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PUNE RESEARCH - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH (ISSN 2454-3454) VOLUME 1 , ISSUE - 2 (Sept - Oct 2015) INDEX

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PUNE RESEARCH 

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454-3454-ONLINE )

 VOLUME 1 , ISSUE - 2 (Sept - Oct 2015) 

INDEX

1.2.1

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ARTISTIC LIBERTY AND THE SLAVERY OF AUTHORITY IN ONE DAY IN ASHADHA

DR BASAVARAJ NAIKAR

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Mohan Rakesh (1925- 1972) happens to be one of the important dramatists in Hindi. He is a short story writer, who started the movement called Nayi Kahani. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab. After earning his Master’s degree in English Literature he taught for some time and then moved to Bombay as the editor of Sarika. Soon he resigned from there, did some free-lance writing sand entered the literary scene with short story writing as his chosen genre thereby starting the Nayi Kahani Movement. His complete short stories are available in four volumes. He died young at the age of 47, leaving incomplete his research project on dramatic diction for which he had a Nehru fellowship.

1.2.2

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE DISCOURSE OF POWER/KNOWLEDGE AND THE COLONIZED OTHERS: READING V.S. NAIPAUL'S A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS

SANDEEP KUMAR SHARMA

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V. S. Naipaul gained world-wide recognition with the publication of his masterpiece A House for Mr. Biswas which marked the major phase of his fiction. This paper is an attempt to analyse the novel from Michel Foucault's theory of Power/Knowledge Discourse. In A House for Mr. Biswas, Naipaul attempts a subtle and comprehensive analysis of the colonial situation in Trinidad through his fine imagination and sensibility. Despite the marriage of the protagonist,  Mr. Biswas,  into the Tulsi family, he remains an outsider, a victim of power relations but he does not submit and remains grand in his stature in different contexts and situations in the novel whenever he takes a solitary stand against the mechanical, stereotyped and obsolete Tulsi ideologies which further signify Foucault’s notion that power relations are dispersed in a society in a net like organization and a society without power relations can only be an abstraction. The threads of power relations extend everywhere as our social fabric is knitted by power relations.
Key Words: Colonial Situation, Power, Knowledge, Discourse.

1.2.3

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ANALYSIS OF ASSERTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN KHUSHWANT SINGH’S TRAIN TO PAKISTAN

DR DHANAJI NAGANE

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Analysis of the highly marked assertive speech acts in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan (1956) in the light of the theory of speech acts and the context in which they take place can throw light on the various characters, their behavior, relationship, attitude, intention and the authorial point of view. Train to Pakistan can be better understood with help of the principles and theories in pragmatics in general and theory of speech acts in particular. The authenticity of the characters is established via the utterances of the characters in the context and the dimensions of illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect in the given socio cultural situations.The present paper is not merely an attempt to apply the theory of assertive speech acts to the selected novel, but to add a new perspective to the series of research done in this field. The application of the theory of assertive speech acts to the selected utterances reveals how the analysis in the context in which they occur can contribute for the authentic interpretation of the fictional discourse.
Keywords: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Assertive, Utterances, Literary Discourse, Context

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Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE JOURNEY OF STEPHEN DEDALUS: SEEING THROUGH LACAN'S LENS

SREEMOYEE BANERJEE GHOSH

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James Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man focuses on the journey of its protagonist Stephen Dedalus from childhood to adolescence finally entering adulthood. His journey is a quest for his own identity as an artist in a world torn apart by political, religious and social interpellations. Stephen’s identity and existence as an individual and as an artist is continuously reshaped through his journey. The term paper focuses on a psychoanalytic reading of Stephen’s journey by implementing the Lacanian psychoanalytic concept of the three orders being the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. Stephen Dedalus enters the imaginary order during the mirror stage when the formation of his ego takes place. Gradually the imaginary order gives way to the symbolic order when the predominance of language and other external forces act as the big Other. The problem arises with the question whether Stephen at all wants to transcend from the symbolic to the real order and if so how does he attain it since the real order is impossible to attain. All the three stages, their individual implications and interrelation will be thoroughly analysed. A detailed discussion of all the three stages of development of Stephen’s life through the Lacanian psychoanalytic theory of the three orders will determine how far Stephen succeeds or fails to establish his identity as an artist.

1.2.5

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE THEME OF THE DEHUMANIZING IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN D. H. LAWRENCE’S WOMEN IN LOVE

KAMEL HEZAM ALI MOQBEL
DR. RAJKUMAR M. LAKHADIVE

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Women in Love explores the dehumanizing process of industrialization. It focuses on the individual's search for fulfillment in a world that becomes meaningless and devoid of human values. It shows the sense of alienation that result from modern civilization. Lawrence calls the industrial system "the first great phase of chaos, the substitution of mechanical principle for the organic."   Lawrence believes that the development of industrialism is the main reason for the disintegration of the human race. He expresses his point of view through Birkin , his mouthpiece, who says that the machine works man instead of he the machine. This destructive element controls man's being so he denies and is driven towards death. Gerald exemplifies this very clearly. He is an industrial magnate. Gerald Crich embodies European industrial civilization and its associated values. The private and public themes meet in Gerald. He involves exploitation in his relationships with Gudrun and Birkin and his workers. This is characteristic of an industrial magnate who makes use of others, the workers.  Gerald's death wish is related to his position in society as an owner of a colliery. The novel ends with his tragic death in the snow. His death in freeze symbolizes the failure of this civilization to have any contact with warmth and life source.

1.2.6

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FEMINIST EMPIRICISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT

DR PUNAM PANDEY

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The history of feminist intervention into most disciplines follows a common pattern. All inquiries and investigations of feminist begin as a critique of accepted disciplinary methods, assumptions, and canons. Consequently, bias is perceptible in all disciplinary. When it matures, we observe it with strong constructive projects of its own. As it is very clear that feminist epistemology is the study of knowledge from a feminist perspective. In the    field of social works women’s role is very significant. With their experiences and observations we can get more and more authentic knowledge regarding their status, experiences, problems, lives, activities, feminist theories and ethics. By using a feminist understanding of gender, power and difference to analyze the research, validation of experiences and ideas can be obtained. Feminist methodologies enter the research because of feminism and post- feminism. These movements advocate the equal rights of female and demand mutual understanding. The late Seventies show a sharp shift in emphasis from ‘androtexts’ (Literature by men) to gynotexts (literature by women) and gynocriticism (criticism of women’s writing).

1.2.7

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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CLOSE LOOK ON THE THEORIES OF DIASPORA

POORNIMA M. D.
DR V. UNNIKRISHNAN

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The article focuses on exploring the theories on diaspora opined by various theorists. The literal meaning that one can say for the word ‘Diaspora’ is ‘Dispersal’. But theorists find the subtle differences in meaning. Nicholas Van Hear says, “Dispersal may also result from a combination of compulsion and choice, and diasporas emerge as a result of cumulative processes and crises”. Theorists are well versed enough to deconstruct the word “diaspora” and opine their theories on it. Mostly those theories are developed on the basis of the reason for migration. They probe into the problems that are faced by the immigrants and they analyze the reasons behind their migration. As a result of their analysis, theories are born. This article focuses on the theories proposed by various theorists such as Willaim Safran, Nicholas Van Hear, Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen, Jasbir Jain, M.L.Raina, George Steiner, Bed P. Giri, and so on. Many theorists have categorized and given some types of diaspora with the help of its characteristicsby women) and gynocriticism (criticism of women’s writing).
Key words: Diaspora, Expatriate, Diasporic writing, acculturization, assimilation           

1.2.8

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FEMININE WORLD – JANE AUSTEN’S GRANDEUR

K. SANTHANA LAKSHMI

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Feminism and feministic perceptions are not the topics to be lectured, views to be expressed, opinions to be exposed or matter to be argued or rights to be earned but it is a feeling to be realized and recognized then and there required. Every woman is a gift of God to the universe either she is beautiful or ugly, educated or illiterate, clever or mad, intelligent or innocent. She is a human being who renders love and service not only to her kith and kin but also to the society. She plays a vital part in everyone’s life as a good companion to her brother, better wife to her spouse, best mother to her children and overall extraordinary creation fulfilling all the needs of people around her. Such a lovable wonder of God sometimes becomes a writer exhibiting the voice of her fraternity in society at all ages. In the end of eighteenth century England there arose a thornless rose which blossomed majestic in appearance, soft in nature and grand in speech – a speaking peacock, Jane Austen entered the world of novel. She is the representative of her age reflecting the stage of women in late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth century England through her novels. When we go through her novels we cannot but admire the range and variety of her portraits of women characters. Though the society in which she moved, was restricted to the upper middle class all the variations of ordinary feminine characters which have appealed to the readers through the ages because of this essential humanity. Among the fools, flirts and worldlings of Jane Austen’s novels, are the different categories of women such as we meet in our daily life, all the daughters of Eve under their different costumes and in their different attitudes. Thus her world is a feminine world with the achievement of a perfectly harmonious relationship as its motive.

1.2.9

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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PILGRIMAGES, TOURISM AND THE NEED OF ENGLISH: A CASE STUDY OF NEWASA, SHANI SHINGNAPUR AND SHIRDI

RAVINDRA G. VAIDYA

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Language has been a primary medium of communication and a carrier of information.  Being multilingual and multicultural nation variety of dialects is in use in the different regions of India. In the era of globalization cultural exchange across the borders through foreign visits has become a common phenomenon. Multilingual pattern of the country however, is a major barrier in this cultural dialogue. According to a famous proverb, language in the country changes at the distance of every five kilometers. Based on the linguistic pattern, most of the Indians are bilingual. Most of them are competent in their respective mother tongue and Hindi which is one of the official languages of India.

Nationally acknowledged holy places such as Newasa, Shani Shingnapur and Shirdi, located in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra are endowed with great religious and cultural heritage. These places have witnessed growing number of foreign devotees in the last decade. They are naturally very eager to know the cultural and religious importance of the holy places. However, the lack of common medium of communication leaves them disappointed. The present paper explores the opportunities that local graduates of Newasa, Shani Shingnapur and Shirdi could have had they been fluent speakers of English. It also focuses on the prospects of employment that language can bring to the doorsteps of the graduates who have acquired the basic skills of the English language.

1.2.10

Area of Article : LINGUISTICS

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INTERPRETATIONS OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ARTHUR MILLER’S A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

DR BALAJI NATKARE

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Commissive speech acts have great potential to build the interpersonal bond between the interlocutors. The characters in Arthur Miller’s play ‘A View from the Bridge’ (1955) often tend to promise, vow, pledge, guarantee, etc to maintain and sustain their interpersonal relations. When the characters find it difficult to fiddle with a situation, they tend to commit themselves to the future course of action such as promising, threatening, vowing, offering, refusing, guaranteeing, etc. Commissive speech acts frequently occur in the play and play a major role in building the interpersonal bond of relations. The present paper aims to analyze the highly marked examples of commissive speech acts selected in ‘A View from the Bridge’ (1955) and provides a premeditated direction into the study of the social and historical outlook of the competitive American society and helps understand the play considering the contextual significance. The analysis of carefully categorized speech acts, against the backdrop of Searle’s (1969) typology of speech acts, offers an effective and useful tool for understanding the play.  
Keywords: Pragmatics, Dramatics Discourse, Speech Acts, Commissives, Context.

1.2.11

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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WOMEN ON WOMEN: ANJANA APPACHANA

DR L. V. PADMARANI RAO

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Feminism is a woman’s out look of the world. It is a political ideology that challenges the roles of male dominated society. Feminism seeks to expose the mechanism of patriarchy in works of art. The representations of women in the literary texts stress and justify sociopolitical oppression of women as natural. The Feminist movement aims at over throwing social practices that lead to the oppression and victimization of women. Woman’s quest for self-knowledge and self-realization, which can in turn lead to the relationships based on mutual respect and understanding is the crux of Feminism.

The International Women’s day celebrated in 1982 has awakened many women across the world, and so in India. Women in India started realizing their respective position in the society, their subjugation, and lack of freedom, slavery and various binding chains of custom, culture, and religion and ascertained their love for freedom. Feministic notions, movements have dominated ever since. They tried to understand the social structure   and thought a number of solutions and tried to rewrite history. Women writing literature on women became an important postmodern phenomenon along with a new meaning given from the feminine consciousness to the old and established renowned epics and texts. The present paper presents the world of women representation from the point of view of Anjana Appachana in her short fiction.

Key words: Feminism, political ideology, self-realization, relationships, mutual respect and understanding, Women writing literature on women, Anjana Appachana’ short fiction.

1.2.12

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ANTITHESIS BETWEEN ILLUSION AND REALITY IN O’NEILLS’ THE ICEMAN COMETH

DR ULKA S. WADEKAR

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Eugene O’Neill is a great writer who has credited to his account large number of one-act as well as full length plays. Most of his dramas unfold the tragedy of dreamers. He is the first American playwright to win Nobel Prize in literature. His plays concentrate on the problems of common people. Most of his plays are packed with violence and destruction and therefore he is considered as a tragic artist. He wrote materialistic plays that are fused with the elements of symbolism, illusion and melodrama and scenes of despair and frustration. It resulted from the improbability and inaction of characters which finally becomes a tragedy of modern life. The Iceman Cometh is one of the greatest plays in American drama. He completed its writing in 1936 but delayed its production due to the war. He wrote tragedies but they are different from the conventional or the Aristotelian form.  The basic theme of his story is man’s disorientation and unusual bafflement. His characters suffer from bewilderment ‘from within and from without’. This happens due to the complete lack of faith in the spirituality, self-esteem and power of religion which ultimately resulted into a feeling of insecurity. Thus the characters suffer from anguish and fear. Life for them is nothing but a mechanical or impersonal process. They do not consider themselves as a part of universe and therefore a feeling of emptiness and not belonging is rooted deeply in their mind. This feeling overshadowed their natural being and they are caught into the violent trap of tragic tension.  To get relief from this tragic tension, they starts dreaming and tries to escape from the reality of life. The illusion has become the real cause of their downfall. Almost all the characters from The Iceman Cometh are shown indulged in their own ‘pipe dreams’ which restricted them from doing anything and from facing the realities of life. Thus the escape from reality is the real cause of tragedy.

1.2.13

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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VIKAS SWARUP’S NOVEL Q & A: A POSTMODERN BILDUNGSROMAN

SUNIL KRUSHNA GONDHALI

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The primary goal of this research paper is to apply the terms ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘Bildungsroman’ to examine how they are relevant to the present novel which focuses on the psychological, educational, physical and moral growth of the protagonist from an orphan childhood to youth. This research attempts at evaluating the title of the novel Q & A as questions and answers for a common Indian man. The present research paper attempts at highlighting an extremely pessimistic and realistic view of life of protagonist. It also aims at examining the psychological intelligence of a leading character for acquiring education informally and applying that to the crucial situations occurring in his life.
Keywords: Postmodernism, Bildungsroman, Psychology, Identity.

1.2.14

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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DESDEMONA: DISMAL DISPOSITION IN DOWNRIGHT DAYS

SURESH D. SUTAR

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Art is the vision of a sensitive soul that with the wings of imagination always aspires to heal human life. It takes us to our origin, brings us into the present and compels us to dream for fine future. Men of letters like Shakespeare have always figuratively fought for the justice in their tragedies by revealing the pungent plight of fair and fragile female. Detail delineation of Desdemona in ‘Othello’ speaks a lot. Not the Boss but submissive servant is many times right though the servant is unwilling to unveil and utter the fact. House is transformed into home by the fixed point of a compass in the family and not the moveable one who tours tirelessly away from home mostly for his own gains. Still, the wife (a fixed point) is always compelled to be flat and always loyal to the husband, to the gifts given by him and to the home built by him that he asserts persistently. The wife is all the time tied with a golden chain to the pillar of the house. On the contrary, the husband (a movable point) has been intentionally given almost a liberated license to do much injustice to his wife by all means granted by the so-called patriarchic society. Desdemona in ‘Othello’ lives and dies for the other who is her rich father, a Venetian senator in the beginning and her jealous husband later. It reveals the fact that lack of poetic justice again underscores the dismal disposition of Desdemona.
Keywords:  Art, God,   Mythology, Monalisa, suffering, fair female.

1.2.15

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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REMEDIAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IMPROVES THE LEARNING OF DYSLEXIC STUDENTS - A PRAGMATIC VIEW

R. VANITHA
DR V. UNNIKRISHNAN

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It is an accepted truth that many children are suffering from various forms of Dyslexia.   And they are facing academic failure even though they have high IQs.  Their learning problem is making it difficult for them to compete with other normal children.  If it is undiagnosed or those children are not helped in right time, their condition severely affects their academic improvement and the children mostly develop HDAD/ADD related problems.   This study aims to explore new ways in which the dyslexic children can be helped by the English Language Teacher.   So that they can fare well academically.
KEY WORDS: Dyslexic children, English Language Teaching, Remedial Teaching.

1.2.16

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THEME OF PROSTITUTION IN PRATAP SHARMA’S “A TOUCH OF BRIGHTNESS”

KAMALAKAR B. GAIKWAD
VIJAY D. SONGIRE

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Pratap Sharma, the winner of Sahitya Akademi Award is a versatile dramatist in Indian writing in English. His plays reflect the contemporary reality in the society. He has handled the controversial issues like prostitution, premarital sex, poverty, identity, myth etc. He is one of the most outstanding dramatists who have the rare talent to investigate the problems in the society and to dramatize them on the stage. The present paper discuses his major play “A Touch of Brightness” which was banned for seven years. The paper focuses on the central character Rukmini, a prostitute who is a victim of age old Indian custom Devdasi and her vulnerable situation on the account of the selfish purpose of flesh trading community. "A Touch of Brightness" (1964) centres around Rukmini, a girl sold to a brothel in Mumbai and her relationship with Pidku, a street urchin, who makes some fruitless efforts to free her from the clutches of Bhabhi Rani as a prostitute. But she plainly denies eloping with him. Finally in the course of time Rukmini dies due to disease like Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Rukmini mesmerizes Pidku with her visionary stories of the gods and her dreams of a married life as the wife of the blue god Krishna. Even in a brothel, her extravagant optimism never ceases but only deepens. She ties a coloured thread round his right wrist, in the traditional way of raksha-bandhan, thus adopting him as a brother for life.
Key words:  prostitution, brothel, social reality, sufferings, exploitation, optimism,

1.2.17

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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ACTION RESEARCH: BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE

DR TASNEEM ANJUM

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There is mismatch between the English needs of the society and the English education provided by the educational institutions. Even after 10-15 years of systematic teaching of English as a core subject the average Indian graduate seldom possesses English speech and communication skills. When they are required English to use English in interaction, they fail miserably in communication. The demand-supply gap in the English education scenario of the country manifests in the sprouting up of Institutes of English and the so called spoken English Classes. But their phenomenal growth all throughout India is an index of the failure of the English language teaching system in the educational institutions. This negative fallout of the English language teaching can be minimized if the institutions and teachers take up the English language skills enhancement task systematically by action-research.

1.2.18

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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WRITING FOR E-LEARNING

NUTAN ERATHI
DR K. MADHAVI REDDY

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Over the years, writing has evolved continuously, right from the scripts on the walls of caves, to the pages of the books and to the pages or screens of an e-book.  This change has emerged out of continuous thinking process and its practical applicability.  Similarly, writing is also a continuous thought process. Any piece of scripts in written form is used to convey a message or provide a message. A script is always produced keeping in mind, the end user who would read it.  Messages could be through any medium, books, magazines, religious or holy books, newspaper, handouts, pictures and so on. Each of these medium have the capacity to make the reader sit through and read the message and acquire knowledge. For each of these mediums, the age, interest, message to convey and how you convey them are the prime parameters behind every writing process.

 

This paper discusses how writing skills can be improved and train people in the orgnisations to make them eligible to design courses for learners in the classrooms or a web based mode. This writing   varies from the regular writing for academics, text books, novels or newspapers. Today, reading is not limited to books or papers alone, reading is happening in a variety of different ways, like mobile chats, social media, blogs, ebooks, etc. This paper will also serve as a guide for people or content writers or instructors who are looking to explore the new platform to train people online and to do so would requires specific writing skills and address the needs of learners. The target audience for any online course can be anyone who are either located globally or within your area or region and who are adults. Writing to train them in order to help them acquire the desired skills, knowledge and develop a change in behaviours as a result of the course is challenging and interesting.
Keywords: Content, Technology, E-learning / CBT Writing, Effective, Words, Powerful

1.2.19

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS: EDUCATIONAL PERCEPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION

SEEMA DHOBLE

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A great challenge before the educator/academician is prepare a student to be successful at the work place.  Engineers/Technicians/Management graduates, who are seeking jobs outside, complain about competition and the problem of unemployment. Industries complain about the lacking of academic and non-academic logic in the fresher. But it is not the problem of unemployment or academic knowledge but lack of employability skills.

The prime focus of this paper is to provide a strong theoretical foundation and a practical understanding of employability skills with a view to enhance students’ ability for improved and effective pedagogies. It starts with need of employability skills in business, explaining further the academic perception of the same. It discusses skills like leadership, team building, time management and communication skills. The paper offers actual classroom implementations of teaching of the skills.
Keywords: employability, soft skills, workplace, success, industries, academicians, educational institutions etc.

1.2.20

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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TEACHING RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS WITH THE HELP OF TECHNIQUES

GANESH B. MUNDHE

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The purpose of this paper to scrutinize the teaching Language skills in English. The purpose of learning a language is to enable students to communicate in language. Language skills are learned more effectively in classroom or anywhere. There are four skills in English Language one is the receptive and another is the productive skill. In receptive skills, it includes two skills listening and reading skills and in productive skills, one is speaking and writing. Listening and reading fall under the category of receptive skills. While listening we understand the spoken language and we understand the written language while reading. Speaking and writing are productive skills, while learning these productive skills.                                               ÂÂ

Key Words - Reading, Speaking, Writing, Productive, techniques, Language

1.2.21

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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RAINER MARIA RILKE AS A THINKER: A STUDY OF DUINO ELEGIES

SANDEEP KUMAR SHARMA

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Rainer Maria Rilke is generally known as one of the most influential and remarkable poets in the sphere of world poetry. In 1912, Rilke began the poem cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain unfinished for a decade because a long-lasting creativity crisis. The outbreak of First World War surprised Rilke during a stay in Germany but he was unable to return to Paris where his property was confiscated and auctioned. The Duino Elegies are intensely religious, mystical poems that weigh beauty and existential suffering. The poems employ as rich  symbolism of angels and salvation but not in keeping with typical Christian interpretations. Rilke wrestles with the problems of isolated self-conscious human in search of a new unity with existence.
Key Words:    Duino Elegies, Orpheus, Philosophy, Symbols.

1.2.22

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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HEALING THE SCARS OF SLAVERY: REFLECTIONS IN 18th CENTURY LITERATURE AND BEYOND

DR SANGITA GHODKE

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The main theme of the present paper is the socio-economic, religious and psychosomatic encounters in the literature written about the Slaves and the Oppressed. The paper is an attempt to explore psychosomatic and socio-economic consequences of the forced slave trade of eighteenth century through literature of the sufferers of Africa and America. Eighteenth century has been condemned for the scars and stigma of full-fledged slave trade. The European nations and the American States were the dominant players of the cruel inhuman but commercially motivated slave trade and socially and economically weak populace from the continents like Africa were the tragic sufferers. The present paper is divided into four parts: (i) origins of slavery, (ii) slave trade and its religious implications in Africa and America, (iii) the survey of the slave narratives with illustrations of healing the scars of slavery from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and (iv) present day scenario of neo slavery. The paper attempts to elaborate socio-economic and religious interests of the masters and psychosomatic problems of the slaves of the eighteenth century. All the philosophers and social reformers have guided the humanity by being virtuous. The concluding part will try to highlight guiding principle and spiritual path of enlightenment shown by Mahatma Gandhi from India, Martin Luther King Junior from the USA, Nelson Mandela from South Africa and Dalai Lama from Tibet by becoming non-violent and righteous. (words- 231)
Key Words: Slave Trade, African Americans, Masters, marginalized, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Virtues and Vices

1.2.23

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE VACANAS OF SARVAJNA TR. BASAVARAJ NAIKAR

DR. I. K. SARMA

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BOOK REVIEW

If ever a comprehensive history of Indian literatures in English is written, the name of Professor Basavaraj Naikar should be written in bold letters. During his teaching career he used both parts of his mind with equal efficiency: one part took care of literary criticism, another of translation. In the latter area he endeavoured to project the major works of leading religious figures of his linguistic region i.e. Karnataka.

 


1.2.24

Area of Article : TRANSLATION

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AS THE NIGHT DEEPENS - A Bengali short story by Pracheta Gupta

SUBHAJIT BHADRA

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TRANSLATION

The doctor remained silent for a while. Then he lifted his face and said, “Stop studying at night. Don’t read at night.”

Frightened, I replied, “How can that be possible, doctor? Old habits die hard. This habit of studying deep into the night has stayed on since the college days. Life will take turns if I give up the habit.”

The doctors are usually sparing in laughing. As if their personalities will take a beating if they do so. Sometimes patients get to their nerves if they watch a doctor smile too often. They talk unnecessarily more than what is needed. My doctor laughed a little. Perhaps he enjoyed my frightened face.

1.2.25

Area of Article : INTERVIEW

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An Exclusive Interview of a Brilliant Translator and Interpreter MARIE-EVE RACETTE, Ottawa, Canada

DR SANGITA GHODKE

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INTERVIEW

Marie-Eve Racette lives in Ottawa, Canada. She is an interpreter, erstwhile translator, entrepreneur, free-lance writer, an independent traveller and a gentle human being. She is a combination of sharp intellect and beautiful mind. Let me unravel a dynamic multifaceted personality through an interview.

1.2.26

Area of Article : POEM

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DISCOVERING OUR OWN DIVINITY

DR R. MANJULA

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POEM

DISCOVERING OUR OWN DIVINITY

1.2.27

Area of Article : POEM

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LET US BREAK THIS INVISIBLE WALL !

MOHINI GURAV

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POEM

LET US BREAK THIS INVISIBLE WALL !

1.2.28

Area of Article : POEM

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TRIBUTES TO ABDUL KALAM

DR R. MANJULA

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POEM

TRIBUTES TO ABDUL KALAM