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KABULIWALA STORY REVIEW AUTHOR:- RABINDRANATH TAGORE This immensely popular short story is a gem in Indian literature. The present era is witnessing strife, a clash among cultures, castes, creed, and countries. In this age innocence and genuineness have gone with the wind. This is the time when the one does not trust another, such an immortal story like 'Kabuliwala' ushers in an unbelievable freshness and fills our mind with empathy and magnanimity. There is the affectionate attachment, the ageless bond of love between a father and a daughter. this perennial, tender relationship is depicted in the story. The master story-teller has penned a saga of a wonderful, incredible attachment between a middle-aged afghani man and a chirpy five-year-old Bengali girl. The setting is typically Indian particularly Bengali. There is an educated, middle-class Bengali author who, through his imaginary wings flies around the globe. he visualizes mountains, streams, caravans, deserts, and a cotta...

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling.

 

"India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart" Director: Stalin K.  Cinematography: Stalin Kurup Nirmala Nair Sooraj Nambiar Anuradha Srinivasan Genre: Documentary   Edited by: Stalin K Nirmala Nair Release date: 14th April 2007 “India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart” is perhaps the most comprehensive look at Untouchability ever undertaken on film. Director Stalin K. spent four years traveling the length and breadth of the country to expose the continued oppression of "Dalits", the "broken people" who suffer under a 4000-year-old religious system. The film introduces leading Benares scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits "have no right" to education, and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that no Dalit may sit in their presence and that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities. The film captures many "firsts-on-film", such as Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles an...

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teachings and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” - Charles Dickens  One of Charles Dickens’s most famous works. It was published (as a novel in three volumes) in 1861. Great Expectations has generally termed a bildungsroman. Bildungsroman is a German word used for novels that portray the psychological development of the central character. But Great Expectations, like most of Charles Dickens’s novels, does not conform to any one genre. It is a tale of love and passion; a mystery story with several twists; a narrative that functions as serious social commentary. The novel is rooted in the social realities of Dickens’s times. Great Expectations depicts the differences between the classes, and how money can corrupt. The novel makes clear that money cannot buy love, nor does it guarantee happiness. One of the happiest—and most morally correct—people in the n...