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                                         "The Birthday Party"                                                     This blog is a part of my academic activity, Task given by Dr. Dilip Barad.30 Link of given Task 2)  Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text? 'Menace' means violence or feeling of insecurity or uncertainty. which establishes strong connection between audience and character's predicament. movie is quite successful in giving us the effect of menace. It can be visible in Pinter's ability to drop suddenly from high comic level to one of deep seriousness. we feel the atmosphere of violence when two strangers encroached the space of stanley and beat him very cruelly, when stanley attacks on Lulu. all these scenes arouse the feeling of menace. 3)     Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the

                         " The Reluctant Fundamentalist " "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is a 2007 novel written by the Pakistan-born writer Mohsin Hamid and film is directed by Mira Nair. This is post 9/11 story about the impact of Al Qaeda on one Pakistani person and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them.  One ambitious Pakistani man, Changez khan goes to America to have bright future. He belongs to the gentle and educated family. His father is a poet, well known person and respected by all. Changez khan has the great literary heritage.He belongs to great literary canon but distracted from that path. instead of following family tradition he went to America.He easily mix up with the environment and people of America. He is Intellectual man so proves himself better than other colleague and also got the promotion by owner of company. This may be the reason for jealousy of American people and they consider other people as 'outsider&

                      "Midnight's Children"                                                      - Film review 'Midnight's children' is a novel by the famous writer 'Salman Rushdie'. Midnight's chi ldren  won both the  Booker Prize  and the  James Tait Black Memorial Prize  in 1981.  It was awarded the " Booker of Bookers " Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary. it is a postcolonial novel in which writer gives account of events happened during British India and Independent India. He adds the beauty to these events by using the tool 'Magic Realism' which makes novel imaginative piece of literature instead of boring historical novel.  The protagonist of novel Saleem sinai was born on the exact movement when India gained it's freedom from British rule, 15th august,1947. He is the narrator of story and starts telling from the life of his

                                 Language, Gender and Power Presented by: 1} Surbhi Gausvami ( M.A. Sem:3)                     E-mail: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com                     Mobile: 7490920184                     2} Dharaba Gohil (M.A. Sem:3)                      E-Mail: dharagohil2907@gmail.com                      Mobile: 9574488401 Smt. S. B. Gardi, Department of English Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Abstact An attempt has been made in this paper to enquire if women experience lingustic discrimination which reduces them to invisible frail creatures devoide of individual identity. Gender is not same as sex. The latter is being biologically male or female. Gender is constructed while sex is given. It is through language that we construct gender. We have a vo