What Makes a Good Short Story and How Successful is R.K. Narayan in Portraying the Character of Swami in the Short Story ‘A Hero’? Nadine Gordimer – ‘Short story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the art of the only thing we can be sure of – the present moment.’ This is a quote from short story writer Nadine Gordimer; referring to how the art of short story writing is to get straight to the point and write everything as it is. This is an art and those who cannot perfect it should
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to explore the cutting edge of fiction. He is a traditional teller of tales‚ a creator of realist fiction which is often gentle‚ humorous‚ and warm rather than hard-hitting or profound. Almost all of his writings are set in the fictional city of Malgudi‚ and are narrowly focused on the lives of relatively humble individuals‚ neither extremely poor nor very rich. The Guideis one of his most interesting books‚ which begins as a comic look at the life of a rogue‚ but evolves into something quite different
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contemporary touch with the coming of Mulk Raj Anand‚ Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan. The social disparity of India which was aptly described by Mulk Raj Anand in his "Coolie"‚ the imaginary village life with its entire unedited realities in R.K. Narayan`s "Malgudi Days" and last but not the least the aura of Gandhism depicted by Raja Rao in his remarkable novel "Kanthapura" portrayed a whole new India. The need of the `foreigners` depicting India amidst their write ups was not needed as Indians wanted to portray
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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her. Raju gets involved in a case of forgery and gets a two year sentence. After completing the sentence‚ Raju passes through a village where he is mistaken for a sadhu (a spiritual guide). Reluctantly‚ as he does not want to return in disgrace to Malgudi‚ he stays in an abandoned temple. There is a famine in the village and Raju is expected to keep a fast in order to make it rain. With media publicizing his fast‚ a huge crowd gathers (much to Raju’s resentment) to watch him fast. After fasting for
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Hindi film songs based programs like Chitrahaar‚ Rangoli‚ Ek Se Badkar Ek and Superhit Muqabla. * Crime thrillers like Karamchand ‚ Barrister Roy‚ Byomkesh Bakshi and Reporter . * Shows targeted at children included Dada Dadi ki Kahaniyan‚ Malgudi Days‚ Tenali Rama
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Batch: 2012-2015 Course Code: 50121212 Course Name: Projects I Roll #808 Assignment #A 126 Ancient Literature The Epic of Gilgamesh Introduction The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ an epic poem from Mesopotamia‚ is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independent Sumerian poems about ’Bilgamesh’ (Sumerian for Gilgamesh)‚ king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source
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Chapter: I Introduction Order is not an apriori. It is constructed over a period of time by different thinkers. The growth of civilization continuously tries to homogenize man in to columns so that he will be placed in a structure. This attempt to bring order sometimes privileges some people over the other. Family is one such attempt to harmonize the society and it is very important because this structure is further extended to understand a society. The political system is modelled
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OF STEPHEN HAWKING AND HISTORY OF TIME It is the ultimate irony that the “finest mind alive” today is a mind held captive in a speechless‚ dying and withering body! It is the mind of Stephen Hawking – world’s leading Cosmologist and most brilliant and original theoretical physicist. Presently the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge‚ he has been proclaimed as the greatest genius of the late 20th century. Yet‚ as he lies limp in his wheel-chair‚ weighing only 38 kilos and not even
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