Richard Attenborough's Gandhi : Salman Rushdie
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Name : Solanki Pratiksha M. Roll No : 21
Paper : 11. The Postcolonial Literature
Sem : 3. (2014-2015) Enrolment No. PG13101032
Subject : Richard Attenborough's Gandhi : Salman Rushdie
Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Dept. of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University [email protected]
Richard AttenboroughRichard Samuel Attenborough was an
English actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Born: August 29, 1923. Cambridge, United Kingdom
Died: August 24, 2014.Awards: Academy Award for Best
Picture.. etc..
Imaginary Homelands : Salman Rushdie
" Imaginary Homelands is an important and moving record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey.."
Published: 1991 Collection of
essays. Variety of topics. Intellectual
Imaginary Homelands Quotes " It may be argued that the past is a country
from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.."
( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 )
"Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” ( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 )
"Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”
( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Change the history
of his country..Born: October 2,
1869 Porbandar.Assassinated:
January 30, 1948, New Delhi
Awards: Time's Person of the Year
Attenborough's Gandhi
Might be..Viewing Gandhi as a spiritual
mystical person.. Termed The Christian
Longing.. Follows the footsteps of
other pop holy men.
Attenborough
Great soul..little father..The pantheon of
latter-day Gods..
but.. Why should an Englishman want to deify
Gandhi..?
The Amritsar Massacre : Most Powerful sequence in the film..
CruelIndividualComplete falsehood. " The film is a biography, not a
political work.." The brahmacharya experiments.
Gandhi to be..
Dedicated to simple life. Full confidence. Dedicated to self-denial.