Minkal Italiya

Reflective blog: Expert lecture on "Waiting for the Barbarians" by R.B.Zala  'The more you know, the more your critical mind may suffer' The reading of any book is not at all easy task but it doesn't mean that one can quite reading or read it only to get entertain. Talking about Waiting for the Barbarians, it is a worth reading novel written by twice Booker Prize winner novelist,linguistic and critic J.M.Coetzee.  "Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt"   - J.M.Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians  Waiting for Barbarians is not that much fantastic novel which deals with magical realism and so on but it can be considered as fable of post-colonial literature as well as it can also be viewed as within the context of the development of literary allegory. It is the story of people who are considered as 'Other' by civilized people. Once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the bar...

Then and Now: Colonialism, Imperialism and Post-colonialism Ania Loomba's Colonialism and Post-colonialism is an invaluable introductory text to theories and debates which animate post colonial studies. Throughout the book we can find a clarity and accessibility of complex ideas which makes the postcolonial reading noteworthy. The term colonialism and imperialism are usually considered as having a some kind of common elements between them. But there is also a difference between them. It becomes a necessary to know about difference between colonialism and imperialism. Ania Loomba discussed in detail about these terms in her Colonialism and Postcolonialism. What is Colonialism? According to Oxford English Dictionary, the word colonialism come from the  Roman ‘colonia’ which meant ‘farm’ or ‘settlement’ and referred to Romans who settled in other lands but still retained their citizenship. Accordingly, the OED describes it as;  A settlement in a n...