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Everyday Aesthetics in Indian Cultural Communities

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Tapaswi H M

Assistant Professor, Dr. NSA Memorial First Grade College, Nitte, Karkala Taluk, Udupi District, 574110, tapaswi.hm@gmail.com, 0000-0002-6867-6088.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.14

Abstract

In India the concept of “folk culture”, “folk literature”, “folk art form” and other forms of many indigenous folk cultures seem to be considered not aesthetic but quaint, due to the dominance of “classical” art forms which are valued more. One can witness the dearth of qualitative understanding of the experience of beauty in these actions and objects which are not considered as art objects or artistic performances in Indian context. A theoretical perspective which tries to understand these genres and even ritual forms is also rare. In the contemporary academics, many scholars both from the Indian tradition and non-Indian traditions are attempting to understand a different kind of aesthetics that the art forms of these people express. Thus, in this paper, I claim that understanding indigenous art is possible using theories of everyday aesthetics rather than through other special theories of aesthetics. While not arguing for a relative view of aesthetics, this paper uses the ideas of everyday aesthetics and beauty to understand art in folk and cultural contexts in India.

Keywords: Everyday Aesthetics, Symbolic Meaning, Rangoli, imagination, beauty

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The Nature and Concept of Meta-artistic Objects

Benjamín Valdivia Professor, Art, Architecture and Design, University of Guanjuato. E-mail: valdivia@ugto.mx  Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.03 Abstract This

Scape of Vulnerability and Resilience in Viramma, life of an untouchable

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Jebamalar. E

Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Pondicherry University, jeba.litmsw@gmail.com , ORCID id: 0000-0001-8468-9535

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.13

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Viramma, Life of an Untouchable (1997) is a telling of Viramma’s own life recorded in print wherein her life’s response to different forms of vulnerabilities was one of resistance which revealed resilience. Belonging to an economically disadvantaged, and socially marginalized community, Viramma’s narrative reached far across seas only with the support received from the purposive use of the tool of translation aided by transcripts collected from ethnomusicological research (1997, p. v). The objective of the paper is to analyse the variables of vulnerability and resilience in the life narrative of Viramma viewed through the lens of sustainable livelihood framework. Situated within the life narrative of Viramma are a number of themes which give rise to significant queries in relation to vulnerability induced due to circumstances. It is from analysis of instances from within Viramma’s life with the theoretical backing of Brene Brown’s shame resilience theory, this research paper seeks to find an answer to the query, if Viramma’s response to vulnerability challenged or reinforced gendered subjectivities?

Keywords: life writing/narrative, vulnerability, resilience, responses, sustainable livelihood framework, shame resilience theory.

Piet Mondrian, early Neo-Plastic compositions, and six principles of Neo-Plasticism

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Ali Fallahzadeh1 & Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof2

1Visual Art Department, Cultural Center, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya, Malaysia. ORCID:  0000-0002-0414-8702. Email: alfall2001@yahoo.com

2(Corresponding author) Visual Art Department, Cultural Center, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya, Malaysia. ORCID:  0000-0003-3567-6812 Email: gsyousof@hotmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.12

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In spite of the prominent role of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) as a pure abstract painter and writer of his theories who developed the abstract art into what he called Neo-Plasticism, little has been written about him compared to other painters such as Picasso and Matisse. Examining the past and recent literature published about Mondrian, some scholars examined the aesthetic evolution of Mondrian’s vision toward his Neo-Plastic art and theory within a historical context by depending on the influences he received from circle of thinkers, artists, and friends during his life. While other scholars analyzed the components of Neo-Plastic theory through formal tenets of De Stijl or a metaphysical lens through premises of western philosophies such as Theosophy, Hegel, and Platonism. Nevertheless, despite the emphasis of the majority of scholars on close relation between Mondrian’s paintings and writings, researchers showed little tendency to examine the development of core formal theories of Neo-Plasticism through a parallel analysis of his Neo-Plastic paintings and his theoretical writings. Therefore, in this paper I aim to examine Mondrian’s early artistic ideas, through a coinciding analysis of his 1919-1920 paintings and his 1919-1923 theoretical essays. In this article, I have considered six principles of Neo-Plasticism published in 1926 by Mondrian, as my main point of departure. The main objective of this paper is to reveal the degrees of Mondrian’s awareness toward his refined, crystalized, aesthetic principles – he wrote in 1926 – by examining his early Neo-Plastic 1919-1920 compositions and his 1919-1923 theoretical essays. By conducting a context-independent research on Mondrian’s paintings and writings, I aim to propose a novel perspective looking through the very core theory of Neo-Plasticism and to motivate more scholars to examine Mondrian’s Neo-Plastic paintings and writings as integrated body of his Neo-Plasticism.

Keywords: Piet Mondrian, Neo-Plastic art, Neo-Plasticism, Six principles of Neo-Plasticism, Equilibrium, Rhythm.

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A Comparative Analysis of Crime Stories Published in leading English Newspapers of Delhi Edition

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Eqbal Ahmad & Ramendra Nath Verma

(SCADMS) Sharda University Greater Noida, U.P. Email: ramendranath12@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.11

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With the boom in media industry in India, News has become a product to be consumed by the readers and viewers and, thus, sold in terms of attracting revenue by boosting circulation and rating than providing pure information to aware the mass and empower people. In most cases, news is determined on the basis of public craze, not requirement. This fact of Indian journalism has led to over emphasis on Sensational, Political and Crime Reporting. Today, Crime reports have taken a major place in Newspapers. Because of the immense popularity of crime as a topic of news, there has been no shortage of research on how crime is covered by the media. The present study examines crime news coverage in the leading English Newspapers. The national dailies have been examined against the backcloth of Indian culture and social settings. Comparative analysis was followed to study the objectives and hypothesis. Some prominent facts came into light through this research like Hindustan Times had covered more number of stories by giving maximum coverage to the crime news than the other national dailies while in The Times of India, maximum stories related to terrorism were published. Overall the study tried to analyze the crime reporting in English newspapers through comparative analysis.

Keywords: Media, Newspaper, Crime news, national dailies

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Customer Perception and Problems towards Ola Services in Smart Cities with Reference to Salem

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J. Senthil Velmurugan1, R. Shruthi2, S. V. Rajkamal3

Associate Professor1, Periyar Institute of Management Studies (PRIMS), Periyar University, Salem. Email: jsenthilv@rediffmail.com

Ph.D Research Scholar2, Periyar Institute of Management Studies (PRIMS), Periyar University, Salem

Ph.D Research Scholar3, Periyar Institute of Management Studies (PRIMS), Periyar University, Salem.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.10

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Smart cities put data and digital technology to work with the goal of improving the quality of life. This study shows the global interference of technology advancement in cab hailing services in smart cities which enables customers to hail taxis through their smart phones, become popular worldwide. To provide a systematic account of the impact of e-hailing applications’ wide adoption on the taxi system, this study is made to analyze the customers perception and upcoming improvements about Ola services. This study focuses on customers and the sample of 120 respondents is been collected and analyses is made for the future scope to retain the effective services of OLA.

Keywords: Perceptions, Ola strategies, Smart cities, Enhancement techniques.

Expression of Multidimensional Identities in the Post-truth World: Innate Identities in Saramago’s Blindness

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Joby Joseph1 & Catherin Edward2

1Research Scholar, Holy Cross College, Affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Trichy.

Email: jhobu@yahoo.co.in

2Associate Professor & Research Advisor, Department of English, Holy Cross College, Trichy

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.09

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The Psychological wavelengths intermingled in pursuance of roots of various characteristics as reflected through the novel Blindness are different conceptual explorations. Identity is an intricate term in the present scenario. For him, the novel is a medium where socio-cultural and political issues are addressed and his voice acts as a didactic language that represents the colonial and postcolonial subjects. Moreover, he illustrates the political ideology in a different way. The representation of the other by a meta-narrative voice is the hallmark of Jose Saramago’s novels. In his novels, he acts as an all-knowing narrator or implied author who tries to transform the society and the Portuguese culture in general. The representation of the other in the novel Blindness is a kind of historical discourse which is articulated as artificial, a constructed category, a power-based and discriminatory construction. Of course, it is communicated through conventional, discursive and narrative strategies. Hence, we find a relation between history and story in these narratives. As so many disaster narratives start, Blindness also begins with a disaster-traffic jam. It anticipates a search for identity. In the novel, Saramago invites our attention to think of a kind of chaos and horror that happens in Blindness. In the novel Blindness, the identities clash with one another owing to the common identity of blindness having a big and tremendous impact in it one way or the other. In short, the significance of blindness becomes dominant only when there is eyesight and the existence of the non- blind. In that way, the blind have their own identity and culture and Saramago tries to add more coloring to that identity in a philosophical and eschatological manner. The paper intends to explain that idea.

Keywords: Blindness, Post Truth, Identity Crisis, Physical blindness, Spiritual blindness, Globalization and Localization

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Book Review: Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds: a Wildly Satiric, Piercingly Real and Darkly Humorous Narrative

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Book Name: Red Birds

Author: Mohammed Hanif

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Year of Publication: 2018

ISBN: HB: 978-1-4088-9718-8

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Sukanya Saha

Assistant Professor, Department of English, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur. Tamilnadu. Email: sukanyap@srmist.edu.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.08

Red Birds’ is stylistically and thematically compelling narrative, weaving its tapestry with multiple perspectives, giving haunting insights laced with sarcasm. It is a remarkable feat of verbal audacity, wise, searing, psychologically intimate and fast paced examination of lives. Hanif admits that the book is not autobiographical in anyway, because his personal life is ‘fairly dull and predictable in a middle class kind of way’. Keep Reading

Demystifying the Non-human Animal: Analyzing Animal Agency through the Select Narratives of Jim Corbett

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Parul Rani1 & Nagendra Kumar2

1Research Scholar in English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India.

Email Id: parulnet.e@gmail.com, ORCID Id: 0000-0002-9934-3585

2Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India.

Email Id: naguk20@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.07

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The present article revives the jungle knowledge of a renowned Anglo-Indian hunter cum conservationist; Jim Corbett. The contemporary significance of Corbett’s first-hand experiences with the animals lies in providing an insight into the ways of the wildlife; unraveling the multilayered relationships of animals with their environment; including humans. The focus on animal behavior takes this paper to exemplify how the interspecies and intraspecies interactions validate the non-human agency. There is an attempt to bring Corbett’s select narratives from the collections — Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon, and Jungle Lore in dialogue with the ethological studies, that complement and precede the debate of the animal agency. Concerned with the question of the animal, this study evolves a critique of Heidegger’s dichotomy between the human and animal that sprouts on the idea of the relative non-agent(ic) functionality of the non-human animals. This study opts for an interdisciplinary approach of ethology and philosophy to execute a textual analysis of Corbett’s narratives to analyze the animals as agents.

Keywords:  animals, human-animal relationship, Jim Corbett, non-human animal agency

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Analyzing Discourse Coherence in Bengali Elementary Choras (Children’s Nursery Rhymes)

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Rajoshree Chatterjee1 & Jayshree Chakraborty2

 

1Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Kharagpur – 721302. West Midnapore, West Bengal. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5145-1889.

Email id: rajoshri.chatterji@gmail.com

2Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Kharagpur – 721302. West Midnapore, West Bengal. ndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7926-2956. Email id: shree@hss.iitkgp.ernet.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.06

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The present paper aims to explain the process of meaning making in Bengali elementary Choras (children’s nursery rhymes) by their intended target audience, little children, who are yet to develop their semantic, cognitive or linguistic skills. Chora, the Bengali oral folkloric counterpart of nonsensical verses for children, can be characterised as a type of dynamic discourse where socio-cultural elements occur abundantly though asymmetrically. Outlined by intermittent cohesive gaps, such discourses are however found to be thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated by the little children, despite their lack of prior textual and/or contextual awareness. Following this, it is observed that such rhymes or Choras are more about experiencing amusement that the children derive from the verses rather than understanding their denotative or connotative sense. Meaning making of such rhymes by the little children, we claim, occur not through the processing of semantics of the text but by directly experiencing the communicative intent of the discourse. Coherence of such dynamic and discontinuous discourses is therefore attained when their pragmatic intent, that is enjoyment – intertwined in the verses, is identified by the little children and reciprocated through affirmation. The analysis detects the predominance of coherence constructed at the discourse level and accordingly the methodology adopted to explain cognizance in elementary Choras is the theory of Discourse Coherence (Wang and Guo, 2014) which claims that coherence in discourse can be achieved jointly by the discourse producer as well as the receiver.

Keywords: Choras, Cohesion, Discourse Coherence, Pragmatic Intent

The Praxis of the Wedded Mystic: a Divergent Reading of Easterine Kire’s novel When the River Sleeps

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Dhanya A.P1 & Sudakshina Bhattacharya2

1Dept of English and Humanities, Amrita School of Arts and Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. ORCID: 0000-0001-5979-0260. Email: dhanya25ajith@gmail.com

2Dept of English and Humanities, Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. ORCID: 0000-0001-7032-0737. Email: s_bhattacharya@cb.amrita.edu

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.05

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The usual prognosis about literature from the North Eastern regions of India invokes a set of linear, preconceived notions about identity questions, cultural and political conflicts, myths, oral traditions and magic realism. This standpoint has been strongly contested by writer, Easterine Kire, who has revealed a veritable and profound consciousness, embedded deeply in  the Angami Naga tradition. That there is an intense and significant version of ‘mysticism’, hitherto unrealized, has been clearly illustrated in her novel When the River Sleeps. The novelist is successful in searing up this notion and illustrating a wonderful vignette of Naga mysticism. Based on Carl Jung’s concept of individuation and making of the ‘self’,  the focus of this paper is mainly on the praxis of Kire’s protagonist, Vilie, who delves deeper into the realm of the unseen, intuited by centuries of collective unconscious that helps him to savor mystical experiences. The paper seeks to trace the process of Vilie’s individuation, from a hunter, to a self wedded man of the forest, a conservationist, redeemer and finally to a mystic. The principles of Jung can be aptly applied to  the  various stages of his transcendence. Such a study can also help  to vindicate the stipulated notions about the Naga people as overtly aggressive, belligerent head hunters and insurgents.

Keywords: North Eastern regions, mysticism, Angami Naga, individuation, collective unconscious

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