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This blog is part of my academic activity. To see the task please Click here ... “Breath” by Samuel Beckett CURTAIN up 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.  3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. CURTAIN Down Modern literature experiments with the traditional one. Theme of absurdity and nothingness is in center. Artist try to find new meanings and try to extent  their vision over horizon. Samuel Bucket, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf all were the writers of that period. Which raise question about existence and try to put it on canvas or paper through words or colors. Samuel Bucket wrote a play ‘Breath’ 30s...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Juxtaposing dialogues from Mira Nair film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” based on Mohsin Hamid ’s  novel. It is a 2012 political thriller drama film. The film was produced by Lydia and co-produced by freelance screenwriter Ami Bogani, Hansi Farsi, Anadil Hossain and US producer Robin Sweet. Frame  narration of film is story within story and flashback technique is also used here. It’s include several points like… Past 9/11time, globalization, corporate world and World view at terrorism The Reluctant Fundamentalism starts with traditional Islamic Quvvali, film tries to portrayed theme of art. Holly book  Quran is against  sharaab and representation of Quvvali and melody with Shraab it’s in a way anti-Islam. Changez Khan is hero of film, who is in love of America and do all good for nation America. He believe by doing that he is an American but threat of terrorism in Americans doubt on every in-native American and Changez Khan is...

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else. (Chimamanda) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie an excellent speaker, Nigerian Novelist, writer of Short stories and non fiction. Americanah, half of a yellow sun, purple Hibiscus are her famous novels and We should All be feminist is her book length essay. The thing around your neck is her short story collection. She wad described in The Times Literary supplement as “The most prominent “ of a “Procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors who is succeeding in attracting a new generation of  readers to African Literature. In a 2014 interview, Adichie  said on feminism and writing , ‘ I think of myself as  a story teller, but I would not mind at all if someone were to think of me as a feminist writer… I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world , and that world view  must somehow  be part of my work. (1) Here, is Chimamanda’s speech o...

Saleem and Shiva- the truth about is also may be wrong, whose blood is question? Midnight’s children (novel), is story of Grandfather to son Saleem and another boy Shiva. With the born of independent India at mid night some children were also born and with their grows symbolically growing of India is presented. Movie is like collage of so any things. Many stories goes together with various symbols, hidden meanings and mechanics of the movie. Midnight’s children is like National History in Fictional way. Deepa Mehta try to make it Dreamy and Dramatic. Salman Rushdie is himself  screenplay writer, though it is not as good as novel. Decolonizing of human mind and how we look at freedom struggle or nationalism also is very important. This people who are cross over people hybrid identities like Deepa Mehta, Mira Niar.. They look at history in rather different perspective and which are normally not much in same way and their work hatred r being attacked  by Hindutva identi...

British rule was, according to Tharoor, an Era of Darkness for India. In his Latest published book ‘An era pf darkness is all about condition of colonized India. British colonial rule was an awful experience for Indians. What India had to endure under the rule of Britishers was outrageous humiliation on name of humanity, Tharoor’s  book speaks all about it. In short, book is very god reminder of everything injustice done by Britishers! There are several things that make the book extraordinary. (1)Looted with laxity  Indian wealth, ruined indigenous skill and increased rural poverty are product of British raj over India. This is disaster for India. Some  numerical information in book is really shocking. 1. In 1700, India’s GDP was 27%of the world GDP while in 1947, it had come down to 3 per cent. Just to put things in perspective, in 1600, Britain’s share of the global GDP was 1.8 per cent. 2. Between 30 million-35 million Indians died of starvation during ...

We watched film The Great Dictator at the Department of English, MKBU as part of our background study of Modern literature. The Great Dictator is a 1940 American Political satire Comedy drama silent film and film maker well into the period of sound film. It was his first talking film. Film is  Written, Directed, Produced and scored by Charlie Chaplin . Film controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, fascism and the Nazis so, first question raised in our mind about Fascist, who were they and what they were doing? Fascist believe that liberal democracy  is obsolete and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian. One party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Charlie plays double roles: Persecuted Jewish Barber and Ruthless Fascist Dictator. Jewish barber fighting for nation Tomania, unknowingly he saves life of wounded pilot but, however their plane crushes and twent...

This blog is reflection of given task . It has Five concept of Orientalism by Edward Said, which I like most from this video.  (1) How Said’s Interest emerges in Orientalism EDWARD SAID: My interest in Orientalism began for two reasons, one it was an immediate thing, that is to say, the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, which had been preceded by a lot of images and discussions in the media in the popular press about how the Arabs are cowardly and they don't know how to fight and they are always going to be beaten because they are not modern. And then everybody was very surprised when the Egyptian army crossed the canal in early October of 1973 and demonstrated that like anybody else they could fight. That was one immediate impulse. And the second one, which has a much longer history in my own life was the constant sort of disparity I felt between what my experience of being an Arab was, and the representations of that that one saw in art. I'm talking about very great artist...