What Is An Untouchable

Although Balram and John have different nicknames, their backgrounds are an influence. Balram Halwai, a man from the ‘darkness’ or the lowest caste in India, strives for success and to leave the ‘darkness.’ When an inspector visits his school, the

The ghinnawa is not only a vehicle for expressing personal sentiments but also a potentially subversive tool challenging the existing ideology and hierarchy. In Bedouin society, most people’s ordinary public responses are framed in terms of the code of honor and modesty. Through these responses they live and show themselves to be living up to the moral code. Poetry carries the sentiments that violate this code, the vulnerability to others that is ordinarily a sign of dishonorable lack of autonomy and the romantic love that is considered immoral and immodest. Since the moral code is one of the most important means of perpetuating the unequal structures of power, then violations of the code must be understood as ways of resisting the system and

As Amir grew, Baba tried to introduce activities that most young boys would enjoy, such as soccer. However, Amir did not follow in Baba’s footsteps, but in his mother’s. Instead of playing soccer like the other boys, Amir enjoyed reading poetry, something his mother loved to do. By giving Amir and Baba two different hobbies, Hosseini was able to create a feeling of disappointment for the reader. As the reader read through the first 34 pages, they were able to see that Baba was not very understanding toward his son and his interests, he failed to see the resemblance of his late wife within their son.

For centuries, those who have lower societal class have always been dehumanized and ridiculed,” for no other reason than having less money than the higher class. In the story, “An Upheaval, as well as the short film, “I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind,” material objects are used to show the seemingly drastic differences between two social standings. This is important because in order for society to function prosperously, the wise thing to do is to get rid of this thinking, so people no longer have to face this inhumane discrimination.

He never calls me by my name; it’s always “woman” or, on especially bad days, “pig”. When he isn’t listening, I whisper “Asha” so I don’t forget it. The little act of defiance gives me a drop of hope. When I was 15, I was given an arranged marriage to a 32-year-old fan maker named Abd Al-Rashid. My family anticipated that now I was liberated from the poverty-stricken life that had plagued us for centuries. I felt anything but liberated. Tension gripped my stomach as the day crept closer and eventually it came. It was the day that I would leave my family and everything I had grown to love. My mother was in a frenzy as she tried to embellish my overdone hair with snowy wildflowers and a shimmering hijab. She finished by clothing me in lovely

The passage that interviews Ajay Shah, in the book World War Z, adds to the power that is given to the stereotypes and prejudices that are associated with the socioeconomic state of India. The passage outlines how Shah was able to escape the impending zombie apocalypse, and flee to safety. Along the way he outlines some behaviours or settings that are painting a single story about how India is socioeconomically. He describes the shipyard in Alang as a place where “ships go to die” (Brooks 70). He then goes and talks about, and criticizes the behaviour of others when they were requesting belongings in exchange for salvation. Ajay also talks about the “rescuers” that were picking the refugees that they wanted to save, based upon a certain characteristic. This passage gives power to the socioeconomic stereotypes placed upon Indians, which is detrimental to the development of the country.

Gender inequality is expressed in India where women and girls do not have equal access to information and resources as men do. Throughout the documentary, I observed a great amount of inequality and discrimination based on gender and gender roles. Indian women and young girls are sadly mistreated, and neglected. For instance, young girls are forced to do manual labor as their bones are still forming, which is one of the causes of why Indian females have more fractures and severe back pain then males. Another reason why Indian women are abused is due to the massive amount of population causing criminal acts towards them to avoid human reproduction. Traditions and social norms remain extremely powerful in India, due to male dominance which empowers all. My perspective, based on this film would be conflict theory, which is a macro analytical view, as it looks at society as a competition for limited resources.

The researcher understood the specific theme chosen and was a bit au-fait with the topic, because she had a keen interest in Gandhi and all his work. In an age where violence is on the increase Gandhi’s message of non-violence is needed. It is the researchers hope that this IA will reach a wide cross section of people and will effect a change. Gandhi’s views on issues like untouchability are deeply dealt with. Never anywhere Gandhi’s views about untouchability were effectively heard. But, in this book they were dealt in detail with lots of arguments and convincing proofs of why untouchability is sin. Even his co-living with the untouchables and the resistance he faced for that is discussed. His views on religion, nationality, his movements like civil-disobedience, are also clearly shown. Even his opinions on many religions were discussed in deep; a striking

After the application of the Freudian theory of ‘deferred action’ in The Pakistan Bride, the novel is interpreted from the vantage point of the other psychoanalytical theories suggested by Jacques Derrida. The first interpretation of an incident in The Pakistani Bride is through Alfred W. Adler’s theory of individual psychology which doesn’t focus an individual but the entire environment and the people who traumatize the individual. It’s broadly the political, social and cultural turbulence that create chaos in the lives of fictional characters such as Munni who consequently loses her parents when some hooligans from the Sikh community rape her mother and kill her father. Sidhwa writes about the scene of the rape and murder of Zohra and slaughter of Sikander as “A Sikh, sweat gleaming on his naked torso, is holding one breast. . . . More and more legs trample him until mercifully he feels no pain” (9). In this incident, both the environment and the perpetrators manufactured by the environment are responsible for pushing Munni into trauma. She spends her entire life just searching for them and questioning Qasim as, “You won’t find my Abba?” (9). She starts running towards people in case they call their female family members by the name ‘Zohra’ (9) because it was her mother’s name too. She becomes schizophrenic as she fails to distinguish between reality and imagination.

This paper is a brief account of the consequences of gender colonization and wretched condition of hijra community in India. This autobiography shows how a hijra is deprived of all the facilities which a normal citizen of a country should have. Through this autobiography the author wanted to prove their existence as human beings, as well as he wanted to prove that they also have their opinions, thoughts, feelings and emotions about each and every aspect of society.

Social Injustices & Realism: The social injustices that have been portrayed in the novel are that of sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, substandard living conditions, poor wages not enough to survive which means that the laborers could never leave the plantation as they would never have enough money in their hands to do so, poor sanitary conditions which led to the breeding of all types of infectious disease and very substandard living conditions. The fact that there was a cholera epidemic from which Gangu’s wife dies showed that the contagious nature of the diseases was serious. The realism in the novel is the is the first hand observation of Mulk Raj Anand and his observations of the tea garden laborers when he lived for a time in Assam.

Anand lays strain on the demands of the present; he refuses to be bound by fusty convention and orthodoxy. In fact, Anand’s novels convey emotional truths as well as social realities and the beauty of his art of fiction is well realized by way of analysis and interpretation of social problems and of corrupt practices. However social life in India has been entirely revolutionized since then, one cannot say with confidence that casteism is fully wiped off in all the states of India. Untouchable gives a voice to the predicament of the mute humanity in vicious conditions. The agony is not caused by fate but by fellow human and the social ambiance from which the sufferer still have great and enduring hopes for betterment of life. Untouchable is

eighteen year old protagonist sweeper boy,Bakha. Untouchable covers the event of single day in the life

The character of Bakha, in Anand’s Untouchable, is drawn from the lowest caste in Indian society, that of sweeper, or cleaner of human ordure. Despite his unpromising station in life, the central figure in the novel operates at a variety of levels in order to critique the status quo of caste in India. Well aware of his position at the nadir of Indian society, Bakha is able-via his untouchability-to interrogate issues well above his station in life, such as caste and its inequities, economics and the role of the colonizer. Due to the very characteristics of the character's position, Anand is able to examine issues such as society’s

They experience the persistent inequality existing in their respective social milieux and find society divided in two sections – ‘the haves’ and ‘the have-nots '. “. . . there must be only two kinds of people in the world: the rich and the poor. And poverty is diffused all over India, and like a poison infects all our society, renders it unsocial and inhumane” (Anand1936: 56). Similarly, the “issue of the haves and the have-nots” predominantly hangs over Steinbeck (McParland 2015: 176). This is why, the common ideology of Steinbeck and Anand forces them to be the mouthpiece of the underprivileged, i.e., the have-nots.