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Hmm, what shall I share with you guys that is useful and will help you in your paper, in 5 hours? Positivity? Oh hell yes! Oh here's a checklist to make sure you've covered everything: (Chapters) About the Victorian Era Darwinism The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson Dramatic monologue Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins Inscape and Instress Sprung Rhythm The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy Victorian elements in the same - inept century, no hope, blah blah Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Prufrockian Paralysis Modernism Imagism Realism The Question by Adrian Mitchell Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes Dis Poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah The Dead by James Joyce A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield An excerpt from The State of Funk by D.H. Lawrence Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Coraline by Neil Gaiman Understanding of Victorian Era from Oliver...

KANNAN Introduction to Indian Civilization Features of Indus Valley Civilization Aryan vs. Dravidian Debate Colonialism Indian Society Indian Caste System Sub-castes in India Culture - Basics Culture - Definitions Multi-cultural and multi-lingual system in India Urban-rural divide Illiteracy Unemployment Gender Inequality Modernization Family setup Globalization vs. Localization Kashmir issue Indo-Pak wars SUPARNA MA'AM http://projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2015/01/jou231-economics-part.html Common identifying features of countries - socio-cultural, political, economical Features of an underdeveloped economy Capitalism Communism Socialism Nehruvian Socialism 5-year plans Nationalization License Raj System Stock Market as Barometer of Economy Liberalization Privatization Globalization Alternative to GDP - Quality of Life Crony Capitalism Development NARESH Definition and features of Nation Definition and features of State India: a nat...

Urdu comes from 'Ardu' meaning army Noor- Represents dying Urdu - very secular He does not find liqour sinful portrayal of Urdu as a secular language - not always islamic Noor also did not find poetry religious  1) cohabitation of languages -English narration of a story about Urdu and Hindi -Reaches wider audience, unbiased, neutral - no condescending or patronizing tone; chronicling the death of a language 2) social life of language -Linguicide -Languages do not exist in isolation; must be spoken to live on 3) hero worship -Especially of intellectuals like Noor -Attitudes may be either of awe or utilitarian -This explains his marriage to Begum, the poet and intellectual - earlier his disciple - now his wife and companion 4) title, 'In Custody' -All characters in custody of someone else -languages also change hands (mouths) 5) politics of language -North/South divide - butt of jokes -elite/ordinary - social status http://www.indianrumination...

Urban India is where the communal drama unfolds -> co-survival triggered by secular issues communal violence - political strategy; communal base; minority leaders hatred in public - cordial relations at a personal level - "Animosities are for politics." - tight compartmentalization of political and personal interactions. 250 million semi-modernized, semi-westernized middle classes = new emerging caste, which the BJP has tapped Fear of the "other" - as constructed by fundamentalists - prompts communal violence. Promoted by absence of ideology in politics - their community wants them in power (as with the Dalits or OBCs like Yadavs, Kurmis, Lodhs, and Mayawati or Laloo) NRIs fuel communalism - uprooted persons, who fear a loss of identity Communal politics remains a way of secularizing politics new kind of a political culture - free for all - minimum conformity with the laws Possible questions: Why does Ashis Nandy cite the story of the Muslim old m...

I have no notes, but no worries - this analysis is perfect: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98370314/Short-Story-Analysis-of-The-Prophet-s-Hair-by-Salman-Rushdie

Painful and helpless situation of voters - angst, frustration Questionable morality, ethics of rally men http://cuenglias.blogspot.in/2015/03/the-election-sitakant-mahapatra.html Our jeep crawls to your village seeking strange melodies get attention from people. All the promises are built from songs from the roaring sun: 'the common will' drawn out by politicians from the criss-cross geometry geometry always symmetric also, smaller problems filtered for larger ones of private agonies. Our dark longings don't touch you, ulterior motives hidden nor our trappings of posters, symbols, speeches, handbills, for your grief outlives empires. metaphor: how deep, how lasting their grief is The cold grandchildren awaken in your heart as you discern All speeches, posters - people know that all politicians want is to stay in power. muted allegories An allegory is an extended metaphor - in the songs and speeches, there is a wide use of rhetoric and of symbols...

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Taken from: Contested Grounds Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power Edited by Amita Baviskar Insightful analysis of the significance of natural resources in contemporary life Empirically rich research on the politics of the environment Eminent contributors include David Gilmartin, David Ludden, Michael Thompson, Lyla Mehta among others About the essay:  beauty of the area and humanity's impact on it floating junk brought in by the tide element of hope - children taught environmental awareness (by Sunita Rao) and how to make the most of all the garbage the island receives Things like shampoo, aftershave, styrofoam chair, clothes basket - also, lobsters, coconuts and fish - come from the sea These are useful, or made useful - however the "stream of manufactured objects" they (ships using Bombay-Penang  trade route) leave behind is also a great inconvenience bottles of water, juice cartons, beer bottles, cans as common on the beach as sea-shells nobody knows ab...

SECTION A - 6x5 7 questions - answer 6; question on Riders to the Sea is compulsory SECTION B - 3x10 4 questions - answer 3; question on The Pianist is compulsory SECTION C - 4x10 Prepositions Email Precis-writing Conversational Strategies

CHRIST UNIVERSITY SERVER DOES NOT OPEN BLOGS. WHY. WHY???? Anyway. Because it's such a vast and generic topic, the more examples you can give, the better-informed you will seem. Also if you can cite sources, dates, authors, thinkers, politicians etc and quote them, that would work out excellently for you. Oh and it's helpful to go to the "in the news" section (on the first page of Google search) when reading up.Life hack: when you want to search news on a particular topic, in the Google search bar, type name of topic site:pti.com For instance, when discussing Secularism in India, refer to the Republic Day controversy, and how the rise of the BJP has seen  a more conservative, rightist, Hindu nationalist governance. Discuss how what he does does not match what he says - this IndiaToday article discusses the same.   And also the RSS - http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/no-change-in-stand-on-article-370-says-rss-746321 While discussing pseudo-secularism, refer to ...

influenced by Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatorio Guidido - in 8th circle of hell written in 1910-11 Laurence Peril apparently random thoughts linked psychologically, not logically seems to be a dialogue between "you" and "I" where "you" defines the "I" and vice-versa dialectical conflict interior monologue introspection, talking to oneself in telling his story, Prufrock finds redemption he may be considered to be an 'abject' - a recluse because never considered to be a part of society social responsibility and moral vision - Dante gave a voice to Guido, the utterly damned A drama of literary anguish - stream of consciousness Why Prufrock? because name of furniture store near Elliot's place but also, 'prufstein' in German means touchstone and a touchstone is used to identify precious metals LINE 1: 'you and I' - either <narrator and reader>, <speaker and implied auditor> or <the d...

http://www.arvindguptatoys. com/arvindgupta/well-english. pdf http://www.ijells.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/04/April- Issue-IJELLS.pdf http://literarism.blogspot.in/ 2013/11/dalit-literature.html http://ccrss.org/dalitautobio. htm These links should help if you want to read up on A Corpse in the Well by yourself; I will post notes soon. And here they are: Page 136: About the Author and the Extract: "The above extract serves to emphasize the difference in power that exists in villages, and how the Mahars , or Dalits, who loyally served their village, were not respected and treated the way they deserved. The unfair manner in which they are bossed around, and the bravery and sense of duty exhibited by Anna , serve to highlight a broken system and ideology." Possible question: Describe the theme of injustice that runs through the story. Answer: dangerous duty, "father was crushed flat by (it)" near-fatal experience in this situation, duty was to guard ...

journey experiences more important than the quest changing source of water static to fluid very strong rural metaphor binary of urban and rural - great divide fluidity of identities canal far away - takes all day to reach urban sights near the canal, but as they return to the village, the city's parks and kids and balloons are left behind empty hopes - children supposedly represent freedom but are not free; children are victims. Social norms, rules, expectations, roles and identities are forced onto them - bequeathed onto them. All other "claimants" to this inheritance have stepped aside - naturally. Who would want such an inheritance "Our steps the only steps." - No one else walks their path  <In Frost's The Road Not Taken, he doesn't say whether it was the right choice taking the road not taken, just that it has made all the difference. Likewise here we mustn't ever assume that on an individual level, the move from urban to rural is...