Essays on Hindi

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

Introduction

Cinema in India is a very powerful tool that has succeeded in influencing the minds and image formation of the viewers all across the country. Although the films are made in several Indian languages targeting several viewers across the populace, it is important to note that it is only films made in Hindi have appropriated the label of the Indian cinema. In spite of a large amount of critical work that has been produced on Indian cinema in the last decades since independence, there are several misconceptions that still abound about Indian cinema. This essay is going to critically ...

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Jagte Raho is a black and white film which describes the lifestyle of a villager who had travelled in an urban city full of evil acts. The film takes place over one long, bizarre night in a block apartment in the midst of the city. Raj Kapoor, a thirty villager, was seeking for water to quench his thirst. When heading to the direction with piped water in an apartment, he is hastily spotted and suspected of being a burglar. The accusations makes the villager run dearly for his life and hide in the safest apartments. In the process, Kapoor ...

Many critics called the film Sholay (1975) directed by Ramesh Sippy the best film in the history of Bollywood, or the "Film of the Millennium". The critics praise it so much so that several critics insist that "innovation in Hindi films ends with Sholay and that everything after that is repetitious trash" (Banker 55). This picture is a mix of crime thriller with the elements of "Japanese samurai epics and American and Italian Westerns, most obviously The Magnificent Seven (which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai)" (Banker 55). The director involved a number of best Indian actors ...

Overview of Sufism

Sufism, simply put, is Islamic mysticism. Sufism is also popular by the name Tasawwuf in the Arab world. It is essentially a movement of the followers of Islam in pursuit of discovering celestial veracity and love by way of the direct encounters that they seek to have with God. Sufism evolved out of Islam, precisely between the 8th and 9th centuries C.E., in the form of a frugal movement. This ascetic movement was given the name Sufism due to the coarse wool garments that denotes their denunciation of worldly pleasures. Conventionally, the Sufis were also known to have taken ...

QUESTION 1: Why does Microsoft’s traditional strategy of “one-size-fits-all” not work well in emerging markets like India? What is different about these markets? How do customers differ both in their characteristics and in the way they use technology?

Microsoft employs a globalization strategy which entails the standardization of all products despite the market that it is targeting thus the “one-size-fits-all” tag, this strategy works on the premise that all markets have the same requirements thus the standardization.

However emerging markets such as India, China and Brazil have certain peculiarities that companies need to take into account before ...

Introduction: India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, eastern Vietnam, Malaya, Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Indonesian islands, Philippines and Taiwan are South East Asian countries, who are well known for their astounding theatrical activities. Countries in South Asia, are home to people of many races, and hundreds of different dialects. The cultural diversity is so immense, than those noticed in western countries. A great level of intermixing between cultures of different south Asian countries is another characteristic feature of these regions. For example, Singapore is a home to four major cultures: Chinese, Malays, Tamil and the English. Likewise countries like Pakistan, India, ...

Mohandus Ghandi

Ghandi is an international symbol of peace. His greatest influence was in Indian in the 1930s and 40s. Many Indian consider Ghandi the father of their nation, and changes he helped bring about give credence to that moniker. The two biggest changes Ghandi helped bring about were the end of British Rule in India and keeping the peace between India and Pakistan. Ghandi’s activism and influence led to the end of British Rule of India. Ghandi fought for Indian independence from Britain for nearly 20 years. His influence is felt early on when, after he leads the ...

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INDIA Language No official language—it is a misconception that majority of Indians speak Hindi. 59 percent of Indian population speak something other than Hindi, including Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu (Lipner, 1994).

Religion

It is where Hinduism and Buddhism originated. 84 percent of the Indian population practice Hinduism

The leading sects of Hinduism are the Shakteya, Vaishnava, Smarta, and Shaiva

Food Indian cuisine is influenced by many other countries. It is well-known for the large variety of dishes and its wide use of herbs and spices. The staples of Indian cuisine include wheat, Basmati rice, as well as pulses with chana Curries and ...

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India

India is one of the largest countries in the world with a surface are of 3,287,263 square kilometers. It is located in South-central Asia. India is bounded in the southwest by the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in the southeast. In the north, India is bounded by China, Bhutan and Nepal. South of India is the Indian Ocean. Other nations to the south of India are Maldives, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. In the east, the nations that bound India are Burma and Bangladesh while on the west, India is bounded by Pakistan. India boasts ...

Introduction

Bollywood Abroad: South Asian Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Indian Cinema by Jigna Desai is an essay which has as its motive the need to demonstrate the importance of cinema in forming a Diaspora (South Asian) in Britain and America (Desai, 2006). Although this is the case, the film takes a feministic approach. Desai’s analysis is based on aspects such as circulation, production and reception of films from the Diaspora from which Desai theorizes sexual, gender and the racial mechanisms through which the Diaspora was formed. In essence, Desai’s research on how Bollywood was globalized covers the rise of Bollywood dating ...

Indian’s populist film industry, known often by its colloquial term Bollywood, often uses song and dance not only as a work of spectacle within the body of the film, but as a way to significantly discuss the narrative and characters of the film itself. Songs and dance sequences provide opportunities for the characters to explore their jubilation, sorrow or consternation, among a plethora of other emotions, and offered significant platforms for the stardom of Indian film stars, who would often also be significant presences in the film and culture scene in India. One of the most significant Bollywood film stars of ...

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(Institute Affiliation) The Oxford English Dictionary defines Bollywood as, “a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Mumbai (Bombay).” (Simpson and Weiner, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom; 1989) The term was coined in the 1970’s as is a portmanteau of the words Hollywood and Bombay (name changed to Mumbai). The history of Bollywood is believed to date back to 1913 but Pamela Hutchinson in her article The Birth of India’s Film Industry: How the Movies Came to Mumbai states that it was Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdedar, a local photographer of Mumbai, who shot the first ...

Executive Summary

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In hindsight, it would be difficult to assume that one has understood the culture of a country like India. Given its size and multiple religious beliefs and practices, India continues to puzzle many. In order to evaluate a country’s culture, one has to understand the country’s history, resources, governance, and composition. India is a big country in terms of size and population. It is also too diverse in its races. Historically, India suffered from internal bickering. The country was once a rich, prosperous country and Alexander the Great wanted to conquer it for its riches. It was because of the valiant ...

GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: exploring heterosexuality in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and queerness in Dostana (2008)

Introduction

In India’s populist film industry, mostly known as Bollywood, male sexual friendships and depictions are still fairly new. usually, the female is the primary focus of lust and sexual attention (resulting in an extremely male gaze), but since the arrival of handsome, chiseled actors like Amitebh Bachchan in the 1990s this has started to change. The concepts of yaar and yaari now play an important role in the fabric of Bollywood buddy comedies; the yaari is a kind of relationship that ...

What is Dharma and how does it show up specifically in the Ramayana?

Hinduism forms a way of life, a Dharma. The term “Dharma” has been derived from the Sanskrit word “dhri” which stands for “to hold together”. The individuals who profess the Dharma of the Hindus and seek to follow it are guided by social, spiritual, moral and social rules, knowledge, actions and duties which are integral in binding the human race together. The word Dharma does not stand for religion; it is basically the law that is capable of governing all actions. The Dharma in the Hindu religion is known by several other names such as Vedic Dharma and Sanatan Dharma. The ...

- Secularism in India vs. United States With approximately 15% of the world’s population living in India, the definition of India as a polity might be challenging. India has avoided the tricky part of religious and secularism that has characterized the United States. In the United States, there is a clear demarcation of the state and religion. Contrary to popular opinion, the United States is not a Christian state. However, right wing political activists have always sired the idea of Christian values thus undermining the freedom of religion. The persecution of Muslims after 9/11, the rise of tea party movement ...

What is Bollywood and Hollywood?

Bollywood and Hollywood both have many similarities and differences in regards to their portrayal of romance in film. The term “Bollywood” is defined as, “films produced by the Mumbai film industry, primarily in the Hindi language, distributed across the normal commercial film circuits of northern India, and containing song and dance item numbers as an integral part of the plot.” (Brief History). Hollywood film is defined as, “the cinema of the United States since the early 20th century.” (Brief History).

Nationalism

Bollywood differs from Hollywood because it incorporates three different characteristics: nationality, censorship, and music(Brief History). These three concepts ...

Introduction

Sathya Sai Baba was born on 23 November 1926 and was named Sathya Narayana Raju. He is a famous yet controversial guru in India having numerous followers and groups in countries around the world. He claimed in his teen age that fakir Shirdi actual “Sai Baba” was reincarnated in him. On this basis he renamed himself as Sai Baba. He further claimed to be omnipotent and omniscience in subsequent years. In his influential regions he was known to have manifested holy ash and other little objects like watches and rings which he claimed to materialize from nothing. His followers still ...

Introduction

It’s true that there are hundreds of languages being used around the world. It is true, too, that in every language there can be just as many dialects, each language and each dialect distinct from each other. Although some languages may share a certain resemblance with each other or may have originated from the same language, it can still be said that no two languages are exactly the same. However, despite this unique quality of languages, the writer still believes that language – or how a person speaks – is not enough of a basis to be able to tell someone who they ...

A Hindu View of Nonviolence

1. Summarize the central themes, theses, issues, or arguments of the reading assignment. In the chapter Ahimsa and the Unity of All Things: A Hindu View of Nonviolence, the authors Shastri & Shastri (2000) discussed the concept of ahimsa in the Hindu context where ahimsa is taken to mean nonviolence, although its true meaning is really more widely encompassing as it is an ethical, religious, and philosophical concept that connotes a number of relevant things. For simplicity, ahimsa can be described as the opposite of any act that may be akin to violence. They noted, however, that Hindi teachings ...

One can find many parallels in the origins and evolution of Urdu and Bengali. As two prominent members of the Indo-Iranian language group, both exhibit similarities in phonology, morphology and syntax and share a linguistic ancestry rooted in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. As such, it is not surprising to find that both emerged at approximately the same time period (circa 1100 A.D.) in the Indian sub-continent. Yet despite some notable technical and historic similarities, Urdu and Bengali managed to grow as distinct and different branches of the Indo-Iranian family tree. In part a linguistic expression of Mughal expansionism and military power, ...

One can find many parallels in the origins and evolution of Urdu and Bengali. As two prominent members of the Indo-Iranian language group, both exhibit similarities in phonology, morphology and syntax and share a linguistic ancestry rooted in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. As such, it is not surprising to find that both emerged at approximately the same time period (circa 1100 A.D.) in the Indian sub-continent. Yet despite some notable technical and historic similarities, Urdu and Bengali managed to grow as distinct and different branches of the Indo-Iranian family tree. In part a linguistic expression of Mughal expansionism and military power, ...

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Introduction

Globalization is a new buzz word which has taken the entire world by storm since the nineties. The term was initially used to signify the breaking of the Soviet Union and the end of cold war; suggesting the beginning of a new era of global trend. It also means unifying the economic resources across the globe which may include tariffs, import quotas as well as trading fees. Sometimes the term “globalization” is used interchangeably with “economic globalization”. Although, this term basically refers to integrating the foreign investments, capital flows, military presence and the availability of technology; it may also ...