Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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Nobody owns the Moon F RID Rosoff‚ Meg. How I live now. F ROS Rosoff‚ Meg. How I live now. F ROS Rowling‚ J. K. Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone F ROW Roy‚ Arundhati. God of small things‚ The. F ROY Roy‚ James. Town. F ROY Salinger‚ J.D. Catcher in the rye‚ The. F SAL Savvides‚ Irini. Willow tree and olive. F SAV Schlink‚ Bernhard. Reader‚ The. F SCH Selznick‚ Brian. Invention of Hugo Cabret‚ The. F SEL Silvey‚ Craig.
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60 years of Independence - India’s achievements Contemporary India with a scientist President and an economist Prime Minister is very successfully treading the fast track of development Starting from an utterly ruined and exploited country under the rule of the haughty Britishers who sponged away the India wealth‚ the story of India’s success in the last 60 years‚ is one of the proverbial rise from ’rags to riches’. India’s development within a short span of time‚ to the level of a country which
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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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IIFA Awards 2011: Winners List Karan Johar accepts his award for best director for his work in ’’My Name is Khan’’ during the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards show in Toronto June 25‚ 2011. Winners of 2011 IIFA Awards The complete list is as below: ● Best Film: Dabangg ● Best Actor (Female): Anushka Sharma‚ Band Baaja Baaraat ● Best Actor (Male): shah Rukh Khan‚ My Name Is Khan ● Best Director: Karan Johar‚ My Name Is Khan ● Best Actor In A Comic Role: Riteish Deshmukh
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When surveying the international arena‚ it is immediately evident that certain countries are closer to the ideal type of a just society than others. Investigations and explanations of this observation that fail to take into account colonial relations and their lasting legacies miss a crucial part of the puzzle. In examining the cases of Ghana and India in their contemporary context‚ we encounter an amalgamation of factors resulting in their current underdeveloped (as Gunder Frank terms it) states
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Forewords An Article by Mr. Kamran Riaz. Director HR and Admin. INSAF Org Peshawar Pakistan. Youth Activism Against Violence Praise youth and it will prosper.--Irish Proverb Youth activism generally means youth’s direct or indirect involvement in a movement or causes to form/organize/bring a social revolution in the society without violent means. Youth activism is basically an issue/goal-oriented activism. Youth are participating heavily and taking lead roles in non-violent protests around the
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In a landmark judgment of the case Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India‚[2] the Supreme Court held that the freedom of speech and expression has no geographical limitation and it carries with it the right of a citizen to gather information and to exchange thought with others not only in India but abroad also. The constitution of India does not specifically mention the freedom of press. Freedom of press is implied from the Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. Thus the press is subject to the restrictions
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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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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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