Deepa Bhatia Essays

  • Analysis Of Hawaa Hawaai

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    Hawaa Hawaai that includes Partho Gupte, Saqib Saleem, Makrand Deshpande, and Neha Joshi that is written and directed by Amole Gupte could be a film that has to be seen by every one young or old who has ever dreamt. Hawaa Hawaai never helps you to down. certain it's its conclaves of concession to populism, sort of a sports coach on a chair (very chic!) WHO looks to possess watched too several Hollywood films. however you welcome these terribly loveable makes an attempt to speak the film's theme on

  • Condemned By a Perforated Sheet: Midnight's Children

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    In Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” Saleem Sinai clings to his silver spittoon inlaid with lapis lazuli (the spittoon given to his mother, Amina Sinai, by Rani of Cooch Naheen for her dowry) as a sort of personal talisman. The spittoon, responsible for his temporary memory loss (after hitting him in the head during an air raid), remains a symbol of his former life, a symbol he cherishes even when he is incapable of remembering what it means. The spittoon represents the former wholeness of

  • Midnight Children Analysis

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    Indian-Canadian director Deepa Mehta 's film based on Salman Rushdie 's novel Midnight’s Children is a clear example of a post-colonial work. Midnight’s Children follows two children, both born at precisely midnight, on the exact day that India gained independence from Great Britain. Shiva is born to wealthy parents, while Saleem enters the world as the son of a beggar, but a nurse switches the two boys at birth. Throughout the film, the narrator, Saleem, explains both families’ histories, and in

  • The Perforated Sheet by Salman Rushdie

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    When discussing the controversial authors of Indian literature, one name should come to mind before any other. Salman Rushdie, who is best known for writing the book “Midnights Children.” The first two chapters of “Midnights Children” are known as “The Perforated Sheet”. In “The Perforated Sheet” Rushdie utilizes magic realism as a literary device to link significant events and their effects on the lives of Saleem’s family to a changing India. In fact, it is in the beginning of the story that the

  • Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

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    Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ 1 Introduction This paper will try to show how Salman Rushdie uses narrative technique, genre and the concept of history in a very new way in Midnight’s Children in order to place his story outside the euro-centric tradition of literature, narrative and history. These traditions, appearing in the colonial period, have constructed a notion of universalism in literature where the ‘classics’ of the western canon have set the order of the day (Ashcroft 91-92)

  • Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie

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    Midnights Children Salman Rushdei 1. Comment on the author’s style and characterization. Are the characters believable or paper cutouts? Comic or tragic or both? Are their dilemmas universal to human nature or particular to their situation? - Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally: I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor