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    Emergence of Modern India in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India
    (Faculty of English, 2012) Mishra, Dip Raj
    Bharati Mukherjee's Miss New In diais the replica of new India. The transforming faces of the contemporary India can be found in this novel. If poverty was the hallmark of the old India, booming prosperity has become the distinguishing features of the contemporary India. The socio-cultural values and traditional rituals have undergone drastic change. In the new India internal migration has become the big problem. Certain areas, which are urbanized, have witnessed rapid economic growth whereas villages have still been backward. In the backward communities, the same old values have become active. Yet, the wave of cultural modernity has penetrated the core fabric of the Indian society. In the new India, the gap between village and town has widened. The lifestyles of the youths have been changed by the emerging trends of western culture. Westernization seems to have made contribution to the shifting socio-economic landscape. The legacy of western modernity, technology transfer, economic liberalization and revolution in information technology have brought India in the present context. By using the perspective of technological modernity and socio-cultural modernization, the researcher asserts that Miss New India projects how the new India emerged from the chaos of antiquity and uncertainty.
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    Stereotypical Representation of Women in Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
    (Faculty of English, 2012) Humagain, Sumargi
    Anton Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' focuses mainly on its stereotypical representation of female characters as passive, suppressive, emotional and pessimistic characters;who are actually deprived of their freedom. Their freedom is confined by the Patriarchal society. In the play, the female characters Yelena and Sonya have been presented as mere a substance and they are bound to repress their feelings, emotions and sentiments due to the social restrictions of patriarchal society. They are suppressed, depressed and exploited by the patriarchal norms, values and systems.Here in the play, the retired professor suppresses his wife, Yelena's emotions and sentiments. She has become mere the puppet, servant and decorating object. She is stereotypically presented as attracted to money, emotions and sentiments. On the other hand, Sonya, daughter of the professor is also a frustrated, alienated and pessimistic characters. Her intellectuality is also suppressed under patriarchy. In the play, male characters treat Yelena as mere object of pleasure and satisfaction of their emotions and feelings. In this way, the female characters are painfully hooked by the patriarchy so they are inactive, non-resistant and weak characters. Chekhov most of the times involve women in the unproductive and non creative activities so as to show them as less intellectual,more emotional and irrational.The prevailed social norms and values have stood as the obstacles to search for self-identity, freedom and intellectuality.