EDITOR IN CHIEF

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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.96)

 VOLUME 9, ISSUE - 1 ( JAN - MAR 2023 )

DR. PRASHANT J. MANDRE

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This article is focused on how T.S.Pillai portrays the socio Culture aspects in his novel Chemmeen. Culture is composed of things such as language, religious beliefs, tradition, ritual, knowledge, laws, music, work habits, food preferences, and child-rearing practices. Each social group have identifies its identity and values as unique and suitable to itself. These beliefs are taught to all children and members of a cultural group to differentiate their behaviour from those of surrounding social groups that behave in different ways. T. S Pillais greatly popular epic novel is Chemmeen or Prawns, it is not like his other works. It is a tragic love story, situated in a fishing village in Alappuzha. The Novel got him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. The film version was directed by Ramu Kariat, won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in 1965. The novel brings him international name and fame and has been translated into 19 languages and adapted into film in 15 countries.

Key Words: Culture, T.S.Pillai, Chemmeen, religious conflicts, Caste system, Love, Hindu 

ANU KOCHUTHRESIA

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This review paper probes for postcolonial components in E.M. Forster's novel "A Passage to India" (1924). In essence, it inspects how the "coloniser" treats the "colonised." In order to offer postcolonial studies and elucidate on its particulars involving the cultures of both the coloniser and the colonised, an earnest effort is undertaken. This paper integrates postcolonial theory to the analysis of the novel in order to gain a greater understanding of the postcolonial traits depicted. Due of racial tensions and cultural misunderstandings, Forster focused on the distinctions between Native Americans and Anglo-Indians. According to Forster's narrative, the Indians were inferior and backward while the British were superior and technologically advanced. Many Indians saw most British people as inferior to local Indians and undeserving of friendship, despite the fact that most British people thought themselves to be condescending. Forster portrays both good and bad-natured characters from both cultures in this novel, with an emphasis on how and why the British should provide Indians their territorial freedom so that all groups may cohabit contentedly. The present essay emphasises the gap between British and Indian people that will never be bridged. The study suggests that both cultures would have coexisted peacefully if the supposedly superior British had treated native Indians with equal status and love. (Nihel 1)

KEYWORDS: Otherness, Orientalism, Alterity, ambivalence, alterity or otherness, postcolonialism 

ALPHONSE AUGUSTINE

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In India, a country with different languages, diverse culture, religion and tradition, television plays an important role in entertaining, informing and educating the people of every section of the country. At present, a large number of television channels are being produced in almost every language to fulfil the quest of the people and attract large chunks of audience through soap operas or mega serials. These segments are the major source of income for television channels and have proved more consistent and effective in drawing sustainable viewer interest. The review-based study of related literature shows that there is a trajectory in the phase of development of Indian Television in the context of politics of representation of women. The present paper explores the unfolding facts about the history of soap operas in Indian Television in the context of erecting and transmitting new women codes in prime-time soap shows.

Keywords: Culture, Media, codes, Soap Opera, Television, Representation

SWATI HARIT

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Equality is only a Utopian ideal which practically exists neither in the deep dark forests nor in the most civilized and developed human cultures. Inequality and discriminations have always been there on one basis or the other but the worst and almost universal is gender discrimination which has been in almost all the ages. Socializers who give secondary position to women and consider it as predestined often cite from scriptures and literature to evade the human responsibility. According to the Bible, God created the man first, and when he felt lonely the Lord God created the woman from the man's rib only after all the animals proved inadequate companions (Gen 2:18-23). The words, "suitable helper" in verse 18 have traditionally been interpreted to imply a functional subordination of the woman to the man as part of God's design in creation and even the emphasis of Adam's outburst that she is "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" (v. 23) also emphasize that man is possessor and therefore has the right to dominate. Moreover, considering Eve responsible for Adam's fall, God utters a three-part curse on her promising her increased labour pain and further adds, "your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." (Gen 3:16) It is believed that it was from here that in human relations the notion of possession, dominance and submission first appeared. Manu is also often (mis)quoted to have supported this notion that woman should never be left independent; she should be under the control of father before marriage, husband after marriage, and sons during old age.

SPHURTI DESHPANDE & DR. BHARATI KHAIRNAR

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Kamala Das was one of the most prominent feminist voices in the post-colonial era. ‘An Introduction’ is one of the most well-known poems written by her. The title of the poem suggests that it is a formal presentation of oneself. The poem is a detailed account of Kamala Das’ life and suffering. The use of self-expression, suggests that the poem has an autobiographical touch.   The emotional condition and her feelings are also expressed in detail. She starts her poem with the period when she was born with Political references in India. She expressed her childhood, her young age, male dominance, and sexual hunger with her emotional sufferings.  The poem has sixty lines but there is no stanza form or no rhyme scheme used in the poem. The poem is an example of free verse. Kamala Das has her own style of writing poems. She expresses her feelings with the use of lexical items and the structure of the poem. Indian theme has been expressed with lexical, syntactic, and phonological structure.

Keywords Feminism, confessional poem, Indian theme, male domination, lexical deviation, syntactic deviation, free verse and woman psychology 

K. BALASUBRAMANIAN & V. SHEELA

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English Language teachers play a vital role in teaching- learning process. In the post- Modern era, EFL teachers face many challenges in order to achieve their effectiveness in teaching language .According to the perspective of students at college; the characteristics of ELT teacher might be differ for each learner. The teaching quality of ELT teachers promotes the learning process effectively by the terms of professional and pedagogical quality in them. Teachers should competent enough to demonstrate the best of professionalism and perform all the activities in their curriculum to bring better change in today’s student language outcomes. This paper attempts to explore the qualities of EFL teachers as perceived by students include classroom instructional skills, pedagogical knowledge and socio- cultural background based on the existing framework of today’s education system in Indian context. The study further revealed that the need of English proficiency to expose the quality of students through communication skill by language learning through ELT teachers to get employability and enhance the quality of learning whereas, Non- native speakers of English are largely involved in learning process of English language. Teachers need to be more update with advanced and progressive nature of language teaching methods. The major theme discussed in the paper merely on professional competent, professional need and professional commitment. The findings will indicate the effective teaching and learning process depends on effective teaching and helps students to get job and continue higher education by perusing TOEFL AND IELTS  .Institutions, policy makers and stakeholders should understand the qualities of EFL  teachers at college level  is indispensible for effective teaching and important to the success of the educational system at large.

Keywords: English Language Teaching teachers, English as a Foreign Language teacher, pedagogical knowledge

DR. G. NARAYANASAMY

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The issues of identification can be on many levels: psychological, sociological, linguistic, cultural and emotional and the extent to which identification has been achieved on all these fronts will qualify how complete one's assimilation has been to the new surroundings. In the post-modern climate the notion of America as a melting pot of different cultures, ethnic identities and proletarian claims, presents migrants as economic refugees in their social displacements where their cultural and national identities struggle in cultural hybridity. The host society to immigrants from many lands is a melting pot of cultures, where the expatriates become immigrants truly breaking the umbilical cord with their homeland.

Keywords Desirable Daughters, psychological, sociological, linguistic, Cultural and Emotional

Dr. PARUL TYAGI

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Throughout literary history, witches are often seen in one particular light: vengeful, powerful and evil. While the word “witch” has its etymological roots in Old English, the concept has prototypes much older and geographically widespread. There is a myriad of witch stories, one of which is about Circe a Goddess witch from the heroic text Odysseys by Homer and her golden-haired sister Pasiphae. One with wild passions for Glaucos and an enchantress behind the sea monster Scylla. While the other sister, the queen of Crete and mother of Minotaur, a two-horned beast. The paper explores Madeline Miller’s Circe a myth and a strongly uphold adaption of Homer’s classic poem The Odyssey. It is told from the perspective of the witch of Aiaia, the daughter of Helios, Circe. This paper examines the comparative study of the characters: Circe and Pasiphae.

Keywords: Greek Mythology, beauty, women as objects, body.

VIPIN BEHARI GOYAL

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After Marxism the major philosophy that has affected the social thinking and cultural transformation is Existentialism. According to this philosophy, life is meaningless but a quest in human being exists to impart it a meaning. Majority of people think that happiness in love can quench the thirst of quest. Thus, quest for meaning is actually quest for love, which can make our life happy.  In Existentialism the joy of love is when we feel secure in our possession of one another and find the meaning of our lives in and through the other person. Love may be authentic or unauthentic. Inauthentic love is an Existential Threat. If lover wants to merge his/her individuality in the beloved it is Bad Faith since lover does not want to evade the responsibility that love requires. Romantic love is an illusion. Sincerity expressed by lovers as a desire for total unity is catastrophic. Romantic love is 'Being-for-others' oriented. The being-for-others is how I see myself when I feel the gaze of another. It is not 'one's being as it exists in the consciousness of another.  In the play No Exit by Sartre is a dramatic embodiment of the problem of being-for-others and the project of love. Mere physical possession of the Other is no gratification, the lover expect the beloved to direct his/her consciousness in a particular way and reduce other's freedom. If one continually chooses itself to be possessed or the lover wants to be loved by Other by possessing his freedom is inauthentic love. The beloved wants to be the nucleus or the meaning and purpose of the life of the Other. A purpose so high that he is ready to forgo his freedom for that.Like romantic love the hate is also Other related. It is another aspect of being-for-others. To be isolated by indifference is an ideal adopted by Hindu ascetics also. Romantic love is not a candle light dinner only it is source of distress and delights both. "An authentic love is based on "reciprocal recognition of two freedoms"(Beauvoir). In the core of romantic love lies sexual desire. Kierkegaard identifies love with caring. Love can be understood in relation to a deeper existential structure.  

DR. SOMAPALYAM OMPRAKASH

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East -west encounter has been a theme in a number of novels that have appeared in Indian writing in English. Mulk Raj Anand R.K Narayan Raja Rao and a number of novelists of India have addressed the theme in their novels and short stories. Mulk Raj Anand in his novel Untouchable speaks about the theme through the characters of Bakha, an untouchable sweeper boy and the character of missionary who tries to convert him to Christianity. Bakha ends up taking the names of Hindu Gods such as Lord Ram and Krishna. Raja Rao also in his novels Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope talks about the theme. He through the characters of Ramaswami and Madeliene throws light on the encounter between the east and the west. Ramaswami is from India who goes to France to peruse his education and meets a French girl Madeliene, who is interested in Indian philosophy. Their relationship ends abruptly as they fail to adjust with each other. Various other writers like Bhabani Battacharya Nayanatara Sehgal Khushwant Singh have addressed these issues in their works.