the multitude of many factors in which it consistently informs one 's perception of the world surrounding them as well as the individuals. For instance, in Alice Walker 's "Everyday Use," two sisters, Maggie and Dee, lived together with their mother. In the story, the mother sends Dee away ,"to send her Augusta to school. Afterwards, the mother explained that ,"she used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folk 's habits" and that Dee had "burned us with knowledge we did not necessarily
journey of immigration and the hardships immigrants undergo are common themes in Bharati Mukherjee's writings. The author, an immigrant herself, tries to show the darker side of immigration, especially for Hindu women, that is not often portrayed in other immigrant narratives. In the novel, Jasmine Mukhedee uses three types of immigrants to show how different the hardships of adhering to life in an adopted country can be. Her main immigrant characters fall mainly into three categories: the refugee, the
assimilation, both on physical and psychological levels. In this novel, Bharati Mukherjee novelizes the process of Americanization by tracing a young Indian woman’s experiences of trauma and achievement in her attempt to forge a new identity for herself. The story is told from the first-person point of view by the female protagonist, who undergoes multiple identity transformations in her quest for self-empowerment and happiness. Mukherjee uses the movielike techniques of flashback and cross-cutting to fuse
contemporary touch with the coming of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan. The social disparity of India which was aptly described by Mulk Raj Anand in his "Coolie", the imaginary village life with its entire unedited realities in R.K. Narayan`s "Malgudi Days" and last but not the least the aura of Gandhism depicted by Raja Rao in his remarkable novel "Kanthapura" portrayed a whole new India. The need of the `foreigners` depicting India amidst their write ups was not needed as Indians wanted
multi-party representative democratic republic modeled after the British Westminster System. The Prime Minister of India is the head of government, while the President of India is the formal head of state and holds substantial reserve powers, placing him or her in approximately the same position as the British monarch. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the Parliament of India. The judiciary is independent of the
time their ideas were revived. After the rupee was devalued in 1966, there were some moves towards freeing the trade regime, and hopes that the licensing system would also be liberalized. However, after Indira Gandhi split the Congress Party in 1969, her government took its ‘left turn’, nationalizing a fresh range of industries and returning to economic autarky. 1. Which of the following statements can most reasonably be inferred from the information available in the passage: (a) P.C. Mahalanobis believed