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Renu village : an ethnography of north Indian fiction
Get PDFtextThe Hindi author Phanishwarnath Renu (1921-1977) is credited with initiating the “regional” literary genre in India—a form characterized in part by its use of village song and performance. Renu's work is unusual for the deep debt it owes to his village's performance community; he described himself as a product of folksong, and there are hundreds of textual examples of village song in his writing. Both the songs performed in Renu's village, and also those performed in his fiction, are products of sensibilities local to the folklore region of northeast Bihar. This dissertation draws on textual analysis and on fieldwork in Renu's village, Aurahi-Hingana, and uses a performative approach to explore this Hindi author's unusual station on the border of written and oral tradition.
Renu was no passive reproducer of song, but a performer himself, and for certain individuals in his village Renu was a singer first and writer second. Some illiterate village singers even claim him as one of their own. He had a direct hand in shaping the life of his community's folklore as a singer and teacher, and his influence is such that he has become a character within the twenty-first-century village performance repertory. If Renu was a performer, then there is something to be gained from considering his writing as a performance category. The songs in his writing inhabit space, geography, and history—they are worldly—in the same way that live performances of village song inhabit the world. This dissertation proposes a contrapuntal method of reading both fiction and performance that demonstrates the multi-layered complexity of one of Hindi's much-loved authors, and affirms the many layers, the complexity, and the importance of the song tradition to which that author belonged.Asian Studie
In vivo and In vitro Estimation of Colchicine in Gloriosa superba L. by High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
Get PDFThe presence of Colchicine in Gloriosa superba was confirmed by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) in which a spot coinciding with the authentic sample of Cochicine in Rf value (Colchicine 0.70) appeared. The maximum amount of Colchicine was found in flower (20.7 mg/gdw) and minimum amount was found in stem (7.4 mg/gdw).The In vitro studies showed the maximum amount of Colchicine in 6 week old cultures (22.6 mg/gdw)) and minimum amount in 2 weeks old cultures (15.3 mg/gdw). Key words: Colchicine, Gloriosa superba, HPLC Laboratory of Bioactive Natural Products, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur -302004 * Corresponding Author, Email: [email protected]; Tel: +91-141-2701875, +91-9828070584 Please Cite This Article As:Renu Sarin, Anirudha Rishi and Ajit Kumar. 2010. In vivo and In vitro Estimation of Colchicine in Gloriosa superba L. by High Pressure Liquid Chromatography. J. Exp. Sci. 1(4):1-2.Â
BIOCHEMICAL ESTIMATION OF PHYTOSTEROLS FROM A MEDICINALLY IMPORTANT PLANT BUTEA MONOSPERMA IN VIVO AND IN VITRO
No full textEnhancement of Opium Alkaloids Production in Callus Culture of <i>Papaver rhoeas </i>Linn.
No full text271-272Callus
culture of Papaver rhoeas Linn. established on
revised
tobacco medium showed presence of three opium
alkaloids
namely morphine, thebaine and narcotine. The
colour
of the tissue varied from light grey, dark grey and
finally
black depending on the age of the tissue. The high
yielding
cell lines of dark grey color were isolated and
maintained
as suspension culture on revised Murashige and
Skoog's
(1962) medium. These high yielding tissues were fed
with
different concentrations (12.5, 25, SOand 100 mg/100 011)
of
tyrosine, a known precursor of opium alkaloids in order to
further
increase the alkaloid content of the tissue. The dark
grey
tissues grown on RT liquid medium supplemented with
12. 5
mg/100 011 tyrosine yielded maximum percentage of
alkaloids
and therefore this concentration of tyrosine is
considered
as the most suitable condition for the enhancement
of alkaloids in Papaver rhoeas tissue culture
Does money matter for mental health? Evidence from the Child Support Grants in Johannesburg, South Africa.
No full textGlobally, the poor are consistently at greater risk of suffering from depression and anxiety. Yet in resource-poor countries, mental health remains a neglected topic. This interdisciplinary study explored the potential for a poverty alleviation programme to contribute to breaking the vicious cycle between poverty and common mental disorders (CMD). Quantitatively, beneficiaries of a cash-transfer programme were found to have a lower risk of CMD. Qualitative interviews indicated that Child Support Grants acted as a psychological safety net, but that negative stereotypes of grant recipients could detract from the positive mental health outcomes of the grants. It was concluded that poverty alleviation programmes such as cash transfers could have both positive and negative impacts on mental health. In order to achieve mental health benefits for programme beneficiaries, aspects of programme design and implementation that promote mental health should be enhanced and aspects detrimental to mental health modified
Artemisia scoparia – A new source of artemisinin
Get PDFArtemisinin is considered as the most active and potent antimalarial drug. Till date Artemisia annua Linn. plant is the only source for its production The present investigation was carried out with an objective to search a new plant for artemisinin. An attempt was made on a perennial faintly odoratus herb, Artemisia scoparia Waldst et Kit. to find out an alternative of A. annua for the production of artemisinin. The yield of artemisinin was higher in aerial plant parts (0.015%) in comparison to callus culture (0.001%). The present study concluded that Artemisia scoparia contains an antimalarial drug artemisinin
Antimicrobial efficacy of <i>Murraya koenigii</i> (Linn.) Spreng. root extracts
No full text48-51In vitro antimicrobial efficacy of root extracts of Murraya koenigii (Linn.) Spreng. was assessed by disc diffusion
method against four bacterial strains (Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia
coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi) and three fungal strains (Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans and Trichophyton rubrum). Minimum
inhibitory concentration was also determined. The most susceptible bacterial and fungal strains were S. aureus and T. rubrum, respectively. The root extracts in organic solvents (hexane,
methanol and chloroform) showed good antimicrobial activity. However, aqueous
extracts could not exhibit any activity. Results of the present investigation
indicate that root of M. koenigii
possess antimicrobial properties and hence can be exploited for future natural
plant based antimicrobial agents
ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FLAVONOIDS FROM Sesamum indicum
Get PDFNatural substances have long served as sources of therapeutic drugs. Many substances have been derived from traditional medicines. The plants are rich in secondary metabolites. The medicinal properties of these plants have been attributed to the biochemicals present in the plant materials. In addition to their role in human and animal nutrition, knowledge of micronutrients and phytochemical composition is fundamental to the understanding of modes and mechanisms of action of medicinal plants in general. In the present investigation, quercetin and kaempferol have been isolated and identified from stem, leaves and unorganized cultures of Sesamum indicum and maintained by frequent subculturings on Murashige and Skoog\u27s medium (1962) supplemented with NAA+BAP (5.0+0.5mg/L). The study showed that maximum content of quercetin and kaempferol was observed in 6 weeks old calli and minimum in stem of S. indicum. The structure of the isolated compound was establishetl on the basis of physical, chemical test and spectroscopic evidences
Artemisinin Content in Artemisia scoparia
Get PDFArtemisinin is considered as the natural, active and potent antimalarial drug Artemisia annua Linn. is the only known source for the production of artemisinin reported till date. An attempt was made on a perennial faintly odoratus herb, A. scoparia Waldst et Kit. to find out an alternative of A. annua for the production of artemisinin. Generation of hairy roots was also tried wih an attempt to increase the concentration of artemisinin in the biofactories. In the present investigation A. scoparia was shown to contain artemisini
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