Papers by Sangeeta Mukherjee
Cultural Materialist Reading: Visualizing Dominant Ideologies and Dissident Discourses in the Creative Graphic Panels of Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir
Creativity Studies
One of the prominent theories of cultural studies is cultural materialism, which has its base on ... more One of the prominent theories of cultural studies is cultural materialism, which has its base on the theory of Marxism. Much of the research work done regarding cultural materialism is on Renaissance literature; the development of the theory itself is through the studies conducted on the plays of William Shakespeare, who is one of the epitomes of Renaissance literature. This paper aims to be a unique cultural materialist reading done on a graphic novel based on Kashmir, Indian subcontinent. Kashmir is one of the most desired lands on Earth; it has also been a land of contest right from 1947. This article attempts to explore Malik Sajad’s reflection of the Kashmiri society by analyzing and discussing graphic panels from Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir (originally published in 2015) in the light of cultural materialism. Since cultural materialism admits that a text mirrors the socio-cultural and political life of a society; it has been used for interpreting this Kashmir-based graphic novel ...
CREATIVITY STUDIES, 2023
One of the prominent theories of cultural studies is cultural materialism, which has its base on ... more One of the prominent theories of cultural studies is cultural materialism, which has its base on the theory of Marxism. Much of the research work done regarding cultural materialism is on Renaissance literature; the development of the theory itself is through the studies conducted on the plays of William Shakespeare, who is one of the epitomes of Renaissance literature. This paper aims to be a unique cultural materialist reading done on a graphic novel based on Kashmir, Indian subcontinent. Kashmir is one of the most desired lands on Earth; it has also been a land of contest right from 1947. This article attempts to explore Malik Sajad's reflection of the Kashmiri society by analyzing and discussing graphic panels from Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir (originally published in 2015) in the light of cultural materialism. Since cultural materialism admits that a text mirrors the socio-cultural and political life of a society; it has been used for interpreting this Kashmir-based graphic novel which is a blend of image and words. This graphic memoir offers a unique narration of the political and societal lives of Kashmiris through the creative deployment of an anthropomorphic metaphor. This study shows how Sajad graphically reflects the dominant ideology and dissident discourses in these panels.
Hamlet Decentered: A Filmic Adaptation of Anjan Dutt’s Hemanta
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Hamlet Decentered: A Filmic Adaptation of Anjan Dutt’s Hemanta
Review of: "Death of English and the Language of the Internet: Mistakes and Errors
The Localization of English in Indian Contexts
The book examines the native (Indian) contexts, which facilitate the occurrence of native words a... more The book examines the native (Indian) contexts, which facilitate the occurrence of native words and expressions. Based on the occurrence of the socio-culturally rich Indian elements, four major native contexts were identified, namely core-native context, socially interactive context, native narrative context, and native situational context. The texts selected for the purpose include Kanthapura, The God of Small Things, and The Hungry Tide. The various devices chosen for the purpose of analysis include Indian lexical items, code-switching and code-mixing, structural and stylistic deviations, and translation of Indian expressions – words, proverbs, idioms, verses, songs, etc. The analysis of these devices in the textual background shows that in the given contexts, the native language elements can only best communicate the native ideas and expressions.
International journal of engineering research and technology, 2019
Entrepreneurs are the innovators who provide the innovation or creative destruction that gives so... more Entrepreneurs are the innovators who provide the innovation or creative destruction that gives society a new way of addressing problems. Entrepreneurship also involves practices beyond mere wealth-creation. However, the dominant entrepreneurial discourses linked to the neo-liberal economy and related modes of production leave little space for alternative interpretations of entrepreneurship. Thus, new entrepreneurial discourses, especially those built upon the idea of sustainable and inclusive development, are required to stimulate social change. Ecological Entrepreneurship (EE) is an offshoot of the concept of ecological modernization linked to the idea of sustainable development of the 1990s. This article uses a broad range of literature and case studies to discuss some of the key drivers of the discourse of ecological entrepreneurship. The role of ecological communication in promoting eco-entrepreneurial action and discourse is analyzed. Agency issues with relation to the faster promotion of the discourse of ecological entrepreneurship are discussed. The objective is to forward the transformative discourse of ecological entrepreneurship that can prepare a roadmap to green social economy.
Stosunki między Ukrainą a Wspólnotą Europejską (WE) nawiązane zostały 2 grudnia 1991 roku, kiedy ... more Stosunki między Ukrainą a Wspólnotą Europejską (WE) nawiązane zostały 2 grudnia 1991 roku, kiedy to WE przedstawiła deklarację dotyczącą demokratycznego charakteru referendum na Ukraine, a sprawująca w tym czasie prezydencję Holandia oficjalnie uznała niepodległość Ukrainy 1 . Obecnie podstawą prawną bilateralnych stosunków między stronami jest podpisane 14 czerwca 1994 roku Porozumienie o Partnerstwie i Współpracy (PCA), które weszło w życie 1 marca 1998 roku 2 , oraz przyjęty 21 lutego 2005 roku w ramach Europejskiej Polityki Sąsiedztwa (EPS) Plan Działania. W dniu 29 kwietnia 2004 roku Ukraina podpisała Protokół dodatkowy rozszerzający zapisy PCA na nowe kraje przystępujące do UE, w tym Polskę. Z tego właśnie powodu postanowienia PCA stanowią również podstawę prawną stosunków gospodarczych między Polską i Ukrainą. Stanowisko UE i Ukrainy do odnośnie stosunków bilateralnych zostało doprecyzowane w przypadku UE w zawartej 11 grudnia 1999 roku Wspólnej Strategii UE wobec Ukrainy, a w przypadku Ukrainy w Strategii Integracji Ukrainy z UE. Ponadto wzajemne stosunki reguluje szereg innych umów bilateralnych, dotyczących m.in.:
Technology has drastically improved the existing educational system over the past fifteen years. ... more Technology has drastically improved the existing educational system over the past fifteen years. ‘Self-learning,’ using online platforms, has replaced the traditional rote learning. The umbrella of technology -based educational system incorporates multitudes of learning apps. Byju’s The Learning App (Byju’s) is India’s largest educational app with over 3, 00,000 annual subscriptions. The learning app uses a blend of content, media and technology to make learning more interactive and interesting among the students. It al so promotes personalized learning among the users. In this context, the current study seeks to expl ore a select group of high school and higher secondary students from CBSE and Kerala State Board and interpret their feedback to examine the transformation from tradition al learning to technology-based personalized learning. This paper also demonstrates how Byju’s app facilitates and improves the teaching-learning experience among the students of Kerala.
GEDRAG & ORGANISATIE REVIEW, 2020
We report on deterministic generation of 18-qubit genuinely entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger... more We report on deterministic generation of 18-qubit genuinely entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and multi-component atomic Schrödinger cat states of up to 20 qubits on a quantum processor, which features 20 superconducting qubits interconnected by a bus resonator. By engineering a one-axis twisting Hamiltonian enabled by the resonator-mediated interactions, the system of qubits initialized coherently evolves to an over-squeezed, non-Gaussian regime, where atomic Schrödinger cat states, i.e., superpositions of atomic coherent states including GHZ state, appear at specific time intervals in excellent agreement with theory. With high controllability, we are able to take snapshots of the dynamics by plotting quasidistribution Q-functions of the 20qubit atomic cat states, and globally characterize the 18-qubit GHZ state which yields a fidelity of 0.525 ± 0.005 confirming genuine eighteen-partite entanglement. Our results demonstrate the largest entanglement controllably created so far in solid state architectures, and the process of generating and detecting multipartite entanglement may promise applications in practical quantum metrology, quantum information processing and quantum computation.
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2020
Communicative strategies like code-switching and code-mixing have interested researchers the worl... more Communicative strategies like code-switching and code-mixing have interested researchers the world over. These strategies have traversed from real life situations to creative writings to social networking domains and are dominant in bilingual or multilingual societies for multifarious reasons. While majority of the research was conducted in the spoken form from the real-life contexts, a few were directed towards the written forms in literary genres and computer-mediated communication. However, a significant gap becomes noticeable and needs to be explored in Indian English fiction where creative writers have dexterously used these communicative strategies. Keeping the above in mind, the present paper attempts to analyze the role of these strategies in indigenous interpersonal communicative contexts in Indian English fiction. The text chosen for this purpose is Arundhati Roy's TheGod o Small Things and the analysis is based on the grammatical and pragmatic explanation of indigenous words which mostly belong to the area of interpersonal communication. The study shows how the author has skillfully used these strategies to unravel the indigenous cultural and social customs and mindset of the people within a particular indigenous community as well as the role-relationship between the interlocutors in a particular communicative context.
The Ramification of Shakespeare's Hamlet as Karmayogi: Reflecting the Cultural Traces of Post-Colonial Kerala
Journal of critical reviews, Mar 1, 2020
Even in the contemporary era, William Shakespeares plays stand unshaken because of the universal... more Even in the contemporary era, William Shakespeares plays stand unshaken because of the universal truth of humanity that is contained in them. This quality of humanity along with adaptability and flexibility of Shakespearean plays makes them friendlier to be transformed into any genre. His plays have thus been widely adapted, interpreted and appropriated as movies the world over. The current research article tries to analyze how the tragic play Hamlet has been re-contextualized in the Indian (Malayalam) film, Karmayogi, to suit the Post-colonial Indian backdrop. The research article also explores the projection of the Orient exotic culture as far more superior to that of its Occidental counterpart. To highlight this cultural superiority of Orient over the Occident, the film has been enriched with local exotic traditions of Kelipathram and Poorakkali of Kerala. Simultaneously, the article also portrays the alterity between the scenes of original, Occidental metanarrative Hamlet and the exotic, Orient Karmayogi.
Journal of critical reviews, 2020
From time immemorial, human beings have tried to uncover the meaning of their existence. Philosop... more From time immemorial, human beings have tried to uncover the meaning of their existence. Philosophers and scientists alike have tried to answer the puzzling questions on human consciousness. Consciousness can be considered as the most familiar yet the most mysterious aspect of human lives. Human consciousness is often the outcome of what we see and what we perceive. The colors that we see around us can have a great impact on our moods and feelings. Color Psychology studies how hues determine human behavior, moods and feelings. In literary texts, especially in the autobiographical ones, authors have tried to express their self, identity, consciousness and their mental and physical beings through symbols and binarisms. The dichotomies in the society in which one lives affect the existence of the individual. Binary opposites are considered as 'western construct'. French anthropologist Levi Strauss, who is considered as the father of modern anthropology, proposed the theory of binary opposites and spoke about how books and media use binary opposites to strengthen their plot, develop narratives and bring about contrasts. Han Kang in her semi-autobiographical novel, The White Book, has extensively used the color 'white' to express her moods, feelings, memories and thoughts. White is a color that comprises of all the other colors in the color spectrum. The white color is usually associated with peace, purity and hope. On the contrary, it also symbolizes death, detachment, disinterest and dryness. This dichotomy is used very beautifully throughout the novel. The current paper thus tries to deconstruct the binarisms of the color white as used in the novel, The White Book. The paper also tries to examine how color psychology affects human behavior and consciousness.
Theory and Practice in Language Studies
The depletion and drying of river water across India is a growing problem in the contemporary per... more The depletion and drying of river water across India is a growing problem in the contemporary period. The ecologists have raised a huge concern regarding the depletion of river water in India. The drying, depletion, and disappearance of the rivers in India can be traced back to the Indus Valley Civilization. The ecological disturbance on land resulted in the loss of the Saraswati River. Amish Tripathi is a renowned figure in the realm of popular Indian mythological fiction. He has not only re-narrated the mythology of India but has also retold the history and geological reasons for the disappearance of the Saraswati River in his novel The Oath of Vayuputras (2013). The research article views the novel from a deep eco-critical perspective to examine the rationale behind the drying and depletion of the Saraswati River due to the destructive production and disposal of Somras and its toxic waste in the river. The article aims at showing the ecological disturbance in the biosphere which ...
Media Watch, 2017
Literary multilingualism has been dexterously used by the Indian English writers to reflect the c... more Literary multilingualism has been dexterously used by the Indian English writers to reflect the cultural and behavioral style of the characters and make the setting realistic. The paper attempts to identify and analyze the kinds of literary techniques used in Indian English fiction and how through the use of these techniques, the writers have tried to sustain the native culture in the setting of the novel. The tools chosen for analysis include translated proverbs, songs and religious verse and the methodology preferred for this purpose is narrative methodology. The analysis of these devices in the textual background shows that in the Indian English fiction, the native culture in the setting of the novel can best be sustained by the use of native elements.
Northeast India, the land of original inhabitants, follows a unique and fascinating culture and t... more Northeast India, the land of original inhabitants, follows a unique and fascinating culture and tradition as its inhabitants are closely attached to nature. Northeast India is one of those few places in the world, where matrilineal culture is still practiced. In Meghalaya, one of the northeastern states, the practice of matrilineality has been in existence for almost 2000 years among a few tribes. Khasi, Jaintia and Garo, the earliest ethnic communities of Meghalaya appear to be homogenous ones, as the youngest daughter becomes the custodian of the ancestral prospects. This practice where the womenfolk become the custodians of the cultural and natural artifacts has strong parallels in the theory of ecofeminism. By employing ecofeministic perspective to read the matrilineal culture of the tribes, the paper aims to make a parallel study on the ethnic women’s affinity towards nature. Ecofeminism celebrates the robust connect between women and nature and asserts that women serve as the ...
Creativity Studies, 2020
The never-ending contemporaneity of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is established by the experimen... more The never-ending contemporaneity of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is established by the experimental adaptations of the play that have transcended time and space. The filmic adaptations, in particular, have recontextualized the original dramatic text in several innovative ways. This paper sets out to analyse from certain postmodern angles the creative and innovative adaptation of a classic literary text from a Scottish setting to two completely different Indian settings (geographically, culturally and politically) and also from 16th century Scotland, United Kingdom to two different time periods in India – Maqbool (director Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003) being a reimagination of Macbeth set in the 21st century underworld of Mumbai, India and Veeram (director Jayaraj, 2016) being an attempt to link the play with 13th century Kerala, India. The transmutations occur at multiple levels and this lends new interpretations to the text in two entirely different temporal and spatial contexts, though ...
Gangster Macbeths and Their Diseased Minds: Is Mental Illness a Successful ‘Tool’ to Make Macbeth Adaptations Work?
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Face Negotiation and Politeness in "Interpreter of Maladies
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2018
William Shakespeare’s plays are universal in human character, which have raised him to be the exe... more William Shakespeare’s plays are universal in human character, which have raised him to be the exemplar in film industry. Shakespeare’s works stand to the test of time due to their intrinsic quality of life-likeness as Arthur Koestler comments that life-likeness is regarded as the supreme criterion of art. Shakespeare’s works and films project the reality of human life. The universality of his works has motivated the film producers to adapt Shakespeare extensively in their films in different regions, nations and contexts. The adaptation of the literary text into filmic interface involves major creative restructuring between the original text and the filmic medium. The restructuring of the adaptation involves shift in the medium, genre, context and culture to suit the differences in area and medium. The director of a film needs to be highly creative to adapt a literary text to make a film. Vishal Bhardwaj is one such contemporary prolific film makers who have successfully adapted Shak...
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Papers by Sangeeta Mukherjee
terms of face negotiation in one of the short stories of Jhumpa
Lahiri, ‘A Temporary Matter’. The methodology for analysis is
taken from Face Negotiation Theory of Stella Ting-Toomey (1985).
Ting-Toomey’s face negotiation model discusses face-work in
conflict situations; it also provides an insight of various face
strategies during conflict situations in interpersonal contexts. The
story ‘A Temporary Matter’ deals with the communication
breakdown between a young, educated Indian immigrant-couple
residing in the US. The protagonists, Shoba and Shukumar, struggle
to cope up with an unfortunate miscarriage which has wrecked
their conjugal life. A distance is created between them as a result of
this uncertain incident which leads to their avoidance of each
other. However, the protagonists take initiatives to confront each
other and share their unspoken grief over the loss of their child.
They choose to shed their ego and compromise with their grief
together. The compromise communication style through the act of
sharing has helped the couple to retain the strength of their
relationship and thereby bringing a positive change in terms of
politeness. The analysis reveals that in interpersonal interactions;
during conflict, face negotiation demands an extra ‘mindfulness’ on
the part of the participants. Free and healthy communication is
taken as the base of effective face negotiation. Also, the selection of
appropriate conflict styles and face strategy is considered
necessary for face negotiation.
Keywords: communication, conflict, face negotiation, mindfulness,
politeness.
advancement, use of Android Application has
facilitated the teaching and learning of English
language in ESL context in a number of ways.
Multilingual language app can be used as a potential
language learning material to be used by the L2
learners with a comparatively minimal involvement
of teachers. Such an application can be a supplement to
the classroom discourse providing the learners to
learn language through practice outside the
classroom. The present paper aims at giving a clear
picture of areas of language learning which can be
enhanced with the use of Android-based mobile
application. Using Mobile-Assisted
1
Language
Learning Method, it will also address some of the
concerns of language teachers with regard to the
learner’s background, pace, involvement, content-oriented
authentic
material
and
outcome.
Keywords---Mobile Assisted Language
Learning (MALL), English as Second Language
(ESL), Input Hypothesis, Affective Filter Hypothesis,
i + 1 stage, i stage, Android App or Application.