The Portable North American Indian Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identityis a collection of essays that explains India in its totality. Through the information in the essays, Amartya Sen expounds on India’s heritage from the ancient past and connects it to a modern perspective. Today, more than 70 years later, English is as frequently used in India as other languages. English has made its home here and in the increasingly globalised world, it has become a necessity. You occupied his thoughts, made him yearn for your arrival, it didn’t even take an arrow for this to happen

There is a lot more to Indian History than just this. It so happens that I have read Jawaharlal Nehru’s “The Discovery of India” which is also a book on Indian culture, History and Identity. My view is that Nehru’s knowledge of Indian history was much more broader and his thoughts and views on India and the passion he had for his motherland are brought out much better in his book. However, while YA in the West can be subcategorised into supernatural, coming-of-age, fantasy, romance, etc., YA in India is still finding solid ground to stand on. Due to this, writing romances became the easiest way to get into the Indian YA mind, which had grown up on a steady diet of Bollywood-esque romances from an early age. While thrillers and horror also do well, romance sells the best with the youth. As a result, there are more publishers pushing for YA romances. By looking at photos, I can predict if two people will be compatible and have a successful, happy life, or if there will be issues that arise. This helps them make a more informed decision about marriage.Well, it was interesting initially, where Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita and the sage Javali's criticism of Rama's actions in the epic Ramayana are presented as proof of the essential questioning nature of our culture. Also, the author explains well how ancient India was not all spirituality and there was a lot of reasoning and science - and atheist thought was at least as important as the theist stream. Akbar and his polyglot religion of 'Din Elahi'; Tagore's humanism as opposed to Gandhi's nationalism; and the difficulty to extract an 'indigenous' Indian culture from the curious mixture that we currently have - these are all proof of what an assimilatory society we were: and trying to prune us down to one dimension will definitely diminish us. I agree wholeheartedly with you, Dr. Sen. To be fair, I did enjoy the essay on the two sexes (which is perhaps less noteworthy due to the sheer amount of literature on it anyway) as well as the exposition on Tagore that highlighted uncommonly-known opinions. Also, the cover is beautiful! Our protagonist, Homi, is a newly married woman approaching her one-year anniversary, and she works as a TV journalist. The Indian ‘tryst with destiny’ remains largely unfulfilled. There is a misconception that for the growth of economy all th

The Argumentative Indian, by Amartya Sen, is a great experience through its essays divided into 4 parts. Criticism 1: The Argumentative Indian gives only a limited and often misleading view of the Indian history.And this is my major concern with The Argumentative Indian; it is a compilation novel of the author’s articles over the past decade. You see the same things, referenced again and again; compilation books are not only repetitive—how much text is wasted skimming the surface of the Gujurat Massacre ten separate times, rather than hitting it once with depth and vigor—but the tone is so disparate there is next to no authorial voice to guide you through the narrative. Any sense of uniqueness or cohesion on the part of an author is pressed flat by the need to match the format in which the text originally appeared; New York Review of Books; New Republic; Financial Times; et al. The story of One Part Woman concerns a married couple in a rural Indian village. They are happy together – so happy in fact that the wife, Ponna, remarks often on how wonderful her husband is, and what she wouldn’t do for him.

Haven’t most of us been obsessed with flying witches, magic schools, dazzling vampires (yes, I’m looking at you, #TeamEdward) and fantastical adventures at some point in our lives? As teens, we loved the world that young adult (YA) literature exposed us to – one filled with stories of the supernatural, of romance and of adventure – just as we were about to step into a new adult world. YA literature has since been our constant friend, our companion whenever we felt alone when fictional characters understood us more than our parents would. Perhaps that is why we feel such an affinity for the genre, and it shows in the ripples it has created in the world. Everytime he got a glimpse, he would try to find something new in you even if it was subconsciously Olcott, M. (1949). Review of Gandhi’s Autobiography, by M. K. Gandhi. Special Issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 261, 191–192.

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We started off as an open group, but then seemed to attract all sorts of rude, abusive disruptive elements. So with great deliberations we decided to make it a private group attempting to screen in those who are genuinely interested, and not those who join for promoting their work by hook or by crook, and those who are bent upon stalking vulnerable individuals. Accepting you here shows our trust in you, and you may reciprocate being an active, friendly member ;-) Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. Gandhi, M. K. (1962). Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Vol. 8). The Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Navajivan. To begin with, the title: When I first heard the name ‘The Argumentative Indian’, I was thinking that this book will deal with the Indian history, not just about the positives of it but also about the not-so-positive ones that defied any reason as well. But this book is not a coherent one, if you are keen on learning the history of India, its culture and identity, as the subtitle misleads you to be. The title of this book should have been ‘Demystifying Indian History : Writings against the Hindu Fundamentalists and Hindu Nationalists’ for that is all this book ever tries to do, from the beginning to the end. All that the author ever tries to do is to prove that India is not as great as it is thought to be (by Hindu Nationalists) and it is not as worse as it was portrayed to be (by Western racists – like James Mill and Winston Churchill).

The other thing I liked in Sen’s book was a reference to this interesting quote from Ram Mohun Roy which I had never come across before. The essays are not merely celebratory of Sen's "capacious idea of India." In hailing the Indian argumentative tradition, Sen does not overlook the need for discourse to be politically effective, and his chapter on Indian democracy is both reasoned and critical, calling for "broadening the force and range of political arguments and social demands." While hailing Indian democracy's success in preventing the famines that occurred with depressing regularity under British colonial rule, he stresses that this does not mean the problem of chronic and endemic hunger ("a much more complex task") has been solved. His demolition job on the Indian nuclear tests of 1998 is all the more effective for being couched in the language of reasoned discourse.

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Tirumalesh, K. V. (1998). Autobiography’s Moment of Truth: The Experiments of Mahatma Gandhi. Indian Journal of American Studies, 27(2), 15–20. Nanda, B. R. (2002). Gandhi: Pan-Islamism, Imperialism and Nationalism in India. Oxford University Press.