Vol-II, Issue-III, January 2014
Article (Non-Research) |
1. The year 2014, will be the Charlie Spencer Chaplin or shortly known as world famous Chaplin’s 125 th Birth year. This article is like a tribute to a great person, who was also a musician, actor, comedian, director and music composer. The world still remembers this man not only for his acting skill, as the greatest comedian of all times, but also as a great human being. He shared his sorrow and pain, through which he had gone through in his childhood by his acting. |
Research Article |
2. Islam' literally means submission but when the term is used in a religious context it means submission to Allah alone. Accordingly, a Muslim is one who submits to the Divine injunctions and does not deviate from them. |
3. Abu Mahfuz Al-Karim M’asumi (1913-2009) spent his entire life in the service of Arabic language and literature. He got basic education at his birth place Bihar, after that he travelled to Dhaka, Kolkata and other places seeking knowledge and got modern as well as traditional Islamic knowledge. His great scholarship in Arabic and Islamic literature quite clearly reflects in his writings: books, articles, research papers etc. M’asumi’s voluminous book Buhuth Wa Tanbihat, is the collection of all his writings. The book has been published in Beirut in two volumes in 2001, under the supervision of Dr.Ajmal Ayyub Al-Islahi. The book under discussion deals with Arabic language, Literature, Islamic theology, researches, analysis and commentaries. Satyer Aloksandhani |
4. Novel is a time-art. Gunamoy Manna writes novel, express truth with the help of time. Gunamoy Manna is an anti-establish writer. He enlightens those people, whom live for truth and life. 'Mute` is one of the most extra-ordinary novel in history of Bengali novel, because most popular religious and cultural festival 'Gaajan` and its philosophy is the main theme in this novel. The main character Sudhir overcomes all the problems through his faith on lord Shiva. |
5. The aim of the present paper is to explore the linguistic aspects of a well known song of Tagore: tomari nam balbo nana chhale. The song pivots on the theme of nām (name). Through an in depth study of the salient lexical, morpho-syntactic and semantic features of this song we have attempted to demonstrate how the theme had been developed. Our second objective is to discern the influence of tradition on this song. We have ended up the discussion with a brief comparative study of a few songs of Tagore which have been composed on the same theme. |
6. In Bengali literature 20 th century is an important period. In this period Bengali literature became more enriched. From imaginative and fictitious literature, it emerged to realistic literature. In my article I tried to present how a realistic picture of the contemporary period can be seen in this literature of the 20 th century. |
7. Women even today are not able to create their own world and space. The matter of equal rights of women and men in education and income still remains as a movement. Whatever humanistic things, the social activists say; efforts are on even today to prevent women from leading a life of their own choice. The protagonist of this effort is patriarchy. |
8. Balmiki’s Ramayana, the great Indian epic, is the hallmark of Indian culture and tradition. The Ramayana is the story of devotion and sublime feelings and ‘Meghanad Vadh’ by Madhusudhan Dutta is the modern version of this epic dimension. ‘Meghanad Vadh’ is a colossal effort at capturing the renaissance spirit prevalent in Bengal during the 19 th century. This article is a comparative study of the two protagonists of both the epics – Rama and Ravana. |
9. 2 nd James Tod, the writer of the ‘Rajasthan’ influenced Rangalal Bandopadhya by the glorious story of Rajputs. Rangalal composed many of his writing from Rajasthan. He had added more flavour to his creations and discarded some incident from Tod. ‘Pandmini Upakhyan’ was the first historical modern kavya in the Modern age of Bengali Literature. I have compared ‘Pandmini Upakhyan’ with Tod’s Rajasthan. How and why Rangalal compossed ‘Pandmini Upakhyan’, I have tried to elaborate in this paper. |
10. The adventures novelist Debesh Roy, -- ignored the so-called conception of our literary world and developed his own fictional world with alternative space building. Except the four ‘Pratibedans’ and four ‘Britantas’ of the writer, if we deeply study the other novels and stories of him, we can feel the reality of our society. We can say that his novels and stories are indicating the various important sides of Bengali literature. From birth to death, from ordinary to extra ordinary, from lower to upper standard, from village to town -- in every stage of human life and society we can see there are lots of changes are going on. All these changes may not be explained through any explanation to the civil society or it seems to be challenging to our civil society. But if we want to prove it from our experience of life, then we can say, riders may achieve the success of intellect (perception of life) from these lessons. |
11. It is observed, after comparative discussion between the dramas ‘Abong Indrajit’ of Badal Sarkar and ‘Adhe Adhure’ of the Hindi dramatist Mohan Rakesh. In both the dramas, it was the intension to reflect mental feeling of the people. Every character represented as the social character of any kind. In the drama ‘Adhe Adhure’ it has been reflected a story how a family ruined caused by social, economic and psychological dilemma. |
12. Every person is attached with some or other profession. Without profession we can’t think our livelihood. The need of survival every individual have to join some profession first. In the ancient social condition profession was caste-centred. Profession-by-birth is the main source of economy. In spite of being middle-class centralization, the life style of the peripheral, subaltern human was artistically painted in Tagore’s short story. In the last decade of nineteenth century when Tagore visits the Bengal country side with the responsibility of land-lordship, he meets various subaltern peripheral people with different professions. Defeating the barriers of social bindings, he gradually endears the subalterns. In the present essay subalterns are divided into three different groups according to their profession such as-- land and production related subalterns, domestic service related subalterns and other subaltern professionals. The present essay also studies the socio-economic condition and significance of contribution of all those three professionals in isolation. |
13. Jolodhar Sen is such a short story writer in whose stories the picture of the contemporary period has emerged. In this article I have tried to show how in the stories ‘Pagal’, ‘Poran Mandal’, ‘Nasiber lekha’ ‘Bichar’ etc. this very picture springs up. |
14. Banking sector in India like many other sectors has been experiencing a rapidly changing market, new and modern technologies, economic uncertainties, changing and more demanding customer services and above all fierce competition, that has presented an unpredictable set of challenges for them. In order to face this constant evolution of new challenges, the commercial banks have to reinvent their understanding of their clients and re-examine the value and service quality to assure that they make far reaching implications in terms of service quality and customer satisfaction. In order to be successful in the market it is not only sufficient for commercial banks to attract new customers but also concentrate on retaining existing customers implementing effective policies of customer satisfaction. |
15. The higher education system in India has grown in a remarkable way, particularly in the post-independence period, to become one of the largest systems of its kind in the world. However, the system has many issues of concern at present like financing and management including access, equity and relevance, reorientation of programmes by laying emphasis on health consciousness, values and ethics and quality of higher education together with the assessment of institutions and their accreditation. These issues are important for the country, as it is now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to build a knowledge-based information society of the 21st century. Despite, its impressive growth, higher education in India could only maintain a very small base of quality institutions. It is also encountering a few important and significant challenges. It contributes to economic and social development of the country. Globalization has resulted in significant changes in the knowledge economy and ushered new conditions for the provision of higher education to cater the skill requirement all across the globe. The present study highlights the growth of higher education sector in India, its problems and government initiatives towards improvement of higher education in India. The study will be an analytical one and based on secondary data and information. |
16. Mother plays an important role in the social development of pre-school children. During pre-school years, mother is considered as the most influential socializing agent along with other members of the family who contribute a lot in the process of socialization of her child. A child starts reacting with others emotionally from the early stages of his/her life. Attitudes of rejection or acceptance, approval or disapproval and tension or relaxation are coloured by the type of physical and emotional care that he/she receives at the early stage. Under the guidance of mother the child gradually learns what is encouraged and what is discouraged, what is valued and what is ignored in the family environment. |
17. Advance learner guided learning approach has great implication for science learning. This approach can be used for the development of science concepts, process skills and science achievement. Science being a way of thinking, it always searches for truth and hence it requires observation, experimentation, open-mindedness etc. During experimentation children may face a lot of difficulties. In advance learner guided learning approach; both the tutor and tutee belong to the same class, so there is a democratic environment in the classroom. Tutees share their difficulties in an easy manner to the tutor and solve their problems with the guidance of tutor. Children may have different types of problems and they may attend to the problems from different angles to find the solution of the problem. Advance learner gives attention to all the problems of students and guides them in finding the solution of the problem by clarifying all their doubts. |
18. Assessment is that process which measures and evaluates the student and teacher in their respective field. Assessment is needed to know the academic development of student and growth of skill and competency of teacher in the field of learning and teaching. Assessment is that process which appraises individuals’ knowledge, understanding, abilities or skills (QAA). An Assessment is a tool designed to observe students behaviour and produce data that can be used to draw a reasonable inferences about what students know (Pellegrino, 2003). Assessment is that method which helps in qualitative learning of a student. Enhancing quality education is an emerging trend in now a day. Quality education encompasses the learner-teacher relationship, learning environment, curriculum and the infrastructural facilities provided by the educational institutions. Through the process of assessment teacher or instructor able to know the students’ knowledge, understanding of the learning materials, skills in a particular course and by this knowledge teacher can provide necessary guidance for future career. Furthermore assessment is also useful in enhancing student motivation, self-concept and sense of self-efficacy. By this paper we try to draw a picture of role of assessment in enhancing quality in higher education. Keywords: - Assessment, Quality, Higher Education Language: English |
19. Thomas Hardy is one of the most famous regional novelists in English literature. His greatest strength as a novelist lies in his unique depiction of Wessex- a fictitious region of England. He popularized the landscape by beautifully depicting the nature and environment of the particular land and the people therein, especially highlighting the conflict between man and nature. The same physical features- hills and dales, rivers, pastures, meadows, woodland, and heaths etc. of this native land appear and reappear so prominently and vividly in Hardy’s novels that they are called the Wessex Novels, of which Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure are the most celebrated ones. These Wessex novels have established Hardy at the height as a regional novelist. This paper attempts to illustrate the elements of regionalism present in Hardy’s novels, and thereby to reassess his greatness as a regional novelist. |
20. Anita Desai and Manju Kapur are the well known Indian women novelists who represent the pain and conflict of the modern educated women that struggle between tradition and modernity on the one hand and individuality and independence on the other hand. The women characters in their novels choose to fight and protest against the traditional and culturally accepted norms and currents of society. They are also facing the responsibilities by trying to fit themselves in the socio cultural modes of the changed society. In Anita Desai’s Clear Light of the Day and Manju Kapur’s Home represent the image of new woman who struggle between tradition and modernity to establish her own identity by being economically independent and without depending on her male counterpart - be on the father, the husband, the brother or the son. Anita Desai and Manju Kapur in their novels delineate the image of new woman who demands to hold the same position and status like that of man in the society with equal sexuality and rights. They are the rebellious women who seek self-discovery, self-respect, self autonomy and self govern as they are caught between feudal values and the fast approaching new life. |
21. Psychology, crime and confession are the three essential ingredients of some of Poe’s greatest short stories. It is undoubtedly his credit that far before the introduction of psychology in legal studies and its related issues, Poe has used psychology and its associated structures like confession in his short stories that could be explored in its various theoretical and epistemological issues. His two great short stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, on the other hand cannot be bound into a single term of either crime or horror stories in the technical sense. These multifaceted stories, which could even be termed as a new subgenre, consisting of a classical mixing of crime, horror and detection, establish Poe as the introducer and one who has perfected this new genre. The present study aims to locate these fundamental issues of psychology, crime and confession in these two stories as a critical approach to deal with. |
22. Irish culture and landscape fascinate W. B. Yeats that often determines the nature of his poetry. Literary archetypes and metaphors are two important literary assets which elevate his poetry to a greater height. His deep knowledge of history and myth is the genesis of his archetypes and metaphors. The rich heritage of Irish tradition serves for him a fertile mine from where he picks up his raw materials for archetypes and metaphors. Poetry, in general, is enriched by the artistic implementation of archetypes and metaphors. For Yeats, these two literary tools serve dual functions: the first one enables the reader to comprehend the greater understanding of the concept and the content and the second function is to create an image that catches the psyche of an aesthetic mind of a reader. Yeats is a dreamer as well as an artist. His poetry is the art of the highest order spun out of the creative genius. The present article in question is an evaluative attempt to locate the impact of literary devices like metaphors and archetypes in Yeats’ poetry. |
23. The ‘Bolan’ is a popular occasional folk-drama in South Bengal. It is still very popular in rural areas as like as sub-urban areas. Recently this performing art form has been undergoing rapid modification .The authentic context of it has been changing from rural to urban context. The inspiration for modification primarily comes from ‘Jatra pala’ and modern theatre. So the folk artists are being compelled to modify themselves to cope with the some optimistic changes in its traditional rules like stage and stage decoration or managements, lighting, costumes, acting, scripts, musical instruments and musical tunes. In this situation original context or authentic context of folk drama is being changed gradually through urbanization. In this paper I have tried to explain how the traditional performance is shifted from folk traditional context to urban context. KEY WORDS: Bolan, Traditional performence, Modernization Language: English |
24. Although Anita Desai officially refuses to be labeled a feminist, a general survey of her creative oeuvre cannot fail to indicate her persistent preoccupation with women’s lives, their muted and muffled voices and the omnipresence of socially and culturally impeditive forces in their identity-formation. This paper proposes a feminist reading of Anita Desai’s In Custody, attempting to locate behind the novel’s chief concern with cultural and linguistic preservation, Desai’s caustic critique of patriarchal structures that conspire to silence women ostensibly in a show of strength but in reality to conceal fear and weakness. Charting the world of the novel through the point of view of her male protagonist Deven, Desai expertly trains her female gaze on a world of men - their endeavours, failures and accomplishments, revealing embedded within the grand narrative of the male world, a confined subculture of neglected, subordinated women who, nevertheless, refuse to be passive. By uncovering the resistant voices of women within the male-dominated text of the novel, this paper intends to establish In Custody as Desai’s significant foray into feminism, not merely in thematic terms but in terms of narrative art as well. |
25. The word ‘ethnicity’ is generally used to identify groups of people who have evolved from their primitive stages of tribe and clan identity in to a more unified group looking for a coherent political identity. The growth of the spirit of ethnicity or ethnic self-assertion among various groups leads to the aspiration for a distinct identity for themselves. Generally, the ethnic groups with a small population and faced with the competition for subsistence with the larger groups tend to suffer from an identity crisis. This very question of identity crisis of the ethnic groups impels them to resort to various sorts of ethnic movements demanding either autonomy or separation from the larger groups. The state of Assam itself has undergone several splits in the post independence period only to satisfy the ethnic aspirations of the different ethnic groups of the region. As in the other parts of the region , among the Karbis of Karbi Anglong district of Assam, the question of ethnic identity is responsible for the ethnic movements of the Karbis demanding autonomy or statehood at different periods of times in the post independence period of the country. |
26. Independence India favoured for the growth of non-prejudicial education of men and women. The Constitution of India guaranteed equal status to both the sexes. The Constitution of India provides for free and compulsory education to all children irrespective of cast, creed and sex. The impact of the promulgation of free and compulsory education gave an input to the development of women education in Manipur as elsewhere in India. KEYWORDS: Women Education, Development, Problems, Manipur and Post-Independence. Language: English |
27. This article examines the Welsh medical mission in North Cachar Hills, Assam from 1905 to 1961. North Cachar Hills was a sub division of Cachar district during the colonial period and was inhabited mainly by different indigenous peoples such as the Dimasas, Zeme Nagas, Angami Nagas, old and new Kukis, Khasis, Karbis, etc. The Welsh missionaries opened their mission in this Hill on 1905 with multiple endeavours such as opening schools, dispensaries and churches. The missionaries regarded the local people as ‘heathen’ which means physically and morally ill and their traditional practices of appeasing the evil spirits for their ailments as a primitive act. The missionaries believed that they were ordained by Jesus Christ to ‘civilize’ the ‘heathen’ by bringing them to Christ through conversion. Moreover the missionaries were not free from euro centrism and regarded their ideas and practices as superior than the traditional beliefs and practices of the natives. This article focuses on the traditional ways of healing sickness by the indigenous people of North Cachar Hills and the medical measures taken by the colonial government and the Welsh Mission. It also highlights the encounter between the indigenous traditional practises, the ‘colonial medicine’ and the ‘Christian medicine’ |
28. The Quit India Movement (1942) was wholly different in Assam from the earlier ones. Hatred towards the British administration was spontaneously bursting out during the movement. It was helped by some directions and programme of the movement circulated by the APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) throughout the province. Many among the Congress volunteers took the path of underground activities. One of the main objectives of the Movement in Assam was to paralyze the communication network and for this the following instruction was issued. |