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Violence and Survival in Dina Mehta’s Getting Away with Murder
Get PDFDina Mehta is a Parsi writer who has exposed the atrocities inflicted upon women in a patriarchal society through Getting Away with Murder. She has unravelled the layers of pain through the story of three friends- Mallika, Sonali and Razia in Getting away with Murder. In this play, Dina Mehta has raised her voice on various issues of violence against women like rape, child sexual abuse, female foeticide, gender inequality and blind adherence to superstitions. A woman, whether house wife or a working woman, educated or uneducated has to go through the same plight of turmoil (physical, mental, emotional etc.) In this paper, by involving theories on violence, I have tried to analyse the truth which Dina Mehta has revealed through her play Getting Away with Murder. The play ends on a positive note of survival which became possible due to the close bond of trust and cooperation between three friends
Depiction of the Hegemonic Internalization of Socio-Cultural Biases: A Study of Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste
Get PDFSharankumar Limbale (1956 b.) is a Marathi author who is primarily known for his autobiography Akkarmashi (1984) originally published in Marathi. Having been translated into several Indian languages, the English translation of the autobiography by Santosh Bhoomkar got published by Oxford University Press in 2003. This paper aims at the portrayal of the abject poverty, utter helplessness, and biases prevalent in the socio-cultural milieus while offering contemplation to the practices of untouchability or discrimination based on caste, like how the minds of the people in a particular culture or society are trained to internalize the particular behavioural patterns of the dominating class of society. The paper also analyzes the ironic attitude of the men of upper-caste like how do they wish to cherish the physical charm of the beautiful women of the outcastes secretly, whereas socially they seek complete dissociation from them. Everything leads to the ostracization of the outcastes overtly and the outcastes stop reacting to the discriminatory patterns of behaviour, thus, their indifference to these becomes their habit turning them senseless
An Analysis of Retelling FolkloresThrough the Contemporary Interpretations in Modern Fictions
Get PDFThe proposed article will look at a few texts by contemporary famous fiction writers. The study looks at how these writings show a range of different perspectives toward the performers and occurrences in ancient folklore. One can see the interpretations of ancient folklore through legendary stories, and writers use ancient folklore in a modern way.
We are excited to know our traditions and culture through reading and writing about them. Modern authors have retold ancient Indian culture with contemporary situations by attributing scientific explanations to traditional cultural ethics.
The paper focuses on modern writers who have written in contrast with our own ancient Indian mythical tales with new modern imagination, modern problems, and solutions
Women Sensitiveness in Girish Karnad\u27s the Fire and the Rain Hayavadana and Nagamandala
Get PDFIn traditional Indian society, women are ruthlessly deprived of the opportunity to express their true feelings publicly. In Girish Karnad\u27s works, female characters constantly rebel against the traditional position of women in Indian society and try to find their own way. His works make fun of the unjust values ??of the patriarchal society, which does not care about women\u27s feelings and regards women as only inferior people who are absolutely loyal to him. Call it Nagamandala, Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain, all these elements are everything. The exploitation and oppression of women has become an established culture of male chauvinism, so his works represent a meeting point where women are portrayed as enlightened and liberated with resistance. Girish Karnad strives to overcome male dominance, hoping to raise awareness of how women are exploited and abused in the name of marriage. Karnad started her work to meet the challenge of resolving controversial issues. As for women, she has experience in discriminatory politics that supports gender and caste paradigms
Effect of COVID- 19 on Learning English Language of Students in Jalgaon District
Get PDFThe present research paper aims to find out the effect of the Covid-19 problem on learning English language of students in the Jalgaon District. English is the most important language in the world. In India, use of English language from daily transaction to the Indian constitution is notable. Due to Covid-19, the whole world suffered. Because of this pandemic people from the entire world were badly impacted, they suffered a lot economically, socially, and also educationally. COVID-19 is a viral disease so, it can be spread from one person to another through touch. To prevent this COVID-19 there was a lockdown in the whole world. The impact of this lockdown education was provided by the government on the online mode. Students could learn all subjects online but they have difficulty to learning English language because to learn any new language or English there should be social contact and a proper atmosphere to learn that language. Still, In the time of the pandemic, there was no proper atmosphere to spoken English at home, some students faced a problem in learning the English language because they could not afforded a mobile which is important for learning English, and some students were from the rural areas faced network issues, lack of discipline, time table of the study were disturbed, Social distance, and lack of interaction with teachers and friends in English language. Now lockdown is over so all schools and colleges are opening so teachers have to give more attention to their students, they should teach them English from a basic level. Students also need to be focused on improving their English to speak fluent English. 
Procuring Selfhood in Anne Tyler’s Novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Get PDFSelf-identity is mixing up the different roles that people play throughout their life to build their self-perception. Individuals can determine their priorities in terms of belief, values activities and life goals by building self-identity. This paper aims to focus on the different perspective narration of the characters in Anne Tyler’s novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant about fruition of their lives and how they contour themselves to form a self-identity after facing the difficulties of life
Analysing Ecofeminist Perspectives in Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth
Get PDFEcofeminism is a movement that sees an innate connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women in contemporary society. It challenges the existing patriarchal paradigms and holds that there is an inseparable connection between women and nature. This paper attempts to explore the intimate link between the oppression of women and the degradation of nature by closely analysing Anuradha Roy’s celebrated novel The Folded Earth. It presents before the readers an array of strong willed and independent female characters who share an intimate bond with their immediate environment. It succeeds in beautifully portraying a spectrum of women in Indian society belonging to different generations, with different education, values, beliefs as well as social and economic conditions
The Portrayal of the Politics of Partition in Chaman Nahal’s Azadi and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man (Cracking India): A Comparative Study
Get PDFIt is a known fact that the socio-political and historical issues of any country can attract the attention of creative writers, and they reflect the same in their works of art. One such significantand heart-rending issue is the Partition of India. This research article portrays the political issues in particular and other related issues in general, making a comparative study of Chaman Nahal’s Azadi and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man (Cracking India). The reader of these two selected novels can understand how the British rulers used the ‘divide and rule’ policy, two-nation theory, and Machiavellian trickery in dividing the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan. As this tragic event of Partition was politically motivated, it upset the religious and cultural harmony among the Indians. It will be explored how these two celebrated novelists have dealt with the politics of Partition, focusing on the role played the Congress, the Muslim League, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, etc.It will be specifically explored how M.K. Gandhi exerted an impact on these two novelists while writing their respective novels on the theme of Partition. 
Reflection of Modern Civilization with All Its Degenerative Facets in Prufrock
Get PDFThe proposed research article is an attempt to make an analysis and understand the concept of spiritual degeneration and materialism of modern civilization as reflected in TS Eliot poem "Love song of J Alfred prufrock" . Eliot has given English poetry a new direction where the poet must not remain confined within his own self ,but must merge with his individual self in the social milieu,the public environment.Modern men become spiritually dead , they lack social value and have only love for materialistic outlook. The present poem holds up the mirror to understand the complex culture, spiritual degeneration and the post-industrial condition of the modern man that is relevant today. The present work discusses how the poem is still relevant to modern society, to modern value and to modern outlook with its modern and penetrative poetic idea
Cross-Cultural Communication of Hybrid Identities: Displaying Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
Get PDFThe paper explores several aspects of cross-cultural communication and the hybrid identities of characters. The title explains multi-racial dissimilarities and identities as built in communication through race, class, religion, culture, or ethnic identity these are based on their particular structural hybrid identities. They focus on the basic differences between values determining cultural changes and identities. This perspective of hybrid culture with instability and transformation creates a hybrid cultural identity that differs with time and is dependent on contingency. Hybrid cultures identities are negotiated and they are able to hold a variety of cultural effects. The process of cross-cultural communication adapts and creates a hybridized identity that helps them in their negotiation between different cultural practices with their group or with different strata of the society. This study attempts to display how race plays an important role in dividing people into superior and inferior groups and among this, it shows how the power structure shifts from the former structure to a fragmented structure and how the characters adapt to the changing situations. This paper shapes the above points regarding cross-cultural communication of hybrid identities.