English soaring on the best-seller list‚ they are also receiving a great deal of critical acclaim. Starting from Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan‚ Anita Desai‚ Toru Dutt to Salman Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Allan Sealy‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ Jhumpa Lehri‚ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ Arundhati Roy‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Kiran Desai‚ Raja Rao‚ Kamla Das‚ Arun Joshi; the parade of fine Indian writers is long‚ lengthening and becoming
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of whom was named Abhaya‚ and one daughter named Chitra. When a sage prophesied that Chitra would bear a son who would kill nine of his uncles and claim the throne‚ nine of Chitra’s brothers told King Panduvasudeva to have her killed. However‚ Abhaya would not allow it and Chitra was spared. She married a prince named Digha-Gamini (who‚ incidentally‚ was her cousin) and had a son‚ who was named Pandukabhaya. [edit]The exchange of babies Chitra and Digha-Gamini had been made aware of the prophesy
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change certain ways of living for people over seas. In Silver or Lead‚ the united states is trying to pass a bill that stated‚ “The United States would no longer permit the import of goods from factories were forced or indentured child labor used(Divakaruni 442).” While in the second article‚ Silver or Lead‚ The U.S. sends billions on dollars to aid Columbia‚ but the money meant for the aid of the citizens‚ for the people that need aid‚ is being used in funding their militia‚ and the production of
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children. Children in other countries are living and working in sweat shops that are in the worst of conditions. Not only are they there to make a small amount of money‚ but some are there to pay off debts that their parents could not afford. Divakaruni says they “spend their day in dark ill-vented rooms doing work that damages their eyes and lungs”(398). The adolescents working in these factories clearly are not of any consideration‚ and have absolutely no rights. They are being exploited and
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Mumbai on Sunday night‚ and ended about 3-4 hours later. The oil spill resulted from a pipeline burst when power failed inside the OCNG’s Uran plant. 3. It’s nothing new to the fisherman because they went through a similar issue. In 2010‚ the M.S.C. Chitra (sheet-ra) and MV Khalijia (Ka-lee-hia) spilled more than 800 tons of oil into the Arabian Sea. It took more than a year for the fishes to come back. In the meantime‚ the fishermen had to work labor to provide for their families. This conflict wiped
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serving food in soup kitchens‚ donating money to organizations that abused children - has stopped the nightmares‚” (Chapter 15)‚ Divakaruni uses this in order to show the reader that even if you are a good person‚ sometimes life may not go your way. The nightmares were not his fault and continue to happen although he’s positively impacting other people’s lives. Divakaruni used this irony to portray two messages that can easily be interpreted to her audience. First‚ was to never assume that just because
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American short stories Joyce Carol Oates: "Capital punishment" (1992) 1. Analyse the father and the daughter relationship in this story in terms of their feelings for one another. How do these feelings illustrate their differences or similarities? The relationship between the father and the daughter is quite tense even though they love each other. We can see proof from the text on page 267 "She thinks of Mr. Brunty‚ whom she loves‚ as a "big lug." A "big dumb lug." A "big dumb ox."" There is
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Note: These are not sample questions‚ but questions that explore some of the concepts that may be used. The intention is that you should get prepared with the concepts rather than just focusing on a set of questions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. What are the total number of divisors of 600(including 1 and 600)? a. b. c. d. 24 40 16 20 2. What is the sum of the squares of the first 20 natural numbers (1 to 20)? a. b. c.
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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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