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      NAIPAUL'S INDIA AND MINE                                   - NISSIM EZEKIEL Synopsis 1. Author introduction and critical reviews 2. Examining Naipaul's India and Mine 3. Analysis  4. Contrasting Naipaul's and Nissim Ezekiel's India 5. Conclusion AUTHOR INTRODUCTION AND CRITICAL REVIEWS -Gayathri K      Nissim Ezekiel called “the father of independence Indian verse in English". He establish himself as a towering figures of Indian English poetry . Theme in Nissim Ezekiel poems majorly focus on Indian identity, superstitions, Love. In his poem “Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher”. He highlights his poetic style in this way: “The best poets wait for words, The hunt is not an exercise of will".       William Walsh also remarks about the technique of Ezekiel when he says that “Ezekiel poetry more than that of any other of these writers (Indian English poe...

  Table of Contents: 1. Analysis 2. Themes 3. Theory of Deterrence and Roy's argument against it 4. Flaws in the Pro Nuke Defenders' Common Rhetoric 5. Dismantling Nuclear Weapons With a Pen  THE DEHUMANIZING EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS - ANALYSIS AARTHI T Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist who is well known for her novel God of Small Things. She has won Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. She is also a political activist who has written wide range of essays on social causes. She is a spokesperson of Anti-Globalization movement. In her essay, The End of Imagination published in 1998, Roy opposes India`s nuclear policies. This essay is a response to India`s nuclear testing in Pokhran. She elaborates how nuclear weapon dehumanizes human beings. Pokhran-II is a series of nuclear testing conducted by Indian government under former prime-minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who justified the testing as a means to make India secure against its enemies. Roy received severe criticism for h...

Mahadevi Varma is one of the celebrated Hindi poets of all time in Hindi literature. Besides being a renowned poetess, she also served as a freedom fighter, women's rights activist and educationist. She is widely recognised as  "Modern Meera"  because most of her work reflects the themes of love and nature. Alongside Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Niral, Sumitranandan Pant, she is considered as one of the four pillars of the  Chhayavaad  school of Hindi literature. "Chhayavaad"   is a literary movement of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry from 1914-1938.   She is a  recipient of numerous prestigious awards including Padma Bhushan in 1956 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1988.  For her poetry collection 'Yama' She also received the 'Jnanpith Award' in 1982.  Her prominent works include  Atita ke chalchitra  (  The Moving Frames of the Past) and  Smriti Ki Rekhayen  (The Lines of Memory). Her famous ...

ANEES JUNG Anees Jung (born 1944[1] or 1964) is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad, whose most known work, ' Unveiling India ' (1987) was a chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted especially for the depiction of Muslim women behind the purdah. She started her career in writing with the Youth Times, a Times of India publication, where she worked as a journalist and editor (1973 to 1980). She has subsequently worked for The Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune. Anees Jung lives in Delhi.[Jung published Unveiling India in 1987. It is a travel diary focusing on interviews with women. She has written several subsequent books on the same, talking to women about their everyday lives, including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India (1993), Seven Sisters (1994). Breaking the Silence (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from around the world. Jung's Lost Spring: Stories of...

  Amartya Sen :  Amartya Sen is an Indian economist, writer and philosopher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and also for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. Sen was called the “conscience of his profession” because he devoted his career to address the issues prevailing in the community. He’s a Fellow and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded India’s Bharat Ratna in the year 1999. He is currently working as a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University and also the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor. He was a Professor of Economics between 1963 and 1971 at the Delhi School of Economics where he completed his Collective Choice and Social Welfare in 1969. In 1981, he published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation.  In this book he argued that famine also occurs from the inequalities built into...