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Arundhati Roy's Novels: 'The God of Small Things' and 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Famous works of Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things - 1997 The End of Imagination - 1998 The Cost of Living - 1999 The Algebra of Infinite Justice - 2001 War Talk - 2003 Kashmir - the Case for Freedom - 2011 Capitalism - A Ghost Story - 2014 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - 2017 My seditious Heart - 2019 The God of Small Things Published: 1997 Written: 1992-1996, Delhi Setting: Kerala Booker prize in 1997 The God of Small Things set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s when Communism rattled the age-old caste system, the story begins with the funeral of young Sophie Mol, the c...

Cultural studies:- workshop by Dr. Kalyani Vallath Here im talking about Dr. Kalyani Vallath Mam. She belongs to kerela. Especially she come for teaching cultural studies and also net/set class. Her personality is very good. Her tone is very good in teaching line. Her speech is very clear and we can understand very easily. Her nature is very good and that is very important. Im really impressed to her personality and many others things. 1. What is your understanding about the concept of cultural studies? We have different culture and we are defferant types of people in our India. Culture means how we live and where we stay in what we eat and wearing etc 2. How would you explain a layman about cultural studies? We have culture and tradition, mam gives a example from Aasam's poverty and slavery and they cut animal and eat with blood.  3. If you are asked in interview to teach cultural studies - How would you introduce it? First of all I'm asked about cu...

Journalism: Lead Writing and Feature Writing What is Journalism:- Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities. Journalism can be distinguished from other activities and products by certain identifiable characteristics and practices. These elements not only separate journalism from other forms of communication, but they are also what make it important to representative societies. History reveals that the more democratic a society, the more news and information it tends to have. Journalism, the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such print and electronic media as newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, webcasts, podcasts, social networking and social media sites, and e-mail as well as through radio, motion pictures, and television. The word journalism was originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form...

About Author:- J. M. Coetzee Born : 9 Feb 1940 (age 79)              Capetown, South Africa Occupation:  Novelist, essayist, literary critic, linguistic, translator, professor Language:  English, Afrikaans, Dutch Notable Awards:  1983- Booker Prize, 1985- Prix Femina, 1995- The Irish Times (International Fiction Prize), 2003- Nobel Prize in Literature Major Works:  Dusklands (1974), In the Heart of the Country (1977), Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Life and Times of Michael K. (1983), A Land Apart: A South African Reader (1986), Foe (1987), The Lives of Animals (1999). About Novel:- Waiting for the Barbarians  Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century. Won both the 'James Tait Black Memorial Prize' and 'Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize' for fiction. Language: English Genre: Novel Publi...

About the Author • Born: 22 April 1974 (age 45 years), New Delhi • Movies: 3 Idiots, 2 States, Half Girlfriend, Kai Po Che!, Kick, Hello, Nanban • Education: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1995–1997) Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist, known for his Indian-English novels about young middle-class Indians. Bhagat was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. ★  Novels • Five Point Someone (2004) • One Night @ the Call Center (2005) • The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) • 2 States (2009) • Revolution 2020 (2011) • Half Girlfriend (2014) • One Indian Girl (2016) • The Girl in Room 105 (2018) ★  Non-fiction • What Young India Wants (2012) • Making India Awesome (2015) • India Positive (2019) ★  One Night @ the Call Center (2005) -)  One Night @ the Call Center revolves around a group of six call centre employees working at the Connexions call centre in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It takes place during one nig...

Video-1: Changing paradigms by Ken Robinson This first video starts with this line How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century? Economic, culture identity, globalization, economic circumstances and industrial revolution they all are discussed in this video. The current system was designed and conceived for a different age.  Video- 2 & 3:  Sugata Mitra on SOLE and Future Learning What is the future of learning? Schools, as we know them are obsolete; schools are not broken, the education system is not broken, it's wonderfully established. These are points Sugata Mitra discussed in both videos. -) He invented the School in the Cloud -) He’s the guy who put a computer in a hole in the wall in India -) He wants to get rid of teachers -) He thinks children can learn all they need from computers. Video- 4:  Let's use video to reinvent education by Salman Khan In this video Salman Khan talks about ...

English is a widely spoken language today. It has often been referred to as ‘global language’, the lingua franca of the modern era and currently the language most often taught as a second language around the world. English in India is used not only for communicating with the outside world but also for inter-state and intrastate communication. Because of the great ethnic and linguistic diversity found within our nation, English acts as an indispensable ‘link’ language. 1. ELT - Historical Perspective Any kind subject history is the beginning of aspect. In literature, history is necessary for very closely related to the subject. Also, the subject is deeply rooted in history. So history is basic information about the topic. First World War 1880 World  War 1st to 1940 World war 2nd until 1970  the seventies and early eighties As above during that period, in the English language teaching change and creation the methods and approaches like main features of English language t...

About The Author: Julian Barnes               Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). The Sense of an Ending The novel is divided into two parts The first part biggins in the 1960s. It begins with four intellectually arrogant school friends. we are told about two friends out of four. The first one is Tony the narrator and the second one is a Adrain the most preciously intelligent of the four. When they were in the last year of the school, a boy who killed himself after getting a girl pregnant. The four friends discuss the death philosophically, they wanted to know what exactly happened. Then Adrain joins Cambridge University. Whereas Tony takes admission in Bristol univers...

Click Here My Web Quest Rubric All Movies Harry pottter is world famous literature and specially in young generation. We could see  many themes like power politics, satire, Moral values, children literature ,fiction literature, fantacy literature,mystery etc. Name of All Series             Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)             Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)             Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)             Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)             Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)             Harry Potter and the Dea...