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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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 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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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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has known to be familiar is destroyed‚ and all of the people and technology are new and more advanced than what he has known his entire life. were away from home‚ they both have taken their homes with them. is an alien‚ not entirely dissimilar to Rushdie‚ who is living away from his home country in a different culture. are both far from their home‚ and deal with this physical issue differently. Fry’s idea of utopia and dystopia are the polar opposite. Fry is unable to go back in time and go back to
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Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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William Safran in his essay Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return (1991) identifies six characteristics that feature the categorizing of diasporic communities. The first feature‚ as he mentions‚ is the ‘dispersal from center to periphery’‚ a creation of a collective memory‚ non-belonging to or indeed non-acceptance by the host country‚ a strong wish to return to the ideal homeland‚ a belief that the homeland will be peaceful‚ secure and prosperous and lastly a continuous relationship
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unlike a library of books‚ the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead but alive. (Rushdie 72) In Salmon Rushdie’s’‚ Haroun and the Sea of Stories various themes are explored presenting numerous arguments to the reader. One of the main themes within the novel is the importance of stories. Within the passage above Salmon Rushdie presents the changing nature of stories and their ability to become new versions of themselves‚ this is explored through the use
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Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children employs strategies which engage in an exploration of History‚ Nationalism and Hybridity. This essay will examine three passages from the novel which demonstrate these issues. Furthermore‚ it will explore why each passage is a good demonstration of these issues‚ how these issues apply to India in the novel‚ and how the novel critiques these concepts. The passage from pages 37-38 effectively demonstrates the concept of history‚ as it foregrounds elements
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Achilles and Beowulf‚ stories have played an important role in all of our lives for as long as we can remember. But what makes stories so important? Is it because of the entertainment and thrill? Or‚ are stories just a big waste of our time? Salman Rushdie author of Haroun and the Sea of Stories believes that stories are important in everyone’s lives. Stories are everything to Haroun and and his father Rashid in the novel. “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” (22). Stories are important
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