India Essay

A Dalit writer and activist, Kancha Ilaiah, is issued a "fatwa' for writing about centuries of upper caste atrocities committed against the Dalits, in his book, Post- Hindu India: Discourse on Dalit Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009), and another book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) by an Adivasi writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, is banned by Jharkhand state government on the charge of 'misrepresenting" the Adivasi, indigenous, people. Indian Independence "liberated" the…

houses, moving from a privileged cocoon life in the family's private compound to ordinary apartments in a municipal block. This loss of house and the decline of the family business is a metaphor for the decline of old middle class values in modern India. It shows that Chaudhuri has great concern for Indian values coated in Bengali sensibility. Transition and change have redefined life and transformed its contours at personal, social and economic…

“Changes in the Land” is a personal work of William Cronon that generally gives a persuasive and original interpretation of the dynamic conditions in the plant and animal communities in New England that took place when there was a change from Indian authority to European authority. It uses both the ecologist and historian tools to construct an analysis of the way the people and the land influenced each other, and the way the complex network of relationships created the communities of New England…

Buddhism is known to be one of the world’s major religions that was founded in India during 500 B.C., by a teacher known as Budda, which was Siddhartha Gautama (Schober, 2017). Siddhartha born in a royal family that lived north of the Ganges River that who Hindus. Before Siddhartha was born, an astrologer told his father that he would have a son that would become either a powerful emperor or leave to become a very powerful religious leader (Voorst, 2013). Once Siddhartha was born, it was said…

Barath is also one of Lord Rama’s brothers in the Tretha Yuga. He is called as Bharat and the India is called as Bharat because of his righteous rule in Ayodhya in 4000 BC. He is considered as more noble and honest than the Lord Rama, since he didn’t accept the throne when Lord Rama was in forest exile. He is considered to be a true man and will…

Divakaruni’s ‘Clothes’ emphasizes the clash of cultures and finding one’s true identity. Near the end of Sumita’s transition through American cultures, the colors that she wears in America become dull and colorless compared to the traditional colors in India that are rich and beautiful. To begin with, the author uses symbolism to convey the emotional changes that Sumita experiences and Divakaruni does this to keep Sumita grounded with her Indian beliefs during her transition. The saris that…

Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’ is a response to the anti-Hindu riots that broke out in Bangladesh after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. Its intent is to warn the people of Bangladesh that communalism is on the rise, that the Hindu minority is badly mistreated and that the secularism they once fought for is in grave danger. Nasrin utilizes fiction's mass emotional appeal, rather than its potential for distinction and universality. Lajja is a poignant and unrelenting account of the…

The beauty of armchair travels is that at any moment you can be any place in the world and discover new and wonderful things. From the Andaman Islands we step onto the mainland of India. Our first stop here is a lovely town Darjeeling, located in the West Bengal State of India in the Himalayan foothills. It is well-known for its distinctive black tea that is grown on plantations doting the surrounding slope. The town’s backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world’s highest peaks. The region’s…

Geography Nepal is located in Southern Asia. Nepal is a landlocked country that is as big as Arkansas. Nepal is about 800 kilometers (497 mi) and along its Himalayan axis it is 150 to 250 kilometers (93 to 155 mi) across. Nepal is between India and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. Nepal contains the worlds tallest mountain Mount Everest (29,035 ft; 8,850 m). Along Nepal's southern boarder, it has a strip of level land that is partly forested and partly cultivated. North of there is…

was finally considered to be penned down in fourth century BCE. Many people of our modern generation have questioned the reality of Ramayana and considered it only a myth. However there are certain evidences which bear the testimony of Ramayana in India as well as in Sri Lanka. The first evidence of Ramayana is the Cobra Hood Cave in Sri Lanka. This is the place where it is said that Sita was kept captive here. There are prehistoric carvings in the caves which strengthens the fact of Sita’s…