Haroun and the sea of stories written by Salman Rushdie depicts the vital importance of storytelling through the adventures of a storyteller’s son‚ called Haroun. Haroun is on a quest to recover his fathers‚ rashind‚ renowned ability to weave a web of stories. Throughout his journey he comes across friends and foes who act in duality propelling him forward to a pleasing fairy-tale ending. The passage on page 71-72 is an exchange between Iff the water genie and Haroun about the ocean of the streams
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Feminist views in S. Rushdie’s Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies The purpose of this essay is to analyse S. Rushdie’s Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies from feminist perspective. To fully understand the views that Rushdie exhibited‚ with respect to feminist approach ‚ it’s important to notice the contrast between men’s expectations about women in Islamic culture and the unforeseen behaviour of Miss Rehana‚ claiming her freedom. Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies is a moralistic tale
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Theory and History of Literature. Vol. 30. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press‚ 1986. Jameson‚ Fredric. Postmodernism‚ Or‚ the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press‚ 1991. Rushdie‚ Salman. The Satanic Verses. 1988." London: Vintage‚ 1998. Walcott‚ Derek. Collected Poems‚ 1948-1984. London: Faber and Faber Limited‚ 1992. Young‚ Robert. White Mythologies: History Writing and the West. London and New York: Routledge (1991).
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With globalization and people’s living quality advancing dramatically‚ every year‚ American universities welcome tens of thousands of international students from all over the world. The land of freedom and justice has opened its doors to those who seek new options and better opportunities and sometimes it asks for certain changes and adjustments fir those who come to study aboard. When these international students pursues higher education in US‚ fulfilling their life experience and learning something
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Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map‚ yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie‚ published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular fictional works like
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These abortions occur in order to guarantee that a male is brought into the family‚ in order to avoid the dowry system‚ and to ensure that there will be more career opportunities for the offspring. In his essay‚ “Abortions in India” (281)‚ Salman Rushdie opines‚ “Fundamentally‚ it’s the result of modern technology being placed at the service of medieval social attitudes.” Here‚ he is suggesting that although the technology of today has a neutral purpose‚ the society of India has not progressed
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quarter of IRDA: Hyderabad Head quarter of National Insurance Co. Ltd: Calcutta Biggest private General Insurance Company: ICICI lombard Union Cabinet Minister for Railways: Mr. Pawan K. Bansal Union Cabinet Minister for External Affairs: Mr. Salman Khurshid Worlds highest mountain peak: Mount Everest Capital of Sikkim: Gangtok Central Minister for Petrolium and Natural Gas: Mr. M. Veerappa Moily Largest Indian State (Population wise): Utter Pradesh Longest Railway route in india: Jammu
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why John Cleese and Graham Chapman were the writers who caused the universe to stand completely still every Friday night in the 1970s. Ironically‚ this bold insight‚ which I shall reveal later‚ came to me thanks to Salman Rushdie on page 42 of Midnight’s Children. (Quote) Rushdie however‚ like Lessing‚ Baldwin‚ Atwood‚ and all the British Post-Romanticists‚ Post-Realists‚ Post-Modernists‚ Post-Structuralists and the ad nausea post scripts to earlier British Literature‚ for all their awards fame
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Censorship in China: A Western Issue & the Chinese Opinion “Free societies... are societies in motion… Free people strike sparks‚ and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom ’s existence”. So are the words of Salman Rushdie on the topic of freedom of speech and its censorship (Rushdie). Those words bring attention to many of today’s societies that disallow these sparks in many of its forms. The most prominent country forbidding those sparks is China. China is a nation that is noticeably powerful
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