Volume 14 | Issue 5 | May

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In the era of the Anthropocene, literature increasingly interrogates the entanglement of ecological degradation and social injustice. Amitav Ghosh, through his novels The Hungry Tide and Gun Island, reconfigures climate fiction by granting agency to marginalized nonhuman entities such as tigers, tides, snakes, storms, and mythic forces. These works move beyond anthropocentric paradigms to present the Sundarbans as a multispecies contact zone shaped by colonial histories, neoliberal exploitation, and climate vulnerability. Drawing upon postcolonial ecocriticism, deep ecology, and posthumanist theory, this paper argues that Ghosh's narrative ecologies expose the intersection between ecological violence and social marginalization. By amplifying nonhuman voices alongside displaced refugees, fishers, and migrants, the novels advocate an ethics of interspecies solidarity. The paper further examines the pedagogical relevance of such narratives in fostering inclusive and socially responsive higher education in India. Through mythic realism and transnational climate imaginaries, Ghosh positions literature as a transformative tool for ecological consciousness and social justice.

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Anthropocene; Nonhuman Agency; Postcolonial Ecocriticism; Climate Fiction; Social Justice.

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This article examines Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2010) through the lens of cultural resistance. It argues that Abulhawa utilizes the novel as a medium to counter the systematic erasure of Palestinian identity by positioning storytelling, iconography, and artistic preservation as subversive political tools. By analyzing the roles of oral history, poetic discourse, and material culture, this study demonstrates how artistic expression functions as a primary mode of survival--a concept defined as Sumud--against geopolitical displacement. The study concludes that Abulhawa's narrative reclamation serves as a "virtual homeland" that persists despite physical occupation.

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Palestinian Literature, Cultural Resistance, Susan Abulhawa, Memory Studies, Post-colonialism, Gendered Resistance.

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The presence of violence and sex in popular media represents a major health problem in young teenagers. Less is known about the effects on children and teenagers of sex in media. But it is possible to note that if violence can lead to real-life violence, surely media sex could lead to real-life sex. Today many of the teenagers can click a mouse/mobile before they can even tie their shoelaces. The impact of internet technology and television has captured the thoughts and imagination of young minds that are shedding their innocence too early. In my paper I will try to evaluate the effect of sex in popular media on children's behavior, while also demonstrating the link between media violence and sexual attitude in teenagers. (I have considered adolescents less than 18 years as teens.) The way in which children learn, makes the portrayal of violence, sex, drugs and alcohol within the media an important contributor to the behavior of children. It teaches positive or negative messages to children about conflict resolution, gender roles, courtship patterns and sexual gratification. The incredible amount of sexually suggestive material in popular media shows the teens to be functioning as a sort of "super-peer" , making early sexual activity seem like normal behavior for some impressionable young adolescents.

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Media sex, Real-life sex, Gender Roles, Courtship, Sexual Gratification, Super-Peer.

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Disability Studies is a nascent field and an inventive area with its basis and roots in the social sciences, humanities and rehabilitation sciences. The field encompasses the life experiences of the disabled, the critical issues that are in need of attention, better understanding of the problems and effort to venture into integrative approaches to unify the field. This multiplicity of the diverse voices, perspectives, goals combine in shaping the field of disability studies. The research paper recognizes the relationship between the concept of normalcy and the notion of stigma that is attached with the disabled community.

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Disability, Lived experiences, Stigma and Normalcy

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This paper seeks to reconstruct the history of Beary women in Tulunadu by documenting lived experiences that have remained peripheral to mainstream historiography. Rather than approaching the community through homogenized or externally imposed categories, the study foregrounds everyday cultural practices as archives of meaning. Practices such as attending waal gatherings, the socially significant role of the matchmaker in wedding negotiations, lived experiences of widowhood, and the management of households during male migration to the Gulf collectively constitute a gendered historical landscape.

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Gender, Education, Women's history, Beary community, Historiography

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This paper examines the intersectional dynamics of caste and gender politics in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, foregrounding how structures of silence sustain systemic oppression in postcolonial Indian society. Set in Kerala, the novel exposes the deeply entrenched hierarchies that regulate love, sexuality, and social mobility through what Roy terms the "Love Laws" the codes determining "who should be loved, and how." By situating the forbidden relationship between Ammu and Velutha within the framework of caste transgression and patriarchal control, the novel reveals how women and Dalit bodies become sites of surveillance, punishment and erasure.

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Intersectionality, Caste Hierarchy, Gender Politics, Structural Violence, Marginalization

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Contemporary discourses on women's empowerment frequently position education as a pathway to liberation, autonomy, and social mobility. However, literary narratives reveal the limitations of this assumption within patriarchal societies where women continue to bear the burden of unpaid and invisible labour. This paper examines the relationship between women's education, gendered expectations, and invisible labour in Indian women's fiction through a close reading of The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande and Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur. Drawing on feminist theories of social reproduction and engaging with Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, the study argues that education alone does not dismantle deeply entrenched cultural norms that assign women primary responsibility for caregiving, domestic work, and emotional labour. The paper highlights how the burden of care: reinforced through ideals of the "ideal woman," motherhood, and tradition, continues to structure women's lives despite educational advancement and emphasizes that inclusive higher education must move beyond access and address the socio-cultural frameworks that sustain gender inequality.

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Invisible Labour, Social Reproduction, Educational Empowerment, Motherhood, Burden of Care, Traditional Roles

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This study examines the economic challenges and market dynamics of major plantation crops in India with particular emphasis on production trends, export performance, and price volatility during the period 2020-2024. The analysis is based on secondary data collected from official sources. Quantitative techniques including Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), Coefficient of Variation (CV), and simple regression analysis were used to examine growth trends, price variability, and the relationship between production and export earnings. The results indicate that plantation crop production in India has shown gradual growth during the study period.

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Plantation Crops, Price Volatility, Market Dynamics, Regression Analysis, Export Growth, India 2025

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Globalization has brought profound changes to higher education systems across the world. In India, these changes have been particularly visible since the economic liberalization policies introduced in 1991. The increasing integration of global economies, advances in technology, and international academic collaborations have reshaped the policies and governance of higher education institutions.

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Globalization, Higher Education Policy, Internationalization, Privatization, India, National Education Policy

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The global economic paradigm is shifting from "brown growth" - dependent on fossil fuel extraction, high carbon intensity, and unpriced environmental externalities to a "green economy" defined by resource efficiency, low-carbon innovation, and social inclusion. This paper explores the strategic pathways for national economies to navigate this transition. It argues that decarbonization is no longer merely an environmental imperative but a macroeconomic strategy for long-term resilience. By examining four core pillars renewable energy integration, industrial deep decarbonization, green mobility and transition finance. This paper outlines a comprehensive framework for achieving Net Zero. Special attention is paid to the "Just Transition" to ensure political feasibility and social equity in carbon-intensive regions.

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Decarbonization Strategies, Brown Growth to Green Growth, Transition Finance, Just Transition, Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), Hard-to-Abate Sectors, Green Hydrogen Economy, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), Circular Economy, Energy Decoupling

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