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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 8 , ISSUE - 2  ( MAR - APR  2022 )

PROF DR. MOHD. NAZZAR & KAVITA

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Women are usually exploited and suppressed in the normal pecking order of patriarchal society. They are treated as a commodity or object in certain communities. They are suppressed, subdued and restrained in the shackles of matrimony. They are exploited physically, psychologically, economically and sexually too. A woman has to go by way of the will of her husband in her whole life. Even wedding band seems too weighty to wear not of its mass but because of her matrimonial constraints. But she wishes to liberate herself and be bold and dominant like the other sex. However there are some cases when woman does not accept meekly all the suppressions and protest against the male-dominated society to achieve her identity and place.  Sometimes she stands parallel to masculine gender or even outmaneuvers him by her wits and actions. It is seen that woman is involved in the two opposite phases of contentment and resistance, of capitulation and rebellion. Literature does show the different phases of woman’s position in the society in the different ages. John Osborne English playwright and Vijay Tendulkar, Marathi playwright have shown the woman undergoing through both the processes in his plays. If Laxmi is submissive then Champa is aggressive. Tendulkar’s Jyoti and Osborne’s Jean are described as daring resolute whereas Vijaya has been presented as alpha female who leads the male world. Alison and Sarita are made up of the same material. The paper is being designed to discuss the female characters in the famous plays of Osborne and Tendulkar by analyzing their struggle for their survival.

DR. UMESH B. BANSOD

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After a long study of 35 years of various religions, Dr.Ambedkar concluded that only the Buddhism suited to his ideology. He had declared to denounce Hinduism at people in 1935 and embraced Buddhism in 1956. The period between these two years means a lot.  He wanted a new religion, but not for spiritual salvation. His noble work BHD asserts the religion as Dr.Ambedkar thought.  ‘Buddha and His Dhamma’ is the culmination of Dr. Ambedkar’s writing .Buddhist world has accepted as ‘The Bible’. But more or less it is treated as religious document and read in the same direction.  It is the historical fact that Buddhism is not only a new philosophy but also it a reaction degraded Hinduism. Lifelong humiliations, painful experiences, and agonizing memories compelled him to think about Buddhism as new solace. The Buddha and His Dhamma ,a treatise on Buddha’s life and Buddhism , was the last work of Indian statesman and Scholar Dr.B.R.Ambedkar .The book is treated  as a holy text by Indian Buddhists and  specially  a way of living and thinking for Ambedkarites. For many of the literate it is the sole Buddhist text they own or have read .For the illiterates it is one they hear ,read aloud to  them in village and city  slums , bearing in their eyes the authority of sacred scriptures . It may not be the exaggeration to say that the present new  generation among literate Ambedkarite families grow reading The Buddha and His Dhamma.

ANIL SIDHESHWAR MOHITE & DR. G. VENUGOPAL

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Raja Rao, in his novels and Stories, he is said to have given graphic description of Indian life. He moves the readers with his excellent descriptions of the sufferings of the Indian untouchables and Hindu widows and draws vivid pictures of the exploitation of the peasants and labourers by the landlords, the plantation owners and many lenders. Rao is no doubt, a great novelist of Indo-Anglian literature, who brings before the readers a profound picture of India with the help of symbols like Kashi, cow, the Ganga, Rakhi, coconut, kum-kum, toe rings etc. He is an adept in bringing out the real emotions and feelings while writing in a foreign language. His imagery is out and out Indian. His similes and metaphors are all taken from the lives of the people who are described, and his images and symbols are drawn from common Indian objects and experiences. According to him, rice should be fine as filigree and mangoes should be yellow as gold.

Key Words: - prejudices and superstitious, incarnation of Indian sensibility, etc.

DR. D. B. WANKHADE

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Bama is the pen name of Faustina Mary Fatima Rani. It is intended to introduce Dalit writing from Tamil Nadu and also to have a cursory glance on Dalit writing across India. It will take us on the thought deeply rooted in about the character of Dalit life and writing, about the connection between activism and literature. The complicate issues from different perspectives  due to the feature of Bama's work as a Christian Dalit also as a woman writer, both of which provides a tangentially different understanding of Dalit experiences. In this paper we will know about everything of Bama's work Karukku, as a study of work as an embodiment of entire society.        

Keywords -   Self, Elements, Autobiography, Identity, Caste Crisis etc

DR. KRANTI VATS & MONIKA RAGHUWANSHI

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The prime objectives of the research paper is to analyze novel Pride and Prejudice based on its social elements based on the sociological approach, by identifying the relation between the novel and the social background of the early nineteenth century in English society based on sociological approach. This research paper belongs to a qualitative research. The sources of the data are both primary data source, which is Pride and Prejudice novel and secondary data sources, the other sources related to the analysis such as books of literary, journal articles, Ph. D. theses, etc., as well as the  virtual references.  Based on the social analysis of the novel, it can be advocated that in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen conveys a social and moral message that some people use marriage to lift up their social economic status. Besides, she reflects the social realities of the English society including social, cultural and religious aspect at late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. MLA eighth edition has been used for documentation and citations.

Keywords: social, cultural, religious, income, profession, marriage, aristocrat, social stratification, etc.

DR. SANJAY T. VITE

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After independence, a new period in Indo-English literature began. This period is characterised by what is known as contemporary Indian poetry in English or Modern Indo-Anglican poetry. Nissim Ezekiel is one of the renowned Indo-Anglican poets who stands next to Sir Aurobindo in the post-independence era and has a notable place in Indian English writings. He is a well-known poet, playwright, actor, editor, critic, journalist, and teacher all rolled into one. He was awarded a Sahitya Academy Award in 1983 and Padma Shri Award five years later in 1988 for his spectacular contribution in the field of Indian English poetry. Despite being from a Jewish background, Nissim Ezekiel is an Indian poet who writes in English. He has committed himself to Indian values, culture, people and language and Indianness has always been in his blood and writings. The usage of Indian idioms is a significant component of Indianness in Indian poetry. Indianness is a challenging task to define due to the diversity of Indian culture and languages. The Indian contemporary scene, modern urban life, Indian sensibility, human relationship, love and sex and search for identity are the major themes of his poetry. According to Adil Jussawalla, “Nissim Ezekiel is the first Indian poet consistently to show Indian readers that craftsmanship is an as important to a poem as its subject matter.” Nissim Ezekiel has experimented endlessly with form and content of his poetry. He has expertise in flawless craftsmanship which makes his poetry unique. The present paper concentrates on the selected poems of Nissim Ezekiel such as Background, Casually, Very Indian Poem in Indian English, Goodbye Party For Miss Pushpa T. S. and Night of the Scorpion to explore an aroma of Indianness and ordinary events in his poems.

Key Words: Indianness, Indian sensibility, ordinary, culture, human relationship.

DR. ASHISH PANDEY & DR. S. Z. ABBAS

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Western media distorts and misrepresents the “other” cultures and creates stereotypes much like the colonial rulers who tried to paint the natives as “savages.”Postcolonial writers and filmmakers adapted colonial and Victorian texts to write back. Although sometimes postcolonial filmmakers extend their resistance beyond adaptations, but the paper intervenes with the examples of two select cultural texts viz.Gunga Din (1939) and I Dream of Jeannie (1960), to examine how Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony can be applied to illustrate the distortion of facts by the western filmmakers.

Keywords: hegemony, distortion, culture, misrepresent, Arabs, and colonial.