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ANALYSING THE TRACES OF DIASPORA ENSHRINED INSALLY MORGAN’S MY PLACE

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Australian aboriginals, the true owners of Australian land lost their authority over their own land due to European settlement in late 18th century. Aboriginal community who lived in Australia were marginalized due to colonial rule. Nearly two hundred and fifty groups of Australian aboriginals were pushed into margins and had to undergo inhumane treatment from Europeans. As a result, aboriginal population got reduced rapidly. As an aftermath of European invasion Australian community was inflicted with various diseases to which they had no resistance. White community had his on way to fight these diseases as he was aware of it. Various diseases and inhumane treatment from Whiteman hardened the aboriginal burden. In Whiteman’s version of history, aboriginals never got any authentic representation. For them history was yet another source to justify their ways. In the novel My Place Sally Morgan is attempting to destabilize this and to present the readers with authentic version of history by focusing on Whiteman’s ways to aboriginals. The novel My Place being an autobiographical novel traces Morgan’s family history. The plot develops through Daisy’s and Glady’s past and present life events. Through this paper a diasporic reading of the novel My Place is being attempted. Australia had to suffer long lasting aftermaths of colonization. Even though they became independent in the year 1901 the aftermaths persisted for a very long time. Sally Morgan, who was born in Perth in the year 1951, i.e., fifty years after independence too had to suffer the adverse effects of colonization. At one point or the other society pin points Morgan for her aboriginal identity. One could see many such instances in the novel. In the novel My Place Morgan’s grandmother and mother had to live in a disguised identity. They never shared their aboriginal lineage even with their children for the fear of isolation. In once own country they are not getting enough freedom to exhibit their true identity due to White man’s aversion towards aboriginals. Aboriginals, the true owners of the Australian land are the ones who had to suffer the most. The Australian white society considered Aboriginals as inferior to them and gave them no basic rights. Aboriginals had to live in the good old memories of their past. Before colonization they had ultimate freedom. They valued their tradition and practices and strictly adhered to it. However, Whiteman called them barbaric and uncivilized and subjugated them both physically and mentally so as to implement Whiteman’s ways. After colonization, aboriginals had no access to their own culture, tradition and practices. They had to live a diasporic life in their own lands, detaching themselves from their roots.
KEYWORDS : Internal Diaspora, Dehumanization, Lack of sense of belongings, Identity crisis, Subjugation, Quest for the Roots

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TRANSLATING THE PAST: A READING OF THE CRITICAL DISCOURSES OF KANNADA NAVODAYA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MASTI VENKATESH IYENGAR AND A.R. KRISHNA SHASTRI

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Kannada Navodaya-A literary movement of the late 19th century and early 20th century negotiated with its cultural and literary pasts and the colonial present. Navodaya Writers took upon themselves to methodically represent their past by collecting and reviewing the literature of the bygone era. This helped to create a canon and history for Kannada literature. The paper attempts to examine some interesting episodes of “translating the past” in the critical discourses of Kannada Navodaya. The paper looks at translation as a metaphor through which critics re- construct ,identify and derive the past from diverse social contexts and origins. This process foregrounds the experience of the colonized in forging a new literary identity by consolidating different forms of literature. At the same time it also uncovers the politics of ideology and culture which are an integral part of these discourses. The paper uses A R Krishnashastri’s preface to Katamrita (Stories from Katasaritasagara) and Masti Venkatesh Iyengar “vimarshe”-a collection of reviews written in Kannada on the works of renowned authors as well as poetic works of Vaishnava saints, folk music of Karnataka as its corpus to examine the same.
KEYWORDS : cultural pasts, translating the past, ideology and culture, colonized

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SOFT SKILLS -THE KEY TO EMPLOYMENT A LITERARY PERSPECTIVE

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Every human being thinks that money, intelligence, knowledge, good looks, and handsome life partner makes them happy and live in peace. Without questioning how and why a soft skills trainer would tell that soft skills or people skills are most important for everyone. It is an art of unfolding yourself into the person you want to be. Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and A L Jacobs didn’t just become writers by throwing words on paper, whenever they felt like writing If they did, they would not have become great writers and we would never have heard of them. You know they had a honed writing system. Earlier research has indicated that the millennial generation, or those born after 1980, werelagging on severalnecessary abilities: poor literacy skills,use of soft skills, building critical thinking skills, and much more. Our institutional mechanism has been struggling to teach soft skills. Soft skills contribute to learning about self, of building relationships and bringing out the best in people. There is a Biblical saying that goes like this, “Show me your friend, and I’ll tell you who you are.” If a person is average, it indicates the average number of people the person spends the most time. 80% of our life depends on the person/s whom we spend maximum time. It is interesting to note that while we help others achieve their goals, they enable us to achieve ours and exert a powerful influence in society.
KEYWORDS : basic abilities: poor literacy skills, use of soft skills, building critical thinking skills.

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NILAKANTHI BRAJA- A STORY OF VRINDAVAN WIDOWS

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Indira Raisom Goswami is an acclaimed Jnanpith awardee from Assam whose humanist views expressed through her poignant writing and social activism has made her a household name in the north east. Her debut novel Nilakanthi Braja (The Blue-necked God) published in Assamese in 1976 and translated into English in 2012 narrates the travails of the widows of Vrindavan. The heritage town of Vrindavan also known as Braja or Braja dhām, has witnessed little Krishna\'s antics of growing up and equally endured continuous attack by Mogul invaders resulting in its five thousand temples reduced to ruins. The title Nilakanthi Braja has intrigued many as its Lord Shiva who is addressed as Nilakanthi. Indira Goswami seems to draw parallels with the mythical figures- while Lord Shiva swallows poison during the churning of ocean but keeps it in his throat in the process turning himself blue; Krishna too swallows the deadly poison of depravation– physical, emotional and financial, endured by Vrindavan widows. Vrindavan\'s past glory and present ruins pervades in the background asit welcomes the widowed protagonist Saudamini along with her distraught parents. Her doctor father Dr. Roychoudharyhopes to restart the dispensary closed by his grandfather and her mother Anupama wishes her daughter would divert her young mind by seeking solace through these widows. Since time immemorial the holy city has been a dumping ground for widows left uncared by families and Nilakanthi Braja took a brave stand in revealing their sordid lives through a brutally honest portrayal of their traumatic lives. The novel is semi-autobiographical as Indira Goswami had come to Vrindavan to do research on \'Ram Charit Manas\' and strengthen her distraught mind after the sudden death of her second husband Madhavan Raisom Aiyengar. Yet, like her heroine Saudamini, Indira too fails to gain solace in a place which despite its outward spiritual ambience inwardly exploits widows for its own selfish needs. These Radheshyamis as they are known in Vrindavan are forced to lead a life of deprivation-meager meals, white sari and working in the temples to seek shelter. The pandas or priests exploit them physically, mentally and financially to an extent that even their dead bodies are examined to gather \'hidden money\'. These sickening scenes disturb Saudamini as much as her own desire to lead a normal life like other women. Her parents hope that Vrindavan will help their Hindu daughter erase the attractions of a Christian boy and the story ends with an early morning dream (or is it a reality?) when her father wakes and takes her to the bank of the river Jamuna where her lover awaits. The reader is left with Saudamini’s white cloth entangled with a married woman\'s colourful chadder (shawl like cloth). Does Saudamini gain liberation from social taboos or is death the only liberation for such women? While keeping her readers guessing, the writer succeeds in creating empathy aboutthe plight of Vrindavan widows.
KEYWORDS : Vrindavan Widows, Patriarchy, Self-versus society, Liberation

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SHIKSHA THATA NITHI

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EFFECT OF SURYA NAMASKAR ON PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL VAIABLES

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The motivation behind the review is to decide the impact of suryanamaskar and physical activities on chose physical and physiological factors among athletes. Logical exploration has shown that yogicstrategies produce reliable and gainful physiological change in human body. This examination paper is managing the impact of surya namaskar on actual wellness of typical individual particulary cardio-repiratory perseverance.
KEYWORDS : suryanamaskar,Physical exercise,Shoulder strength and Resting pulse rate.