Jhumpa Lahiri ’s The Lowland: A Family Saga with a Political Perspective Sugata Samanta West Bengal‚ India Abstract : Jhumpa Lahiri ’s The Lowland‚ partly set in Calcutta of the 1960 ’s and 70 ’s and partly in Rhode Island of America‚ tells the story of four generations of Mitra family with a sweeping‚ addictive plot. The initial development of the story centers around the Naxalite insurgency in West Bengal in late 1960 ’s and 70 ’s which had taken the country by surprise. In this article I have
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Introduction: The term ‘Utopia’ was coined by Thomas More‚ meaning a perfect environment. Francis Bacon‚ in his book New Atlantis‚ advocated a scientific approach. He thought of a research-institute-like society where inhabitants studied science in an effort to create a harmonious environment through their accumulation of knowledge. There were 40 utopian-themed novels written between 1700 and 1850 because of many social injustices prevalent at those times‚ like slavery and oppression. The idea
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Red Corridor Filed under Discussions 0 [Lecturette] The Naxalite Problem : Red Corridor Naxalism is one of the biggest problem that our Country is facing today. Naxals or the word Naxalite is a after a village Nxalbari‚ near Siliguri in West Bengal. Naxalism has affected 20 states covering 223 districts. Today Naxals are calling the shots‚ dictating terms‚ looting banks‚ attacking police stations‚ hijacking trains and killing police personnel at will. The Naxalite Problem : Red Corridor
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Heritage Site covering parts of India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans National Park is a National Park‚ Tiger Reserve‚ and a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sundarbans delta in the Indian state of West Bengal. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests‚ and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger. ------------------------------------------------- Etymology The name Sundarban can be literally translated as "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language (Shundor‚ "beautiful" and bon
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name comes from the village of Naxalbari in the Indian state of West Bengal where the movement originated. The Naxals are considered far-left radical communists‚ supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology. Their origin can be traced to the split in 1967 of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)‚ leading to the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). Initially the movement had its centre in West Bengal. In later years‚ it spread into less developed areas of rural central
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had distributed 7000 Kg of GT- 2 to the state of West Bengal1 farmers. He had expected to receive a harvested produce of a minimum of 1400 metric ton. However‚ the report presented by the stores department proved that EAPL had received only 300 metric ton of harvested produce. Worse‚ some of the farmers who had considerable experience of sesame production had reported a lower yield of the new variety than local established varieties. EAPL‚ a West Bengal based company had been in the agri-business of
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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee; born 11 December 1935) is the 13th and current President of India. Mukherjee was born to a Bengali Kulin Brahmin family at Mirati in the Bengal province of British India now in West Bengal. His father was kamada kinkar Mukherjee and his mother was rajlakshmi Mukherjee. Mukherjee attended the Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Birbhum)‚ and then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. His hobbies are reading‚ gardening and music. He is Master of Arts degree in Political
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CURRICULUM VITAE UTTAM SARKAR Ref: Mr.Atanu Panchanan CEO Kranti Service & Engineering Works‚ATPS‚GMDC CAREER OBJECTIVE: Intend to build a career with leading corporate of hi-tech environment which will help me to explore myself fully and realize my potential. Willing to work as a key player in challenging and creative environment. PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE: 1. Currently working as an Executive Engineer(Operation) in Flair Strainers & Filters since
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who will assure you that some chemical property in this holy water does not allow germs to survive. And it is a fact that although all the great cholera epidemics of India‚ which have sometimes spread to Europe and North America‚ have started i n Bengal and been borne up
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Characters Kanai Dutt: Indian‚ 42 years old; translator; knows 6 languages; at around 10 was sent to Lusibari to be “rusticated” when speaking back to the teacher; unmarried; lives in New Deli; runs a bureau of translators; Piyali Roy: Indian by descent; does not speak Bengali; from Seattle but born in Kolkata‚ left when 1 year old; cetologist; has an uncle in Kolkata (big man in government); late 20s; her mother suffered from cervical cancer; Nilima Bose: Mashima - “aunt”; 76 years old; Kanai’s
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