Amritsar

you need a push to get started. In this case, the man does not need the pushing, but his tricycle needs a push to get to his destination. This photo has no title but Narinder Nanu/ Agence France-Press/ Getty Images photographed it. It was taken in Amritsar, India and I found this photo when I was looking on “The Week in Photos” from Wall Street Journal and it was published onto this webpage on May 29, 2015. The Indian man is pushing his tricycle full of ice to his destination. The photo…

By means of arranging intertextual approaches, Rushdie has problematized postmodernist representational systems of the West, specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The…

1.Introduction In Pakistani society, family is a basic and unit in the society. The respect and honor is the foundation of the family, therefore, people in the family live for the respect and dignity of the family. They are proud to be known by their family. Each person in the family is connected to each other and there are duties and rights for each family member. We see different type of family system like nuclear, joint, and extended and stem family system in Pakistan. In Pakistan, previously…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

North-Western Provinces (comprising Rohilkhand, Gorakhpur, and the Doab) (1801), Delhi (1803), and Sindh (1843). Punjab, Northwest Frontier Province, and Kashmir, were annexed after the Anglo-Sikh Wars in 1849. Kashmir was sold under the Treaty of Amritsar (1850) to the Dogra Dynasty of Jammu, and thereby became a princely state. In 1854 Berar was annexed, and the state of Oudh two years later. The Main purpose of the subsidiary alliance system was to expand the British Empire in India by…

Social philosophy claims to have prominent places for protest and mass movement. This paper is an attempt to explore these concepts in the eyes of three Modern Indian philosophers, i.e., Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. People protest for many reasons. Social psychology has lots to offer the study of protest. At the heart of every protest are grievances, such as experience of illegitimate inequality,…

himself as a person of the LGBTQ community. Although there are so many restrictions on the social, legal and even moral background, lesbian and gay people are standing up for themselves in many parts of the country. For instance- A lesbian couple in Amritsar was sanctioned by the magistrate, hence acknowledging their relationship. .(Mukherjee,Nupur “Recognition of Homosexuality in India- Its time.”…

Mohandas Gandhi was an extremely influential political leader because of nonviolent actions he performed such as fasting and leading many campaigns throughout his career. To Gandhi, “Non-violence is the article of faith”. Gandhi lived a very simple life. Often, he would only be seen wearing a hand-sewn loincloth and cheap spectacles (Rushdie). Gandhi was an opponent of technology and would often only hand write what would need to be written. Gandhi was an advocate of nonviolence. Because of…

The Shadow Lines (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian-Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh. He is no doubt one of the leaders of the global league, and no one would today dare categorise him as an ‘Indo-Anglian novelist’. We may say that Ghosh, in the tradition of Rushdie, is one of the key figures to have created that global league which every Indian writer would today aspire to join. In 1988, Amitav Ghosh published his second novel, titled as The Shadow Lines. Ghosh replaces the…

THE INTUITIVE BOND BETWEEN KEATS AND BATALVI A born-romantic, lonely and passionate singer, like Keats and Shelley, Batalvi had a intuition of his untimely doom : "This lyric of mine took birth with me, And with me it's to sojourn to Heaven. I'll sing my own song and depart the next dawn." Lovelorn poet Batalvi, physically also resembled Keats. And almost all his lyrics were addressed to some "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." During his…