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Trials and Tribulations of the Fourth World: A Study of Jahnavi Barua’s Next Door
Get PDF The Literature of the Northeast India acquired attention after the rise of some eminent writers in English such as Siddharth Deb, Mitra Pukhan, Jahnavi Barua and Arup Kumar Dutta whose works were translated from Assamese into English. The Next Door of Jahnavi Barua is a critically regarded compilation of short stories particularly placed in Assam, a region not frequently portrayed in English in Indian Fiction. Jahnavi Barua is an Assam based Indian author. In this collection of short stories, she has represented Assam as a voice from the edge. Northeast region of India is also known as tribal region since more than 90% of the population of this region is tribal. The paper will explore the sufferings and exploitation of Fourth World People i.e. Northeast Indian which is depicted obliquely, as a part of everyday life in Assam through Jahnavi Barua’s Next Door (Collection of short stories)
Beyond Textbooks and Statistics
Get PDFThis essay reflects the author’s discovery of what makes studying a subject worth it. The clinic trip to Borneo brought textbooks to life and also enabled us to see beyond the numbers to a more human experience. As someone who grew up in a business family and with a certain mindset, Jahnavi the global and cultural perspectives that make studying the environment more tangible. A small surprise follows the short prose piece
How to write about China and India
No full textThe first BJHS Themes, a new, fully open access, peer-reviewed journal from the British Society for the History of Science, was published this month. The issue is entitled Science of Giants: China and India in the twentieth century. In this article, one of the volume’s editors, Jahnavi Phalkey, gives her observations on the opportunities and challenges on writing about China and India
The Aakash tablet and technological imaginaries of mass education in contemporary India
No full textIn a new paper published this month Jahnavi Phalkey and Sumandro Chattapadhyay explore public initiatives in technological solutions for educating the poor and the disadvantaged in independent India. Here, the authors offer an edited excerpt, tracing the recent history of technological solutions for mass education and unpacking the narrative of ‘failure’ that is associated with the Aakash experiment
Women Novelist from North East India: A study of Jahnavi Barua’s Rebirth and Undertow
Get PDFThe writings from North East India have captured much popularity in contemporary times. The writings with their varied themes of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual cultures have raised curiosity and attracted readers from all over the country and abroad. In the emerging writings from North East India, women novelists have contributed a lot to enrich the literature from different aspects. The women novelists like Easterine Kire, Temsula Ao, Mitra Phukan, Jahnavi Barua, Mamang Dai, and others have enriched the literature of the region with their contributions. The novels produced by these women novelists carry different concerns like love for nature, myth, tradition, culture, conflict, violence, and silenced voices, etc., which are true to the region. This paper attempts to focus on the different themes of Jahnavi Barua’s novels Rebirth and Undertow.</jats:p
Otostigmus Porat 1876
No full textSubgenus <i>Otostigmus</i> Porat, 1876 <p> <b>Type species.</b> <i>Otostigmus carinatus</i> Porat, 1876, by subsequent designation of Pocock (1891).</p>Published as part of <i>Joshi, Jahnavi & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Revision of the scolopendrid centipede Digitipes Attems, 1930, from India (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): reconciling molecular and morphological estimates of species diversity, pp. 99-145 in Zootaxa 3626 (1)</i> on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.1.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/218625">http://zenodo.org/record/218625</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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