A full understanding of and appreciation for Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things requires that the reader be…
Hegemony “Hegemony” was most likely derived from the Greek egemonia, whose root is egemon, meaning “leader, ruler, often in the sense of…
The Salt Tax After proclaiming the Declaration of Independence of India on January 26, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi came to an…
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Introduction Christians constitute the second largest religious minority in India next to Islam. The roughly 28 million Christians in India…
Background The caste system in India is an important part of ancient Hindu tradition and dates back to 1200 BCE.…
Arranged Marriages in India Arranged marriages have been part of the Indian culture since the fourth century. Many consider the practice…
Biography “The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that positions be taken on…
As far as I am concerned, I no longer support notions of purity. Purity has become a thing of the…
Biography Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, just months before the Partition of British India. His father, Ahmed,…
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Biography The highly acclaimed director and producer from India, Mira Nair leapt into the world’s spotlight with her film Salaam, Bombay!…
“From the start I tried to deny my Pakistani self . . . it was a curse and I wanted to…
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“Love is so powerful, it’s like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.” – Bessie Head, A Question of Power…
Biography Novelist, poet, and critic Yasmine Gooneratne, a graduate of Bishop’s College, went on to graduate from the University of…
Biography Roddy Doyle was born in 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. He attended St. Fintan’s Christian Brothers School in Sutton and later…
Biography Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in the city of Dacca (now Dhaka) in East Bengal (modern-day Bangladesh). As…
Biography In 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, in the town of Mutoko. She spent her early childhood,…
Biography John Maxwell Coetzee, better known as J.M. Coetzee, was born in South Africa to Afrikaner parents on February 9th,…
Biography Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica and grew up there and in the United States. She was educated in…