Name : Solanki Pratiksha M. Roll No : 21

Paper : 11. The Postcolonial Literature

Sem : 3. (2014-2015) Enrolment No. PG13101032

Subject : Richard Attenborough's Gandhi : Salman Rushdie

Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Dept. of English

M.K.Bhavnagar University pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com

Richard AttenboroughRichard Samuel Attenborough was an

English actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Born: August 29, 1923. Cambridge, United Kingdom

Died: August 24, 2014.Awards: Academy Award for Best

Picture.. etc..

Imaginary Homelands : Salman Rushdie

" Imaginary Homelands is an important and moving record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey.."

Published: 1991 Collection of

essays. Variety of topics. Intellectual

Imaginary Homelands Quotes " It may be argued that the past is a country

from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.."

( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 )

"Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” ( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 )

"Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”

( Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Change the history

of his country..Born: October 2,

1869 Porbandar.Assassinated:

January 30, 1948, New Delhi

Awards: Time's Person of the Year

Attenborough's Gandhi

Might be..Viewing Gandhi as a spiritual

mystical person.. Termed The Christian

Longing.. Follows the footsteps of

other pop holy men.

Attenborough

Great soul..little father..The pantheon of

latter-day Gods..

but.. Why should an Englishman want to deify

Gandhi..?

The Amritsar Massacre : Most Powerful sequence in the film..

CruelIndividualComplete falsehood. " The film is a biography, not a

political work.." The brahmacharya experiments.

Gandhi to be..

Dedicated to simple life. Full confidence. Dedicated to self-denial.