4.2 ENGLISH

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PUNE RESEARCH - An International Journal in English (ISSN 2454-3454) JIF 3.02

Editor-in-Chief

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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 4 , ISSUE - 2  ( MAR-APR  2018 )

4.2.1 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE STRUGGLES OF MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY IN UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE’S THE LAST BURDEN

J. HELEN EZHILARSI & DR. K. SHIBILA

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The struggles of middle class family is a well known fact all over the world. Upamanyu Chatterjee’s The Last Burden gives sharp insight into the struggles of the middle class Indian family life. . It is a story of a middle class Hindu Brahmin family comprising Shyamanand, the father, Urmila, the mother and their two sons Burfi and Jamun, set in a town by the sea. It analyses the ties of dependence among modern Indian families. He explains why the majority of populace abandons the traditional joint family structure in favour of a nuclear one. The middle class people struggle financially, mentally, emotionally, physically. Though it’s an inevitable thing to be changed somehow it is managed by the people all over the world.

4.2.2 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SIGNIFICANCE OF IMMORALITY RATHER THAN MORALITY IN BHAGAT’S FICTION

V. SIVA PRASAD & C. V. VISWANADHA RAO

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It is a well known fact that India is an epitome of ethics and human values. Of course, it is due to the cultural heritage and age old traditions and customs. As well, the great epics of this land have also laid a strong foundation for its background. As a result, spiritual and moral way of life has been imbibed naturally by the people to lead a serene life in this hurly-burly world. To certain extent, literature has also contributed much to the development of this thought from time immemorial.  The advent of globalization has brought about a drastic change in the attitudes of the people. Even the writers are influenced and carried away by its potential impact. In this aspect, Chetan Bhagat is no exception, in the sense that instead of exposing the follies and foibles of the present generation, he ironically gives much significance to the unethical and immoral practices of the youth on college and corporate campuses, adding fuel to the fire of already deteriorating values in society. The present write up makes a modest attempt to analyse some of the immoralities in the works of the author and endeavours to offer some constructive suggestions for prevention.

Keywords: Epitome of ethics, cultural heritage, great epics, moral life, serene, time immemorial, globalization, practices, unethical.

4.2.3 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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IMPACT OF LPG ON THE CARTOONS OF R. K. LAXMAN

PRASHANT D. KASABE & DR. Z. N. PATIL

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The present research paper focuses on the impact of LPG (Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization) on different issues like socio-political, economic culture and education. The art cartooning has been influenced by the LPG. Cartoons of R. K. Laxman have been influenced by the LPG. In the present paper, the researcher considers a cartoon to show the impact of LPG.

Keywords: - LPG, Cartooning, socio-political, economic.

4.2.4 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SOCIAL REALISM IN THE NOVELS OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NECTAR IN A SIEVE, POSSESSION AND A HANDFUL OF RICE

A. V. RAMESH BABU & DR. S. SREERAMULU

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The term ‘Realism’ in art or literature refers to the presentation of things accurately in real life. Authors use their own style in presenting things that happen accurately in art and add moral values to their presentation. Many writers such as Bhabini Bhattachariya, R.K.Narayan and Ruth Prawar Jhabvala have presented realism in their fictions. Like Kamala Markandaya, the other writers had portrayed the different types of realism in their works. There are different types of realism in literature. They are classified as follows: Social realism and Cultural realism.These types of realism are well portrayed by Kamala Markandaya in her novels, especially in Nectar in a Sieve, Possession and a Handful of Rice. The common social element found in all these three novels is hunger. In her first novel, Nectar in a Sieve, Nathan the head of the family died due to starvation. He was unable to earn bread for himself as well as his family. Valmiki was also sent along with Lady Caroline because of his poverty. This has been clearly portrayed by the author in the words of Anusuya, the narrator of the story, in the novel Possession. Ravishankar, a learned man, becomes a smuggler in order to provide food and clothing for his family, but he fails in his attempt. These different types of realism are brilliantly described by the author. In Nectar in a Sieve, several incidents have been quoted from the lives of Rukmani and Nathan in order to show that they suffered a lot due to hunger and how the East –West conflict ruined their lives.

Key words: East – West conflict, cultural interaction, exploitation of the weak, industrialization, resultant identity crisis. 

4.2.5 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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USE OF POWERPOINT TECHNOLOGY TO INTERPRET AND TEACH POETRY AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL

ANIL B SWAMI & TAPASHI MAZUMDAR

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Education is the process of start, stimulate and sustain to become an educated person. It is the skill of learning to learn. In educational process, Educator should use modern tools in to a classroom. It helps to gain better result from modern learners. The use of PowerPoint presentation in English language classroom is an effective modern educational aid. It assists tutor to select and create authentic material to use in a classroom. Use of PowerPoint presentation helps to bring change in a language teaching and learning traditional pedagogic classroom. It helps to facilitate learner for language acquisition through multimedia. PowerPoint presentation tool (material) helps teachers to make their learners interested in study. These are the aim and object to present paper first bring (PowerPoint) technology and multimedia in a classroom for teaching and learning purpose, second to become familiar with poetic terms, third to bring extensive reading in a classroom forth learn language with poetry, forth use of PowerPoint presentation to learn language with poetry.  

4.2.6 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ASCENDANCY OF RATNA IN MAHESH DATTANI’S DANCE LIKE A MAN LEVEL

DR. N. ASHARUDEEN

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Mahesh Dattani is considered as one of the most effective dramatic voices in Indian English dramatic world. Dance Like A Man is a play that highlights a woman’s ambition and passion on traditional dance stimulates a man to fall in worsening circumstance. Dattani exhibits realistic event and circumstance of familial relationship in this play that they can be easily observed in the contemporary society. Ratna, Jairaj and Amritlal are major characters of this play. Dattani portrays the character Ratna, the most dominant woman in this play. The whole play browses in the ascendancy of Ratna to attain an awful position on dance and Dattani distinctly exhibits the mysterious twin of woman’s approach through her incorrigible behaviour. Dattani makes use of flashback as one of his dramatic techniques which appears in the second part of the first act. It is for highlighting the disagreement exists between art and family. Ratna wants to continue her traditional dance so she makes her husband a victim for attaining her ambition. She plans to join her hands with her father-in-law, Amritlal, his determination to destroy Jairaj’s passion on dance and career as a dancer. The construction of disagreement among the characters is different level of Indian society.  

Keywords: Dance, Passion, Indian Society and Family.

4.2.7 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE THEME OF LOVE IN PAULO COELHO’S SELECT NOVELS

PUNITHA J. & DR. J. UMA SAMUNDEESWARI

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Coelho’s popular `The Alchemist` is not a novel on the roles of men and women and it is not making any statement about mundane love except talking about a mystical Universal love. But it does say about love being one of the most important and valuable treasures that can be found.  The other novels are equally mystical leaning much on Eros and Agape. Rather they try to show the inner lanes of agape. This is a brief attempt to show the author’s experience of agape is not only universal but also personal.

Key Words: Love – Agape – Universal Love –Spiritual Love

4.2.8 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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EVALUATION OF DALIT LITERATURE IN INDIA

YESUPAKU DINESH

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Since the centuries Dalits were atrociously and irrationally treated community. From ancient time dalits were known by different terms. If we see the Pre-historic Indian society it had no social divisions like caste system and they have only the concept of untouchability that too people were divided in society according to their occupations and had an organized governing system. That the Indian Dalit literature flourished in post independence precisely after 1960s. During the Middle-Ages I mean to say before independence untouchables were struggling to get their human identity and dignity. To show or convey their struggles they were composing and singing songs in different like devotional by the poets of upper castes as well as the saint-poets of the down trodden communities. Their quest for human identity was earnestly presented with a kind request. English translations does play a very crucial role in rousing political and social consciousness in Indian Dalit literature now it is accessible to global readers and against the tradition of inequality prevalent in a stratified Indian society. Spirit of dalit writers made them to write several life-narratives, novels, poems, and short stories etc. Pity and sympathy are the words which represents the dalit people. Newly domain of subaltern literature emerged now it is efficient and capable of spreading its revolutionary, radical messages to global readers’.

 Key words:  flourished, untouchability, identity, Dalit women, struggle

4.2.9 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SUBALTERN ISSUES IN ANITHA NAIR’S IDRIS

SUSHITHA ANOOP

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In Idris: keeper of the light, one can observe how subaltern characters subvert the motives of the dominant characters in the social front. Anita Nair has presented a typical Indian joint family abiding by the traditional norms and values. She depicts the patriarchal Nair joint family in Malabar during seventeenth century. In India, families were considered to be pillars propping up the society throughout its history. Anita Nair is always on the side of the marginalized and is resolutely against racism, colonialism and male chauvinism.  Idris brings a clear picture of miserable condition of women, casteism and assertion of identity etc. As a committed artist, Anita Nair deals with social and political realities of medieval India. She comments on a wide variety of unexplored medieval issues such as the expression and repression of human sexuality, plight of woman in Indian society, gender roles, morality and identity.

Key words: subalternity, Untouchability, Casteism, subjugation, marginalization

4.2.10 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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CLASSROOM INTERACTION: A LADDER TO OVERCOME THE CULTURAL WALLS AMONG ESL LEARNERS

JYOTI SHARMA & DR. AJAY SHARMA

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Communicative-competence and professional skills have been the buzzing terms in the present era of glocal world. However, the sorry-state of ESL learners is same as it was because of the extra emphasis on theoretical/literary contents and traditional approaches of teaching-learning process in classrooms. These patterns are resulting into teacher-centred pedagogy and less interaction between the teacher and the students. This leads to build the small cultural boxes in the classroom itself which become a hurdle to make the learners out-of—the-box thinkers. The desired need is to make the classroom an enormous cultural box by overcoming the walls of small cultural boxes among learners.   The root problem is the lack of classroom interaction. Once it is promoted, it can result into equal learning opportunities for all learners irrespective of their cultural backgrounds. The initial part of the paper focuses on the common cultural barriers and other challenges of communication in heterogeneous group of ESL learners in classroom. Further, it will light upon the innovative approaches of dealing with the diverse backgrounds of ESL learners and suggestive ways to promote classroom interaction.    

4.2.11 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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KOBO ABE: HIS LIFE, STYLE, AND HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES

S. MANOJ

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This research paper is a detailed study on Kobo Abe in general, and in particular it explores his style and his monumental work The Woman in the Dunes. His themes, inspirations, influence, likes and dislikes are also touched upon in this research paper which is all about Kobo Abe.

Keywords: Japanese Literature, Kobo Abe, Existentialism, Kafka, The Woman in the Dunes

4.2.12 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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TREATMENT GIVEN TO SUBALTERN CHARACTERS IN INDIAN ENGLISH NOVELS

DR. UMESH B. BANSOD

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Many novels depicting characters of low castes in Indian have been nominated and even awarded prestigious international awards . The matter of fact is that they were given maximum score for depicting low caste characters in  their novel . The question is whether  they  present true , realistic ,authentic picture of Dalit life. Are India novels depicting Indian dalits become stereotyped ?  Do they reflect Ambedkarism ?    If not why ?  How can Indian novels proceed without quoting Dr.Ambedkar’s contribution ? What message these  novels have for readers ?  Do they present any optimistic  view of life for  millions of outcastes ? The fact is that only wearer knows where the shoe pinches. These and many questions need to be addressed . The paper intends to touch some of them.

Key words : untouchability , Ambedkarism , hypothesis, archipelagos.

4.2.13 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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LONGING AND LONELINESS AS THE RECURRENT THEME IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S THE LOWLAND

G. SHALINI & M. SHEELA DEVI

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The novel “The Lowland” was portrayed very emotionally and critically given a character with very effective by the American writer but Indian born Jhumpa Lahiri. She dealt with the character of each one is very significant and most living personality in this novel. And they have an emotional and loneliness to their life at the same time, the novel made a sudden urge to transfer the character to some other place, this is the reaction to take a result of nostalgia which means diaspora through the persons of Subhash and Gauri. After the Udayan death Gauri married Subhash and she went to America, in that place both of them were not a good in their relationships and they are live a long and later be separate also so they had some emotions and live in loneliness. The author played an important role through this tow characters. She explains how they are all emotionally had a loneliness to the character among. This is the main concept to pursuit to the novel, “The Lowland”

4.2.14 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS IN THE POEMS OF NISSIM EZEKIEL

DR. C. RAGHAVENDRA REDDY & DR. RAVINDRA DAS

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This research paper focuses on the findings of religious and philosophical aspects in the poems of Nissim Ezekiel. Nissim Ezekiel - poet, playwright, and art critic - ranks foremost in contemporary Indo - Anglian poetry and among the very best in post-Independence Indo - Anglian literature. In his fine poems “Philosophy”, “Poetry Reading”, “Poet, Lover and Bird watcher”, “Islands”  “A Small Summit”, “The Hill”, “Guru”, “Night of the Scorpion”    he expounds his views on poetry. The poem “Philosophy” deals with complex and intricate philosophical processes and it also shows the poet’s love for metaphysics and the cold “Lucidity of Logic”. With regard to his latter poetry, K.N Daruwallah has remarked each volume has introduced a new note added a sense of comprehension or even humour to his irony and covered further distance in his progressive pursuit of simplicity. Each volume witnessed a development in his verse craft. “It may be divided as follows: The poems compiled during the period 1965-74 refer to the poems such as “Transparently” “Motives”, ‘’In the Country Cottage’’, “Lawn” and “Happenings”. A poem discloses clarity of statement and simplicity of expression. This is evident in the following lines Unasked as the day Declined, she brought out her …... to be caressed In the volume of “Hymns in Darkness” authorized in 1976, the poet experimented with “Poster Poems” and “Passion Poems”. His poetry volume “Latter -Day Psalms” which has been mentioned earlier also forms an excellent example for the religious and philosophical strain of the poet, for philosophy and worldliness cum-sensuality of traditional value systems and contrarieties.

4.2.15 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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PROBLEM OF COMMUNAL DIVIDE AND COMMUNAL TENSION IN MAHESH DATTANI’S FINAL SOLUTIONS

CHHAGAN LAL & DR. O. P. TIWARI

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Mahesh Dattani is a well-known celebrated modern Indian – English playwright. His plays always deal with the intricate dynamics of the modern urban family. In his many plays, he aptly deals with various issues like homo sexuality, gender discrimination, and socialism and child sexual exploitation. Dattani is a playwright who challenged the edifice of India and Indian as they have been presented in the modern English theatre. This paper is a humble attempt to study problem of communal divide and communal tension in Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions. The play Final Solutions deals with the problem of communal divide and communal tension.

Key words-  Mahesh Dattani, playwright, urban family, homo sexuality, communal divide, communal divide.

4.2.16 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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HYBRIDITY IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S THE ENGLISH PATIENT: A STUDY OF KIP

ARATHI BABU

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The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje. The novel questions the concept of a pure cultural or national identity and conceives the postmodern identity as hybrid identity. Nationality and identity are interconnected in The English Patient, functioning together to create a web of inescapable structures that tie the characters to certain places and times despite their best efforts to evade such confinement. The novel questions colonial and anti-colonial nationalism which shape the character’s identities and it frequently breaks down colonial hierarchies. The post colonial element in the novel is established through the character Kip or Kirpal Singh who is a sapper employed in the British army. Kip has a complex identity which is the result of his exposure to Indian as well as the English culture. Bhabha in his seminal work Location of Culture shows the cultural influence of the coloniser on the colonised and the colonised on the coloniser which leads to the formation of a hybrid identity. The paper studies the formation of hybrid identity in Kip. It also studies the key concepts of hybrid identity like mimicry and the colonial other.  

Key Words: Mimicry, Hybrid, Colonial Other, Kip, Homi K Bhabha

4.2.17 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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REGIONAL SENSIBILITY IN THE NOVELS OF AMIT CHAUDHURI

DR. T. JEEVAN KUMAR & DR. P. SATYANARAYANA

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Indian English fiction has witnessed a remarkable change in the last three decades.  A good number of new novelists, hailed from multiple professions, produced a good body of literature with their solid contribution.  They have presented the problems of own professions, keeping their region and culture as background, besides highlighting social problems.  They are primarily the victims of nostalgia who never forgot and ran away from their roots, region, and culture.  Outstanding among the novelists of new generation is Amit Chaudhuri, a young, delightful, and brilliant contemporary writer who acclaimed worldwide for his novel.  He explored the alternative tradition in the modern society in his novels. The objective of the present paper is to make a brief study on the writings of Amit Chaudhuri’s seven novels – A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song, A New World, The Immortals, Odysseus Abroad, and Friend of My Youth – which provide new perspectives on the theoretical models of the western and the Indian domesticity.  It also aims to analyze how the novels reflect the Indian values and regional sensibility.

Keywords:  Indian English Fiction, nostalgia, Amit Chaudhuri, New perspectives

4.1.18 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMAL LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY

R. PALANI & M. ANBUMANI

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Informal learning can be defined as a particular way of learning which arises from the activities and interests of individuals and groups. After having identified and selected interests expressed by learners, informal-learning activities are carried out in a flexible and informal way, in informal community locations. According to Marcia Conner (Marcia L. Conner), "Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today. Often, the most valuable learning takes place serendipitously, by random chance." Conner continues explaining that Informal learning is a "lifelong process" through which people acquire attitudes, values, skills and knowledge mainly from the mass media, from daily experiences, such as those made at work, at play, while talking with our neighbors and from various kind of interactions, in general. It is apparent that informal learning is rather related to incidental learning.

4.2.19 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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PHILOSOPHIC PERCEPTION AND PATHETIC PLIGHT OF WOMAN IN THE POETRY OF JAYANTA MAHAPATRA

DR. HARCHARAN SINGH ARORA

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Jayanta Mahapatra is a name in Indian English poetry which needs no introduction. Perhaps any discussion of Indian English Poetry is incomplete without reference to his poetical works. He is regarded as the Father of the modern and post modern Indian English poetry. His is the case of a writer who is recognized abroad and commands more respect overseas before receiving attention at home. His broad canvas depicts social discrimination and degeneration of moral values in his world famous poems Hunger, Myth and India which are flawless and excellent examples of majestic poetry. His most philosophical poems The Moon Moments and Total Solar Eclipse are characterized by a stark realism. His vision of women is basically that of a sacrificial and suffering lot, destined to be a living human offering to God and to men's world of carnal need.

Keywords :-     Frustration, Discrimination, Philosophical, Exploitation, Prostitution, Poverty, Existence, Aspirations. 

4.2.20 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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PERSISTENT SPECIALIZED EXHILARATION OF EDUCATOR FROM END TO END MODERN MODULE EXPERTISE

DR. J. RAVINDRA DAS & DR. C. RAGHAVENDRA REDDY

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The explosion of innovative facet of technology in education has gained momentum and as a result the teacher should incessantly and professionally be uplifted to meet the newer challenges of learners of the 21st century. In the changing scenario, the teachers’ professional development should be a continuous and lifelong process and they should develop their personal as well as professional qualities to improve their knowledge, skills and practice and in turn the students’. It is futile if we teach today the way we were taught yesterday. With novel methods and approaches of the teachers equipped with technological knowhow, the class room will become more student centric rather than teacher centric. 

4.2.21 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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PLAY OF INTER-SUBJECTIVITY OF CHARACTERS IN SHESH KADAMBARI

MANDEEP SANEHI

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The paper focuses on the enquiry of aesthetic and ideological shift in the new historical fiction from the earlier postmodern historiographic metafiction. Particularly, it analyses such changes with regard to the treatment of history in the new beyond postmodern condition. Such tendencies have been tried to discern through the main formative elements of the aesthetics of fiction, i.e. the characters and the art of characterization. The focus has been on the highly self-reflexive play of inter-subjectivity of characters. It has been seen how the characters cross through each other’s subjectivities and try to “feel” and understand each other’s positions. Such play of inter-subjectivity is formed within the cross-temporal play of different historical times of India’s independence struggle and the contemporary postmodern condition of global moment. Spatio-temporal and ideological contextualization of the behavior/subjectivity of characters and their capability of crossing the limits of their personal subjectivities and entering into another’s are the two theoretical poles within which the narrative advances the new beyond postmodern understanding of existing at a multidimensional space along with retaining one’s own position. This philosophical stance may be taken as a dialogic corrective to both the ideas—unitary/essential identity and non-essential heteroglossic subjectivity as pure construction. The paper attempts at analysing such philosophic undertones present in this novel.

Key-Words: Subjectivity, Agency, Action, Historiography.

4.2.22 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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STORY TELLING AND PERFORMANCE IN PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW -A STUDY

N. NAKATH PARVEEN & DR. V. RAVI NAIDU

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Paule Marshall is of American nationality. She was an American author whose works reflected her “Bajan” (Barbadian) background and twin themes of the need to confront the past and the need to change the present. Paule Marshall was born April 9, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York to second generation Barbadian immigrant parents, Samuel and Ada Burke, who had emigrated separately from Barbados after World War I. She visited her parents’ homeland, Barbados, for the first time at the age of nine.

Key Words: oral tradition, cultural heritage, African Diaspora, Paule Marshall

4.2.23 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ORDINARINESS IN THE WRITINGS OF NISSIM EZEKIEL

DR. C. RAGHAVENDRA REDDY

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This research paper is an attempt to find ordinariness in the select poems of Nissim Ezekiel. Nissim Ezekiel is a distinguished poet in the history of Indian English literature. He has so far published six collections of poems in addition to several poems published in several journals and anthologies etc. His is a land mark in Indian English poetry, for he was able to pen approximating to the demands of the modern world. The poem “The Paradise Flycatcher” discloses the bird watcher zafar futehally and the juxtaposition of dream and reality raises the prosaic and the ordinary to the level of poetry. The poems “The Visitor”, “The Virginal” and “A Women Observed” reveal the exposition of the human situation in poetical terms. The “Night of the Scorpion”, "In the Queue", "Gallantry”,” Case Study", “The Country Cottage”, "Philosophy", "Night of the Scorpion", "In India”, “The Patriot”, "The Professor”, “Poem of Separation” reveal the aspect of ordinariness.

4.2.24 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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PORTRAYAL OF GANDHIJI IN S. K. OHJA’S RIDING THE STORM: A PLAY ON MAHATMA GANDHI

DR. L. RONALD DAVID

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S. K. Ohja’s play Riding the Storm: A Play on Mahatma Gandhi (1990) presents vignettes of Gandhiji’s life from 1919 to 1948, highlighting his part in the major events of the Indian struggle for freedom and his association with the leading historical personages of the period such as Rajaji, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad, Acharya Kirpalani, Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The events and the personages have been chosen with the objective of bringing out the essence of Gandhiji’s ideals and illustrating his practice of satyagraha. The play shows how Gandhiji could raise a political storm throughout the country and control it with confidence and ease. The play is unique in all that all the events and places revolve around Gandhiji and in that imaginative dramatic devices like shadow display and audience participation are used, as is the classical native device of a sutradhar or male announcer and his female counterpart.

4.2.25 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SOCIETY, THE MOTHER OF ALL TERRORS: A BRIEF STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS

S. MANOJ

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This article explores how society functions as an entity in controlling the lives of individuals in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors. It also cites various other instances from the book which make the characters appear no more than puppets of society.

Keywords: Two-faced Society, Gender Discrimination, Inequality, Recognition.

4.2.26 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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LES MISERABLES’ IN THE NOVELS OF SHASHI DESPHANDE

P. PRABAVATHI

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All the  protagonists suffer because of the oppression of  male dominated  Indian society. Shashi Despande emerged as the  contemporary women writers in English.She  is an award winning Indian Novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer shriranga. She was born in 1938 Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. She published her first collection, of short stories in 1978, and her first novel. The Dark Holds No Terrors in 1980. She is a winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, for the novel ‘That Long Silence’ Her works also includes children’s books. Her  novels present a social world of many complex relationship. In her novels many men and women living together, journeying across life in their difference age groups, classes and gendered roles. The old tradition bound world consists with the modern, creating unforeseen gaps and disruptions within the family structure. Women’s understanding becomes questionable as the old patterns of behaviour no longer seem to be acceptable. These struggles become in tense of quests for self-definition, because it would not be possible to relate to others with any degree of conviction unless one is guided by a clarity about one’s own image and role.

4.2.27 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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THE ROLE OF PRINTED MATERIALS IN ENCOURAGING REFLECTION IN APSCHE-BRITISH COUNCIL ELT TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

DR. J. RAVINDRA DAS & DR. R. DEVARAJULU REDDY

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This article focuses on encouraging reflective skills among novice teachers for their proficient growth in APSCHE-British Council ELT teacher education programmes. It is an attempt to analyse how activities in print materials in such APSCHE-British Council programmes can be designed effectively to stimulate reflection. As print materials are still the dominant medium of instruction in ELT programmes in India, the deliberations will hopefully have significant implications for the teaching-learning process in such contexts. There are many recent studies that consider reflection as a crucial tool for learning and suggest strategies to foster reflection among learners. But in the present education system, the measures to be adopted for promoting reflection need special consideration. Print materials need to be used optimally to help compensate for the physical gap between learners and teachers in such a context. The paper offers some suggestions on how teacher support can be built into, learning print materials, to encourage trainees to reflect, and highlights this as a special need of APSCHE-British Council teacher trainees. Some materials from an existing APSCHE-British Council ELT programme will be used to illustrate the case.

4.2.28 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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OVERVIEW OF ELT METHODS & APPROACHES: A STUDY

DR. KOTTACHERUVU NAGENDRA

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The main aim of this research article is to study the overview of the Methods and Approaches of English Language Teaching (ELT) and to know the background knowledge. It is fact that, in these methods, some can be directly implemented where as others may need further preparation. According to the History of ELT, many applied linguists and psychologists believed that, there is no one such method which can be called as the best to teach English language teaching, nevertheless teacher can make use of different methods, approaches and techniques as per the learners’ needs.

Key Words: Method, Approach, Technique, Translation, Multiple intelligences, Participatory

4.2.29 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ANITA DESAI’S TECHNIQUES IN HER NOVELS

DR. PRAKASH NARAIN

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Anita Desai is considered as one of well known and popular novelists of Indian –English literature. She is acknowledged as a grand name in the world of psychological novels with excellent techniques and features. In her novels like ‘Cry, the Peacock’, ‘Voices in the City’, ‘Where Shall We Go this Summer’, ‘Fire on the Mountain’, ‘Clear Light of the Day’, ‘Journey to Ithaca’, ‘In Custody’ and ‘Fasting Feasting’, she portrays the dilemma of her female protagonists effectively. Being female she understands their problems deeply and pictures them minutely. She is chiefly interested in the themes of quest for identity, family relationships and mismatched marriage. She is more interested in the individuals than the anonymous multitude, in the particular rather than the general. She is the queen of inner psychology of the females of upper middle class. She deals with the pathetic plight of sensitive women in novels after novels and this dealing makes her one of the best novelists of modern age. Her women suffer from the sense of rootlessness and fragmentation despite of all pleasures. Their present disturbs them and they wish to go to their past. Maya  in ‘Cry, the Peacock’ always complains against her husband Gautam and doesn’t involve in creative activity; Monisha in ‘Voices in the City’ craves for privacy and finds herself misfit in her surroundings; Sita in ‘Where Shall We Go This Summer’ revolts against the boring life of her family and goes back to the island of Manori. All these female protagonists are defeaters and suffer from the sense of isolation, alienation and rootlessness. In this research paper,I have attempted to find out the distinctive features and techniques used by Anita Desai in her popular novels.

Key Words – Techniques, characteristics, neurotic, alienation, stream of consciousness, Indian culture, symbols, imagery, lyricism, past, present, contrasting characters

4.2.30 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FINDING MEANING IN A MEANINGLESS WORLD IN HAROLD PINTER’S NO MAN’S LAND

DR AMIT PANDEY

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My aim through this article is to propagate that the play No Man’s Land by Pinter pictures the world, as a meaningless place to live in without any potential way out. He spotlights on the matter of people’s isolation from each other and from the intellect of their own living. They are forced to engage in recreation the nonstop match just because they do not challenge to stop it, and they get fixed in every day routine, as a consequence. The concept of nothingness goes hand in hand with certain human feelings like fear, insecurity and hopelessness. These human characteristics are distinctive Pinter subjects elaborated in his plays. The unfair system and its persecutors find their complement in Pinter’s plays of ambiguity, violence, loneliness and loss of identity, all caused by an unidentifiable menace in their world, and these lonely characters, with their destroyed identities and with no support, trying to survive but failing in a hostile world close to the realm of The Theatre of the Absurd.

Key words:  Theatre of the Absurd, psyche, neurotic fears, aching anxieties and meaningless

4.2.31 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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CULTURAL CONFLICT AND NOSTALGIA IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S THE MISTRESS OF SPICES

DR. SANGITA VIJAY KONGRE

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The term ‘culture’ is a ‘loaded’ and complex term. It has a polyvocal sense as it contains the multiple artifacts of a particular community. Diaspora literature significantly focusses on ‘cultural dislocations’ and its consequences on the immigrants’ lives.  Diasporic studies become a platform for debating the issues of representation, identity and socio-cultural politics. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an immigrant herself, is one of the significant voices in American mainstream writing. She represents the South Asian Diaspora.  Her writings vehemently assert the immigrants’ abilities to assimilate in America. Though she intends to portray a positive, willing picture of immigrants, yet she does not brush under the carpet the cultural conflict, racial clash, humiliation, language barriers and other issues the immigrants have to face, the outside but also the failure of immigrants to adopt the new land as they carry the ‘cultural baggage’. The researcher makes an attempt to focus how the ‘cultural baggage’ and the nostalgia for the ‘old world’ make the assimilation process difficult for the immigrants.

Key words: Diaspora, Culture, cultural baggage, assimilation and nostalgia.

4.2.32 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FEMINISTIC FACETS IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S NOVELS

G. SHALINI & A. SARUMATHI

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Shashi Deshpande’s novels are mainly concerned with women’s issues. She is a prominent novelist and a winner of Sahitya Akademi Award and she has given a new direction to Indian English novel. Like other renowned female novelists Anita Desai, Kamala Markandya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nayantara Sahgal, Manju Kapoor, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai she has documented the female resistance against the patriarchal society and reinforced the female dilemma in her novels. The protogonists in Deshpande’s novels are mainly women and she perceives their misery from a psychic or psychological perspective.

4.2.33 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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CONFLICT BETWEEN ECOCENTRICISM AND ANTHROPOCENTRICISM IN AMITAV GHOSH’S ‘THE HUNGRY TIDE’

JANE THERESA

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This paper presents animals colonization with post modernism as a form of western mindset through the novel ‘The Hungry Tide’ by Amitav Ghosh. The focus is laid on the anthropocentric attitude of human being manifested through the killing of animals without mercy. It also studies the killing of local villagers by wild animals tracing the conflict it creates between human life and wild life. Environmental ethics is defined as the moral relationship between humans and the natural environment. Ecocentric reality and anthropocentric reality are the two kinds of environmental ethics. Anthropocentricism in environmental philosophy concedes only an instrumental value to nature and non-human beings. They believed that nature should be used; governed and renewed wisely. Environmental philosophy faces a lot of conflict due to the different notions in terms of ethical perceptions. This paper can be read out as the conflict between the wildlife and human life as both are negatively impacting each other. The present paper investigates the connection between the modernity of the European world, being manifested in their treatment of nature in India during the colonial period and its aftermath in the context of Indian wildlife in Sunderban region. The setting of the novel is so enchanting that the readers get an experience of the Sunderbans and the threats that both the wild animals and the poor villagers face to survive.

4.2.34 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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AUTHENTIC MATERIALS PROMOTE BETTER LEARNING IN ESL CLASSROOM: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

SHARMISTHA BASU

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The learning of a second language and its acquisition is indeed a herculean task. It becomes further difficult while handling the first generation of second language learners. The world is a global village and English is the lingua franca of this village. In today’s world Globalization is the primary challenge faced by the people of the third world countries like India. With the advent of Globalization the need of the hour is communication in a common tongue which is accepted worldwide. Therefore learning of English as a second/foreign language is of utmost importance. This paper aims to highlight the different aspects of second language learning in the perspective of a model Indian classroom. The paper is based on the study which is experimental in nature and is executed through Pre test, Post test and a series of classroom activities. The experiment was conducted with the high school students in a regional medium school in West Bengal where majority of the students are first generation literate. It is observed that language learning is better facilitated by the use of authentic materials as the learners here get an opportunity to communicate in the target language rather than focusing only on the grammar rules. The authors have attempted to highlight their own experiences to analyze the different aspects of second language teaching-learning in standard Indian classrooms.

Keywords: ESL, authentic materials, Indian classrooms, learner autonomy

4.2.35 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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MAPPING FEMINISM AND PSEUDO FEMINISM IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF SHOBHA DE

DR. V. SARALADEVI

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Shobha De is one of the most popular writers among many contemporary Indo- English novelists. Her novels have been read and acclaimed far and wide. De’s fictional world marks the overwhelming presence of women. In almost all of her novels, a woman is the protagonist. Women’s behavior, their thoughts and their responses in different situations forms the main concern of De’s fictional works. In her novels, we come across a variety of women from extremely modern, assertive, young and liberated to the traditional Indian housewives. Her concentration on modern women’s life and their immediate problems makes the presence of feminist perspective an essential aspect of her fiction. In spite of the mocking tone, casual attitude and depersonalized nature of her fiction, De does not seem to be indifferent to women’s problems. Her concern for women’s sufferings and their marginalization can be ascertained from the way she has arranged and structured her fictional discourse. The depiction of women’s problems in her fiction is considered to be one of the major factors of De’s popularity as a writer. This article reveals that De has not only concentrated on the presentation of a strange and startling world marking the emergence of recent trends in society but also shown her concern for the problems faced by contemporary high society women. The way she has presented women’s life and behavior in her novels brings out her feminist learnings.

Keywords: Feminine, Sex, Marriage, Tradition, Patriarchal dominance

4.2.36 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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ATTENTION TO TEACHING L2 VOCABULARY AND RESEARCH ACROSS THE DECADES

PEDDIPAGA RAMABABU

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This is a descriptive paper, which shed light on the importance of learning L2 vocabulary, which was not paid a serious attention in second language learning classroom.  The paper presented weight of vocabulary learning across the ancient, medieval, and modern periods in general and various methods/approaches of modern period in specific.  This paper was concluded with an appeal to the teachers of English as second language to integrate certain features from various methods/approaches discussed in the paper and develop a suitable program to enhance L2 vocabulary of their beloved students.

Key Words: English as second language, L2 vocabulary, and approach/methods

4.2.37 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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A SUBALTERN READING ON THE HEART OF A WOMAN

G. GODWIN

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The Heart of a Women is the fourth volume of Maya Angelou’s continuing autobiography out of seven volumes. Maya Angelou narrated from the point of view of a woman who tells more about the same story that she told in her previous volumes. This volume opens by some of detailed notes of historical reflections intended to locate Maya Angelou’s time and place, where the African-Americans were treated as Subalterns, because being born Black is itself a liability in a world ruled by White criterions of beauty which imprisons the child Maya a priori in the cage of ugliness. This paper throws lights on the Subalterns and their pain and struggles in the voice of Maya Angelou. This volume traces Maya’s spiritual, psychological and political odyssey as she emerges from a disturbing and oppressive young years to become a prominent figure in contemporary American literature. She has clearly portrayed the hardships associated with lower-class African American life.

Key Words: Racism, Oppression, Struggle, Hardship, Subaltern.

4.2.38 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM IN TASLIMA NASREEN’S LAJJA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

KAUSTUBH K. RAUT

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Taslima Nasreen has appeared on the literary canvas as a very definite, thought-provoking and influential writer addressing to give voice to the people who have wished, but dared not to admit and express what they have believed in for long. A multi-faceted personality—doctor, writer, feminist, columnist, novelist, short story writer and poet—Taslima Nasreen is an extraordinarily angry young woman .When human values are becomes worthless, humans become inhuman. The same happened in Bangladesh aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on 6 Dec. 1992. When the Hindus were maltreated in Bangladesh, the country turned a blind eye to the sufferings of a part of its citizens simply because they followed a different religion from that of the majority Muslim community. Thus, Islam is the major factor in deciding the thoughts and behaviour of its followers in Bangladesh. Hence, association with a few basic principles of Islam is necessary to size up the situations and events in the writings of the Taslima Nasreen, events in her personal life and the lives of her characters portrayed in her writings. Such intimacy is also important because Taslima Nasreen’s fight for the cause of women becomes a fight against the darker side of her religion, rather a total rejection of religion. 

4.2.39 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SEARCH FOR HOME IN M. G. VASSANJI’S THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL

DEVENDRABHARTI B. GOSWAMI

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The present paper sheds some light on how M.G. Vassanji, a literary member of Indian Diaspora, writes from Canada by taking into consideration the Indian people living overseas. Like his other novels, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall can be read as a diasporic novel and the element of quest for home is the heart of it. The paper talks about how, through the character of Vikram, Vassanji tells the story of the in-between life of a man. Along with the feeling of in-betweenness there is woven the elements of exile, memory, diasporic consciousness, longing for return, nostalgia, search for identity and sense of belonging. Vikram is a third generation Kenyan Asian. Set in East Africa, the novel reflects the ambiguous situation and the strange position of Indians of Kenya who are neither indigenous Africans nor European colonizers. They are alienated from their homelands. Vikram’s grandfather Anand Lall along with many indentured labourers was shipped from British India to Kenya to build Mombassa –Kampala railway. Thus the paper tries to show how Vikram, a Kenyan born Indian boy, is neither Indian nor African but in-between.

Key Words: Diaspora, Home, In-betweenness, Exile, Nostalgia.

4.2.40 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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DUAL VICTIMIZATION OF BLACK WOMEN IN TONI MORRISON’S “BELOVED”

KISHALAYA PODDER

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From the romantic period feminism is a prominent literary and scholarly discourse through out the world. However the definition and conception of feminism is different on class, creed, colour,social status ground. Probably all experts of literature are agreed on that view that it is terrible for a human being if with gender inequality colour and racial oppression in blended. This situation is felt by the African-American black slave women who were victimized on both ground. Contemporary American black writer and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison had presented the real agony of Black-American women in her outstanding novel “Beloved”,1987.It is the historical and psychological study of slave women where they have lost their total human identity. The intention of this article is to find the cause of that double victimization of those slave women.

Key words : Black, Race, Sex, Victimization, Women.

4.2.41 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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MUSICAL STRINGS IN THE MELODIES

P. PRABAVATHI

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A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied, or in the French language, a Mélodie. A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle. Musical setting is a musical composition that is written on the basis of a literary work. The literary work is said to be set, or adapted, to music. It include choral music and other vocal music.

4.2.42 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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RE-QUEERING QUEER SPACES: MEDIATIZATION AS A NEO HETERONORMATIVE TOOL IN KERALA QUEER NARRATIVE SPACE

RAHANA MANSUR

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Narratives often constructed spaces for numerous less discussed and debated, social, ethnic and sexual minorities. It often reconstructed social reality by manipulation and distortion of facts to satiate the dominant ideologies of patriarchal - heteronormative society. Mediatization, though have played a pivotal role in the upliftment of Kerala LGBTIQ community, has a long history of misrepresentation of sexual and gender minorities in various print, digital and visual narratives to safeguard the hegemony of heteronormativity intact. My paper tries to analyze how popular print, digital and visual narratives manipulate, distort and misrepresent the gender and sexual identities of queer community, by re- queering and hence alienating them from the socio- cultural milieu. It celebrates queer existence as the significant Other (the less accepted and unauthentic version) of the heterosexuality by strictly placing homosexuality within the rigid framework of gender binaries. Mediatization here hijack the queer spaces as it project ‘heteronormative rendering of homosexual issues, and thus become a neo heteronormative tool in socio- cultural space of Kerala.

4.2.43 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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BERNARD SHAW’S MAJOR BARBARA: PRESENTATION OF THE SALVATION ARMY

ALTAF AHMAD GANAIE

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The play “Major Barbara” centres round the work being done by the Salvation Army, and gives a penetrating analysis and evaluation of its work and its weaknesses. Major Barbara is the first great work of art in which this missionary organization has been glorified and the value of the noble work being done by it has been stressed, though not for a moment does Shaw, the realist, shut his eyes to its short comings, and weaknesses. The Salvation Army is a Christain missionary organization founded in London in 1878 by William Booth. He called it ‘Army’ because he visualised it as a militant organization waging war against all kinds of sin and social evils. Hence its dignitaries used titles of military origin. Its motto ‘blood and fire’, inscribed on its flags referred to the Christain belief in the redeeming power of the blood of Christ and in hell fire as the penalty for unrepentant sinners. The Salvationists had no doubts that, “Devil is the Enemy”, but Shaw shows in the play that the real Enemy is Poverty―an evil which results from social injustice, not from supernatural mischief. In the present paper the author has shed light on Christian religion in its more militant aspects, and this be done through a presentation of the day to day working of the Salvation Army...

4.2.44 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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CULTURAL PRESENTATION AND USAGES OF WORDS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF BLASPHEMY AND UNVEILING INDIA

MOHD MUZAMIL SOHIL

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The language is the single possession of human being and it is only thing which made human being different from other forms of creation. It is the cultural identity of an individual and the society. The author’s social and cultural civilization is interconnected with language use. This study has been taken to analyse the texts of two different writers in the context of different dialectical usage of words and the presentation of culture. This is a trend of Urdu Hindi language knowing writers who use local dialectical words in English texts. This research paper has been taken to study the mixture use of words and societal flux in the Blasphemy and in Jung’s Unveiling India. It happens in the writings of Indian subcontinents writers that their writings in English literature reflect the cultural and social ethos of the country. The language is the identification of once own social and traditional values. The writers of the second language users have inserted their own fashion of art and presentation of the societies. They have ratified the art of their own culture and social values in their texts. The writers of the Indian subcontinents have polished their literature in its own context. Durrani and Jung have utilised their localised themes and cultural identities in these texts through the use mixed themes and local dialectical words. They have not deliberately used these words but the language environment and thematic concerns of the societies compelled them to utilise such cultural themes and dialectical words.

Key Words: Culture, Language, Traditional, Words, Second Language, Presentation, Subcontinents, Urdu, Hindi and Civilization

4.2.45 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FEMININE PERSPECTIVE IN MAHESH DATTANI’S THIRTY DAYS IN SEPTEMBER

RANJITSING R BHOI & DR. KAUSHAL KOTADIA

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In the present research paper, I have pointed out several key aspects of Thirty Days in September which deals with feminine psychology, nature of exhibitionist personality and sexual stimulation with the help of a few characters. Author wants to prove that patriarchal society uses their power even in their own homes. It is the first generation’s guilt that leads to the sufferings of the second generation. That is why the second generation is unable to protest.

Keywords: Feminine psychology, exhibitionist, stimulation and patriarchal society.  

4.2.46 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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TRAITS OF SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY

JADEJA DIGVIJAYSINH VIKRAMSINH

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Shakespeare’s tragic plays are the beautiful combination of Aristotelian tradition and plays of Seneca. There is a touch of poetic emotions and sublime experiences. In the words of critics, his tragedies are nothing but a tale of sympathy. In his tragedy, the hero suffers a lot. Besides it there are some common features observed almost in all his tragedies. Such as the role of fate, conflict, weakness of the hero, comic relief,  supernatural elements, use of irony,  poetic justice, Catharsis of emotions, change in character etc. Let us have a glance on them.

Key Words: Status of Hero, Role of Fate, Source of Calamity, Conflict, Suffering, Tragic Flaw, Gripping Catastrophe, Downfall of the Hero, Supernatural Elements, Tragic Waste, Abnormal Condition and Chance of Accident, Use of Irony, Redemption, Poetic Justice.

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A STUDY OF SRI AUROBINDO’S PLAY THE VIZIERS OF BASSORA AS A MORALITY PLAY

DR. ARCHANA SINGH & DR. SHAILENDRA SINGH

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The Morality Play was very much popular during the 15th and 16th century in Europe. In the play the characters personify good and evil. Through the conflict between good and evil, the writer proves the victory of good over evil. The protagonist of the play is himself an embodiment of goodness. Sri Aurobindo, the learned and the spiritual writer of 20th century has written many plays, The Viziers of Bassora is one of them. The story of the play has been borrowed from The Arabian Nights. To some extent, this play can be read in the light of the Morality Play as all the major characteristis of a Morality Play are there in the play. This research paper is an attempt to analyze that not wholly but partially the play The Viziers of bassora fulfills the requirements of being a Morality Play.

Key-words: - Morality, good, evil, conflict.

4.2.48 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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QUINTESSENCE OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

DR. J. SRIPADMADEVI

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Children’s literature, one of the fascinating streams of literature, spellbinds the reading young minds by its incredible association with fantastic elements. Along with this mesmerizing factor, it contains the seeds of basic values, principles and certain positive attitudes which will abet in the process of pruning and nurturing the personality of children. While shaping the psyche of the rising generation, it also introduces ideas about how the society around them is organized, how that social order fits into national and global perspectives; thereby it serves the purpose of preparing its readers to become the next generation of dutiful adults. After addressing the psychological and societal demands, reading stories enable the children to enhance their linguistic competence by enriching their vocabulary. Therefore, the present paper attempts to examine the quintessence of this literary spectrum by focussing on the grounds of these rationales in this stream of literature through which it garners special claim among the other genres of literary canon.

Key Words: Children’s literature – definition and characteristics, psychological theories.

4.2.49 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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REFLECTION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN VIJAY TENDULKAR’S PLAY “KAMALA”

FADL MOHAMMED AIED ALGALHADI & DR. SHAILAJA B. WADIKAR

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A drama as part of literature is admittedly a convenient way for showing social problems of society in which story is told to the audience through the performance on the stage by the actors. The present paper aims to study Vijay Tendulkar’s ideas about marriage family in his play Kamala. The play is based on a real life incident. Kamala is a play that elucidates the predicament of women. The play explores how women have been treated by male counterparts. Women are oppressed, misused, exploited, and enslaved. Kamala shows how women are used as a means for fulfillment of men's lust, ambition, fame, and money. The paper presents the horrible exploitation of women in the rural area of India where women can be bought from a flesh market .It aims to show the reality of life of women in modern India especially the concept of marriage and family. This paper will focus on the theme of exploitation which is found in the marital relationship in this play. 

Key Words: Vijay Tendulkar, Marriage, Family, Exploitation, Kamala, Drama, Women.

4.2.50 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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INDRAJIT AS AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN IN BADAL SIRCAR’S EVAM INDRAJIT

MOHAMMED AHMEDUDDIN

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Badal Sircar is one of the most prominent, influential modern Indian playwrights. Sudhindra Sircar popularly known as Badal Sircar began his career as a town planner. Later on he  developed his interest in drama and started acting in plays and directing them. Sircar started his writing career with light and humorous plays. He has more than fifty plays to his credit and his writing career spans over fifty years. Badal Sircar gained popularity with the writing of the play Evam Indrajit in 1963. His other significant plays are Baaki Itihaash(Remaining History) , Tringsha Shatabdi (Thietieth Century), Pagla Ghoda (Mad Horse), Shesh Nai (There’s No End). In 1967 he established ‘Shatabdi’ his theatre group. Sircar did not like artificiality and dispensed with aids such as sound,light.elaborate costumes and make-up. He is also regarded as the pioneer of Third Theatre, a kind of an experimental form of theatre that focuses on direct communication with the audience. It focuses on bringing the change in the thinking of the audience.

4.2.51 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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ONE DAY IN AASHADH: AN ANALYSIS

SYED ZAHIR ABBAS

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Mohan Rakesh is the pioneer of modern literary movement Nai Kahaniyan (New Stories). Many films are made on his stories. Apart from short stories writer and novelist, he was very famous as a dramatist. He is one of the pillars of modern Indian drama. His plays were inacted throughout India. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1968.

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PARADIGMS OF TRANSLATION THEORY

DR SHAIKH SUHEL

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The theory of translation is quite old and the act of translation is considered as the other Babel. Previously, literary translation was considered as a secondary activity, mechanical rather than creative. It was dismissed as trivial work and did not receive serious critical attention. But during contemporary times, the literary translation has drawn considerably large public and academic interest.

4.2.53 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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MISOGYNY: CONCEPTS AND DIMENSIONS

AVDHESH YADAV

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Misogyny is the hatred, contempt, or discrimination against women .Misogyny can be expressed in different ways in the form of social discrimination, hostility, androcentrism, patriarchy, male privilege, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification. Misogyny can also be found within religious texts and mythologies, and various Western philosophers and thinkers have also been described as misogynistic. Misogyny can be further defined as a cultural attitude of hatred for females because they are female. One may argue that misogyny is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and, as such, is an important basis the oppression of females in male-dominated societies. Misogyny is manifested in many different ways, from jokes to pornography to violence to the self-contempt women may be taught to feel toward their own bodies.

Key Words: Misogyny, Prejudice, Male Domination, Oppression

4.2.54 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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MYTH CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S ‘THE DAY OF THE GOLDEN DEER’

DR. (MRS) ABHA PANDEY & MEGHA MISHRA

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Storytelling is common in Indian culture. Story tellers have realized the need of a ‘good story’ since the beginning of civilization. The stories include myths, legends and folklore. A myth is a story based on tradition or legend, which has a deep symbolic meaning. A Myth conveys truth, rather than necessarily recording a true event. Girish Karnad, Sudhin Ghose, Balachandra Rajan, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh, have written stories with myths incorporated in them. They have used myths in their works for different purposes. Some writers like Girish Karnad have used myths to redefine the concept of religion. while some have focused on nature myths. Shashi Deshpande is a literary voice who has redefined the traditional role of women with the help of myths.

Keywords :- Myth, Women Character ,Hindu Epic, Shashi Deshpande

4.2.55 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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SHAW’S VIEW –DRAMA A MEDIUM

DR. K. V. PRASAD & DR. C. V. VISWANATH RAO

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G.B. Shaw, who is considered second to Shakespeare for his prolific writings looked at drama as a medium of expressing his ideas. In his plays pleasant and unpleasant, he aims at reflecting the society with a number of social problems which appear insolvable.  Each play exposes a particular problem for which the characters almost act as mouth pieces of Shaw with a reformative zeal to change the society. Of course, the plays may lose its sheen after the problem is solved with the suitable solution. Ironically, the plays have received much impetus because of effective ideas and a constructive vision to transform the society in an exemplary way. Shaw no doubt demonstrates his artistic ability in his own way to bring about a perennial impact on the society. The present write up evaluates his dramaturgy to allure the readers to ponder over his ideas are really noteworthy. Besides, the paper pinpoints analytically the purpose behind Shaw’s writings in a dramatic way.

Key words: prolific writings, social problems, reformative zeal, constructive vision, artistic ability, perennial impact.  

4.2.56 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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RECENT TRENDS OF EXPLOITATION IN NARENDRA JADHAV’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OUTCASTE: A MEMOIR

RAM KUMAR

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Dalit literature was started from 11th century with the Madara Chennaiah, was called ‘The Father of Vachana poetry’ but Dalit literature took shape in 20th century. Dalits have tried their hands mostly in autobiographies.  Autobiography is a real mirror of personal experiences. The technique of autobiography has become a new area of research. In autobiography author exposes the inner thought and does self-analysis. The purpose of writing this paper is to understand the inner feeling of Dalits through autobiographies. I chose Narendra Jadhav’s Autobiography Outcaste: A Memoir for this research. It is a Dalit literary text in which author describes three generations of Jadhav’s family, beginning with the father of the author, Damu Mahar and his wife, Sonu, then Narendra himself and in the end with author’s daughter, Apoorva. The trends of exploitation were different in three generation of the same family. Dalit struggled against untouchability and for equality and self identity. Gradually the way of exploitation has been changed as we see through Narendra Jadhav’s three generations.

Key words: Autobiographies, Dalit, atrocities, poverty, exploitation, Dalit literature Education. 

4.2.57 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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PAGLA GHODA: PREDICAMENT OF WOMEN

DR. SHAILAJA B. WADIKAR

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The play Pagla Ghoda is about the life of human beings; the life which consists of such events and incidents as loving, not loving, staying together, making departure, the suffering, joy, sorrow, complex human relationships, and so on. The playwright, here, seems to analyse as well as determine the value and meaning of life. It is a play about a woman in male-dominated Indian society. It depicts the various phases in her life: her childhood, her growing years, her various relationships, her getting apart from that relationships, and her death.

4.2.58 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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FEMINIST READING OF A DOLL’S HOUSE

SAMBHAJI VAMAN NARUTE

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Gender and sex had been often debated in the society based on its relation with one another. Women’s body has long been used as a canvas for painting in the outlines of patriarchal domination. The patriarchal culture essentially identifies women in a biological context and recognizes them on their reproductive capacities. For the patriarchal society female body was the root cause of sexual subjugation, but feminist critic Kate Millet rejected biological determinism and highlighted the social construction of womanliness as the root cause of female subjugation. Judith Butler goes another step forward and argues that sex as well as the female body is a social construction rather than a biological phenomenon.

Keywords: - Domestic violence, feminism, Gender, Sex, Protest

4.2.59 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE POLITICS OF DALIT FEMINISM: A STUDY OF BABY KAMBLE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY THE PRISONS WE BROKE

SURYA PRATAP BHARATI

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The present paper aims to focus on various forms of oppression and resistance to it by Dalit Women by making a close analysis of the autobiographies and literary works written by or on Dalit women. Division of society in the community is not restricted to caste division, also exist in gender equalities. Dalit women experience a different degree of oppression from both upper caste Hindu and Dalit men where Dalit Women are still biased by being women, poor and Dalit. The significance of this paper is in that it tries to highlight the powerfulness and celebrate the resistance of the women against multiple power discourses which attempt to govern and rule them.

Keywords: Dalit feminism, Dalit writing, Caste, trauma

4.2.60 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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A CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS PRONUNCIATION PROBLEMS IN NSS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND COMMERCE, PARLI-VAIJANATH

KANCHAN R. BAHETI

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This research paper investigates the problems in English pronunciation experienced by the second language learners whose first language is Marathi. The study is to find the problematic sounds and the factors that cause these problems. Then find some techniques that help the Marathi speaking students to improve their pronunciation. Fifteen students of B.Com first year from Navgan Shikshan Sanstha, College of Arts and Commerce, Parli-Vaijanath, were selected for the study. The students belong to rural areas with a deep influence of mother tongue which creates hurdles in their English pronunciations. The instruments used for collecting the data were observation during teaching Phonetics in their syllabus and the structured test. The findings of the study revealed that Students of English whose language background is Marathi , had problems with the pronunciation of English vowels that have more than one way of pronunciation in addition to the consonant sound contrasts e.g. /f/,/z/,/w/,/3/ blends like 'wh' and 'ed' sounds in final position of the words. Based on the findings, the study concluded that factors such as Interference, the differences in the sound system in the two languages, inconsistency of English sounds and spelling militate against Marathi Students of English competence in pronunciation.

Keywords: English pronunciation, problematic sound, ESL (English Second Language), SLA (Second Language Acquisition)

4.2.61 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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CULTURAL CONFLICT IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S ‘THE NAMESAKE’

K. BALAJI SUNDHARAM

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The research paper studies the cultural conflict in the characters presented in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. It draws attention towards the present era of transnational migration, the flow of the people among the different countries, convergence of the heterogeneous cultures, creolization of languages and hybridization of identities have broken the concept of fixity or absolute territoriality. The second generation immigrants find it hardly possible to stick to the identity of the parental land. The national identity of the first generation may be changed politically, but they are able to attach with their original homeland culturally, linguistically and ethnically.

Key words:  Immigration, Exile and Expatriation are related to home, Identity, Nostalgia, Memory and Isolation.

4.2.62 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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APOCALYPSE IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY AND CULTURE

DR. R. P. SINGH

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The Apocalypse for Hinduism is the natural end of the world at the end of the Kalpa, which is the one round completion of the cycle of the four ages or the Yugas; Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. They keep on coming at recurring intervals. According to Hindu scriptures currently, we are living in the Kali Yuga. Once the four Yugas are passed, it becomes a Mahayuga or Chatur Yuga. 1000 Mahayugas make up one Kalpa. A Kalpa makes just one day for Brahma. After the day is over, Brahma sleeps. When he sleeps, the state is called ‘Pralaya’. The Pralaya is the night of Brahma, and it equates the span of a Kalpa. The present paper discusses the mention of Apocalypse in Hindu mythology and culture.

Key Words: Apocalypse, Hinduism, Yuga, Pralaya

4.2.63 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LANGUAGE

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A MODEL TOWARDS THEME PRESENTATION IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

DR. ALKA SINGH

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Presenting one’s view in a consistent and forceful manner is always a challenge. It is an act in professional communication that requires a seasoned practice towards maintaining clarity, conciseness and coherence. Along with the accuracy of structure and style in individual and theme presentation, a good command over soft skills is also required. Theme presentation is very close to paper presentation .Each theme varies in perspective and requires a different style of representation in coherence with its nature. A proper training in language lab can develop the skills in this field. The present paper is a record of my experience in teaching theme presentation. I am sure, methodological practice and training in the field can bring magical results. 

Key Words: Theme Presentation, Individual Presentation, Group Presentation, Professional Communication

4.2.64 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFLICT IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART

DR. MANJUSHA DHUMAL

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The tragic consequences of the African encounter with European invasion, can be seen as the on surface theme of Chinua Achebe’s masterpiece Things Fall Apart.  But if one delves deep, one can visualise the social as well as the psychological conflict of an individual i.e. Okonkwo, the protagonist. This conflict is created by the incursion of the white man and his culture into the self-contained, self-sufficient world of the Ibo clan. Things Fall Apart as the title suggests is no doubt concerned with the dislocation of the African society caused by the advent of the white man. But within this framework is contained the sphere of action which involves the personal drama of the characters themselves. 

4.2.65 ENGLISH

Area of Article : LITERATURE

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GUIDANCE OF “PUNYA”(PIETY) IN HISTORICAL HINDU LITERATURE

DR. RAJESH YASHWANT KULKARNI

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Punya is Immensely deep concept of historical Hindu tradition, the word or expression denoting exactly the same sense is not found in English language;  piety from Bible  is an expression that comes close to Punya, however Punya is much more deeper and subtle in its totality of meaning.Punya is contrary to sin,Punya is grace that is received as outcome of good deeds. Hindu way of life is ancient and historical. Since time immemorial Hindu tradition has had sublime thought process. One of the concepts from it is ‘Punya’. In the ancient scriptures/literature like Ved.Ramayan, Mahabharat, Upnishad, Smruti have had this concept directing and impacting the Hindu life. In the medieval and modern times also the flow and inspiration of the concept Punya has been remained ignited in the Hindulife . In the present research the light is thrown on the concept of ‘ Punya’.