How do we see and cognize things? Do we income the denotation of things or do we scrutinize and sluice it with perception and emotion before we process its meaning? The way we see things depends upon our area of knowledge and the way we understand things depends upon our ways of knowing. These both later combine to show if the meaning is an emotional concept or just reasoning. If I were to analyze a particle of iron, in chemistry class, I would find out its physical and chemical properties. In language
India 's way of life is among the world 's most established; progress in India started around 4,500 years back. Numerous sources portray it as "Sa Prathama Sanskrati Vishvavara" — the first and the incomparable society on the planet, as per the All World Gayatri Pariwar (AWGP) association. Western social orders did not generally see the way of life of India positively, as indicated by Christina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London. Early anthropologists once considered
Ranchi the former summer capital of Bihar, and now the capital of Jharkhand is one of the most popular tourist destinations in India. It is a beautiful city that is complete with nature. Plus, it is also an upcoming city that is rapidly getting modernized. Visit the city to explore and experience India at its purest form. For accommodations choose from the hotels near Ranchi Railway Station. Body: Ranchi is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Before being the capital of the state, the
The Ghazal in Cinema The Hindi film music not only offered a new space to Urdu poetry, ensured its per formative presence in the cultural landscape and bring up its heritage but also transformed it in the process, keeping it in tune with the cultural environment in India. Hindi film music provides refuge to Urdu poetry in many different ways .Here ,we look at some of these : the utilisation of Urdu poems, both classical and contemporary ,in Hindi cinema ;the incorporation of Urdu poetic idioms
‘Why do Bollywood movies mix Hindi and English’ is a question that I have been asked by my foreigner friends over and over again. It comes to them as a surprise when I reply. ‘It is the normal way people talk in India’. Today, English is generally accepted as being the ‘lingua franca’ of the modern world. This phrase refers to the adoption of English as the ‘bridging’ language among communities to facilitate communication amidst people who do not speak the same language or dialect- making it the
The Adhunik Kal or modern period in Hindi poetry began in the middle of the nineteenth century. This period is of particular interest to scholars because it was from this time onwards that the Hindi poetry saw a change in the language as well as the themes. The standard Hindi dialect and khadi boli came to be used rather than braj bhasha. This was also the beginning of the incorporation of the element of realism in the Hindi poetry, which previously revolved around mythological, spiritual and religious
The aim of this essay is to trace the changing representations of female sexuality in popular Hindi cinema or Bollywood, through a reading of films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(1998), Jism(2003), Ishaqzaade(2012) and Gangs of Wasseypur, Part I(2012) that were released in and around the first decade of the twenty first century. Through these visual texts, the esssay intends to examine how in popular Hindi films the depictions of heterosexual love, desire and the act of lovemaking or sex till date continue
arrival of film in India and how several factors have had an influence on the Bollywood industry, the paper will now explore the pact of Hindi films in India. Through commercialization, Bollywood reinforces the idea of the importance of materialism. Throughout a film, objects are constantly being presented in some form of product placement. Rather than entertainment, Hindi films are now being used as a means for advertisement and marketing. By constantly showing films in which an actor is riding an expensive
Hindi Swaraj is a book written by Gandhi saying about what he thinks that must be done to free India or in other words what is the solution to the problem of British rule or analysing whether it is really a problem. It is a small book of about 30,000 words written in Gujarati, in November 1909, on board the ship during Gandhi's return trip from England to South Africa. Gandhi quoted: "I wrote the entire Hind Swaraj for my dear friend Dr. Pranjivan Mehta. All the argument in the book is reproduced
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION 1.1. YOGA “Yoga is skill in action, yoga is a balance (samatya), Yoga is known as the disconnection (viyoga) of the connection (samyoga) with suffering” Bhagavad – Gita Yoga is the science of right living and as such is intended to be incorporated in daily life, It works on all aspects of the person, the physical, vital, emotional, psychic and spiritual
“I walk through the valley of the shadow of death… Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life.” (Psalm 23).The fear of power controlled by this country’s leaders may have twisted into a conspiracy, and one in specific believes Satan manipulates those in high government positions. Producers of the video implicate government’s involvement is responsible for many catastrophic events around world, which correlate to religious wars. “I Pet Goat ii” is a short film created by
The term ‘Bollywood’ represents the Hindi Film Industry. The initial Hindi films in Bollywood were black and white, which means that there were no colourful movies, like we see them today. Then the trend changed and the coloured movies were also being made. Those trends changed and they are changed even now because of the ‘need of hour’. It was the need of the hour to change the movies from black and white to coloured movies. Similarly, in the initial films, the movies were actors centric and now
and that to compare Hindi films to those of the West, or the Indian ‘art’ cinema is irrelevant’ (Thomas, 1985). In comparison to much of Western Cinema, Hindi films have much more hyperbolic narratives, hyper-stylised and exaggerated acting mixed with overblown dialogue and tend to show disregard for characterisation, history, geography and occasionally camera placement. The format in which all these features conjoin is known affectionately as ‘Masala’ and considered by Hindi filmmakers as a genre
Bollywood which may at times be referred to as Hindi films or masala films. In this paper I will be discussing how western influences are existent in film advertisement, film settings and brand placement in Hindi films and how these influence have all attributed to the westernization of Bollywood films. In order to understand how these three factors have attributed to the westernization of Bollywood films, I will provide historical background on India and Hindi films. Then I will provide information
There are many diverse linguistic groups in India prior to the colonial time. According to the 1991 census, a total of 114 languages are identified by the abstraction of 1576 mother tongues into different classification (Annamalai, 610). The language Hindi has the largest number of mother tongues, and it is one of the India’s fifteen major indigenous languages such as Urdu, Bengali (Annamalai, 610). During and after the colonial time, how did English language gain and remain its status in an enormous
Amrita Pritam (born 31 August 1919) is a household name in the Punjab, being the first most prominent woman Punjabi poet and fiction writer. After partition she made Delhi her second home. She was the first woman recipient of th Sahitya Akademi Award, the first Punjabi woman to receive the Padma Shree from the President of India in 1969. Though critical of the socialist camp, her works were translated in all the east European languages including French, Japanese and Danish. Mehfil, a quarterly from
is recently entered into the Oxford dictionary which means ‘win’. It is more popular and used in Oscar Award winning Indian movie ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ Jungle means an area of dense vegetation and hostile environment. It actually derives from the Hindi word jangal meaning a forest. Khaki: It was taken from Urdu and Persian language. It means dusty or dust colored dress. Kumkum: It is also called as Kumkuma. It is a powder used for social and religious marking in India. It is an Indian term which
Sipahr, the affirms that the dialect is talked all around in and around Delhi from times immemorial. Correspondingly, he says Hindi or Hindvi, while alluding to his and Mas'ud Sa'd Salman's divans in Gharat-ul-Kamal. Bajan additionally joins Khusrau additionally eludes to Delhi's own dialect as Dehlavi. It can be securely gathered that his Dehlavi is Khari Boli yet Hindi-Hindvi incorporate Khari Boli and Braj Bhasha as well as that all inclusive discourse that Waji calls, 'Zaban-e-Hindustan' in his
different languages - Punjabi, English, Hindi, and Arabic. The first languages I learnt to speak, almost the first words I said in each language. Do I still know all of them? Have I lost some of them? Are there more I’ve learned and acquired? Born in Dubai, raised in Dubai for seven years, the rest in the United States. I lived in a one bedroom apartment with a total of nine Hindi/Punjabi speaking people. I was surrounded by apartments with English, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Tamil, Spanish, and Gujarati
Muskan Agarwal Suffering My aunt was born deaf in India. At that time, there was a stigma related to deafness. In my aunt’s community, people tended to believe the deafness and muteness were associated with intellectual disability. So, people of the community thought that she would be incapable of doing well in any aspect of her life. Such beliefs worried my grandparents. They tried to find schools with accommodations for deaf children, but they weren’t able to. So, they decided to move to another