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1 day ago · The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri. Published in 2003, Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’ is a poignant exploration of the immigrant experience, identity, and the clash of cultures. ... Best Quotes ...
3 days ago · Lahiri quotes painter Richard Baker, who says that books “come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin” (55 ...
4 days ago · Then there’s language, most obviously; moving to Italy with her family over a decade ago, Lahiri abandoned English and dived into her passion for Italian, writing short stories, essays, translations, poetry, a memoir of sorts and even a novel entirely in her newly adopted language, in a sort of literary and linguistic departure rarely witnessed in modern literature.
1 day ago · 15th August Independence Day Lines and Quotes from Freedom Fighters. “We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”. Rabindranath Tagore. “Satyameva Jayate” Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya ...
4 days ago · Jhumpa Lahiri and the things left unsaid Siddharth Dasgupta In the celebrated writer’s short story collection, human brittleness and the everydayness of identity play out in quiet episodes beneath the crumbling gaze of the Eternal City.
3 days ago · Perhaps the most famous Shakespeare quote, the anguished Hamlet ponders the purpose of life and suicide in this profound soliloquy. 02. of 10. 'All's Well That Ends Well,' 1:2. "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." This bit of simple wisdom, beloved to many throughout the ages, was spoken by the Countess of Roussillon to her son, as he ...
2 days ago · —Margaret Mitchell Mammy: is Scarlett's nurse. A slave, she originally was owned by Scarlett's grandmother and raised her mother, Ellen O'Hara. Mammy is "head woman of the plantation". Pork: is Gerald O'Hara's valet and his first slave. He won Pork in a game of poker (as he did the plantation Tara, in a separate poker game). When Gerald died, Scarlett gave his pocket watch to Pork. She offered to have the watch engraved, but Pork declined the offer. Dilcey: is Pork's wife and an enslaved ...
