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Group Reading Task in Department of English, MKBU

Hello Readers,       In this blog you will find two powerpoint presentations prepared by me and my group members. Our teacher Dr.Dilip Barad gave us group reading task on the two following topics:- 1.) Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies 2.) Technoculture and Risk It was a great experience to study in group. We can learn so many things from our group members as well. Postcolonialism and cultural studies from vaidehi Hariyani Technoculture and Risk Theory from vaidehi Hariyani Here I would also like to share my experience regarding presentation of Technoculture and Risk. In risk theory we see that as soon as the risk becomes real it turns  into disaster. It happened with me as well. As soon as I went for my presentation the pen drive got corrupted and I couldn't play it. Thanks to my teacher Dilip Sir, that he taught us to be ready with Plan B, if plan A fails. So this risk could not become disaster for me. I presented orally this topi

TREATMENT OF FOREIGN WOMEN IN BOLLYWOOD

Recently we had a classroom activity- Group reading and discussion.My group had four girls Monali, Tejasvi, Brijal and myself. The topic of my group was “Post colonialism and Culture Studies”. It was an amazing and wonderful experience working in a group. Thanks to our teacher Dr.Dilip Barad for this new learning method. We discussed many things in class like the influence of Hollywood films on Indian and other culture, How the Third world represents the First world and so on. We have lots of example of films directed by foreign directors and in which India is shown in a bad way. Are they alone showing us in a bad way or are we doing the same thing?????????? Here I would like to talk about the treatment given to foreign women. If we look at the movies from postcolonial perspective, we see that Hollywood movies portray Indian culture or Indians in a bad or say in a dark way. We question that why Indians are looked down by the Third world nations. But we shou