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His background as a successful entrepreneur, and his advantage as an outsider looking in and as an insider working within the system, gives him a unique perspective from which to analyze issues with a fresh and unbiased focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving been raised in India and subsequently spent much of his professional life in the West; George has now come full circle, returning to his roots with the knowledge gained from a multicultural upbringing. His attempt in socioeconomic reform is documented here in a series of interwoven essays that contradict the generally held assumption that rural poverty in India is beyond redemption. The book addresses several key issues: education, economic development, Social justice, health care, environment, free press, art and culture, and ethics. George makes the compelling argument and demonstrates through his social work that only by embracing new ideas that are a departure from the traditional ways can the problems of poverty and social inequality be effectively addressed in India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia cannot go on much longer the way it has been, ignoring the plight of millions of poor people, if peace and tranquility are to prevail. A free and democratic India offers great promise, but only if it can mobilize its human resources to work as one people for the common good. It must turn despair into hope and promises into reality. 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The essays in this volume seek to explore the genre of the short story in India and its relationship with English language and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVarious aspects of the problem are explored: the impact of colonialism on the Indian short story; the way English has shaped short story writing in India; why, how and in what contexts English words are used; feminist perspectives in the works of writes such as Ambai and Mahasweta Devi; the Indian diaspora; the teaching of the short story to Indian students and so on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from papers presented at a national seminar, English and the Indian Short Story, held in 1994 at the department of English, university of Hyderabad, this book is a welcome addition to the body of material on literature in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Writing, My Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Malayalam Short Story-Evolution, Influences, original Perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Perennial Popularity of R K Narayan: An Analysis of Father's Help\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen East is West: A Thematic and Stylistic Analysis of Bharati Mukherjee's the Middleman and Other Stories \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Immigrant Sensibility in Bharati Mukherjee's the Middleman And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndian Englishes and the Indian Short Story in English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanguage Dialectic and Fakir Mohan's Rhetoric of Progress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish in the Telugu Short Story: Some Observations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProblems in Translating Sati Savitri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish and the Country Short Story in India: A Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Other Voices: Mahasweta Devi's Short Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMale Culture, Female Strategies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheated and Exploited: Women in Kamala Das's Short Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEn-Gendering Narratives: a Reading of Black Horse Square\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudent Responses to an Intermediate Text: A Case Study\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Short Story: Towards a Location chart \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Mohan Ramanan \/ Orient Longman \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776326086825,"sku":"14046","price":28.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/14046_7eb8cf76-4a30-49ab-98e4-6c8e3603f777.jpg?v=1625524739"},{"product_id":"14091-the-politics-of-indians-english-linguistic-colonialism-and-the-expanding-english-empire","title":"The Politics of Indians' English - Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: N Krishnaswamy\u003cbr\u003eArchana S Burde\/\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2010\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 204\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195669797\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of English in India is inextricably entangled in the politics of empire and the struggle for identity, but flourishes in the modern world of mass communications and globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating and lively study, Krishnaswamy and Burde examine how the language has changed-and is still changing -over the last two centuries. 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He was Deputy Director of the Indo-American Centre for International Studies (formerly ASRC) in 2001 and a regular columnist for the Kuala Lumpur newspaper The New Straits times for over ten years, publishing several articles on Indian Letters there. 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