Study Buddy

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...

love-hate relationship with nature speaker's love for mother (also family) Questions given: Is the description of the mother similar to that of other Indian mothers? Is this poem about the conservation of nature? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Flowering_Tree:_A_Woman's_Tale The day after the first rain,  Monsoon. for years, I would home in a rage, Interesting. What are you so mad about, speaker? for I could see from a mile away From a mile away, on the way home our three Red Champak Trees  OUR three red champak trees had done it again, meaning they've done it before had burst into flower and given Mother  her first blinding migraine first but not last; blinding because of the extent of the pain she's in in of the season these migraines last the whole season with their street-long heavy-hung yellow pollen fog of a fragrance The pollen grains have made the air thick like fog - in fact the air IS yellow with it's...