Theme of love in poetic drama Sakuntala of Kalidasa

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Thuy Le Thi Bich
Keyword(s):  
Caste System ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Poetic Drama ◽  
Monopoly Position

In Indian literature, Kalidasa always occupies the "monopoly position of the Lord of poetry" and the Sakuntala dramatic poem is an exemplary work of the court stage norm. In Sakuntala, poet Kalidasa focuses on praising pure and faithful love. He praises the pure soul and the aspirations of love, happiness of people in life and uses love to criticize the rigid and paranoid teachings of religion, as well as the strict laws of the caste system that stifle people's hearts. Kalidasa pushes the issue of caste down to secondary position, lets love become the main theme and makes the characters act and show their personality in relationships and highlight the victory of love.

Cross-Cultural Scenario in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Dr. Sudhir Nikam ◽  
Mr. Kamble Rajiv Bhimrao
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Social Opportunities

There is hardly a country in this industrialized world today, where one can find an ethnically homogenous population. The aftermath of colonialism, the creation of refugees- often the result of ethnic conflicts- and the movement of people in search of greater economic, political or social opportunities have contributed to the worldwide mix of people. Canada and India are the countries affected by the growing diversity. However this diversity has different facets in both the countries. In the literary world Canada, Multiculturalism is the main theme of writing and in India, presentation of cultural diversity is yet at the beginning stage. This statement has to be tasted on the fictional works of Margaret Atwood from Canada and Bharati Mukherjee from India. Both the writers are very unique in their writing and have trodden the different ways of using Cultural-diversity. Culture is an integral part of a human society and its nation. Then the question arises: what is culture? The Oxford English Dictionary defines culture as a “particular form or type of intellectual development in a society generated by its distinctive customs, achievements and outlook.” At the wide canvass, culture is taken as consolidating the way of life of an entire society and includes codes of manners, dress, language, rituals, social customs and folklore of a nation. Every country has a typical and distinctive culture of its own. However, when an independent country becomes a colony, the native culture goes under a change. This is the case with the countries like Kenya, Nigeria and India. When these countries came in contact with western culture, a process of change in culture was initiated, and this journey made the traditional culture of respective countries destroyed. While Indian literature had cross cultural encounters with the English studies, Canada has been undergoing a cultural metamorphosis with the mix of second races and people from all over the world.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of the Suffering of Socially Denigrated, Suppressed and Silenced Class in Indian Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Aastha Pratap
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
The People ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
Harsh Reality

These lines are more appropriate to the present day. It’s a time when India is emerging as economic power, globalized culture and trends but still there lies an abominable and harrowing portrait of caste system behind this glittering appearance. It is so appalling that despite of 69 years of freedom from the clutches of imperialism, we are not yet free from our own social vices of stigmatizing the people belonging to the so called “lower classes”. It’s the harsh reality of our society that even in this 21th century there are some people called “Dalits or Untouchables”, who face discrimination, violence, and oppression from the higher castes or traditional upper classes particularly in access of jobs (works), education, health care, property and marriages etc. They are discriminated socially, economically, even in the matter of religion also. This paper intends to throw some light on the sordid saga of Dalit’s plight and their frequent subjection to oppression, silence to violence and marginalization. Their voice was suppressed so long, their rights has been violated, they are denied to access to land and forced to work in degrading conditions, also they are abused by police and upper- caste society routinely. Though things have changed with the flow of time but still dalits are suffering in many ways, which will be highlighted in this paper with the help of some fiction in Indian literature.

The ‘Caste’ as ‘Discrimination Based on Work and Descent’ in International Law: Convincing or Compromising?

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 796-825
Author(s):  
Bhimraj M
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Caste Discrimination ◽  
Religious Aspect

The difficulty in categorising caste discrimination into standard categories of human rights violations has forced Dalit activists into comparing caste discrimination with racial discrimination – a highly condemned practice in international law. This strategy materialised through the word ‘descent’ in Article 1 of the icerd. Currently, caste discrimination has become important on the human rights agenda under the guise of ‘discrimination based on work and descent’ (dwd), and by extension, ‘racial discrimination’. The main theme of this article is to address the capability of the dwd mechanism to comprehensively capture the intricacies of caste discrimination. Upon analysis, it was found that dwd dilutes the religious aspect of the caste system. Hence, this article advocates a caste-specific Convention, which focuses on both religious and secular aspects of the caste system. This won’t happen soon; therefore, caste should be maintained as a unique form of dwd in the meantime.

Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öykülerinde Türk göçmen çocukları

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Efnan Dervişoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Life Education

Almanya’ya işçi göçü, neden ve sonuçları, sosyal boyutlarıyla ele alınmış; göç ve devamındaki süreçte yaşanan sorunlar, konunun uzmanlarınca dile getirilmiştir. Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öyküleri, sunduğu gerçekler açısından, sosyal bilimlerin ortaya koyduğu verilerle bağdaşan edebiyat ürünleri arasındadır. Yirmi yılını geçirdiği Almanya’da, göçmen işçilerle ve aileleriyle birlikte olup işçi çocuklarının eğitimine yönelik çalışmalarda bulunan yazarın gözlem ve deneyimlerinin ürünü olan bu öyküler, kaynağını yaşanmışlıktan alır; çalışmanın ilk kısmında, Fakir Baykurt’un yaşamına ve Almanya yıllarına dair bilgi verilmesi, bununla ilişkilidir. Öykülere yansıyan çocuk yaşamı ise çalışmanın asıl konusunu oluşturmaktadır. “Ev ve aile yaşamı”, “Eğitim yaşamı ve sorunları”, “Sosyal çevre, arkadaşlık ilişkileri ve Türk-Alman ayrılığı” ile “İki kültür arasında” alt başlıklarında, Türkiye’den göç eden işçi ailelerinde yetişen çocukların Almanya’daki yaşamları, karşılaştıkları sorunlar, öykülerin sunduğu veriler ışığında değerlendirilmiş; örneklemeye gidilmiştir. Bu öyküler, edebiyatın toplumsal gerçekleri en iyi yansıtan sanat olduğu görüşünü doğrular niteliktedir ve sosyolojik değerlendirmelere açıktır. ENGLISH ABSTRACTMigration and Children in Fakir Baykurt’s stories from GermanyThe migration of workers to Germany has been taken up with its causes, consequences and social dimensions; the migration and the problems encountered in subsequent phases have been stated by experts in the subject. Fakir Baykurt’s stories from Germany, regarding the reality they represent, are among the literary forms that coincide with the facts supplied by social sciences. These stories take their sources from true life experiences as the products of observations and experiences with migrant workers and their families in Germany where the writer has passed twenty years of his life and worked for the education of the worker’s children; therefore information related to Fakir Baykurt’s life and his years in Germany are provided in the first part of the study.  The life of children reflected in the stories constitutes the main theme of the study.  Under  the subtitles of “Family and Home Life”, “Education Life and related issues”, “Social environment, friendships and Turkish-German disparity” and “Amidst two cultures”, the lives in Germany of children who have been  raised in working class  families and  who have immigrated from Turkey are  evaluated under the light of facts provided by the stories and examples are given. These stories appear to confirm that literature is an art that reflects the social reality and is open to sociological assessments.KEYWORDS: Fakir Baykurt; Germany; labor migration; child; story

Colonial Rule and Modernization in Ballari

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Asra Afrin
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Native People ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian History ◽  
British Rule

Colonialism is one of the most important aspects of Indian history and Indian literature. The colonial rule has left its impression in both positive and negative ways. The paper looks at the positive aspects of the British rule in Ballari a District in Karnataka. The paper/article deals with the development that took place during the colonial rule in Ballari. It explores the adoption of modern technology and science and opening of missionary schools at Ballari and its positive impact on the region and regional/native people. The paper shows how the modernization and Westernization made its way in Ballari.

THE ROLE OF ANTHROPONYMS IN THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF ARTISTIC WORKS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (29) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Lidiya Derbenyova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Minor Part ◽  
The One ◽  
A Minor ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Horizon Of Expectations

The article explores the role of antropoetonyms in the reader’s “horizon of expectation” formation. As a kind of “text in the text”, antropoetonyms are concentrating a large amount of information on a minor part of the text, reflecting the main theme of the work. As a “text” this class of poetonyms performs a number of functions: transmission and storage of information, generation of new meanings, the function of “cultural memory”, which explains the readers’ “horizon of expectations”. In analyzing the context of the literary work we should consider the function of antropoetonyms in vertical context (the link between artistic and other texts, and the groundwork system of culture), as well as in the context of the horizontal one (times’ connection realized in the communication chain from the word to the text; the author’s intention). In this aspect, the role of antropoetonyms in the structure of the literary text is extremely significant because antropoetonyms convey an associative nature, generating a complex mechanism of allusions. It’s an open fact that they always transmit information about the preceding text and suggest a double decoding. On the one hand, the recipient decodes this information, on the other – accepts this as a sort of hidden, “secret” sense.

A Study On Comparison About Working Capital Management Of State Bank Of India And Industrial Credit And Investement Corporation Of India

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-276
Author(s):  
S. DEVI ◽  
R.POORNIMA RANI
Keyword(s):  
Main Theme ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Current Ratio ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Working Capital Management ◽  
Satisfactory Level ◽  
Current Asset

Working capital management refers to a company's managerial accounting strategy designed to monitor and utilize the two components of working capital, current assets and current liabilities, to ensure the most financially efficient operation of the company. The goal of working capital management is to manage the firm’s current asset and current liabilities in such a way that satisfactory level of working capital is maintained. A study on comparison in working capital management with State Bank of India and Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India is analyzed to know the liquidity and current ratio. The interaction between current asset and current liabilities is therefore is the main theme of the theory of working capital management.

Initial Decipherment of Indus script

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramkumar Unnipillai Santhakumari
Keyword(s):  
Caste System ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Early Form

A partial decipherment of Indus script is described. Sound values for Indus characters , readings obtained and conclusions derived are explained here. The Indus script seems derived from Protocuneiform script and in turn Brahmi script seems derived from the Indus script. The decipherment seems to indicate that the seals were a form of identification. There is evidence of an early form of caste system prevalent among Dalits in Southern India in these seals. The readings show that the language used was of Dravidian origin

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