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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 4 , ISSUE - 4  ( JULY-AUG  2018 )

VIDHYA VIJAYAN

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Film, the most popular media, has a tremendous impact to carve out how individual can feel about a particular topic. Indian films portrayed women characters as doubly marginalized creatures. In earlier times women were featured as a commodity only to satisfy male urge and their bodies were featured in a way as if they are meant for male consumption with some few exceptions. Now changes occur and women begin to play the role of central characters. The audiences also begin to perceive the makeover from the conventional girl to an iconoclastic woman. The present study focuses on three movies ‘Queen’ (Hindi), ‘How Old Are You?’ (Malayalam), and ‘Rani Padmini’ (Malayalam) with giving due emphasis on how the women characters are transformed or how they are emancipated in this patriarchal world. Three films mentioned here are highly inspirational and motivational story of women’s empowerment.

Keywords- commodity, iconoclastic woman, emancipation, empowerment

DR. VIJAYLAXMI S. PRASHENE

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Moyez G. Vassanji is a writer of six novels, two collections of short stories and a memoir of his travels in India. Vassanji in his novels focusses on subjects like wars, post- colonisation and its effects on the people, especially the immigrants from India to Africa, Canada and the United States. In his novel The In- between World of Vikram Lall, Vassanji brings out the sufferings caused to the people who fall victim of the wars between the protestants and the colonizers. Throughout the novel we see the changing Africa from 1950s to the fear of seventies and eighties and as a consequence the changes occurring in the lives of the characters. The combat between the Mau-Mau rebels in Kenya and the Britishers place the innocent people nowhere. The present paper throws light on one such character named Vikram Lall, the protagonist in the novel. Vikram is the grandchild of an Indian railroad worker and now a third generation immigrant in Kenya. The paper deals with the sense of  'in-betweenness' that Vikram Lall comes across in every  important phase of his life. Right from childhood to his later life, Vikram Lall finds himself in an in-between situation. Further we see instances where Vikram Lall is always clutched at the centre of two warring worlds, one of childhood innocence and the other of a colonial world of repressive, undignified subjecthood.

Keywords: in-between, immigrant, war, victim and victimizer.

DR. ABHA TIWARI

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By the mid-eighteenth century A.D., the Colonial Government in India thought it prudent to introduce and popularize English among the natives to produce cheap and docile educated workforce locally to work as writers in the numerous establishments of the East India Company. Besides, it also aimed at producing experts, who along with English are also conversant with one or more Indian languages to be employed as interpreters and translators in various courts to help the British judges to dispense justice. Undoubtedly, the exercise helped the rulers for quite some time, but in the long run it proved counter productive, as it enabled the Indians to take inspiration from the liberal British institutions, enabling them to fight for their own justice. It eventually led them to get organized and fight for the liberation of the country from the British rule, heralding the dawn of the national movement in India. It is against this backdrop that the present paper seeks to explore the significance of the introduction of English in India.

Keywords: Colonial Government, East India Company, Language, English, Justice, etc.

B. S. S. BHAGAVAN

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The Sage of concord, the American transcendentalist, R. W. Emerson known for his Philosophical and Literary writing . Emerson had developed strong passion in the Hindu’s scriptures during his Harvard days. He started reading Vedantic Philosophy in 1840’s, and continued throughout his life. Emerson’s prose and poetry filled with Vedantic quotations.  Emerson borrowed themes from Upanishads and other Hindu scriptures for his essays. The Philosopher and Over soul , spiritual law and etc. Best examples of Emerson essays which echoes the Vedantic ideology. The titles of few poems like Hamatreya, Bramha and etc, are borrowed from hindu scriptures. Emerson used Upanishadic concepts as a themes of his poems such as wood notes , the celestial love, sphinx and sprit. The objective of this present study is to interpret Emerson’s poem Hamatreya and contend contrary to the observations of Emersonian critics in explaining the meaning of the title Hamatreya.

Key words: Philosophical—Scriptures—Vedantic—Upanishads—Echoes.

DR. DAXA THAKOR

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This paper uncovers with the help of novel, Figurative Histories, the presence of differences, hatred, disliking’s, prejudices and negativity among Hindu and Muslims in the name of religion after the Bharat-Pakistan partition. It presents how the administration was failed in controlling before the riot came into flow and let loose the fanatics on the people belonging to another community though India is a secular country. After reading the novel we can easily judge that the fundamental list the community at hatred, must suffer individually foe their social as well as professional life and that politicizing ethnicity and ethicizing of politics is largely responsible for increasing cultural conflict. People in the universe strongly believe that they are the creation of the omniscient God and as per their assumption and blind beliefs  try to find this existence of God in their own way and this may have given birth to the different religions of the world. The tragic outcome of this is that they have started to fight against each religion to prove the authenticity of their so called religion and at the end we can see that the humanity has to suffer so pathetically. Figurative Histories is among the literary work which depicts like Amrita Pritamˈs Pinjar the sad history of communal riots.

Key Words: Religious Abhorrence, communal riots, Ahmedabad

DR. MANISH D. BHATT

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Poetry stirs the soul with the deepest delight. First, the poet himself feels “a divine Ananda, a delight interpretative, creative, revealing, and formative”² and then, he succeeds in pouring this deep spiritual joy into all those who are prepared to receive it: ‘This delight is not merely a godlike pastime, it is a great formative and illuminative power.’

SHOBHA RANI & V. SRINIVAS

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G. AMUDHA

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Michael Ondaatje, is a Sri Lankan settled in Canada and his literary artifacts constitute Sri Lankan Diaspora discourses. He is capable of transcending dichotomies like total assimilation and alienation or acclimatization and ethnic assertion. He is capable of straddling between the ethnic boundaries of both the countries. In Anil’s Ghost (2000) Ondaatje’s affiliation towards his ancestral land is fore grounded. Ondaatje renovates the native history by clearly depicting the suppressed and unidentified past.

Key words: postmodern, identity, archaeology, history, war

RIMA SONI

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African literature is inscription of and instigation Africa. This literature comprises of a cadaver exertion in sundry languages and an assortment of field’s choice from uttered literature to works on paper in imposing lingo or language. In African literature, subterranean ingrained part is Traumatic Rhubarb. Tribulation, Apartheid, Dehumanization and Trauma are leading theme tune of African literature, life, civilization, nation and culture. This research work attempts to scrutinize substantial gist regarding African literature from the memorialized poems of Maria Manuela Margarido and Tanure Ojaide’s selected poems with special reference to Anthonia C. Kalu’s The Rienner Anthology of African Literature.  Essentially, this book divulges the fruitfulness of African inventiveness, legends and extravaganzas; works by such eminent writers as Chinua Achebe, Bernard Dadie, Maria Manuela Margarido, Tayeb Salih, Wole Soyinka, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Tanure Ojaide, Ngugi wa Thiong'o; and works of fiction and poetry by numerous innovative authors. The present research work alienated into four sections. The first section comprehends A Concise Discourse on African Literature. The second section is about Maria Manuela Margarido’s deals with the theme tunes of suffering, exploitation and torturing of Native Africans by colonizers in his celebrated poem, “You Who Occupy Our Land”. The third section consist of Native Africans Endorsement in Tanure Ojaide’s poem entitled “Launching Our Community Development Funds”. The last part summarizes about conclusion of this research work.

Key Words: African Literature, Traumatic Rhubarb, Enduring Tribulation, Apartheid, Racial Discrimination, Maria Manuela Margarido, Tanure Ojaide, Black Nativism, Native Africans and Dehumanization

R. PADMA PRIYA & DR. M. PREMAVATHY

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Amit Chaudhuri is a versatile writer of contemporary Indian writings in English. He is a literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet and also a great singer. He has remarked as dazzling star of contemporary Indian writers in English. His writings are discernible, observable which strikes and vibrate the heart and mind of the readers. He has given noted importance for the Indian values. His works reflect the Indian values coated in Bengali sensibility. Chaudhuri works rebound the Bengali culture, ethnicity and regional sensibility of Calcutta. Amit Chaudhuri has also explored the vitality of Indian culture through his novels and embellished the tradition of Indian English novels with his creative innovations. Chaudhuri’s novels provide a new perspective on the theoretical models of the Indian domesticity. The domestic settings of his novels illustrate the material history of the Indian home, associated with religious, social and cultural practices, he also exhibits how these are adopted and reworked by the protagonists. His artistic perception and innovative vision assist him to change the conventional concepts of Indian English fiction. The region is a mere setting or background of his works. It plays an important role in the development of the story and characterization. The main objective of this paper is a trial to streak the cultural sensiblity about tradition, rituals, family, class and identities in the novels of Amit Chaudhuri.

Keywords: Culture, Ethnicity, Indian tradition, Domesticity, Rituals.

B. SRINIVASULU

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The term `values’ is used in this review to refer to the principles and fundamental convictions which act as general guides to behaviour, the standards by which particular actions are judged to be good or desirable and examples of values are love, equality, freedom, justice, happiness, security, peace of mind and truth. The purpose of this study is to grapple with the values of the university students to see whether studying literature enhances their perspectives in values After the five-week study of the plays tackled through the moral educational perspective, their post test results were compared with 50 freshmen students in the same department. The results show that there is no difference between freshmen and junior teacher trainees in terms of the Kolbian categorization.

Keywords: Values education, teacher trainees, literary texts.

NEHA KUMARI & DR. RAJESH KUMAR

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The success of popular literature is prominently scaled by its high sales and its capacity to entertain, rather than its position in the literary canon.  In the history of Indian publishing, Amish Tripathi’s fiction Shiva Trilogy that includes the series of three novels- Immortals of Meluha (2010), The Secret of The Nagas (2011), and The Oath of Vayuputras (2011) has become the fastest selling book series with 2.5 million copies in print and over 70 crores in sales. Shiva Trilogy, usually categorized as fantasy myth, is a blend of Myth, Fantasy, Science fiction, Gothic, and Thriller with Historical Romance; notably all the sub-genres of popular fiction. My article analyses diverse characteristics that qualify the fiction Shiva Trilogy to be at the top rank in the category of Indian Popular fiction. It also presents a symposium on myth and reality attached to popular fiction. 

Keywords:  Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mass reader vs. Class reader, Mythology, Fantasy, Catharsis, Neurosis, Egocentric Hero 

RUPESH SINGH

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus interconnects lunatic, lover and poet haphazardly. Each is distinctive in his perception of actuality, with the poet so much engrossed in his imagination that he can almost formulate his own universe from his fantasies. Theseus links together the poet, the madman, and the lover. They “[a]re of imagination all compact”. The lunatic’s fantasy is strained with images of ordeal; the lover is tricked by a twist in vista; the poet is assessed by his eye, which rolls in a “fine frenzy” and permits his mind to exemplify and give a figure to “the forms of things unknown”. As the play demonstrates, and explicitly satirizes, the imagination in love often operates in defiance of “discretion”, particularly in making beauty observable by no one but the maker. The poetic prowess, different from that of a Quince or Bottom, is in concordance with circumspection, and its arts are constituent of universal perceptiveness, both as exquisite and as meaningful. In love, the ludicrous consequence from the ascendance of imagination over reason, and the lover is unconscious of his being ludicrous.

Keywords: - love, madness, and poetry.

VISHNUKUMAR E.

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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella written by H.G. Wells in 1897. The Invisible Man is the story of an invisible man, who achieves through his invisible identity what he cannot achieve through his real identity. The invisible man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theories that if a person’s ‘Refractive Index’ is changed the exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, and then he became invisible. More than a scientific romance, this is the story of a man, Griffin, who accidentally stumbles upon the logically impossible idea that a man can be invisible, only to be introduced to the harsher realities of existence. This refractive experiment leads him in to an extraordinary way of life. Then, he himself successfully carries out this procedure, but cannot regain his original form again, and as a result becomes mentally unstable.

Key Words: Scientific Romance, Invisible Identity vs Real Identity.

PRIYA E.

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This paper attempt to study the brief biography of Vijay Tendulkar and his way of portraying female characters in his plays. Vijay Tendulkar is the most prolific and controversial dramatist among the Post-Independence Indian playwrights. Thematically Tendulkar's plays have ranged from the exploration of man-woman relationship to reinterpretations of social, historical, and political episodes. His plays concentrates on different aspects of the human character and complexity of human relationship. He fascinated by the violent exploited-exploiter, husband-wife, brother-sister, lover-beloved relationship.

M. YAZHER ARAFATH

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The Indian history has been a vivacious record of conflict and dialectic between exploiters and exploited, colonizer and colonized, powerful and powerless. Dalit literature is known for its revolt and struggle of lower caste against the high class people. Dalit women are especially doubly exploited. Feminism or feminist aspect deals with society in general and women in particular. This research paper highlights the need of Dalit feminist writing and the the problems of dalit women and self realization of marginalized women with the reference of Bama's Karukku.

Key words: Dalit feminism, resistance, marginalization, patriarchy.

P. PRABAVATHI

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Africa, after experiencing a haunting era of intense suffering and untellable horrors appeals to the attention of the world through the effective medium ofletters. The concentric systems of economic exploitation, racial prejudice and colour differences are beginning to be revived through softly. It is an undeniable reality that the ‘thick’ black bodies of the natives were tortured and their psyche was fragmented with the so-called inferiority and intellectual inadequacy. Their desperate will to survive has found an outlet for their ‘impotent’ hope showed up against the apathetic onlookers of the apartheid scenario.

DR. PRAKASH NARAIN

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This research paper has attempted to search out and prove that ‘The Apprentice’, Joshi‘s third novel, takes his search for understanding man‘s predicament one step further toward the transcendental and there is a cycle od sin,repentance and redemption. Its central figure is a man named Ratan Rathor, essentially docile and uncourageous whose life more or less parallels the coming into being of postcolonial India. From the above short description of Arun Joshi‘s work, one thing is clear that the all the works of the writer centre on the twin aspects of ―conflict‖ and ―self-identity,‖ which are interwoven and inseparable. In search of self-identity and to resolve the ―conflict‖, Arun Joshi through his characters resolves the problem by redemption in various ways through the cycle of sin and repentance as he does in his third novel’The Apprentice’.

Key words- cycle, sin, repentance, redemption, apprentice, selfishness, alienation, humiliating, selfless service