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Nov 11, 2017 · Mother India – 2017. Mother India remains the classic mother in Indian cinema because it literally celebrated the traditional motif of Indian womanhood in a very different context. The symbol, the moral force of the nation, is shown suffering in independent India, but emerges triumphant in the end as a new kind of ideal Radha establishes it ...
May 31, 2021 · The decades of peripheral representation of women in the backdrop of a village was now replaced with the backdrop of an urban, cosmopolitan culture of ‘global India’. Moreover, as Sharpe notes, the symbolic identification of a woman with the nation remained unscathed, only tailored in a transnational setting, to cater to the escalating Indian diaspora.
Mar 9, 2021 · If we compare Mother India with Fearless Nadia, while both stood for justice and were in service of the nation, Nadia had much more agency and sexual freedom. In the 1960s, social films are replaced by action and romance films. What is significant in the 1960s is the emergence of a binarized femininity: the good woman/bad woman or Sita/Gita.
Mar 11, 2022 · It is worth noting that in its landmark judgment in the case of Githa Hariharan vs. Reserve Bank of India (1999) the Supreme Court observed that the word ‘after’ should be interpreted as ‘in the absence of’, to include the cases of functional absence of the father, as opposed to limited interpretation of death of the father. However, even with this judicial interpretation, the scheme of preference continues to remain, that is, in a case, where both mother and father are physically ...
Aug 23, 2023 · India came out in 1947 as a secular nation which means that – at least in theory – India is on the side of religious tolerance. Pakistan, on the other hand, is a theocratic state. Since ‘India’ is an ancient term and ‘Pakistan’ is a recent one, it is also difficult for Pakistan to dispute the notion that it was ‘carved out of India’ though both nation- states came into existence together.
Mar 6, 2020 · There is the same sadness on the face of Mother India, Daggers are free to plunge into bosoms, Death is free to drift upon corpses. And Majaz said quietly: All these whose hands are dripping with blood, They were the very messiahs, the Khizrs. From across the border Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi informed us that all was not well there, either:
Aug 1, 2019 · Bharat Mata, Mother India, [is] essentially these millions of people, and victory to her [is] victory to these people.’ Edited by Purushottam Agrawal, ”’Who is Bharat Mata?’: On History, Culture and the Idea of India” is a collection of writings and speeches by and on Nehru. It shows us the mind—the ideology, born of experience ...
Jan 10, 2018 · Mother India | Source: Title page of Kusuma Dharmanna’s Nalladoratanamu (Rajahmundry, 1923 | Note : In this powerful and popular iconic image, which represents untouchables) and in another, she holds the scales of justice which are not levelled,indicating inequality; next to it are the words, Swarajyame Samanathwamumdash: Equality is Independence.
Jun 27, 2023 · The mother goddess, by contrast, does not usually succeed in committing incest with her son; the son, however, may initiate an erotic liaison with the mother. This inequality also extends to the problem of love in separation, in which the woman’s longing is greater than the man’s, just as the worshiper’s longing for the god is greater than the god’s longing for the worshiper.
May 29, 2021 · Elisabeth Armstrong’s Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and its Strategies of Resistance describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. The following are excerpts from the Introduction and chapter “Origins” of the book.
