exiles‚ refugees and other ethnic minorities. Thus‚ today‚ ‘diaspora’ refers to dispersed populations that‚ like seeds scattered away from the parental body of the homeland‚ do not assimilate completely but rather manage to reproduce in new sites of settlement a social formation‚ a culture‚ and an identity that remains linked to the homelands. Gabriel Sheffer defines diaspora as a “socio-political formation‚ created as a result of either voluntary or forced migration‚ whose members regard themselves
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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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There are many discussions about the effects of reality TV on society. Positive and negative effects of reality TV are two parts of a coin. Unfortunately the coin mostly falls on the negative side. Many reality TV shows are created purely for profit without thinking about its consequences on the mindsets of viewers‚ especially young viewers . Media companies accept that they make these shows for profit and they do not care about the
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FLIPKART * Flipkart went live in 2007 with the objective of making books easily available to anyone who had internet access. Today‚ we’re present across various categories including movies‚ music‚ games‚ mobiles‚ cameras‚ computers‚ healthcare and personal products‚ home appliances and electronics‚ stationery‚ perfumes‚ toys – and still counting! * With over 11.5 million book titles‚ 14 different categories‚ more than 3 million registered users and sale of 30000 items a day‚ we can
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The Essay “Luka and the Fire of Life” is a nove written by Salman Rushdie. The novel is about a twelve year old boy named Luka Khalifa‚ and his father‚ Rushid Khalifa. His father had fallen into a very deep coma‚ hearing nothing and no one. Luka met a holographic version of his father‚ named Nobodaddy. Nobodaddy knows the only method to retrieve Luka’s father back to life‚ or awaken him. He has to steal the fire of life from the world of magic. Luka‚ Nobodaddy‚ his pet bear and dog set forth
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Section A: Fiction Assignment This is an extract from the‚ Midnight’s Children‚ by Salman Rushdie. In this extract‚ the protagonist‚ Saleem Sinai shares the history about his birth and the significance of why his birth is considered as a historical event. He explains how on the 15th of August 11947‚ he was born but at the very time of his entrance into the world‚ India gained its independence from the British. The rest of the extract is focused on his concerns and feelings about sharing his monumental
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Historical roots of Macondo and the Buendia family. One Hundred Years of Solitude is about on imagined mythical town which is named as Macondo. Its foundation‚ rise‚ development and death throughout the history of its founders; Buendia family is narrated. It is the evolution and eventual decadence of a small Latin American town and its inhabitants. The novel is dominated by Colombian settings and the Buendia family is a Colombian family of those times that the
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CHENNAI / KOLKATA / DELHI: Cultural intolerance stalked the world’s largest democracy on Wednesday. The ban on Kamal Haasan’s new movie was upheld‚ prompting him to consider moving to another country‚ and internationally acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie was stopped from attending Asia’s largest book fair in Kolkata. J Jayalalithaa’s Tamil Nadu government was quick to ban the screening of Haasan’s new movie Vishwaroopam after certain Nadar: Queen-in-waiting ROSHNI NADAR NEXT HCL CHAIRMAN
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Multiplicity of voices in Indian English novels:A Postcolonial study A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth
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Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat (Born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author who has written five points someone‚ one night @the call centre‚ the 3 mistakes of my life and 2 states: the story of my marriage. He has also written the script of Hello‚ the Hindi movie based on one night @the call centre. Bhagat was born in New Delhi in a Punjabi family and attended the army school (1978-1991)‚ Dhaula Kuan‚ New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi‚ and
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