Shashi Tharoor: Era of Darkness

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      Here is my blog on shashi Tharoor's View on Era of Darkness. He gave his view upon that what is it and also gave argument about the reality. So let's discuss about it. This task is given by Dr. Barad sir and for more information and to watch videos click here.

Era of darkness 

In the " An Era of Darkness " Shashi Tharoor mostly doing arguments to established about British colonial rites whose violence experience for Indian society.Here I notify that most off the his work represented on British exploitation of India so that he carried the day for Tharoor in an Oxford debate not too long ago.

Introduction : Towards the universal Language of struggle. 

                 - Ngugi wa Thiong 

    Here this discussion is on above topic. It is taken from the Decolonising the mind. 

In this book  write argue on the struggle of language. How it became universal ? I have write here some ponder points upon that. 

    Here in this book we can read about the African as colonised. Their all ruled are under the Britishers. Colonial and impartial were control the all things even language. So here Ngugi  Wa Thiongo talks about the African language and struggles of that. They control economy, politics and culture. 

The  contention  started a hundred years ago when in 1884 the capitalist powers of Europe sat in Berlin  and carved on entire continent with  a multiplicity  of people culture and languages into different colonies.

There are some debate and raise the questions like; 

Was it literature about Africa about African experience? 

Was it literature written by Africans? 

What about a non African were brought about Africa did his work qualify is African literature? 

What if an African said his work in Greenland did that qualify as African literature? 

Or

 where African language these are the criteria?

    There are some people and writes who wants that their language also should be universal. So they write in their language more instead of English, French and portguees languages. Chinua Achebe said in her speech that 

" It is right that a man should abandon his mother tongues for someone else's? It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces a guilty feeling. But for me there is no other choice I have been given the language and I intended to use it".

  She gave this words in her speech entitled  'The African writer and the English language' in 1964.

Movie review 

The Black Prince 

                                                  Edward never became king - he died before his father, Edward III - he is remembered as a great medieval military hero, with notable victories against the French in the Hundred Years War.

                                                  Edward was born on 15 June 1330 at Woodstock in Oxford shire, the eldest son of Edward III. He was created prince of Wales in 1343. He showed military brilliance at an early age, playing a key role in the defeat of the French army at the Battle of Crecy when he was only 16. In 1355, he was appointed his father's lieutenant in Gascony and the following year led another significant victory against the French at Poitier, taking the French king prisoner.

           

      In this movie  we can see that the boy is Prince and he was stolen by someone. His upbringing is in England but then even they call him as 'Black prince '  not called him with his name. 

Victoria and Abdul 

    In this movie also  we can see the friendship of queen and  Abdul. No one is like that but because of queen they can do nothing for that. So here we see that one who is colonised he gave her instruction.So here also we can see the post -colonial and superiority and inferiority. Which we can see that concept in The Black prince .

Conclusion 

        There so many references through we can understand the post colonial term. What is it ?and why we study it? Here through these two movies we come to know about what is the thinking or mentality of the Britishers and of them who called their self superior. Shashi Tharoor also put the mirror in front of the coloniers who ruled in different countries. He said that even God is not trust on the British that's why he never set the sun of Britain. In darkness which kind of plan they applying other to get more power. 

Sahitya acadami blog on Shashi Tharoor. 

References:-

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor

2)https://ngugiwathiongo.com/decolonising-the-mind/

3)http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/black_prince.shtml