Indira Gandhi

Things in the middle of Parvati and Shiva rapidly acrid, and she comes back to the magicians' ghetto, pregnant and still unmarried. There, the ghetto inhabitants evade Parvati until Saleem consents to wed her. In the mean time, Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, starts a cleansing crusade. Soon after the conception of Parvati's child, the government devastates the magicians' ghetto. Parvati dies while Shiva catches Saleem and conveys him to a constrained sanitization…

When Anand Patwardhan, popularly known for his socio-economic and human rights oriented films like Bombay Our City (1985), entered the realm of documentary filmmaking in 1971, he challenged the institutions dominating Indian documentary film production, distribution and censorship. Whereas when Paromita Vohra, acclaimed for her documentaries on urban life, popular culture and gender like Morality TV and Loving Jihad (2007), entered much later, in 1995 she had to deal with a completely different…

HINDU PEOPLE Hindu people also follow the tenets of Dharma, Karma, and Moksha. Dharma is the ultimate goal in Hinduism and is the “right way of living”. It also proposes that there is a way of living life according to your own path of truth and that these paths vary between all of us. On the other hand, Karma proposes that anything a person does, whether good or bad, will eventually return to them in this or a future life. This concept is closely related to that of reincarnation, doctrine in…

4. Representations of Gandhi For nearly six decades, Gandhi has been a recurring figure in diverse mediums all over the world. Whether it’s a new biography or a modern take on Gandhi’s philosophies, the Gandhian tradition has been kept alive in not just literature, but in almost all art forms. However, it creates an interesting but a paradoxical situation; during his lifetime Gandhi was likened to other eminent figures like Lenin, Tolstoy and even Jesus Christ. Soon after his death a discourse…

I belonged to a strong family with eight siblings. My father was very honest and ideal man. He grew up in the times when India was going through independence struggle. He belonged to Gandhi era and strongly believed and practiced ideals in a form of a metaphor, “Simple living high thinking.” I grew up in a household that held values such as honesty and respect utmost. Although, my father had many opportunities to make lot of money, but…

4.2.2d: Sexual harrasment at workplace: Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual behaviour, which could be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated. It can be physical, verbal or written. Sexual harassment is covered in the workplace when it happens: • at work • at work-related events • between people sharing the same workplace • between colleagues outside of work. Responding to harassment All incidents of sexual harassment – no matter how large or small or who is…

3. Tapkeshwar Temple Source: The Internet Tapkeshwar Temple is the holy and religious place and is located on the bank of Tons or Nandi River. Tapkeshwar Temple is the must visit place in Dehradun. The place is ranked as 7th to visit in Dehradun. Tapkeshwar Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. The image of Lord Shiva is naturally made by caves and the water drops continuously on the image of Lord Shiva. There is a Sulphur Water spring near the temple which is very famous. The temple is surrounded…

Gandhi’s regime in the 1980s. In the 1960s, some political scientists and even some governors of states who were affected by defection thought it to be a phase which would pass soon”. There was a clear cut indication that Rajiv Gandhi was not going to continue with Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s political ethos. His stand on political defections had made the fact very clear. On December 29, 1984, Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde of Karnataka tendered the resignation of his Janta Party ministry, taking…

D’Mello, the tyrannical disciplinarian, is a votary of the iron-handedness of Mrs. Gandhi and practises similar ruthlessness in disciplining his boys. It escapes his notice that not even a single pupil is refined for the better by his exhortations and canings. A similar lack of self-respect is shared by many characters in the pre-liberalised…

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…