scholarly journals The Image of Bharatiya Nari as Projected by Indian Television Soap-Operas

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
SHASWATI DAS
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Indian Market ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Indian Soap

Television soaps and serials in private television channels have swept the Indian market in the last few decades. These soap operas have been upholding the socio-cultural patterns of the country through their contents. In the construction of Indian cultural landscape Indian women and their roles in society are the most vulnerable sites. The linkage of national identity and tradition with Indian women’s roles in society places them in a problematic position, given the patriarchal nature of Indian society. Soap operas on Indian television mostly depict women as homely and tradition-bound. Though there are portrayals of educated, professional women but they are also shown to find solace in the family. This paper tries to trace the image of the Indian Woman that has been endorsed by the Indian soap operas since its beginning and in doing so it tries to explore the implications of certain myths and ideologies that drive the story writers and the producers to de-recognize the changes in the contemporary society and to fall back on projecting stereotypical images; thus giving preference to social identity while ignoring individual identity of a woman.

scholarly journals Anita Desai’s Fasting Feasting: A Picturesque Reflection of Male-Chauvinistic Indian Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mozammel Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Female Autonomy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
The New Woman

An attentive perusal of Anita Desai’s Fasting Feasting shows that the novel is really a picturesque reflection of predicament, plight, pains and pangs done one the females in male-chauvinistic society of the then India. In other words, the novel reveals her struggle for female autonomy against the backdrop of the patriarchal cultural pattern prevailing in India. She has picturesquely shown how the women are deprived of what they deserve. Desai has used the characters of Uma and Anamika to delineate how women are bereft of human rights –social, political, familial, cultural, economic, academic etc. and used for sexual gratification and then discarded. How women are persecuted in the family as well as in the society by the husbands and father or mother-in-laws, ignored to be educated, bound to go for miscarriage or hysterectomy, not allowed to enjoy various tastes of life have also been depicted in the novel. That the ‘new woman’ is essentially a woman of awareness and consciousness of her low position in the family and society is discerned here. This paper, besides showing how the Indian women are indescribably and brutally persecuted in the family and society, sidelined and not allowed to be educated, suffer from father obsession and look for the typical father in her husband, also aims at describing how Anita Desai has struggled for the independence of women of her time.

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 LEGACY OF PATRIARCHAL GOD AND THE POLITICS OF MYTH-MAKING: LOCATING THE GENDERED POSITION IN RELIGIOUS VISUAL ART

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Abhijit Maity
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Male Counterpart ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women In India

This essay discusses how the imagination of women in India is framed up by the gender-biased mythical representations. By looking at the mythical representations that are circulated through centuries in many popular mages, paintings and calendar-portraits, a discursive pattern can be found that has positioned women in a secondary level, belonging to men. The family itself becomes a political site in the process of normalizing women’s submissiveness to men by comparing their actions with the Goddesses. By interrogating the gendered position of Goddess like Lakshmi and her male counterpart Lord Vishnu, this essay attempts to problematize with the mode of representation in religious visual images. I conclude by arguing that these religious representations in visual images have negative impact on the Hindu women, especially, in rural areas and thus keep the unhealthy gender role intact in Indian society.

scholarly journals Addictive Behaviour among Women Viewers of Indian Soap Opera

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 03) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Dr.K.M. Ashifa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Indian Soap ◽  
To Come ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Occupational Life

Media is an integral part of society and it plays vital role for inculcating information. In the course of accomplishing its duties and functions, media, especially television influence on society relatively depending on the audience it reaches. Soaps have a predominant female audience. Some soaps do include men viewers but some social researchers pointed, women are considering most peculiar viewers. They are emotionally attached and value particular soaps in their personal and domestic life. Today people are leading a fast life. People should have some kind of recreation in their get relation of their physical and psychological balances of life. So, different people have different activities to spend their leisure. Based on the present study, most of the women are getting involved with the soap opera and were emotionally attached and curiously waiting for next episodes as it is effecting social, family and occupational life. So the present study tried to come out with fact of effects of soap operas’ on women’s behaviour in the aspects of socio- cultural aspects, economic aspects, psychological aspects, physiological aspects and functional aspects.

scholarly journals INDIAN WOMEN STATUS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 258-266
Author(s):  
G Paranthaman ◽  
S Santhi ◽  
R Radha ◽  
G Poornima Thilagam
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
High Status ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

Woman constitutes the key role in the Indian society. Women in ancient India enjoyed high status in society and their condition was good. The Ancient and medieval status of women in modern Indian society regarding Equality, Education, Marriage and Family life, Race and Gender, Religion and Culture is maintained or deteriorated. The Vedic women had economic freedom. Some women were engaged in teaching work. Home was the place of production. Spinning and weaving of clothes were done at home. Women also helped their husbands in agricultural pursuit. In the religious field, wife enjoyed full rights and regularly participated in religious ceremonies with her husband. Religious ceremonies and sacrifices were performed jointly by the husband and wife. Women even participated actively in religious discourses. The status of women improved a little during the Buddhist period though there was no tremendous change. The role of women in Ancient Indian Literature is immense. Ancient India had many learned ladies. The Medieval period (Period between 500 A.D to 1500 A.D) proved to be highly disappointing for the Indian women, for their status further deteriorated during this period. Through this study we come to the conclusion that as the women has equal participation in human development. She is half of the human race. But she lacks in society. Women are not treated with respect as in the Ancient Indian society. Lot of crime against women is seen in the modern society. The Constitutional provisions are not sufficient to get the respectable position in society. The paper will help us to imagine the participation of women in social, religious, economic and household matters from Ancient to Modern.

Molecular analyses of genetic variation and phylogenetic relationship in Indian soap nut ( Sapindus L.) and closely related taxa of the family Sapindaceae

Meta Gene ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamalesh S. Mahar ◽  
Lok Man S. Palni ◽  
Shirish A. Ranade ◽  
Veena Pande ◽  
Tikam S. Rana
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationship ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Indian Soap

Implementing Indian Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-387
Author(s):  
Devdutt Pattanaik
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Far East ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

Mythologist and author Devdutt Pattanaik uses his deep domain knowledge and corporate experience to address the topic: Implementing Indian Culture. First, he reveals how changing corporate culture through workshops and training programmes is based on the idea of evangelism and religious conversion, which is alien to caste-based Indian society where aggregation of new ideas is preferred over replacement of old ideas. Then, using mythology as a toolkit, he elaborates what is common and what is different between Indian, Chinese and Western cultures. He argues that China and Japan’s success is not the result of ‘Westernisation’ but by their grounding in home-grown Confucian and Taoist myths. India’s progress needs a similar grounding in ideas that have originated, and continue to thrive, in India, hence the need to appreciate the Indian model of yagna (exchange), which is neither policy based and contractual, as in the West, nor authority based, as in the Far East. However, as it is relationship based, it demands maturity and empathy of the leader who functions as the head of the family business ( karta). It demands the karta’s personal transformation from self-indulgent to self-expansive as he gradually delegates and nurtures talent to create an ecosystem of success ( mangalya). Growth then is not just material (what you have) but also psychological/spiritual (who you are).

Ethno-pharmacology of Asaroon (Asarum europaeum L.) with special reference to Unani System of Medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
MD Maseehullah ◽  
Mohammad Zakir ◽  
Mohd Anas ◽  
Munawwar Husain Kazmi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Metabolites ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Indian Market ◽  
Volatile Oils ◽  
United State ◽  
Clear Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
Eastern Himalayan Region ◽  
Asarum Europaeum

Abstract Asaroon is the rhizome of Asarum europaeum L. and is commonly used in Unani medicines for its various pharmacological actions. It is an evergreen plant with glossy foliage. It belongs to the family of Aristolochiaceae and is native to Europe and the United State of America. Some species of Asaroon have been found in the Eastern Himalayan region. Asaroon has actions like Muharrik-i-A‘sab (nervine stimulant), Mudirr-i-Bawl (diuretics), Mudirr-i-Hayd (emmenagogue), Musakkin-i-Alam (analgesic), Mufattit-i-sudad (remove obstructions) and Muqawwī-i-Jigar (hepatotonic), etc. It is used in the management of Hummā (fevers), Waja 'al-Mafasil (polyarthritis), Sara (epilepsy), Falij (paralysis), Ihtibās al-Tamth (amenorrhea) and Niqris (gout), etc. as per the Unani system of medicine (USM). It is used as a single herb as well as with a combination of other drugs to manage many diseases. The A. europaeum L. contains volatile oils and flavonoids along with other secondary metabolites. In the Indian market, Valeriana wallichii DC has been sold as Tagar but in some cases, it is sold as Asaroon. It is a clear case of adulteration by replacement of costly foreign drugs with a similar-looking indigenous drug. In this manuscript, we have discussed the Ethno-pharmacology of the A. europaeum L. with special reference to USM and basic differences with V. wallichii DC to show that both drugs are different and their actions and uses are also different from each other.

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