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doesn’t just describe the events; it creates characters and conflicts to help the reader better understand the meaning of the events. Modern literature is often linked to ideology, either supporting or discriminating it. George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Salman Rushdie’s The Prophet’s Hair are among the literary texts that attack the ideologies, Communism and Islam respectively. Even though the texts are written in the genres that are usually used to support the principles and ideas of the philosophy they

Memorial Prize. 1980: Was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'Clear Light of Day'. 1984: She was again shortlisted for Booker Prize for 'Fasting, Feasting'. 2003: Received Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature.. Even before the likes of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy ushered in new possibilities for Indian-English writers and paved way for their recognition in the global map, there was Anita Desai, one of India's foremost writers. Indian novelist, short-story writer and

who are weak, deprived and are enduring in a state of unhappiness. The steady shift to the multi-cultural society of America has led to dual consciousness among all immigrants. The global economy of America might have ensured growth and prosperity. Salman Rushdie, in his Imaginary Homelands made an reflection of the difficulty of immigrants has come across a very major conclusion: “Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not Gods but wounded

In this present technologically superfast world, where the click of buttons is changing the way people think, plan and execute their works and live their lives, “virtual reality”, “surrealism”, “hyper reality” are the terms in vogue. They are so commonly used everywhere that they may not seem fanciful any more. However, the excitement in superstitions, magic and mysticism still prevails. India has always caught the imagination of foreigners as the land of hidden secrets – it is viewed as a “hub

Children is therefore an attempt to evoke India. All these attempts would have been impossible without the insertion of magic realism. WORKS CITED: 1. Gray, Martin. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. 2nd ed. Essex: Longman, 1992. Print. 2. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Vintage Books, 2006. Print. 3. Zamora, Lois Parkinson and Wendy B. Faris. Eds. Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Durkham: Duke UP, 1995. Print.

savvy era, inventions such as the internet gives educators the ability to post online lectures that are easily accessible on sites like YouTube and are commonly used to teach students lessons in the classroom. Taking it one step further, a man named Salman Khan created a website called Khan Academy. Now students can learn the material at home by watching the video lectures online and attend school to receive help from his or her teachers and peers on the homework. Flipping the classroom will change

Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian author famously known for the allegories used in his novel, Haroun And The Sea Of Stories. It is about a young child by the name of haroun , who goes on an adventure to help his father Rashid to tell stories again. On this adventure haroun is faced with mystical places, situations and people all throughout the book. This gives the novel a light hearted ,childish tone. You could almost say the book was written by a child. Even “as both a bedtime story for his

firmly believes that Islam provides a remedy for this plague by preaching an ideology of a pluralistic society that espouses of peace, harmony and egalitarianism. His article, “The Salman Rushdie Case: An Islamic View” was posted on his official website in July 2007 and is aimed at addressing the resentment against Salman Rushdie’s controversial book “The Satanic Verses” in the Muslim community. Muslims accused Rushdie of apostasy and blasphemy against their prophet and demanded his immediate execution

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” implemented by youth, authorities has limited the right to free speech in schools, in order to “protect” societies generations from reality. However, the limitation of free speech is unjust as it revokes America’s constitutional rights, for with each item we restrict, a piece is worn away from America’s identity. Although it may not seem possible with due time the nation of the United States will transform into the dystopian society

An Indian writer and migration enthusiast, Salman Rushdie, claims that, the creation of radically new types of human beings is the effect of mass migrations of people who root themselves in their ideas, instead of places. Most would agree that Rushdie’s claim is highly debatable. In Scott Russell Sanders’, Staying Put, he counter argues the opinion of Rushdie with a critical yet sarcastic and subjective tone to skillfully develop his perspective about moving. Scott Sanders uses a critical tone