Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.08.445
Himanshu Kumar
Ruskin Bond, an eminent Indian author, is lauded for his ability to exquisitely capture the spirit of nature and the naivety of childhood in his literary creations. His short stories portray the deep influence of nature on the lives and experiences of his child protagonists. Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and William Blake envisaged an intimate connection between nature and childhood. Wordsworth portrays nature as a comforting retreat offering relief and revitalisation where childhood innocence is idealised. On the other hand, Blake juxtaposes childhood innocence with the grim realities of life, often using nature as a symbol for these opposing states. Bond's stories delve into the importance of nature by highlighting how various aspects of the world serve as a setting for his characters’ escapades. They explore how the distinct flora and fauna found in the Himalayan region play a significant role in shaping the characters’ perceptions and choices throughout their journeys. In addition, they focus on Bond’s portrayal of childhood, emphasising traits such as callowness, fortitude, and inquisitiveness exhibited by his characters. This paper examines how the young characters in Bond’s stories manoeuvre through the challenges of a fast-changing world and find comfort and knowledge through their interactions with nature. His storytelling not only encases the innocent and delightful aspects of childhood but also delivers a powerful message about the environment. It encourages readers to value, protect, and peacefully coexist with nature.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.08.444
S. Lavanya
Drug addiction is one of the major social evils. A large number of people, irrespective of their age are falling prey to drugs because of various factors. Many works have been written on the substance abuse and their resultant crimes. The Crack Epidemic of the United States remains one of the major incidents related to drug consumption and addiction in the nation’s history. Octavia Estelle Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower deals with drug addiction as one of its sub-themes in the future Earth. Parable of the Sower is widely acknowledged because of its relevance in today’s time. Butler presents a dystopic future where environmental and climactic changes wreak havoc in the lives of people. In addition to this, the humans butcher each other because of the addiction of pyro drug, which makes them enjoy fire literally. The aim of this paper is to analyze Butler’s Parable of the Sower as the pyro epidemic novel, which highly resembles the crack epidemic of the United States in the later part of the twentieth century.
吸毒成瘾是主要的社会弊端之一。由于各种因素的影响，很多人，无论年龄大小，都成为了毒品的牺牲品。关于药物滥用及其导致的犯罪，已经有许多著作。美国的 "快克流行病 "仍然是美国历史上与毒品消费和成瘾有关的重大事件之一。奥克塔维亚-埃斯特尔-巴特勒（Octavia Estelle Butler）的小说《撒种的寓言》（Parable of the Sower）将吸毒成瘾作为未来地球的副主题之一。撒种的寓言》因其在当今时代的现实意义而广为人知。巴特勒在书中描绘了一个末世未来，环境和气候的变化给人们的生活带来了巨大的破坏。除此之外，人类还因为沉迷于火药而互相残杀，这让他们从字面上享受火的乐趣。本文旨在分析巴特勒的《播种者的寓言》这本火药流行病小说，它与二十世纪后期美国的快克流行病高度相似。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.08.446
Shubhi Bhasin, Pallavi Srivastava
ABSTRACT Mahasweta Devi is a distinguished Indian writer and an esteemed activist who worked hard to uplift the tribal communities. She has a deep knowledge of the socio-political condition of India. She is an iconoclast who, in her works focussed on the miserable condition of depressed and neglected classes and tribes. Her different stories and novels shower light on the day to day happenings in the interiors of our nation. She has also talked about the quest for equal rights for each and every individual, especially for females in terms of education, health facilities, employment opportunities and social well-being. The present paper discusses “’Rudali’ and ‘The Hunt’” in the light of atrocities done to the women in their tribes and the racist response given to them. Mahasweta Devi has portrayed the protagonists Sanichari and Mary Oraon, as the representatives of modern women searching for their own identity in the modern society. She presents the pitiable and pathetic condition of tribal women with their sorrows and sufferings and, more importantly, their infuriated inner self, which worked constructively to bring them to the level of mainstream individuals by injecting the sense of respect and appreciation for them.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.08.449
P. D. Satyapaul Kumar, P. Rajendra Karmarkar
The Western hemisphere's physical and cultural ambience of the past four decades was the stage for the emergence of feminism and post-modernism. A study of the contrasts, similarities and interrelations, various artistic forms and media of expression render a vivid diversity and widespread popularity to these two isms- hence the apt title to this article should be – “A Note on Feminism and Post-modernism”. Recognizing and rejecting the flourishing undercurrent of unitary and biased, fictitious notions and extracting the different lifestyles, values, thoughts and history of another kind that are overshadowed by the rational logic, tradition, culture, and history of age old male chauvinistic perspectives; and accepting and encouraging the natural plurality in the existence and expression of human beings- if these are considered to be the general characteristics of feminisms, then post-modernism and feminism ought to be allies. But we find this connection very complex when we observe the changes in feminisms caused by the influence of post-modernism.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.08.447
Kamalakar Baburao Gaikwad
Today’s instructive system has become more amenable to assortment and a much wider range of interests and capabilities. In today’s world, we observe that a ground-breaking and techno-savvy audience is coming into view that is technological in academic accomplishments. These audiences anticipate that the speeches delivered by the speakers should be appealing, interactive, reachable and engaging. It is the technology that draws more attention to the presenter as well as spectators. In this globalized world, new kind of presenters and presentations are conveyed through podium speeches. These presenters such as CEO’s, politicians, priests, University Professors, Sales representatives etc., deliver presentations in inventive ways. Presenters are expected to employ visual aids and to offer handouts to the audience. The pioneering presenter always connects with the audience during speaking and leaves a long-lasting impact on them. At the same time, the audience takes hold of the information demonstrated on the screen. In this manner, technical presenters endow with technical proficiency through their resourceful presentation. In this research article, the researcher would like to acquaint the major traits of a capable and trustworthy presenter has focused on several characteristics of technical presentation and professional speaking. He has talked about the several presentation-based facts such as definition, features, significance, goals, types, classification, configuration, mechanism, planning and delivery of the presentation, preparing and making presentation, use of audio-visual aids, the groundwork of PowerPoint slides and transparencies, guiding principles and verbal communication for effective presentation etc.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.337
Yashi Bajpai
This paper attempts to re-evaluate and reconsider the portrayal of disability by analysing the philosophy of inclusivity in ancient Indian culture through a close reading of the Ancient Indian Texts. Although it is preordained that disability has been regarded as a sin or an outlaw in Indian society, from a vigilant standpoint, it appears to be incomprehensible. This is more of a socio-temporal change that resulted from colonialism. The epics like the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Rig Veda have given space and strength to various disabled personalities, demonstrating the specifics that represent a narrative change in the contemporary era. The themes of unity in diversity, cooperation, friendship, harmony, and power show that disabled characters have played a critical role in their unrivalled capability. The attitude of cooperation during hard times has been inbuilt in Indians, which is depicted through multiculturism. Ultimately, the positive behaviour of society can be accentuated by a proper understanding of the epics and Vedas, which will help curb the stigma around disability.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.341
Vilas Rupnath Buwa
Semiotics is emerged a major theoretical and analytical approach in the media-driven era of 21st century. In the history of human evolution, use and analysis of signs to communicate have the utmost importance. Before verbal and written linguistic discourse, the use of signs remains in human communication. Semiotics is thought to be a structural and linguistic approach but as Saussure has asserted that semiotics is broad, inclusive and comprehensive in nature and scope, while linguistics is a part of it. Modern media is scientifically and technologically more enhanced and inclusive of various signs through technological gadgets. McLuhan regards ‘media is message’. Like language in literature, various audio-visual and graphic signs are employed for effective expression in media texts. Language is a ‘sign system’ of human communication which is mainly androcentric and needs to be challenged and explored through a feminist perspective. The idea is to study semiotics in feminist context i.e. to be regarded as ‘feminist semiotics. The emergence of the feministic approach changed perception in every field of life and brought various possible interpretations. As the signs employed in media texts mainly androcentric, the feminist semiotics attempts to expose and deconstruct them. Advertisements especially, consumer ads either in print or in electronic media are published having the notion of ‘art for market’s sake’ or ‘art for profit’s sake’ which need to be considered and analyzed as ‘media text’. In this research article, efforts are made to explore and blend feminist contextual approach with semiotics to analyze advertising texts. There is a multitude of audio-visual and electronic driven gadgets in the present digital world therefore, it needs to be interpreted from feminist semiotic perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.340
Durgesh Ravande, Prashant Takey
Chinua Achebe is one of the pioneering figures of African Fiction. In his several critical essays and interviews Achebe has discussed the role of an author belonging to a postcolonial country, and declared that he writes his fiction with a definite role. He has penned five novels including his masterpiece Things Fall Apart (1958) in which Achebe, with his realism, has taken up the task of telling his people the greatness and weaknesses of their Ibo culture. Here, the object of his criticism is the colonizer British exercising power under the guise of a civilizing mission. On the other hand, in one of his most discussed novels Anthills of the Savannah (1987) he takes the role of a conscience builder in a new nation engulfed in cutthroat power politics; and the object of his criticism shifts to his own people, the corrupt educated elite and military officials who have failed to contribute in nation building. However, the role of women in Nigerian society is also one of the prominent issues depicted significantly in both these celebrated novels. The paper focuses on a feminist analysis of these novels with the aim to find out the changing roles of women in Nigerian society depicted in these novels. It takes recourse to the method of explication and close reading of these primary texts and the secondary data in the light of Feminist Criticism.
Chinua Achebe 是非洲小说的先驱人物之一。在多篇评论文章和访谈中，阿契贝讨论了属于后殖民国家的作家的角色，并宣称他的小说创作具有明确的角色定位。他共创作了五部小说，其中包括代表作《分崩离析》（Things Fall Apart，1958 年），在这部小说中，阿切贝以现实主义的手法，向他的人民讲述了伊博文化的伟大和弱点。在这里，他批判的对象是以文明使命为幌子行使权力的殖民者英国。另一方面，在他最受关注的小说之一《大草原上的蚁丘》（Anthills of the Savannah，1987 年）中，他扮演了一个新国家良知建设者的角色，而这个国家正陷入残酷的强权政治之中；他批评的对象转向了自己的人民，腐败的教育精英和未能为国家建设做出贡献的军官。然而，妇女在尼日利亚社会中的角色也是这两部著名小说中着重描写的突出问题之一。本文重点对这些小说进行了女性主义分析，旨在找出这些小说中描写的尼日利亚社会中女性角色的变化。论文采用了阐释和细读的方法，并根据女权主义批评对这些主要文本和二手资料进行了分析。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.339
Nandini Sahu
Most people believe that translation entails creating a copy of the original. However, as no two pieces of art can be exact replicas of one another, this is rarely the intended outcome. However, translation allows the translator to serve as a link between two communities, two languages, two cultures, and, ultimately, two worldviews. It allows the translator to invent something altogether new in that way. The translation is also a freeing activity since it does not entail reconstructing lexicon after lexicon. It gives the translator a great deal of freedom. When exercising such liberty, chapter names may be introduced in places where they are absent. These interventions may also result in changing the title or the addition of the proper references, as well as the repair of typographical mistakes and revisions to the narrative flows and chronology. In other words, the translator is given the 'authority' to represent two different cultures as an ambassador. This is precisely the situation with Lalit Kumar's expertly translated novel, The Bride, which was released by Harper Perennial.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.338
Amrita Bhattacharyya
This paper tries to make a study of William Shakespeare’s above plays with reference to his contemporary period’s views on money and love. Economy is inadvertently linked with love as we find during the time of Shakespeare. Two of the most important plays of Shakespeare – King Lear (1606) and The Merchant of Venice (1596-1598) shows how love is tested by economic considerations and how relationships get complicated when the two collide with each other. Market economics of the public sphere questions the love of the private sphere. Here love is equated to lust. This acquisitiveness is characteristic of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age with commerce and trade flourishing and the age itself being termed as the Golden Age. Gender roles are redefined in such a mercantile situation and the place of women in such society become endangered.
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