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Feature Story Writing Meghana Gulzar’s Chapaak; Matter of the Moment After the Razi and Talvar, Meghana Gulzar again makes her entry with story of fear, fight and freedom in her astonishing film Chhapak, based on the   real life story of Laxmi Agarwal; acid attack survivor .  It casts Dipika Padukon and Vikarant Massey in lead role. Deepika Padukone steps is emerging in the role of acid victim while Vikarant Massey plays the role of social activist. Still the time only the trailer is out on 10 th  December- Human Rights Day, and it started to trending worldwide, along with English activist Katie Piper; many other women and Bollywood celebs praise the immense effort of Meghana Gulzar and Deepika Padukon. As trailer indicates, it is.. “A Story of trauma and triumph and unquashable human spirit” It may will be a greatest film of Meghna Gulzar. Symapathy towards acid victim attracts everyone. This powerful story has a mind blowing powerful dialogue to ke...

Know the Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To enrich ones knowledge by reading or knowing is such an interesting idea, as a part of Sunday reading this task was given to us. CLICK HERE to know more about it. Know the Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian novelist has been known for her short stories and nonfiction as well she is considered as an excellent speaker. Her widely known novels are as listed below. Purple Hibiscus(2003) Half of Yellow Sun (2006) Americanah (2013) Along with it she is known for her short story collection  "The Thing Around Your Neck" (2009) and her book length essay "We Should All Be Feminists" (2014). Because of being so realistic in her work she has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize. According to Harold Pinter's Noble speech, The PEN Pinter Prize annual award is given to a writer for showing a "fierce intellectual determination...to define the real truth of our lives and societies". ...

Arundhati Roy: Know the Author and Works

Arundhati Roy: Know the Author and Works This blog is a part of Sunday reading, given by professor Dr.Dilip Barad to enhance our knowledge and critical thinking if Indian English Literature. CLICK HERE to know about task.     Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Mulk Raj Anad, R.K.Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Shahshi   Deshpande, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy and so on. These are the Indian born writer who furnished our   Indian English Literature in every aspects. All of them tries to explore the socio, economical and political problems of country in their work. Among all of them Arundhati Roy is known as Indian well known author, political activist as well along with Mahashweta Devi she is known as social activist. She is well known for her master piece Booker Prize winning novel “God of Small Thing”.   This particular work has autobiographical elements as it mainly speaks about her own experience. As R.K.Narayan’s novels take place in fictional town ...

Thinking Activity: Education and Technology

This blog is part of  academic activity assigned in classroom, CLICK HERE to know more about task. Thinking Activity: Education and Technology With an influx of technology almost every child wants to be   with technology in comfort manner. When 2019 is just around the corner almost every classroom is introduced with technology. Indeed, "Digital India" campaign contributed in this glorious success in India. New educational software binds one to be a multi talented as well as it empowers the remodeling of the traditional classroom.  But there is certain mass who views technology as it is threaten their duties in using technology in classroom but   preferably it is not true.When teaching is all about to aware the students what they didn't know,there must not be any problem in using technology as it permits to explore young mind and equally sharpen them. In this era of technology there are certain platforms such as MOOC, Khan Academy, Coursera ...

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources In this phase of digital era, when the old culture of books are slowly and steadily moving towards internet; it seems that new young generation are on the path of becoming internetwarms. Though the emerging world of internet is full of information, do we rely on it blindly?  There is no doubt that we like to use internet for grasping the knowledge or knowing about newer things but when it comes to the point of academic research work, how far the authenticity of web resources is certituded?       Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources, 19/11/2019 English Department, MKBU While doing academic and research works we do not rely blindly on any web resource as these works required quality of reading and writing. In order to spread awareness about the authenticity of web sources, a very fruitful session was conducted by Dilip Barad sir on 19 th November, 2019. ...

Thinking Activity: In the context of A Grain of Wheat

Thinking Activity: In the context of A Grain of Wheat   Representations of Natives by Colonizer in A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o  and Robinson Crusoe by  Daniel Defoe A Grain of Wheat(1967) by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o  Ngugi Wa Thiong’o known for showing his concern for the native people who becomes the victim of colonizer as well as his novels also explore the horrible effect of colonialism and imperialism. In his work “A Grain of Wheat”   he presented the Maumau Emergency by showing his concern for poor Kenyan people. In this masterpiece work of him, he uses his characters to bring out the moral aspect of colonization from both the perspective of the British and rural Kenyans. The most important fact is that in this novel, Ngugi uses a local language as a weapon against colonizer as he mostly used the Swahili words. The novel mainly deals with two major problems of Kenyan people: Mua Mua rebellion and most awaited independence movement. ...

Thinking Activity: Mass Media and Communication

Hello readers, Warmly welcome to this blog... Mass Media and Communication In this world it seems impossible for human being to live without communication, here I am not talking about the business oriented communication. It is the fact that no human being can survive without doing communication to others. In a sense to communicate with other, is a necessary of human being to express their thoughts, emotions and so on. Thus it is the general meaning of communication. If we look at its literally meaning, it can be defined as… "… the two ways process of sending and receiving messages either in verbal or non verbal meanings by including speech, oral communication, writing or graphical presentations." According to Stoner and Wankel, “Communication is the process by which people attempt to share meaning via the transmission of symbolic messages.   What we can understand by mass media and mass communication? Though the mass media and mass co...