between fasting and feasting - a digesting of the best of both the cultures. " ... the very essence of Indian culture is that we possess a mixed tradition‚ a melange of elements as disparate as ancient Mughal and contemporary Cocacola American" (Salman Rushdie) "From food‚ from food creatures‚ all creatures come to be. Gorging‚ disgorging‚ being come to be." (Taittriya Upanishad) In the Indian cultural scenario‚ there has been a great outcry about the safeguarding and perpetuation of ’ the Indianness
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Religion and the Media Essay “Religions such as Judaism and Christianity are portrayed fairly and sensitively in the media.” Do you agree? Firstly on a positive note‚ I believe that religion can reach many people in various parts of the world who may not otherwise be reached‚ via the media. This is essential in helping people understand a faith and its traditions and beliefs‚ which is particularly important in today’s multi-cultural society that we all share; the world is now a much smaller
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ethical imperative of reconciliation with the past. (Boehmer 221) The aim of the colonizers‚ since the establishment of empire‚ was to transform the others like themselves not physically but mentally as Lord Macaulay emphasized in his 1935 Minute. Salman Rushdie echoes the same feature in his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence: We will take your finest off-spring from you and we will transform
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Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies by Salman Rushdie Brief summary One Tuesday morning‚ the beautiful Miss Rehana leaves a bus in front of the British Consulate somewhere in Pakistan. Her parents are dead‚and her fiancé‚who lives in Bradford and who she has not seen since she was nine years old‚has sent for her‚and she has come to apply for a visa to immigrate to Britain. She is immediately accosted (D.: jmd.ansprechen) by the advice expert Muhammad Ali‚who is so attracted to the beautiful young
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has appeared in "The New Yorker" and Salman Rushdie’s anthology Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing. In 2006 Desai won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. Creations: Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard‚ Winqsb‚ the Inheritance of Loss. * Salman Rushdie: Salman Rushdie is a world renowned novelist and essayist. He was born on June 19‚ 1947 to Anis Ahmed Rushdie‚ a lawyer turned businessman‚ and Negin Bhatt‚ a teacher. Salman Rushdie released his first novel titled Grimus
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COMPETITIVE EDUCATION SYSTEM (For the motion) - Sumiho Aye In my opinion‚ Education is a holistic process of learning and development in an individual’s lifetime. While competitiveness‚ is the result of the basic survival instinct already inherent in an individual‚ or for that matter all living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For this reason‚ I believe education as a system shouldn’t undermine the importance of “competition” as a valuable tool employed to enhance the learning
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Salman Rushdie takes it as a positive experience while Arundhati Roy touches it very briefly. These writers basically talk about diaspora which involves the scattering of people. Bhabani Bhattacharyya has discussed identity in her So Many Hungers but in a different
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definitely true for a collection of short stories like this. This essay at hand will concentrate on the Western elements in the nine short stories of East‚ West by Salman Rushdie. Special attention will be given to the composition of the book. The division into East‚ West and East‚ West will be examined‚ too. It will be followed how Rushdie deconstructs the seeming oppositions East and West and how stereotypes play a part in this. The thesis is the volume of short stories contains a very stereotypical
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Moor’s last Sigh’‚ we witness a reeling pageant of mad passions and dark secrets‚ deep crimes and high art‚ poignant innocence and cruel revenge‚ hopping in a careful‚ calculated manner across four generations of a rich and demented Indian family. Salman Rushdie’s cynical post-modernistic novel The Moor’s Last Sigh’ laughs mischievously at the world and shivers from its evils. It is also‚ by analogy‚ one version of the history of India in the 20th century. Weaving a tale of murder and suicide‚ of
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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