Yesterday a post on instagram caught my attention. It hypothized that mostly western cultures believed that there should be a purpose for life, also some indigenous cultures believe we are alive just as the nature, it said that we don’t need to achieve anything to be valid in our humannness. Even if this sentence with…
OVERVIEW OF THE PARTS OF THE GREAT INDIAN PHONE BOOK INRODUCTION: The starting of the book is extremely dramatized and displays how it would have been done in the Film industry. There were mentions made to how our fantasies were converted into reality by making the poor communicate with the rich. There is a smart comparison…
INTRODUCTION ‘The Great Indian Phone book’ by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey is a well-rounded book that shows journalistic immediacy combined with years of research and thorough field work. The book is divided into three parts, connecting , controlling and consuming. It sheds light on the bureaucrats and capitalists power struggle and their fight for bandwidth rights,…
Astrology is a pseudoscience that causes divine data about human issues and earthbound occasions by examining the developments and relative places of heavenly items. astrologer has been dated to at any rate the second thousand years BCE, and has its underlying foundations in calendrical frameworks used to foresee occasional movements and to decipher heavenly cycles…
The best piece of the book is the treatment of the characters. Every one of them has their very own voice. Their uncovering their perspective makes it simple for the perusers to comprehend the inspirations driving their activities. Authenticity originates from the way that no one is appeared to be impeccable. Everyone comes in various…
Point of fact, a partition is one of the darkest periods ever of Indian History. When outskirts were redrawn, many individuals were removed from houses that they had been living in for the past numerous ages. Countless individuals lost their lives in the fallout of the meaningless brutishness that pursued. Men were butchered, ladies were…
Death feels easier than actually living because death takes no effort and it is inevitable. Life however is complex, challenging, at times a struggle. Living takes energy and motivation, and especially living a meaningful life is hard because of our different perceptions of a meaningful life. It is however you see yourself happy and fulfilled…
PARTITION AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE One of the main themes of the book is partition, and the complex socio-political scenario that resulted from it. the partition was carried out in 1947, and the book roughly traces the journey from the early 1940s to the late 1940s. the countries were supposed to be divided on the basis…
‘Embedded in the heart of Punjab, they had felt secure, inviolate. And to uproot themselves from the soil of their ancestors had seemed to them to tearing themselves, like ancient trees from the earth.’ (209) Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani American novelist. She has been acclaimed as Pakistan’s finest contemporary novelist. In her book, ‘Cracking…
PART 1-CONTROLLING The first part starts off by giving an introduction to how the book will cover subversion and spying and also talk about governments and capitalism. It then makes a statement which aptly describes how human behaviour is highly influenceable by saying that the main crux of the book is how ordinary people’s lives…
