Critique Of Na Maloom Afrad

the first chapter when Ashima calls her husband but not by name. Bengali tradition is one

Reciprocity is very important in Pakistani communities. As covered in A. Shaw’s ‘A Pakistani Community in Britain,’ the term lena-dena literally means ‘taking and giving’ and itself implies the obligation of exchange.

After 9/11, northern Pakistan moved toward religious radicalism. There was upheaval and growing opposition to singing, dancing and acting. After I finally obtained a visa, I moved to the U.S. to follow my passion for acting in theater, film and television.

“He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.” She looked around to see who was listening. “’Oh, is that your suit’ I said. ‘This is the first I ever heard about it.’ But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon” … (35)

decline into isolation as he is lost. Saroo explains to his friends, “I’m not from Calcutta, I’m lost.”

The book mentions about the mental confusions, insecurities and the effort to understand their spouses. The writer has expressed simple and usual emotions of a womanhood, fidelity and family. A tint of Indian culture is reflected in each chapter indicating how a bridegroom and groom select each other, the nature of an Indian woman and how she takes up challenges in her life, reconciling the roles of a daughter, an ex-wife, a wife and a mother, the strength of the human spirit and their passion to survive and fight for a good life. It also features the distinctive qualities of Indian relatives highlighting their interest in an individual’s marital life and how offensive it is to the society to find a married woman talking to an unknown man. The book also focuses on the pain of a mother to see her unhealthy

At the end of the story, Abdul ends up trying to haul recycling from places that are farther from Annawadi. Asha launders money through her fake kindergarten business. Manju becomes a new secretary and co-signer for Asha. Sunil finds out what he must do to survive because he doesn’t want to be a thief anymore. He goes to the narrow ledge of pavement above the Mithi River where he can find cans and bottles. Finally, Annawadi is torn down to make way for progress. The people of Annawadi need to move out, so they move to different places. They are gone, but their memories are still there. They have left a great

Girls all over the world are forced into marriages due to financial necessity, tradition and to ensure their future. Most of these girls married are at a young age: “One third of the world’s girls are married before the age of 18 and 1 in 9 are married before the age of 15”( “Child Marriage Facts and Figures”). The young ages of those being married reveal how crucial it is to resolve this problem. When child marriage occurs the parents of the bride usually chose the groom for their daughters; and these grooms can be three times older than the young brides. Some children are brought into the world of marriage at the of 8 or sometimes less depending on their cultural views. The following can be used to help reduce the impact of early

Parent understand that their girls are a burden and their sons are a gift, and this is what their sons and daughters grow up believing. The dowry placed on girls plays greatly into the sex-selected abortion rate in India. Boys are plainly and simply a better financial investment. Boys will not cost the parents money for marriage, in fact, with a marriage, they are guaranteed to make the parents money. Parents forced with the decision to have a girl and deal with the financial consequences, or abort and hope and pray for better luck in the gender of their child next time around. Quite often they chose the

uneasy feeling when he tries on his father’s too-large suit jacket” (Heims 275). A suit jacket too

The opening scene in the movie is that of Gandhi’s January 30, 1948 assassination in New Delhi, India by Nathuram Godse, a

The director resorts to a flash back mode in this film. After portraying the last episodes in Gandhi’s life, he then moves on to sketch the life of Gandhi as a young barrister in Africa. Gandhi faces the first bitter experience here in Africa while travelling in the first class train compartment. Though he possessed the reservation ticket, he was thrown out of the train due to the fact that the first class is reserved for the Europeans. He had to

For that, Al Qaeda has become the scapegoat lately especially after the 9/11. Anything distressing happens, and Al Qaeda is sure to have been involved. In a particular occasion, a member of the Kasuri family was returning from London when because of a technical fault, they were stranded on the airport for two days. The nose of the plane had fallen off while the plane was about to take off. This falling off of the nose is taken metaphorically by the author for it is a matter of shame for the PIA that such events take place on a daily routine basis now. But Butterfly sympathizes with the PIA and brings in Al Qaeda. The real mastermind according to her is either Al Qaeda, RAW or Masood who allegedly blew up the Twin Towers. Another habit which Mohsin disapproves of is the tendency to be influenced and persuaded by other people’s customs. When Indians visit Pakistan for cricket, she quickly decides to adopt their ways. She goes through a whole transformation-wears cotton saaris, eats soup-like daal while sitting on a dastarkhan instead of a dining table, fasts for her husband; but abandons all of the customs when she could notbear the prospect of being burnt with her Janoo’s dead body.This took place in 2004 when Indian soaps were at the peak of their popularity among the Pakistani public. That is one reason why they were so glamorized by Butterfly. Glamour and alluring charm is one thing that fascinates Butterfly. While Pakistan settles an arm deal with Pentagon in order to enhance national

Woman to a villain who is about to rape her: "Bhagwaan ke liye mujhe chhod do." (For God 's sake leave me.)

Basically Maalik is about war, politics, corruption and most of all about patriotism and taking ownership of one's country. It portrays our society from grass root strugglers to the highest levels of wealth and power. It is soaked in reality as it shows