Editor-in-Chief PUNE RESEARCH

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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 2.14)

 VOLUME 3 , ISSUE - 1  ( JAN-FEB  2017 )

INDEX

DR. RAJESWAR PAL

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The Girl on the Train starts with the flashback introducing the previous life of the main character of the novel, rather heroine of the novel, Rachel. She is a divorcee and lives alone with her friend, Cathy. Simultaneously she had a friend named Megan who used to work in a gallery. Rachel has no job and house. She has hired an apartment and she travels daily in the train in the morning to show herself as a working woman with job and returns in the evening. This is to show herself as earning-hand, lest her house owner should ask her to leave the house.  She wants to remain in the same colony because it is attached with her past memories of married life. She visits gallery and libraries frequently to kill her time and sometime she is seated at the public places uselessly, and sometimes goes to the pubs. Habitual of alcohol, Rachel is always dreaming about an ideal and happy life. On the way in the train, she now and then finds a couple seated on the balcony of the adjoining house, sometime drinking coffee and sometime wine. She used to live in the same colony with her ex-husband Tom and the construction of the house was the same. She imaginatively names this couple as Jason and Jess.

SEEMA BANSAL SOMANI

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The present paper deals with the problem of new forms of femininity outlining the theme of transgression as an independent discourse with special outlook and gender meaningful concepts. It reveals the implications of transgression described as the complicated socio-cultural phenomenon and the reflection of crossing the gender bar revealed in the writings of  female Indian writers. These feminist writers transgress almost identically in different native contexts and milieu to woman’s problems. The new transgressive traits as well as discourses around feminisms frame the theoretical base of this research paper. The present paper attempts to dispel some long held myths about females by suggesting a few plausible ways about the evolution and development of a transgressive woman that is more in line with present scenario.

Key Words: Discourse, Feminism, Gender ,Transgression.

S. S. SATHISHKUMAR & DR. C. ANITA

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Nigeria stands among the class of under developing society and one of the poorest nations in the world. The poor are highly depressed by the rich politicians because the politicians manipulate the poor.  This research explores the deprivation of basic needs of the poor ghetto dwellers of Nigeria. This paper aims to examine the state of corrupt politics and poverty in Nigerian ghettos with the aim of drawing the attention of policy makers to concentrate on the welfare of the Nigerian poor citizens with reference to Ben Okri’s The Famished Road.

Key Words: Poverty, Nigerian Politics, ghetto dwellers, corruption,  political violence, neo-colonialism. 

V. BALA MURALI KRISHNA

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A Nation is a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory. Nationhood is the state of being a nation, or a large group of people united by common language, culture or economic life. Nationalism loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. Looking at these definitions it is easily understood that the form of nationalism that we have in India today, living in the midst of people of different languages, religions, region, dress habits, food habits etc that the nationalism we have in India is of a unique and a peculiar nature which has been baptized as unity in diversity.

DR. DHARMAJI KHARAT

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Caste is inner and hidden discrimination whereas race is outer and open discrimination.  Inner and hidden discrimination is more dangerous than the open one.   Discrimination of gender is the experience of all families.  Every person has concern for and together all people can take a firm stand against the cases of gender discrimination happens in any part of the country and the world.  But, caste discrimination is the problem of particular groups of people and it can’t be the experience of all.  Therefore, only the victimized and marginal groups of people come together to fight against caste discrimination happens.  People belonging to non SC/ST do not standby the sufferer.  On the contrary, many educated stupid believe in caste system.

YOGESH S. KASHIKAR

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Comparative literature studies have become a respectable academic discipline today. It can be seen that comparisons have now extended over distant parts of the world. Now, Comparative literary studies provide motivation for inter-literature analyses and it functions as framework for critical observations, like - literary themes, types, movements, influences etc. It is possible to pursue comparative literary study between literary products of distant cultures. Comparative literature discusses theoretical framework method or theme by paying attention to similar frameworks in a range of languages and cultures. It is an interdisciplinary field. Its practitioners study literature across national borders, time periods, long wages, and genres and across boundaries between literature and other arts, across disciplines. In broader sense, comparative literature is the study of ‘literatures without borders.’ This research paper , by using a comparative study method , aims at to find out similarities and differences between  two regional novelists - Thomas Hardy, a famous English regional novelist and the other, Vyankatesh Madgulkar, a famous Maharashtrian regional novelist. Both of them have written novels and presented ineffable beauty and charm of selected regions. This paper is divided into three parts- first part is related with Thomas hardy ,the second with Madgulkar and the last part draws  certain conclusions by comparative methods.

Keywords: - Comparative literature, regional literature ,biography of writer, comparison, contrast, pain, portrayal of human life, destiny , genre.

RAJESH S. NITNAWARE & DR. ULKA S. WADEKAR

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Salman Rashdie is universally acclaimed as the most famous novelist who has prominently focused on the inner world of female characters in his novels. Woman plays a significant role in moulding the character and future course of man. She is equally substantial in male dominated world. Her work and fondness remains unparalleled. Even then she seems to be intentionally kept away from getting emotional attachment. In this paper an attempt is made to focus on the predicament of women characters. A sincere attempt is also made to point out Salman Rashdie’s humanistic approach towards the development of women characters and their quest for identity in the hostile world. In his novels women characters are the victims of the oppressive traditional system and they suffer from a sense of alienation. Alienation is chiefly caused due to unfulfilled love, frustration, rootlessness, disillusionment, betrayal etc. In spite of their devotion and sincerity women are intentionally avoided by men. The role of women in life of man remains unobjectionable. In the select novel Midnight’s Children Padma is the typical example of the victim of male dominant society. When Padma finds that she is being ignored, she feels disappointed and dejected. She struggles throughout her life to create her identity in the vast world.

DR. S. T. HAIBATPURE

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Shashi Tharoor’s Show Business is a novel about contemporary Indian social reality. He is an acclaimed diplomat and popular writer. He has infused the religious panorama of Indian and the picture of Indian myths. Literature has always been reflection of the society. It reflects the contemporary and everyday reality. Since the birth of the Indian novel in English, its raw material has been India.

Show Business makes a distinction between appearance and reality. It provides an ironic and satirical view of modern life. Tharoor has written pornographic novel on film industry representing unrealistic social reality in India. The imaginative reconstruction of Ashok Banjara’s life. What is represented in films thus becomes a contemporary social-reality.

DR. JYOTI RANE

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In the perception of writing in the Western philosophical tradition identified by Derrida as an exteriorized representation of speech, writing was to be distrusted because of its transmissibility and repetitiveness beyond the immediacy of voice, the presence of the subject and the origin of spoken articulation, among other things. In short, writing exceeded and thereby exposed the limits of phono and logocentrism on which logic, rationality and theology in the West are grounded. It is writing which enables differance possible to the extent imagined by Derrida. Phonocentrism arrests differance to a great extent for every revisiting of the text will be deferral – a verbatim repetition of the oral text being impossible. This makes appointment of the authentic, official repeaters (who will in fact be authors of a new text similar to the original but never the same) essential. 

DEONANDAN T. ADHAU & DR. ULKA S. WADEKAR

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India is a legendary country and its freedom movement is the most realistic event which influenced the literary writers and social reformers. Amitav Ghosh is deeply attached to the welfare of the downtrodden, helpless, and impoverished people found in society. He is undoubtedly the most conscious literary artist placing the forgotten characters at the centre of his fictions. In his novels he has blended history and fiction with his idea and philosophy that increase the interest of his readers bringing together literature, tradition, education, struggle, human sacrifices for the cause of nation. In this paper an attempt is made to show how the novelist is sympathetic and solicitous towards the subaltern and marginal characters. The present novel The Glass Palace traces the lost, suppressed, forgotten histories that have been wiped out from the memories of the people. The sacrifices of marginal figures have left inerasable impact on Amitav Ghosh. He re-narrates the lives of fictional characters with the real historical personalities, real places and events. 

B. DINESH & DR. C. ANITA

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Buchi Emecheta is one of Nigeria’s early remarkable female writers. Her legacy has created a way of inspiration for contemporary Nigerian women writers. This paper determine to study her work, focusing on the varied female representations of Nigerian female characters. As such, a complete qualitative examination of Emecheta’s works, particularly The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Kehinde (1994) and The Family (1990) reveal Nigerian female characters who challenge prescribed understandings of their roles as woman, wife and mother. Nnu Ego, Kehinde, and Gwendolen are womanist representations of Nigerian female characters who achieve their power, originality and willpower through redefining their responsibilities as women, wives, and mothers. As such, Emecheta’s female characterizations organize a tradition of women, who are strong, unaware and enable despite their varied prospects, a portrayal worthy of challenge.

B. THRIVENI & V. V. N. RAJENDRA PRASAD

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My True Faces is Chaman Nahal’s first novel. The title, which clinches the basic theme, embodies the “Yoga of Divine Glories” enunciated in the tenth chapter of the Gita. Lord Krishna says, “There is no end of My divine manifestations.”  Every human being is one of the faces of the Lord, but they should strive to be one of His “true” faces, in other words, try to be true to Him and true to themselves. 

KRISHNAMURTI SANGITA K.

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The experience of inequality in status, technically designed as marginality, among has been a part of the most poignant pictures drawn in fiction.  Inequality generally creates divisions of high or low, privileged or underprivileged, with central or marginal status given to such people in the society/community of which these classes form a part.  Such divisions are structures within which numerous atrocities are often perpetrated.  It is usual for the former to keep the later parts of society under some kind of hold, restricting their normal activities of life. It is the lot of the underprivileged to be relegated to the fringes of all meaningful interaction-taking place around them and results in a sense of deprivation.  From this the sufferer(s) acquire a sense of loss, maladjustment and directionless.

S. LAVANYA

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Detective fiction is a genre that deals with crime, its detection, revelation of the criminals, and their motives. Detective fiction and crime fiction come under the category of popular culture. The popularity of detective fiction proves that people find it an intellectual activity to involve themselves in the stories where they also try to solve the crime. They feel a route of escape when they engage in intellectual activities like these. At the end of every detective story, the private detective presents us the real killer or culprit with substantial evidences which have escaped the notice of the ordinary eyes. Whodunit originated during the Golden Age. In “Whodunit” crime fiction the puzzle and the mystery element form the central focus. The term was coined in the 1930s. Doyle’s Holmes, Poe’s Dupin and Christie’s Poirot are the well-known detectives who are unusually observant and deductive in general. Contemporary whodunit with a credible back story is gaining widespread attention among the readers. The aim of this paper is to analyse Galbraith’s novel The Cuckoo’s Calling as a contemporary Whodunit. The Cuckoo’s Calling is a 2013 crime fiction by Robert Galbraith, the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling. It is the first novel of Cormoran Strike series and was followed by two other novels – The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015). The novel’s opening paragraph sets the mood – mystery and thrilling. In the centre of the road, a corpse lies covered by a white cloth and the entire story is dedicated in finding the murderer of this dead person – Lula Landry. Robert Galbraith uses the classic conventions of Whodunit and presents the novel as a compelling contemporary whodunit suitable for the current generation.

RIZWANA PRAWEEN

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The Man Booker Prize is a prize for fiction in English. It is founded in 1969 and is financed by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate. It is awarded annually by a panel of judges for what, in their opinion, is the best full-length novel published in the last twelve months. The award is accompanied by considerable publicity and media razzmatazz. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renowned and success for this reason; the prize is of great significance of the book trade. The prize worth 50,000 GBP to the winner and each short listed author receives 2500 GBP in addition to a leather bound copy of his own book.