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A brief explanation of where I am: the city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram, its original name, reclaimed post-Independence, in the state of Kerala which is nestled in the deep southwest corner of India's tip.
VyVy Trinh: A Pre-Medical Student's Journey Across the Globe VyVy Trinh 2011
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RF: Richard Simon, writes in his review, that "Karunatilaka touches, without ever making it look like a stretch, upon all the crucial Sri Lankan realities: racism, all-pervasive yet blandly denied; class snobbery; endemic corruption, moral failure and cultural decline; suicide-bombings, alcoholism, paedophile sex tourism, the shadow of the colonial past and the failures of the first post-Independence generation."
Ru Freeman: Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature and International Success Ru Freeman 2011
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A brief explanation of where I am: the city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram, its original name, reclaimed post-Independence, in the state of Kerala which is nestled in the deep southwest corner of India's tip.
VyVy Trinh: A Pre-Medical Student's Journey Across the Globe VyVy Trinh 2011
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A new exhibition at New York's Rubin Museum of Art looks at how modernist artists used the human figure to express post-Independence optimism, anxiety and pain.
India's Passage to Modernism Rachel Wolff 2011
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RF: Richard Simon, writes in his review, that "Karunatilaka touches, without ever making it look like a stretch, upon all the crucial Sri Lankan realities: racism, all-pervasive yet blandly denied; class snobbery; endemic corruption, moral failure and cultural decline; suicide-bombings, alcoholism, paedophile sex tourism, the shadow of the colonial past and the failures of the first post-Independence generation."
Ru Freeman: Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature and International Success Ru Freeman 2011
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A brief explanation of where I am: the city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram, its original name, reclaimed post-Independence, in the state of Kerala which is nestled in the deep southwest corner of India's tip.
VyVy Trinh: A Pre-Medical Student's Journey Across the Globe VyVy Trinh 2011
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And Nehru certainly deserves more credit than he gets, but you have to admit that his greater influence on post-Independence India was greatly aided by the fact that he was alive.
Matthew Yglesias » Hinderacker: Gandhi, Mandela are Overrated 2010
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Historically, the changes have been sweeping -- from feudalism to imperialism to democracy, and from post-Independence idealism to opportunism: all the right ingredients for an introspective culture.
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Viewed as a tool of the colonial power and an ongoing coup threat, Uganda's post-Independence presidents Idi Amin and Milton Obote made sure to continue this marginalization, and Museveni has been accused of similar.
Jennifer Brookland: U.S. Tacitly Condones Uganda Violence Through Aid Jennifer Brookland 2010
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Historically, the changes have been sweeping -- from feudalism to imperialism to democracy, and from post-Independence idealism to opportunism: all the right ingredients for an introspective culture.
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