like the director‚ is British-Asian. Just like Director Chadha had refused to take traditional Punjabi dancing lessons and watch Bollywood films as a child‚ Jesminder unintentionally rebels when trying to integrate cultures. Jesminder’s traditional Sikh parents want her to be ‘good’ by completing university and marrying an Indian man. However‚ due to local influences‚ Jesminder dreams of playing football professionally. The film explores how Jesminder finds a way to integrate her parents wants (Indian
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Sammy‚ Cousin Reena‚ Reena’s Fiancé Sonu‚ Coach Dan Winters‚ Melissa the Coaches sister‚ the hockey team made up of Raj’s family and friends whom are all Sikh’s and the Hammerhead’s hockey team they play against. The Singh’s are a large Sikh Indian family. Sikh men do not cut their hair‚ mustache or beard and they cover their hair with turbans. Most of the men in the Singh family work for the family trucking business Speedy Singh’s‚ which is owned by the Uncle. Raj’s father wants him to be a part
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roughly about 1‚210‚193‚422. This is the place where many religions were born‚ religions such as Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ and Sikhism. It is also a place with a very dark history‚ a tragic experience for hundreds and thousands of Hindus‚ Sikhs‚ and Muslims who were killed in the communal slaughter which accompanied the process and the nearly fifteen million that were made refugees. The partition of India at independence in 1947 into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan is one of the
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12 percent of the population‚ and the country also has large Sikh‚ Christian andZoroastrian populations. It is home to the holiest shrines of four world religions: Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Jainism and Sikhism. Modern India came into existence in 1947 as a secular nation and the Indian constitution’s preamble states that India is a secular state. India has a Hindu President (Pratibha Patil)‚ Muslim Vice President (M. Hamid Ansari)‚ a Sikh Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) and a Christian Defence MinisterA
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In 1914‚ a ship‚ Komagatamaru‚ from Hong Kong carried 376 passengers travelling to Vancouver and ninety percent were Sikhs. The passengers were mostly mmigrants from Punjab and British India who did not like their living conditions in their hometown. However‚ the Canadian government refused them to enter Vancouver which caused the Komagatamaru incident. Thy thought that they had premmison to stay at Canada since they were British subjects. However‚ only few returning residents and the ship’s doctor
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HINQ100 Assignment 2 220098559 Manbir Rooprai Question 1 Primary source: Mahatma Ghandi was famously known for leading India to independence against the British empowered India. The movement against the British ruled India had leaded them to independence and created civil rights and freedom across the world. Ghandi was well known for various protests and movements but most significant was the 400 kilometre march in order to banish the Dandi salt tax that was imposed by the British in the 1930’s
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Cited: Bhagat‚ R. B. “Census and the Construction of Communalism in India.” In Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol 36‚ No. 46/47‚ pp. 4352-4356‚ Nov 2001. Oberoi‚ Harjot. “The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture‚ Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition”‚ pp 1-23. University of Chicago Press‚ 1994. Cohn‚ Bernard. “The Census‚ Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia” In An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays‚ pp 224-254. Oxford University Press‚ 1987. Davis‚ Richard
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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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