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So today I'm to write about my Thinking Activity as part of sunday reading which is given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. So click here to read the task.

Indian politician, writer and a former international diplomat. who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.He also serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology and All India Professionals Congress. Tharoor has been a columnist in each of India's three best-known English-language newspapers, most recently for The Hindu (2001–2008) and in a weekly column, "Shashi on Sunday," in the Times of India (January 2007 – December 2008). Born in London, UK, and raised in India, Tharoor graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. At the age of 22, he was the youngest person at the time to receive such an honor from the Fletcher School. So it's a short information about him....let's move on to the next level which is a task.
His speeches on videos are :-
1. Speech at Oxford Union.
2. Looking back at the British Raj in India: The University of Edinburgh.
3. Exclusive interview by Karan Thapar On His book "An Era of Darkness."
4. About British Colonialism in India in His New Book ' An Era of Darkness'.
An era of Darkness:-
During an era of darkness he mostly used to argument to established about British colonial rites whose violence experience for Indian society contains 333 pages.
He give two types of recently writing:-
1. One is the contemporary scholarship on the field cause he said he was not by professional historian that they had been doing...so, he had read Academic journals, books which shows the states of the thinking today by historian, sociologist and others of this issue.
2. Also read upon the lots of contemporary apologies for empire.
Tharoor further adds that .... people like Lawrence James and more - the bunch about the British writers who actually acquired a fair amount of visibility & even has a best sellers in which they had conducted self justifying, excersises, glorifying empire or of the very least portray through Rose Tincture recipe.
And in this book he wanted to be able to take their claims which had dangerously gone without reputation for some years and conform that had on which is Shashi Tharoor try to do in this book.
● Then another point he talks upon that ....he himself not agtag or imppsimpos to prove that ..." British had never come to India, then India would be the affluent country.
● He further added that ...he demonstrated in this book that 3 Industries of India which doing very well.
He write about Nationalism and difference between nationalism and patriotism then and now also.
Tharoor says that in Nationalism in that day is an inclusive Nationalism. It embrassesed in everybody's country in any background, religion, language, cast...
Today's Nationalism is narrow minded one.
2. Write critique on both the films with reference to Postcolonial insights.
'The Black Prince' successfully makes an aware of some determinant historical events of the past.
THE BLACK PRINCE The Black Prince is a 2017 international historical drama film directed by Kavi Raz and featuring the acting debut of Satinder Sartaj. It tells the story of Duldeep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and the Punjab area, and his relationship with Queen Victoria. Here the POSTCOLINIALISM their with Protagonist character. Here the situation with main character is that he is between in INDIAN BIRTH and BRITISH EDUCATION. After the death of his father Maharajah Ranjit Singh who was the previous ruler of the Sikh Empire. And after his death , Duldeep Singh placed on the throne at the very early of five age. After the time passed Britishers who colonized Punjab and they take Duldeep with them and separated from his mother. Duldeep is consider as Britisher but actually he is not by his mind by his heart. After the few years he meet his mother and his mother told him the story about Britishers that what they did with him in the prior. Then after the death of his mother , he came to know that who is he and which country he is actually belong. He want to go at India but Britishers who deny him to go there.
So in a way, he found himself in dilemma that what should he do?
So, with Postcolonial perspective Duldeep Singh himself free to live with Britishers but he is colonized by his mind. That he didn't do anything according to his own perspective or mind . He always colonized by that British people who always wants to kept him with under their rules and regulations.
3. Summaries Ngugi WA Thiongo's views :-
Ngugi Wa Thiongo who was an African Writer & Professor of English Literature and language in Africa.
" Decolonizing the Mind" the book by Kenyan novelist and Postcolonial theorist Ngugi WA Thiongo. It is the collection of essay about language & its constructive role in national culture, history and identity.
In this book he talks about..." What language played the role in African Literature?"
So in the Postcolonialism , Resistance is very important , Resistance is the main buzz word in post colonial. So he said that the another form of to resist language is to
own it or discard the language totally.
Another word Imperialism continues to control the economic politics and cultural of Africa. African society struggle a lot for liberate their economy, politics and culture. We know that Africa still living as obviously economic and political despite. In Africa mostly people speak in English, french, Portuguese. Here Ngugi , the detrimental impact of colonization.
So ,in a way African Literature resist a lot in this idea.
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