journalists‚ in fact‚ enjoy 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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FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS A MYTH- FOR William Pitt‚ the outspoken British Prime Minister once remarked and I quote‚ “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” Honourable Chairperson Sir and Members of this august house‚ the myth of freedom of the individual is the unspoken agony of modern man. Are men really born free? Individualists would have us believe that freedom of choice and control over one’s life are
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So Iff the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story‚ and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one currents‚ each one a different colour‚ weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story‚ that each coloured strand represented
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Book Report On Midnight’s Children By Ashraf Zayed Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie’s‚ "Midnight’s Children" begins with the birth of Saleem Sinai at Midnight on August 15‚ 1947. Interestingly enough it was the exact date of when India first gained its Independence. The Novel proceeds to explain the birth of Saleem Sinai. Saleem’s Grandfather‚ Aadam Aziz falls in love with Naseem. When they get married they bear five children. Nadir Khan‚ who is forced to live in Dr. Aziz’s cellar‚ marries
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Cited: 1. Rushdie‚ Salman. The Satanic Verses. Viking Press. 1988. Print. 2 3. Rushdie‚ Salman. "In God We Trust‚" in Imaginary Homelands. London. Viking‚ 1991. 4. Rushdie‚ Salman. “Is Nothing Sacred”. Granta. 1990. 5 7. Asad‚ Talal. “Ethnography‚ Literature‚ and Politics: Some Readings and Uses of Salman Rushdie ’s The Satanic Verses. Cultural Anthropology”. Wiley. 1990. Web. 23 October 2013. 8. Irving‚ T.B. “The Rushdie Confrontation:
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INGESTION‚ DIGESTION AND REVULSION OF FOOD AND CULTURE IN ANITA DESAI’S FASTING‚ FEASTING T. RAVICHANDRAN* ABSTRACT This article attempts a cultural study offood and eating habits in Anita Desai’s Booker Prize short-listed novel‚ Fasting‚ Feasting. It shows how the ingestion offood affects acculturation process both in India and America in a multicultural context. Considering Foucault’s view that discourse is involved in the exertion of power‚ some of the discourses from the novel are scrutinised
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a magical realism novel in which elements of Salman Rushdie’s imagination are put together to demonstrate the importance and significance of storytelling. Through the story‚ Rushdie conveys to the reader what his notion of good story elements are. One of these elements is a story’s ability to possess antithetical relationships. Haroun and the Sea of Stories contains many symbols alluding to the value of complementary elements of a story; these symbols also being
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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The Role of Women in Midnight’s Children How are women characters depicted in the novel? What important traits do they share and how do they manage to overcome the limitations of their social position? The role that women play in India is an important role however‚ a submissive one. Women in India live in a patriarchal society‚ where the man dominates the household. The women‚ not all‚ do their husband’s biddings without thought or complaint (as it appears in public). However‚ the women in
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Life just preparation for death. The short story “In The South” by Salman Rushdie is about two very old men‚ Senior and Junior‚ that have known each other for a very long time. Senior has had a very successful life and has a lot of family that he is not very fond of while Junior has had a very fulfilling and happy life. Senior wants to die because he believes he has no more life left to live. Junior is the exact opposite from Senior and loves life. Salmon Rushdie wrote this story portraying Junior
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