Richard Attenborough's Gandhi : Salman Rushdie

1.  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

3.  Richard Attenborough
Richard 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..

4.  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

5. 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 )

6. "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)

7.  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

8.  Attenborough's Gandhi
Might be..
Viewing Gandhi as a spiritual
mystical person..
 Termed The Christian Longing..
 Follows the footsteps of other
pop holy men.

9. Attenborough
Great soul..little
father..The
pantheon of latter-day
Gods..
but.. Why should
an Englishman want
to deify Gandhi..?

10.  The Amritsar Massacre : Most
Powerful sequence in the film..
Cruel
Individual
Complete falsehood.
" The film is a biography, not a
political work.."
The brahmacharya experiments.

11. Gandhi to be..
 Dedicated to simple life.
 Full confidence.
 Dedicated to self-denial.