Status of Women in Pakistan The status of women in Pakistan varies considerably across classes‚ regions‚ and the rural/urban divide due to uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal‚ feudal‚ and capitalist social formations on women’s lives. The Pakistani women of today enjoy a better status than most Muslim women. Women in Pakistan have progressed in various fields of life such as politics‚ education‚ economy‚ services‚ health and many more. However‚ on an average‚ the women’s situation
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Thakur Ankita Project In English I 13 October 2014 Diasporic Narrative in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Abstract Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake predominantly involves the collision between the two cultures American and Bengali. It not only determines the clash between the different generations but also vivid ideologies affecting the lives of middle class family and especially the life of Gogol. Jhumpa Lahiri tries her best to portray the lifestyle of a very simple Bengali Family residing in abroad
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The Partition of India "A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new‚ when an age ends‚ and when the soul of a nation‚ long suppressed‚ finds utterance." -Jawarhalal Nehru 14 August‚ 1947‚ saw the birth of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan. At midnight the next day India won its freedom from colonial rule‚ ending nearly 350 years of British presence in India. During the struggle for freedom‚ Gandhi had written an appeal "To Every Briton" to free their
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In Cracking India‚ Lenny is shown very attached to Ayah‚ and consequently‚ with all her suitors from distinct cultures: the Faletti’s Hotel cook‚ the Government House greenskeeper‚ the butcher‚ Sharbat Khan‚ and the zoo assistant‚ but primarily with Masseur and Ice-Candy man‚ both of them Muslims. Through Lenny’s perspective of Ayah and her suitors‚ we happen to see the harmonious cooperation among Muslim‚ Hindu‚ and Sikh cultures. Life previously Partition seems to be peaceful and the cultural and
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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 way she used it to describe the clash of social identities in her novel. Bapsi Sidwa’s has also used immigration but she has not played with identities like Lahiri. Arundhati Roy’s use of migration is also different her characters never want to change their identity rather they just want to come back to country. Arundhati’s character
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A Grain of Wheat Summary A Grain of Wheat chronicles the events leading up to Kenyan independence‚ or Uruhu‚ in a Kenyan village. Gikonyo and Mumbi are newlyweds in love when Gikonyo is sent to detention. When he comes back six years later‚ Mumbi has carried and given birth to his rival’s child. Instead of talking about their trials‚ a wall of anger separates them. Mumbi’s brother Kihika‚ a local hero‚ is captured and hanged‚ and his comrades search for the betrayer. Mugo becomes a hero through
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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000
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Representation of Partition of India in Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man‚ and 1947 Earth. Partition of India‚ which is almost overlooked in traditional historiography with India’s Independence and Birth of Pakistan‚ led to one of the largest and bloodiest migrations in the history of the world. Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man and 1947 Earth are all set in the same time span and portray Partition in quite different ways. Different as in not only different from each other
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known examples of this category. Domestic realism has been the main theme of those ones excepting some of Salman Rushdie etc. Some novelists have also emerged there with feministic views. The last decade experienced a new trend - Partition Fiction. Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (or Ice-Candy-Man)‚ Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers‚ Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass‚ or Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters are the recent successors of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan or Anita Desai’s
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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