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„Das heutige Indien ist... ist reich, glamourös, sexy, selbstbewusst.“: Shobha Dé: Vom Topmodel zur Top-Schriftstellerin
Get PDFShobha Dé ist eine Frau, die sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten immer wieder neu erfunden hat. In den 1960er Jahren war die heute 58-Jährige das erste Topmodel Indiens - in einer Zeit, als das öffentliche Präsentieren der eigenen körperlichen Reize für eine Tochter aus brahmanischem Hause einem Skandal gleichkam. Mach dem Ende ihrer Modelkarriere gründete die Stilikone drei der erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Gesellschafts- und Filmmagazine Indiens. Immer am Puls der Zeit veröffentlichte die eingefleischte Bombayerin seit 1988 knapp ein Dutzend Romane, die wegen ihrer Freizügigkeit und dem schonungslosen Anprangern von Missständen in der Gesellschaft kontrovers diskutiert wurden. Sie selbst sieht sich als Rebellin, gibt sich aber im folgenden Interview überraschend „traditionsbewusst“ - sie inszeniert sich gern, kennt das Spiel mit den Medien wie keine andere, kann durch ihre zeitlose Eleganz und ihr selbstsicheres Auftreten das Publikum in den Bann ziehen. Doch Shobha Dé hat auch eine ganz andere, eine weiche Seite. Ist sie auf Lesereise außerhalb Indiens - wie kürzlich in Deutschland - vermisst sie ihre Heimat und vor allem ihre Familie. Man mag es kaum glauben: Die in zweiter Ehe mit dem Unternehmer Dilip Dé verheiratete Inderin hat auch noch sechs Kinder. Anlässlich ihres Autorenabends im Rahmen der „Biennale Preview" in Bonn sprach Priya Esselborn mit Shobha Dé über den gesellschaftlichen Wandel, die sich wandelnde Rolle der Frau in Indien und über ganz Persönliches
Identity Crisis in Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings
Get PDFShobha De’s Socialite Evenings is a critical exploration of the lives of the urban elite in Mumbai, highlighting the superficiality, materialism, and emotional emptiness that define their existence. Through the protagonist, Karuna, the author delves into the shallow pursuit of wealth, beauty, and social status, exposing the contradictions of a glamorous world that praises appearance over authenticity. The novel critiques the alienation and emotional isolation experienced by the people in the society. In a world dominated by power dynamics, manipulation, and betrayal Karuna\u27s journey reflects the internal conflict between personal desires and societal expectations. Ultimately, Socialite Evenings raises questions about the cost of pursuing external success and the true nature of happiness, suggesting that material wealth and social prestige cannot provide lasting fulfilment
Feministic Shades with respect to Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings
Get PDFFeminism as a movement has had a tremendous impact on almost all the genres of literature. It has enveloped people at large; especially women or to be more precise, women of the 21st century. It is a matter of discussion whether the influence it has exercised can be categorised as positive or negative. But for sure, the transformation with respect to the gender roles in society is notable. Women of today have not only become aware of their rights but are also well informed about the ample opportunities they have in every field. They have empowered and liberated themselves from the age old taboos and shackles.
Shobha De, a journalist, short story writer and a novelist of recognition like the other inspiring female writers, has also carved a niche for herself in the area of feminist writings. She is famous for her bold style of writings. Her novels are a study in feminism and portray women with liberated mindset. She is realistic and frank in her character portrayal and is often misunderstood as being vulgar in her expressions. In a country like India, when the talks of sex and romance were considered as embarrassing, Shobha De became one of the pioneers of presentation of open expressions in matters related to women, sex and eroticism. It will not be incorrect to state that feminism is a continuous thought which is manifest in almost all the writings of Shobha De.
Socialite Evenings, presents the life of the protagonist, Karuna, who revolts from the set norms and customs, held by the society in search of her identity. Though Shobha De has succeeded in the presentation of her viewpoint related to the socialite women of Bombay through the character of Karuna, but Karuna, in our opinion cannot be accepted to be an archetype of women liberation, emancipation and independence. The location of Indian woman cannot be discordant with the Indian cultural traditions and important necessary customs
Portrayal of the Self in Shobha De's Selective Memory: A Critical Study
Get PDFSelective Memory: Stories from My Life, a candid memoir, reveals the true self of Shobha Dé behind the public persona. As a woman writer of autobiography she is unique in portraying her 'self' in the story of her life. The portrayal of self in Selective Memory happens through the intense scrutiny of men and women of urban elite class of metropolitan cities of India of which Shobha Dé is an integral part of. By delving deeper into the heart of each man and woman she encounters, she portrays her own 'self'. The persona in the self narrative is consistently confident, candid and Selective Memory: Stories from My Life is remarkable for its honesty
Study of Inner Journey Of Woman In Shobha De’s Selective Memory: - ‘Stories From My Life’
Get PDFShobha Rajadhyaksha in the Indian English novel sphere is a well-known novelist named Shobha De, De is a talented novelist with an exceptional capacity to talk tactfully about very delicate elements of human life. It is great how she narrates every aspect of human relationship in general and in specific man-woman connection. Shobha varies from other novelists written in English by Indian females. She is a writer who thinks in events and complete open-heartedness in a very honest narration. A feminist point of view is provided in the current chapter assessment of De\u27s\u27 Selective Memory. Not only her family, but also film industry celebrities and their lifestyles are covered in her memoir, Selective memory. It raises women\u27s problems in particular and women\u27s exploitation in the film industry in particular. De has first-hand experience as a major magazine celebrity and columnist. Here is a writer who speaks without waving a feminist flag about a female. Her life tale is a woman writer\u27s document that celebrates motherhood and family life for. She loves to being a mother of sixyear-old and her family is her biggest possession. She is the first contemporary mother in the fresh and candid generation to have a wonderful faith. She admits honestly that from this fresh generation to which her children belong, she has learned a lot. She is certainly not a individual whose main interest in her profession is private progress. Her career in high voltage occurred in unexpected ways.
“Selective Memory: Stories from my life “ is important for the honesty with which it captures a woman\u27s life story that was a legend in her own period. The main goal of this research entitled “Study of inner journey of woman in Shobha De’s selective memory stories from my life”, her autobiography is to critically analyse and also seeks to emphasize the effect of feminist sensitivity . In her autobiography an effort was produced to signify the aspects of sensitivity
Gender Issues and Intricacies in Shobha De’s Select Novels
Get PDFShobha De, a feminist writer, depicts her female protagonists in a forceful way and uses the plot to emphasize her point that personal is not private but political. The protagonists in her works were outspoken critics of conventional society and its rules. They are not the typical women who accept abusive, unsatisfying, or uncomfortable relationships (in all aspects). It could be male dominance, objectification, sexual discontent, passion, or something else entirely. They don't keep it hidden because they believe it is taboo. On the other hand, the male characters are not shown as villains, but it is evident from the plot that they are products of patriarchal society. Gender issues in her works aren't about female oppression in terms of domestic violence; rather, they are about the sexual vacuum that all of the female characters experience. Male characters were traditionally assigned duties such as sexually active, powerful, and have self-identity, but these female figures defy such stereotypes. They represent women by demonstrating that they too have sexual wants, power, and a need for self-identity. As a result, this research focuses on Shobha De’s novels Socialite Evenings (1989), Sisters (1992), Starry Nights (1991), Second Thoughts (1996), which all deal with gender issues. The study not only examines issues but sheds light on the protagonists' struggles to find self-identity
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Horizontal Multilingualism: Interview with Shobha Satyanath
No full textIn this interview, Shobha Satyanath, one of India's premier sociolinguists, reflects on her career working on language variation and change in India and Guyana. The interview starts with a definition of what sociolinguistics is, namely, a social theory of language, and then continues to trace the development of Indian sociolinguistics. Satyanath also shares insights into the ideas behind the conference New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia‐Pacific and the associated journal Asia‐Pacific Language Variation. From her and her students’ work on a range of Indian languages, it becomes clear that certain frameworks developed in Western sociolinguistics, such as diglossia, or what she also calls a hierarchical model of bilingualism, do not work to accurately account for the multicultural fabric of Indian and Guyanese societies. Satyanath proposes to understand multilingualism in a horizontal and harmonious way
Quest for Identity: A Study of Shobha De’s Starry Nights
Get PDFIndian Writing in English has a galaxy of women writers like Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sehgal, Arundhati Roy, Bharati Mukherjee, and Shobha De, who have successfully portrayed the varied images of women in Indian society. They have shown Indian women’s situation in society. Shobha De, a versatile woman writer has aptly raised a strong voice against the exploitation of women in Indian society. Her novels primarily aim is to reveal the truth in Indian society. The present paper studies Starry Nights (1991) and points out the ugly reality of the lives of women. Women are looked down upon. Though they are faithful and hardworking in their family their existence remains unrewarded. They find themselves at the margins in families as well as in society. Starry Nights reveals the truth of Indian Bollywood where women are treated like commodities. The paper observes and analyses the changing mindset of Indian women who are ready to defy the set norms of the society that limit their existence. The paper confirms that the women depicted in De’s Starry Nights are the agents of social change who try to find out their own identity in the society
Dictionary learning for classification of indoor micro-Doppler signatures across multiple carriers
No full textMicro-Doppler signatures of dynamic targets such as humans, animals and vehicles are very effective feature vectors for classification based on machine learning algorithms. In the existing works, the test data have been measured in nearly identical operating conditions to the training data that were gathered for the classifiers. However, this assumption may be violated in real life scenarios. In this work, we demonstrate that classification based on sparsity based dictionary learning can overcome this limitation. Here, we learn unique target class dictionaries from micro-Dopplers gathered at multiple carriers. Then we test the classifier using data gathered at another carrier (distinct from those used for training).We test the performance of the classification algorithm for both simulation and measurement data. Our results show a classification accuracy of 99% and 89% for simulated and measurement data respectively
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