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Manifestations of Place in Al-Raneen Short Story Collection by Amin Oudah: an Analytical Study

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Mohammad Issa Alhourani1, Suad Al-Waely2 & Tar Abdallahi3

1, 2, 3 College of Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Al Ain University

Emails: mohammad.al-hourani@aau.ac.ae, suad.alwaely@aau.ac.ae, tar.abdallahi@aau.ac.ae

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.17

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This research paper aims at examining the experience of Amin Oudah in his second short story collection, Al-Raneen. In addition to introducing the writer and highlighting his literary contributions, the paper introduces the reader to the short story collection entitled Al-Raneen. It briefly introduces each story and provides a quick comment on it, with the aim of coming up with a overall perception of all the stories in the collection. In addition, we dedicate a section of the paper to the study of Hamdan’s Shoes, one of the short stories in the collection. This case study provides insights into this particular story and highlights the most significant features that all the stories have in common.

Key words: Al-Raneen, Ringing, Amin Oudah, short story, place

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Cross-Cultural Encounters, Self-Estrangement and Mutual Understanding in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North

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Mohammad Jamshed

Assistant Professor, English, College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Email: jamshed.psau.edu.sa@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.16

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Cross-cultural encounters and confrontations constitute major areas of postcolonial studies. These depictions are built upon a few stereotypes, colonial constructs and ‘exotic’ images of people. Even in this globalized world of today, these problematic and false assumptions continue directing our ways of thinking and understanding.  We are deeply either ill-informed or misinformed about people who are like us with an insignificant difference in culture and language. As a result, the increasing cultural divide, tensions, conflicts, and misconceptions plague collective human existence. The postcolonial writings, travel literature and feminist studies, characterized by the ideas of ‘self’ and ‘other’, serve as the theoretical framework for this study. These theories have strong parallels as they seek to empower the oppressed and reinstate the marginalized to the position of equality and dignity. The paper attempts to examine in brief how African and Arab writers of the twentieth century, spurred to write back to their demonization in western literary texts, instead chose to promote cultural understanding and present their story from their cultural perspectives. With the help of textual analysis and Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, the paper shows how this colonial trauma distorts perspectives and engenders a sense of self-estrangement and rootlessness which adversely affects the personal lives of people. The paper seeks to use this study to dismantle the stereotypes, reveal similar urges and passions to move away from a troubling past towards a future of mutual respect and cultural understanding. Thus, free from all these mistaken notions misdirecting our ways of dialogues and communications, we, as a global community, will get rid of the ills plaguing our existence across cultures and regions.

Keywords: colonialism; stereotypes; estrangement; cross cultural encounters; understanding; distortions

Indian Art and European Science: Patnakalam and Colonial Botanical Drawings

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Saumya Garima Jaipuriar

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Kirorimal College, University of Delhi.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4336-6278Email: sgjaipuriar@gmail.com,

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.14

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This paper seeks to explore how scientific documentation fuelled by Enlightenment and indigenous art intermingled to create Patnakalam in nineteenth century India. Patnakalam, a school of painting that flourished in Patna, Bihar in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, came into existence with the complex interactions between an indigenous artistic tradition and a western visual sensibility mediated by the requirements of science. Botanists of the East India Company employed native artists to make illustrations of local plant species in an attempt to scientifically catalogue all of the natural resources of the region. This inevitably contributed to the formation of a style of painting which went on to have an enduring legacy far beyond their taxonomical albums.

Keywords: Company Painting, Patnakalam, Modern Indian Art, Indian Art History, British Colonial History, Age of Enlightenment

Of fear and fantasy, fact and fiction: Interrogating canonical Indian literary historiography towards comprehending partition of Bengal in post-Independence Indian (English) fictional space

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Ashes Gupta

Professor, Dept. of English, Tripura University (A Central University), Suryamaninagar, Agartala, West Tripura. ORCID: 0000-0002-5881-8468. Email: ashesgupta@tripurauniv.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.13

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A victim of the partition of Eastern India/undivided Bengal, a refugee is one who has ironically left behind the real but has carried on forever indelibly imprinted in memory that which is lost and remembered in superlatives, thus moving and simultaneously resisting to move. Remaining mentally anchored forever on ‘Bengal’s shore’ and having been denied the moment of adequate articulation of the loss in factual terms partly due to immediate trauma and partly due to the inherent politics of the language of standard literary expression vis-à-vis spoken language (Bangla vs Bangal respectively) with its hierarchic positionings, as well as the politics of state policy that attributed partition of Western India primordial signification, the Bengali Hindu refugee migrating from erstwhile East Pakistan (and now Bangladesh) to India, has never ‘really’ spoken and this is the hypothesis of this argument. Thus, what is heard, being far removed from the historical moment of rupture that was partition and with the loss of that fateful generation is bound to be ‘fiction’ and not ‘fact’. This paper proposes that since the refugee voice was denied adequate articulation of the ‘facts’ and the ‘fears’ resultant from partition in this part of Eastern India, that historical moment of perception and documentation has been irretrievably lost. Hence any attempt at documenting the same now shall obviously result in fictionalization of and fantasizing the loss as is evident in original and translational post-Independence Indian English Fiction -the moment of loss being the moment of fictional genesis. This paper also puts forward the necessity of identifying two specific periods beyond ‘independence’ whose axiomatic point would be the partition of Eastern India/ undivided Bengal viz. pre-partition and post-partition Indian Literature. The same shall apply to Indian English Literature both in original and translation.

Keywords: fear, fantasy, fact, fiction, partition, canonical historiography, refugee, independence, Indian English fictional space, inter-semiotic, translation.

Sanctification of Water among the Population of the Khorezm Oasis

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Abidova Zaynab Kadirberganovna

Head of the Department “Social sciences”, Urgench Branch of the Tashkent Medical Academy Urgench, Khorezm, Uzbekistan. ORCID:  0000-0001-5440-4041. Email: zaynab_74_2011@mail.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.11

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Water holds a specific place in life of the people of the Khorezm oasis located in the lower reaches of the deep Amu Darya River which are between the Kara-Kum and Kyzyl-Kum Deserts. This article is devoted to a study of natural places of a pilgrimage connected with the water cult elements of Khwarezm. The remnants of ancient religions are studied and analyzed and found that the rites that are connected with water are traced in the Khorezm oasis. Special attention is paid to the history of studying of genesis and evolution of a cult of water of the Khorezm hagiology and their roles in life of inhabitants of the Khorezm oasis. This can be an important step towards the of revival of spiritual and cultural life of the Uzbek people.

Keywords: water, cult, places of a pilgrimage, legend, ceremony, Hubbi, Amu Darya.

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A Study on the New Design Thinking for Industrial Revolution 4.0, Requirements and Graduate Readiness

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Swayamprabha Satpathy1, Kabita Kumari Dash2  & Malvika Mohapatra3

1 Associate Professor, Shiksha “O” Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. Email: dr.swayam.prava@gmail.com

2Assistant Professor, Srusti Academy of Management, Bhubaneswar

3 Assistant Professor, Shiksha “O” Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.09

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution can be regarded as Industry 4.0 connected with the developments, innovative approaches and technological advancements held in the year 2011 at Germany. It is the amalgamation of many digital technologies such artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) cloud computing, big data, 3D printing etc. The present study is qualitative in nature and focuses on graduate readiness, the challenges faced by the engineering students of SOA university, Bhubaneswar to meet the industry 4.0 requirements because technical degree is not only the gateway to their success in industry rather they should equip themselves with various soft skills like English language development, communication, personality development, leadership, critical thinking, problem solving  and team building skills to meet the expectations of their employers. The objective of this study is to analyze the current education practices and the industry requirements and come out with best possible solutions for industry readiness of graduate engineers for a successful corporate career. The study has put some valuable insights on the problems faced by the 5th semester students related to language acquisition and their readiness for future industrial demands. Furthermore, universities should also come out with appropriate suggestions and recommendations to enable graduate engineers for future industry readiness.

Keywords: English language, Communication, Industrial revolution 4.0, Graduates’ readiness, Employers Demand, Digital technology,   Technical graduates

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The Rights of Nature: Taking an Ecocentric Approach for Mother Earth

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Somabha Bandopadhay1 & Shivam Pandey2

1Ph.D. Scholar and Research Assistant. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. Email: somabha@nls.ac.in.

2Former Legal Researcher, High Court at Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Email: shivampandey@nls.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.08

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Amidst the developing and progressive world that ensures the balance of needs-rights- duties and politics for human rights i.e. to attain the highest form of self-actualization, the world has truly become anthropocentric. It is only about human beings as such. But, in this process, what we often forget is the reason human beings exist- mother earth or nature. The paper seeks to take a break from anthropocentrism and take a journey of and through ecocentrism that would finally enable human beings to take a step forwards in fulfilling the duties of humans in the truest sense. The paper hopes to contribute to the emerging earth jurisprudence and elaborates on the path that has been traversed and the work yet to be done, both from a philosophical and legal point of view. The paper is primarily a work of doctrinal research using the analytical mode of research to present the developing jurisprudence in the field of earth justice.

Keywords: Rights of nature, anthropocentric, ecocentric, bioregionalism, mother earth, earth jurisprudence, anthropogenic.

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The ‘Beshya’ and the ‘Bahu’: Re-Reading Fakir Mohan Senapati’s “Patent Medicine”

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P. Dalai1 & Dhriti Ray Dalai2

1Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, India. ORCID: 0000-0002-6497-6091. Email: p.dalai10@bhu.ac.in

2Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, India. ORCID: 0000-0002-7066-7578. Email: dhriti.dalai10@bhu.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.07

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Similar to the peasantry, the tribal, the working women, the housewives, and all of those of the 19th century who engaged the attention of subaltern historians and Marxists, the prostitutes too merit critical attention and space in literary discourse. A number of Bengali texts throughout the 19th century had contributed in disseminating the image of the prostitute as the other of the good woman. We, in the course of this paper, focus instead on the early twentieth century and on Fakir Mohan Senapati and his epochal story, “Patent Medicine” that typified this societal understanding in the Bengal province, of which, Orissa was a part. The paper undertakes a hermeneutical attempt to unravel the unexplored aspects of sexuality, feudalism, patriarchy, domesticity and toxic masculinity.

Keywords: Patent Medicine, Prostitutes, Patriarchy, Odia Literature, Bengal Province, Feminism, Gyno-space,Toxic Masculinity

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Unpacking caste politics through the multimodal communicative landscape of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

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Suryendu Chakraborty

Assistant Professor in English, Krishnagar Women’s College, Krishnagar, West Bengal, India. ORCID: 0000-0001-8555-2910. Email: suryenduchakraborty@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.06

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Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability by Srividya Natarajan and S.Anand reveals the bitter truth of casteism as prevalent in Indian society. Through the use of graphic novel format and reviving the traditional Gond art form, the text not only verbalizes the experience of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a major activist who battled against the various modes of oppression and aggression faced by the Dalit community, but also opens up the untouchable’s experiences of existence for the naïve readers. This essay shows how Bhimayana uses a multimodal structure to create a post colonial literacy about caste and caste based marginalizations.

Key Words: Ambedkar , Caste, Dalits, Gondh, Multimodality, Untouchables

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Cakapura: A Unique Ritual-painting Tradition of India

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Sanjay Sen Gupta

School of Fine Arts, Amity University, Kolkata, India. ORCID: 0000-0003-0824-9145.

Email:  ssgupta@kol.amity.edu

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.05

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Caka refers to a square – a lateral space on the ground – while pura means filling up. Together they identify a unique form of ritual painting, executed during the festival of Bandna all across the land of ancient Manbhum – including parts of today’s West Bengal and Jharkhand. In this tradition, a specially prepared liquid pigment is dripped with all the five fingers of the hand – creating sacred designs by the village women effortlessly on their ritual-grounds. This linear emotion often gets extended upon the adjoining wall – where the same pigment is sprinkled with the fingers, along with impressions added with the palm and finger-tip. As a whole, this form of visual expression could be distinguished and identified in comparison to any other floor or wall paintings in India. It’s undoubtedly one of the finest examples – all in terms of technique, style and aesthetics – representing the rich folk-tribal tradition of this country.

Keywords: Cakapura, Bandna, Manbhum, Mahato, Purulia, ritual, painting, tradition

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