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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 8 , ISSUE - 4  ( JULY-AUG  2022 )

RANJNA SHARMA; DR. KAVITA TYAGI & DR. RASHMI GUPTA

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Bharati Mukherjee has portrayed her protagonists as agonists who fail to adjust with anyone even with those important people who act as touchstone in their life. The research paper is an attempt to throw light upon the major issues behind the tragic doom of the protagonists in both the novels. An analysis has been done of the incongruous relations of woman protagonists in the form of disparity with parents, husband, in laws, sisters and friends--in the form of self-mutilation and abnormal shifting behavior because of protagonists’ non- adaptable nature. Further, it has been highlighted how and why the bond of relationship fails at all levels and how a congenital flaw accelerates the incongruity with all. Mukherjee has tried to show that it is the high time that we should understand the mental diseases and incongruities do exist and can be cured just like any other disease and some positive steps must be taken to avoid the relationship problems from a different perspective and should accept it in a renewed manner. It ends up by showing the root cause of the incongruities of the characters pushed them to marriage bonding without judging their capability and flaw in their character.

Keywords: Agonist, Congenital Flaw, Disparity, Incongruous Relations, Self-Mutilation Behaviour                        

A V CRIMSON JEBAKUMAR

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Management is a great skill in every field.  Right from personal management to the big corporate management a special skill is required for any person or the board to make all work go with a desired outcome.  Because of managerial lapse many good results are turned out be a failure and especially in the teaching field a good class room management is highly essential to keep the education beneficial to both the students and the teaching staff. In fact a teacher plays several role in a classroom set up.  He or she operates as a leader, guide, philosopher, corrector, motivator, punisher appreciator along the primary role of educator.  There are frequent reports that suggest that teachers’ drop outs are increasing in the lack of proper classroom management from the teacher side.  Well, the teachers are under pressure especially in the modern days from every side.  However, there are techniques that could be employed in order to decrease dress and to make the classroom atmosphere friendly and effective.  This can be done only with the mutual help of both students and the teachers.

DR. SHAMRAO WAGHMARE

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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is considered as a singer of rich Kenyan culture.  Major concern of his writing is issues of culture. His writing is full of promotion of Kenyan culture, heritage and languages, which have been marginalized and suppressed by colonial power. His writing is about Kenyan characters in specified Kenyan situations, depicting traditional Kenyan world. He has also highlighted a stark picture of marginalization and exploitation of native culture by the colonial forces.  A cultural struggle between colonialism and native culture is one of the concerns of his novels. Colonialist bring Christianity with them and used as a tool to enroot in Kenya. In The River Between we find dominance of Christianity over native culture. For a spread of new culture colonial forces have used all means of suppression and exploitation. In his novel The River Between we find a tension between missionary introduced new culture and conventional Kenyan culture.

Key Words:  culture, heritage, marginalization, struggle, colonialism, Christianity, dominance, suppression.

SHANKARA REDDY P. G. & DR. CHITRA PANIKKAR

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According to Post-Disability Theory, the construction of ‘abled’ and ‘disabled’ happens at the societal level. The constructions often understand disabled characters as deviations, as deformed, inferior, abnormal and incomplete people. Representations of these disabled people are there in fictional works. The paper concentrates on the main character Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs (1869) and the representation of this character with physical disability. The paper focuses on the motive of the representation. Disabled characters are usually linked with evil traits. In literature, through the idea of the norm, deviations are constructed. Disabled fictional characters are seen as defectives of the generation. The paper attempts to reread the above text using the Disability Studies perspective, and to critique the representation of the differently-abled.

Key words: stereotype, disability, normalcy, differently abled, stigma, eugenicists, non-normal. 

DR. MANJU SHIVRAN

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In the present paper I tried to look at the current significance of the writings stirred by life and mission of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar on caste system in Hindu society. These writings could be reviewed as representation of Ambedkarite discourse in black and white and also could be viewed as modernity is reconfigured in new modes of writings in modern Indian literature. Ambedkar and his followers were essence of the social revolution. The seeds of revolution especially in cultural domain were sown in the writings stimulated by thoughts and ideology of Ambedkar. A reading of that sort of writings illustrates, perpetuates and strengthens the above said views towards these writings. My endeavor is to appreciate the current significance of this literature, through general idea of some determining approaches to the study of ambedkarite literature and to explore how the notions of human dignity, equality are central to the narratives of this literature. This paper is a step taken to the direction of studies and understanding of Ambedkarite discourse in present perspectives.

Key words: ambedkarite literature, Ambedkarite discourse, current perspectives, human dignity, equality, caste system, present perspectives etc.    

MAYURI THAKAR

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The first term in Marxist literary criticism is base us. Superstructure base in Marxism refers to economic base superstructure according to mark and Engels emerges from this base and consists of law politics, philosophy, religion art. Second one is ideology. The Shared beliefs and values held in an unquestioning manner by culture it goners what that culture deems to be normative and variable. For Marxist, ideology is determined by economics. Hegemony proposed by Italian theorist Antonio gramsci this “refers to the pervasive system of assumptions meanings and values the hub of ideologies the system that shapes the way things look what they mean and therefore what reality is for the majority of people within a given culture.

M. MURUGAN

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This paper examines cultural hybridity and cultural  identity  experience in the postcolonial context in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje has been recognized for the complex mapping of postcolonial cultural hybridexperience.Cultural hybridity, identity and otherness entangled together form a novel entity.  Sri Lankan origin Ondaatje represents a complex thematic linking of these issues; in fact, they can be seen as central preoccupations in his work. The hybrid experience that Ondaatje writes about is a contradictory one and it contains internal tensions.

DR. ASHISH PANDEY

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This paper analyses the elements of horror and comedy in the supernatural short stories of Ruskin Bond. While Ruskin Bond creates an element of supernatural thrill in his fiction, the element of comedy refrains it from becoming malevolent like the horror fiction of Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe. The setting of most of Bond’s stories is either the foothills of the Himalayas or the Tarai region of Uttarakhand.

Keywords: horror, comedy, supernatural, hills