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PUNE RESEARCH WORLD 

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

( ISSN  2455 - 359X  ONLINE )  (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 6 , ISSUE - 4  (DEC 2021  TO FEB 2022)

DR. V. M. SARANYA

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Anita Nair is an Indian novelist who used English as the language of her novels. She was born in 1966 in Kerala.  Anita Nair is one of the most prominent women writers in Indian English. She has refused to be labelled as a feminist writer. Far from taking a feminist concern, thereby fighting against the patriarchal society and male domination, she has taken a balanced view of life from a woman’ point of view by bringing in all the feminine sensibilities. The concept, ideas and plot of Anita’s novel are unique style in writing the ordinary contemporary fiction writers. She tries to describe everything in detail and you cannot find a rush in narrating a certain context. She has shifted the idea from the city lights to the dawn of villages. Her novel The Better Man recalls the values that are inherited in the village atmosphere that is almost forgotten in the contemporary Indian English fiction. The protagonists and other five women characters not only endure life’s hardships stoically but, in the process, also emerge stronger, providing sustenance and equilibrium to the entire community.

DR. D. PARAMESHWARI

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In the making of a refined Lucknowi culture and this hear tuning to note Umrao immortalized Ghazal and epitomized Umrao . from have Rekha has taken our where Umrao finishes and fine tune the ghazal as soul of Hindi Cinema Aishwarya tries to do her bit have. The major Literary form that has been used in Hindi Cinema is one of urdu literatures major genres, the ‘ghazal’ which has become popular in many north Indian languages. It is a much-loved literary form used by most of the great urdu poets, although many critics of Urdu Literature disdain it.

DR. RUTH CAROL

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Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. In addition, feminism seeks to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist is a “person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism.” Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women’s social roles and lived experience; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender. Some of the earlier forms of feminism have been criticized for taking into account only white, middle-class, educated perspectives. This led to the creation of ethnically-specific or multiculturalist forms of feminism.

DR. ASHISH PANDEY

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Over the past 50 years, gender roles have undergone a variety of changes all over the world. Not only have women got a stronger, active and important role to play in the society, men have also shouldered some of the responsibilities of household chores and looking after the children. This portrayal has been reported from time to time in various newspaper articles and reports. But there is one medium that has represented it both over a period of time as well across various nations. It is the mass media. This paper traces the change in the gender roles in the post modern world as represented in mass media mainly television soaps and cinema of India and the United States, the two biggest democracies of the world. An analysis of some of the films and television soaps provides us with sufficient proof on the change of the gender roles in the society. Women have a stronger role to play; men are no longer doing things which are strictly ‘masculine’.  Television serials as well as films are now being produced keeping in mind women as consumers; as a result of which there has been the evolution of chick flicks and television soaps with powerful matriarchs. Moreover, transgender people as well as people belonging to the gay community have also got some space on television as well as cinema. Earlier these people were an object of ridicule both in the society as well as mass media. But over the years, it has been seen that they are no longer looked down upon. This paper looks at the development of all these issues citing examples from various Hollywood and Hindi films as well as American and Indian soaps and sitcoms.