Assignment-ELT Sem-4

Name:- Hareshwari Kapdi

Sem:-4

Batch- 2020-21

Roll no:-7

Submitted to- Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Paper name:- English language Teaching -2

Course:- M.A. English sem-4

Topic:- my experience (E- portfolio)

  Definitions of Eportfolio:- 

Just a quick search on the Internet is enough to understand that there are many definitions of e-portfolios, however, the majority of them include keywords such as: reflection, collection, competence, curriculum, digital repository, projects, work, planning. For the purposes of this project we consider the following definitions: 

1. "An electronic portfolio provides an environment where students can: collect their work in  a  digital  archive;  select  specific  pieces  of  work  to  highlight specific achievements; reflect on the learning demonstrated in the portfolio, in either text or multimedia  form;  set  goals  for  future  learning   to  improve;  and  celebrate achievement through sharing this work with an audience, whether real or virtual. When used in  formative,  classroom-based  assessment,  teachers   can  review  the  portfolio document, and provide formative feedback to students on where they could improve.” 

 2.  "An electronic portfolio is a collection of authentic and diverse evidence, drawn from a larger archive representing what  a person or  organization has learned over time, on which the  person  or  organization  has  reflected,  and  designed  for  presentation  to  one  or  more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose.

Welcome to my Digital Portfolio

I am Hareshwari kapdi

Hello everyone!

Please give me your valuable 2 minutes and visit my Digital portfolio and evaluate my e-portfolio. 

My Digital Portfolio link:-

https://sites.google.com/u/0/d/1ztSp4t3Y6Fq_4GDbIOSJXlsZAv23lzvu/edit 

Feedback Form:-

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cFjqsaD8c1et5W-AXAFKwtfkrSkh5a3KrwsCdU0rCvI/edit?chromeless=1 

Thanks for visiting, have a nice day😊

My experience:-

Hello everyone !

The Experience of E-portfolios in Student Learning Objectives 

1.  Index    

2.Program 

3.  Goals (general and specific)

4.  Bibliography  

5.  Types and criteria for evaluation

6.  Learning platform  

7.  Relevant texts 

8.  Videos and other multimedia resources 

9.  Requested works 

10.  Reflections about what was learned

Here I am sharing my experience of my e- portfolio. There is a lot to be learned while creating a portfolio.

Creation and management of an e-portfolio provides students with opportunities to build digital fluency, using technologies to create, select, organise, edit, and evaluate their work. 

Technology enables the use of a range of media – video, audio, and images – as well as text to show both the learning process and final products.

Students can take increasing responsibility for their own learning by recording and reflecting on their learning in an e-portfolio.

Students can carry their e-portfolio throughout their learning journey and use it to record, assess, evaluate, and reflect at any time.

An e-portfolio can reflect the students' learning process and progress.

References:-

Bloom,  B.,  “Taxonomy  of  Educational  Objectives:  The  Classification  of  Educational  Goals”,  pp. 201-207, (Ed.) Susan Fauer Company, Inc. 1956 

Correia, T., Martins, I., Soeiro, A., Digital Portfolios in University of Porto: defining goals, IASK     2008, Teaching and Learning 2008, Aveiro, 2008. Keypal.

Assignment :-The African literature sem-4

Name:- Hareshwari Kapdi

Sem:-4

Batch- 2020-21

Roll no:-7

Submitted to- Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Paper name:- The African literature

Course:- M.A. English sem-4

Topic:- Fascination Towards City is Expressed In ‘ The Swamp Dwellers’.

                    

“The Swamp Dwellers'' is a play written by Wole Soyinka. In this play he has portrayed the conflict between city life and village life and also the generation gap, which we can see in the different thinking of father Makuri and his son Awuchike.  Here we are focused on the women characters in this play. There are two female characters in this play. One is Alu, the wife of Makuri and mother of twins Awuchike and Igwezu. The second one is Desala, the wife of Iguazu. Desala is not present on the stage physically but she was present in the talks of Iguazu, Alu and Makuri. On the other hand Alu was present on the stage most of the time.

 The city is a centre of attraction even in our society. From its very inception the city has been attracting a large number of people especially from the rural areas. This also happens with the character of ‘The Swamp Dweller’. The city is tempting the rural people with its employment opportunities; they are likely to develop rosy imaginations of the luxuries of the city life. They have come to believe that money-making is easier in the city. But at last they met with the bitter side of city life and realized that making money is not an easy task in the city. And they also realized that in the process of making money in the city they went far from their culture and family.

Fascination Towards City is described:-

The Swamp Dwellers by Wole Soyinka is placed in a backward village of Nigeria in the Delta region. But the characters of the play often have important interactions with the town life. Typical to the people of a poverty ridden village, the town is a place of money, and luxury to the Swamp dwellers. To the older generation of the swamp dwellers however, the town is the symbol of corruption. Here the attitudes to city life are mainly expressed by Alu, Makuri, Igwezu, and Kadiye. The older generations’ views to the city are expressed through Alu and Makuri. Alu and Makuri have two sons- Awuhike and Igwezu. Both of their sons went to the city for better prospects.

But Awuchike is attracted by city cuts of all his relations with his parents. This ungratefulness even more consolidates Alu and Makuri’s prejudice against the city. In the opening scene of the play Makuri says to Alu that Awuchike went to the city because he had gotten sick of the Swarm. Moreover, Makuri says that the young men go to the big town in order to make money. But most of them forget their folk and cut their relation with the roots, says Makuri. To Makuri the city is the place of immortality and corruption. Some of the events confirm Makuri’s views. For example, Desala who had gone to the city with her husband Igwezu left him and went with Auchike who had more money. Gonushi’s son is another example of the victim of the city. He also went to the city and cut off his relationship with wife and children.

All the Swamp Dwellers consider the city as the place to make money. This view is expressed through the Kadiye. As soon as Igwezu returns home from the city the Kadiye visits Igwezu’s house. But Igwezu is still outside. The Kadiye wants to know from Makuri if Igwezu had made a fortune in the city. According to Kadiye all can make money “in the city”. In his conversation with Igwezu, the Kadiye asks Iguazu repeatedly about how much money he did make in the town. The Kadiye think that Igwezu had made enough money to buy the whole village. When Igwezu talks about his final restraint, Kadiye doesn’t believe it. To him it is impossible for a man who went to the city to be in debt or financial constraints.

But the real picture of the city is expressed by Igwezu. In his conversation with Makuri, Igwezu says that the city is the place where only money matters. Money makes a man important and big in the city. On the other hand people without money have no place in a city. Thus we see that the Swamp Dwellers have mixed feelings about the city. To most of the Swamp Dwellers city is the place of comfort, money and luxury. But there are also some people who have a very negative view towards city life. Still there are men like Igwezu who hate city life but are forced to go to the city.

Traditional Vs Modernity.

Here, I would like to connect Tradition and Modernity, which is one theme of ‘The Swamp Dwellers’ , both are opposite from each other. It was very difficult to tell which path we wanted to follow.

 Which one is better: Traditional or Modernity ..?

The Tradition and Modernity issue is not new for us because we are facing this issue in our society also. With the development of human beings this problem has come into  existence. In the play also we can find the same problem. Igwezu and Awuchike are twins. One is representing Tradition and another is representing modernity.

The older generations’ views towards the city are expressed through Alu and Makuri.  Alu and Makuri have two sons of Awuhike and Igwezu. Both of their sons went to the city for better prospects. But Awuchike is attracted by the city  and cuts off  all his relations with his parents. This ungratefulness even more consolidates Alu and Makuri’s prejudice against the city because he had gotten sick of the Swarm. Moreover, Makuri says that young men go to the city because he has gotten sick of the money. But most of them forget their folk and cut their relation with the roots, says Makuri.

To Makuri the city is the place of immorality and corruption. Some of the events confirm Makuri’s views. For example, Desala who had gone to the city with her husband Igwezu left him and went with Awuchike who had more money.  Gonushi’s son is another example of the victim of the city. He also went to the city and cut off his relationship with wife and children. All the Swamp Dwellers believe that the city is the  right  place to make money. Then  Igwezu returns from the city and meets Kadiye. He asks him about how much money you got  from the city.?? Kadiye has one false perception in his mind that Igwezu has enough money to buy the entire village. But Igwezu says that he is in financial constraints and by saying this he shows the bitter side of city life. He also talks about the reality that in the city only money matters.

Thus we see that the Swamp Dwellers have mixed feelings about the city. To most of the Swamp Dwellers city is the place of comfort, money and luxury. But there are also some people who hate city life but are forced to go to the city to make money. ‘The Swamp Dwellers’ focuses on the struggle between the old and the new ways of life in Africa. It also gives us a picture of the cohesion that existed between the individual and southern Nigerian society. The play mirrors the socio-cultural pattern, the pang and the sufferings of the swamp dwellers and underlines the need for absorbing new ideas. The struggle between human being and unfavorable forces of nature is also captured in the play. Soyinka presents us the picture of modern Africa where the wind of change started blowing.

‘The Swamp Dwellers’ reflects the life of the people of southern Nigeria. Their vacation mainly is agro based. They weave baskets, till they cultivate land. They believe in a serpent cult. They perform death rites. They offer gain, bull goat to appease the serpent of the swamp. Traders from the city come there for crocodile skins. They lure young women with money. Alu withstands their temptation. Young men go to the cities to make money, to drink bottled beer. In fact the city ruins them. ‘The Swamp Dwellers’ consummate their wedding at the bed where the rivers meet. They consider the river bed itself as the perfect bridal bed. Sudden floods ruin the crops, throwing life out of gear.

Wole Soyinka’s play The Swamp Dwellers, The Swamp itself is the physical image of spiritual death. The spiritual death by which the young server all family and human ties with the village and indulge in a new kind of life in the towns is one of the main threats to the society of the village. The tone of despair which has been noticeable. And  “Is it of any earthly use to change one slough for another?”asos Igwezu, in The Swamp Dwellers, the city also is a swamp. And yet each must be experienced, they offer challenge not refuge. Igwezu returns to his destiny in the town. And in the end we find in the background that there is flood  and drought.  Igwezu leaves the  village, but the Beggar beckons him back, “the swallows find their nest again when the cold in over”.

Conclusion-

We can see the conflict of tradition and modernity in the play. Village is representing tradition and the city as modernity. They both are different from each other. This play represents those differences very well. And The Swamp Dwellers makes use of contrast, parallelism, humor and irony in a suitable manner. Soyinka focuses on the plight of the swamp dwellers in the play realistically. The swamp dwellers are at the mercy of furious nature unless they compromise tradition with modernity, embrace modern technology they wouldn’t have a bright future.

Work Cited:-

http://www.literary-articles.com/2012/10/the-swamp-dwellers-attitude-to-city-as.html

http://studyhelpctgbd.blogspot.in/2017/01/the-swamp-dwellers.html  

Assignment :-Mass communication and media studies : An introduction Sem-4

Name:- Hareshwari Kapdi

Sem:-4

Batch- 2020-21

Roll no:-7

Submitted to- Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Paper name:- Mass communication and media studies : An introduction

Course:- M.A. English sem-4

Topic:-Television,Radio,AND-media

What is Mass Media? And Characteristics of Radio, television and Film 

Introduction:-

My Assignment on paper Mass Media and communication. In contemporary time The latest technology provides us with speedy communication. Everywhere we go we are surrounded by Media. It was Marshall McLuhan who said that electronic technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. 

Extraordinary information explosion have dramatically shrunk time and distance and have converted our world into a Global Village.

Here, I would like to analyze several points; In brief what are Mass Media and Types of Mass Media. Apart from that my major consideration of this study is once of Radio, Television and Film. We are surrounded by Media and Media communication is all about sharing our voice to the each corner of the world.

# What is Mass Media ?

Think about this for a second: whenever you want to hear your favorite song, your favorite show, or see the latest current events, where do you go? You more than likely turn on your television, radio, or computer. The source that the majority of the general public uses to get their news and information from is considered mass media.

Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet. The general public typically relies on the mass media to provide information regarding political issues, social issues, entertainment, and news in pop culture.

#Types Of Mass Media:-

As we see first what is media and come to know that in our daily routine we are surrounded by various types of Mass Media. So, we can define this various mass communication platform like, Print Media, Television, Films, Radio, Video Games, online communication platforms etc.,

Now in this Assignment I am going to discuss more about characteristics of Radio,

Television and Films.

#Beginnings of Radio, Films and TV Media:-

Until the closure of the 19 th century, the stage provided the forum for mass contact. The stage was a live medium, with live performers, speaker confronting live audiences. There was instant feedback and communication between performers and audiences but, it was limited the size of performers was small, at best, a few thousand people. In late 1890 came the film, in which performance was caught by the camera and preserved on the celluloid. It could be shown again and again, without any variation. So, the film could reach vast masses. In beginning it was film. In 1927 sound was added to the film and we got talking films or talkies.

In India, the first talkie was released in 1931. The 1920s witnessed the coming of the radio broadcasting in many countries. The Silent Film had no ears, now the The new medium Radio had no Eyes! Though both the medium are excited the people. Lack of ears was a limitation and a challenge for silent film and Lack of eyes were a limitation and challenge for radio. But, both Film and Radio converted challenge into opportunity. That was accomplished through creative imagination of talented humans.

Today, Television pervades the lives of people in most nations. It has become a very powerful medium of information, Education and Entertainment. Apart from

that many online social media platform like facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp are the supreme media of mass communication, leaving the other media far behind. No Another medium can reach hundreds of thousands of people with such speed.

World’s any information is now available within a few second with the few clicks of fingers. It is not less than any miracle.

#Characteristics of Radio:-

Unlike the live medium of the stage, where there are live performers and live audience, radio is sightless or viewless medium. It is sometime called as blind medium where performers and listeners both cannot see each other. The Listeners and performers too have to imagine the performance creatively. To understand a radio communication or broadcast you imagine two complete strangers like talking on the phone. Here are some important characteristics of radio.

A Medium of the Sound It is an exclusive medium of sound. It is an aural and auditory medium of the ear. There are three elements of radio broadcast. They are the spoken work, music and sound effects. They are all sounds carried on the air waves to the listeners. To be acceptable, all theses must be pleasant and expressive for the ears of the listeners.

# A medium of Voice Radio is the medium of the voice. The performers can use only their voice in a broadcast. The producer mixes his/her voice with music and sound effects. But it does not mean that a broadcaster has only learned a few tricks of the voice. An actor, using only vocal tricks, would soon start sounding fake or untruthful to the listener. A radio listener has ah developed ear or sound sense. It has been correctly said that an any performers must broadcast with mind.

An Actor, for example must express all the emotions through their voice only.- The torture of the soul, the pleasure, the laughter, sadness and soon. They are not wearing any costume or make up; there is no scenery or properties. So, they must imaginatively gives cues or intimations only through their expressive voice. A truthful vocal expression will come only if the whole person’s mind, imagination, psyche and body are all in tune with one another. That explains the difference between a good and a bad radio broadcaster.

 Microphone: The link between Speaker and Listeners Microphone is the only instrument through which a radio broadcaster speaks to his listeners.

It exposes all the vocal lies or untruthful expressions. It amplifies even the feeblest hiss or a sob. Microphone will tell the truth from a lie. So, only Truthful vocal expression can go well with the ear of the listeners.

An Intimate Medium Radio is an intimate medium. The broadcaster must imagine as the listeners are sitting by their side, shoulder to shoulder. It is as if the broadcaster is broadcasting for each listener individually. And Intimate style of acting is especially relevant to the radio. As we see our Prime minister Narendra Modi very well use this platform to communicate with the public of India.

 A Mass Medium Radio is Medium of Mass Communication. Its broadcasts reach hundreds of thousands in one go. On the one hand, as we said above, it is as if the performer is communicating with a vast mass of people collectively. Broadcaster’s task to find out the lowest common denominator to communicate well with the largest number of listeners.

Because hundreds of thousands of listeners. Listening to the same broadcast simultaneously, belong to different classes and groups of society, they have different education, social, economic and cultural background.

 Simple language A very large number of people are semi literate in India and other developing countries. So, the language of radio broadcast must be simple, must contain the idiom of the common masses. It must because to spoken language that the common people use than to the literary

language.

• Journal of Radio & Audio Media (JRAM)

The Journal of Radio & Audio Media (JRAM) is a semi-annual publication designed to promote scholarly dialogues generated by various disciplinary and methodological points of view. The Journal welcomes interdisciplinary inquiries regarding radio’s contemporary and historical subject matter as well as those audio media that have challenged radio’s traditional use. Scholars are invited to submit articles pertaining to any area of radio and audio media. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, formats and programming, new technology, policy and regulation, rating systems, commercial and noncommercial networks, radio history, management and innovation, personalities, popular cultures, uses and effects studies, propaganda, social movements, advertising and sales, market concentration, Internet and satellite radio, podcasting, alternative formats, diversity, gender and international radio.

TV has both sound and sight. A TV broadcast is conceived and produced and received in audio-visual terms. As eyes absorbs and retain much more than the ear so, TV broadcasts have greater influence on viewers than radio's audience.

Television is a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.

Resources:-

https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/9-2-the-relationship-between-television-and-culture/

Assignment-The New literature sem-4

Assignment

Name:- Hareshwari Kapdi

Sem:-4

Batch- 2020-21

Roll no:-7

Submitted to- Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Paper name:- The new literature

Course:- M.A. English

Topic:- Chatan Bhagat: one night @ call center characters

Chatan Bhagat: one night @ call center

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Bhagat graduated in mechanical engineering at IIT Delhi and completed a master's of business administration degree at IIM Ahmedabad.

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)

• One Arranged Murder (2020)

One Night @ the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working at the Connexions call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It takes place during one night, during which all of the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change. The story uses a literal deus ex machina, when the characters receive a phone call from God.

For this novel we can say that the title of the Novel itself tells about the effect of globalization in call centers. In this novel the writer wants to give a message to the Indians that those working in call centers just get a good salary but it does not give them an opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity Americanized form of English in the Call Centers. How globalization forced the characters of this Novel to change their names to Western:

e.g. like

Shyam Mehra – Sam Mercy

Varun Malhotra  - Victor

Radhika Jha – Regima Jones

 Esha singh – Elina 

Shyam Mehra, called Sam Marcy, is the narrator of the story and we can say that he is the hero of the novel. Throughout the novel we see Shyam narrating his past dates with Priyanka with whom he has had a break up.

Shyam Mehra :

Shyam Mehra, called Sam Marcy, is the narrator of the story and we can say that he is the hero of the novel. Throughout the novel we see Shyam narrating his past dates with Priyanka with whom he has had a break up. He is a person who lacks self-confidence and therefore he is unable to achieve his girlfriend as well as a good position at his workplace. He is extremely talented and efficient. Towards the end we see how he transforms himself into a completely new person and achieves whatever he wants in his life and at the end positivity. 

Priyanka: 

Priyanka is the heroine of the novel. To be precise, Shyam’s ex-girlfriend. Priyanka is an intelligent and a practical girl who is too preoccupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her. Priyanka’s mom wants her to marry an NRI boy and just for the sake of her mother she has decided to break up with Shyam and marry an NRI boy but we can say that still she loves Shyam..

Varun Malhotra :

Varun Malhotra, called Victor Mell, is Shyam’s friend. He loves Bikes and speeds so friends call him Vroom. He stays with his mother who has separated from his father and his father was a businessman. We can say that Varun is the most carefree person in the novel. He has a soft corner for his colleague Esha, but she has never taken him seriously till now it seems and as we know he is a very good friend of Shyam so he helps him to get back with Priyanka. Vroom is the one who saves “Connextions” call center from a major problem using his skills. In the end he gets along with Shyam and starts his own web based company.

Esha Singh:

Esha Singh, called Eliza Singer, is the pretty face of the group. An aspiring model who ran away  from her home because just wanted to be a model so she joined a call center so that she could achieve her dreams. Just because of her desire to be a model she had slept with one designer to get an offer and after that she realized that she was cheated by him and with the guilt she decided to give up her dream to become a model and continued to work at the call center.

Radhika Jha:

Radhika Jha, called Regina Jones, is the only married one in the group. Trying to manage the household activities and her job.Her aim is to earn money and settle down on one hand, and manage her mother-in-law on the other. " She had married her husband against her parents’ wishes and always tried to adjust with him and into an orthodox family. One day she finds out about  her husband’s affair with another woman and suddenly decides to give him a divorce and stay with Esha. 

Military Uncle:

Military Uncle who lives alone and has some problems with his son and grandson but at the end he realizes his mistake and decides to apologize. Military Uncle who works at the call centre to earn a little money apart from the pension that he gets.

Thus in ON@TCC, all characters have their individual life and struggle and at the end they get their answer and a positive end comes.

One night at the call center. CHARACTERS IN A NUTSHELL

December 06, 2010

‘One night at the call center’ by Chetan Bhagat is a story about the lives of six people working in a call center searching for true happiness. Beginning with a messed-up love story of the narrator “Shyam”, to the separated family life of the retired military person, we can see different short stories of each individual fighting to get peace. In the midst of their complexities they work together at the “Connextions” call center under the Manager Subhash Bakshi who acts like a villain in the story. Towards the end of the book we can see how “God” comes to rescue each one of them which leads into a major transformation of everyone’s life. We also see the downfall of Mr. Bakshi, who is taught a lesson by his agents whom he considered ‘good for nothing’ and exploited them.

First of all the author introduces us to Shaym(Shyam Mehra)– the narrator and the most important character of the book who is the hero of the book alongwith his close friend Vroom. For Shyam, Priyanka who was his girlfriend as well as a colleague is the most important person in the whole story. Throughout the novel we see Shyam narrating his past dates with Priyanka with whom he has had a break up. He is a person who lacks self-confidence and therefore he is unable to achieve his girlfriend as well as a good position at his workplace. He is extremely talented and efficient. Towards the end we see how he transforms himself into a completely new person and achieves whatever he wants in his life.

On the other hand we see Priyanka- an intelligent and practical girl who is too preoccupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her. For her mother’s sake she had decided to break up with her boyfriend Shyam and marry NRI Ganesh. However, things turn out to be different in the end and Priyanka chooses her love over her mother’s wishes for the sake of her own happiness.

The third character is Vroom (Varun Malhotra) who loves speed and wheels. He stays with his mother who has separated from his father who was a businessman. He is the most carefree person in the book. He has a soft corner for his colleague Esha, but she has never taken him seriously till now it seems. He is a very good friend of Shyam and helps him to get back with Priyanka.Vroom is the one who saves “Connextions” call center from a major problem using his skills. In the end he gets along with Shyam and starts his own web based company.

The fourth character is Esha Singh who wants to become a model. She was pretty and had been struggling quite hard to get modeling assignments but perhaps her short height is a barrier (obstacle/wall) for her choice of career. She had slept with a Designer once, to get an offer, who turned out to be a cheat. Since that incident she had formed a guilt within her which was one of the reasons for her not accepting Vroom’s proposal. In the end she decided to give up her dream to become a model and continued to work at the call center.

The fifth character is Rahika Jha, who stays with her husband and in-laws. She had married her husband against her parents’ wishes and had transformed herself completely in order to adjust herself into an orthodox family. She had been working very hard to manage her house and work. Unfortunately she finds out about her husband’s affair with another woman and decides to give him a divorce. In the end she quits her husband’s family and goes to live with Esha.

Lastly we have the character of a Military Uncle who stays alone, away from his son and grandson since they got separated from him and left for the US. He works at the call center to earn some extra money apart from the pension that he gets. He had some misunderstanding with his Son and daughter-in-law but in the end he realizes his mistake and decides to apologize and go back to them.

Hence the book ‘One night at the call center’ in one way or the other relates to every human being who is so busy in the worldly pleasures that he doesn’t have time to think about himself on his own. He looks for the solution of his problems outside whereas the truth is that it lies within himself.

Thinking Activity on Things Fall Apart

Here are some questions on Things Fall Apart. 

Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria's white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Achebe's novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans.

1. What is historical context of Things Fall Apart?

The novel “Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, while often thought to offer readers an accurate portrait of Igbo or African culture in general, often does not effectively represent the culture it seeks to portray. More generally, one of the challenges of the fiction genre, and of the frequent criticisms lodged against it, is the manner in which history, people, and place are integrated into the narrative. Writing a fictive narrative that is based on real people, places, and events poses some inherent dangers, not the least of which is the possibility of inaccurate or partial 

While Achebe’s literary intentions in “Things Fall Apart" were probably noble, his achievement, in the eyes of many critics, falls short of the mark.  By presenting some beliefs, rituals, and characteristics of the community about which he writes, Achebe necessarily leaves out other important details about Igbo culture in “Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, giving the reader only a partial view and understanding of the tribe and its culture. Thus, the reader sees that although history and narrative can be complementary—after all, history itself is a narrative, and it is certainly not objective (Gikandi 3)—the relationship between the two also poses particular problems for the writer and the reader of a fiction work.

2. What is the significant of the title?

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a novel whose title bears the central massage of the work. The very title ‘Things Fall Apart’ foreshadows the tragedy which takes place at the end of the novel. The novel depicts the tragedy of an individual as well as the tragedy of a society. The protagonist of the novel Okonkwo who was rich and respectable at the beginning of the novel meets a tragic fate at the end of the novel. Achebe portrays how an ambitious, well known, and respected African Okonkwo’s life falls apart. But when he suffers, his whole tribe also suffers. At the beginning of the novel, the Ibo society was a peaceful, organic society, but at the end of the novel it falls into pieces. Thus, the novel records not only falling apart of Okonkwo’s life but also his whole society.

3. Write a brief note on the concept of 'Chi' in Things Fall Apart?

The concept of chi is discussed at various points throughout the novel and is important to our understanding of Okonkwo as a tragic hero. The chi is an individual’s personal god, whose merit is determined by the individual’s good fortune or lack thereof. Along the lines of this interpretation, one can explain Okonkwo’s tragic fate as the result of a problematic chi—a thought that occurs to Okonkwo at several points in the novel. For the clan believes, as the narrator tells us in Chapter 14, a “man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi.”

5. Write a brief note on Ibo people's belief in the world of spirits.

The Igbo religion is in direct conflict with a monotheistic religion like Christianity, meaning a religion with one god. The Igbo believe that there are multiple gods and goddesses representing every facet of life and the ancestors who had walked the earth in previous lifetimes.

6. How is the difference between the father land and the mother land is described in Things Fall Apart?

Things Fall Apart takes place sometime in the final decade of the nineteenth century in Igboland, which occupies the southeastern portion of what is now known as Nigeria. Most of the action unfolds prior to the arrival of European missionaries. Accordingly, the geography of the novel is dictated by precolonial norms of political and social organization. In Igboland, clusters of villages band together to protect each other and guarantee their own safety. The action of Things Fall Apart centers on the fictional village of Umuofia, which is part of a larger political entity made up by the so-called “nine villages.”

In Igboland, geography takes on gendered aspects depending on where a person’s parents were born. For instance, Umuofia is Okonkwo’s father’s home village, which makes it Okonkwo’s fatherland. When Okonkwo gets exiled for the crime of manslaughter, he and his family travel to another of the nine villages, Mbanta, which is Okonkwo’s motherland—that is, the village where his mother was born. The gendering of geography plays an important symbolic role in the novel, since Okonkwo sees his seven-year exile in the motherland as an emasculating threat to his reputation.

7.Point out the important points of llKanthapura by Raja Rao.

The novel Kanthapura (1938) was an account of the impact of Gandhi's teaching on nonviolent resistance against the British. Rao borrows the style and structure from Indian vernacular tales and folk-epics. He returned to the theme of Gandhism in the short story collection The Cow of the Barricades (1947).

What is the importance of the heading 'Kanthapura' as depicted by Raha Rao in his novel? Kanthapura is the title, which is reminiscent to notify the reader of the contents of the novel. The heading 'Kanthapura' is the name of a village that is located in the South of India.

Thinking Activity: The sense of an Ending

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This blog is a part of my thinking activity given by professor Dr.Dilip Barad. In this blog,we have to write our views regarding below given questions. To see the blog and the questions click here

The sense of an ending is novel written by Julian Burns. Tony  Webster is an protagonist of Novel who is in his 60s. He is on that time off life that now he get something to know about his past life events then he is not able to do anything.  The same thing happen with him that due to some reason he has to look at his past then he realized that whatever is in his memory is not true. And the actual truth is different than his memory.  All the truth of his actual life came to him  and at the end he got shocked with some of his own doing. For that he write that Who has done this I am not that Tony. 

1) A general critique of this novel also

2) Study of film adaptation

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Although I found the pacing of the novel quite slow at times in the second section, the climax was absorbing and tense. The final revelations force the reader to reconsider Tony’s narrative in a whole new light, become a literary detective and piece together the various clues amongst the faded memories. I’m trying to comment without revealing any major spoilers, but a quote from a review by The iIndependent captures the mood well: ‘the concluding scenes grip like a thriller – a whodunnit of memory and morality’. It is to Barnes credit that we initially read Tony as a genuine, average – if not emotional protagonist, with Veronica the unstable and calculating antithesis. But memories are subjective, and once the repressed past surfaces, we draw closer to the causes of Adrian’s suicide and Veronica’s anxieties – Tony has a part to play in both. 

Sexuality is another major theme in the novel. Tony describes his clique of friends as ‘sex-hungry’, and the metaphor of the ‘holding-pen’, from which they are ‘waiting to be released’, denotes their desire for sexual, as well as social, liberation. Throughout the first section, Tony’s disdain towards Veronica is centred around her rejection of sex. Later, it is implied that Sarah’s (Veronica’s mother) sexual transgressions have stunted her daughter’s psychological growth. Issues in the private, sexual sphere repeatedly spill out into the public world and cause great pain, affecting both filial and romantic relationships. 

The Sense of an Ending is dramatically different in tone, style and register to England, England, the only other Barnes novel I’ve read – this attests to authorial scope and imagination. The real achievement of The Sense of an Ending is that it offers no concrete ending. Upon completion, it demands to be re-read and analysed further. This process mimics the text’s plot, in which Tony must confront and scrutinise his murky past from a new perspective, peeling away the layers of artificiality he has constructed in his head. 

It's a book about history and how we recall events.” Robin Leggett

When we read the Novel The Sense Of An Ending sat that time we see that this is a book about the once personal history. We all have our own history of life with which we live. we see this book we are that this book is about the some events happened with Tony and how he recall history. When he got the truth that time he didn't able to believe that in his life he has do e some things like this also.

we see that this bool is about the personal history. we all have our own history. so, we can say that it is a book about history & how we recall events.

2) Study of film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dialogic process.

A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film. Other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism), autobiography, comic books, scriptures, plays, historical sources and other films. From the earliest days of cinema, in nineteenth-century Europe, adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of filmmaking.

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મનોચિકિત્સા

Dr.Shailesh Jani મનોચિકિત્સા  writing is very interesting.

Very interesting is mind matter in મનોચિકિત્સા .Feel the mindfree and freshness after reading psychiatry.

I read these days i like this. Very interesting and very enjoyable.

Mind matter:-

અમુક માણસોના મોઢા પર કાયમ  હાસ્ય  જોવા મળે છે એટલા માટે નહીં કે એ લોકો ખુશ છે પણ એટલા માટે 

કે  લોકો પરિસ્થિતિ કરતા મજબૂત છે…..

Sunday reading:Bonfire (Holika Dahan)

 

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Holi is always celebrated in the month of Phalgun, according to the Hindu calendar and marks the end of the winter season. The festival of colours will be celebrated on Monday, March 29, while Holika Dahan will be observed a day before that is on Sunday, March 28. Holika Dahan is an auspicious day that is celebrated just a night before Holi.

The victory of good over evil is celebrated on the eve of Holika Dahan. People light the bonfire on this day and commemorate the triumph of Bhakt Prahlad’s faith in Lord Vishnu over the evil intentions of his father Hiranyakashipu and his aunt, Holika. As per the beliefs, his father and aunt attempted to kill him by setting him on fire, but his faith in Lord Vishnu protected him. It is also believed that by lighting the bonfire, negativity will go away from one’s life.

Bhadra Kaal on Holika Dahan: The Bhadra Punchha is between 10:13 am and 11:16 am while the Bhadra Mukha is from 11:16 am to 01:00 pm. As per the Hindu calendar, Holika Dahan must not be performed during the Bhadra Mukha period.

It is said that choosing the right Muhurta for Holika Dahan is more important than choosing the right Muhurta for any other festivals as if the rituals of Holika Dahan will be performed at the wrong time, then it can bring suffering and misfortune.

COVID-19 Rules and Restrictions

Following the surge in cases, the Gujarat government announced on 21 March that colours will not be allowed this Holi. This year, the Holi celebration will be limited to the holy pyre of ‘Holika Dahan’.

In Bihar, public Holi celebrations have been banned entirely. Moreover, travellers coming into the state will be randomly tested for coronavirus at railway stations, bus stands, and airports.

People in the state of Odisha also will not be able to celebrate the festival of colours in public places. ‘Dola Melans’ may be allowed with an appropriate number of participants, while the ‘Dolayatra’ shall not be allowed at all in public. The local authorities may also impose restrictions on the entry of devotees into temples and religious places.

The hotspot city of Mumbai and Palghar in Maharashtra have also banned both, private and public celebrations of Holika Dahan as well as Rangpanchami.

In Punjab, Chandigarh’s local government has declared that neither public Holi-Milan festivities, nor ceremonial gatherings in clubs, hotels, or restaurants will be permitted.

The authorities of Uttar Pradesh, too, issued a circular stating that no Holi-special procession will be carried out without prior permission of the government.

At the capital city, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has ordered a ban on public celebrations of not only Holi, but Navratri and other festivals as well.

The daily caseload in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Telangana, and several other states has been increasing at an alarming rate in the past 30 days, and state governments are expected to soon release their guidelines for the festival.

Holika Dahan, also Kamudu pyre, is celebrated by burning Holika, an asura. For many traditions in Hinduism, Holi celebrates the killing of Holika in order to save Prahlad, a devotee of God Vishnu and thus Holi gets its name. In olden days, people used to contribute a piece of wood or two for the Holika bonfire, and this represents Holika being consumed by the fire in which she tried to kill her nephew Prahlad. A similar holiday is Holi where people get to gather and often repair broken relationships.

    Reason for Holika dahan:-    Edit

The burning of Holika is the most common historical explanation for the celebration of Holi. In different parts of India varying reasons are given for Holika's death. Among those are:

Lord Vishnu stepped in and hence Holika burnt.

Holika was given the power by the Brahma on the understanding that it can never be used to bring harm to anyone.

Holi! The vibrant festival of colors sees friends and families zealously throwing fists of vibrant coloured powders and squirting water through pichkaris at each other. Though the atmosphere of fun and frivolity remains the same everywhere, each state has its own special traditions associated with Holi.

Here are unique places to make your 2021 Holi unforgettable on 28 and 29 March!

Hampi – A South Indian Holi

Hampi Holi

South India is generally known for peaceful and tranquil holi celebrations, but one must count Hampi out. This ancient town is popular amongst backpackers from all over the world, and come Holi, people of all colours join the locals in the joyful celebrations. While you are there, roam around its beautiful temples and take in all the history of the place, because if there’s one thing here more fascinating than the festival itself, it’s all the age-old tales and fables.

Delhi – A Bollywood Holi

Bollywood Style Holi

The capital of India is sprayed with every shade of every colour, as young and old alike drench themselves (quite literally) in the gaiety of the festival. Delhiites usually start with a tilak- a small mark on the forehead considered to be a good omen- and before you know, they are covered with Gulaal from head to toe. True to the city’s party-culture, there are several parties arranged across Delhi, from premium bashes offering gourmet food and alcohol, to budget-friendly, no-frills options. Bollywood party music resonates from every corner of the city, so get ready to sway to your fave go-to moves.

Shantiniketan – A Cultural Holi

Holi Milan

If you’re looking forward to cherishing the true essence of the festival, Shantiniketan is the place to be. This university town steps away from the clichéd customs of Basanta Utsav (Holi) and takes a more cultural spin of the festival. Students, clad in bright yellow clothes, showcase their talents through ethnic dance and entertainment performances. You can even meet the artsy community of the area and get insights into the Bengali culture.

The baul singers singing on the tune of their unique ‘Ektara’ instruments are a treat for your years, and even though you don’t understand the language, the music will stay with you forever.

Udaipur – A Royal Holi

Udaipur Holi

Whatever the City of Lake does, it does with a touch of grandeur and Holi is no exception. On the first day, the Holika Dahan ceremony is graced by by the royal family and the King lights the holy pyre while the local artists dressed vibrantly in Rajasthani traditional attire sing and dance around the bonfire. A stately procession, complete with ornated camels, elephants and horses, then starts from the Shambhu Niwas Palace and moves up to Manek Chowk royal residence. The Maharaja of Mewar personally welcomes honorable guests, foreign tourists, and many dignitaries to the Royal City Palace.

Mathura – The Ultimate Holi

Mathura Holi

The birthplace of Lord Krishna is the undisputed king of the Holi celebration in India. The historic city becomes a riot of colours during the festival, coming alive with infectious energy and fervour. Women playfully fend the harmless flirtations of men with sticks, depicting the innocent relations between Krishna and Radha. Priests shower blessed water on devotees visiting the temples during these days. Barsana, Vrindavan and Nandgaon are the nexus of Mathura’s festivities. Here, you’ll also get to sample some of the best Bhang, a traditional milk-based drink flavoured with cannabis leaves.

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Sahitya Akademi Awardee Poet Arundhati Subramaniam: Where God is a Traveller

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This task is related to Sahitya Akademi Awardee Poet Arundhati Subramaniam.

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, Journalist, writing in English.

Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam among 20 winners of 2020 Sahitya Akademi Awardn

Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection ‘When God is a Traveller’ in English.

Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam is among the 20 writers to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2020, reported PTI. The National Academy of Letters announced the names on Friday at its annual ‘’Festival of Letters’’ event.

Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection When God is a Traveller in English.

The 2020 winners’ list includes seven books of poetry, four novels, five short stories, two plays, and one each of memoirs and epic poetry in 20 Indian languages. The awards for Malayalam, Nepali, Odia and Rajasthani will be announced later, said the Akademi.

Apart from Subramaniam, the others who received the award in poetry include Harish Meenakshi (Gujarati), Anamika (Hindi), RS Bhaskar (Konkani), Irungbam Deven (Manipuri), Rupchand Hansda (Santali), and Nikhileswar (Telugu).

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Congress leader M Veerappa Moily also received the award for his epic poem Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam in Kannada.

Other winners included novelists Nanda Khare (Marathi), Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam (Sanskrit), Imaiyam (Tamil) and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque (Urdu).

The Akademi named Apurba Kumar Saikia (Assamese), Dharanidhar Owari (Bodo), Hiday Koul Bharti (Kashmiri), Kamalkant Jha (Maithili) and Gurdev Singh Rupana (Punjab) winners in the short stories section. Gian Singh (Dogri) and Jetho Lalwani (Sindhi) received the award for their plays, while Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) got it for his memoir.

“The books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by a jury of three members in the concerned languages in accordance with the procedure laid down for the purpose,” said the Akademi. The award includes an engraved copper plaque, a shawl and an amount of Rs 1 lakh. It will be presented at a function later.

Awards

Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry: On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work When God is a Traveller. The prize was announced as part of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.[10]

Mystic Kalinga Literary Award: On 22 December 2017, Arundhathi won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award for her work in English Literature. The prize was announced as part of Mystic Kalinga - An International Festival of Mythology, poetry and performance, Kalinga Literary Festival.[11]

2020 - Sahitya Akademi Award for English - When God is a Traveller (poetry)

When God Is A Traveller

Arundhathi Subramaniam - Poetry - 2020 - 112 pages

Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences - the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.

Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of twelve books of poetry and prose,

including the recent poetry volume, Love Without a Story, the acclaimed sacred poetry anthology, Eating God and the bestselling biography of a mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life. A well-known prose writer on Indian spirituality, she has been a long-standing arts critic, anthologist, performing arts curator and poetry editor. 

She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, the  inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. She has written extensively on culture and spirituality, and has worked over the years as poetry editor, cultural curator and critic. 

She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.

Thinking activity:- The White Tiger 🐅

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   This task is related to 'The White Tiger'🐅 by Aravind Adiga.

Abstract:-

The White Tiger is the debut novel of Aravind Adiga, which brought him Man Booker Prize in 2008. Although Indian economy has grown steadily over the last two decades, its growth has been uneven when comparing different social groups, economic groups, geographic regions, rural and urban areas. The novel studies the contrast between India’s rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram's, Who comes from crushing rural poverty. It is told in the form of a series of letters from an entrepreneur living in Bangalore named Balram Halwai to Wen Javano, the premier of China. The story moves from a boy who broke coal in a tea shop to a driver and servant to a wealthy family, and then to a self-made “entrepreneur”.

Key words: global economy, rural poverty, uneven social groups.

1. How far do you agree with the Indian represented in the novel the white Tiger?

The novel studies the contrast between India’s rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram's, Who comes from crushing rural poverty. 

“At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal in justice of society(Indian). That’s what I’m trying to do-it is not an attack on the country, it’s the greater process of self-examination” (“Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga”, The Telegraph).

The White Tiger is presented as an epistolary novel, a series of letters written over the period of seven nights. It is an interesting ploy used by the author to keep the readers glued to the novel. Balram's is writing to the premier of china, Wen Jiabao, Due to visit the city of Bangalore, Balram is living in, in a week’s time. Balram does have something to get off his chest, of course, and his letters to the Chinese premier are a confession of sorts. Balram tells his life-story, recounting how he got to where he now is successful entrepreneur in Bangalore. From very beginning we learnt that he is a wanted man, as he writes about a poster describing him and alluding to his misdeeds. And soon he reveals what crime he has on his hands, too.

Aravind Adiga in an interview with the BBC said;

“The White Tiger is the story of a poor man in today’s India, one of the many hundreds of millions who belong to the vast Indian under class; people who live as labourers, as servants, as chauffeurs and who by and large do not get represented in Indian entertainment, in Indian films, in Indian books. My hero-or rather my Protagonist-Balram Halwai is one of these faceless millions of poor Indians”

Social groups involve two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity or objective similarity. In the case of Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger,’ the vast numbers of different social groups are represented in several different ways. Drivers in India are an example of a social group mentioned throughout the novel. Adiga’s interpretation of each driver or group of drivers in the novel are viewed through the eyes of Balram Halwai, the main character of the novel, who goes from living on the streets, to becoming a driver, to developing into an entrepreneur of his own driving company.

Apart from that he satires on the the Indian systems major like 

• Indian Education system
• Indian Marriage system
• Way of becomes Successful entrepreneur 
• Way of doing the Business
• Bosom
• Servitude nature of Humans
• Indian Police system 
• Joint family living system   

                                                                                                      Almost every field or aspects of Indian peoples and their way of living life is covered by Adiga in this novel.

2. Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches' ?

This story is told by the central character Balram Halwai who moves from rags to riches. Rags to rich means a journey of becoming poor to rich. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire the protagonist jamal malik's story and Adiga's The white tiger are both similar in the same narrative about the journey of becoming rags to rich.  Balram was a middle class Halwai son who wrote letters on becoming a famous entrepreneur. Though he would become successful because of murdering of his master and stalled his name and money. 

3) 'Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meaning out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The white Tiger ? How?

To deconstruct the text or writers own writing is one of the prominent key features of postmodern novels. Adiga and Julian Barnes' way of narrating the things at some level is similar. For example, the first character narrates the story and the letter on by him / her self deconstructs the narrative. Like in Adiga's the white tiger,  

 As the novel begins, in the first sense Balram talks about Mr. Jiabao. He says that,

         “Neither you nor I can speak English but there are some things that can be said only in English”.

It means that Adiga knows about the use of language in a better way.

       This novel we also deconstructed on the basis of class conflict. Balram is a servant and also driver of Honda city car. In India servants are always faithful to his master, like Hanuman. So here this idea of a loyal or faithful servant of his master was deconstructed very artfully.

4.  With ref to screening of the Netflix adaptation: 

•   1) Write review of the film adaptation of The White Tiger

• 2)Have you identified any difference in the novel and the adaptation? Does it mark any significant difference in the overall tone and texture of the novel?

• 3) David Ehrlich in his review wrote this- Ramin Bahrain's Netflix Thriller is a Brutal corrective to 'Slumdog Millionaire' why is it a 'corrective' ? What was the error in Slumdog Millionaire that it was corrected?

‘The White Tiger’ Trailer: An Indian Servant Won’t Wait for a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

The main character of “The White Tiger,” a poor, Indian servant who rises to become a powerful entrepreneur, says there’s no “Slumdog Millionaire”-type game show that’s going to break him out of his poverty. The only thing he can do is seize his opportunity.

That’s the set up for Ramin Bahrani’s new film “The White Tiger,” which is based on the best-selling novel by Aravind Adiga and co-stars Priyanka Chopra-Jonas. Newcomer Adarsh Gourav narrates his own epic story about how he goes from being a driver for a wealthy man played by Rajkummar Rao to finally rebelling against the class system and becoming his own master.

“Here in India, there are only two kinds of people, those with big bellies and those with small bellies,” Gourav’s character says. “I was trapped. I don’t believe for a second there’s a million rupee game show I can win to get out of here.”

The White Tiger” is yet another buzzy awards contender for Netflix arriving this winter that also includes films like “Mank,” “The Midnight Sky,” “Hillbilly Elegy” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” This film is written and directed by “99 Homes” director Bahrani and is executive produced by Ava DuVernay and Chopra-Jonas.

Netflix will debut “The White Tiger” first in theaters in December followed by a launch on the streaming service on January 22.

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