India 3 Flashcards
(Way of Truth) is an anthology of basic Buddhist
teaching in a simple aphoristic style. One of the best known books of the Pali
Buddhist canon, it contains 423 stanzas arranged in 26 chapters. These verses
are compared with the Letters of St. Paul in the Bible or that of Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount.
Dhammapada
The son of a Great Sage, ____ is a
Bengali poet and mystic who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore
managed his father’s estates and lived in close contact with the villagers. His
sympathy for their poverty and backwardness was later reflected in his works.
The death of his wife and two children brought him years of sadness but this also
inspired some of his best poety. Tagore is also a gifted composer and a painter.
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian
author of numerous novels and short stories in Hindi and Urdu who pioneered in
adapting Indian themes to Western literary styles. He worked as a teacher before
joining Mahatma Gandhi’s anticolonial Noncooperation Movemen
Prem Chand pseudonym of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (1
Her works concern the struggles of contemporary
Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values. A Brahman, she studied at
Madras University then settled in England and married an Englishman. In her
fiction, Western values typically are viewed as modern and materialistic, and
Indian values as spiritual and traditional.
Kamala markandaya
Sanskrit poet and dramatist is probably the greatest Indian writer of
all time. As with most classical Indian authors, little is known about Kalidasa’s
person or his historical relationships. His poems suggest that he was a Brahman
(priest). Many works are traditionally ascribed to the poet, but scholars have
identified only six as genuine.
Kalidasa
One of the finest Indian authors of his generation writing
in English.
R. K narayan
An English-language Indian novelist and author of
children’s books, she is considered India’s premier imagist writer. S
Anita Desai
A Sikh writer and theologian, he wrote at a time when
Sikh religion and politics and the Punjabi language were under heavy attack by
the English and Hindus. He extolled Sikh courage, philosophy, and ideals,
earning respect for the Punjabi language as a literary vehicle.
Vir Singh
A young female writer whose first book The God of Small
Things won for her a Booker Prize.
Arundhati Roy
