Lallu bajpai biography of william
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Despite Modi, India Has Not Yet Become a Hindu Authoritarian State
1 “Constitution of India,” 1950, https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india.
2 William Dalrymple, “The Great Divide: The Violent Legacy of Indian Partition,” New Yorker, June 22, 2015.
3 Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997).
4 N. I. Sarkar, Sonia Gandhi: Tryst with India (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2007).
5 Hartosh Singh Bal, “The Transformation of India Is Nearly Complete,” New York Times, November 11, 2019.
6 Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), pp. 582–98.
7 Guha, India After Gandhi, pp. 582–98.
8 Vidya Subrahmaniam, “Babri Masjid Demolition Was Planned: Lieberhan,” The Hindu (New Delhi), November 24, 2009.
9 Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems (Princeton:
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William Golding
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Introduction
British poet, writer, and dramatist Sir William Gerald Golding. Dedicated to becoming a forskare, he studied natural science at Oxford. However, after two years of studying, he changed his attention to philosophy and literature since he was in love with writing and reading. His initial work of poetry was published before he graduated, although it received little positiv attention.
He started teaching English at a school after receiving his degree, but he quit to enlist in the Royal Navy and serve in World War II. After serving in the army for five years, he returned to teaching. Eventually, he had his debut novel, Lord of the Flies, published after being rejected by twenty-one publishing houses. He wrote several works after that, but "Lord of the Flies" became his best-known work. He mostly wrote about his experiences in the army, in combat, with human nature's brutality, and with the determination to survive. The Nobel Prize was
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'Bharatiya' and not 'Hindu Rashtra' was what Vajpayee vouched for in stand against theocracy
He was of the opinion that the idea of Rashtra extended beyond India's 1947 formation and encompassed its ancient civilization. Vajpayeepreferred to call it the 'Bharatiya Rashtra' instead of a 'Hindu Rashtra'.
In an interview, Vajpayee explicitly stated, "we never demanded Hindu Rashtra or theocracy." He emphasized that the fusion of politics with religion had never occurred in India's history and would not occur in the future.
Vajpayee's views on minorities were unequivocal. He asserted that minorities were full-fledged citizens with equal rights and responsibilities in a secular India. He believed that fear should have no place in the lives of minorities in this