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Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age

For Original click the link below: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/gandhi-for-the-post-truth-age?mbid=social_facebook Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age The icon’s legacy is no longer secure, but he anticipated much about our current political moment. By Pankaj Mishra Inequality, Gandhi believed, left Western democracies open to totalitarianism. In 2015, in South Africa,

Rasa Theory

Niyati Pathak According to Dimock Indian Poetics may be appropriated for Indian Literature. He believes ‘Sanskrit critics have taxonomic approach to the psychology of emotions’. The ‘taxonomic’ involves to more from the ‘personal’ to ‘transpersonal’. There is a highly particular level. It is the level of interpersonal aesthetic delight. “An exhibition and enjoyment that is more like

John Donne

BY: Niyati Pathank John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572, during a strong anti-Catholic period in England. Donne’s father, also named John, was a prosperous London merchant. His mother, Elizabeth Heywood, was the grand-niece of Catholic martyr Thomas More. Religion would play a tumultuous and passionate role in John’s life. CITATION bio \l 16393

Litearture: Chronology of Elizabethan Age

Litearture: Chronology of Elizabethan Age Compiled by: Niyati Pathak INTRODUCTION:- Historians have divided English literature into periods for convenience. The numbers, dates or the names of the periods sometimes vary. The following list follows the prevalent practice of listing: 450-1066 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period  (From the invasion of the Celtic England by Germanic tribes to

General Characteristics: Age of Chaucer

Source: https://niyatipathak.blogspot.com/2018/09/age-of-chaucer-1340-1400.html Age of Chaucer (1340-1400) By: Niyati Pathak General Characteristics of the Age: ·         The first significant period in the literary history of English literature. ·         Marks new era of new learning. ·         Chaucer’s age was the turbulent period – social, political, and religious challenges. ·