... they were thinking in their traditional Indian languages. English was still an alien, foreign language. Their lack of familiarity with and fluency in this new language made Indian-English poets in the pre-independence period largely unoriginal. They derived most of their work by imitating models in English and in ... their effort to pick up this new language, focussed on the language-English rather than content and style of poetry. Thus, they contributed little or nothing to any literary tradition, ... walls as sun-baked'. "They clicked their tongues."" The clicking of the tongue is som...

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... and practices and are a way of life for Hindus. Hindu's believe in reincarnation or when the body dies the soul lives on. Every time a person dies they are reincarnated into a new body. The person can come back as a mammal, insect, or plant. This is called Karma or the natural laws of cause and effect. The goal is for individuals to escape ... another Hindu teacher who taught him the realm of neither perception nor nonperception. He was also dissatisfied with this solution. His next step was to go through severe exercises. He sat on thorns, ate bad foods and did not wash his body. As a ...

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... on a quest throughout India seeking for answers to his questions. He struggled for years when different teachers couldn't help him with his cause. However, as a vow to find enlightenment, Siddhartha sat under a tree and through deep meditation, he became the enlightened Buddha. After his enlightenment, many referred to him as Shakyamuni or the "enlightened one". For the next 45 years of ... in East Asia). However, around the middle ninth century Buddhism was oppressed under a Taoist ruler, and many of the monasteries were closed down but the schools were spared. In time, a new form of B...

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