Name: Maru Riddhi

Paper: 11 Post-Colonial Literature

Roll No: 21

Class: M.A.Sem.3

Year: 2016-2018

Emil Id: riddhimaru27@gmail.com

Submitted To: M.K.Bhavnagar University,

Department of English

0. Salman Rushdia Born 1947

0. British Indian Novelist and Essayist.

0. His Second novel, Midnight’s Children won the booker prize in 1981

0. Change the history of his country…..

0. Born: October 2,,1869 Porbandar.

0. Assassinated : January 30, 1948, New Delhi.

0. Awards : Time’s Person of the year.

O. In the essay “Attenborough’s Gandhi” in which Salman Rushdie talks about the

movies “ Gandhi”

O. Most Poweful sequence in the filmO. CruelO. IndividualO. Complete Falsehood

O. “ The film is a Biography, not a Political work”.

O. “ Film is more Hagiographical than Biographical”.

Spiritualism

Simplicity

Change anything, Submit Youself

The reason say Selman Rushdie might be viewing Gandhi as a spiritual mystical person. He view that

when he saw this movie that time he found that Attenborough unfortunately saw the image of

Gandhi as a Christ and comparison with Christ. And we can say that Gandhi is a spiritual person.

First of all, why they have chosen Gandhi? Not any other patriotic figure of spiritual figure like Sardar Patel? Subhas

Bose ? Why no Tagore ?

0. There are many powerful sequences in

this movie. For example the Amritsar massacre. In court martial an Englishman asks the question about Jallianwala Bagh

to Dyer.

0. The scene say that his actions were

those of a cruel and immediately after condemned by Anglo-Indian.

0And when he returned to England

he was given a heroic welcome. An appeal fund paunch on his behalf made

him a rich man.

0.Tagore disgusted by the British

reaction to the massacre return his knighthood.

A Few words more, we can say that SalmanRushdie has written an article about “Attenborough’s Gandhi” in which he has indicated about Gandhi and also made criticism on him. He didn’t write only good things about but also wrote and made mockery on him. He writes also about Nathuram Godse and told that he was right according to him and Gandhiji was also right at his place. Therefore Rushdie has given his views about Gandhi in this essay. Thus Rushdie gives his views about Attenborough’s film and at end ,he writes that a very significant line. Conclusion “ Rich men like emperors, have always had a weakness for tame holy men, for saints