Indian Author Amitav Ghosh

In the autumn of 1971, Mr. Pirzada comes to Lilia’s house to dine each night. Mr. Pirzada is from Dacca, then a part of Pakistan. He left behind his wife and seven daughters for a fellowship to study the foliage of New England. Since his fellowship provided for only a meager dorm room, he comes to Lilia’s home to eat with her parents and to watch the news of the Indo-Pakistan War. Dacca had been invaded by the Pakistani army and torched and shelled. Thousands of people were tortured or killed. Although Mr. Pirzada writes a letter to his family each week, he had not heard from them in six months.

     The story starts in North Richmond street and uses imagery to set the plot of the story. The use of light and darkness is used to set up the plot of the story and who the characters are and the tone within the story. As the story continues, love takes place and a certain rising action is when he finally talks to the girl of his dreams and falls madly in love with her that you can feel how is feeling by the light that gleams on him and how his "body was like a harp" and the girl's "words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires". Another rising action is when he is ready to leave for bazaar but waits for his uncle to return to let him go and give him money and the story falls back when

The traveller embarks on a journey, backwards in time that demonstrates that the past is a more civil place than the future. Similarly to the traveller in Flames and Dangling Wire, the journeyer in Gardens of the Night sees that the future can be a destructive place, going against the idea that the world will continue to advance to a better society. The extended sentences mirror the surreal qualities of Coral City, as compared to “the regimes, and the rules and the regulations of government and state” which his present civilisation is constricted by. These features of present time are listed with conjunctions, separating the prominent issues, rather than creating fluidity with the use of commas. On his travels, the traveller has to “put on my disguise” to cover the truths that have polluted the present time. From this, it can be drawn that the traveler is ashamed of his origins, and has to wear a disguise free of lies and destruction. Because of exposure to a civilisation that seems above human nature, the more developed time of disputes and mass destruction is an unsatisfactory and incongruous depiction of how the world should operate. The traveller accepts this, although he has to cope with the disillusionment of returning to the “guardianship of institutions” that plague the future world. Gardens of the Night has points of high modality, emphasising the scope of damage present in the future. For instance, the traveller acknowledges that

In the autobiography, “ The Other Side of the Sky” written by Farah Ahmedi, Farah Ahmedi's recounts her life story as a young Afghanistan refugee girl who faces dire obstacles while trying escape her war torn country. The excerpt given describes Ahmedi’s experience trying desperately to cross the border in order to flee Afghanistan. Ahmedi’s experiences many hardships during this challenging journey, but she was determined to cross the Pakistan border. She believed her mother and her own survival depended on them crossing over. According to the text, “Steep as it was, we could have gotten over in little then an hour if not for my mother. Because of her, we had to pause

Farah Ahmedi and her mom The Other Side of the Sky were on a journey to get to Pakistan from Afghanistan in search for a better life. However, once they got to the border gate, Farah realized, “The gate to Pakistan was closed, and I could see the Pakistan border guards were letting no one through” (Ahmedi para. 1). There was no way Farah and her mom could get through the gate to Pakistan easily and it would be difficult for them to find another way. Nonetheless, Ahmedi was persistence and found another way to Pakistan, over a mountain, with the help of a friend Ghulam Ali. Farah was courageous and agreed to try the other way to Pakistan. While Farah was on her around a mountain her mom’s “asthma was pretty bad at this point, poor thing. No doubt, her anxiety made it worse” (Ahmedi par.11). Farah and her mom went through many hardships to make it to Pakistan. With Farah’s great

In the introduction of the book, he goes through his own life and what he has gone through to get where he is in the present. He is a journalist turned novelist, and met many people and challenges on his way. The introduction is very technical with not much of a storyline like most fiction novels. In many instances, he alludes to the face of India as being happy and prosperous in opposition to the normal lives that most Indian people lead.

The determined girl, Farah Ahmedi, is trying to reach her goal of crossing the border into Pakistan to make her life better. She grew up in Afghanistan, a very horrible place to live. Her brother and father died from a rocket attack, which causes Farah and her mother to search for a better life. When they went to try to cross the gate, they couldn’t go through, which made Farah and

The novel Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a story full of love, friendship, and brotherhood, however, on the other hand, it is also full of betrayal, lies, and secrets. Within all of these themes are two young Afghan boys, Amir and Hassan, who each have contrasting backgrounds which in turn causes them to ultimately have a unique relationship. Amir, on the one hand, has everything he could ever want as a young boy, but he doesn’t have the one thing that Hassan has, which is his father’s love. Amir is ultimately jealous of Hassan because of this, and his actions because of his jealousy changes both of their lives.

The time the novel took place was around the late nineteenth century. The story takes place in a hot and dry location of British India. Most of the scenes either take place in the wilderness or the streets of India.

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

Amir is an intelligent boy and gifted storyteller. His desire is to please his father and make him proud. Amir is also a coward because he let his best friend be raped by Assef. Hassan is Amir’s best friend and servant of his father. He is loyal, always defends Amir, and listens to his stories. Hassan is a poor and uneducated boy. Baba is the father of Amir, a wealthy businessman, and biological father of Hassan. Assef is the character that makes Amir feels guilty and lack courage. After Amir wins the kiting completion, Hassan runs to bring the kite back. However, he is raped by Assef in an alleyway and the only witness is Amir Whese cowardice does not let him help his loyal friend. Amir and Baba escape to Pakistan after the Russian invade Afghanistan, and then to California when Amir graduates and meets his wife Soraya. Baba passes away and Hassan is murdered by the Taliban leaving his orphaned son waiting for Amir to get back to Afghanistan. In this novel, the author discusses how characters are products of their environment, and how this affects their lives, regardless at what their backgrounds are. Influences of environment emanate from

In the short story “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” by Jhumpa Lahiri, Lilia, her parents, and Mr. Pirzada react differently to Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 because of the different cultures in which they grew up. Lilia is a ten-year-old girl growing up in Boston, Massachusetts. The civil war affects her vicariously when she sees her parents and Mr. Pirzada upset. Lilia’s parents are from India and moved to Boston before Lilia was born. They show concern when watching the news of their homeland in peril. Mr. Pirzada is from Pakistan and moves to Boston for one year on a research grant while his wife and seven daughters still live in East Pakistan. The civil war affects him the most because it is his personal property and his direct loved ones that are in the midst of it all.

In conclusion The irony shown in this book about corruption, oppression of the poor, reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India help portray our understanding of this novel. The corruption shown in the book is the teacher stealing the student’s money and the school inspector getting a question that he asked wrong. The reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India is shown in the book there was framing involved and no doctors in government hospitals. last but not least is the oppression of the poor is

The story is based on the life and journey undertaken by Amir, the protagonist. Hosseini expresses essential ideas in his novel through the themes of redemption/atonement, the relationship between father and son and lastly, the theme of degradation/discrimination. The author expresses these themes through the setting and characterization. Hosseini presents characters from different social status in Afghanistan and how this affected their childhood. Amir despite coming from a privileged class had to work hard for his atonement by going back to Afghanistan to face his demons as well as to mend his relationship with his father who had rejected him since his birth. On the other hand, Hassan, from the minority class suffered because of his social status after he was abused and mistreated by those in power. The Kite Runner is a story about two boys who grew up in different worlds because of the presence of various social classes in

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.