ANITA DESAI’S THE VILLAGE BY THE SEA: A REVIEW
Indian author Anita Desai is an animator, life enriching writer with a simple sensitivity. The novel offers a glimpse into the complexities faced by a poor family in a small Indian village. This ingenious, inspiring work of fiction has touched the hearts of millions. The story describes the life style of the poor families living near Indian Sea, their only hope of fishing and the palm trees and a family of a poor people “of Thul, a village in India. These were the few central characters, the writer needed to discuss the pros and cones of lifestyle of fishermen living near sea; how badly monsoon affects them. Hari and Lila were born and bred in the village, but now his family is falling into despair: the father of alcohol while the mother is gravely ill. As for the money that there is not enough to meet the most basic needs between. In this paper a critical review of the work done on Desai’s work with reference to The Village by the Sea and her novel characters.
Keywords:Pessimism, aloneness, poverty, drunkard, rusticity, alienation
FICTION IN SHASHI DESPANDE NOVELS
paper makes an attempt on feminist movement. Shashi Deshpande is a well-known name in the field of Indian literature. The feminist writings of Indian literature probe into the pathetic situation of women in the male-dominated society in general and in the institution of family in particular. Shashi Deshpande usually describes Indian women in her novels. That is why the condition of women in our families. Shashi Deshpande’s sincere attempt to break the silence of women has been widely acclaimed in home and abroad. Her clear understanding of human relationship, her close observation of the way of the world, her unbiased attitude to dogmas and movement enforced me to do the present attempt in this direction.In order to establish social harmony, the harmony in the family needs to be established. There has to be an end to the discriminations on women based on the gender. No gender is superior in this world. Gender equity, justice and equality have a bearing on attaining gender development in order to have peace, harmony and love in the family relationships.
Keywords:feminist, Indian literature , socio-cultural,
CROSS CULTURAL INTERACTION IN THE NOVELS OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA: PLEASURE CITY
Pleasure City, the latest of Kamala Markandaya’s novels, is based basically on the motto ‘live and let live’. It has all the elements needed for a happy living. All the terms associated with comradeship like love, affection, co-operation and understanding are significant.Pleasure City is a novel about the building of a pleasure complex in a coastal village where Rikki a fisherman and Tully the director of the British firm building the city must work together to complete the creation Much akin to some of Markandaya’s earlier novels Pleasure City also addresses the issues of the interaction between East and West native tradition and imported technology in the context of the scientific and technical development of India. ..
Keywords:conflicts ,resolutions, literature, knowledge , wisdom, aspirations , dreams.
ROLE OF BROADCASTING AND ITS RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
Broadcasting emerged as a mass media in the 1920s. Its potential function as a powerful tool of social and educational information processing was significant in extending the reaches of regional culture and language in a national context. Broadcasting worked as a significant factor in deepening the social and educational level of India. It educated, inspired and entertained the needs of the people by a variety of programmes. The programmes of All India Radio and Doordarshan have enhanced the awareness towards all the spheres of the life. These programmes cater to Health, Rural Development, Women, Children, Farming, Youth, Adult Education etc. to aware the masses on such vital importance issues. Prevention of diseases and their cure, timely vaccination, prevention of pregnant women and many other health related programmes broadcast and telecast over All India Radio and Doordarshan time to time. The overall analysis of the study found that All India Radio and Doordarshan have a unique potential to spread the education and made aware to the people even though living in a far flung areas of the country.
Keywords:All India Radio, Doordarshan, Education
A STUDY ON LIBRARY CONSORTIA IN E-LIBRARY ERA
Library consortia are now being overhead globally. It is more because of electronic or digital form of information.
Consortia are all about sharing and improving access to information. A library consortium is a group of two or more
libraries that have agreed to cooperate with each other in order to fulfill certain similar needs, usually resource
sharing. The increasing price of published electronic journals, indexing and abstracting databases along with the
traditional published print subscriptions has forced library community to explore alternating means of subscription.
This paper briefly discusses the concept, need and major consortia initiatives in India.
Keywords:Library consortia, Networking, E-resources, E-journals, consortia management.
THE ROLE OF TEACHERS AND SOCIETY IN EDUCATION
A case study of how science education is taught in some of the primary school in Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh revels that a lack of ‘cultural capital’ dose hamper the economically poor students in synchronising with the ‘education that is design in school textbook and taught by teachers middle – class student who are backed by certain cultural capital fare relatively better cultural capital informs the relationship between schooling and the family/social structure and also shapes the teachers role in how she or he negotiates with students from different background differing cultural capital is not reflected either in the nature of textbooks or in the nature of teachers training this revels how the questions of accessibility to education cannot be limited to access to infrastructure but also includes access to knowledge.
Keywords:Science education, economically poor, accessibility.
A STUDY ON APPROPRIATE METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN LANGUAGE IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA
Language teaching has a long, fascinating but rather tortuous history, in which a debate on teaching methods has evolved particularly over the last hundred years. The names of many of the methods (Grammar-translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, Communicative Teaching Method, etc) are familiar enough, yet the methods are not easy to grasp in practice because a method, however ill-defined it may be, is more than a single strategy or a particular technique. Language teaching approaches and methods have cast light on the language teaching theory and practice. There are still many controversies about their usefulness and appropriateness. This paper tries to analyze their effectiveness and weakness of several most influential teaching approaches and methods: Grammar-translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, Communicative Teaching Method, in order to have a better understanding and application in the future teaching practice.
Keywords:teaching approaches and methods; effectiveness; weakness.