On Friday, you asked me why all English teachers love Jane Austen. Why, indeed?
"… the peculiar brilliance of Austen lies partly in what she focuses on, and what she ignores." (Times Insider).
It’s no wonder. She’s among the most revered authors writing in English. Her novels take a critical and often humorous look at life in the late 1700s. The tales of life, and love, are filled with irony, and a sense of realism about the era and the characters she wrote about. Besides, her work remains relevant. As the Jane Austen Society claims, "[Austen] is very pertinent even today".
Jane Austen in modern-day India. What do you make of it? Surprisingly delicious!
This is Gurinder Chadha's all-singing, all-dancing new Bollywood-Austen spin. She is an English film director of Kenyan Asian origin. She is best known for the films Bend it like Beckham (2002) in which we can see a very young Keira Knighley and What's cooking? (2000). If you haven't seen them yet, don't put it off much longer, I'd say. Her 2019 film is Blinded by the Light, the inspiration of which is Brexit, as she explains in this interview.
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