Examples Of Boundaries And Boundaries In The Shadow Lines

Indian fiction in English has matured itself over the years. It has become more expressive and experimental, both thematically and stylistically, than ever, and has come to establish itself as an indigenous branch of world literature. With the passage of time novel in English became recognized as an effective vehicle of human relationships in Indian society. Novelists since the formative years of this genre have been exploring through it, human relationships in the complex Indian society. R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Shashi Despande, Arundhti Roy, Kiran Desai, Jumpha Lahiri, Geeta Mehta, and Githa Hariharan etc., have produced social novels which deal with the theory of human relationships in the traditional and

The new worlds emerging from such phenomena go beyond the personal, for the country they left behind is changed as well as the one to which they go. The Indian diaspora contains a high number of professionals, making for a global expatriate community with a strong measure of influence and clout. Chaudhuri’s novel is a gently told, convincing glimpse into the life of one ordinary non-resident Indian, stated in deceptively simple, elegantly rendered.

The book contains the stories of first and second generation Indian immigrants, as well as a few stories involving ideas of otherness among communities in India. The stories revolve around the difficulties of relationships, communication and a loss of identity for those in diaspora. No matter where the story takes place, the characters struggle with the same feelings of exile and the struggle between the two worlds by which they are torn. The stories deal with the always shifting lines between gender, sexuality, and social status within a diaspora. Whether the character be a homeless woman from India or an Indian male student in the United States, all the characters display the effects of displacement in a

The paper presents the current situation of the people of Kashmir. It is the study ofShahnaz Bashir’s- The Half Mother. The novels satirize the political and bureaucratic system, India’s tyrannical role and the Military oppression in Kashmir. The title of the paper is The Sufferings and Struggle of a Mother (Haleema) for her Disappeared Son (Imran) - In Shahnaz Bashir’s- Half Mother. Kashmir is a very beautiful place and was a princely state up to 1953 with its own prime minister. It is why Kashmir is generally known as paradise on earth and this paradise has become not hell but the ‘capital of hell’ due to mass killing, murder mystery, displacement, disappearance and sexual harassment, by military and paramilitary forces. The paper deals with

In “Borders” by Thomas King, the story portrays identity as something very valuable. The title of this short story, “Borders” indicates two borders; one of them is a physical border and the other is a metaphorical border. The physical border is the obvious physical border amid Canada and the United States, while the other is a metaphorical border between someone's identity and citizenship, The mother immensely proud of her blackfoot heritage, furthermore she displays makeship nationalistic views. It is rare and improbable for a young woman to leave the reserve, which suggests that blackfoot people do not hate or despise living their. Accordingly they have no aspirations to move out. The mother feels strongly against America and would not betray her own identity by identifying as an American or a Canadian. In Thomas King’s “Borders”, the story shows proudness of citizenship and it portrays where you are from is a key piece of who you are and your identity.

In today’s society, “dividing lines” see to come up on a daily basis. People are divided by race, religion, cultures, and income levels. Society seems so wrapped up in other people and what they are doing that they do not seem to have time for themselves. In the text it states “As individuals or groups, we habitually define ourselves by our differences from others, drawing a line between “us” and them.” This statement has a lot of meaning in only a small sentence. If people were to be more understanding and empathetic of other races and their cultures, I think we could live in a more peaceful world.

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Du Bois’ speaks of a ‘veil’ that has hindered his race from living their lives to the fullest potential. This veil has made it seemingly impossible to integrate into the white, mainstream society. Similarly, in “A Passage to India”, E.M Forster describes the story of Dr. Aziz, a native Indian, and his interactions with the imperial British society in his hometown of Chandrapore, India. Dr. Aziz attempts to become friendly with the British, but ends up bringing them on an excursion to the Marabar caves which quickly illuminates the inability of such a bonding experience. In both the Reconstruction Era of America, and in Imperial India, there is a veil that comes it two parts: a physical veil of color and and

Through the prescribed framework of magic realism, the novel allows its multitude of characters, belonging to diverse cultural backgrounds, to appraise and originate their own versions of Indian history, thus subverting British colonial versions of history. Magic realism becomes obligatory to communicate the postcoloniality of India, and within its framework, the novel explores and presents a postcolonial history of its own. The cultural and social hybridity, along with the historical hybridity present within the novel allows the text to exemplify the major themes of the novel and postcoloniality itself: the formation and telling of history, self, and narratives. The novel effectively and noticeably depicts the problems of postcoloniality and

An event that has relation to war today is the tension in the northern region of India, Punjab, where the Sikh holy book was ripped up and thrown. Many Sikhs gathered in a peaceful protest, trying to bring to justice the people who were responsible, but the police ended up shooting and killing two peaceful protestors. Simran Jeet Singh, is one of the authors, who writes on this topic. He takes up this topic, because it represents part of the unjust that happened to Sikhs in 1984 where they were killed and murdered in the thousands by the Indian government. Singh says, “I was born in the United States in the summer of 1984, during the height of the anti- Sikh violence in Punjab” (Singh 1). He goes on to say how he feels the pain of his Sikh brothers and sisters who were killed in the year 1984, for their religious beliefs. Background about Singh shows us the importance of mediated narratives, as they show that Singh is trying to raise awareness about the issues going on in Punjab in an attempt to try to avoid the destruction that happened in 1984. Another one of these authors is Nirmala Ganapathy, who is part of The Straits Times. She takes up the same interest as Singh, as she works to raise awareness on the issues affecting her homeland of India. She writes about why Sikhs have been blocking major roads in India and the influence this has. Her curiosity is what has

Due to the way Dahl illustrates the uncertain and suspenseful mood , utilizes historical context surrounding British imperialism to develop the characters, and the repressing symbolism, which reveals the existence of racism within India, justifies that his use of style is essential. As the reader can see, Dahl’s use of uncertainty and suspense creates the mood. It leaves the reader compelled to read the story to the end. Along with that, the way the author developed the characters added a background. Finally, Dahl’s use of symbolism for each character gave the story a deeper meaning which reflects on how racism is still a thing. With having all of these

The interactions between the two are seen in the author’s perspective with the ideas, cultures, and reflections of the various locations and how the author’s identity evolves as a result. This builds on the works of David Armitage, Linda Colley, Emma Rothschild, and Maya Jasanoff, who attempt to bridge the historiography of British Empire and nation, creating one field. As Rothschild and Jasanoff demonstrate, personal accounts reveal different perspectives of empire that of the contemporary people, of which I wish to contribute. Additionally my project builds upon historiography that endeavors to link the empire globally rather by metropole or periphery. Other historians link these concepts together through their analysis of the East India Company and its relationship to Britain. These approaches allow for my project to look at the lower classes through larger perspectives that make their mobility a global concept through a personal

India is a large and diverse county in Southern Asia with an enormous and fast-growing population. Each region and state of India has its own identity which is shown in the people, the culture of the region, the religious sphere, and even its food and delicacies. Many conquerors have carved their way through India like a canvas, including the Macedonians, the Chinese, and the Turks. Each and every conqueror has left

Midnight’s Children (1981) is a novel linking India’s transition from British colonialism to independence to its protagonist, Saleem Sinai – a boy with telepathic powers who is able to organize the 1001 other children of special abilities born within an hour of Indian independence (which took place at midnight on the 15th of August, 1947, hence the title). It is considered a seminal example of both postcolonial literature and magical realism. In fact, it was used early on in postcolonial studies as a definitive piece of postcolonial literature – that is, Midnight’s Children helped postcolonial theorists create a definition of postcolonialism. Consequently, Midnight’s Children – at least the postcolonial interpretation of it – has long been

Agunpakhi, published in April 2008 is the first full fledged novel written by Hassan Ajizul Haque. He was born in1939 in West Bengal and just after the completion of his school studies, his family had to leave India for East Bengal to avoid any insidious after-effect of the partition. Atin Bandyapadhaya and Sunanda Sikdar both left East Bengal for West Bengal but Ajizul Haque was one, who left West Bengal for East Bengal. Ordinarily, the critics tend to take it as altogether a feminist novel, but an in-depth study may bring out the truth that it is a tale of ‘metamorphosis’ or a total transformation of a human self into a metaphorical phoenix, born out of the fire of riot. It’s a tale of a woman, who struggles within and ultimately is purified. She becomes bold and decisive to denounce the so called geographical concepts of boundaries which break the human hearts and yield unimaginable destitution and suffering. It raises some basic questions of humanism and shows ways to ‘bimukti’ (liberation) of the human soul from all conflicts and ignorance. Agunpakhi is no simple woman, but a part of a greater human civilization where each individual is given importance according to his or her own choice. Accordingly, there are no direct actions of violence shown in the text because violence, as its own, has no power at all. The Indian concept of humanism believes in non-violence which is the best way to

Partition is the unspoken and repressed historical memory of those that lived in the time of British India. Partition persists as one of the utmost important historical events to ever take place in India, plaguing the collective memories of families in Pakistan and India. Partition occurred in 1947 when the British ended their colonization of India and created two independent dominions, India and Pakistan. The result of this division left 10 to 12 million people displaced, large-scale violence, and an estimated two million dead. India and Pakistan were created because of the Radcliffe Line. The Radcliffe Line was a border drawn by Sir Cyril Radcliffe of Great Britain that separated India into two dominions based on religious majority, natural boundaries, communications, watercourses, irrigation systems, and other undefined factors. Historians generally describe the horrendous acts done throughout Partition as in the interest of political indifferences and neglect the various factors that attributed to the chaos throughout Partition. The Radcliffe line is one of the many elements that contributed to the terror and dismay during Partition: untouchability, caste system, religious indifferences, gender, Hindu nationalism and honor are other underlying factors illuminated in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side Of Silence and in the film Earth. The Other Side of Silence and Earth provide a unique perspective on Partition in the way that both of these works enable the reader and