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Reimagining Connections: Exploring the Dynamics Between Gender, Nature, and Culture
Get PDFThe relationship between nature and culture has been a topic of interest for scholars and researchers across various disciplines for decades. However, the gendered aspects of this connection have not received sufficient attention until recent times. This paper aims to explore how gender plays a crucial role in shaping the interactions between human societies and the natural world. The gendered approach towards the study of nature and culture provides a critical lens to examine how gendered identities and roles shape human interactions with nature. Feminist scholars have argued that the dominant discourse surrounding nature and culture is androcentric, meaning it prioritizes male perspectives and experiences. This bias has led to a lack of understanding of how gender influences human-nature relationships, and how gendered experiences are inextricably linked to environmental issues. Through an analysis of statements and works by various authors and critics, this paper demonstrates that the gendered approach to the study of nature and culture is critical in addressing the pressing environmental issues we face today. It highlights the importance of recognizing the diverse ways in which gender shapes human interactions with the environment, and how the intersection of gender, nature, and culture is essential for creating sustainable and just societies
Unveiling the Linguistic Landscape: Examining the Influence of Digital Communication in Social Media and Text Messaging on Language Development
Get PDFSocial media and SMS are examples of digital communication tools that have drastically altered how people communicate. As a result, linguistic standards and usage have rapidly evolved. This article looks at how language has changed as a result of digital communication and how new linguistic traits and conventions have emerged. It examines how the current linguistic environment has been shaped by the widespread use of acronyms, emojis, abbreviations, and internet slang. This article comes to the conclusion that creative linguistic adaptations and new forms of expression have been sparked by digital communication through a thorough analysis of the scholarly literature and real-world language use on digital platforms. There is also discussion of how these language shifts brought about by digital technology affect interpersonal communication, education, and literacy. The ultimate goal of this article is to show how social media and SMS have significantly influenced language evolution in the current digital era
Socio-Economic Role of Jwalamukhi Temple, Dist.Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
Get PDFJwalamukhi temple is the place of one of the fifty-one Shaktipeethas of Maa Durga. The temple plays an important role in the socio-economic conditions of the state. The temple along with an important hub of religious activities has been a significant place of social and economic activities which with the passage of time have increased both in degree and nature. The present paper seeks to look into the socio-economic role of the Jwalamukhi temple both in the lives of the people of the area and also in the state of Himachal Pradesh
Feministic Shades with respect to Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings
Get PDFFeminism as a movement has had a tremendous impact on almost all the genres of literature. It has enveloped people at large; especially women or to be more precise, women of the 21st century. It is a matter of discussion whether the influence it has exercised can be categorised as positive or negative. But for sure, the transformation with respect to the gender roles in society is notable. Women of today have not only become aware of their rights but are also well informed about the ample opportunities they have in every field. They have empowered and liberated themselves from the age old taboos and shackles.
Shobha De, a journalist, short story writer and a novelist of recognition like the other inspiring female writers, has also carved a niche for herself in the area of feminist writings. She is famous for her bold style of writings. Her novels are a study in feminism and portray women with liberated mindset. She is realistic and frank in her character portrayal and is often misunderstood as being vulgar in her expressions. In a country like India, when the talks of sex and romance were considered as embarrassing, Shobha De became one of the pioneers of presentation of open expressions in matters related to women, sex and eroticism. It will not be incorrect to state that feminism is a continuous thought which is manifest in almost all the writings of Shobha De.
Socialite Evenings, presents the life of the protagonist, Karuna, who revolts from the set norms and customs, held by the society in search of her identity. Though Shobha De has succeeded in the presentation of her viewpoint related to the socialite women of Bombay through the character of Karuna, but Karuna, in our opinion cannot be accepted to be an archetype of women liberation, emancipation and independence. The location of Indian woman cannot be discordant with the Indian cultural traditions and important necessary customs
FAILURE OF FAMILY REINTEGRATION INTO HOME FROM EARLY PLAYS OF SAM SHEPARD
Get PDFSam Shepard is not just a “western essayist”, but one who has the capacity to assess contemporary American culture through the symbols and topics of conventional Western American writing. His plays follow the liquidation of American society, in which characters are no more coordinated into their reality by adherence to habitual qualities and standards. Shepard raises the icons of this convention to send them slamming from a more prominent stature, delineates the whole-world destroying end of customary American society in which long-held qualities, especially those celebrated in Western American writing, are ceremonially exorcized to make space for some new, up till now unheard of America. Shepard’s plays don’t advance sequentially to these ends. Shepard, depicts the search for home within contemporary American culture. In this paper, we are focusing on Shepard’s selected plays to depict the failure of family reintegration into Home or Family. Shepard’s Fourteen Hundred Thousand (1967), The Unseen Hand (1972) and Mad Dog Blues (1972). Fourteen Hundred Thousand - is a play about Husband and Wife who tries to build a bookshelf. The Unseen Hand - is a play about Morphan brothers who lives far away from their home. Mad Dog Blues - this play is all about a couple of best friends who were unhappy with their misguided lives set off to discover a treasure.
 
Importance of Education in the Novels of Charles Dickens
Get PDFEducation entails a change in a person\u27s way of living and the growth of that person to enable him to choose the most appropriate solution to a problem at any given time. It is one of the more tangible sources of knowledge and information. A well-educated person is competent enough to use a variety of technologies. A good education can help people achieve their goals in life and grow personally and nationally. We can battle injustice with the aid of education. Our intellect and capacity to reason are improved through education. Writing emails, letters, typing messages, reading periodicals and newspapers, or even using a smartphone, makes communication simple
Theorizing Collective Trauma and Identity-Threat in Select Stories from Deshbhager Galpa: Tripura
Get PDFMemory is a complex phenomenon that reaches out to far beyond what normally constitutes a historian\u27s archives, for memory is much more than what the mind can remember or what objects can help us document about the past. There are then two aspects to this memory that concern us here: the sentiment of nostalgia and the sense of trauma, and their contradictory relationship to the question of the past. A traumatised memory has a narrative structure which works on a principle opposite to that of any historical narrative. At the same time, however, this memory, in order to be the memory of a trauma, has to place the Event - the cause of the trauma, in this case, Partition of 1947 in the context of Tripura-within a past that gives force to the claim of the victim. This has to be a shared past between the narrator of the traumatic experience and the addressee of the narration. Yet it cannot be a historicist version of the past, one that aims to diffuse the shock of the traumatic by explaining away the element of the unexpected. Hence the introductory segment of the paper might highlight the facts related to Tripura Bengalis, their arrival, and their stories of settlement. However, the purpose is to examine the psychological reactions to a traumatic event that affects an entire society; it does not merely reflect an historical fact, the recollection of a terrible event that happened to a group of people. The aim is to analyse the features of traumatic memories and, thus, how individuals construct and integrate their experiences and struggles through narratives. The chosen text is select stories from Deshbhagger Galpa:Tripura, a collection of short stories focusing on Nostalgia, Identity-crisis and Collective Trauma
Preliminary Study on Shanxi Drum Music
Get PDFShanxi is a province in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin, famous for its rich variety of folk arts. Its Drum Music is the typical representative of folk music in nothern China. From the south to north of Shanxi, four types of drum music have been in the list of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage for the unique artistic features, musical instruments used, history, cultural function and roles in the folk life. Shanxi gong and drum music is the collective wisdom of the local people. Its unique artistic charm comes from the grandeur of the performance, flexibility and versatility of the playing techniques, as well as the combination of music, dances and folk lif
Journalists as Life Writers
Get PDFJournalists by profession are storytellers across mediums in different languages. After years of practice, many journalists, in the past and even now, step into the world of writing books, particularly life narratives like biographies and autobiographies. One of the reasons to choose the genre is their expertise, as journalists often meet people and unravel their characteristics in the profile and interview formats. Another reason is their ability to do research and delve deep into people’s lives. The present study picks up a few journalists at random who have authored biographies and autobiographies, and studies their approach to writing books and the craft of presentation keeping in mind their experience and expertise
Brothels as Heterotopic Spaces: An Analysis of the Movie Begum Jaan
Get PDFBrothels are restricted spaces for individuals who follow and praise the societal norms of morality. But these spaces also give easy access to the patriarchal society to suppress women since they do not fit into the so-called “respective” roles in society. Brothels are usually viewed as spaces for men to fulfill their desire for sex, enhancing their masculinistic peculiarities. Women are always suppressed in these sexual acts as they are viewed as derogatory subjects and forced to subjugate under men. The Bollywood movies have created a series of narrations portraying brothels where the above peculiar characteristics are reinitiated and represented. Contrary to this, the movie Begum Jaan portrays a brothel negating all the stereotypical understandings of it, as argued in the paper. To prove this, the paper views the Brothel in the movie as a “heterotopia,” keeping in mind the concepts related to gender, power, and space itself through qualitative analysis