Shashi tharoor

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Welcome to my blog. This is about famous author Shashi Tharoor. 

He was the Indian politician, writer and a former international diplomat. And also he is an acclaimed writer having authored 18 bestselling works of fiction and non- fiction. Who is currently serving as member of parliament, Lok Sabha  from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala since 2009. In this year he won the very famous Sahitya Akademi award for 2019. This award goes to his famous creatively non-fiction work " An Era of Darkness ".

In this blog we listen to the interview of Shashi tharoor and then write down our likes and  dislikes. (Click here to watch interviews )

This work is published in 2017.  This is written in a post colonial context. How the British empire is ruled on Indian people. And also the thing is how they make a disastrous effect on in Indian Economy. In his interview we find that many arguments that I like the most. 

• Indian Economy :

Through the interview we got the information about the economic percentage of India.  In the time period 1600 when Britishers came to India and at that time India's GDP was twenty three percent. When they left India and  at that time GDP was only three percent. That showed us how they lumbered the indian. Another thing is that Britisher increase their percentage. As we know that ancient India is known as "sone ki Chirya" the golden sparrow. They bring everything from India and increase their wealth.

English language :

How English language came in india. Through the Britishers, right. Britishers who speak in English language and that is the gifted language by them. Shashi Tharoor argued that the credit of this english language does not go to the Britishers but the Indians. Because they took a English as a language for their work.

Development of Railway in India :

Another argument is that Indian railway's credit goes to the Britishers and in which we don't find any colonial aspects. But Shashi Tharoor said that the Indian Railways are the big colonial stamp.  Railway's is not helpful to Indian people as much as Britishers because through the railway they increase their wealth and easily find the raw materials and easy transportation. And also transportation of labours. So that through Shashi Tharoor made his point clear that the Railways are the big colonial stamp.

How different is British Colonial rules from others :

In world history we can find out the different countries like France, Belgium, England's colonial rules are different. In India we got freedom through Gandhi's अहींसा. If we make Ahinsa agitate in front of churchill. Then there is no worth. Shashi Tharoor said that the Colonial rules are different.

 👉 Reviews of the book :

I have read the reviews of the book ' An era of darkness'. In this review we understand the situations and how Britishers ruled upon us. How cruelly they ruled upon us.

(As Tharoor points out, prior to colonialism India was one of the foremost world economies, a country of great craftsmen and culture, the birth-place of many great religions and philosophical theories, a land which, like all others had experienced is fair share of intolerance and oppression, but still a place where a multitude of communities had co-existed in relative peace and harmony. It is therefore one of the greatest-and most insidious-myths peddled by the British that India was a bucolic backwater, whose citizens were stuck in a stupor of stupidity and ignoble idiocy, waiting to be roused by the great British liberators. In reality  greed, avarice, racism and the cold calculating laws of the market and realpolitik were the motivating factors behind colonialism, to drain Indian of it’s resource , both intellectual and economical; the idea that colonialism was driven by some sort of altruistic motive, or by the ideas of the enlightenment is ridiculous.) -Inderjit Sanghera

Also many people said that the British abolished the evil of indian society. But Shashi Tharoor points out that that is not true. The abolition of the cruel rules in India that is not because of the Britishers but the Indians like Raja Ram mohan Roy and others. Who fight against the evils of Indian society.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o :

             Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan writer and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature.

Summarise Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's views on Introduction : Towards the Universal Language of Struggles from - Decolonising the mind : The Politics of language in African Literature :

        This is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.

Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays:

"The Language of African Literature," 

"The Language of African Theatre,"

 "The Language of African Fiction,"

 and "The Quest for Relevance."

Ngũgĩ describes the book as 

"a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature".

References :

Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa (1986). Decolonising the Mind. ISBN 0-435-08016-4.

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Also many people said that Britisher who abolished evil of the indian society. But Shashi Tharoor point out that, that is not true. The abolition of the cruel rules in India that is not because of the Britishers but the Indians like Raja Ram mohan Roy and others. Who fight against the evils of Indian society.

Thank you.......