In the short story‚ Like the Sun‚ author R.K. Narayan expresses the importance of telling the truth‚ being honorable‚ and imposes the consequences of telling the truth. In this short story the main character Sekhar reflects on truth and decides to tell the complete truth for one whole day. He goes through a series of challenges throughout the day‚ but still sticks to his promise to tell the truth. Sekhar believed this was an honorable thing to do. In the end though he has to face the consequences
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ear. As indicated by Beatina‚ his horrendous involvement with his educator "lays on the Westernization of India‚ both religiously and instructively" (25) and‚ in this way‚ it is critical in its connection to the notice of the requirement for decolonisation of training in Swami and Friends. Ebenezar’s thoughts regarding the religion of the British portray the burden of Western culture sincerely through training by making hirelings of British social dominion. Ebenezar feels himself in favor of the
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Syllabus of English (BDP) B.A. (Hons.) Course Code : EEG NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY 1‚ Woodburn Park‚ Kolkata-700 020 Tel. : 2283-5157 TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree Programme (BDP) in English 1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course (a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits (b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits (c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits (d) English (FEG) 4 Credits 24 Credits 2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG) Paper 1 : Reading Poetry
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KJ’s/ Maj/Sem-VI/Ppr-20/Novel/The Guide/RK.Narayan/1 Q. 1. Attempt the of the character sketch of Raju in R. K. Narayan’s ‘The Guide’ OR Q. 2. “We are free to infer that‚ on the last day of the fast‚ Raju‚ "Swami” dies opportunely‚ a martyr.” – Discuss. OR Q. 3. “Some are born saints‚ some achieve sanctity‚ and some have sanctity thrust upon them. Perhaps‚ Raju is one of these last!” –Discuss. Introduction:- Raju is the principal character in R. K Narayan’s ‘The Guide’. He is doubtless half
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P. Lal‚ a poet‚ translator‚ publisher and essayist‚ founded a press in the 1950s for Indian English writing‚ Writers Workshop. R.K. Narayan is a writer who contributed over many decades and who continued to write till his death recently. He was discovered by Graham Greene in the sense that the latter helped him find a publisher in England. Graham Greene and Narayan remained close friends till the end.
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BOOK REVIEW ON: Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “IN OTHER ROOMS‚ OTHER WONDERS” By Nayan Das Much like “tambola”‚ there are only a few happy winners from the hundreds that compete in Pakistan’s social lottery‚ and that is aptly brought forward in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “In Other Rooms‚ Other Wonders.” Very unlike the Pakistan we have accustomed ourselves with‚ goaded by gloriously buttered food and hard-hitting Pathans‚ the book shows us how life is in Mueenuddin’s country for both the supremely rich and harshly
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As Circe tries to seduce men and turn them into pigs‚ Penelope stays loyal and obedient to her husband. While Soorpanaka tries to steal a woman’s spouse and sleep with him‚ Sita refuses to leave her husband’s side. These traits show the major differences between temptresses and ideal wives in The Odyssey and The Ramayana. Though temptresses have more force‚ faithful wives always end up with the better lifestyle. Both The Odyssey and Ramayana portray women as ideal wives and temptresses. Soorpanaka
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Teaching Assistant Julia Stenzel Section: 004 The Question of Self and Dharma for a Hermit At the mere age of 20‚ Christopher Knight parked his brand new 1985 Subaru Brat car and he walked away from the rest of society. For nearly 30 years‚ Knight lived in the North Pond forest in Central Maine‚ in isolation and seclusion from the rest of society. In Finkel’s “The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit‚” through a Hindu perspective‚ one can see that by excluding himself from society‚ Christopher
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The story is a really good story confusing but humorous. At first‚ as you go reading‚ the story gives you a different idea of what is going to happen in it. Muni‚ the Indian village‚ wasn’t a wealthy man but he had his cattle to live on‚ but as it cattle went dying he was just left with 2 goats. He didn’t have much money‚ he was always asking for credit to the shop man and was always inventing lies to get the credit (the lies he came up with were funny). What confuses me more is when the foreigner
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Indian writing in English Raja Rammohan Ray was the first Indian to effectively express himself in black and white through English though he was initiated to the language when he was in his teens. Thereafter Vivekananda showed his perfect masterly over the language through his evocative prose‚ which made the west sit up and take notice of the greatness of Hinduism. Tagore also had written some poems in English. However‚ there is no denying the fact that Indian writings in English were extremely
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