Conference Presentations by Mohamed Rafiq
Contextualizing Cultural Heritage in Literatures
Kiran Desai's Booker Winning post colonial novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2007) addresses the vi... more Kiran Desai's Booker Winning post colonial novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2007) addresses the violence and exploitation to a abysmally disturbing and nerve-shattering extent perpetrated man on man. This paper is attempted to analyse the cultural encounters of the major characters like the imperial ICS officer Jemubhai Patel, the judge's westernised granddaughter Sai and her difficulty in adjusting with her anti-western lover Gyan, which leads to separation in Indian part and Biju's moral struggle to serve beef in New York restaurants and his return to India is analysed.
Papers by Mohamed Rafiq
Novelists are the chroniclers of the contemporary society. They write on the contemporary issues ... more Novelists are the chroniclers of the contemporary society. They write on the contemporary issues and create awareness among the readers. Now environmental pollution pose a great threat to human. In India 6.2 lakh people died of pollution problem in 2013, which is six-fold jump from one lakh in ten years back. 620 million Indians practise open defecation, which pollute land and water bodies that affect the health of millions of people. Arundhati Roy’s concern for the Meenachal river, whose water body is polluted by the ‘shit, and pesticides brought with world bank loans’. Kiran Desai’s criticism on the inability of the government in providing sanitation to the poor, who use railway tracks for defecation. Aravind Adiga’s severe attack on the rulers ignoring the river Ganga, which is filled with ‘feces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids’ are discussed in this paper. This paper explores how these Booker winning writers pro...
Women experience discrimination and unequal treatment in terms of basic right to food, health car... more Women experience discrimination and unequal treatment in terms of basic right to food, health care, education, employment, control over productive resources, decision-making and livelihood not because of their biological differences or sex, which is natural but because of their gender differences which is a social construct. This paper explores how Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, both the Booker winning Indian women writers deal with the women issues in their works, The God of Small Things and The Inheritance of Loss respectively. Wife beating and subjugation of women is one of the commonest themes in Indian writings in English. Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus defines oppression as "unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power; something that oppresses especially in being an unjust or excessive exercise of power; a sense of being weighed down in body or mind". Subjugation includes marital violence, wife beating, intimidation and abuse of women. Arundhati Roy and ...
Women experience discrimination and unequal treatment in terms of basic right to food, health car... more Women experience discrimination and unequal treatment in terms of basic right to food, health care, education, employment, control over productive resources, decision-making and livelihood not because of their biological differences or sex, which is natural but because of their gender differences which is a social construct. This paper explores how Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, both the Booker winning Indian women writers deal with the women issues in their works, The God of Small Things and The Inheritance of Loss respectively.
Novelists are the chroniclers of the contemporary society. They write on the contemporary issues ... more Novelists are the chroniclers of the contemporary society. They write on the contemporary issues and create awareness among the readers. Now environmental pollution pose a great threat to human. In India 6.2 lakh people died of pollution problem in 2013, which is six-fold jump from one lakh in ten years back. 620 million Indians practise open defecation, which pollute land and water bodies that affect the health of millions of people. Arundhati Roy's concern for the Meenachal river, whose water body is polluted by the 'shit, and pesticides brought with world bank loans'. Kiran Desai's criticism on the inability of the government in providing sanitation to the poor, who use railway tracks for defecation. Aravind Adiga's severe attack on the rulers ignoring the river Ganga, which is filled with 'feces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids' are discussed in this paper. This paper explores how these Booker winning writers proved their social concern by dealing with the issue of environmental pollution in India.
Kiran Desai’s Booker winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss is set in mid 1980s against the backd... more Kiran Desai’s Booker winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss is set in mid 1980s against the backdrop of this violent agitation and insurgency of GNLF (Gorkha National Liberation Front). Even though the Gorkhas possess great qualities like courage and resilience, they were negatively picturised in this novel, and there was a book burning threatening for it’s "condescending statements" and portraying Indians of Nepalese descent as criminals. "Really the book is just an outsider's view of Kalimpong and the events that took place here," says Bharat Mani Pradhan, a social worker in Kalimpong. This paper traces the root and causes for the insurgency and how these ‘constitutionally tortured’ are depicted in the Booker winning literary work.
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Conference Presentations by Mohamed Rafiq
Papers by Mohamed Rafiq