INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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Origin Of Name of District : - The origin of the name of the district‚ Ballia‚ has long been a matter of dispute. It is locally said to have been derived from the name of the sage Valmiki‚ the celebrated hindu poet and the author of RAMAYAN‚ whose having resided here was commemorated‚ by a shrine which has long been washed away. Another belief about the origin of the name is that it has been derived from the sandy nature of the land of the place‚ locally known as ballu meaning sand . Location and
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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Indian writing in English Raja Rammohan Ray was the first Indian to effectively express himself in black and white through English though he was initiated to the language when he was in his teens. Thereafter Vivekananda showed his perfect masterly over the language through his evocative prose‚ which made the west sit up and take notice of the greatness of Hinduism. Tagore also had written some poems in English. However‚ there is no denying the fact that Indian writings in English were extremely
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Books | Authors | A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul | A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral | A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli | A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral | A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani | A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander | A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov | A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale | A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History
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world’s major rivers‚ the Indus‚ the Ganges‚ and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra all rise near Mount Kailash to cross and encircle the Himalayas. Their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people. Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate‚ the Himalayan range runs‚ west-northwest to east-southeast‚ in an arc 2‚400 kilometres (1‚500 mi) long. Its western anchor‚ Nanga Parbat‚ lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river‚ its eastern anchor‚ Namcha
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permanent settlements can exist along its banks. The second system is the Padma-Ganges‚ which is divided into two sections: a 258-kilometer segment‚ the Ganges‚ which extends from the western border with India to its confluence with the Jamuna some 72 kilometers west of Dhaka‚ and a 126-kilometer segment‚ the Padma‚ which runs from the Ganges-Jamuna confluence to where it joins the Meghna River at Chandpur. The Padma-Ganges is the central part of a deltaic river system with hundreds of rivers and streams—some
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International‚2001. | 3 Ghosh‚ Amitav. The Shadow Lines. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher‚1988‚ | 4 .Bhagat‚ Chetan. the 3 mistakes of my life ‚ A Story about Business‚ Cricket and Religion. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2008‚ 223-224. | 5. Malgonkar‚ Manohar. A Bend in the Ganges .London: Pan Books Ltd‚1964. 374-378. | 6. Gokhale‚ Shanta ‘The Dramatists’ in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ed.‚ An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (Delhi: Permanent Black‚ 2003) p 349. | 7. Multani‚ Angelie‚ ‘Final Solutions
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No. Books Authors 01 My experiments with Truth Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 02 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 03 Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore 04 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn 05 The Merchant of venice William shakespeare 06 The Moon and Six pense Somerset Maughan 07 Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come John Bunyan 08 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 09 Utopia Sir Thomas Moor 10 Origin of species charles Darwin
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In the semi-autobiographical poem‚ ‘The Story of Lost Friends’‚ Ruskin Bond chronicles all the important incidents in his life which lead to friendship being made and then broken. In this poem he narrates a brief story of his childhood‚ of promises kept and broken‚ friends made and lost‚ joy and sorrow‚ set against the war years in India. The poem starts with him standing on the edge of the railway- cutting‚ looking for someone among the hundreds of people in the station and reminiscing
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