great fan-following and are respected for their work. Indians from the literacy circles have got the Nobel Prize‚ the Man Booker Prize and have won the other accolades. Some people think that the banning of books like ‘The Satanic Verses’‚ by Salman Rushdie‚ ‘Lajja ’ by Taslima Nasreen may throttle the freedom of
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courage to actually run away from it all and start a new life somewhere else. If the women escape‚ the entire family is against them‚ and after that‚ they will not be seen as a part of the family. “Good advice is rarer than rubies” is a story by Salman Rushdie. In overall it is about one of these women I just mentioned‚ who are forced into an arranged marriage. The main character in the story‚ Miss Rehana‚ is engaged to an Indian man who lives in Bradford‚ England. Like most of the women‚ Miss Rehana
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By Indian English Writing‚ we mean that body of literature which is written by Indians in English. It could be in the form of poetry‚ prose‚ fiction or drama. English is not our mother tongue and we are not native speakers of English‚ yet when in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ English was introduced as the medium of instruction in our educational system‚ Indians were able to read Western literature that was available in English. They found the language
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History of English language and literature in India starts with the advent of East India Company in India. It all started in the summers of 1608 when Emperor Jahangir‚ in the courts of Moguls‚ welcomed Captain William Hawkins‚ Commander of British Naval Expedition Hector. It was India’s first tryst with an Englishman and English. Jahangir later allowed Britain to open a permanent port and factory on the special request of King James IV that was conveyed by his ambassador Sir Thomas Roe. English were
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providing true entertainment‚ there reality TV shows often display a talentless‚ annoying cast. As well as fill their shows with product placement; allowing the cast members to get wealthy off of endorsement products and become living advertisement. In Salman Rushdie’s essay “Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality‚” he states that “people are becoming famous for doing nothing much at all‚ but doing it where everyone can see them” (216). By analyzing several shows‚ Rushdie’s statement
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enclave in a nation-state that defines itself‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ as a group in displacement. The present anthology examines the works of key writers‚ many now based across the globe in Canada‚ Denmark‚ America and the UK – V.S. Naipaul‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Balachandra Rajan‚ M.G. Vassanji‚ Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gautam Malkani‚ Shiva Naipaul‚ Tabish Khair and Shauna Singh Baldwin‚ among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of Indian diasporas. Corelating
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“Good advice is rarer than rubies” – an analysis “Good advice is rarer than rubies” is a short story by renowned author Salman Rushdie. It tells the story of Miss Rehana who comes to the British embassy in an unnamed town in India‚ to apply for a permit to go to London. At first it seems like she’s there out of free will to see her fiancé‚ but later it is revealed that she actually doesn’t want to go‚ rather that she’s forced to go because she has to marry the man waiting for her in England. A man
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From How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Notes by Marti Nelson 1. Every Trip is a Quest (except when it’s not): a. A quester b. A place to go c. A stated reason to go there d. Challenges and trials e. The real reason to go—always self-knowledge 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion a. Whenever people eat or drink together‚ it’s communion b. Not usually religious c. An act of sharing and peace d. A failed meal carries negative connotations 3. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
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up. Zia is super human. He is a mathematical prodigy; he has 3 girlfriends at classy school but is disinterested towards all of them; he is narrow-minded toward his family but they still like him. As a student in Cambridge‚ He sets to gun down Salman Rushdie‚ the “obstreperous Midnight’s Child” and the curse of Islam‚ only to be obstructed at the last movement; this makes him vanish from the country. Later he becomes a fugitive of Afghanistan and
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English like his ancestors such as Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao‚ but this liking of Chetan Bhagat to portray Indian reality can be considered even an extension and partially extermination of his immediate predecessors like Vikram Seth‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhti Roy who changed the face of Indian novel in English with their continue practice of shattering the standard of westernized looking as ‘other’ and ‘substandard’ discussed in Edward Said’s famed treatise Orientalism as he seems to be adopting
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