22 research outputs found
Human relationship in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal
No full textNayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. She was one of the first female Indian writers in English to receive wide recognition. Her concern for women is based more on humanism rather than that of feminism. Her feminism does not go beyond treating women as an individual. During 1950's period, Nayantara Sahgal emerged as one of the most significant voices among women writers in the contemporary Indian writing in English. Nayantara Sahgal is a prolific writer who has eight novels to her credit, two biographies, two political commentaries and a large number of articles in various newspapers and magazines. She is a recipient of the prestigious `Sahitya Akademi Award' for her novel ‘Rich Like Us’ (1985), the `Sinclair Award' and the 'Common Wealth Award for Eurasia' for her novel ‘Plans For Departure’ (1986). Her fiction is closely interwoven with the fabric of interpersonal relationships not in the political and social milieu of India. Various dimensions of human relationships, man-woman particularly are the main thesis, we do find in all her novels. Man-Woman relationship holds a vital place in these relationships and the novelist deals with this dimension of relationship with full concern and broad perspective
Divided we Stand, but United we Oppose? Opposition Alliances in Egypt and Pakistan
No full textWhy are opposition groups able to form alliances in their activism against the regime in some cases but not in others? Specifically, why did opposition groups in Pakistan engage in high levels of alliance building, regardless of ideological and other divides, while similar alliance patterns did not emerge in Egypt? I explain alliances among various opposition groups in Egypt and Pakistan as a result of two factors - the nature of group constituencies and the nature of the alliance. I argue that constituencies can be characterized as two kinds: Divided and Fluid. Under divided constituencies, different opposition groups receive consistent support from specific sections of the population. Under fluid constituencies, opposition groups have no consistent basis for support. Alliances can be of two kinds, Mobilization or Elite. Mobilization alliances are formed among two or more groups to bring constituents together to engage in collective action, for example, protest, sit-in or civil disobedience. Elite alliances are formed among group leaders to express grievances and/ or find solutions to issues without engaging their constituents in street politics. Groups may work together on an issue-based or value-based concern. Issue-based concerns focus on a specific aspect of the grievance being raised. For example, a law that imposes censorship on the press. Value-based concerns have a broader focus, for example media freedom. Mobilization alliances emerge among political groups that have divided constituencies and are unlikely among political groups that have fluid constituencies. Since a joint mobilization event requires groups to pool their supporters, groups with fluid constituencies fear that their participation will provide their partners with a perfect opportunity to make themselves visible to their support base and engage in "member poaching." While groups with fluid constituencies are unable to form mobilization alliances, they are able to form issue-based elite alliances. Groups with divided constituencies are likely to form elite alliances on both issue-based and value-based concerns. Since elite alliances do not require groups to pool their constituents, groups with fluid constituencies have few concerns about "member poaching." However, when formed to address a value-based concern, such alliances can easily lead to mobilization in the future, especially when the concern is broad and sensitive. For this reason, groups with fluid constituencies may form issue-based elite alliances.Groups with divided constituencies often form elite alliances when they are unable to engage in mobilization because of material or other constraints. Since they do not share the same concerns about mobilization in the future, groups with divided constituencies may form both issue-based and value-based elite alliances. I conduct a detailed comparative case study of alliances in Egypt and Pakistan during 1995-2005 to show how the nature of the constituency and the nature of the alliance influenced alliances outcomes
Contemporary Management of Intracranial Metastatic Disease
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SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND MORAL VALUES IN SAHGAL’S A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI
No full textNayantara Sahgal is a social and political novelist par excellence. She is well-known for her outstanding ability of coalescing artistically social, political, and personal events and incidents. Even a cursory reading may reveal that they depict the scene of the Indian politics from the last episodes of the freedom struggle to the disintegration in the mid-Seventies, in a sequence, the occurrence of the events. The narration of the contemporary political conditions in her novels is saturated with keen awareness of some elementary ideals and principles to which the author was dedicated. She has set her stories in a well-known historical situation in order to protect these primary values or to show her sadness on their absence. The present paper endeavors at exploring the social, political and moral values in Nayantara Sahgal’s novel A Situation in New Delhi.
 
The emergency and the Indian English novel memory, culture and politics
No full text"This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on people and institutions of the country. The author reads works of Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. They further explore the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyse the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace, in the decades following the Emergency. At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have become critical to literary and political discourses, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, media studies, political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as well"-
Effect of sodium tungstate dehydrate concentration on the growth of tungsten oxide layer grown on polyethylene terephthalate fiber and its photocatalytic in removal of RhB dye under visible light irradiation
No full textAntagonistic potential and biological control mechanisms of Pseudomonas strains against banded leaf and sheath blight disease of maize
No full textAbstract Rhizoctonia solani, the causal agent of banded leaf and sheath blight (BL&SB), poses a significant threat to maize and various crops globally. The increasing concerns surrounding the environmental and health impacts of chemical fungicides have encouraged intensified concern in the development of biological control agents (BCAs) as eco-friendly alternatives. In this study, we explored the potential of 22 rhizobacteria strains (AS1–AS22) isolates, recovered from the grasslands of the Pithoragarh region in the Central Himalayas, as effective BCAs against BL&SB disease. Among these strains, two Pseudomonas isolates, AS19 and AS21, exhibited pronounced inhibition of fungal mycelium growth in vitro, with respective inhibition rates of 57.04% and 54.15% in cell cultures and 66.56% and 65.60% in cell-free culture filtrates. Additionally, both strains demonstrated effective suppression of sclerotium growth. The strains AS19 and AS21 were identified as Pseudomonas sp. by 16S rDNA phylogeny and deposited under accession numbers NAIMCC-B-02303 and NAIMCC-B-02304, respectively. Further investigations revealed the mechanisms of action of AS19 and AS21, demonstrating their ability to induce systemic resistance (ISR) and exhibit broad-spectrum antifungal activity against Alternaria triticina, Bipolaris sorokiniana, Rhizoctonia maydis, and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lentis. Pot trials demonstrated significant reductions in BL&SB disease incidence (DI) following foliar applications of AS19 and AS21, with reductions ranging from 25 to 38.33% compared to control treatments. Scanning electron microscopy revealed substantial degradation of fungal mycelium by the strains, accompanied by the production of hydrolytic enzymes. These findings suggest the potential of Pseudomonas strains AS19 and AS21 as promising BCAs against BL&SB and other fungal pathogens. However, further field trials are warranted to validate their efficacy under natural conditions and elucidate the specific bacterial metabolites responsible for inducing systemic resistance. This study contributes to the advancement of sustainable disease management strategies and emphasizes the potential of Pseudomonas strains AS19 and AS21 in combating BL&SB and other fungal diseases affecting agricultural crops
