Salman Rushdie

it came into the light when the book was withdrawn from the syllabus of the University of Mumbai's English Literature in 2010 after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray. In this light, a renowned writer Salman Rushdie points out that: The famous novel of Rohinton Mistry's 'Such a Long Journey' was withdrawn from the syllabus of Mumbai University because local activists objected to its plot. The title of the novel is taken from the poem of T.S. Eliot…

Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The basis of the film is how the life of Saleem is…

JhumpaLahiri’ sInterpreter of Maladies depicts the displaced immigrant protagonistsand second generation Indian-American characters searching for a way to fit into a community. The narrative is a collection of nine short stories concerned with the diasporic postcolonial situation of the lives of Indians and Indian-Americans. It underlines the centrality of cultural translation in the process of possessing and re-possessing the past and the presentboth chronological and spatial in a meaningful…

The Church of Please and Thank You “One of the big moments in the spread of English took place in India in 1835. [British politician] Thomas Babington Macaulay proposed that English be used to create a class of Indian middlemen who would be sympathetic to British interests, without the necessity of large numbers of British citizens coming out and running the show” (Traves 102). As you can see, English has impacted different cultures over the years. As English continues to grow over time,…

Imagine a world where sex didn’t sell, a world in which consumers cared about the performance of a product and it’s effects on themselves. Today advertising is so successful that people are often convinced to purchase food, or other goods that have no benefit. We live in such a Monkey see, monkey do society. People will see a product consumed by someone attractive or famous and instantly assume that the product is good, or even something that the person uses in their actual life. In the…

Freedom of speech is something that has been long instilled in the minds of Americans. Some seem to suppose they have complete freedom of that right, however, there are rules and restrictions. Many are not aware of these limitations and are not aware of just how many our world possesses. Some countries have more restrictions than others, but overall there are some phrases that are against the law to use, for example, shouting “fire” in a theater full of people (Turley 160). While “Shut Up and…

Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton. “Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”. Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary…

A young woman is sitting down to write a novel. She has written several in the past, but, this time when it is about to be published the government bans her from doing so. Although in this book it has the possibility to give people everywhere the feeling of security and can be seen as something beneficial. It incorporates conflicts that can be seen as promiscuous and includes the Holocaust, which causes tension in some, that is why it’s banned. This happens everyday in America, in China, almost…

Censorship in the United States “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie,” Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote. Censorship is a much debated upon subject all around the world, but especially so in the United States. Many argue for and against censorship with relevant and important points. I disagree that censorship should exist in the United States because it goes against the right of free speech, invades an individual 's privacy and oppresses people with different ideas and opinions.…

Achieving freedom from colonization resulted in new forms of dependency as the system of colonization was set on lasting subjection. Bill Ashcroft et al indicate that “all post-colonial societies are still subject in one way or another to overt or subtle forms of neo-colonial domination, and independence hasn’t solved this problem” (Ashcroft, 1). In neo-colonial system, the states seem to have formal independence and reserve the right of having control over their dealings but at the same time…