PUNE RESEARCH

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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE )

 VOLUME 2 , ISSUE - 2 

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DR. GAUTAMI R. PAWAR

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The African American Women suffered triple exploitations due to Gender, Colour & Racial discrimination. This research paper is an account of the agonizing violence inflicted on the Afro-American women in the color torn, gender bias and racially plagued American society during the 1960 to 1990 towards the 20th century. It is also the reflections of the Afro-American women’s micro and macrocosm and journey from the deadly hopeless, lifeless situations and fearless battles to achieve identity equal to normal human existence in the male dominated, white Supramastic society.

Key words: - white Supramastic society, discrimination, black experiences, domestic violence, sexual violence, objectification

DR. ANUPAMA SAGAR WATKAR

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When an Indian student learns English literature, he does not inherit ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of the English culture. The teacher and the learner both have no share in culture and tradition of English people or people where English is spoken as a mother tongue or as a native language. Learners are unknown to the literary traditions also. Most of the things like architecture, movies, art, the way people relate to one another in families, the social values and the sense of humour that people share are not much known to the teacher of literature or to the student, because they are not born in the culture of the English language.

RANGANATH VNALLAN CHAKRAVARTHY

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English Language Communication Skills Laboratory, a course for undergraduate engineering students studying at colleges affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University, Hyderabad, India was introduced in August 2005. The main objective of the course is to develop students’ pronunciation, conversation, grammar and vocabulary. It would help not only for the rural and regional medium background students but also English medium students to improve their communication skills. Many students are in hesitation and worry to come on the dais to present a paper. In this paper I gave a detailed picture of the English lab syllabus, objectives and advantages to students by lab which make develops students’ communication skills in English, the problems of the students and the role of teacher in guiding students in the English lab.

SHANMUGAM
DR. V. M. SUBRAMANIAM

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The term grammar covers the proper use of words and word forms as well as the grammatical structure of phrases clauses and sentences grammatical categories that are marked by English inflectional morphology are tense, person, number, gender, case and comparison. Tense is a category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place. Tense is the grammaticalisation of time reference, often using three basic categories of “before now”, ie the past; “now”, ie the present, after now ie the future.

DR. BIPIN R. PARMAR

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Writers of contemporary Indian English fiction have expressed their great and serious concern for the loss of traditional and human values in the wake of the sweeping, Western influences and the expanding urban monstrosities. They have shown in their novels how a spiritual vacuum has formed during the transitional phase and how the old traditional values were disappearing without proper replacement by new ones. The present paper attempts to define the conflict between tradition and modernity portrayed by Kamala Markandaya in her novel, Some Inner Fury. The patriotic feelings of the Indians and their hatred towards the English rulers are highlighted through a series of conflicts among the members of a single family. This novel, on a sociological plane, brings out the arch objectives of traditional and patriotic values which keep the East and the West apart.

Key Words:  East-West encounter, oriental Diaspora, conflict

DHARMA CHAND BARAI

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Jacques Derrida, a French Philosopher, coins the term ‘Deconstruction’ which has been highly controversial yet immensely influential in much of the intellectual world on the late twentieth century, particularly in the 1970’s. Derrida’s lecture ‘Struccture, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ given at a symposium at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 marks the decentering of our intellectual universe. At this conference he was supposed to discuss the major concerns of structuralism. But his paper raises the issues of the blind spots in structuralism expressed the need to reconsider its principles. He raises the issues about the structuralist ideas like objectivity, belief in a scientific explanation behind the working of any system and faith in reason. This paper sets the poststructuralist movement in literature that is called deconstruction. He introduces with this the linguistic study of philosophical texts. He examines philosophical texts as constructs of language. He thinks language is rhetorical, fluid and unstable. His important works,i.e., his “annus mirabilis” all published in 1967 are Of Grammatology(1967), Writing and Difference(1967), Speech and Phenomena(1967) and Specters of Marx (1993).

BUSHRA WADOOD

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Dalit literature is the recording of the lives and experiences of untouchables who have been socially-ostracized by the upper-caste people of caste-ridden patriarchal society of India. Dalit literature is the testimony to the atrocities, humiliation, oppression they faced for being born in the lower-caste family.  It is the story of crushed people and their inferior position in the caste system where they have been accorded the lowest place. This paper endeavors to explore various issues related to Dalit and their lives. The focus is to understanding what it does feel to be a Dalit in a society like ours which discriminates people on the basis of one’s gender, caste, color and creed. It reinforces the need to revise and reinvent the rules of the society which denies the very basic human right to them. Bama’s Sangati has been selected to analyze myriad of problems of Dalits as it provides ample scope for it; not only scope to discuss problems but it also gives an opportunity to shed light on their culture which will help in reconstructing the mind which considers Dalits as inferior. It also examines how by adopting ethical and humane approach one can help them in reclaiming their identity and individuality.

Key Words – Marginalization, Subaltern, Triple discrimination

ISHRAT JAHAN

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In contemporary period, diaspora literature is studied from different perspectives. The emerging interest in diasporic studies has recently begun to permeate various academic disciplines, none more so than cultural studies. Diaspora is a Greek word which was used to refer the dispersion of Jews, migrated from their homeland Israel. In her Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall examined diaspora into different contexts such as ethnicity and identity. In this paper, my study will be focus on Urdu storytelling tradition 'Dastangoi' as diasporic cultural art of story-narrating which was not originated in India but brought by Mughals in 16th century. How this tradition was brought and practised by different people of different communities in each period. In contemporary period, it is being practised by Mahmood Farooqui and his group.

Keywords: Dastangoi, Diasporic art, Mahmood Farooqui, Mughals and Storytelling etc.

SUMAN CHAUDHARY

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Doris Lessing, a self-proclaimed space science fiction author through a dry, archival format of her five-novel science fiction series, Canopus in Argos: Archives interrogates metaphorical “inner” spiritual space into the cosmic “outer” space. The paper attempts at delineation of this attainment of spiritual advancement of soul through drawing parallels between author’s Cosmological planes with the “Planes of Existence” in Eastern philosophy. Lessing’s Cosmological planes are the real Zones with their physical boundaries, their own government, their weather, and rules. The paper represents that each Zone in Lessing’s world is at certain spiritual level that corresponds to a plane of existence in Esoteric philosophy, and Hindu occultism. The age-old insularities of the Zones are finally broken into achievement of spiritual growth of their inhabitant’s inner soul, and final communion with the “One” or “Brahaman”.

Key Words – Planes of Existence, Lokas in Hinduism, Cosmological Zones

DR. SANDHYA TIWARI

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The greatest challenge any English language teacher faces is to teach effective English writing. It has become a challenge because the traditional methods of teaching have not been showing promise in helping the students acquire good vocabulary and sentence construction skill. Good writing skills has proved to be the deciding factor in the process of career building of the students. Lot of research has been done, and even today, is taking place in the field of writing skill acquisition. The researchers have come up with many new ideas. In some cases the researchers have suggested implementing the traditional methods with a scientific approach. And one such method is “Extensive Reading” and sound knowledge and understanding to define objectives in any academic writing task. This article is a discourse in understanding the objectives of academic writing.

KASABE SOMNATH DEVIDAS

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GAIKWAD MAHENDRAKUMAR M. & DR. REETA HARODE

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Salman Rushdie breathes fire even in his mock-serious methods while describing the incident. His accuracy of the historical facts is unquestionable. Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) evokes multiple number of feelings at multiple levels. Human nature has a prodigious resilience. Any imbalance leads to a sense of despair, desolation and frustration. A sense of uncertainty and futility prevails. The thirst for a life-giving sap prompts the postmodernist novelists to make a gigantic attempt at depicting the reigning anarchy of the contemporary socio-political scenario in pictures, grotesque and incorrigible. The narration in such contexts runs in a surrealistic vein to sustain the grip on the audience.