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The Interpretative Nature of Law and the Role of Language
Full text linkLanguage, being a tool of communication, was never studied in connection with the field of law in the past. Legal experts concentrated only on the law in their studies. However, law and language have been a point of focus in law schools in recent times. Interpretation has played a crucial role in court decisions. Naturally, it boils down to the linguistic nature of law. Even though some jurists believe that law is independent and objective in its nature, that is not true. Its very existence depends upon language, and language is deeply rooted in the socio-cultural fabric of the society. Therefore, language is essential to understand the true nature of law
Ekatma Manavavad: Deen Dayal Upadhyay\u27s Unique Perspective for Society
Full text linkThe philosophy of Ekatma Manavavad, conceptualized by Deen Dayal Upadhyay, presents a holistic framework for addressing the complexities of modern society. This research paper delves into the core principles of Ekatma Manavavad, emphasizing the integration of individual, family, society, and nation, as well as the balance between material and spiritual development. Rooted in Indian cultural and spiritual traditions, this philosophy offers solutions to contemporary issues such as globalization, environmental degradation, and social inequality. The paper explores the societal implications of Ekatma Manavavad, including its potential for promoting social harmony, ethical governance, and inclusive development, alongside its economic and political perspectives that advocate for self-reliance, decentralized governance, and sustainable practices. In examining its relevance in the contemporary context, the research highlights how Ekatma Manavavad can guide future policies, especially in areas like rural development, financial inclusion, and ethical technology use. A comparative analysis with other dominant ideologies such as liberalism, socialism, and capitalism underscores the uniqueness of Ekatma Manavavad as a holistic alternative. The paper concludes by reaffirming the relevance of Deen Dayal Upadhyay\u27s vision in achieving a balanced and harmonious society, offering a valuable framework for sustainable and inclusive global progress
12th Fail: A Movie Review
Full text link12th Fail: A Movie Review
Reviewed by
Dharmendra Kumar Singh
Assistant Prof. of English, at the Department of English
MHPG College Moradabad U.P
Portrayal of Selected African Dialects and Accents in The Woman King
Full text linkThis study aims to examine the portrayal of selected African dialects and accents in The Woman King, a Hollywood film by mainly African actors. Directors, dialect, and accent coaches view these tools as vital in the overall development of screen productions in an educative and informative manner, harmonizing the character’s cultural, emotional, physiological, and psychological as they align with dialogue, identity, language, and idiolect. The study purposively selected actors in The Woman King through a content analysis lens. The data was collected through a qualitative and quantitative research method, including published interviews, audience member observations, and documentation analysis for data collection. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis, guided by key concepts such as dialect and accent in character portrayal, cultural representation, and audience perception. The findings revealed that dialect and accent are potent tools for authenticity, cultural representation, and audience engagement. In the movie, dialect and accent take away from the depth and complexity of characters, create a realistic setting, challenge stereotypes, and empower marginalized communities. The content analyzed and audience response highlight the consistency and inconsistency of dialect and accent, appreciating their contributions to the immersive, embodied, and emotional experience as professional actors. The study concluded that language, dialect, and accent must play significant roles in film productions with specificity and without stereotypes, enhancing their artistic quality and representation as long as the casts, dialect, and accent coaches. The director can achieve believability and intelligibility in the target accents of the specific production
Eleanor’s Entanglement: Quantum Perspectives on Trauma and Space in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
Full text linkQuantum theory gives us a surprising idea: the observer influences what’s being observed, meaning that reality is not fixed. It is flexible, shaped by who is watching and from what angle. This can also be applied to literature, where characters’ perceptions and surroundings are influenced by their inner world. Trauma theory adds yet another layer, showing how unhealed psychological wounds shape our views, often distorting reality and, sometimes, even our sense of who we are. In The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson brings these theories together in the haunting relationship between Eleanor Vance and the house. Hill House is not just a setting but it seems to respond to Eleanor’s emotions, subtly shifting and twisting as her mental state changes. The strange events can be seen as manifestations of Eleanor’s trauma, making the house a living mirror of her fractured mind. This perspective indicates that the haunting in Hill House is not just about ghosts or some supernatural force; it’s deeply tied to Eleanor’s mind blending with the house itself. Exploring this connection between trauma and perception helps us see Hill House not only as a frightening place but as a reflection of Eleanor’s fragile sense of self. Through Eleanor’s unsettling journey, Jackson invites us to question what’s real, and what’s imagined, and how our fears and identities shape the world we see around us. It’s the kind of story that stays, raising questions about reality and self that linger long after the final page
Feminist Perspectives in the Poetry of Parveen Shakir
Full text linkParveen Shakir has remarkably evolved the cult status in the annals of Modern Urdu poetry. She was a professor, poet, a journalist and a Pakistani beaurocrat. She is an indefatigable poet, who gives vociferously a vent to her own feelings, emotions, life experiences, and her relationship with her husband, and son in general and society in particular through poetry in an ebullient way. Her excellent and spectacular oeuvre includes Khushbu (Fragrance) (1976), Sad Barg (Marigold) (1980), Khud Kalami (Talking to self) (1981), Inkar (Denial)(1994), and Mahe- Tamam (Full Moon) (1980) et al. She left the world physically at the paltry age of forty two in an accident but her poetry still interests and intrigues readers across the globe irresistibly and incessantly. However, her poetry is out rightly subjective and is a serene stasis of her philosophy and life’s traumatic experiences. She is the voice of women in male dominated society. Love, loss, longing, female consciousness, atrocities on women, segregation in office and society , and other feminist issues, are dominant themes of her poetry Most of her poems explore nature of pangs of pain and sufferings, its hues, its impact on human soul, and its last inference . She wrote soaking her pen with the blood of her bruised soul, is perceptible in her works. The present paper, however, aims at probing the various feminist perspectives that her poetry explore to. The traumas, which the women undergo - depression, desperation, desertion, dejection, dementia, mental anguish etc. are discern in her work. We witness perpetual clash between her wish to live and to thwart the patriarchal forces and their menace against fair -sex in the entire gamut of her poetic output. Giant Pakistani literary luminary, Iftihar Arif is highly appreciative of Shakir for expressing “the young lot through her thematic variety and realistic poetry (blogspot.com, 3
Being and Beyonding: The Poetry of Kamala Das
Full text linkThis research paper comprises four sections. Each section explores the thematic pillars of “being” and “beyonding” that form the essence of Kamala Das\u27 poetic oeuvres. Emphasizing these two terms, it aims to uncover how they uniquely shape her poetic identity. The initial section provides an in-depth exploration of “being” and “beyonding," dispelling ambiguities concerning them. The subsequent section probes the concept of "being" as manifested in her poetry, intimately annexed to her personal experiences and crucial life events, disclosing the intimacy between her art and her identity. The third section analyzes the term "beyonding” in her works, displaying how she transcends personal narratives to address profound existential questions. Finally, it presents the dynamic interplay between these ontological notions, underscoring their comprehensive resonance and vitality within her poetics. Through rigorous research and insightful analysis, it presents Kamala Das as a poet who intricately fuses the essence of “being” and “beyonding” into her poetics, seamlessly balancing the subjective and the objective phenomena
Commodifying Scars: A Critical Take on Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
Full text linkIn the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini Hosseini aims to unveil the Afghan woman and display her lifelong struggle—within the inner circle of home and the larger society—to the global readership. For Hosseini, who prides in being the ‘writer and the Afghan’ and is also the ‘elected’ representative of Afghanistan for the Occidental world, the subject of the ‘inner lives’ of two struggling Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, seemed appealing. He considers it his primary responsibility to represent these women by drawing a meticulous picture of the women restricted within the oppressive reigns of Mujaheedins and Talibans. However, Hosseini’s representation of the hopes, sorrows and disappointments of the Afghan woman is problematically essentialist and hardly innocent. Through the narrative, the role of the Afghan woman gets defined within a limited genre of femininity using which the author upholds and prizes the face of women who are constantly suffering and enduring. His writing exemplifies how suffering is often manufactured, marketed and sold as a commodity to evoke ethical, affective responses. In an attempt to represent the pain of the victim to the dominant audience, Hosseini promotes a scar culture that ends up creating a less authentic victim who is perfectly in sync with the expectations of victimhood of the audience. Sympathy is aroused for a victim whom the audience wants to see in the slot of a victim - in this case, a non-Western doubly-Otherised Afghan woman – whose plight would fan the audience’s need for self-validation as the superior Self in comparison to the victimized inferior Other
Decoding the Migration, Rehabilitation, and the Impact of Caste in the Lives of Bengali Dalit Women Strata in the post-Partition Bengal: Revisiting Kalyani Thakur Charal’s Autobiographical Narrative Ami Keno Charal Likhi, and Novella Andhar Bil
Full text linkBased on the reading of Kalyani Thakur Charal’s notable autobiographical narrative Ami Keno Charal Likhi (Why I Sign as Charal,2016) and novella Andhar Bil (2016), this paper intends to analyze the experiences of second-generation Bengali Dalit women refugees in case of the post-Partition West Bengal. The present paper examines the tropes of nostalgia, partition, and rehabilitation as experiences of Bengali Dalit women characters in the post-Partition West Bengal, the notions of migration, remembrance, oppression, and injustice. Through a detailed analysis of both the narratives, this research article intends to explore how the intersectional dynamism of caste, and gender have impacted the experiences of Bengali Dalit women strata substantially. In majoritarian aspects Bengali Dalit women characters have been reduced to mute objects, stripped of their agency, subjecthood, and desires, from which these two narratives shift substantially.
In case of the post-Partition scenario of West Bengal, the experiences of refugees from the different sections of the society are not a homogenized one. Kalyani Thakur’s narratives offer some valuable points for thinking about the differentiated experiences of migration, displacement, deprivation, and caste discrimination faced by Bengali Dalit women characters. Through her autobiographical narrative and the novella Andhar Bil, Kalyani Thakur also tries to portray how the intersectional dynamism of caste and gender has problematized the overall experiences of the Bengali Dalit populace in the post-Partition West Bengal. The researcher wants to argue that ideas like caste and gender both act as a site of oppression, which the grand narrative of the Bengal partition is primarily unable to capture. To develop this paper, the researcher consults literary, historical, and sociological facets of the Bengal Partition of 1947, Dalit identity, migration, and its effects on the Bengali Dalit population