Editor-in-Chief PUNE RESEARCH

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DR. V SRINIVAS & C. PRAVEEN KUMAR

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Gender-based inequalities in India are much prevalent which lead to hamper the growth of balanced nature of life. In India, demography indicates gender differences include sex ratios at birth, infant and child discrimination by sex, and low ages at marriage for women. The present paper is an attempt to focus on empirical status of gender as a curriculum in the form of towards a world of equals having the twin goals; gender equality and women empowerment today. It also delves into challenges and opportunities that can be harnessed among Indian youth as fact that India and its society has a herculean task of empowering women to provide them the scope and to prepare them for a safe and productive future.

Keywords: Women in India, Problems and Issues, Gender Inequality, Modern India Problem, Teaching Method

AMEEN ALI MOHAMMED AL-GAMAL

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A speech act is an utterance that serves a function in communication such as apology, request or compliment. The present paper is a sociolinguistic study which attempts to investigate the compliment responses employed by Yemeni Arabic speakers. For the purpose of the study, data were collected through the use of written Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs hereafter) introduced by Herbert in (1989), with four situational settings. A total of 45 students from different universities in Yemen participated in the study. Findings revealed that the group employed a variation in the use of strategies responding to compliments elicited by situational settings. In this study, the researcher tried to find out the types of complement responses used by speakers of Yemeni Arabic variety. Since the participants were males and females, he tried to find out the types of compliment responses preferred by both gender. He concluded his study by looking at the similarities and differences between males and females when responding to compliments given in the form of questionnaire. The researcher found out that the males and females of Yemeni Arabic variety did not use all types of compliment response strategies such as "Comment History" type. However, both genders preferred the "Appreciation Token" and "Return" types of compliment response.   

Keywords: compliment, compliment response, speech acts, Yemeni Arabic speakers

NAYAKWADI DIVYA

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RAHANA MANSUR

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Heteronormativity and gender stereotyping over the course of years have succeeded in its attempt to crush the existence of any alternative gender. The patriarchal hegemonic system has denied the queers of their existence and identity by projecting the distorted images in their art and literature, thereby creating homophobia and social exclusion, often reducing them as mere uncouth beings deprived of morality, culture and dignity. The need to address the actual issues of LGBTQI folks however was made possible through Facebook posts as it ensure greater social reception and visibility. Dr. Jijo Kuriakose, Vaikhari Aryat, Muhammed Zuhrabi, Sheethal Shyam and Chinju Aswathi however subvert the hegemonic power paradigm of the heteronormative society by projecting the real queer identity and hence ensures social inclusiveness. Their posts expose the double standards and hypocrisies of heterosexual community and reveal the struggles and trauma underwent by LGBTQI community in Kerala. The study focus on issues of gender, sexuality, migration, isolation and identity crisis in the Facebook posts of select queer activists across Kerala.

DR. H. L. NARAYAN RAO

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There is a specific broad consensus among us, that we ought to have education. Education make us to realize the importance of our life, it teaches us the art of living in the society, we learn civility, politeness, responsibility, generosity, tolerance etc., Educational experts and authors stress its value to the individual, emphasizing its potential for positively influencing students' personal development, promoting autonomy, forming a cultural identity, or establishing a career or occupation. Other analysts and authors emphasize education's contributions to societal purposes, including good citizenship, shaping students into productive members of society, thereby promoting society's general economic development, and preserving cultural values and ethics.

S. KIRUBA JOHNSON

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Web based language learning (WEB) makes the learner learn more effectively with the use of a computer. Through web we can access a very large collection of documents, pictures, sounds, etc stored on computers in many different places by Internet. YouTube website is one of the most usable online tools.  It can be used to learn language effectively these days.  This paper discusses how YouTube Language Learning Videos (LLV) in web based language learning can be used in addition to the English language classroom for effective language learning. 

Keywords: YouTube Language Learning Videos (LLV), Digital literacy, Internet

G. PRIYANKA

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English is the lingua franca.  It is also the official language in most of the countries.  Thus the importance of English in the present day context cannot be denied.  To learn a language and use it effectively one must have a strong vocabulary.  But, building vocabulary is not a simple thing.  One of the best ways to make it simple is by using technology.  This paper discusses the ways in which vocabulary can be developed using visuals inside classroom.  This method would interest them and also would reach them better.

Keywords: visuals, vocabulary, technology.

NARENDRA S. TAYADE & UMESH G. TAYADE

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Ompraksh Valmiki’s Joothan: A Dalit’s life is his autobiography which provides us information about the pains of his community. Though autobiography as a literary form delineates individual’s life, Dalit autobiography is rather distinct experience. In this autobiography Valmiki portrays his humiliated life; his painful story of eating leftover food to survive. He gets insulted for leftover food just because he was born in a caste Chuhra. Since he belongs to low caste he was suffered from caste biased mentality. Being Hindu he was declined human rights by the so called upper caste Hindus. His school experiences are horrid, full of pangs and unimaginable. The aim of the paper is to study the narration of pains Valmiki had gone through. 

Key words: Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki, Pain, narration

V. PRABHAKAR RAO

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This article looks at figurations of the “chronicle “ in play Tale-Danda composed and performed in India  keeping in mind the end goal to investigate how and to what extent ‘tradition', differently explained as a strategy, asset, and explanatory gadget, can serve the premiums of pluralism and non-sectarianism in a multi-religious and multicultural society. It takes as its perspective late hostile to innovator social scrutinizes of left-liberal scholastic talk on secularism in India that underscore the disappointment of such exchanges to draw in with the past the prohibitive dualistic ideal models of Enlightenment thought. Author Girish Karnad complex discourse with the past focus on the convention of bhakti as exemplified in progressive twelfth-century social development credited to the lessons of the spiritualist holy person Basaveshwara, Karnad's attempt appears to soften these well- established generalizations up request to train, lift and free customary mankind. As a screenwriter, he is well aware of the significance of dramatic gadgets in the plays And without a doubt, his theater has been indicated Indian show during that time has been one of the methods for discovering as how an individual can accomplish an ideal human existence– social, social, political, material and profound. The establishment of energetic plays in the cutting edge Indian theater.

Key Words:  Tradition, Indian myth, religious conviction, theater, class.

SUHASH S.

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Shakespeare has been able to enter every age with his plays, poems and sonnets, he has been a great mystery from his days to today, not only him but also his friend Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare is still a mystery because people find it hard for someone as Shakespeare to be a person who would bring a great change to the world especially because he was not allowed to continue Grammar School because he was considered weak in grammar, also his capability to think so much about the people around him and also about the people who are from other countries, it is no simple task to gather information and to learn from different scholars of different nations but Shakespeare learned with one of his greatest stronghold’s that is ‘Passion’ and this helped him to be persistent to seek knowledge, he later did his research and also learnt a lot from Christopher Marlowe’s plays which inspired him to write better plays, Shakespeare while writing his plays or poems always had fixed ‘endings’ and wrote plays according to his endings. Shakespeare from all his works can be considered an empath in today’s world for the term empath was not given much preference in those days. Shakespeare's quotes have been used by most people in the world and it teaches us not only about his experience in life but also the underlining meaning of empathy.

DR. PAWAN KUMAR

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Every creative artist adopts an effective mode to give expression to the felt style. These modes of expression vary from person to person depending upon his/her perspective, the subject content and above all the writer’s degree of maturity and expertise.  The themes of woman’s existence, identity and survival found prominent place in the writings of the novelists such as Nayantara Sehgal, Shashi Deshpande and Anita Desai.  Sehgal deals with man-woman relationship and the unequal status of women in Indian Society; the long suppressed silence of women find due voice in works of Shashi Deshpande whereas Anita Desai depicts the psychological state of lonely women.

DR. ABHISARIKA PRAJAPATI

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Haider is an ambitious film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet by Vishal Bhardwaj. It is a recreation of the narrative of Hamlet in different time, space and genre. It is a daring effort on two levels-first, adapting the most serious tragic play of a legendry dramatist and second, executing it in the most sensitive scenario of Kashmir where it gets new relevance and fresh urgency. Haider, as a young man returns home to Kashmir after receiving news of his father’s disappearance. His character has also been delineated as a scholar and thoughtful man like Hamlet. My paper is a sincere attempt to propagate and explore the points in Haider where we get tremendous opportunity to interpret and reinterpret the text of Hamlet from a different perspective. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play of high seriousness and Haider too maintains that seriousness in dealing with Kashmir’s issue and Kashmiris’ dilemma. It has given vent to the pendulating condition of the people grappling with identity crisis amid the chaotic social and political milieu. It leaves us with a charming cinematic experience with a pivotal intellectual exercise in an entirely distinct cultural background. Haider jokes about the word ‘chutzpah’, mispronounced as ‘chootspaa’ and making a homophone with ‘AFSPA’ is more than a daring deed of recreation. This film transmutes Hamlet, a disturbed soul into Haider with unprecedented fearlessness. It is intentionally designed, seems to me, to point its finger at the gruesome reality of the Valley. Moreover, it provides a platform for a new perusal of the narrative of much discussed play Hamlet in the gamut of literature and art.

UMESH G. TAYADE

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Biologically man himself is an animal, if we overlook the improved, polished and developed vocal faculty he has painstakingly acquired in the course of his evolution and his praiseworthy burning and thirsty mental qualities which he very cleverly has used to call himself civilized human. He calls the other lives on the planet as grocer animals, which very thinly differs in kind from the human beings. Man has never ceased to be an integral part of the surroundings he lives in. This is especially true to the enchanting animal world which encompasses the whole existence of humans. Animals are an inseparable part of human life and imagination. He has been made to live here with this world of animals and share the bounties of life. The presence of the animals in human mind and thought reflects itself in arts, culture, religion, literature, science etc. which is an example of indelible impact of animal kingdom upon human life and psyche. Literature in particular is a treasure house of the bond between humans and animals. Indian English Literature is rapt with direct and indirect references to the animal world. From the writings of Jim Corbett’s ‘ Man Eaters of Kumaon’, ‘ Jungle Lore’ Rudyard Kipling’s ‘ The Jungle Book’, and Valmiki Thapar’s writings like ‘Wild Fire’ etc. are an  apparent example. These books and writings are devoted to animal world solely. Being an inherent part of the whole existence animals have been partners and friends of the Homo sapiens. Here in this piece of an article we will sincerely try to discover the physical and psychological impact and impression of animal world in the writings of R.K. Narayan In literature animals are represented as different and inferior to the human beings or the Homo sapiens. Dealing with the representation of animals in literary text is broadly termed as Zoo criticism, a branch of Ecocriticism. The term Ecocriticism implies the close study of the environment concerns in literature and the way literature treats the subject of environment. Zoocriticism brings before readers the novel and not seen before images of the animal world.

MANJU SHIVRAN

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This paper is an attempt at exploring man’s struggle to contain primal instincts and existence of primal instincts today in human nature. For the purpose of this paper I have chosen The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson which traces the elements of primal instincts in human behavior. R  L Stevenson was a prominent writer in the Victorian period.  

The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde deals with Henry Jekyll who is widely respected, successful and a brilliant intellect but is only too aware of primitivism of the life that he leads and of the evil that resides within him. Dr Jekyll covertly provides utterance to the evil in his soul by various unspeakable acts, but is afraid of the social criticism. During his experiments, he was able to create a concoction that enables him to free this evil in him from the control of good self, thus giving rise to Edward Hyde. . Both in body and soul Edward Hyde is completely different from Dr Henry Jekyll.

Key Words: Primal instinct, human, nature,  unconscious,  mind. 

DR. PRIYANKA MISHRA

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The play centres on the historical figure of Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq, a Muslim king of the Tughlaq dynasty who ruled from Delhi over large parts of Northern and Central India during the period 1325 to 1351. The play aptly fuses history and fiction. History, in the form of the political career of Tughlaq, forms the main plot; fiction forms the subplot of the play in the creation of the pair Aziz and Azam, a dhobi (washerman), and a pickpocket, respectively. The play fashions the character of Tughlaq as an ambitious king who wants to build a grand empire and manoeuvre his citizens to think as he does. To that end he devises the grand schemes of transferring his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, and introduces a new currency system. A lover of the game of chess, Tughlaq symbolically moves his political pawns without ethics or morality. Karnad has portrayed Tughlaq as a secular ruler who abolished jiziya a tax on Hindus who lived under the Muslim rule for the betterment of his people and kingdom. But, he and his secular ideas are not understood by the people around him because his ideals are far beyond the comprehension of his contemporaries and much in advance of his time. The main plot enacts the fall of an ambitious autocrat in Tughlaq, the subplot presents an ordinary dhobi manipulating for his own benefit the schemes introduced by the king which reflects mighty power of contemporary king, Tughlaq and his follower to the common people.

Keywords:- Mighty Power, Secular ruler, Ambitious king.

SHOWKAT HUSSAIN DAR

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T. S. Eliot is a classicist in literature and supports orderliness both in art and criticism. He rejects impressionistic criticism of Arthur Symons and philosophical abstract and intellectual criticism of Arnold. He is the critic who was a creative artist first. He is in the tradition of English poet-critics from Sidney to Arnold. He is one of the greatest literary critics of England. He is the most influential critic of the modern age. He is like Dryden for most of his criticism is written in the form of prefaces to his works with the purpose of justifying his own poetic creations. As a critic Eliot speaks with authority and conviction. He had the rare gift of expressing his thoughts in lucid, striking, pointed and trenchant phrases as, “objective correlative,” “disassociation of sensibility” and “tradition and the individual talent.” Eliot does not accept didacticism or any other use of poetry as a necessary condition of poetic art. To him, poetry is an amusement. He believed that the function of criticism is the elucidation of art and the correction of taste and to bring back the poet to life. A key concept in the criticism of Eliot is that he constantly emphasizes using tradition as a basis for the comparison and analysis of literature.  

DR. KOTTACHERUVU NAGENDRA

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The aim of this article is to develop writing skills of ESL learners through task-based teaching. The classroom becomes a writing intensive course if group work is initiated. Learners would work together in small groups on the given task. There would be interaction among the learners at every stage of the activity. It is also fact that task-based teaching challenges the learners, creates interest, provides an opportunity think innovatively and motivate them practice and involve them in task. It is also well known fact that, writing is thought to be very complex task. This is because too many aspects are involved in it. Hence this paper would discuss different skills and tasks essential for developing writing skills effectively among the ESL learners.

Key Words: coherence, cohesion, curriculum prewriting, composing, task-based teaching

S. GOPI KRISHNAN & S. ANANDH RAJ

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I FIND NO PEACE

I LOVE YOU

VOICE OF PROTEST

SURESH KUMAR SP

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A travel towards Eternity in the Boat of Imagination,

Tossed up and down in Mind’s Ocean of Turbulence,

Pursuing Truth in ever evolving Consciousness,.....

DR. SRI. PA. DHEVARAJAN

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In the animal Kingdom, male is more powerful and attractive yet the dominant male or leader has to prove its might periodically and has to meet the challenges of the rivalry and environmental hazards. It should maintain its vigor and valor throughout to be the king of the females. It should be the protector of its kingdom as well. The prime duty of the female is reproduction and to obey the customs of the kingdom. This rule is applicable from ant to elephant. But the crucial part of the female is, at times it is mercilessly killed or its cub is brutally annihilated by a new king or dominant male of a group if it is unable to fulfill the expectations of the new leader. Every year hundreds of female beasts died pathetically because of its inability, or in other words by the arrogant atrocity of the dominant males merely for lust.

Recently I witnessed a female king cobra which was brutally massacred and swallowed by its new mate; unable to swallow the whole, the new male vomited and moved away without guilty conscious or repentance. When the scientists inspected the female; it has had fourteen eggs in its womb. It was pregnant and was unable to fulfill the lust of the new mate. It was ready to hatch the eggs for incubation. King cobras are enlisted under rare species list. This pathetic incident moved me a lot and this poem is dedicated to such helpless female community in total which still survives with awful agony in spite of having great powers to restore and resurrect.