scholarly journals Reflection of Indian Culture in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
Prajesh Jena
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Indian Family ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Indian Religion

Shashi Deshpande is a well-known name in the field of Indian literature and is a contemporary writer from Karnataka. She portrays in her novel "A Matter of Time" the truth of Indian society in Indian families. The importance of culture for Indian women is also discussed. Her novels are distinguished for their genuine depictions of the Indians and their history. She used Indian names and the role of Indian Middle Class Women in her novel A Matter of Time through the character Sumi. She talks about Indian Women, Indian Culture, Indian Religion, Indian Family, Religions and Beliefs, Family Traditions, and Emotions, among other topics. A Matter of Time is a multi-generational novel that moves around the plight and predicament of Indian women whose lives are deeply rooted in Indian beliefs, superstitions, conventions and traditions. Women have been living and breathing silently for thousands of years under the umbrella of patriarchy and with their "gazing." With the foundation of patriarchy, the disparity between man and woman, in its unwritten form, has developed through language, customs, rituals, myths and practises. Myths, rituals, and customs contribute to the evolution and establishment of human society. They are naturally developed, but are indeed societal buildings and help in developing patriarchal ideologies. They are believed to be natural. They are, therefore, essential to women's subjugation in our society.

scholarly journals Women Writers in India: Tracing Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5493-5498
Author(s):  
Ms. Bharti, Dr. Shriya Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Pandita Ramabai ◽  
Women Writer

From pre-Independence period to the contemporary times, women’s voice is gradually being heard and gaining momentum. It is hoped as well as expected that women would soon become a prominent voice making a mark in the society. Their point of view along with their decision making authority will have a definite and constructive impact on the society. This can be inferred from the literature by various Indian women writers such as Pandita Ramabai, Ismat Chughtai, Kamala Das and Shashi Deshpande. As we move from one decade to another entering the 21st century, we observe how women have been able to break the cocoon of domesticity, marking their presence in various socio-political spheres which have been usually dominated by men. Women have sought their space for expression and voicing opinion through literature. Depicting the oppression and discrimination faced in the patriarchal setup of Indian society, the women writers have pointed at the need for equality in practice as well as representation. The article will provide a discussion regarding Feminism in India, analysing each period or phase along with a women writer.

SOCIAL INNOVATION IN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POST COVID -19: A STUDY OF UNORGANISED SECTOR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MSME’s TOY CLUSTERS IN M.P.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Rajeev Kumar Gupta ◽  
◽  
Dr Sudheesh B ◽  
Dr Sangeeta Jauhari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
School Children ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Money Transfer

This study is dedicated to Indian women`s mother`s day, who is representing unorganized sectors yet dedicated indirectly to revive the Indian economy since civilizations developed on blue planet, POST COVID -19, Pandemic brought changes in entrepreneurship strategies, eradicate hunger, poverty etc. not for means of profit for survival also bring harmony among Indian human society. Under post pandemic scenario, she presents herself as brand ambassador of her skills. So she needs to volunteer herself. As school children currently reeling under monotony and boredom due to uncertain lockdown at home, no physical activities during this period .So need to lure school children towards traditional toys also Indian Government also take initiatives to boost the morale of unorganized women artisans, wooden & mechanical ,electronic toys technicians, hand and machine manufacturing toys workers poses individually as new startup entrepreneurs by registering themselves under women start incubators MSME`S .Recently Government of India gave permission to form toy clusters at tehsils, district, village level, in order to revive economy & encounter dragon toys ,boost global exports from Local to Global, in order enhance Indian GDP through participation in virtual Global Markets. In nut shell, saving and honing the skills & selling the handmade toys, ecofriendly colors symbolize traditional Indian culture through E-Commerce, Virtual market (VM). As distribution of kits, money transfer into skilled migratory workers bank account by government is not a permanent solution. So need arises to save toy craftsmen, skilled technicians as a link between global customers & rural skilled women played significant role asentrepreneurs to sell their products from home through EPCS sponsored, INDIAN TOY show virtually “NAMASTE INDIA “held in Singapore virtually, through social women entrepreneurs successfully displaying their hand made products in World Trade Centre (WTC) in Washington, New york city with kind help from FIEO, Indian Embassy etc.

scholarly journals Crossing the Thresholds: The Portrait of Rukmini as a New Woman in Mitra Phukan’s the Collector’s Wife

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 794-796
Author(s):  
Swathi Krishna
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
North East ◽  
Sex Object ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

According to the belief system of conventional Indian patriarchal culture, the roles of women are firmly entrenched with the notions of chastity and motherhood. A woman is never considered as a life partner, who shares her life with her male counterpart. Rather, she is looked down as an unpaid servant, or a mere sex object who has to weigh down and take responsibilities for an entire family. She is always commodified as an asset which is transferred from the hands of her father to her husband. She is indebted to look after the children and a full grown male who couldn’t look after himself. Several Indian women authors have incarcerated this double standard of the misogynist, patriarchal Indian society in their works. The predicament of their fellow females who are suffering under this gender biased system has prompted the women authors like Kamala Das, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Deshpande and Kamala Markandeya etc to fight against mainstream patriarchal Indian society. North East Indian women authors have also tried to highlight the predicaments of women through their literary works. Mitra Phukan, an Assamese writer, in her work The Collector’s Life has reflected the attempts made by the lead protagonist Rukmini to attain individuality and freedom from her security bound, disciplined, lonely life. At the fag end of the novel she transforms herself from a dutiful wife to a new woman who bravely stands against the traditional notions of chastity and purity. My paper seeks to analyze the journey of Rukmini from the self proclaimed loneliness to the actualization of her own identity and individuality as a woman.

scholarly journals A Study on the Role and Contribution of Women for the Development of Ayurvedic Education in Kerala

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anila Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Holistic Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Roles

Education has been of central significance to the development of human society. It can be the beginning not only of individual knowledge, information and awareness, but also of a holistic strategy for development and change. Education helps an individual to develop his or her potential to the fullest, to increase the productivity and to become useful and resourceful members of the society. Education is holistic in concept and is multidimensional. Due to the technical advancement and social development, the structure of the family organization is changing. These substantial changes have created a new challenging role and status for the Indian women, especially for the middle class women. The structure of the Indian society is undergoing a metamorphosis due to Urbanisation, Westernisation, Industrialisation and Politicalisation. As a member of the family, she has to perform certain traditional roles, apart from taking an active part in economic activity.  The provision of educational opportunities for girls and women has been part of the national endeavour since independence. The constitution of India, is clearly committed to the cause of education and unequivocally endorses state intervention to redress an adverse educational scenario. The recent social

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF INDIAN WOMEN AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5418-5421
Author(s):  
Dr. Latha Velavan, Maya P.R
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Women ◽  
Second World

The paper deals with the ancient Indian women and their contribution to literature during the British period. The role of ordinary women and aristocrat ladies were the same in that period. Both were utilized to fulfill their household duties and to act as a consummate hostess to their men at the table. They were portrayed as a secondary character to men in most of the writings. Women were in general unaware of their fundamental rights due to illiteracy.  Cruel rites like Sati and Infanticide were imposed on women by the society and more or less they were just treated as a supporting character to uphold the story. It’s only at the end of the Second World War, the Indian women got a new sight and light about the world. It’s quite interesting to learn how the ancient women lived and experienced the world around them. Women and Literature are interconnected to one another and their writings added new prospects to English Literature.  Earlier, only the work of men were greatly appreciated and won recognition from the readers. But then, the effort of women writers came in to light which created a remarkable aspect in their style and matters they conveyed. They always focused on the language patterns of Indian Literature. It is to be noted that because of their varied style in writing women writers have become very popular among the Indian readers

scholarly journals Feministic Approach in Kamala Das’s My Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Robancy Amal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Inner Self

The role of the readers in reading a novel or a poem is to look through the eye of the author and to enjoy the beauty of the literary works. Kamala Das’s poetry, novels and short stories have always carried self-transformation and women empowerment asserting her rights freedom and desire to liberate her from the clutches of traditions and cultures which suppress women in the Indian society. This paper tries to analyze the outspoken and controversial autobiography and an unheard cry for freedom of many Indian women and depicts how revealing the inner self of a woman free her from the oppression of Caste, class, race and sex. It has become a cult classic in the 20th century. It attempts to see the feministic approach of the novel.

‘The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-Naked One’: Or the Indian Nation's Contradictions Personified

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANUELA CIOTTI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
North India ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The One ◽  
Development Prospects

AbstractThis paper explores the interplay between development, identity politics and middle-class aspirations amongst low-caste Chamar women in rural north India. It argues that this interplay has reinvigorated notions of women's domesticity, education and modern conjugality as they emerged in the reforms and ‘modernising’ efforts of sections of Indian society, since the nineteenth century, in their encounter with the colonial ‘civilising mission’. It will show how the long-term effects of this ‘legacy’, through its reconfiguration and appropriation by members from a low caste, have affected a historically marginalised community in their pursuit of middle-class aspirations. In addition to the criticality of Indian women and their gender roles as ‘sites’ where nation and community transformations are symbolically and practically negotiated, scholars of South Asia have also highlighted the separation between historical and anthropological discourses on women. This paper brings these discourses together and addresses this separation by showing that Chamar appropriation of the ‘modernising’ agenda has initiated a dual process. On the one hand, a minority of women have embarked on an embourgeoisement trajectory predicated on education, ‘modern motherhood’ and aspirations to white collar employment, and on the other hand, underprivileged women (with their ‘unfit’ personas) have become increasingly vulnerable to stigmatisation as a result of being in ‘menial labour’. It is further argued that dialectic study of the ‘two [groups of] Chamar women’ will provide an insightful lens through which inner conflicts within low-caste communities in contemporary India may be understood, and suggests that there are contradictory trends concerning women, their development prospects, and their membership within the nation.

scholarly journals The Role of the New Indian Middle Class in Lok Sabha General Elections 2009 and 2014: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Pratick Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Politically Active ◽  
Middle Class People

Indian democracy in the age of globalisation is highly influenced by the demographic transformation in the society. Dispensing with the erstwhile traditional barriers like casteism, religions and languages, the current Indian society is represented mainly by the new Indian middle class. This class is a convergent one with amelioration of the below-middle class people to this class. Obviously there is hierarchy among this class. Sometimes, the upper rung of the middle class is treated as the elites. This class has good purchase capacity and inclination towards a consumerist life-style. This class, therefore, not politically involved throughout the year but politically active and vibrant in its electoral capacity. This class has become a no-negligible in the election results particularly since 2009. In 2014 itself, the new Indian middle class became decisive in 2014 Lok Sabha General Election. Here, it is an attempt to explore a comparative study of the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha General Elections in terms of this class being a determinant and decisive factor.

scholarly journals THE HISTORY OF INDIAN WOMEN: HINDUISM AT CROSSROADS WITH GENDER

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Babita Tewari ◽  
Sanjay Tewari
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Indian History ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Status Of Women

Feminism in India is not a singular theoretical orientation; it has changed over time in relation to historical and cultural realities, levels of consciousness, perceptions and actions of individual women and women as a group. Historical circumstances and values in India make women’s issues different from the Western feminist rhetoric. In all the three main stages of Indian history, viz. the ancient period, the medieval period and the modern age, we find that Hinduism and the role of women in particular have undergone tremendous changes. Through this paper, I would wish to study the position of Hindu female gods and the male deities and thereupon clarify main concepts as to how this situation has drawn an impact and affected the male dominated system of Indian society. The approach which in particular I seek to adopt is firstly, a comparative study of both the deities, secondly, its impact on status of women in all the three ages, i.e. the ancient, medieval and the modern, and lastly, the position of women in the Indian context.

SOCIAL INNOVATION IN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POST COVID -19, A STUDY OF UNORGANIZED SECTOR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MSME`S TOY CLUSTERS IN M.P.

2021 ◽  
Vol XIII (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Rajeev Kumar Gupta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
School Children ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Money Transfer ◽  
Unorganized Sector

This study is dedicated to Indian women`s mother`s day, who is representing unorganized sectors yet dedicated indirectly to revive the Indian economy since civilizations developed on blue planet, POST COVID -19, Pandemic brought changes in entrepreneurship strategies, eradicate hunger, poverty etc., not for means of profit for survival also bring harmony among Indian human society. Under post pandemic scenario, she presents herself as brand ambassador of her skills. So, she needs to volunteer herself. As school children currently reeling under monotony and boredom due to uncertain lockdown at home, no physical activities during this period .So need to lure school children towards traditional toys also Indian Government also take initiatives to boost the morale of unorganized women artisans, wooden & mechanical ,electronic toys technicians, hand and machine manufacturing toys workers poses individually as new startup entrepreneurs by registering themselves under women start incubators MSME`S .Recently Government of India gave permission to form toy clusters at tehsils, district, village level, in order to revive economy & encounter dragon toys ,boost global exports from Local to Global, in order enhance Indian GDP through participation in virtual Global Markets. In nutshell, saving and honing the skills & selling the handmade toys, ecofriendly colors symbolize traditional Indian culture through E-Commerce, Virtual market (VM). As distribution of kits, money transfer into skilled migratory workers bank account by government is not a permanent solution. So need arises to save toy craftsmen, skilled technicians as a link between global customers & rural skilled women played significant role as entrepreneurs to sell their products from home through EPCS sponsored, INDIAN TOY show virtually “NAMASTE INDIA “held in Singapore virtually, through social women entrepreneurs successfully displaying their hand made products in World Trade Centre(WTC) in Washington, New york city with kind help from FIEO , Indian Embassy etc.

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