Aparna Sen

people.” Gandhi was upset with the British ruling India and how they treated thousands of Indians so harshly. Both Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai held political power and had their own idea of running China. Similar to Gandhi, Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai had their own beliefs in how China should be ruled in order to maximize both its economic and educational wealth. Sun Yat-sen was born on November 12, 1866 in Zhongshan. He was born into a poor family of farmers and had many siblings. In 1879, one of

countries. Consequently, clothing reform, which was advocated by reformers in 1898, was gradually accepted by the public and took its trend in militarization. As described by Antonia Finnane, the militarization of public costumes as a notion of enhancing China’s military power infiltrated the nation: In place of the long robe, male students began to don trousers and jacket,…Straw boaters or military peaked caps replaced the traditional round cap. School uniforms were often modeled directly on military

Dr. Sun Yat-sen was fortunately able to make it out of China alive. From that day forth he was a marked man. Dr. Sun Yat-sen fled to Japan where he continued to plan his revolution. He saw Taiwan as a great asset and sent Chen Shao-bai to set up a Taiwanese chapter of the Revive China Society. From that moment on, Taiwan’s fate was even more interwoven with China’s. While in Japan, Dr. Sun Yat-sen collaborated with Chinese students that had strong patriotic feelings of restoring China to his former

Research Proposal Nationalism and Foreign Policy Making Introduction The general subject of this proposed study is Chinese nationalism and how it affects China’s foreign policy. More specifically, I will examine if, and how, domestic nationalist feelings impact Chinese foreign policy. When analyzing the outcome I will focus on whether or not emergent territorial concerns and traditional security issues will be put higher on the agenda after the level of nationalism has increased. Contribution to

One had such exceptional star actors as Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, arguably the greatest Bengali stars ever, and Soumitra Chatterjee and Supriya Devi, who had the charisma to lift even mediocre material to a certain artistic height. There was a crop of brilliant character actors like Chhabi Biswas, Utpal Dutt, Robi

Assignment: Essay #1 Topic No. 3 India: Life, Culture and the Arts HUMA 1846 Tutorial 04 J. Rubinoff September 30th, 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer is an artistic piece of fictional creative media completed in 2002 by the famed Indian movie director, Aparna Sen. In this film, Indian attitudes regarding gender roles, love, and families are expressed through the protagonist, Meenakshi, and her role as a family manager despite her advanced education; the loving and dedicated wife, Najma Ahmed Khan, of the

India or any country does not mean unity. In India there is a lot of tension and animosity between certain religious and ethnic groups, which is still ongoing today and the outside world may not be aware of it, but in the film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer by Aparna Sen the unsettled issues are addressed. Mr and Mrs Iyer addresses the social hierarchies and the ethnic differences in India and shows how each group perceives one another. On the bus there is a group of people from different regions, religions

aspects of how a female is looked upon. All his films have some or the other female playing a role depicting the way the society sees them. In most of his films, Bhandarkar's protagonist is female. (Tabu in Chandni Bar, Raveena Tandon in Satta, Konkona Sen Sharma in Page 3, Bipasha Basu in Corporate, Priyanka Chopra in Fashion and Kareena Kapoor in Heroine). He has also depicted gay characters in his movies like Page 3, Traffic signal and Fashion. Three National Awards winning director Madhur Bhandarkar

Bengal could show the way to lessen gender imbalance in Indian film industry One might not have heard the name of Fatma Begum. Indeed, she isn’t quite the household name. But her achievement as the very first Indian woman to ever single-handedly direct a movie is engraved in stone, and will always be. The year was 1926, at a time when world cinema was still experimenting with the science and technology of motion pictures. Indian cinema had already taken long strides by then, but produced only

Contemporary Period- At the time of the advent of the British rule in India, the status and position of Indian woman were very stumpy. "Customs such as of polygamy, the purdah, the denial of a woman’s right over property, child marriages, and Sati etc., during this period resulted in the development of a very weak personality of Indian woman." The British influence had a very deep impression in the minds of Indian leaders. The reformist movements of the 19th century brought social reformers such