Amis, Kingsley
Amis, Kingsley (1922–95) English novelist, father of Martin
Amis. Amis' debut novel
Lucky Jim (1954) is a classic of post-1945 British fiction. A sparkling satire on academia, it established Amis as one of the
Angry Young Men. Other novels include
That Uncertain Feeling (1955),
Take a Girl Like You (1960),
One Fat Englishman (1963),
Girl, 20 (1971), and
Stanley and the Women (1984). Amis wrote a James Bond novel,
Colonel Sun (1968), under the pseudonym Robert Markham. His tragicomedy
The Old Devils (1986) won the Booker Prize.
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GUJARATI SPOKEN AT SCHOOL 3
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 2/18/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 02-18-1992 GUJARATI SPOKEN AT SCHOOL 3 -- BILINGUAL PROGRAM...4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star "Gujarati spoken here." That's the welcome...Drago School 3 these days. Indeed, Gujarati, the native language of a region of...
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Words traded over updating Gandhi's Gujarati dictionary
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 8/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Kosh, an authoritative dictionary of Gujarati spellings, in 1929. Decades later...Gandhi's obstinate preference for Gujarati spellings has also been seriously challenged...early 20th century, anarchy prevailed in Gujarati spellings. Gandhi, who was an accomplished...
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A Gujarati Perspective
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 1/26/2008; 700+ words
; ...important prejudice of them all: I am a Gujarati and extremely proud to be one. But I...popular in Gujarat, it helps to be a Gujarati. Certainly, we need to move beyond...minister of the Bombay state was also a Gujarati - Morarji Desai) was because, for the...
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WORLDSPACE(R) Satellite Radio Launches India's First 24-Hour Gujarati Channel.
PR Newswire; 12/11/2006; 700+ words
; ...Radio Umang', the first ever 24-hour Gujarati radio channel for subscribers in South...million people in India alone who speak Gujarati. "We are continually looking to enhance...and recognizes the various aspects of Gujarati music that has a strong repertoire of...
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Hasmukh Gandhi, Gujarati journalist
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 2/12/1999; 578 words
; ...India Abroad 02-12-1999 Hasmukh Gandhi, Gujarati journalist The doyen of Gujarati journalism, Hasmukh Gandhi, died on Jan...considered as the man who breathed fresh life into Gujarati journalism, which is even today largely archaic...
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Conference encouraged Gujarati lingo.(News)
Newspaper article from: Post (South Africa); 5/6/2009; 522 words
; BYLINE: TASNIM LANGRY THE Gujarati Hindu Sanskruti Kendra hosted a Gujarati conference at the Kendra Hall in Sydenham Road, Durban, on Friday to mark International Gujarati Day. Although only 100 out of the 150 invited participants...
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SCHOOLS: A TO Z OF A-LEVELS: Gujarati OUR WEEKLY SERIES DESIGNED TO HELP YOU PICK THE RIGHT COURSE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; What is it? Gujarati has been offered at GCSE since 1995...the chance to get an A level in it. Gujarati is the official language of Gujarat...people speak it. There are also large Gujarati communities in Pakistan, East Africa...
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Business-minded Gujarati youth looking towards defence jobs.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 12/11/2005; 700+ words
; Business-minded Gujarati youth looking towards defence jobs Ahmedabad, Dec 11 (PTI) Gujarati youth, known for their inclination towards...has reaped benefits with the percentage of Gujarati youths seeking jobs in the defence going...
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Waylaid On The Sabarmati A masterly history of the making of the Gujarati identity is spoiled by an out-of-place anti-Hindutva harangue
Newspaper article from: India Today; 11/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...set out to establish the making of the Gujarati identity from the earliest times, using...literary and cultural. The emergence of the Gujarati mind and the state's syncretic culture...entrepreneurial skills and the urban Gujarati's ability to adapt to changing commercial...
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Black Diwali for PMB Gujarati Arts College staff
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/5/2005; 700+ words
; ...teachers and staff of the private PMB Gujarati Arts College here it was a black Diwali...institutes from their corpus funds. Sri Gujarati Samaj, which runs the college besides...of money as a result of which the PMB Gujarati Arts College staff have been drawing...
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Gujarati
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Gujarati ETHNONYMS: none Orientation Identification...at the rate of 2.7 percent per year. Gujarati-speaking people constitute 91 percent...percent). A majority of the Muslims speak Gujarati, though there is a small Muslim section...
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Gujaratis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...POPULATION: 48 million LANGUAGE: Gujarati RELIGION: Hindu; small populations...incorporated into Bombay state. In 1960, the Gujarati-speaking areas of Bombay were split...3 • LANGUAGE The language, Gujarati, comes from Sanskrit — an...
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Bhil
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...territory, traditionally referred to as "Rewakantha" (a Gujarati term for the drainage of the Rewa, another name for the N...of languages and exhibit divergent levels of Rajasthani and Gujarati influence. A radius of 32 to 48 kilometers appears to be the...
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South and Southeast Asians of Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...with it. Other mother tongues are Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, and secondarily Bengali, Sinhala, Malayalam, Tamil, and...speaking Indian Hindus (40,000), Pakistanis (30,000), Gujarati-speaking Hindus from India and East Africa (25,000...
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Parsi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Linguistic Affiliation. Virtually all Parsis today speak a Gujarati patois and English. The liturgical language is Avestan, and...Terminology. Kin terms follow the pattern found among other Gujarati speakers in the region. Marriage and Family Marriage. The...
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