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Taneja, G. R., and Shashi Tharoor. "The Great Indian Novel." World Literature Today 65, no. 4 (1991): 770. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40147823.
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Chowdhury, Kanishka. "Revisioning History: Shashi Tharoor's Great Indian Novel." World Literature Today 69, no. 1 (1995): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40150855.
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Zobaer, Sheikh. "Pre-partition India and the Rise of Indian Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s 'The Shadow Lines'." Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (October 23, 2020): 156–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v9i2.40231.
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The Shadow Lines is mostly celebrated for capturing the agony and trauma of the artificial segregation that divided the Indian subcontinent in 1947. However, the novel also provides a great insight into the undivided Indian subcontinent during the British colonial period. Moreover, the novel aptly captures the rise of Indian nationalism and the struggle against the British colonial rule through the revolutionary movements. Such image of pre-partition India is extremely important because the picture of an undivided India is what we need in order to compare the scenario of pre-partition India with that of a postcolonial India divided into two countries, and later into three with the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. This paper explores how The Shadow Lines captures colonial India and the rise of Indian nationalism through the lens of postcolonialism.
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Rahman, Suzan Raheem, Lamiaa Ahmed Rasheed, and Lujain Ismael Mustafa. "The Adaption of Self-Reflexivity and Metafiction Approach to Myth and History in Shashi Tharoor's the Great Indian Novel: A Post-Modernist Study." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 88–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v12i2.201059.
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Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel is an example of a post-modern historiographic metafiction that takes the relationship between reality and fiction into consideration. This novel also depicts the 20th century political past by reviving events, incidents and characters of the myth of Mahabharata. The current paper aims to explain how Tharoor rebuilds the twentieth-century past by drawing on the great Mahabharata classical epic. Additionally, it examines the common relationship between fiction and history as it progressed along and continuous processes through the use of self-reflexivity and metafiction approach. In The Great Indian Novel, Tharoor adapts a metafiction tool which is the most fitting way to tackle this novel as a postmodernist study. Tharoor blends fiction and fact through a self-reflective narrative and the use of several metafiction devices by adapting the myth of Mahabharata to construct the distance between the past and the present. Tharoor takes the ancient myth as the basic structure with contemporary group of political characters for a real and ironic review of recent Indian history and representation.
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Kumar, Dr Raman. "R. K. Narayan’s Mr. Sampath: A Study in the Dialectic of Being and Becoming." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 12 (December 28, 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i12.10216.
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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (1906-2001) popularly known as R. K. Narayan, an award winning novelist, essayist and storywriter is generally considered one of the greatest Indians writing in English. He shares this honour with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. D. S. Maini has observed in this regard: “Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, and R. K. Narayan- brought the Indian novel to the point of ripeness”. But R. K. Narayan enjoys a place of rare distinction among these great writers too and it is partly because of the rare setting of his novels, his close association with the traditional Indian society, his simple language, his humour and irony, and his characterization, which is so varied and colourful. Many critics have praised R. K. Narayan for his literariness and for his aestheticism. V. Y. Kantak has observed, “…when we come to weigh Indian writing of fiction in English to date, Narayan with his penny whistle seems to have wrought more than most others with their highly pretentious and obstreperous brass” (21). R. K. Narayan has fourteen novels to his credit alongwith a large number of short stories. Narayan’s The Guide (1958) won him great fame and was widely acknowledged as a masterpiece by the world’s literary community. It also won him the much-coveted Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.
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B. Fulzele, Dr Dharmapal, and Dr P. D. Nimsarkar. "Kamala Markandaya’s Bombay Tiger: The Representation of Socio-Cultural Life." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10090.
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This paper is an attempt to study the representation of socio-cultural life in Kamala Markandaya’s Bombay Tiger. Being a leading post-independent Indian novelist, Kamala Markandaya has candidly portrayed Indian social, cultural and political life through her novels. She has rightly reflected these aspects in the work Bombay Tiger. Her description of various aspects and dimensions of cultural life is not imaginary and based on some literature, but it is based on carefully observed traditions and depicted cultural values and ideas. Soon after the death of Kamala Markandaya her daughter Kim Oliver found a typewritten copy of her novel and it was published posthumously with the title ‘Bombay Tiger’ in 2008. Charles R. Larson, one of the close friends of Markandaya and Professor of Literature, American University, Washington, DC has written an introduction to novel Bombay Tiger (2008) where he writes: Reading Bombay Tiger twenty years after Kamala Markandaya began writing the novel is a kind of revelation – especially for what it says about contemporary India” (Larson xii). Although Markandaya lived in abroad she kept in touch with the India. She actively read English newspapers which provided excellent coverage of occurrences in the commonwealth in general and India in particular. It has been rightly said that Kamala Markandaya’s “Sense of India was always extraordinarily vivid, filled with rich vitality, and imaginative in the way of all great writers (and especially novelists) who have been connected to place (Larson xii).
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Bhagya, C. S. "“The reign of error”: Tropes of exception in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no. 6 (June 9, 2020): 761–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1766854.
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Dogra, Twinkal. "IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN INDIA." International Journal of Advanced Research 8, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): 273–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/12006.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of COVID-19 on the tourism industry in India. The tourism industry as compared to the other important industries of a country is highly affected due to the internal and external shocks. In the past few months, the drastic outbreak of the novel coronavirus has caused great losses to the tourism industry. The Indian tourism industry accounted for 9.2% of Indias GDP in 2018 and braced 42.673 million jobs, 8.1% of its total employment.The Indian tourism and hospitality industry is now gawking at a likely job loss of around 38 million. The governments across the world are trying to woo back visitors from domestic and international markets. Travel and tourism companies will have to recuperate the trust and confidence of people in the recovery period to travel again after the pandemic. The present study suggests that the travel and hospitality sector should restructure their approach by introducing measures like changing peoples social behavior, wearing a mask when stepping out, social distancing, and hesitation to travel far distances.
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Singh, Kavita. "Problems in Visualizing and Validating History: A Discourse on Rani by Jaishree Misra." IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities) 1, no. 6 (October 14, 2015): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v1i6.121.
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Our Indian education system is such that we are taught a lot about history, long fought battles, wars, invaders and kings and rulers who died when and how. In broader sense, history does not only about dates and battles, it associates and intersperses our past and present with social, cultural, religious and traditional discourses. Our history spanning over thousand years guide our present and future. Indian writers have given their thoughts flying colors making our history unbelievably great. They get inspired from our enormously vast past incidents and express them according to their views and idea. There is no particular parameter which may define the history as fiction. Indian mythological epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata have been described and redefined in numerous different ways. India and Indian people have suffered a lot when British army ruled us for more than 200 years. There were many brave patriots who fought for our independence. One of such fighters is Rani Lakshmi Bai. This paper explores her life validating history through the novel, Rani. This novel is written by Jaishree Misra. Indian writers have explored the life and bravery of this amazingly courageous woman who redefined the womanhood and valor in her own way making a wave for the revolutionary fight for independence.
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Pandhare, Avinash L. "Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Critique." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 7 (July 22, 2020): 98–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10661.
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In Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, her debut novel, Kiran Desai has experimented in the making of a comic fable. She presents a hilarious story of life, love, and family relationships - simultaneously capturing the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience. The story is set in a small Indian but fictitious town called Shahkot. Sampath is the protagonist who belongs to a middle class family. After experiencing drastic boredom in his life, Sampath decides to spend his life in trees. And then after, the story reveals its real mood. At a deeper level, the novel displays the theme of alienation, magic realism, rebellion, etc. Desai is a masterful dialogue writer, and she uses this skill to great effect in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. She infuses the dialogue with local idioms and paints a vivid portrait of life in a small city in India. With a clear objective of writing a comic satire, she also makes a satirical attack against the creation of gurus in Indian society.
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Kaya, Göksel. "Ambivalence of Identity as an Extension of Colonial Discourse in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 6, no. 2 (April 30, 2018): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.2p.28.
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The aim of this study is to critically analyse the identity issue based on postcolonial theory in one of the most important novels of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and another novel, The White Tiger with which Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008. This study attempts to implement such an exploration not only in the context of western thought, but also from different angles with the realities of the oppressed nations of the Third World, especially India in order to construct the ‘other’ based on the other individuality. Both of the prominent writers in their works lay bare many scenes that focus on the problems of the heroes creating the basis of the events in question. That is why they take into consideration the state of the individual, because the central characters’ conflicts and developments present different aspects of the novel while constructing the individuality and identity behind the societal problems in terms of class conflict. They live under different circumstances to discover themselves and in each of the novels we can bear witness to the existence of some characters who achieve a sense of personal and social identity in the Victorian society of England, a time when great social and economic changes were taking place; and then in India where people suffer from the administrations of the members of Gandhi family led by especially Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. This study thereby examines how the individuals are exposed to the social, economic and political factors of the country where they live.
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Adhikary, Debabrata. "Bankim’s Use of Familiar Patriarchal Tropes/Frameworks in Rajmohan’s Wife to Define and Re-Define Womanhood." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 3 (March 28, 2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i3.10473.
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The present paper aims to look at the concept of womanhood as defined and revised upon by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, in his debut novel, and, incidentally, the first Indian novel, written in English language, known as Rajmohan’s Wife. Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay is the great Indian novelist, and, poet, who has given a new dimension to the genre of Bengali novel. In this present novel, he has tried to show the Bengali woman trying to come out of the conservative, conventional patriarchal ethos, and, slowly trying to make a room/space of her own. And, this, by not abandoning/rejecting patriarchy outrightly, but by staying very much within the patriarchal zone, and, yet asserting her individuality/personality.
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Zaidi, Najia A. "Woman Subjection As Reflected In Sidhwa’s Cracking India." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 2, no. 1 (September 8, 2009): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v2i1.356.
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The Indian subcontinent gained independence from the British Raj in 1947, and got divided into two states: India and Pakistan. This division was the result of religious conflict that turned into a great tragedy of the region forcing millions to leave the part they were living in and killing large number of innocent people. Women became the worst victims of partition on both sides of the border. Sidhwa captures the position of woman through historical perspective. This paper examines the retelling of partition by Sidhwa in her novel Cracking India and portrays the exploitation, manipulation and oppression of women in relation to politics, religion and society. The publication of this novel establishes it as feminist text that calls for reconsideration of women’s rights and status in Post-Colonial Pakistan.
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Shehin TV, Muhamed. "Representation of The Child In Modern Indian Novels: A Comparative Study of Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyaya’s Pather Panchali and Krishna Baldev Vaid’s Uska Bachpan." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10420.
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The representation of the child in art has a long history. Great importance is attached to the child in the indigenous literary traditions of India. The antics of Krishna , the ‘balgopal’ are represented vividly in the Bhagavata Purana and the Mahabharath. Likewise, the adventures of the child Rama are sketched in great detail in another epic Ramayana. An array of Indian writers have made the child the protagonist in their novels ; Manu Bhandari’s Aap ka Bunty, Ganeswar Misra’s Face of the Morning, R.K. Narayanan’s Swami & Friends, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines are some typical examples. This paper attempts to make a comparative study of the portrayal of the child in two modern Indian novels namely Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyaya’s Pather Panchali and Krishna Baldev Vaid’s Uska Bachpan.
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Mukhopadhyay, Aju. "Tagore and Naipaul on Indian and European Civilisations: Patriotic and Biassed Views Changed their Perspectives." IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities) 4, no. 2 (October 10, 2018): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v4i2.73.
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V. S. Naipaul was writer of Indian origin writer settled in Great Britain and Rabindranath Tagore was Bengali writer born and brought up in India. Both were Nobel Laureates in Literature. Based on their overall behavior and treatment with the colonized people, Tagore a patriot to the core, saw and judged the foreign colonisers from his Indian patriotic point of view. He realised how and why they sucked India for their own benefit to the utter neglect of Indians. But Naipaul’s ancestors migrated perhaps under compulsion to the Caribbean islands where Naipaul was born (Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobagos). He settled in England and stayed put there for the major part of his life. Compared to his background Britain was new found paradise for him. Ambitious, he studied English and was imbued in their culture. He wrote as if Britain was more than his birth land. He was awarded Nobel Prize as a British, a European. From his perspective he was not only indebted but deeply moved to love that country and continent. His name and fame spread from there. India had nothing to do about it except his Indian origin background taking the clue from his ancestors. He had some tilt towards India nothing of it remained when India was compared to Britan or Europe. He was obliged to see the world through their spectacles. His ideas and favour for Britain and Europe was generated by his position and interest in life. Judged Neutrally it was a biased view.
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Ms. Madhu. "Chetan Bhagat: Recent Readings: Mental conflicts of Indian women in One Indian Girl." Creative Launcher 6, no. 3 (August 30, 2021): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.3.10.
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This chapter is written to have a look at Chetan Bhagat’s novel One Indian Girl from cerebral angle to acknowledge a deviation in Indian Women’s demeanor and behaviour. Indian women’s mind is full of conflicts and confusion. They have to deal with social stereotypes. Our society believes that girls can make a successful career either or a successful home. Can’t do both together. What an astonishment! We give wings to our daughters but then she is told that she has to build a nest. So she has to forget to fly. Chetan Bhagat’s novel One Indian Girl offers a female’s anima – her goals and inclination in her thoughts and geared up to flare up and ensue at even the slightest pierce. Radhika Mehta cogitates a maiden who is a sturdy backer of feminist ideology however she has to confront the pre-determined norms of Indian society that have been set below patriarchal society because of which she has to go through numerous sorts of torments and distress. This narrative is generally about Radhika, the proponent, unveiling the exceptional elements of a modern-day Indian woman. Radhika’s social reputation influences society to a great extent that she turns into a vulnerable target of many known and unknown conditions which vexed her unfulfilled objectives of not getting bodily love and appreciation. Radhika’s unfulfilled dreams take her foundation within side the discrimination meted to her in her formative years and youth. It is a first-character narrative through the protagonist whose internal voice (named ‘Mini-me’) constantly expresses her internal feelings and the mental conflicts occurring in her thoughts.
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Bhakta, Bindu R., and Daniel J. Tennessen. "The Use of a Multidisciplinary, Culturally Rich Web Site by Youth and Formal and Informal Educators to Increase Appreciation and Awareness of Plants and Other Cultures." HortScience 33, no. 3 (June 1998): 477d—477. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.33.3.477d.
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Throughout history, people have forged an intricate relationship with plants. As a result, ethnobotany, the study of this association between people and plants, has begun to receive great attention. Like ethnobotany, horticulture is a field of study that humans depend on to enhance and beautify their living and working environments. In order to promote the fields of horticulture and ethnobotany, a multidisciplinary, “plant-centered” web site about Asian Indian ethnobotany was assembled. Novel or unique plants were used to promote exploration of multicultural experiences that reflected the increasing diversity in today's formal and non-formal classrooms. The web site contained pictures, video and audio clips, experimental activities, links to other web sites, places to visit these plant specimens, and supplemental materials for individuals interested in conducting further scientific investigations. Seven ethnobotany units were developed: Vegetable Diversity, Healing Plants, Indian Staples, Sacred Plants, the Easel of Indian Textiles, Tastes of India, and Ceremonial Plants. Outreach programs were conducted in Ithaca-area schools and 4-H clubs to evaluate youth interest in the topics presented in the web site. This educational program allowed middle school students the unique opportunity to conduct a self-guided exploration of important Indian ethnobotanical plants, while gaining important and valuable horticultural experience in plant classification, structure, growth substances, propagation, and diseases. This program also provided important exposure for both youth interested in pursuing ethnobotany or horticulture as a future career and for those with no previous horticultural or ethnobotanical experience. In conclusion, this web site used a novel multicultural approach to allow youth to develop an awareness for plants in other cultures while cultivating appreciation of plants important in their own cultures.'
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MAYAKUNTLA, JOSEPH. "Socio –Political Concept In Rohinton Ministry’s A Fine Balance." Think India 22, no. 2 (October 24, 2019): 199–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8719.
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‘Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft arm-chair, your will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me and after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exagger-tragendy is not a fiction all is true’.
Honor’s de Balzac, le p’ere Goriot Rohinton Mistry is an important figure in contemporary common wealth s literature and he occupies a significant position among the writers of Indian diaspora. Mistry like Rushdie and many other Indian English writer is an “émigré” who left India in 1970’s to live in Canada. He is the best-known indo-Canadian novelist, his novels namely such a long journey, a fine balance and family matter have been best sellers and received international a wards. Mistry belongs to the burgeoning crop of Indian novelist writing in English to place him rightly among the great Indian English writers in the words of the santwana haldar.“A glowing star in the galaxy that contains luminaries such as vs. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth and Bharati Mukherjee to mention a few Rohinton Mistry has drawn the attention of the world as an absorbing writer of human experience.” (Santwana, 2006:7)
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Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. "An Unconstructable Indian Ocean: Amitav Ghosh’s Ecological Imaginary in Sea of Poppies and The Great Derangement." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 82 (2021): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.82.10.
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In his 2019 book The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation, Frédéric Neyrat opposes the idea that, having come very close to destroying the Earth in the Anthropocene, man can now use geoengineering to reconstruct it. Instead, Neyrat proposes an “ecology of separation” which recognizes the Earth’s self-regenerating capacity as essentially separate from man’s intrusion, thus suggesting that the condition for the world to survive in an age of increasing apocalyptic dangers is an acceptance of the limitations of human agency. This article will argue that Amitav Ghosh’s own ecological project, developed in his 2016 essaybook The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, which started as early as his historical opium war novel Sea of Poppies (2008), narrates an ecology of separation similar to Neyrat’s, a version of Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin’s “green postcolonialism” that confronts Eurocentric aggression against non-European civilizations and against nature
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Jaya Selvi, S. "COVID-19: An Overview of Economic Waves on Indian Economy." Shanlax International Journal of Economics 8, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/economics.v8i3.3201.
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A worldwide pandemic that has a powerful disruptive in the world is the COVID-19 outbreak. It brought significant volatility and chaos, which are affecting investors’ confidence in Indian markets and the world. India is one of the emerging economies that hold the position of the fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), which has the second-largest population country in which the population size of about 1.3 billion after China in the world. COVID-19 emerged from China and started to spread all other countries rapidly and create a great impact on world countries. Most of the people lost their lives, resources, jobs, etc. As the whole countries in the world are struggling, the whole economy standstill, and it’s very difficult to overcome from the recession. The Indian government took a rapid decision to prevent the disaster novel Coronavirus or Covid-19 by launching the complete nation-wide lockdown for 40 days. The result of 40 days lockdown is direct output loss of more than 8 percent over time. There are the indirect impacts onlivelihoods of the unorganized workforce, and a sharp increase in corporate and banking stress, which are likely to further weigh on growth.
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Bhavatharini, K. P., and Ms Dr Anita Albert. "The Disruption Of Family In Manju Kapur’s Custody." Think India 22, no. 3 (September 13, 2019): 880–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8408.
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Manju Kapur exposes the disparity and how modernity plays a major role in our society and also the hollowness modern life through her novel Custody. The present paper deals with the key aspects of custody, like extra marital affair, exploration of children and the law system of India. Manju Kapur has published five novels and all her novels dealt with postmodern era, which became sensational in the literary world. She talks about the life of people in Metropolitan cities and how it changes the attitude of theirs and makes them to be victims of modernity through her novel Custody. She manages to disclose the atmosphere which revolves around the family and how it destroys their peace. Here the author portrays how her female protagonist goes to an extent to fulfill her need even breaking her marital relationship with her husband and lack of concern with her children. She portrays the unimaginable incident of broken marriage and illustrates how it causes their children to yearning for their custody from their parents. The children are mentally affected because of the conflict between their egoistic parents to take back their custody only to win the battle not having the real concern over the future of their children. The author manages to create an excellent atmosphere that reveals the various disasters roaming around the family. The future of the children is also hazard. This novel proves that Manju Kapur is a great curator of the modern Indian family.
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R. Jadhav, Vikram, J.S. Aher, A.M. Bhagare, and A.C. Dhaygude. "COVID-19 Era: What’s Impact of the Lockdown on India’s Environment?" Journal of Chemistry, Environmental Sciences and its Applications 7, no. 1 (November 8, 2020): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.15415/jce.2020.71001.
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Background: The Novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which started in Wuhan (China) during December 2019, has spread to the rest of the world until now (July 2020). COVID-19 infections are more prevalent in developed countries rather than in the fast-developing, and underdeveloped countries. Now novel COVID-19 infection is a global health problem. In a fast-developing country like India, the incidence of coronavirus infections is increasing day by day. The fifth phase of lockdown has started in India to reduce the incidence of infection.Purpose: The purpose of this study of the impact of lockdown on the India’s environment, according to the literature survey from various research papers, news, social networking, government data (websites), etc., indicates that the lockdown helping to reduce transit in India and at the same time has a great impact on reduced pollution such as air pollution, water pollution, land pollution, etc., thus improving the balance of the environment after March 2020 onwards.Methods: In this work, we have used an online method using various online sources, which has mainly surveyed some important cities in India, have also studied the factors such as air pollution, river pollution, land pollution, etc. and its impact on Indian environment.Results: According to an online survey, lockdown has had a significant impact on the Indian environment, reducing the number of vehicles on the road that improving air quality, reducing river pollution, and having a positive impact on various fields. Lockdown has been very beneficial to the environment.Conclusions: The observations from various parts of the sources show that reduced pollution has also reduced the number of patients in hospitals, mainly jaundice (yellow fever), chikungunya, typhoid, respiratory diseases, etc. This review article explains the brief analysis of the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on India’s environment.
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Hadžija, Sunaj, Jahja Fehratović, and Kimeta Hamidović. "The projection of colonialization and interculturalism throughout symbols in Forster's novel 'A passage to India'." Univerzitetska misao - casopis za nauku, kulturu i umjetnost, Novi Pazar, no. 19 (2020): 100–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/univmis2019100h.
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Imperialism emerged in the late 19th century. Europe's supremacy in various areas of life which led to the view that Europe is above other parts of the world that are uncivilized and culturally fell behind, and that needed to be civilized. This attitude lead to negative phenomena such as racism - contesting the rights of other races and colonialism - conquering territories inhabitated by people of other cultures. The world seen from an imperialist perspective was most often the one colonized by Europe, postcolonial research has critized the way in which European colonial powers (especially England and France) created values of subordinate cultures and established relations between center and margins. However, the notion of discursive domination is spread quickly to all relations between colonizers and colonized, which is why this second group includes all gender and ethic groups that did not have cultural independece, but were marginalized and subjected to institutional repression. As different cultural minorities began to form resistance to agressive political, gender, and racial domination, postcolonialism also represents a disagreement with the passivity towards cultural supremacy which is symbolized in empires that no longer even existed. The novel A Passage to India represents Forster's interests in Indian culture, which was colonized by Great Britain. A Passage to India is an exploration of the spiritual and cultural contrast of the two cultures of East and West.
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Goffredi, Shana K., Anders Warén, Victoria J. Orphan, Cindy L. Van Dover, and Robert C. Vrijenhoek. "Novel Forms of Structural Integration between Microbes and a Hydrothermal Vent Gastropod from the Indian Ocean." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70, no. 5 (May 2004): 3082–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.70.5.3082-3090.2004.
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ABSTRACT Here we describe novel forms of structural integration between endo- and episymbiotic microbes and an unusual new species of snail from hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. The snail houses a dense population of γ-proteobacteria within the cells of its greatly enlarged esophageal gland. This tissue setting differs from that of all other vent mollusks, which harbor sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts in their gills. The significantly reduced digestive tract, the isotopic signatures of the snail tissues, and the presence of internal bacteria suggest a dependence on chemoautotrophy for nutrition. Most notably, this snail is unique in having a dense coat of mineralized scales covering the sides of its foot, a feature seen in no other living metazoan. The scales are coated with iron sulfides (pyrite and greigite) and heavily colonized by ε- and δ-proteobacteria, likely participating in mineralization of the sclerites. This novel metazoan-microbial collaboration illustrates the great potential of organismal adaptation in chemically and physically challenging deep-sea environments.
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Dr. Tamanna. "Maya’s Materialistic Longings Resulting in Alienation and Frustration: A Feminist Reading of Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock." Creative Launcher 6, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 152–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.17.
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Anita Mazumdar Desai occupies a much privileged place in the Indian Writing in English. She is known as an acclaimed Indian woman novelist who deals with the psychological problems of her women characters. She was born in 24 June 1937 in Mussoorie. Her father D.N. Majumdar was a Bengali businessman and her mother Toni Nime was a German immigrant. Anita Desai is working as Emeritus John E. Buchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anita Desai got a congenial environment to learn different languages in her own home and neighbourhood. She learnt Hindi from her neighbourhood. They used to speak German, Bengali, Urdu and English at their home. She learnt English at her school. She attended Queens Mary Higher Senior Secondary School in Delhi and she did her B.A. in 1957 from the Miranda House of the University of Delhi. So far is Anita Desai literary career is concerned, she wrote her first novel Cry, the Peacock in 1963. With the help of P. Lal, they founded the publishing firm Writers Workshop. Clear Light of Day (1980) is her most autobiographical work. Her novel In Custody was enlisted for the Booker Prize. She became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. When she published her novel Fasting Feasting and it won the Booker Prize in 1999, she came to the limelight. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times in 1980, 1984 and 1999 for her novels Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting (1999) respectively. She received Padma Bhushan in 2014 also. She has received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1937 for her well-known novel Fire on the Mountain. The present paper analyses the central female protagonist Maya’s materialistic pursuits which turn in a great catastrophe for her in the novel Cry, the Peacock.
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Singh, Jyoti. "Chitra Banerjee’s empathetic view of Draupadi as a protagonist in The Palace of Illusion." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 1, no. 5 (February 28, 2014): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v1i5.3049.
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It is said that “Whatever is here is found elsewhere. But whatever is not here is nowhere else.” These lines are said for the great epic of India The Mahabharata. The name means “great [story of the] Bharatas.” Bharata was an early ancestor of both the Pandavas and Kauravas who fought each other in a great war, but the word is also used for the Indian race, so the Mahabharata Sometimes is referred to as “the great story of India.” The portrayals of women Characters in this epic were left unsatisfied. It wasn’t as though the epic didn’t have powerful, complex women Characters that affected the action in major ways, for instance, there was the widowed Kunti, mother of Pandavas,who dedicates her life to making sure her sons become kings. There was Gandhari, wife of the sightless Kaurava king, who chooses to blindfold her in marriage, thus relinquishing her power as queen and mother. And most of all, there was Panchali, king Drupad’s beautiful daughter, who has the unique distinction of being married to five men at the same time-the five Pandava brothers, the greatest heroes of their time. Panchaali who, some might argue, by her headstrong actions helps to bring about the destruction of the third Age of man. But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons. Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly Magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandava brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.
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Jose, Jasmine, and V. Rajasekaran. "Universal Experience of Female Tribulations in an Indian Milieu: A Study on Deshpande's Novels Small Remedies and Roots and Shadows." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 1, no. 1 (June 7, 2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v1n1p5.
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<p><em>Though sexual politics is not something new but a universal experience of women, third wave feminism has acknowledged the differences like colours, ethnicities, regions, etc. and has started analysing how the experience of women is something that cannot be universalised but is different for women depending on their cultural background. This paper analyses the experience of middle class women in Indian scenario and how the gap between traditionalists and the educated middle class women in India leads to chaos and confusions in the society and how it imposes great pressure on the women to act according to the rules of the patriarchal community in the society using the selected novels of Sashi</em><em> </em><em>Deshpande. It also examines different forms of gender-specific discrimination targeted against women in Indian society.</em><em></em></p>
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Amit Kumar. "Ethical Conflict between Pragmatism and Idealism in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice." Creative Launcher 6, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.2.14.
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Joshi has occupied a great place in Indian writing in English Literature. He deals with the inner conflicting predicament of urban Indian society in all his five novels. The Apprentice is distinct from his other novels in its tone, style and theme. The Apprentice deals with the ethical conflict between pragmatism and idealism which traps its protagonist through his conscious action, decision and the reaction of those decisions based on his root and psyche. The protagonist suffers from his inner conflict of idealism and pragmatism which makes him a split personality in a phoney selfish society. Joshi deals with the psychological problems of modern men which make them unable to adjust to society in thirst for material pleasure and worldly values. Ratan Rathor is the main protagonist and narrator of the novel The Apprentice who is the son of a revolutionary patriot full of idealistic values. He finds his inner self grind between the conflict of pragmatism and idealism which creates a painful predicament of restlessness and suffering. He has two conflicting worlds in his inner self of which one idealism deals with the values of life, peace, humanity, selfless service and of another pragmatism deals with lust for material and sensual pleasure where money has all values for its credit.
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Azizaliyeva, Besire. "The Influence of Indian Literary-Philosophical and Religious Works on the Eastern Literature." European Journal of Language and Literature 8, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v8i1.p44-49.
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The religious and philosophical elements expressed in ancient Indian literature have had great influences on world literature. One notable example is the ancient Indian piece, "Panchatantra". This magnificent written work ofworld literature has become one of the most famous and influential works in the development of the European and Asian story genre. The Indian masterpiece has also influenced the Arabic-American immigration writer, Kahlil Gibran. Thus, the impress of Indian scripturecan be seen in many of Gibran’s works such as "The Prophet". The philosophical and religious teachings of the "Bhagavad Gita" have had an impactful role in M. Naimy’s development as an Arabic immigration writer. Mikhail Naimy, a poet, writer and a literary critic, was one of the prominent representatives of the early 21st century Arab-American immigrant literature. When conveying the idea of wholeness and unity between an individual soul and God in his work, “The Book of Mirdad”, the author used different religious and philosophical sources including the ancient Indian scripture Bhagavat-Gita. The concepts such as an eternal soul, “I”, a God’s messenger are very similar in “The Book of Mirdad” and the Indian religious-philosophical teachings. M.Naimy has accented the importance of issues that reflect many of the ancient Indian beliefs expressed in the "Bhagavad Gita" including the material sides of world and divinity, vision, soul, and spirit. The ancient Indian beliefs of "The People are Raised to the God’s level” are distinctively reflected by M. Naimy in his novel "The Book of Mirdad".
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Varaprasad, G., R. Sridharan, and Anandakuttan B. Unnithan. "Internet Banking Adoption by the Customers of Private Sector Banks in India." International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 4, no. 1 (January 2013): 40–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jsds.2013010103.
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The rapid advancements in communication and information technology have changed the functional scenario of the banking sector significantly. The savings in time, money and effort by a novel channel of banking called as internet banking has been found to be an optional channel for the traditional banking. The objective of this study is to identify the determinants of internet banking adoption in private sector banks of India. Factors such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived risk, relative advantage and trialability have been found to be the determinants of internet banking in the previous studies. A new variable called conspicuousness has been introduced in the present study. Such a study has not been conducted in the Indian context antecedently. A model has been proposed and tested using various statistical techniques. The findings are of great use primarily for the banks which are planning to offer internet banking services, and for already existing banks to focus on the gaps.
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Patti, Felicia, Yasaman Taheri, Javad Sharifi-Rad, Miquel Martorell, William C. Cho, and Raffaele Pezzani. "Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities." Medicines 6, no. 4 (October 18, 2019): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines6040105.
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Plants are a great and irreplaceable source of medicines, fuel, food, energy and even cosmetics. Since prehistory, humans have learned to use plants for survival, growth and proliferation and still today it relies on natural and cultivated vegetables for food and the source of novel compounds with pharmacological activity. Not only herbs and flowers, but also trees are used. Indeed, Erythrina suberosa Roxb. is a deciduous tree of the family Fabaceae, common in Southeast Asia. In India, E. suberosa is called the “corky coral tree” or simply the “Indian coral tree”, given its peculiar red-orange flowers that can flower throughout the year and its corky irregular bark covered by prickles. It is a plant commonly used as an ornamental tree, but it also holds ethnopharmacological and socioeconomic uses. This article explored phytobiological features of E. suberosa, analysing its taxonomy, examining its traditional and common uses and investigating its bioactive components and pharmacological properties.
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Sankar, G., J. Prabhavathi, and S. Sankarakumar. "A cross-cultural analysis of female protagonist on selecting novel of chitra banarjee divakaruni and bharati mukherjee." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 5, no. 5 (August 28, 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v5n5.719.
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In the 21st century, women's writing in English has been considered as a powerful medium of modernism and feminist proclamation in the contemporary society of patriarchy life. The last two decades have witnessed extraordinary success in feminist writings of Indian English literature even Today is the generation of those women writers who are rich and have been educated in the West. Hence, this paper examines to analysis the cross-cultural values and divulgences of female protagonist’s of the great diasporic writers Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni and Bharati Mukherjee select novels. It also discussed the problems of women and in their suppressions in our post-modern society how they lost their identity and how do they feel their separation of culture from native land to an alien land.
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Sherly. H, Ms Monica, and Dr Aseda Fatima.R. "Patriarchal Oppression in Pearl S Buck’s Novel The Good Earth." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10406.
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The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. American literature blossomed with the skillful and brilliant writer during 1900s. Pearl S Buck was born to the family of Presbyterian missionary in 1892 in West Virginia. Being a successful writer in nineteenth century, she published various novels and she was the first female laureate in America and fourth woman writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature. Oppression is an element that is common in patriarchal society where the women are always subjugated by the men in the family. This paper is to depict the men’s oppression in the novel through the character Wang Lang and how the female character O-Lan is surviving from all the struggles that she faces from her own family members.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. Literature is the reflection of mind. It is the great creative and universal means of communicating to the humankind. This creativity shows the difference between the writers and the people who simply write their views, ideas and thoughts.
American literature began with the discovery of America. American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of Indian cultures. Native American oral literature is quite diverse. The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. The earliest writers were Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World.
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Souza, Amanda Aparecida Fernandes de, Andreza Francisca Mendes da Silva, Leticia Rossi de Abreu, Thaís Ferreira da Silva, Gabriel Greco, Soraya da Silva Santos, and Rodrigo Vieira Gonzaga. "Medicinal uses of Cannabis sp." Research, Society and Development 10, no. 7 (June 25, 2021): e58010716930. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i7.16930.
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The therapeutic properties of Cannabis have been described since antiquity and are of great relevance for the Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Arab and Latin people. Cannabis-based medicines show several therapeutic purposes, mainly to treat disorders as constipation, some types of pain, epilepsy, anxiety and among others. In addition, the genus Cannabis exhibits great clinical relevance due to its Central Nervous System activities attributed to some phytochemicals compounds, as cannabidiol and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The interest in the pharmacological properties of Cannabis is growing and several new studies are being carried out to prove its pharmacotherapeutic use which are important to design of novel drugs with different routes of administration and for multiple pathologies resistant to the conventional treatments. In this context, there is a pressure on countries to review the laws that still limit the research development related to medicinal Cannabis purposes. Herein, our aim is to perform an overview about the plant, endocannabinoid system, Cannabis-based medicines and clinical uses, regulatory aspects of Cannabis sp and its chemical compounds of therapeutic interest.
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Prasch, Thomas. "EATING THE WORLD: LONDON IN 1851." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 2 (September 2008): 587–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080352.
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“London, for some time previous to the opening of the Great Exhibition, has been a curious sight even to Londoners,” Henry Mayhew declared in 1851, or the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to “Enjoy Themselves,” and to See the Great Exhibition, his comic instant novel about the transformation of London in the year of the Great Exhibition. Mayhew proceeded to detail what had grown curiouser and curiouser about the London scene in that climactic year: “New amusements were daily springing into existence, or old ones being revived. The Chinese Collection had returned to the Metropolis, with a family from Pekin, and a lady with feet two inches and a half long, as proof of the superior standing she had in society; Mr Calin [sic; he means Caitlin] had re−opened his Indian exhibit; Mr Wyle [sic; he means Wyld; instant novels apparently did not allow much time for proofreading] had bought up the interior of Leicester Square, with a view of cramming into it – ‘yeah, the great globe itself’” (132). Elsewhere in Mayhew's parodic panorama of London's exhibition mania, he offered a view of other globalized London scenes, focusing on celebrated chef Alexis Soyer's new restaurant, “where the universe might dine, from sixpence to a hundred guineas, of cartes ranging from pickled whelks to nightingale's tongues . . . from the ‘long sixes,’ au natural of the Russians, to the ‘stewed Missionary of the Marquesas,’ or the ‘cold roast Bishop’ of New Zealand” (2). Mayhew's imaginary menu, with its cannibalistic extremes, expresses a wider concern about the deluging of London by foreigners come to see the Great Exhibition (some 60000 “extra” foreigners – beyond, that is, standard visiting numbers – were estimated to have actually visited, mostly from the Continent, that year, roughly doubling the existing foreign population of London; see Auerbach 186), which found expression in an amused (when not more genuinely terrified) xenophobia that often focused on foreign foodways.
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Koolwal, Priti. "Feminism in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock: A Comparative Study." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11055.
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Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. In the words of M.K. Bhatnagar, "Feminism in the Indian context is a by product of western liberalism in general and feminist thoughts in particular". With the social and cultural change in post independence India, women find themselves standing at the cross-roads. On one hand it is the consciousness of a changed time and on the other, the socio-cultural modes and values that have given them defined role towards themselves, have led to the fragmentation of the very psyche of these women. Caught between two worlds, they need to define themselves, their place in society and their relationship with surroundings. Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande have constantly sought to come to grips with these problems of Indian womanhood and vividly and realistically portrayed the 'women question' and 'feministic traits' in their novels. If comparative study is the study of literature across national, political and linguistic boundaries, feminism is the comparative work across boundaries of gender and culture. The main concern of this paper is to present a comparative study of the note of feminism in the best words of both these feministic writers, i.e. Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock and Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence.
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Singh, Sukhwinder, William W. Bockus, Indu Sharma, and Robert L. Bowden. "A Novel Source of Resistance in Wheat to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis Race 1." Plant Disease 92, no. 1 (January 2008): 91–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-92-1-0091.
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Tan spot, caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, causes serious yield losses in wheat (Triticum aestivum) and many other grasses. Race 1 of the fungus, which produces the necrosis toxin Ptr ToxA and the chlorosis toxin Ptr ToxC, is the most prevalent race in the Great Plains of the United States. Wheat genotypes with useful levels of resistance to race 1 have been deployed, but this resistance reduces damage by only 50 to 75%. Therefore, new sources of resistance to P. tritici-repentis are needed. Recombinant inbred lines developed from a cross between the Indian spring wheat cvs. WH542 (resistant) and HD29 (moderately susceptible) were evaluated for reaction to race 1 of the fungus. Composite interval mapping revealed quantitative trait loci (QTL) on the short arm of chromosome 3A explaining 23% of the phenotypic variation, and the long arm of chromosome 5B explaining 27% of the variation. Both resistance alleles were contributed by the WH542 parent. The QTL on 5BL is probably tsn1, which was described previously. The 3AS QTL (QTs.ksu-3AS) on 3AS is a novel QTL for resistance to P. tritici-repentis race 1. The QTL region is located in the most distal bin of chromosome 3AS in a 2.2-centimorgan marker interval. Flanking markers Xbarc45 and Xbarc86 are suitable for marker-assisted selection for tan spot resistance.
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Tiwari, Shikha, and N. K. Dubey. "TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PLANTS AS PROMISING SOURCE OF IMMUNOMODULATOR AGAINST COVID-19." Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences 8, Spl-1-SARS-CoV-2 (October 31, 2020): S126—S138. http://dx.doi.org/10.18006/2020.8(spl-1-sars-cov-2).s126.s138.
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Outbreak of novel corona virus (Covid-19) or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS CoV-2) was noticed in China at the end of 2019 and has now become one of the major global health threat. Although, Covid-19 virus imposes detrimental effects to all groups of persons irrespective of their age, sex, race and body physic. Immuno-compromised people are reported to be severely affected in comparison to immunocompetent persons, suggesting immunity as a major player against SARS CoV-2. Despite of great efforts and intensive researches carried all over the world, so far there are no clinically approved vaccines or specific therapeutic drugs available for Covid-19. In this regard, different traditional medicinal plants, which are vast reservoir of bioactive compounds with broad therapeutic and immunomodulatory properties, have been emerged as boon to combat with Covid-19. Along with pharmacological properties and easily availability, safety paradigm of ethnomedicinal plants makes them highly preferable immediate remedy to enhance immunity and compete with novel corona virus. Use of traditional Indian spices has been also realized as effective and safer strategy in order to boost immunity and deal with highly terrible current Covid-19 situation. Hence, there is need to boost the efficacy of the traditionally used plant based immunomodulators against Covid-19 pandemic incorporating modern biotechnological and pharmacological tools so as to enhance bioavailability and practical applicability. The present article deals with general feature of SARS CoV-2 along with recent reports on efficacy of traditional medicinal plants as well as Indian spices as an effective immunomodulator for Covid-19.
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P, Karthikeyan. "ECO CRITICISM IN THE HUNGRY TIDE." Kongunadu Research Journal 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2017): 53–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/krj177.
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The novel speaks about the efforts taken by Piyali Roy, an Indian American biologist to make a study on marine mammals, especially on Irrawaddy dolphins.The novel is set in Sundarbans. Piya arrives at Sundarbans which is considered by her as a suitable place for carrying out her study. She lands on an island in Sunderbans and gets acquainted with an inhabitant of that place named Fokir. He remains to be a guide for her and instructs her about the marine habitats. Fokir being a resident of that place, he knows about the tides occurrence in the seas and the perils. Though he knows these, to the dismay of the readers, Fokir dies when a storm breaks out followed by heavy rain and powerful and devouring tides. As ideas given by Fokir could be the sources for decades of ‘research’,with the sponsorship of Nilima and involvement of local fisherman, Piya starts an institution in the memory of Fokir. The novel deals with the dislocation of people due to tide. Tide causes great havoc to the life and property of the inhabitants of the islands in Sunderbans. The poor people who have become victims of natural catastrophe suffer from hunger. I would like to bring out the human environmental relationship in the novel. Human beings depend on nature and environment. Eco Criticism on this novel helps to evaluate this literary text in the literature and environment perspective.
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Saleem Akhtar Khan, Muhammad Ehsan, and Nasar Iqbal. "S/words versus S/words: A Bidirectional Reading of the Post/colonial Fictions." sjesr 4, no. 1 (March 6, 2021): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/sjesr-vol4-iss1-2021(247-256).
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The article explicates the polemical schema of the novels produced by the British and the Indian writers apropos the historical event of the anticolonial rebellion/ revolution (1857). Grounded in the idea of creating a dialogue between the colonial and counter discursive texts, the research invokes Richard Lane’s bidirectional approach to explain how conflictual political visions trigger the skewed versions of the great defiance. The novelists of both nations have produced prolific fictional yields to represent the epic event. However, keeping in mind the scope of the study, the researchers have delimited their focus upon two of the representative novels, one for each nation: Louis Tracy’s The Red Year: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (1907) for the English version and Basavaraj Naikar’s The Sun behind the Cloud (2001) for the Indian one. Each of the novels voices the sloganized rhetoric of the respective nation while narrating the colossal clash, that is, Tracy portrays the mutiny as nefarious recalcitrance of the Indian rebels to disrupt the civilizational program and Naikar presents it as an auspicious act of defiance against the exploitative encroachment of the usurpers. A comparison has been drawn between the ideology-ridden discursive patterns of both the belligerent narratives and an intriguing concatenation of the diametric contrasts has been identified. The essential argument of the article is entrenched in the postcolonial and the new historicist notions vis-à-vis the chequered nature of the textual narratives and politicized parlance of the discursive records of the historical happenings.
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Chavhan, Nagaraj Naik, H. K. Shashirekha, Sushant Sukumar Bargale, and Prakash L. Hegde. "DESMOSTACHYA BIPINNATA - A NOVEL FARMING METHOD." Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics 9, no. 4-A (September 10, 2019): 471–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v9i4-a.3496.
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Grasses are the most flourishing plants on earth as monocotyledonous plants. They have been a survivor on the planet despite of various ecological changes. They deserve the medicinal value and therefore considered as novel repositories. The grass family is considered as sacred, it has great significance in Ayurveda because of medicinal as well as clinical properties. Methods: Kusha grows commonly and abundantly at agricultural field especially in dry and sandy soil. As are more grass species found in the moderately temperate and moist regionof India whereas Kusha can be grown indoors and outdoors. Results: Growth of plants has seen within duration of 20 to 25 days. In this study effort made to explain the naturalcultivation methods for getting best medicinal effect in drug Kusha. Efficacy of the naturally grown plant shown the good result in laboratory investigations as compare to the manual grown. Usage of single drug is cost effective in day today practice by adopting natural farming method. Conclusion: By following proper plantation methods one can yield high medicinal properties in the drugs to reach the expected result.
Key words: Cultivation methods, Kusha, Mutravaha Srotas, Trinapanchamula.
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Asha, S. "History in the Attic: Search for Roots in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 82–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i2.10908.
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In most of diaspora literature there is an attempt to retrieve the past. This makes one measure time in many ways, different calendars, change of seasons, past encounters narrated through wars, defeats, encounters and disasters. It is remembered through family history, ancestral heritage, nostalgia, memory and even through national disasters. This interaction portrays the immigrants caught in flight of memories, relationships and images. The relocation has its disgust for one thing or the other. The author has to live in the reminiscences, a collective memory representing a symbolic relationship between past and present. The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet chronicles the multiple exiles that are part of the Indian experience in the Caribbean and Canada through two figures one from the past- great grandmother Gainder and the other from the present - Mona, the protagonist. The novel commemorates the maternal roots and routes of Indo-Caribbean history by establishing the subjectivity of widows and young girls from India who crossed the Kala Pani (Black waters of the Atlantic) in search of new beginnings in Trinidad and the great-grand-daughter who engages in an existential quest for selfhood in Canada. Grief motivates a flood of personal memories as Mona begins to remember intimate details of family life that had been repressed under the cover of migration. Bits and pieces of the past, fragments scattered in various places, childhood memories, overheard conversations, prayer songs, all come together in the attic. She explores the secret songs, photographs and letters giving her a powerful voice for her culture, her family, her fellow women and for herself. Mona’s drive to document history enables her to reveal the family’s carefully guarded secrets- domestic violence, drunken rampages, sexual abuse, illegitimate children, and even AIDS. This paper seeks to analyse the novel’s diasporic contents and find out whether this attempt at retrieval of the past brings about a change in the perception of today’s generation. The author brings to light the problems of a plural society calling for need for relationships and need for mutual respect- all to avoid conflict situations through this effective tracing of history in the novel.
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Luo, Huiwu, Yuan Yan Tang, Chunli Li, and Lina Yang. "Local and Global Geometric Structure Preserving and Application to Hyperspectral Image Classification." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2015 (2015): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/917259.
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Locality Preserving Projection (LPP) has shown great efficiency in feature extraction. LPP captures the locality by theK-nearest neighborhoods. However, recent progress has demonstrated the importance of global geometric structure in discriminant analysis. Thus, both the locality and global geometric structure are critical for dimension reduction. In this paper, a novel linear supervised dimensionality reduction algorithm, calledLocality and Global Geometric Structure Preserving(LGGSP) projection, is proposed for dimension reduction. LGGSP encodes not only the local structure information into the optimal objective functions, but also the global structure information. To be specific, two adjacent matrices, that is, similarity matrix and variance matrix, are constructed to detect the local intrinsic structure. Besides, a margin matrix is defined to capture the global structure of different classes. Finally, the three matrices are integrated into the framework of graph embedding for optimal solution. The proposed scheme is illustrated using both simulated data points and the well-known Indian Pines hyperspectral data set, and the experimental results are promising.
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Kumar, Gideon Praveen, and Lazar Mathew. "FLOW PATTERNS AND HEMODYNAMIC EFFICACY ANALYSIS IN A NOVEL PERCUTANEOUS STENTED AORTIC VALVE." Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications 23, no. 01 (February 2011): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4015/s1016237211002384.
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Recently, percutaneous valve replacement has emerged as an alternative treatment for stenosis of mitral, aortic, and pulmonary valves, replacing the surgical approach and providing a new perspective on transcatheter placement of cardiac valves. The conventional open heart surgery does not suit most of the cardiothoracic patient population for various reasons. Percutaneous valve replacement has started becoming the first choice for surgical replacement of the cardiac valves. Under such a scenario where good potent porcine valves made from the pericardium of pigs are being made available, the real question is designing and developing cost effective stents to bear these valves. The ones that are imported are highly expensive which cannot be afforded by some of the Indian population. This also has substantial benefits from the standpoints of health, safety, and cost. The manufacturing of a stented aortic valve is an absolutely critical job, which requires proper designs, finite element analysis, and flow dynamics studies. This paper forms the base for an eventual manufacture of stented aortic valves, giving in-depth details pertaining to design and implantation of the bioprosthesis in the aorta with flow pattern analysis postimplantation and its hemodynamic efficacy analysis. Blood flow analysis and associated hemodynamic analysis help to understand the leakage resistance of the stented valve. A valve of this kind will enable minimal invasive cardiac surgeons to perform percutaneous aortic valve replacement with ease. This would also be an economic procedure allaying the high costs that are typically involved in conventional open heart surgery. We believe that this model has great potential for helping to set up a protocol for the growing of a tissue engineered heart valve construct.
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Jahan, Sultana. "Gender Nonconformity and Casting around Individuality, Free Will and Survival: Sharat Chandra’s Women in His Novel Srikanta." Journal of Arts and Humanities 7, no. 3 (March 9, 2018): 08. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v7i3.1340.
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<p>The present paper is a sincere effort to explore the image of Indian women in the early 19th century social context as depicted in Sharat Chandra’s novel S<em>rikanta</em>. In this novel Sharat Chandra’s portrayal of women characters- Rajlaksmii, Annada, Abhaya , and Kamal Lata assert their individuality, self-worth and deliverances boldly in the then male-controlled and traditional society. These characters are unwavering and resolute enough to cast around an emancipated futuristic outlook. They are all precursors to the later day women characters depicted by the feminist writers. Sharat chandra is not a feminist in the traditional sense nor does he take the side of forceful assertion of women rights but he shows a significant understanding of woman psyche and to a great extent, protests against social and religious double standard that ultimately results in gender nonconformity. He values humanity more than chastity and raises his voice against traditional morality and religious dogmatism in depicting illicit love relationship and in disclosing the deceptions underlying the established marriage custom. To all female characters, Rajlaksmi, Annada,Kamal Lata, and Abhay, marriage fails to provide congenial atmosphere to love and value each other; rather to them, marriage is nothing but religious and social yolk that come up with patriarchal applaud but result in self-deception. This paper is an attempt to elucidate Sharat Chandra’s unconventional idea of chastity and reversed roles of women going deep into the female characters of this novel who fearlessly look down on the patriarchal impediments.</p>
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Brown, Judith. "A Certain Laughter: Sherwood Anderson's Experiment in Form." Modernist Cultures 2, no. 2 (October 2006): 138–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e2041102209000240.
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Judith Brown (Indiana University - Bloomington) reads Sherwood Anderson's 1925 novel “Dark Laughter” in the context of the explosion of theoretical treatments of laughter that emerge in the early 1920s in the traumatic wake of the Great War. Recuperating the disruptive potential of modernist laughter, Brown reads the novel through the scene of redemptive collective laughter that concludes Preston Sturges' film “Sullivan's Travels” (1941). Whereas Sturges offers the salve of a collective laughter as a fantasy of nondifferentiation from laughing others, Andersons dark laughter preserves the uncertain play of difference, undermining the alleged superiority of the laughter.
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Mustafa, Atta ul, Ali Usman Saleem, and Qasim Shafiq. "Glocal Game of Chess in South Asia: A Tridimensional Study of Rahman's In the Light of What We Know." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. III (September 30, 2020): 82–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(v-iii).09.
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With Dirk C. Van Raemdonck's theory of 'tridimensional game of chess in South Asia', this study explores how the Great Game of chess has encompassed the board of Afghanistan into the strategic and economical range of global as well as local nations. In this regard, this study delimits Zia Haider Rahman's 'In the Light of What We Know' to examine the role of great (US, India), little (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia), and local (ISI, UNAMA, AfDARI, militants, etc.) players respectively. The three-level players struggle to win their politicoeconomic and geostrategic motives. The delimited novel exposes that the little and local players are playing the game of proxy to fetch their own designs. This study concludes that great global players/forces ensnare little and local players and misuse them as white and/or black pieces respectively to win their gains.
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Shabeer, H. Abdul, and R. S. D. Wahidabanu. "A Novel Approach to Avoid Mobile Phone Accidents While Driving and Cost- Effective Fatalities." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking 3, no. 3 (July 2011): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitn.2011070103.
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This paper presents the results of mobile application which helps in preventing mobile phone accidents to the great extent. An electronic circuit (Transmitter and Receiver block) also designed to detect the driver’s mobile phone automatically once he or she starts the vehicle and the circuit will switch OFF and then ON the mobile phone without human intervention with the help of 5 pin relay in order to start the application automatically. The authors further extend the research by comparing the obtained results after installing this application with a recent study of the US National Safety Council, conducted on 2010. The authors also show how far this application helps in reducing economic losses in India.
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Jangra, Kiran, Nitin Manohar, Prasanna U. Bidkar, Ponniah Vanamoorthy, Devendra Gupta, Girija P. Rath, Joseph Monteiro, et al. "Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care (ISNACC) Position Statement and Advisory for the Practice of Neuroanesthesia during COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care 7, no. 03 (July 6, 2020): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1714186.
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AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a major health emergency in today’s time. In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China was attributed to a novel coronavirus. The World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic. As the majority of the cases suffering from COVID-19 are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic, it becomes a great challenge to identify the infected persons in the absence of extensive testing. In the hospital environment, it can infect several other vulnerable patients and healthcare providers, significantly impacting the hospital services. Anesthesiologists are at an increased risk of COVID-19 transmission from the patients, as they are frequently involved in several aerosol-generating procedures. It is not possible to identify asymptomatic COVID-19 patients solely based on history-taking during their first point of contact with the anesthesiologists at the preanesthetic checkup clinic.Most of the neurosurgical conditions are of urgent in nature and cannot be postponed for a longer duration. In view of this, the position statement and practice advisory from the Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care (ISNACC) provides guidance to the practice of neuroanesthesia in the present scenario. The advisory has been prepared considering the current disease status of the COVID-19 pandemic, available literature, and consensus from experts in the field of neuroanesthesiology. Since the pandemic is still progressing and the nature of the disease is dynamic, readers are advised to constantly look for updated literature from ISNACC and other neurology and neurosurgical societies.
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Das, Gora Chand. "An Analysis into the Travels of the Translated Self in V.S Naipaul’s Half A Life." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10409.
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V.S.Naipaul expertly exhibited a great craftsmanship in literary pieces like fiction, travel and journalistic writing. His fictional world reveals a critical look on the world and also utilizes its traditions, customs and cultures. Naipaul’s writing express the ambivalence of the exile, a feature of his own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indies in England, and a nomadic intellectual in a post colonial world. Naipaul adhered to the form of the traditional narrative, and by doing away with the technical devices of the stream of consciousness; he exhibits his power of writing by making his readers share the inevitable irony and paradox of modern life form by its quintessential self-division and inner conflict. The protagonist of Naipaul’s fiction may be different persons but there may be sensed a thread of continuity in their fate and there “limbotic” status. He has described the theme of a quest for identity, a sense of displacement, alienation, exile of an individual in the backdrop of colonial and postcolonial period. The act of displacement, his trying efforts to organize his experience, and his gazing back to know about his roots and his continuing search for the desirable self can be clearly stated in his novel Half A Life (2001). In the novel Half A Life, Willie Chandran is a migrant from one place to another and then to another. And he keeps on doing that through both Half A Life, and its sequel Magic Seeds (2004).