Essay Turday 17

1.  X is a website that parodies Y. It was founded in 2005.

Various styles of  humor are used as a vehicle for parody, from sophisticated satire to crude sarcasm to the apparently random. Like Y, X  has guidelines regarding what is and is not acceptable content and these guidelines have become progressively more strict as the site expands over time.X,s stated goal is to “provide the world’s misinformation in the least redeeming and most searingly sarcastic and humorous way possible, through satire”

Its logo, a hollow potato named Sophia after the Gnostic deity  serves as a parody  of Y,s globe logo.What am i talking about ?

2.X was born in Gorakhpur,Uttar Pradesh, where his father worked for the state electricity board. He grew up in several cities, including  Varanasi. He did his early schooling in Dehradun, and age eight onwards, at the  Scindia School in Gwalior.

He was fascinated with films right from childhood, and even at age five, would watch Hindi films like Kora Kagaz and Aandhi at a nearby film club and open-air theater. This came to an end once he began his schooling.

Due to X’s desire to become a scientist, he went to Delhi for his higher studies and enrolled himself into a zoology course at the Hansraj College; he graduated in 1993.During his college days, he started watching films again, and also got involved with drugs and alcohol. He was confused and depressed, and had joined a street theater group, Jana Natya Manch; he ended up doing a lot of street plays.The same year, a couple of friends introduced him to world cinema; they “urged [him] to catch a De sica retrospective” .In ten days, he ended up seeing a total of 55 films at the festival,and de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves was the film that influenced him the most; watching it “was an epiphany.” Which pioneers early life is being traced here ?

3. ________________________ are the four principles.A refers to use of influence, ‘sweet words’ or any non materialistic influential factor that can be of  use. B is money, though I would like to call it any materialistic wealth that can be used, it includes bribing too. C means punishment, to punish by some means in order to achieve desired result. D clearly means divide and rule.What famous axiom of Indian Real Politik am i talking about ?

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