Vikas Swarup Essays

  • The White Tiger By Gandhi Language Analysis

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    Non Existence of Gandhi words in India is portrayed in Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” Suresh M Assistant Professor, Department of English, Scad College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India.627414 Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence of Gandhian words in India. In the novel “The white Tiger” Aravind Adiga pictures the non existence of Gandhian words in India. Bribes, Slavery, Prostitution are some of the vices pictures in this novel. This paper compares

  • Postcolonial Literature Exposed In Adiga's The White Tiger

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    Introduction Postcolonial writings have invoked the notion of social Justice, resistance. Freedom and egalitarianism in its attempt to counter dictatorial structures of racial discrimination, prejudice and ill treatment. Subaltern studies ‘occupied a prominent place in post colonial writings. The land owners, the industrialists and the upper classes have always dominated and oppressed the poor, servants and other unprivileged class. Their voices have been silenced and are subjected to exploitation

  • The Significance Of Police Brutality In Q & A

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    demonstrated to readers in the beginning and throughout the novel Q and A by author Vikas Swarup. The main character of the novel, Ram Mohammed Thomas, is first seen being detained by the police after winning a million rupees on a quiz show, How to Become a Millionaire. The cops are harassing, abusing, and humiliating Ram as they look into what occurred in the game show if he cheated or is it pure coincidence. The author Vikas Swarup accurately portrays India's police brutality in the novel Q and A. In Naureen

  • Themes In Slumdog Millionaire

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    Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film, directed byDanny Boyle. This film is adapted from the famous novel name Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. It was the author 's first novel. Set in India, which tells the story of rags to riches. Slumdog Millionaire was widely celebrated, being praised for its plot, soundtrack and direction. As the novel, it was interpret into twenty-five languages for fifteen countries in the worldwide. This story is

  • Train To Pakistan Short Story

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    India, being a country of diversities, it seems that it can hardly escape from the curses of political hatred, conflict and riot; so it is quite natural that the writers focusing on India may highlight these problems. Since it is the first novel on the theme of partition, Train to Pakistan projects a realistic picture of those nightmarish and fretful days accompanying the division. It is regarded that Khushwant Singh intended to name the novel as Mano Majra which hints the static, but later he selected