Minkal Italiya

This blog is a part of pre thinkking activity which was given in Post-colonial study paper. Click Here to get the task link.       1.   Read the first Gujarati story and listen to the audio recitation of the second story. Observe how the two wordsmiths work wonders through words! (Absolute obsession of alliteration) Bhagvan bagvan Mansingh from Jayant Khatrini Ghadhya Srushti The author    begins the story with description of darkness, so here for the beginning we can assume that the flow of the story will further moves either in frightening   way or a kind of horror happen. The title character Mansingh is also portrayed as he is quite mysterious character and no one has that dare to ask him about anything. It also reminds me about the movie Bhulbhulaiya also in which Dr.Aditya wonders and encounters the ghost of Manjulika. This story also flows in a same way, each chapter of it is unfolded with narrator’s aim to reveal the truth ...

Analytic review of films: Midnight's Children, The Reluctant Fundamental and The Black Prince "Midnight’s Children" Midnight’s children is a 2012 Canadian-British film adaption of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel with the same name. Directed by Oscar nominated director Deepa Mehta and based on Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie,   the film has an extraordinary as well as interesting frames and features. The movie unearth the history of Indian independence as well as of Indian partition by representing a pair of children who were born in Bombay at the stroke of midnight on 15 th August, 1947, with a birth of new country. It was the time of highly patriotism where Jawaharlal Nehru was leading the newly born independent country into and era of hope and grand possibilities but, Could the citizens of country live in that era of striking hope?  or Still there was a darkness in country? Did the talk of great hope and grand possibilities wou...

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...

T his blog is a part of my academic activity which was given to us by professor in a paper of Post-colonial study. Click Here for task link. Recently on 18th December, 2019, Sahitya Akadami released a press note announcing its annual Sahitya Akadami Award in 23 languages.  Shashi Tharror - a well known Indian politician, writer and congress party member is among 23 writers who will be won a Sahitya Akadami Award for his creative non-fiction English language work "An Era of Darkness".  After this annoncement when Shashi Tharoor received aplently cogratulation messages, he repied on twitter to journalist Tanveer Singh, where he displayed his firmness about accepting Sahitya Akadami Award. Let's have a look on his Sahitya Akadami Award winning work, "An Era of Darkness" . An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” is a book by Shashi Tharoor which brings out the ugly truth of India   duri...

T his blog is a part of my academic activity which was given to us by professor in a paper of Post-colonial study. Click Here to get the task link.. Edward Said on Orientalism Edward Said is a well known scholar and an important figure in postcolonial studies.His signature contribution into the field of post colonial study is his book Orientalism which was published in 1978 and was discussed about the term Orientalism which was coined by Edward Said. The book was translated in 26 languages. What is Orientalism? According to Said, "Orientalism revolutionized the study of the Middle East and helped to create and shape entire new fields of study such as Post-colonial theory as well influencing disciplines as diverse as English,History,Anthropology,Political Sciences and Cultural Studies" Edward Said’s Orientalism deals with that views of Western attitudes which views Eastern societies as primitive and some how inferior. This Wester...