Women in India

Serena Nanda’s essay, “Arranging a Meeting in India,” recounts Nanda’s transition of views on arranged marriages in India as she experiences the process first-hand. Literary elements such as structure, diction, tone, mood, and ethical and emotional appeal all play a role in the reader’s impression of her story. Nanda uses an informal writing style that the reader can more easily identify with, including phrases like “She had me there,” and “pick and choose.” She also uses structure to…

“diasporic” to her subjectivity and oeuvre. Unlike many diasporic writers Jhabvala does not reconstruct a Europe she had lived in as an imaginary homeland or a delineation of the community of her ethnic origin (Jewish) in her adopted homeland, India. Indeed it is India which primarily occupies the writer’s imagination. Viewing the country from the standpoint of an outsider among India's bourgeoisie, Jhabvala creates archetypal characters, both Indian and European, who have an upset relationship…

my mother, who then was followed by my father. My mother moved to America when she was around the age of 20. She decided to move to America to get a job so she would be able to support the needs and wants of her family. She was born and raised in India where she was surrounded by poverty struck conditions, so to better her standard of living she decided to move. She didn’t believe it was going to be a difficult change since she was able to connect to her homeland through the services in America,…

Throughout the course of Vedic India, the rules on marriage become more and more strict. Brahmin men were originally allowed to marry into any Varna with the understanding that they would be stripped of their priest ship if they married a Shudra, but Brahmin women were only allowed to marry other Brahmins. Kshatriyas and Vaishyas could originally marry any class, but Shudras were looked down on as per usual. Shudras men were always unable to marry other castes, but women could (Nikul, 2017). As…

Authority, Subversion and the Telling voices of the Subalterns in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and…

writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi Mukherjee’s novels mainly focus on the immigrant experiences of women. Her writings mirror her own life, in which she has suffered hostility in Canada, first as an exile and later on as an expatriate. Finally she settled in the US as an immigrant . Breaking…

fraudulent manipulation of religion and religious values among the illiterate population in India by self acclaimed “god men (and women)” and other “godly” people. These words usually represent people who either have godly powers or can talk to God. They are often referred to as ‘baba’, ‘maharaj’, ‘pandit’, etc. I have chosen Krishna and Dante to deal with this problem. Since the majority of the population in India follows the religion that is closely based on the Bhagavad Gita, I think Krishna…

of India who led from 1966 to 1980. Gandhi came to power after the death of her father and India’s leader of the Indian National Congress at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru. She started Indian feminism and increased the potential power of women in the world, but she committed many crimes that prove that she was a bad leader for India. She did everything she could to keep herself in power even though she was harming India and taking away rights. Narendra Modi was elected as prime minister of India in…

BAN ON TOBACCO ADS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA The scientific community is in agreement that the use of tobacco products has many negative health consequences to direct users of the products as well as for those who have to inhale the poisonous second hand smoke. Governments have not been dealing with the conflict of interest that arises when they try to ban the advertisements of products that are legal and on the other hand, they benefit from the taxes associated from the sale of those products…

thematic fabric of Indian English fiction and lay the foundation of the new Indian English fiction. The post – colonial age represented by Shobha De is chiefly a quest for identity along different dimensions of socio – political and economic order of India. The novels of Shobha De explore the thick congested fabric of Indian life and structure her fiction with unquestionable authority. The crisis of identity plays vital role in the cast of the narrative of De. Her novels explore the hidden…