depression for home and India. Sudha also decides to relieve the octogenarian of his homesickness and secure a life for her daughter and herself. Sudha undergoes metamorphosis simiar to the character ‘Jasmine’ in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine. Sudha transforms from a naïve traditional well matriarchal protected woman to modern and independent. This summarized progression from India to America might easily be understood as a stereotypical reification of cultural boundaries where India manifests all
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Prasar Bharati is India’s largest public broadcaster. It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting‚ Government of India. It was formed based on the model of BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)‚ which is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster‚ London. It is the largest broadcaster
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Duties Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) is the public service broadcaster in the country‚ with Akashwani (All India Radio) and Doordarshan as its two constituents. It came into existence on 23rd November 1997‚ with a mandate to organize and conduct public broadcasting services to inform‚ educate and entertain the public and to ensure a balanced development of broadcasting on radio and television. Objectives The major objectives of the Prasar Bharati Corporation as laid
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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The poem ’Memories’ is by an Indian poet called Trilokesh Mukherjee. The poet grew up in India and this influences the poem‚ he brings his culture into the poem by using imagery and senses and other literary devices. Also‚ he refers to the Gods from the Hindu religion and mythology. Hindu religion‚ mythology and family are all very important to the Indian people and this is all shown in the poem when they are sitting around the fire at night. The theme of this poem is childhood memories and how they
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In the essay‚ A Father‚ by Bharati Mukherjee‚ the author has three main characters each is caught between the Indian and American cultures. The Bhowmick family‚ which includes the father‚ the mother‚ and their daughter‚ are all experiencing the constant pull of Indian and American identities. In the essay we hear the story mainly from Mr. Bhowmick. He sees America as a frightening place and he tries to hold onto his Indian culture by keeping the statue on Kali and praying to her. According to the
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could not live without desires for their life. To have a happy life‚ first of all it has to be desired. There is another aspect of life that opposite desire‚ duty. Both of them create life. Jasmine is the main character of the same name novel of Bharati Mukherjee who struggle about what she should act to‚ desire or duty. She was born in a very traditional culture that supports duty while she really want to live a life that she can choose. The story begins with the appearance of an astrologer. The symbol
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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee; born 11 December 1935) is the 13th and current President of India. Mukherjee was born to a Bengali Kulin Brahmin family at Mirati in the Bengal province of British India now in West Bengal. His father was kamada kinkar Mukherjee and his mother was rajlakshmi Mukherjee. Mukherjee attended the Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Birbhum)‚ and then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. His hobbies are reading‚ gardening and music. He is Master of Arts degree in Political
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I think that reading an essay‚ book‚ or even just a poem can bring endless imagination. Reading opens endless worlds‚ and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H.‚ “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati‚ and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia‚ the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different cultures and different times. In “No Name Woman‚” Kingston writes about how her aunt was chased
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Collide: An Analysis of “A Father” There are many different cultures and traditions that are practiced all over the world. Each of these cultures and traditions coexist in the same environment. However‚ with in families there is usually a set of traditions and customs that are upheld across generations and when there is a break in those practices problems arise. The Indian novelist Bharati Mukherjee‚ depicts a culture clash between‚ American culture and Hindu culture in her short story “A Father”. Culture
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