middle of 1932 60‚000 members of the congress were in prison. In August the communal award was announced which guaranteed separate seats to Sikhs‚ Muslims‚ Christian and the Untouchables in any future
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The gap between the law on books and the law in action is affected by numerous factors including race‚ location and values that are held by persons. A person’s race significantly impacts the type of learning environment that they can flourish or fail in. Although the Department of Education claims that their goal is to promote competiveness from all types of students and guarantee that they have equal opportunities‚ their goal is affected by race and location as well. In the example given above
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the caste system‚ political associations and social laws. Velutha is presented as the God of Small Things in the novel. In the novel‚ he is also presented with the names like an Untouchable‚ Paravan‚ The God of Loss and The God of Goose Bumps and Sudden Smiles. Velutha is the upholder of the world of sacred‚ untouchable secrets‚ whispers‚ overlooked pieces of reality‚ promises‚ sins‚ and other emotional creatures. These things are insignificant for other characters who seek for big significant things
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system. Ram’s social marginalisation is privileged through the foregrounding of the caste system in Indian society where he is seen as an untouchable‚ someone who lives in a chawl‚ with no education‚ Ram states “…The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.” (pg.12)‚ this foregrounds how as an untouchable in society‚ Ram is only seen as a slave to others‚ not someone with any kind of intelligence to have the mental capacity to partake in a quiz
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