Tracing Buried Selves: In Search of Punjabi Dalit Woman Autobiography

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110393
Author(s):  
Kumar Sushil
Keyword(s):  
Indian Languages ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
State Population ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Dalit Women

This article is an attempt to understand the significance of autobiographies with particular reference to Punjabi dalit women. In fact, autobiographies are one of the effective mediums for breaking the silence and create a constructive dialogue among people. These dialogues are prerequisite for the solidarity, democracy, equality and fraternity in the society. Besides, the autobiographies from the marginalized section challenge the exploitative established norms. Therefore, to write autobiographies is a courageous act full of risk and daring. In this context, there are more than hundred dalit autobiographies written in Indian languages, but in Punjabi literary discourses only a few dalit autobiographies have been written. However, according to Census 2011, in Punjab state, population of Scheduled Caste people is highest in India that constitutes 31.94% of the population in comparison to 16.6% in the entire country. Despite the largest population of dalits in Punjab, shockingly, there is not a single autobiography that has been written by a dalit woman until date. In this situation, it is a challenge for educated Punjabi dalit women to write their life narratives or autobiographies. They have to represent not only their pain in front of the world but also write about the consciousness, unconsciousness and subconsciousness of their community women who have not got opportunity to attain education. This article will examine and trace the problematics and complexities of gaps and silences so far as autobiographies of Punjabi dalit women are concerned.

Continuing debates over the native speaker: a report on a symposium on English in India and Indian English

English Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
R K Agnihotri
Keyword(s):  
Native Speaker ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Central Institute ◽  
Keynote Paper ◽  
The World

ABSTRACTThe Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India organized a symposium/dialogue on English in India and Indian English held during January 4–6, 2007 at the The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India. It was devoted to a discussion of the issues addressed in the keynote paper by Rajendra Singh, which some 23 scholars from throughout the world had been invited to respond to. Although a few of the invited scholars were not able to attend, they were kind enough to send their papers and we had a very productive and lively discussion in which the academic staff of CIIL and local journalists, students, and educationists also participated. This report is organized as follows: in section 1, we summarize the keynote address and all the full-length responses to it; in section 2, we summarize the brief comments and observations that were presented or tabled by the invited respondents; in section 3, we offer concluding remarks and a brief summary of Singh's responses to the interventions summarized in sections 1 and 2.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study on COVID-19 and the Rights of Children Based on Keyword Network Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seoyeon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Keyword Network

Abstract COVID-19 has become a worldwide health crisis. Around March 2020, the entire country was shut down, including schools. This resulted in significant changes in the lives of children. In this study, the researcher conducted a keyword network analysis utilizing Ucinet ver 6.716 and NetDraw ver 2.173, after gathering the data using Textom in order to examine the current status of the rights of children in a COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of this study were that the degree centrality was higher with poverty, educational institutions, parents, teachers, income support, child care, child-rearing, caring, online classes, and child welfare, etc. Therefore, it can be said that there is an urgent need for the implementation of the respect of the rights of children all over the world in this COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Pengembangan pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan dan hubungan dunia kerja

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Nizwardi Jalinus
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Work World ◽  
The Common

DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND WORK WORLD RELATIONSBased on universal issues in the era of globalization, this article describes some phenomena how essential the role of Vocational and technical education in recent year to support the development of work forces in Indonesia. The wise government policies are needed to run various program of Vocational and technical educationin entire country, which is based on world-work needs. The common problem appeared is how to build the "mutual symbiotic" relationship between vocational and technical schools and the world of work.

Predictive Modeling for Epidemic Outbreaks: A New Approach and COVID-19 Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050028
Author(s):  
Jian Chen ◽  
Michael C. Fu ◽  
Wenhong Zhang ◽  
Junhua Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain Model ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Discrete Time Markov Chain ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
Coronavirus Infection

Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, numerous forecasting models have been proposed to project the trajectory of coronavirus infection cases. Most of these forecasts are based on epidemiology models that utilize deterministic differential equations and have resulted in widely varying predictions. We propose a new discrete-time Markov chain model that directly incorporates stochastic behavior and for which parameter estimation is straightforward from available data. Using such data from China’s Hubei province (for which Wuhan is the provincial capital city and which accounted for approximately 82% of the total reported COVID-19 cases in the entire country), the model is shown to be flexible, robust, and accurate. As a result, it has been adopted by the first Shanghai assistance medical team in Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital, which was the first designated hospital to take COVID-19 patients in the world. The forecast has been used for preparing medical staff, intensive care unit (ICU) beds, ventilators, and other critical care medical resources and for supporting real-time medical management decisions.

A Forecasting Method for Fertilizers Consumption in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Ogasawara ◽  
Daniel de Oliveira ◽  
Fabio Paschoal Junior ◽  
Rafael Castaneda ◽  
Myrna Amorim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Logistic Function ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
Forecasting Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Function Models ◽  
Nitrogen Phosphorus

Tracking information about fertilizers consumption in the world is very important since they are used to produce agriculture commodities. Brazil consumes a large amount of fertilizers due to its large-scale agriculture fields. Most of these fertilizers are currently imported. The analysis of consumption of major fertilizers, such as Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium (NPK), Sulfur, Phosphate Rock, Potash, and Nitrogen become critical for long-term government decisions. In this paper we present a method for fertilizers consumption forecasting based on both Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and logistic function models. Our method was used to forecast fertilizers consumption in Brazil for the next 20 years considering different economic growth for the entire country.

Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Laura R. Brueck
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Narrative Authority ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
Hindi Language

This article will consider two Hindi-language autobiographies by Dalit women, to explain how we can emphasize the collective, relational, and specifically gendered character of Dalit women’s life writing without simplistically categorizing them as testimonio, “witnessing”. Nor should we over-privilege their gendered specificity, thereby effacing the very real narrative authority, purposefulness, and perspectival control of their authors. Instead, we must be especially attentive to the language of a text and understand how the relationality and collectivity of experience is not accidental or necessarily organic to a woman’s view on her world, but is actively, politically, and consciously constructed in the course of a narrative. Predicated on a reasonable concern over the appropriation of a revolutionary new literary voice, attention to narrative form has been slow in coming to the critical and scholarly analysis of Dalit literature, somewhat paradoxically resulting in the rendering of this literature too as “untouchable”. In exploring what is therefore only a nascent formal criticism of the Dalit autobiographical genre, I believe it is important to express a note of caution against replicating the same kinds of essentializing processes of differentiation (the kind we have seen before in the critical reception of life writing in other cultures and languages) between men’s and women’s Dalit life narratives as ego-driven and individualistic linear progressions to political awakening versus relational, community-based, politically and purposefully diffuse “witnessings”. In this exciting moment in which we have the opportunity to engage with a critically important and rapidly expanding rhetorical movement such as Dalit literature, it is, I believe, a diligent recourse to textual analysis that may yet save us from such facile stereotyping.

scholarly journals The City-Country Rule: An Extension of the Rank-Size Rule

2001 ◽  
pp. 157-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rein Taagepera ◽  
Edgar Kaskla
Keyword(s):  
World Average ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
The City ◽  
Comparable Size

This study introduces a “city-country rule” to complement the well-known rank-size rule for cities, from which it is derived. The city-country rule enables us to make a rough estimate of the population of the largest cities when the population of the entire country is known. It quickly tells us whether the actual city populations are large or small, compared to the world average for similarly ranked cities in countries of comparable size.

A Perplexed Ally

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Defense System ◽  
European Continent ◽  
German State ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
General Feeling ◽  
East German ◽  
German People

For many years the German people liked to consider themselves America's closest allies on the European continent. Since the late 1940s, when former foes joined ranks against further Russian expansion, the Germans could be counted as one of the more solid rocks in the Western defense system. Within decades of a devasting war they not only surprised the world with a strong economy, but they took pride in developing a model democratic society. Even most East Germans (unofficially, of course) used to look to the young Federal Republic as an example and testing ground for the future of the entire country, although the East German state tried desperately to promote a model of its own. The general feeling was—and to some extent still is— that the Eastern model did not work, while the Western one did.

scholarly journals In the Quest for a Different World: Viramma and the Depictions of Dalit Womanhood

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Raj Sekhar Basu
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agricultural Worker ◽  
The World ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
To Come ◽  
Rural Locality ◽  
Rule Out

The article deals with the life experiences of a Dalit woman Viramma, who hails from an interior rural locality of Tami Nadu bordering Pondicherry. In course of her daily conversations with Josiane Racine, a French ethnomusicologist, Viramma shares the different facets of her life, which is conditioned by her own caste and class locations. Viramma’s narrative is very different from the version of the Western-educated or the English-educated Indian feminist activists and scholars who often rule out the compromises which seem to be favoured by Viramma and many of her generation. As the wife of a Dalit agricultural worker and herself also employed in the same sort of labouring occupation, Viramma seems to come out often with two apparently contradictory sets of responses, one of protest and the other of reconciliation. She makes it amply clear that as a Paraiyar woman living on the wages offered by the powerful Reddiar landlords, it is difficult to think of creating a situation of the world being turned upside down. This possibly encourages her to look into the other sides of life whether it be that of developments in familial life, ceremonies, rituals or that of popular beliefs centring around ghosts and goblins. Viramma also talks of politics and proves beyond all doubt that the Dalit women do not always need the agency of feminist activists belonging to the privileged groups to voice their protests.

“Scarcely Wants to Go to Germany”

2018 ◽  
pp. 284-294
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Country

This chapter details Ernst Kantorowicz's hatred for Nazi Germany. He once told a favorite student in Berkeley, “as far as Germany is concerned they can put a tent over the entire country and turn on the gas.” After war broke out, Kantorowicz wrote mordantly about the aggressive lust of his compatriots: “Europa once more is being raped by a bull.” On the day of Germany's surrender in May 1945 Kantorowicz skipped his regular lecture in his Renaissance class to comment on the event and its significance. He referred to the Nazi regime as a “monstrous obscenity” and pronounced that “the worst grotesquerie of the world saw to it that in Hitler excrement was made flesh.”

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