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Midnight's children Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie. It deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature.  " Midnight's Children " a novel by  Salman Rushdie  and "Midnight's Children" film  was  directed by  Deepa Mehta. The story is about two boys and they are Saleem and Shiva. Saleem and Shiva has telepathy power to call other children who born at that same night in that one hour. They called themselves midnight's children. It also talks about emergency by Indira Gandhi.  The birth of Saleem and Shiva at same time, it also shows the birth of two nations India and Pakistan. And with growth of both these boys the growth of two nations are also shown. There  is strong voice of Marxism. Poor become rich, rich become poor. The black prince  The B...

Vinod Joshi  Vinod Joshi was honoured with the Kavishwar Dalpatram Award in 2013, and was awarded the Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar by the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi in 2015. His book of literary criticism, Nivesh, won the Ramanlal Joshi Prize, instituted by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Multi-awardwinning poet and one of our foremost literary figures, Dr Vinod Joshi of Bhavnagar talks to us about the creative process of ‘Sairandhri’, his latest poetic work that has been widely acknowledged and welcomed as one of the landmark literary creations in Gujarati and talks about it’s Australia connection. About Sairandhri  This poem is based on Mahabharta. In Mahabharata one part of ' Virat Parva '. It's call ' Agnat Vas ' which living into hidden form and without self-sameness wherever. Here question is that What's purpose of remaining in hidden way ? Draupadi was daughter of king Drupad.  here Vinod Joshi presented droupadi as lover of Karna. As a queen of Hastinapu...

Girish Karnad Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Paywright, film-maker and activist Girish Karnad breathed his last at 6.30am on Monday at a Bangalore hospital.  Karnad was born in Matheran in present-day Maharashtra. He earned his bachelor in arts degree in math and statistics from Karnataka Arts College in Dharwad. Later, he attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Karnad was a vociferous proponent of the freedom of expression and multi-culturalism. He was opposed to Hindu fundamentalism. He had worn a placard that read “Me Too Urban Naxal” at an event to mark the first anniversary of journalist Gauri Lankesh’s death. Karnad’s plays dallied with history, folklore and mythology. The plays, mostly written in Kannada, were translated into English and several Indian languages, receiving critical acclaim. These works of Karnad help us gau...

The task.. https://vaidehi09.blogspot.com/2019/08/methods-of-english-language-teaching.html Method of English language teaching Here is a difference between approach and method is that An approach is a way of dealing with something or somebody and A method is the process  which used or the steps taken to deal with an issue or a person.  Approach  is the way in which you will approach the piece of literature you are teaching. You may center on the diction. or the theme, or the structure, or the romantic (or modern, etc.) nature of the piece; whatever you choose to teach. Approach is what you are going to teach.   1)A method appealed you the most from the above given methods? Give Reasons   Here I learn various methods,  • The grammar translation Method,   • The Direct Method,  • Audio lingual method,   • Total Physical  response,  • Suggestopedia and The Silent way method.  I  a...

The task 1.What are the names of the protagonists in both the works? Character of Hester is protagonist of the novel the scarlet letter and character Priya is protagonist of the movie kya kehna. 2.Write their story in brief. The Scarlt Letter story :- Hester is protagonist character of the novel. Hester is married woman. Her husband is outside at few years. So Hester lived alone.  she fall in love with priest Dimmesdale. And both are doing adultery. Hester become pregnant and Dimmesdale didn’t accept that time. At end of the novel he had accepted he is father of Hester child and immediately he was died. Then again Hester live alone with her daughter. Kya Kehna movie story :- In the  movie kya kehna Priya is protagonist character. In the beginning Priya is student,  After completing school. She join new college. there she fall in love with Rahul. HeHe belong to rich family, he didn’t loved to Priya. He just like Priya's beauty. After Priya became pregnant at that time R...

The task, https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/10/presentations-on-ts-eliots-waste-land.html T. S. ELIOT Thomas Stearns Eliot  Om  born on 26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965, "one of the twentieth century's major poets", was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic.  Born in St. Louis   Missouri  to a prominent Boston  Brahmin  family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and would settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject  in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American passport. The waste land T he waste land by T. S. Eliot.  In modern era epic poem was very famous. During that time T.S.Eliot written one of the modern epic poem " The Waste Land". This epic poem divided into different five parts. 1) The Burial Of the Dead  2) A game of Chess  3) The Fire Sermon  4) Death by Water 5) What t...

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. To the lighthouse To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920 The task https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/worksheet-virginia-woolfs-to-lighthouse.html?m=1 1. How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? - Virginia woolf as woman ...