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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Amitav Ghosh (born July 11‚ 1956)‚[1] is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in English fiction Life : Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11‚ 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family‚ to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh‚ a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army‚ and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen ’s College‚ Delhi‚ Delhi University‚ India; the Delhi School of Economics and St Edmund Hall‚ Oxford‚ where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology under
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essence of humanity ‘humanism’ is lost in the name of partition‚ nation and borders. Ghosh attempts a revival for humanism in his The Shadow Lines. The novel portrays the futility of war‚ riots‚ violence and partition and also re-searches the lost humanism that has been thrown into the recesses of modern busy life. This paper attempts to prove that the concept of borders and boundaries are illusions. These illusionary lines blur human sight and shrouds humanism in the name of nation and patriotism. It
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The Narrator’s Perception of Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh’s “The Shadow Lines” “The whole world is a man’s birthplace.” This quote by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius shows us the basic idea of cosmopolitanism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines it as “the idea that all human beings‚ regardless of their political affiliation‚ do (or at least can) belong to a single community‚ and that this community should be cultivated.” In other words‚ cosmopolitanism is the theory that
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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BOOK REVIEW Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this
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and societies. Shadow Lines wakes us up to the furiously changing geo-political scenarios and governmental regulations that have led to the formation of the modern world as we know it. The process of othering‚ i.e. the creation of a certain sense of "us" and "them" has inevitably been created between nations and people due to the creation of boundaries or ‘Shadow Lines’ as Ghosh puts it. In this paper‚ I aim to analyze the feasibility or the desirability of these intangible lines that separate us
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After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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SUMMARY Amitav 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
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Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination ofSadness in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines The article undertakes a study on melancholy and sadnessin Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines ‚ concentrates on theforlorn figures of Tridib and the narrator in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the melancholy atmosphere of the novel. Bearing inmind Freud’s own understanding of melancholy as the uncon-scious mourning for a lost love object‚ the article suggests themoments of gloom in Ghosh’s novel could be better
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