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    Steinbeck and Anand are bestowed with enthralling intellectual framework to take up the crucial issues of have-nots in their novels. Leaving some minor differences both of them share phenomenally similar outlook for the have-nots. Their common concerns make them the champions of the underdogs. They are the great realists. Both equally understand the call of society. They give their firm voice to the unheard and unheeded have-nots. They hold a concrete conviction that "a writer’s responsibility to

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    dirge with a fictional veneer. The protagonist Nur cries out in a seemingly dejected mood as most of the have-nots do. "Why did they drag me into the dust by making me? Master of Arts?" (George, C, J. cited Anand, Mulk Raj.1994.books.google.co.in/ books?i sbn817164453.Web.13Jun.2013). He is trapped in the life-and-death predicament. His marriage adds fuel to the fire. He is thrown into the state of anxiety which affects his health adversely. He contracts dreadful consumption and ultimately succumbs

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    What Is An Untouchable

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    This written task is based on a part 4 text by Mulk Raj Anand “Untouchable.” It is set in colonial India. Several global issues are presented, particularly human exploitation, poverty, humiliation, oppressions and religious hypocrisy. Mulk Raj Anand focuses on the social injustices faced by the poor people such as Bakha, the protagonist, son of Lakha, who is the “jemadar” of all sweepers in the town. Bakha is an “untouchable” representing all downtrodden. His plight as an untouchable captivated

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    Mulk Raj Anand, despite a genius writer, is a critic, an educationist and a social worker. He is interested in human beings despite his critics described him a Marxist, a propagandist. His fiction revolves around the human being. Humanitarian ground becomes the nucleus of all his thinking and writing. He does not believe in ‘art for art’s sake’ but he believes in ‘art for the sake of man’. His main attempt in his work has been to expose the values of a man in a society by which he may gain real foundations

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    Similarly, like another famous Indian writer, Mulk Raj Anand penned down masterpiece called Untouchable which was published in 1935, in which he dealt with different types of exploitations like economic, political, social religious and sexual. But social exploitation is mother who gives birth to all other types of exploitations. The caste discrimination out of this social evil gives undue advantages to upper castes by birth. In his novel, Mulk Raj Anand throws light on the plight of downtrodden

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    INTRODUCTION Kamala Markandaya possesses a conspicuous place among Indian-English writers. Markandayawa s born in 1924 and raised in Madras, Markandaya happens to an educated Brahmin family. She was educated at Madras University. Kamala Markandaya has composed eleven novels in 23 years, The first nectar in a sieve, published in 1954, the last one to date The Golden Honeycomb in 1977. She is not just the earliest Indian author of noteworthiness. She is a standout amongst the most recognized composers

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    INTRODUCTION   Mulk Raj Anand is a prominent figure in Indian writing for his delineation of the lives of the poor castes in traditional Indian culture and society and his depiction of Indian women. His personal experiences and the changes in Indian political, social and cultural institutions forms his works. Anand is more intrigued in life than in art, and in art only in so far as it serves life. He considers “truly humanistic art is commensurate with the needs of our times.”(Anand, 1946) Anand’s

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    • Anand, Mulk Raj. www.languageinindia.com /aug2014/sulochanat woleavesfinal. • Anand, Mulk Raj. www.postcolonialweb.org/india/ anand/ stracuzzi1.html • Anand, Mulk Raj. “The Indelible Problem: Mulk Raj Anand and the Plight of ...” www.postcolonialweb.org /india/anand/ stracuzzi1. • Anand, Mulk Raj.georgeorwellnovels.com/.../the-sword-and-the-sickle-by-mulk-raj-anand/. • Anand,MulkRaj.www.tjells.com/.../348_The%20Plight%20of%20Less%20priviledged%2... • Anand, Mulk Raj. “CulturalCompass”. blog

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    Anand's Untouchable

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    To put on their clothes made one a sahib too: Mimicry and the Carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable 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

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    People who made difference to movie industry Walt Disney Most of us know Walt Disney as the creator of Mickey mouse and the Disney Land, but his impact on entertainment industry goes way beyond cartoons and theme parks, Disney changed our world all together. Walt Disney, a Chicago boy who took Hollywood by storm, changed family entertainment. Not only was he the first to make full-length animated films, but he did so with critical acclaim and financial success. Few other films that are thirty

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