Ajeet Cour
1. Pebbles in a Tin Drum by Ajeet Cour; Translated by Masooma Ali; Published by Harper Collins
Author, activist, and social worker Ajeet Cour (1934 -), one of the best-known writers in the Punjabi language, believes that the arts and literature can help build bridges across cultures. She set up the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, a unique track II (people-to-people contact) initiative to establish peace on the subcontinent.
Ajeet Cour began her career as a romance writer, but soon matured into a realist. Women’s issues and peace have always been the overriding concerns in her works. Her columns and writing have established her role as a crusader for women’s issues. Known for having pioneered the art of writing novelettes
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It is a very personal, candid, and touching account of her life although it is just the first volume. The second volume, published in Punjabi and Hindi as Koorha Kabara, has not yet been translated into …show more content…
She suffered 12 long, nightmarish years with him while he detested her for producing two daughters. Finally, unable to bear the trauma, she walked out on him and started life afresh. As a single mother in Delhi, she struggled to support herself and her daughters while working as a writer. She started her career in the 1960s as a teacher and the editor of the business journal Rupee Trade, which she ran for 32 years. Those were the days of extreme poverty but she savored her independence and managed to put life back on track. She also educated the girls at good schools. Delhi is unkind to most people, especially to women and Cour had many enocunters with powerful, scheming landlords. In 1974, she lost her younger daughter, Candy (just 19 years old), to a fire accident in France. Pebbles in a Tin Drum starts with a very moving account of this tragedy; heartbroken, Cour writes, “She has spent her childhood sharing her mother’s poverty and how she had to face her father’s temper and hatred. Things have just started getting a little
non-fiction. From her wide array of published works this critical analysis will be focused on her
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1. Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute. Translated by Alan Brown. Toronto: McCelland & Stewart Inc., 1989
Publications based upon historical fiction are written to yield readers with an opinion or perception into history. Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute portrayal exhibits facts to fit onto the story in a clever demeanor, The Tin Flute dramatization with love and betrayal helps create excitement about history. Implementing that excitement can preview readers to factual accounts of history in an entertaining way.
The main character is a girl named Usha, who was young when she moved to the United States. She grew up abiding to Bengali culture and lifestyle in Massachusetts. As she gradually matures to an adult and her own person, it's shown that Usha struggles to find a balance between the American culture that she's surrounded by and the Bengali culture that fits the mold of her family.
Howard Roark is the personification of the phrase, “I do what I want.”. He doesn’t do anything other than for his own reasons. He is expelled from college in his third year for refusing to complete the assignments as directed. He is fired from multiple architecture firms, for refusing to bend his ideas or refusing to reach a compromise of any kind. He refuses to take on projects where he will not be given complete creative freedom to design his buildings. He lives to make himself happy, designing buildings as he envisions them makes him happy, and so he does nothing else, he plays no political games, he plays nice with no man, and he concedes nothing. This is the embodiment of Objectivism. Roark’s entire life is based on Objectivism, but the
Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is visited by a stranger trying to sell a "holy book" called the Book of Sand. The narrator looks at the book and is unable to see the first or last pages of it because, as the stranger explains, the number of pages is infinite. The narrator is fascinated by the book and buys it, only to become obsessed with it, until the point that it is all he thinks about. He eventually gets rid of it by mixing it up in a pile of many other books
“The Jade Peony” by Wayson Choy is about a Chinese immigrant family struggling to adapt to their new unfamiliar lifestyle in Vancouver. As the older children begin to neglect Chinese customs and become accustomed to the Canadian culture, 8 years old Sek-Lung is the only child interested in Grandma’s traditional customs. Sek-Lung accompanies Grandma as looks for abandoned fragments of glass and metal to finish her precious wind chime before she passes. As Sek-Lung spends time bonding with Grandma, she also reveals her past and first love “the juggler”.
“Chapter 9” of A Single Shard begins with the author, Linda Sue Park, placing Tree-ear in emotional distress. Working for Min for the better part of a year has been tough and adventrous for Tree-ear, consequently he feels that it is now time for Min to teach him how to make pots. In this culture, it is traditional for potters to only teach their sons the potter’s trade. Unfortunately, Tree-ear is not Min’s biological son, therefore Min will not teach him.
Gabrielle Roy’s novel the tin flute takes place in Saint-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec during the Second War World. This novel examines many themes, literary devices and important aspects seen through the perspective of the Lacasse family as they struggle through life in poverty.
An analogy has been drawn about how she was in the past and how is she now. She was a carefree person, demanding love in her life, wanting to take care of her children and become a house wife and now she works as a schoolteacher, has become a responsible person concerned about her husband and child, struggling for her son’s life, bearing tantrums of her sister-in-law and living in a small house in a small city. On the other hand, Komal, sister-in-law of Anjali is a character shown who seems to be frustrated from her life from the time she has lost her husband. The book has depicted another face of an Indian woman, who lives her entire life following the customs that the society has decided for a widow. Anjali tried to make her first marriage successful by taking care of small things like making her husband, his favorite cardamom chai and best of meals while Prakash’s second wife Indu was never concerned about any of his likings and gave priority to her own personal
Marriage is an institution that is very sacred to many people in the world as well as an old institution. Therefore ideas about marriage have changed throughout the years as well as ideas about sex and gender, for these concepts have been notoriously linked and effect one another’s evolution.
My entire life my mother has struggled with drug addiction. When I was younger, a typical day spent with her was stealing money or medications from our loved ones or friends. It did not bother my mother one bit to steal from anyone especially her own children. But she justified her actions by blaming it on a brain disease that she could not help. It was merely a choice that she made everyday to hurt her family and those around her. She would choose to steal, lie, and cheat her way to obtaining the drug of her choice. Drug addiction is not a brain disease but rather a choice because you can relieve the symptoms, the idea of compulsion, the effects of neuroplasticity, treatment, and the labeling theory.