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According to Mark Huelsman, who wrote the article, “Clinton vs. Trump: How your vote will impact your student debt” from Complex, illustrates Trump’s behavior in a summary of his presidential campaign. He states, “once he (Trump) called women “disgusting” for breastfeeding, kicked a crying baby out of his rally, and said that men who take care of their children are acting “like the wife” (4). As seen above, is an example of how the United States still has a gap of gender roles. Before continuing…

Bending the Culture: Hybridization of Punjabi Ethos in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” - Salman Rushdie ‘Diaspora is the term used to describe any population which is considered deterritorialized, dislocated and disintegrated fostering feels of ‘unbelongingness’ and ‘dispossession’. The…

Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled…

promotes a harmonious and stronger bonding among the citizens, be it Hindus or non-Hindus and to enhances unity in a multi-ethnic country like Malaysia. The celebration also shows variety of Hindus culture, such as the traditional clothes the dhoti and sari, the dishes and sweets such as ladoo, ommapadi and murukku. This culture is mesmerizing and attracts many of locals and tourist attraction to learn more about the Hindus practices and…

everything to me” (Tucker, 2000). Several months later, she had returned to Calcutta and lived with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Saint Joseph’s Asylum for the Elderly. She traded her traditional black and white nun outfit for the traditional saris of the Indian culture. Day in and day out she tirelessly worked in the slums, to serve the poorest of the poor. In 1948, the Catholic Church gave her permission to begin a new religious order, called the Missionaries of Charity (Stevenson,…

Theatre is a revelation as it unveils the drama of human life and emotions in a society warped by injustice and oppression. Theatre’s ability to plumb the depths of human psyche in this oppressive and corrupt world makes it a strong voice for addressing the suffering and the angst of the individual suffocated in the terrible grip of control and exploitation. In doing so, theatre not only problematizes contemporary socio-cultural issues but also provokes critical thoughts on conflicts, dilemmas,…

Shashi Deshpande is a leading woman novelist in Indian writing in English. She has written seven novels and four collections of short stories. In her novels she gives us a realistic portrait of middle-class educated Indian women who are self-confident, self-reliant and financially self-dependent. Such women are the protagonists of her novels, they get trapped between tradition and modernity, they undergo great mental trauma, they face the problems of adjustments and conflicts and then they go in…

The helicopter flew into our forests two days ago, chopping the air like a large dragonfly with gauze wings splayed, plastered in metal and broken. We heard it in the dawn and I wiped the dew wet inside my ears so that I could hear it again, chopping the air through our trees. The men jumped up, and so did he, hush-hushing the fear and surprise. I forgot to breathe. We found it today, sunning itself, its shadow short in the high hours of noon, waiting. By the time I got to it, running, yelling,…

SANGANER-BLOCK PRINT CLUSTER Introduction- Rajasthan has a rich craft and cultural heritage.Among the various crafts the most practiced and known craft is hand block printing. Printing is done at several places in Rajasthan and each place has its unique impact on the craft, due to historical, cultural and geographical impact and influences. Every region has developed its own style. The region of Sanganer has emerged as one such centre for the well known craft of hand block printing. Village…

Mother Teresa is one of the famous people on earth. She was famous because of what she has done and of how many people she has helped. Her real name is Ganxhe Agnes Bojaxhiu but most people call her Agnes. She was born in August 26 1910. She was born and lived in Skopje, is it a small part of Siberia which is now a part of Yugoslavia. She is the third child of the Bojaxhiu family. She has 2 siblings which are her sister Aga and her brother Lazar. Agnes’ father, Kole Bojaxhiu was a wealthy…