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Post-Colonial India: A Review
T his paper aims to provide a forum for the distorted reality of Indian diversity, which has been the ramification of vari ous epochs of triumph and affiliation of cultures. The coun try had see...
Ethnography of the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
T he present study is an attempt to document the heritag es, tangible as well as intangible aspects of the Apatanis, one of the major tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. Hopefully, this study of the ...
Widowhood: A Case Study of Three Bihari Women
T he aim of this interview-based study of three middle-class widowed-women from Patna (Bihar) is to understand their emotional state and social circumstances after a sudden de mise of their re...
Reproductive Health among the Lisu Women of Arunachal Pradesh
T he Lisus are one of the minor tribes of Arunachal Pradesh inhabiting in some of the most remote parts of the state. For the present study, an attempt has been made to examine the general he...
Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka in 1912 and published later in the year 1915. The book is a seminal representation of what is called the modernist movement in literature. It als...
Syncretism Among the Tagins of Arunachal Pradesh with Special Reference to Donyi-Poloism
The present paper discusses the indigenous identity based on religious faith called “Donyi-Poloism” of the tribal community of Tagins of Daporijo in the district of Upper Subansiri of the state o...
Effect of Online Gaming on Positive and Negative Affect and Psychological Wellbeing
India is ranked 5th globally in game downloads on Q2 2016 and is touted to reach the $1 billion mark by 2021. Though there is scant research in this significantly growing field of human behavior,...
Reading the Construct: An Appraisal of Muslim Women in Contemporary Hindi Commercial Cinema
Cinema is considered a cultural artifact that reflects and replicates reality. Image constructs of women as represented in cinema function as signs of ideological discourses in a patriarchal socie...
Socially Represented Image of the Bihari Migrants
The present paper is based on the findings of an empirical study of the socially represented image of the Bihari migrants by the people of Mumbai (India). The study comprised 307 respondents, of ...
Affordances of Arbitrariness in Transmodal Semiosis
Arbitrariness is a linguistic principle proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure through his synchronic structuralist analysis of language. He delineates the structure of signs and establishes the absenc...
As a Man Thinketh: 21st Century Edition The Wisdom of James Allen
As a Man Thinketh: 21st Century Edition is a modern version of As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. It is a ground-breaking book originally published in 1903. Keeping in mind the tranquillity and pr...
A Trend in Farming: Fair Trade Practice for Sustainable Livelihood
Fair trade is an innovative trade that supports and strengthens resource poor farmers and creates opportunities for sustainable livelihood. Fair trade, being a global movement, offers significant ...