novel awsm ppt

1. ACROPOLIS
INSTITUE OF
TECHNOLOGY
AND RESEARCH
THE SHADOW LINES
BY :- AMITAV GHOSH
PRESENTED BY :- GUIDED BY :-
 HARDIK SHAH MISS. VANSHIKA
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2. CONTENT
 Title of novel
 About the Author
 Era
 Theme
 Summary
 About the Characters
 Techniques
 Others review
 My Own review

4. ABOUT THE TITLE
 It is a book that captures perspective of time and
events, of lines that bring people together and hold
them apart.
 Lines that exist in the memory of one, and therefore
in another's imagination.
 A narrative built out of an intricate, constantly
crisscrossing web of memories of many people, it never
pretends to tell a story. Instead, it invites the reader
to invent one, out of the memories of those involved,
memories that hold mirrors of differing shades to the
same experience.

5. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 AMITAV GHOSH is an Indian-American author best known for
his work in English fiction.
 Born : July 11, 1956 (age 60), Kolkata
 Spouse : Deborah Baker (wife)
 Awards : Arthur C. Clarke Award, Padma Shri
 Education : University of Oxford, St. Stephen's College,
Delhi, University of Delhi, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, The Doon
School
 Nominations : Man Booker Prize, Man Booker International
Prize, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

7. THE SHADOW LINES
 Author - Amitav Ghosh
 Country - India
 Language - English
 Genre - Fiction
 Publisher - Ravi Dayal Publishers Publication
 Date - 1988
 Media type - Print (Hardback)

8. ERA
 The novel deals with the concerns of our period.
 The search for identity.
 The need for independence.
 The difficult relationship with colonial culture.
 It magnificently interweaves facts , friction &
reminiscence.
 It is a continuous narrative which replicates the
pattern of violence not only for 1964 but also for 21st
Century.

9. THEME
 An important theme of the novel The Shadow Lines is the
concept of nationalism that is gaining ground in today’s
world.
 The author has held the extreme form of nationalism
responsible for many a problem these days.
 Love of the country, passion inspired nationalism and
intoxication of patriotism cannot but lead to jingoism.
 Thus nationalism which had and which has great uses can
become the greatest obstacle to world unity and world peace.
 This tribal instinct has been magnified beyond all measures
resulting in political and economic megalomania.
 And the novel in its enthusiasm to prove the point has gone a
little too far to proclaim that nationalism is a defunct force.

10. CHARACTERS
 Tridib - The protagonist is a middle class boy who grows up in a
middle-class family . He is the narrator's uncle.
 Tha'mma (the narrator's grandmother) - She was the
headmistress of a girls' school in Calcutta.
 ILA - She is the narrator's cousin who lives in Stockwell,
London.
 May - She is the Price family's daughter. She is in love with
Tridib.
 Nick - He is the Price family's son. He marries ILA during the
course of the novel.
 Mayadebi - She is the narrator's grandmother's younger
sister and Tridib's mother.

11. TECHNIQUES
 Amitav Ghosh is one of the most important Indian
English writer of present time .
 He mainly deals in the epic themes of travel . His novels
relates history ,political struggle , communal violence ,
love, loss of values etc .
 He deliberately crosses the boundary between
anthropology and artistic work .
 His narratives are categorically transnational in sweep .

12.  His stories move restlessly across countries ,
continents and even oceans .
 His narratives always reflect the wisdom of an Oxford
scholar.
 His views and opinions are meticulously researched and
learned . In every book an epic scale of scholarship is
directly discernable.

14. SUMMARY
 Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines deals with political
freedom in the modern world, nationalism and the shadow
lines we people draw between us and nations.
 In its simplest form, the story is about a young boy in
India (who is the narrator). The story begins in India
and later transfers to London. The story moves
through the young boy's memories and especially
concentrates on the memory of his cousin, Ila, who he
is attracted to.
 However, because of the social constrictions of his
society, the narrator stays with a platonic relationship.
Another interaction Ghosh focuses on is that of the
narrator's relationship with another male cousin:
Tridib.

15.  This part of the story focuses on the love between the Indian
and the English. As the narrator goes on in his personal
narrative many historic events in India's history are revealed
(even the second world war and incidents in Calcutta).
 But in analyzing the title of the work, the real truth comes in
the delineation of borders and boundaries between nations,
hence the term "shadow lines." The author shows how these
lines are created, kept, broken, and even invisible.
 The concept of Post Colonial Criticism talks about the
negativity of borders made by man. Why? They pit one
society against another. As is evidenced by the story, this was
especially true in India when it was divided into three sections:
India (proper), Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Only conflict
resulted in that division.

16. OWN VIEWS
 This is a book about people and places and
the connections between them. For me, the
most poignant parts of the book are the
times when the narrator contemplates the
meaning of maps and borders, or the
difficulty of rendering meaning to violence
with language.

17. SUCCESSFUL OTHERS REVIEWS
 SHUBHANSHU DUBEY
I think this is the perfect book. It isn't a novel. It is something
beyond what words can comprehend. Our lives are made up
of memories. Maybe proper, maybe improper. This is a live
example of that.
 AKSHAY DASGUPTA
Amitav Ghosh is such an excellent writer. Be it 'The Glass
Palace' or 'The Shadow Lines', his books are well researched
and informative.
 SHURVO DAS
One of the best books I've read in recent times. The easy and
lucid diction if Amitav Ghosh takes us in the places where the
events of the book take place.