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Ek duniyā alag sī Narrative strategies and Adivasi representation in the short stories of Vinod Kumar
No full textThis paper investigates the narrative strategies of representation used by the Indian author Vinod Kumar in his literary writing about the life and spaces of the Adivasi. The focal point of this study consists in the fact that the author is a non-Adivasi, thus placing him and his writing in the center of a very much debated issue of Hindi literature i.e. the polarity between the writing through sympathy (Hindi sahānubhūti) and the writing through personal experience (anubhūti). This study-case looks at how the author, being a dikū, an outsider describes the ‘other’ (i.e. the Adivasi). The results show that the author’s representation of the Adivasi, based on a solid empirical knowledge of his ‘other’, contains some elements of romanticism revealing both his outsideness and a strong empathy for the ‘other’.Masteruppsats i indologi 2019</p
Bollywood cinema: A critical genealogy
Get PDF"Bollywood" has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: "a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood." The incorporation of the word in the OED acknowledges the strength of a film industry which, with the coming of sound in 1931, has produced some 9,000 films. (This must not be confused with the output of Indian cinema generally, which would be four times more). What is less evident from the OED definition is the way in which the word has acquired its current meaning and has displaced its earlier descriptors (Bombay Cinema, Indian Popular Cinema, Hindi Cinema), functioning, perhaps even horrifyingly, as an "empty signifier" (Prasad) that may be variously used for a reading of popular Indian cinema. The triumph of the term (over the others) is nothing less than spectacular and indicates, furthermore, the growing global sweep of this cinema not just as cinema qua cinema but as cinema qua social effects and national cultural coding. Although Indian film producers in particular, and pockets of Indian spectators generally, continue to feel uneasy with it (the vernacular press came around to using "Bollywood" only reluctantly), its ascendancy has been such that Bombay Dreams (the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical) and the homegrown Merchants of Bollywood both become signifiers of a cultural logic which transcends cinema and is a global marker of Indian modernity. As the Melbourne (March 2006) closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games showed, Bollywood will be the cultural practice through which Indian national culture will be projected when the games are held in Delhi in 2010. International games (the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and so on) are often expressions of a nation's own emerging modernity. For India that modernity, in the realm of culture, is increasingly being interpellated by Bollywood
Tiphia (Tiphia) venkataramani Hanima & Girish Kumar 2022, sp. nov.
No full text41. Tiphia (Tiphia) venkataramani Hanima & Girish Kumar sp. nov. (Figs 540–549) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: CFE4ECB8-C173-474D-A4C3-763B589AD82E Type material. Holotype, ♀, INDIA: Uttarakhand, Dehradun district, Asan Barrage Bird Sanctuary (30°26′08″N & 77°39′56″E, 399 m), 17.vii.2019, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.18107. Paratypes: 1♀, same collection data as that of holotype, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.18108; 1♀, Dehradun district, ZSI Campus (30°20′46″N & 78°00′52″E, 682 m), 14.viii.1997, Coll. Vinod Khanna & Party, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.18109; 1♀, Dehradun district, ZSI Campus (30°20′46″N & 78°00′52″E, 682 m), 30.vii.1992, Coll. Vinod Khanna & Party, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.18111; 4♀, Dehradun district, ZSI Campus (30°20′46″N & 78°00′52″E, 682 m), 15.viii.1997, Coll. S.K. Gupta, (ZSIK) Regd. Nos. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.19332– 19335. Tamil Nadu, Tenkasi district, Old Courtallam (10°59′58″N & 76°58′22″E, 414 m), 3.x.2018, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.18110. Diagnosis. Mandible without preapical denticle; median extension of clypeus rounded; areola elongate; dorsal side of propodeum without submarginal carina; fore wing yellowish; hind tibia inflated. Description. Holotype, ♀. Body length 12.2 mm. Paratypes, ♀. Body length 11.3–17.5 mm. Colour. Black body with yellowish infumated wing and white vestitures (Figs 540, 547). Head. Median extension of clypeus rounded, clypeus basally punctured and apically smooth (Fig. 542); mandible without preapical denticle (Fig. 541); HW 1.6 × least distance between eyes; POD 1.7 × LOD and 0.6 × OOD; length of scape: pedicel: Fu 1: Fu 2: Fu 3: Fu 4: Fu 5: Fu 6: Fu 7: Fu 8: Fu 9: Fu 10 = 0.653: 0.224: 0.262: 0.281: 0.282: 0.283: 0.243: 0.235: 0.237: 0.219: 0.266: 0.436 (Fig. 546). Mesosoma. Dorsal side of pronotum and mesoscutum with large punctures, metanotum with small punctures (Fig. 544); lateral side of pronotum with transdiscal groove (Fig. 545); tegula 1.4 × as long as middle width (Fig. 544); lateral side of propodeum with oblique fine rugulae (Fig. 545); lateral margin of dorsal side of propodeum with thick setae (Fig. 544); areola elongate keystone shaped with middle carina not reaching to apex (Fig. 544); areola with median length about 3 × apical width and 1.7 × basal width (Fig. 544); hind basitarsus without groove. Length of mesosoma: 4.10 mm. Metasoma. All tergites smooth and shiny with punctures (Fig. 548); Gt 1 without anterior transverse carina (Fig. 548). Length of metasoma: 6.05 mm. Male. Unknown. Discussion. This new species shows similarities with T. (T.) bijui sp. nov. in the following characters: dorsal side of pronotum with transverse carina complete over middle section, lateral side of pronotum with distinct trans discal groove, Gs 2 without anterior transverse carina, hind basitarsus without groove, and tricarinate areola of dorsal side of propodeum but this new species distinctly differs from T. (T.) bijui sp. nov. in the following characters: dorsal side of propodeum without submarginal carina (in T. (T.) bijui sp. nov., dorsal side of propodeum with submarginal carina); carina of areola not margined by crenulations (in T. (T.) bijui sp. nov., carina of areola margined by crenulations); wings yellowish hyaline (in T. (T.) bijui sp. nov., wings brown infumated); larger species (13–16 mm) (in T. (T.) bijui sp. nov., medium sized species (7–10 mm)); hind tibia inflated (in T. (T.) bijui, hind tibia usually not inflated). Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand. Etymology. The species is named in honour of Dr. K. Venkataraman, former Director of Zoological Survey of India for his dedication to the study of the natural history and taxonomy of Indian marine fauna and also his encouragement and support to our studies.Published as part of Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, Girish & Hegde, Vishwanath D., 2022, Additions to the knowledge on the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from India with the description of ten new species, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 5204 (1) on pages 98-102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5204.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/728519
Hadamard product of certain meromorphic univalent functions
No full textAbstractThe author establishes certain results concerning the Hadamard product of meromorphic univalent functions analogous to the results due to Vinod Kumar (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 126 (1987), 70–77)
Coeleumenes burmanicus
No full text89) Coeleumenes burmanicus (Bingham, 1897) Montezumia burmanica Bingham, 1897: 350. Type data: Female, male, BMNH. Type locality: “ Tenasserim ” (Myanmar). Montezumia bisulcata Cameron, 1900: 535. Type data: Female, OUM. Type locality: Khasia Hills, Meghalaya. Montezumia burmanica var. malayana Dover, 1931: 253. Type data: Female,?BMNH. Type locality: “ Jor Camp, Perak, Malaya ” (Malaysia). Pseudozumia burmanica; Giordani Soika, 1941: 165 (key), 168. Coeleumenes burmanicus; van der Vecht, 1963: 46 Material examined. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Dehradun, 29.vi.2000, 1 ♀, Coll. Vinod Khanna & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.13069; Dehradun district, Kalsi, 24.v.1984, 1 ♂, Coll. R. Kaur & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.13070. Distribution. India: Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttarakhand (new record). Elsewhere: Bhutan; China; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam. (Gusenleitner 2011, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar et al. 2016 c, Nguyen 2016, Nidup et al. 2018, Tan et al. 2018).Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/386231
Improvement of Basmati rice varieties for resistance to blast andbacterial blight diseases using marker assisted backcross breeding
No full textMarker assisted backcross breeding was employed to incorporate the blast resistance genes, Pi2 and Pi54 and bacterial blight (BB) resistance genes xa13 and Xa21 into the genetic background of Pusa Basmati 1121 (PB1121) and Pusa Basmati 6. Foreground selection for target gene(s) was followed by arduous phenotypic and background selection which fast-tracked the recovery of recurrent parent genome (RPG) to an extent of 95.8% in one of the near-isogenic lines (NILs) namely, Pusa 1728-23-33-31-56, which also showed high degree of resemblance to recurrent parent, PB6 in phenotype. The phenotypic selection prior to background selection provided an additional opportunity for identifying the novel recombinants viz., Pusa 1884-9-12-14 and Pusa 1884-3-9-175, superior to parental lines in terms of early maturity, higher yield and improved quality parameters. There was no significant difference between the RPG recovery estimated based on SSR or SNP markers, however, the panel of SNPs markers was considered as the better choice for background selection as it provided better genome coverage and included SNPs in the genic regions. Multi-location evaluation of NILs depicted their stable and high mean performance in comparison to the respective recurrent parents. The Pi2 + Pi54 carrying NILs were effective in combating a pan-India panel of Magnaporthe oryzae isolates with high level of field resistance in northern, eastern and southern parts of India. Alongside, the PB1121-NILs and PB6-NILs carrying BB resistance genes xa13+Xa21 were resistant against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae races of north-western, southern and eastern parts of the country. Three of NILs developed in this study, have been promoted to final stage of testing during the Kharif 2015 in the Indian National Basmati Trial
Non-glass, solid-state, pH microsensor : ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET)
No full text9-14pH, a measure of the hydronium ion (H3O+) concentration, and indicator of acidity or alkalinity of a solution, is a common analytical parameter. The pH of food and drink affects its taste, the pH of medicine determines its effectiveness and the pH of dye affects the colour and uptake of dye by the fabric. The glass pH electrode has been accepted in the standard industrial workhorse tool for pH measurements.Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is a microelectronic device in which the hydronium ion concentration in the solution produces agate potential modulating the electric charge carrier flow between the source and drain terminals. The present paper describes the fabrication of ISFET, starting with P-type silicon wafer and up to the packaging stage. In addition, current-voltage characteristics of MOSFET test devices simultaneously fabricated on the wafer have been plotted. pH-sensitivity of developed ISFET was found to be 50 mV/pH
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