worthiness to write it‚ but by the quality of what has been written.......the real risks of any artist are taken in the work‚ in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible‚ in the attempt to increase the sum of what is possible to think" (Rushdie 14-15). Literature has exemplified these certain risks for many years now‚ however although these artists are increasing what is possible for us to think‚ are each of them truly expressing what actually happened at that time? For some‚ literature
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15‚ 1947‚ the day of India’s independence from British rule‚ Saleem’s life is a microcosm of post-Independent India. The Title of this text‚ Midnight’s Children‚ gives the reader a broad idea of what the text is about: It gives the time and where the setting may play off. This text dominates the theme of identity that breaks down colonial constructs of Western dominance over Eastern culture‚ hence Salman Rushdie position as a
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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* President of CII- Adi Godrej. * British High Commissioner- James Bevan. * Deputy Chairman‚ Planning Commission- Montek Singh Ahluwalia. * PISA- Programme for International Student Assessment. * “The Satanic Verses”- Salman Rushdie. * Chairman‚ Finance Commission- Vijay Kelkar. * CARE- Credit Analysis & Research Analysis. * Chairman‚ KMRL- Sudhir Krishna‚ MD- Elias George. * Chief Justice of India- Altamas Kabir (39th). * Chairman‚ IOC-
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women‚ not all‚ do their husband’s biddings without thought or complaint (as it appears in public). However‚ the women in Salman Rushdie’s book Midnight’s Children fulfill the roles expected for them to fulfill as Indian women‚ yet they fulfill more. The representation of women in Midnight’s Children does not represent how most women‚ living in India‚ really are. The women in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children can be described as stronger and more grounded than the typical Indian woman. The women
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international market. Not only are the works of Indian authors writing in English soaring on the best-seller list‚ they are also receiving a great deal of critical acclaim. Starting from Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan‚ Anita Desai‚ Toru Dutt to Salman Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Allan Sealy‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ Jhumpa Lehri‚ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ Arundhati Roy‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Kiran Desai‚ Raja Rao‚ Kamla Das‚ Arun Joshi; the parade of fine Indian writers is long‚ lengthening and becoming
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Kevin Ortiz Ms. Meredith AP Literature and Composition 11/18/11 Does Khaled Hosseini ’s Writing Matter? Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most prolific foreign writer of modern times. As such‚ one can consider him a major voice in the criteria for what makes for a good expatriated writer. In his 1992 collection of essays‚ Imaginary Homelands‚ Rushdie sets forth multiple essential qualities the expatriated writer must possess. The most important three of these qualities are the ability to
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Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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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 literature-the production from previously colonised countries such as India. With
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The Versatility of Stories Through Haroun Khalifa’s adventure on the story moon of Kahani‚ Salman Rushdie discloses to readers the value of stories that are not even true. In Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories‚ the author illustrates how powerful and versatile fictional stories are to real life. From the colorful Ocean of the Streams of Stories to the conflicting Lands of Gup and Chup‚ Rushdie creates a world within the novel that undoubtedly and continually portrays the point of made-up tales
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