Online Discussion : Cultural Studies and Post Colonialism

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Moni Mohsin, author of the best selling social satire wrote against of the controversial questions raised and favor of literary writer. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won the Academy Award for her documentary, A Girl in the River. Sharmeen’s films are about truly heroic Pakistani women — women who have suffered appalling cruelty and oppression but who have refused to be silenced. In telling their stories to the world, they have fought back and exposed injustice.Any nation should be proud to have such women in its midst. We should celebrate them, not try to hide them away like a shameful secret. Or indeed, question their patriotism.

                                                           

Yes, I am agree with this point,Of course western interest can be narrow in its focus and agenda driven. But whose is not? Instead of frothing with self-righteous rage or manufacturing hysterical conspiracy theories to justify other people’s selective interest or indifference, we would be better served to confidently define our own priorities. We have to fight our battles, celebrate our heroes and tell our stories truthfully.

And if we find that these stories shame us, then we must do something about them. But for those of us still fixated on the ‘image’ issue, it’s quite simple really: you want better PR? Improve the product.

Cultural aspects -  

The central government’s decision to ban Hindi news channel NDTV India for a day has been sharply criticized  by observers, journalists and opposition parties alike. Ravish Kumar worked as a journalist in this news channel. So this news channel band in India. So when we see this problem in cultural context at that time we find that how power politics played very vital role. Reality not come in right way, if you try to speak you trolled. So power or position as sup rim Laval we find.

Post colonial aspects -

If we see from the postcolonial perspective, people believed that some of the writers and directors shows negative side of India for various big awards and western people gave this kinds of awards also because they are happy to see the bad condition of India. No, it is not true but it is half truth because writers and directors presents reality of India which gave real image of a country as it is not negative. Every artist/writers/directors should have freedom of expression what they are feeling or observing in a country.

As there are many writers who has given the bad but real image of the India like Salman Rushdie always remain in controversy because he wrote against India though he is Indian and that's why congress government not permit him to stay in India and that's why he leave in abroad. He is dystopian writer and postcolonial writer also. But what he presented in his work which reality of India for example in " Midnight Children"  it deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature.

So,  this types of literature, movies or documentary become most important for any nation for made changes in their rules.