The writers Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie both use allegory in their works. Nadine Gordimer wrote the short story‚ “Once Upon a Time”‚ which talks about segregation in South Africa. Salman Rushdie wrote the novel‚ Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer‚ and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ use allegory to prove the danger of a governing body separating its citizens. In “Once Upon a Time”‚ Nadine Gordimer conveys that separating people
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Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Dita Polcarová Historical and Political Issues of India as Reflected in Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková‚ CSc.‚ M.Litt. 2008 Declaration: I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently‚ using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Dita Polcarová
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curse. There truly is no place like our home—but what is home? Home is a state of contentment. Home is the place where we know that the storm may rage‚ the fires may burn‚ but the horrors around us stand in irrelevance. There’s no place like home. In Salman Rushdie’s story‚ At The Auction of the Ruby Slippers the world has fallen into apparent disarray‚ and the auction house has risen like a church of consumption. People spend everything they have in an attempt to find some piece of a long forgotten
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey written by Salman Rushdie‚ is a non-fiction book that gives the reader insight to the internal turmoil taking place in the nation of Nicaragua. Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist who gained his fame for his fantastical novels about the post-colonial relationship between cultures of the East and West. Rushdie became interested in Nicaraguan affairs when the Regan administration started its “war” against Nicaragua. “I was myself the child of a successful
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phenomenon despite its exceptionally young age. Reality television shows are popping up every day‚ increasing viewer counts for the strongest television channels in the market. Their success‚ unlike their effect on the viewer‚ is in arguable. Salman Rushdie‚ in his article‚ Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality argues that reality television is a deterioration of mass entertainment‚ whereas in James Poniewozik’s Television‚ Why Reality TV is Good for us‚ reality television is viewed
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Stephen Gill ’s Immigrant : A Study In Diasporic Consciousness Nilofar Akhtar The phenomena of Diaspora and expatriation are by all means an old one. However‚ its impact in the present times is larger and deeper. It has become a contemporary social trait and also‚ a literary genre. The growing incidence of the Diaspora has given place to dislocation‚ disintegration‚ dispossession and disbelongingness. The experience of expatriation not only gradually disconnects the individual from his
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Inequality Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny Half a Life Commodities and Capabilities A House for Mr. Biswas Magic Seeds Inequality Re-examined Equality of Capacity Books by Indian Booker Prize Winning Authors Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Arundhati Roy God of Small Things Arvind Adiga The White Tiger Satanic Verses Broken Republic Last Man in Tower Shame The End of Imagination The Moor’s Last Sigh Power Politics The Algebra of
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Such speeches which insults someone religion aims only to disturb the public order. The book named as Gandhi hatya Ani Mee was confiscated by the judicial Magistrate as it promoted the hatred between Hindu and Muslims. The Bombay High Court stated and restricted the use of hate speech. The court stated that “‘It may be good policy to balance the width of a power by the width of a remedy afforded to prevent the abuse of that power. But that is for the Legislature to consider. A Court called upon
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Shh! You Can’t Say That! We live in an age of freedom‚ at least that’s what we’re told. We have freedom of speech‚ freedom of the press‚ freedom to express ourselves any way we can. But how accurate is that statement? How far can we actually go before our freedom of speech is taken away from us? What kind of sensitive information do we have to talk about before the government shuts us up? Of course‚ in countries like America and the United Kingdom‚ we don’t think about this. We see countries
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Jennifer Cortes Angeli Francois 101 12 February 2013 Abortions in India Rushdie‚ Salman. "Abortion in India". Essays. 2nd Edition. Kelly‚ Joseph. New York; Norton‚ 2008. 279-282. Print. The articles topic is about the tragedy of abortion of female fetuses in modern day India. I believe the author is trying to say that unnecessary abortions are a type of genocide and a true tragedy. Proving points on both sides saysing that having female abortions
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