THE ENGLISH PATIENT Book Review The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943‚ moved to England in 1954‚ and settled in Canada in 1970. He is a Canadian poet and novelist. Ondaatje’s work includes 13 books of poetry and 5 novels. Among them‚ The English Patient won him the Booker Prize. Though Michael Ondaatje is a really good poet‚ he does not have an extensive popularity among readers. Even after his novel The English
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Place of special significance Place that is significance to me is India‚ especially my grandparent’s house and the school that I attended when I lived in India at my grandparents house for several years. When I was five years old my parents sent me to study in India to learn about the traditions‚ food‚ culture‚ religion‚ and languages. While I was going to school in India I lived at my grandparent’s house. The house I lived in with my grandparents was a big nice two story house located
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away from the main theme which is Partition. Rajinder Singh Bedi‚ an explicit storyteller of Sikh history‚ deviates from the norm of shying away from sharing gory details. A rare exception to his counterparts‚ he breaches upon a topic that has until recently been shunned away from Indian history. A first hand encounter of the partition is reflected in all his stories. He grew up with an overlap of Sikh and Muslim cultures and was finally compelled to live in
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we must learn to smell farts as in our life our girl frends will say to smell her ass and then she will fart but if you will do yuck! then she will leave you ssssssssFifteenth of August" redirects here. For other uses‚ see August 15. Independence Day The national flag of india‚ on the Red fort in Delhi; a common sight on public and private buildings on national holidays like the 15th of August. Also called The Fifteenth of August स्वतन्त्रता दिवस Observed by India Type National Significance
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spheres. To unify or clump them together as one would lead to confusion and mystification. The religions and traditions of South Asia cannot be categorized under the pretext of having the same beliefs and practices. Each religion and tradition‚ be it Sikh‚ Sufi (Islamic Mysticism)‚ Hindu‚ Buddhist or Jain‚ has similar thematic elements‚ which when studied in greater detail allow us to differentiate the slighter details between them. Before looking at how religions have a common underlying theme‚ we
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Participate in the world ’s largest photo competition and help improve Wikipedia! ------------------------------------------------- Terrorism in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on thetalk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2009) | This article ’s factual accuracy is disputed. (March 2010) | | Terrorism | * Definitions * History * Incidents |
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responsible for their own release from the cycle of re-incarnation through karma alone. On the other hand‚ Sikhism teaches there is one great creator of the universe called The True Name‚ and he is the only one who can release Sikhs from the cycle of re-incarnation. While Sikhs are not solely responsible for their release‚ they still consider karma important because it continues to dictate their circumstances in life until they are freed by The True
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Mughal Era In 1526‚ Babur‚ a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from Fergana Valley(modern day Uzbekistan)‚ swept across theKhyber Pass and established the Mughal Empire‚ covering modern day Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ India and Bangladesh.[79] However‚ his son Humayun was defeated by the Afghan warrior Sher Shah Suri in the year 1540‚ and Humayun was forced to retreat to Kabul. After Sher Shah’s death‚ his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya‚ who had won
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to win over the loyalty of his subjects‚ but Aurangzeb being a Fanatic could not tolerate the non-Muslims. He imposed jaziya and forbade the celebrations of Hindu Festivals. He thus lost friendship and loyalty with the Rajputs. His execution of the Sikh guru and his enmity with the Marathas forced them to raise forces against him. His excessive obsession with the Deccan destroyed Mughal army‚ treasure and also affected his health. Aurangzeb being a Fanatic Sunni Muslim‚ could not even tolerate the
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got away by pleading not guilty on account of a multiple personality claim. I have seen the rich and the mighty being given a greater sense of the benefit of the doubt‚ rules and laws being amended overnight to give relief as fast as it can be. As a Sikh and being under the thumb of the law for too many years now‚ I have seen justice being circumvented and denied to ordinary people like us and many others. The prison is the underbelly of any system and it reflects the segmentation of a society and
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