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Eternalising Cultural Memory Through Cultural Parallels in Literary Narratives
Get PDFCultural memory represents the collective perceptions and creations of the distant past. Such collective memories are best documented and secured in Literature. What matters is not the real facts but rather the consensus of conventions shared by both the cultural history and the literary creator. However, literary narratives do not always give a compilation of such memories under a single wrap. It is on this distinctive point that Jakkana stands out in eternalising cultural memory. Basavaraj Naikar’s novella, Jakkanna is the retelling of the life and history of the Amarsilpi Jakkannacharya, the famed architect of the Hoysala dynasty. The plot is replete with events that have been happening from the ancient times. Parallels of such incidents that have endured to the modern times can be drawn from the two great epics and other ancient Indian philosophy and literatures. This article aims at highlighting such aspects of our lives that seems to have been greatly influenced by the past. It also looks at such events that have endured eras
The Unwanted Metonymy of The 1804 Usman Dan Fodio’s Jihad to The Contemporary Nigerian State
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the eruption of some covert religio-political militant movements modeled after the 1804 Usman dan Fodio’s jihad who are engrossed with the penchant desire for launching jihads in Nigeria. It discusses also the Maitatsine’s imbroglio, Izala, the Shiites, the sharia propagandists between 1978 and 1999, Boko Haram’s insurgence and Fulani herdsmen onslaughts. It highlights the dangers of these disguised movements to the Nigerian socio political and economic existence and suggests some ways of checkmating their excesses
Verbal Impoliteness, Strategies and Typology
Get PDFThis article has as a starting point the linguistic theories of politeness and the opposed phenomenon, verbal impoliteness. The theories of impoliteness and conflict are parallel, but opposed to those of politeness. However, new research does not admit the description of impoliteness as a mere deviation from the politeness theories or as a phenomenon that breaks rules and maxims of cooperative and polite communication. Verbal impoliteness, a constitutive aspect of conflictive communication, is a prototypical non-cooperative type of behaviour, but this behaviour is not always necessarily and completely irrational or competitive
Dr Radhakrishnan as a Philosopher
Get PDFDr Radhakrishnan’s thinking was Upanishadic. He also firmly believed in the birth of a new order based on ancient Indian wisdom. Drawing his inspiration from the Vedas, the Upanisads and the Gita, Radhakrishnan believed that humanity must become one. What kind of religion did Radhakrishnan advocate? Not a credal or dogmatic one, not an intellectual theology disputing over dogmas and contemplations. Radhakrishnan takes pride in the fact that Hinduism is not bound up with a creed or a dogma, with a founder – prophet or a historical personality, with a book like the Bible or the Quran, but a “persistent search for truth on the basis of a continuously renewed experience”. Radhakrishnan, as an ardent Hindu, could not transcend Hinduism itself. He was respectful of all religions, but it is ultimately Hindu standards by which he judged other religions. Hinduism was always for him the ideal religion, of course, a Hinduism re-interpreted, purged of all that he found distasteful in it. That President Radhakrishnan was a dhvajasthambalam in the temple of our nation’s consciousness: upright and resplendent in rough weather and fair, inspiring us to a higher purpose. K R Srinivas Iyengar noted that without the reserves of the spirit, the inner poise, the hidden fire, all other endowments cannot count for much. And the spirit that moved and sustained our ancient Indian Rishis and Acharyas is not foreign to Professor Radhakrishna
Great Leaders Innovate Teamwork
Get PDFWisdom perpetuates the legend of modernism as a private act, a spark of originality imminent, an Aha! Instant in the brain of a mastermind. People, in fact, favor to consider in the rough individuality of detection, possibly since they hardly ever get to see the sausage-making process behind every get through modernism. From his productive intelligence came the brightest bulb and the turntable, along with additional than a thousand further untested inventions over a sixty-year vocation. As many have experienced, maybe Edison\u27s most donations were his artisan-oriented shops—a new technique of organizing innovation has evolved into today\u27s R&D laboratory with its team-based innovation centers. The research explores the importance of teamwork and the key to success in an organization. The foundation of any team depends on the direction and inspiration brought in the team by its leader
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: A Socio –Political Study of Poverty and Injustice
Get PDFAravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winning debut novel The White Tiger is sharp, fascinating, attacks poverty and injustice. The White Tiger is a ground breaking Indian novel. Aravind Adiga speaks of suppression and exploitation of various sections of Indian society. Mainly a story of Balram, a young boy’s journey from rags to riches, Darkness to Light transforming from a village teashop boy into a Bangalore entrepreneur. This paper deals with poverty and injustice. The paper analyses Balram’s capability to overcome the adversities and cruel realities. The pathetic condition of poor people try to make both ends meet. The novel mirrors the lives of poor in a realistic mode. The White Tiger is a story about a man’s journey for freedom. The protagonist Balram in this novel is a victim of injustice, inequality and poverty. He worked hard in spite of his low caste and overcame the social hindrance and become a successful entrepreneur. Through this novel Adiga portrays realistic and painful image of modern India. The novel exposes the anxieties of the oppressed.
Dmenisions of Human Behavior in The Novel “The Foreigner” by Arun Joshi
Get PDFIn the modern age of globalization and modernization, people have become selfish and self-centered. Feeling of sympathy and kindness towards poor people have almost bolted from the hearts of those who have richly available resources. They leave needy people running behind their luxurious chauffer-driven cars. Poor and marginalized people keep shouting for help for their dear ones but upper class people trying to show as if they did not hear any long distant sound crept into their eardrums. This trauma, agony, pain and sufferings is explored in the novel, The Foreigner
The Theme of Silence in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
Get PDFThis article deals with one of Deshpande’s most significant novels, That Long Silence. In studying the novel from a feminist point of view, an effort has been made to study Deshpande’s psychological insights into the Indian woman’s behaviour. This novel deserves much attention as it is generally considered to be amongst her best and has been singled out among her novels by the Sahitya Academy’s prestigious award in the year 1990.
Visionary Exploration of Chetan Bhagat\u27s Works
Get PDFIn his research, Mr. Mukherjee took a systematic and narrative approach. While explaining all works of Chetan Bhagat till date, he carefully selects the phrases and adjectives to throw the light on each character’s nature and behavior. Like in his words below, you would understand the characters’ nature even if you did not read the book “Five Point Someone”.
“It is a fascinating book depicting the hopes and aspirations of Hari, Alok and Ryan who are typical as well as strong individuals having different aims and ambitions and at the same time they also represent the broad community of the prestigious institutes of the nation”
Uncertainty of Psychological and Spatial Identity: A Study on the Novel of Bharti Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine
Get PDFThis review assess Dr. Rajib Bhaumik’s research on diasporic writer Bharti Mukherjee’s wife and Jasmine. Diaspora refers to those people who live in other countries leaving their birth place and their writings still revolves around their homeland. The diasporic mood refers to the transcultural restlessness of the writers. The transcultural narratives possess a serious challenge to the cultural stability of the metropolitan centers.
Diasporic situation is typically a site of hybridity which questions fixed identities based on monocentric essentialism.