The portrayal of Social Evils in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Pooja Shankar ◽  
Dr. Poonam Rani
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Kamala Markandaya ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Urban People

Life is very precious for everyone. Life needs proper care and nurture. Human life depends on society. Only in a good society we can find a good life.  Life is simple, very little is needed to make it happy. But social evils insist on making it complicated. Social evils in society have become a serious concern in the present day world. It is gradually affecting roots of our culture and its blocking its rapid growth on the global chart. The aim of writing this research paper is to highlight Social Evils in rural and urban societies. This research paper will explore the meaning, reason, effect of social evils in the light of the analysis of two novels of Kamala Markandaya, an Indian English writer. The research paper entitled ‘The portrayal of Social Evils in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice.’ In this paper, the effort is made to study Kamala Markandaya’s Social Evils in Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice. We will find poverty, hunger, starvation, beggary, prostitution, crime, unemployment and many more social evils in both novels. Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice and Nectar in a Sieve nothing but an account of the suffering of the rural and urban people, and how the cruelty of social evil resulting in suffering, death and misfortune is more explicit in both novels. Poverty is the everyday reality of the characters in the both novels.  Poverty is not an abstract concept that one can really think about, it’s like wolf at the door that must constantly be staved off. Both novels are a jolt to awaken the society against social evils.  

scholarly journals Psychological Interpretation, Based On Statistical Analysis of Impact of Music on Rural and Urban People When Their Music Inclination Collides With Personality and Vice Versa: Comparative Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Shveata Misra ◽  
Prof. Ina Shastri
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Music Preferences ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Urban People

Music has a sorcerous impact on people unbiased of caste religion and greed. Impact of music on people is so cryptical that individual does not realize that what impact music is casting or spelling on them while they are listening. This way music even affects the personality and behavior of the listener. The music people of urban and rural community hear as per their music inclination also castes impact on their personality and behavior. The following research paper outlines and show the comparative study of how the music inclination of Urban and rural people affects the personality according to their music preferences and what music certain personality of Urban and Rural people prefers.

scholarly journals Sustainable development: Implementing utopia?

Sociologija ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drago Kos
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Potential ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Strong Contrast

Sustainable development is popular, but also indeterminate concept, with many meanings and interpretations. This complex and vague idea seems more difficult to implement on the local basis then on the national level. It is therefore surprising that such an abstract concept has rather high mobilizing power. One of the explanations lies in its positive image. When one compares the ?optimistic? concept of sustainability with the ?pessimistic? concept of entropia, it is possible to hypothesize that its popularity is the result of its utopistic potential, i.e. its ability to visualize the reconciliation of the eternal fight between man (society), and nature. Comparing attitudes and statements with the actual behavior makes it possible to conclude that sustainability is just as popular as declaration, which is in strong contrast with the everyday reality. It is quite understandable that sustainability, as a radical concept, is difficult to implement in the real life. A lot has to be done in coordinating the measures on the local level in order to prevent shocks which would destabilize communities. But just the fact that the concept is provocative makes it effective in stimulating the discussion on numerous questions considering sound, sustainable development. This paper tries to structure the concept of sustainability in order to clarify its social potential.

The Era of Environmental Derangement: Witnessing Climate Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nupur Pancholi ◽  
◽  
Sanjit Kumar Mishra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Environmental Deterioration ◽  
Human Interventions ◽  
Human World ◽  
Climate Crisis

Drawing on Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) together with his nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016), the article strives to present that while advancing endless desires, human-centric culture and the idea of ‘good life’ drive climate change and environmental deterioration. It seeks to enumerate the devastating consequences of changing climatic conditions and degenerating ecosystems and their cumulative impacts on the humankind and non-human world. It aims to locate how human life at the margins has been affected by these cataclysmic consequences through analysing Ghosh’s Gun Island. It attempts to show that human interventions had significantly fuelled the global climate crisis in the seventeenth century, decoding the myth of Bonduki Sadagar that Ghosh identifies in Gun Island.

scholarly journals Spatial and temporal distribution of fishing resources exploited by the Manaus fishing fleet, Amazonas, Brazil

2007 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
VS. Batista ◽  
M. Petrere Jr
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Fishing Effort ◽  
Fishing Ground ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Environmental Variations ◽  
Fishing Resources ◽  
The Right ◽  
Urban People ◽  
Operational Aspects

Fishing resources are important generators of income and food for the rural and urban people in the Amazon. The present paper investigates fishing and environmental variables determining fishing production landed in Manaus and evaluates the relative abundance of commercial fishes in the different sub-systems of the Central Amazon basin. Information collected was used to test the new catch index derived from multiple regressions with the following significant variables: number of fisherman days fishing; distance of the fishing ground from Manaus; amount of ice carried during the trip; and river level. There were no significant differences between mean catch values of the Purus, Madeira and Juruá sub-systems. These results suggest that the tributaries of the right margin were very similar and were the most productive in commercial terms. The actual production varies according to the recent magnitude of fishing effort, environmental variations and operational aspects of fishing, particularly ice consumption.

For research rooted in the everyday reality of patient experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Hélène Lefebvre ◽  
Marie-Josée Levert ◽  
Maryse Larrivière ◽  
Michelle Proulx ◽  
Dan Lecocq
Keyword(s):  
Patient Experience ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Reality

scholarly journals IoT Based Smart Garage Vehicle Washing Water Nestor

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3521-3525
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government

Water is critical part of the human life. In most of the developing nation, water pollution is one of the bigger mess. These issues can be handled strictly by the Government organization, by implementing tougher action rules to the industries, were the water are released without any proper treatment. Where each industries (or) smart cities, should take up self-initiative responsibility for proper treatment of the polluted out flow water. In our research paper, we are not focusing on the wider area of the water pollution; our focus is limited within the smart cities vehicle washing garages. In very smart cities, were a regular multiple vehicles washing is done in the garage, our research paper will focus on the out flow of the populated water from these vehicle washing garages. Our design and implantation process is simpler and straightforward approach. Were we will monitor of the water quality; and how much level of the water is populated, and it requires at what level of the treatment. These process can be easily automated using the multiple IOT (internet of things) based sensors, the data can be streamed into the Big Data lake (or) it can be directly pushed into the cloud computing services for generating the real time graphs and analyses report instantly. These data collected in the Big Data lake (or) cloud computing services, can be used for detail analyses for research purpose. We will incorporate the block chain concept to keep track of the smart garage location address and the detail information of the number of garage in the smart cities details in the form of the blocks.

scholarly journals „Stoisz prosty albo cię prostują”. Psychosomatyczne podstawy racjonalistycznych praktyk stoickich

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-185
Author(s):  
Tomasz Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Rational Control ◽  
Proper Translation ◽  
The Ideal

The essay discusses popular rationalistic interpretation of stoic spiritual practices as rational control over nonrational aspects of human life. On the course of analyzing ancient stoics texts and recommendations concerning a good life the essay proves that the word “controlling” is not really proper translation of stoic intentions. Much better picture is of reason that takes care of condition of body and soul, or of reason that follows body and soul. Stoic reason is a tool for understanding and nursing nod controlling. Thus the ideal for stoic life is not reason but harmony, which is the best way of translating ancient Greek word tonos.

scholarly journals Major Forces Affecting Rural Regions in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
David Freshwater
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Urban People

Rural regions in OECD countries have always faced development challenges, resulting from their: reliance on natural resources, small labour forces, and long distances from markets, as well as the effects of globalization. Now, in addition, their development opportunities are further constrained by: climate change requirements, increased economic fragility resulting from COVID and the lingering effects of the 2008 recession, and the uneven impacts of the Internet economy. But, from a rural development policy perspective, perhaps the most important new challenge is the rise of rural populism. While rural areas and people have long been seen as distinct from their urban counterparts, in the last two decades these gaps have grown. Importantly, while the internet and information and communications technology (ICT) were initially seen as providing opportunities to improve social cohesion and link rural and urban people and places, instead they seem to have increased tensions. Because the core values of urban and rural people have grown so far apart, it is more difficult to establish the political compromises that are required to form effective policy. Absent some reconciliation of these social and political differences, it is difficult to see how national government policy can evolve to meet new challenges. Consequently, the likelihood of national governments being able to identify and implement coherent rural development policies is reduced.

Waste

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Central Forces

Affluence of the Heart explores the many and various ways in which waste—be it of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—was thought about in Japan from the immediate aftermath of devastating war to the early twenty-first century.It shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of the everyday and shaped by the central forces of postwar Japanese life from economic growth and mass consumption to material abundance and environmentalism.What endured from the late 1950s onward was a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience: the tension between the desire to achieve and defend the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence, and the discomfort and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search in these decades for what might be called well-being, happiness, or a good life. Affluence of the Heart is a history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Dubal
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Lord's Resistance Army ◽  
Lord’S Resistance Army

This chapter introduces the lives of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda, suggesting that these lives are too complex to be understood through the simple moral lens of humanity. It uses “against humanity” as a heuristic to think about the problems posed by the uses of humanity (including the “crime against humanity”)—a social construct that must be critically interrogated rather than taken as natural. Being “against humanity” means thinking about the richness of human life that exists outside limited notions of the good—life beyond humanity. Also included is important historical context for the LRA war, including its leader, Joseph Kony, as well as ways in which LRA rebels have been expelled from humanity.

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