I was surprised to discover online that Jeffrey Archer--so favorably juxtaposed to Salman Rushdie in one of Bridget Jones’ Diary’s hilarious dinner scenes-- seems to be pretty unpopular in the British press‚ quite aside from the fact that he’s been convicted of a felony. (His scandalous lifestyle is straightforwardly presented here.) Whatever the man’s personal flaws‚ however‚ his first book‚ Not a Penny More‚ Not a Penny Less‚ is a lot of fun. The story begins wheh Harvey Metcalfe‚ a
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William Heiges ENGL 203-525 Ms. Nair Feb 8‚ 2013 Literature and its Relevance in Modern Times Before the importance of literature is discussed we must ask ourselves: “What is literature?” Many individuals that are asked that question will often give a complex answer for it seems to be a complex word. Some of the answers may include “it involves reading” or “it’s when you write”. These are both true‚ but when you actually think about it‚ literature is so much more than that‚ especially with how
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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH POEM THE BEGINNING The renaissance in modern Indian Literature begins with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The infiltration of western culture‚ the study of English literature‚ the adoption of western scientific techniques‚ gave a jolt to India’s traditional life. It shocked us into a new awareness‚ a sense of urgency‚ and the long dormant intellectual and critical impulse was quickened into sudden life and the reawakening Indian spirit went forth to meet the violent challenge of
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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CULTURAL EMERGENCY IN INDIA Is India facing what author Salman Rushdie calls a "cultural emergency" with writers‚ painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob? Consider the events that have made the front pages this week. Leading academic Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta
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The concept of globalisation has delimited the distance of the world‚ and it opened the numerous paths for every human being to get suitable opportunity for his livelihood in any part of the world. The migrates make efforts to adapt the culture of their inhabiting countries‚ and also try to get habitual with the mores of there. But the inherent culture makes them close to the spirit of their native countries‚ and originates the sense of cultural conflicts. They make every possible effort for sustaining
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associated with these groups‚ is bearing the brunt. The world is not a safe place anymore. * The second statement: There’re two sets of people in this world - the good and the bad. No matter how strong the evil forces are‚ good always triumphs. My Name Is Khan mirrors the era we live in. Not a day goes by when you haven’t heard/read/watched news of terror attacks and innocents being killed. We live in turbulent times. Also‚ the movie states - and states very strongly‚ without mincing words ‚ not all Muslims
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Censorship has been defined as ‘the removal of material that is deemed or judged offensive to any sector of the population.’ Many have wondered‚ “Just how beneficial is censorship to man‚ when is it enough and does it help?” It is my view however; that there is no clear answer to that question‚ for censorship has its fair balance of advantages and disadvantages. One advantage that most people can agree on is that censorship protects the young‚ the innocent and the vulnerable. It is built on the
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The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel‚ first published in 1988 . The frame narrative‚ like many other stories by Rushdie‚ involves Indian expatriates in contemporary England. The two protagonists‚ Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha‚ are both actors of Indian Muslim background. Farishta is a Bollywood superstar who specialises in playing Hindu deities..Chamcha is an emigrant who has broken with his Indian identity and works as a voiceover artist in England. At the beginning of the
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HES 2330 Thermodynamics 1 Semester 1 – 2013 ASSIGNMENT 2 Due Date: 29 May 2013‚ 5.00 PM Dropbox: Mailbox 83 (HES2330/HES4330) – Level 8‚ ATC Building 1. A container filled with 45 kg of liquid water at 95oC is placed in a 90-m3 room that is initially at 12oC. The thermal equilibrium is established after a while as a result of heat transfer between the water and the air in the room. Using constant specific heats‚ determine (a) the final equilibrium temperature‚ (b) the amount of heat transfer between
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