Yamuna

Aravind Adiga portrays the use of literary devices in his novel, The White Tiger, when he implements symbolism, and the motif of pairs and dualities. In the novel, Adiga effectively demonstrates how the use of literary devices creates a greater insight into Balram’s view of India in order to engage the readers throughout the book. Balram’s outlook of India is presented through the author’s effective use of symbolism, which engages the readers in understanding Balram’s view. At first, when Balram introduces the audience to the chandelier in his office, they immediately become engaged with the symbolic meaning. He is quick to tell the readers about the “chandelier above me…full of small diamond-shaped glass pieces…the small blades chop up the chandelier's light and fling it across the room” (Adiga 5). Adiga employs symbolism as Balram’s description of splitting the chandelier light into a flashing effect signifies his control over light and darkness and how Balram moved from one state to the exact opposite and finally overlapping both. This fascinates the reader, as the symbolic chandelier creates an understanding of the way Balram views India with a society whose achievements persecutes its underclass, and no matter how successful the people of the underclass are at transforming themselves from the darkness, they will never have the ability to completely change. Furthermore, when Balram describes his mother’s funeral, Adiga symbolizes the mud of the Ganga River…

Upon visiting the Blume Library to view the exhibition, my initial expectations were that of student's work, instead I was pleasantly surprised to see a majority of photographic artwork from Rama Tiru. Tiru, a professional artist, is exhibiting her work titled "Moment/Alternate Moment." Of these pieces, the one that struck me as most relatable and wildly telling of a culture was, "Taj for the Locals." The archival photo-print with an acid free mat is a glimpse into the lives of Indian people, of…

Located at the bank of the Yamuna River in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India is the Taj Mahal which is considered to be one of the greatest, most attractive monuments and is mentioned to be the 7th wonders of the world, it attracts over 3 million visitors every year from all over the world. The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal whom he loved dearly. The emperor wanted intended for this Taj Mahal to be one of the most beautiful…

Pollution has been impacting the Earth for multiple years. In Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels around the world to some of the world's most polluted places. Blackwell asks if the human race destroying the Earth with all the pollution that we have been creating. In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the…

first two mortals to be born they were twins. According to Monier Williams Sanskrit Dictionary the original meaning of the male Vedic name Yama is twin. Symbolically death and life are twins. The birth of a being automatically decides the death of that mortal sometime in future. Rigveda poetically describes that life and death are twinborn. The Yama, thus signifying death was born together with Yami, a symbol of life. Yami is a personification of life in the form of river Yamuna, the rivers are…

The exciting expectation of a blissful union makes her confess that her heart is shivering like a leaf and her limbs are faint and quivering like tumultuous waves. She beseeches the river Yamuna to sing her bridal song as the night passes. She feels apprehensive and dejected of not arriving Krishna and says – “O, like a leaf doth my shy heart shiver, O, like a wave do my faint limbs quiver, Softly, softly, Jamuna river Sing thou our bridal song.” The ending lines of the poem show the depth of…

It is located in New Delhi, the capital city of India, which makes it a powerful fort during the Mughal Empire. The Red Fort got its name from the color of its walls, which consist of red sandstone. It has been the symbol of power ever since it was built. Every year, on independence day, the Prime Minister hoists the national flag in front of the Red Fort, and gives a nationally broadcasted speech. When I went to visit the Fort, I was immediately blown away away by the beauty of the Fort. It…

into an embryo again. With water they sprinkle; the water is seed…They conduct him to the hut of the consecrated; the hut of the consecrated is the womb of the consecrated;” where they “cover him” with the garment called caul and over it, there is what they called antelope skin and then the placenta above the caul. In there the person has to close his hands very closely like the embryo from where he will be born again. This ritual is done in the Indian sacrifice, and the aim is to obtain heaven…

rainfall at the end of a month.’ ‘Radha will definitely participate,’ assured her mother. ‘How many girls are there?’ ‘Around five hundred thousand.’ ‘Five hundred thousand!’ ‘The more the better. Group prayers have better outcome. Every single girl has to perform the Katyayani Ritual to save our community. Our economy depends on dairy farming. Lack of rains will adversely affect our livelihood due to drying up of pastures.’ ‘But, how do we chaperone five hundred thousand girls?’ The task of…

ambitious king”, while Shiva descended as Krishna’s lover, Radha (Pattanaik 77). Kali descends as a man, and Shiva descends as a woman. This is the basis on which two episodes that will be discussed. The first is “Shiva the Milkmaid”, in which Shiva encounters milkmaids dancing to the music made by Krishna and wants to join (78). In this scared dance circle, the only man aloud to participate is Krishna; everyone else would have to be a woman. To remedy this, Shiva danced in the Yamuna River and…