Partition of India

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” (2003) is a cross-cultural, ultigenerational story of a Hindu Bengali family’s journey to self-acceptance in Boston. ‘The Namesake’ explores the theme of transnational identity and trauma of cultural dislocation. The novel is a narrative about the assimilation of an Indian Bengali Family from Calcutta, the Ganguli’s, into America. The cultural dilemmas experience by them and their American born children are quite different. The spatial, cultural and emotional…

women and labour. Throughout his life, staunchly advocated for social justice and equality, which are bed rock of Indian constitution. He was first post independent India's law minister and played pivotal role to draft the constitution of modern India. Annihilation of Caste is a prolific work by Babasaheb and some social scientist opined that his book, occupies a place similar to what The Communist Manifesto once did in the world communist movement. Originally Ambedkar prepared a speech for…

John and Ruth Useem created the term Third Culture Kids (TCK) in the 1950s (Fail, Thompson, & Walker, 2004)Click and drag to move. The Useems met expatriates and their families while in India and discovered they had formed a lifestyle different from either their home or host culture (Pollock & Van Reken, 2009). To describe the world in which the expatriates lived, the Useems defined the home culture where they came from as the first culture. The host culture where they lived became known as the…

Abstract The present paper deals with Ved Mehta’s first novel – Deliquent Chacha. It is a short satirical novel set in London and Oxford. Ved Mehta has proved to be a shrewd and observant commentator on Indian society. He has brilliantly satirized Indians who insanely ape the foreign and are still unable to cast away the cloak of Britishers. The touch of satire is turned as much on British as on Indian – because human nature everywhere is same. No nation is unaffected by self-deception, vanity,…

Gadge Baba with Gandhiji Once,Mahatma Gandhi,along with Minister Babasaheb Kher, arrived at Sevagram in Wardha district. Mahatma Gandhi invited Gadge Baba to Sevagram render kirtan. Till the arrival of Gadge Baba at the kirtan place, a huge crowd gathered,waiting for him. The crowd was giving loud acclamation as Bharat Mata ki jay, Jai Hind, Mahatma Gandhi ki jay, Gadge Baba ki Jay. Such acclamations went acrossand reverberatedthe horizon.Gadge Baba arrived and started kirtan. Baba started with,…

headquarters at Mumbai, and now, the industry is growing rapidly. The company got legal certificate in 2007 and after that the company never looked back and kept on developing. There are about 113 branches and 17 zonal offices across the country of India. It shows their well-connectivity. They have the 24*7 helpline number which can be helpful for solving the queries. The amount figure of the capital is very high. They provide the services according to their customers so this is…

Summary: The Immortals of Meluha’- Review by Gaurav Sharma The Immortals of Meluha is the first book of Shiva trilogy.The story navigates us across a wonderful journey of a place named Meluha. Meluha is an imaginary land.The land is the habitat of Tibetan Tribes.Lord Shiva is the ruler of Tibetan Tribes.Shiva ascend to the journey of being Lord by his character,deeds and destiny. The writer has intelligently used the story of mythology and ornamented it with his exceptional writing skills…

Hindu temples represent a lot of ritual and symbolic context both inside and outside of the temple. These Hindu temples were first carved out of mountains that could also be seen as a simple umbrella shape. This symbolized the unbounded. The unbounded is known to be the connection with the first Hindu god, Brahma, in the triumvirate. The Hindu Triumvirate consists of the three Hindu gods. It consists of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the god of creation, Vishnu is the god of protection and…

Introduction Bharatanatyam is an interdisciplinary dance form that was originated in the state of Tamil Nadu and is familiar to people of Asian Indian origin. Research shows that Bharatanatyam has cognitive benefits in research studies and scholarly articles for Asia children living in the west and, therefore has good impact on dance education. According to a research by O’Shea, Bharatanatyam is a highly technical, primarily solo South Indian dance form that consists of a repertoire, abstract…

somewhat unimaginable. Music is the soul of Bengal and the traditional folk music mirrors the image of rural Bengal. The folk music has its origin as early as the 4th century with the advent of the invaders in Bengal and other provinces of colonial India. Bengali folk music has poetry, drama, epic, folktales, ballads and proverbs etc. The ethnic folk music forms the heart of Bengali culture. Folk music can be categorized in terms of love, devotion, occupation, labor, ritual and philosophy. These…