enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Deconstruction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

    In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.

  3. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_literature

    Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles- prose (गद्य, gadya), poetry (पद्य, padya), and prosimetrum (चंपू, campū). [1] In terms of historical development, it is broadly classified into five prominent forms (genres) based on the date of production. [citation needed] They are:

  4. Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology

    The later puranic view also asserts that the universe is created, destroyed, and re-created in an eternally repetitive series of cycles. In Hindu cosmology, the age of the Earth is about 4.32 billion years (the duration of a kalpa or one day of Brahma) [77] and is then destroyed by fire or water elements. At this point, Brahma rests for one ...

  5. Book burning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning

    Martin Gardner, a well-known expert on the work of Lewis Carroll, believes that Carroll had written an earlier version in the 1860s of Alice in Wonderland which he later destroyed after writing a more elaborate version which he presented to the child Alice who inspired the book. [32]

  6. Godaan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godaan

    Godaan (Hindi: गोदान, Urdu: گودان, romanized: gōdān, lit. 'cow donation') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel ...

  7. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post...

    The mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge coined the term to denote a juncture when artificial intelligence (AI) equals, and then in an intelligence explosion, far exceeds man intelligence.” [33] In laymen's terms, technological singularity is the theoretical future moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human ...

  8. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_profanity

    It is a derogatory term for a woman who is considered to be a prostitute in the literal sense, but is usually applied as a term for women who are considered too promiscuous, flirtatious or who dress casually. In Hindi cinema and Urdu cinema, it usually refers to a woman with multiple sexual partners. Sometimes, it is used just as an insult ...

  9. Hinglish - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish

    Romanised Hindi is also used by some newspapers such as The Times of India. [38] [39] The first novel written in this format, All We Need Is Love, was published in 2015. [40] Romanised Hindi has been supported by advertisers in part because it allows a message to be conveyed in a neutral script to both Hindi and Urdu speakers. [41]