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Thinking Activity on "The Da Vinci Code"

This blog is response to the task assigened here in the classroom...    "The Da Vinci Code" The “Da Vinci Code” is a 2003 blockbuster mystery thriller novel by best known American author Daniel Gerhard Brown widely known as Dan Brown. Though the novel is a very rich in term of symbols and clues, it remains the subject to criticism and intellectual debate. In 2005, Time Magazine’s editors, while naming him one of the 100 Most influential people in World, credited him with, amongst other thing, “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewing interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; and spiking tourism to Paris and Rome”. From this famous novel, under the same name in 2006 mysterious thriller film was directed by Ron Howrad and written by Akiva Goldsman. “Da Vinci Code” movie follows symbologist Robert Langdon as he investigates a murder in Paris’s Louvre Museum and discovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the assumptions o...

Reflective blog: Expert lecture on "Waiting for the Barbarians" by R.B.Zala

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...

Thinking Activity on The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga

Welcome Readers! This blog is a part of thinking activity assisgened in classroom Click Here to know more about it..                                "The White Tiger" "The White Tiger"   is a debut novel written by Indian author Arvind Adiga ,  was published in 2008 and won the 40 th Man Booker Prize in the same year as well. This ground breaking Epistolary novel moves further with the binary narrative of Indian society in a letter from having seven chapters, which is a hard hitting on the naked reality of India, striking in different cultures and compromises two faces, brighter and darker side of India in a term of exploitation of various sections in rising India through the character of Balram Halwai- a modern Indian hero. His views on rich and poor India get more crystal clear when Arvind Adiga quotes, “The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor-...