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PUNE RESEARCH TIMES 

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY STUDIES  

(ISSN 2456-0960) (JIF 3.18)

DR. SHAMRAO WAGHMARE

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The River Between, is a second novel of NgugiWaThiong’o. . Waiyaki, the protagonist is caught between two worlds, the tribal world and the world of Christianity. Kameno and Makuyu are the two ridges around which the story revolves and they represent the tribal tradition and the new tradition. . Ngugi focuses on the clash between the native and western cultures. Ngugi starts to examine the history from the time of Whites settling in Kenya.  The Whites for spreading their wings supports Makuyu. They acknowledge that the new culture is carrying them away from their native culture and tradition.

Key words: Christianity, clash, native culture, western culture

DR. ANANTA SHIVAJI KOTKAR

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The present study Objectives: 1) To Find out The Marital Adjustment among Working and Non Working Women.2)To Determine The Life Satisfaction among Working and Non Working Women. Hypotheses: H1) there will be significant differences between working and non working women on their marital adjustment.H2)There will be significant difference between working and non working women on their life satisfaction Sample: For this research work, a purposive random sampling technique was used. The samples were consisting of total 32 respondents including two groups’ i.e.16 working women and 16 non working women from Hingoli city (Maharashtra State age ranges between 25 to 45years and educational status Under Graduation. Tools: Marital Adjustment Scale: This scale developed by Pramod Kumar and Rohtagi Kanchan, 1999. Life Satisfaction Scale:This scale constructed by Alam & Shrivastava Conclusion: Working women have good marital adjustment as compare the Non working women. Working women have better life satisfaction as compare the Non working women.

Key words: Marital Adjustment, Life Satisfaction,Working Women, Non Working Women

MAYURI THAKAR

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The role of cinema in depicting the Partition of India and Pakistan, as it is one of the most traumatic and chaotic event which changed the lives of millions of people. The impact of it is still felt in the lives of people. To study the impact of cinema on the issue of Partition is the goal of this paper. In specific terms, the paper depicts the change in situations of minorities during homogenous and heterogeneous times in the same locale as depicted in the Indian cinema. Partition plays an important role in determining the fate of the minority community in such differing times. For this purpose, I have selected few Partition Cinema movies like Gadaar, Pinjar and Earth. These movies are based in different locales spread on both sides of the border. This will give us a holistic view of the locales in such conflicting times. I’ll first introduce the overlapping of Partition and Indian Cinema. Later, I’ll take into account the different times in selected films i.e. before Partition and at the time of Partition and the impact it made, especially, on the minority of the locale. In the analysis of each selected movie, I’ll try to show the relationship between people of majority and minority and the sea-change after Partition.

R. NAGARAJU & N. PHANI KUMAR

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This paper continues by comparing: English for sustainability (ESD)  to English language teaching (ELT), arguing that these connections give us an exciting role to play in this newly developing paradigm of education and larger societal changes—the reason we teach. I end by offering recommendations for enhancing this relationship. The objective of this ESD with ELT is to bring empathy among both teachers and learners.

Key words: English for sustainability (ESD) English language teaching (ELT)

MRUDULA KULKARNI, DR. SANDHYA DHABE, COL. ATUL DHABE & MANJUSHA PANDE

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36 individuals from various strata of life and of varying knowledge of music were subjected to listen to short clips of instrumental music in Indian classical format for about 3 minutes. The clips were drawn from various ragas dealing with known types of emotions. The listeners were asked to select the segment of the clip that invokes the concerned emotion most intensely. After collecting data, the most accepted segments were expressed as melodic phrases in terms of musical notes. The phrases were quantified in terms of frequencies of the notes involved. A basic statistical model was formed that can reduce a phrase to a numeral that can be treated and the pattern thus arrived at can be statistically analyzed.  It was found that the numerals associated with the ragas with changing emotions gradually from pathos to frolic and back to pathos, coinciding with time zones of the day that the ragas are allotted actually went on increasing to reach the maxima and started back reducing in value. This gives an impetus to further carry out a detailed research to validate the hypothesis that it is the melodic phrases formed by permutations of musical notes with varying emphases on each, that are responsible for invocation of various emotions and not the isolated notes as generally believed and taught in music schools.

Keywords: Sound, Tones, Swaras, Shruti, Intonation, Raga, Emotions, Phrase

DR. ASHISH PANDEY

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Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn has been doomed to notoriety mainly because of charges of obscenity in his books; and due to allegations of being a male a chauvinist who treats women as ‘things’ by Kate Millett in her seminal work, Sexual Politics. While Judge Sam B Epstein absolved him of all charges of obscenity in Tropic of Cancer, the allegations of misogyny levelled by Kate Millet tend to linger on even today. This paper aims at defending Henry Miller against the charges of Kate Millett in Sexual Politics. At the same time, it also explores the love hate relationship between the two great literary stalwarts.

Keywords: obscenity, misogyny, vulgarity, misrepresentation, revolution.

डॉ. आर. डी. पटेल

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आदि काव्य रामायण के रचयिता महर्षि वाल्मीकि अदभूत और अलौकिक कवित्व के धनी और ज्ञानी ऋषि थे । वे मात्र आदि कवि ही नहीं, अनेक विषयों के ज्ञाता भी थे । उनकी इस अमर रचना में उनकी अनेकविध प्रतिभाओं के दर्शन होते है । वाल्मीकि का मूल नाम अग्निशर्मा था । एक मान्यता के अनुसार वे भार्गव या प्राचेतस् के रुप में प्रसिद्ध थे । विष्णुपुराण के अनुसार वे भृगु के वंशज एवं वैवस्वत मन्वन्तर के चौवीस वें व्यास थे ।कतिपय विद्वान उन्हें वल्मीक नामक मुनि के पुत्र भी मानते है । एक ओर मान्यता के अनुसार उनका मूल नाम रत्नाकर था । उनका जन्म कुलीन ब्राह्मण कुल में हुआ था । उनकी आर्थिक दशा साधारण थी । वे ब्राह्मणपुत्र होने के बावजूद किरातों के साथ पले-बढे थे । इसी कारण कुछ असामाजिक प्रवृत्तियों उनमें घर कर गई थी इसी कारण वे वालिया लूंटेरे के रुप में प्रसिद्ध हुए । परंतु बाद में सप्तर्षियों के मिलन के कारण लूटेरे में से ऋषि बन गये ।

प्रा. लोडे परमेश्वर लिंबाजी

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भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थेत कृषी क्षेत्राला अत्यंत महत्वाचे स्थान आहे. भारतीय शेती व्यवसाय म्हणजे भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थेचा कणाच होय. स्वातंत्र्यानंतर औद्योगिकीकरण करण्याचे प्रयत्न करण्यात आले असले तरी भारतातील शेती व्यवसायाचे महत्व अद्याप कमी झालेले नाही. भारतीय जनतेच्या उदरनिर्वाहाचे सर्वात मोठे क्षेत्र म्हणजे कृषी क्षेत्र होय. कृषी क्षेत्र भारतातील सर्वात मोठे मुक्त खाजगी क्षेत्र आहे. तसेच सर्वात मोठे असंघटित क्षेत्र आहे. कृषी व्यवसाय हा एकच असा व्यवसाय आहे ज्याच्यावर आयकर आकारला जात नाही. भारतीय शेती क्षेत्राची ऐतिहासिक पार्श्वभूमी पाहिली तर भारतीय कृषी पारंपारिक व निर्वाह प्रकारची होती असे दिसते.