The Voice of Creative Research

Hymns to the Himalaya: Interactive Space and Community Memory in Post-Millennial Indian Cinema

2026-08-02T10:26:29+00:00

The Himalaya has historically occupied a central place in South Asia’s sacred, ecological, and geopolitical imagination. However, post-millennial Indian cinema reconfigures this monumental landscape as an interactive space and a repository of community memory. This article examines how select films such as Haider, Highway, and Kedarnath transform the Himalaya from a static backdrop into a dynamic narrative agent that mediates identity, trauma, mobility, and belonging. Drawing on spatial theory, memory studies, and eco-critical frameworks, the article argues that cinematic techniques—long shots, ambient soundscapes, and itinerant camera movements—render the Himalaya as an affective archive. By situating personal histories within collective memory and ecological contexts, these films reimagine the Himalaya as a participatory landscape that is simultaneously sacred and contested, intimate and geopolitical.

Assessment of Industrial Agrochemical Leachate Toxicity and Neurobehavioral Toxicity Thresholds in Channa punctatus

2026-08-20T06:04:49+00:00

Uncontrolled discharge and environmental percolation of industrial agrochemical waste generate complex toxic leachates that degrade aquatic ecosystems. This investigation utilized the hardy air-breathing teleost Channa punctatus as a bio-indicator to evaluate the acute toxicity and neurobehavioral impact of pesticide manufacturing waste leachate. Utilizing static acute bioassay methods (APHA/USEPA), fish were subjected to exposure concentrations of 5.0%, 7.5%, 10.0%, 12.5%, 15.0%, 20.0%, and 25.0% alongside parallel controls over 96 hours. The calculated 96-hour LC50 was determined to be 12.5%. Qualitative behavioural profiling revealed progressive neurotoxic stress, manifested by hyperventilation (increased opercular frequency), heightened surfacing activity to gulp air, hyperexcitability, erratic swimming, loss of motor control, and body discoloration. Complete mortality (100%) was recorded within 96 hours at concentrations ≥ 20%. These biological outcomes highlight the vulnerability of native teleost species to landfill leachates and underscore the imperative for stringent environmental compliance regarding hazardous waste disposal.

Cultivating Holistic Change in Kerala: Assessing the Impact of Farmers' Market Participation on Agricultural Practices, Social Networks, and Economic Outcomes

2026-08-05T23:55:05+00:00

Farmers markets act as powerful catalysts for transforming agricultural practices, strengthening local communities, and boosting the financial stability of member farmers. By cutting out intermediaries, these markets create a direct loop between food producers and consumers that rewrites traditional supply chain dynamics. Farmers' Market provides diverse agriculture marketing infrastructure, amenities, and services to farmers in order to improve their economic and social position. These Markets have influenced farmers to employ a range of strategies in their agricultural practices to boost yield and productivity. As a result, it is critical to investigate the changes brought about by the Farmers' Markets particularly the changes in agricultural practices as well as changes in the social and economic status of the farmers.

Creative Alchemy: Wildness, Beauty, and Imagination (WBI) as Theoretical and Methodological Framework

2026-08-11T12:28:15+00:00

The faintest wisps of light steeped the edge of the horizon in color to embroider its outline against a star-sprinkled black sky. It is always darkest before the dawn, I thought. My breath steamed out into the cold air. I ran in the high desert winter cold of Santa Fe, New Mexico. People assume that since we are in the southwestern United States, our climate is hot, but we are in the mountains at 7,000 feet above sea level, as reflected in our winter temperatures. I stopped to watch the panorama of color unfold upon the horizon. A slow ebb of pale light grew until a sharp, rounded pinpoint of brightness blossomed into a spherical bump resting on the skyline. The sun rose, pulling a drape of light and color in its wake. Chroma refers to the intensity or saturation of a color. The chroma colors remained soft in this emergent sunrise. Color soaked upward and caught in rafts of low-hanging clouds. Pale yellow ushered in faint orange, then muted pink, then violet, and then bloomed into deep purple. Coral etched the underbellies of scattered clouds. Seconds later, as if someone had played with the color filter, the sky burst into rich, vibrant shades. There is a moment in every sunrise and sunset where the colors reach their zenith, their full chroma peak. This moment lasts a brief time before the colors soften into pastels and slowly dissolve into daylight. The most beautiful sunrises and sunsets are those in which each color maintains its unique shade while simultaneously infusing the surrounding colors with its hue. Effervescent combinations glow with a unique radiance all their own. The alchemy of liminal spaces creates possibilities of new realities. Alchemy refers to a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way. Creative research reflects these spaces of distinct colors blooming into one another, creating a new shade.

Perception of Consumers Towards Green Marketing in India

2026-08-06T00:04:25+00:00

Consumers and manufacturers have directed their attention toward environment friendly products that are presumed to be “green” or environment friendly like low power consuming electrical appliances, organic foods, lead free paints, recyclable paper, and phosphate free detergents. Indian marketers are also realizing the importance of the green marketing concept. Although a variety of research on green marketing has been conducted across the globe; little academic research on consumer perception and preferences has been carried out in India. This research provides a brief review of environmental issues and identifies the green values of the consumers, their level of awareness about environmental issues, green products and practices. This paper highlights the consumers’ perception and preferences towards green marketing practices and products.

Relationship among Resilience, Spiritual Intelligence, and Socio-Economic Status: A Systematic Literature Review in the Context of Teacher Trainees

2026-08-06T02:11:20+00:00

The holistic development of teacher trainees does not depend solely on academic competencies; it is also influenced by psychological and social factors such as resilience, spiritual intelligence, and socio-economic status. The present research paper aims to analyse the relationships among these three variables through a systematic literature review and to identify research trends, major findings, and research gaps on the basis of available national and international studies. The study selected research articles, books, dissertations, and policy documents published between 2000 and 2025 according to predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The thematic and comparative analysis of the available literature revealed that resilience, spiritual intelligence, and socio-economic status are significant determinants of teacher trainees’ personality, mental health, self-efficacy, and professional development. The review further indicated that spiritual intelligence may function as a protective factor by strengthening resilience and reducing the negative effects of socio-economic adversity. Although sufficient research is available on each of these variables independently, empirical studies examining their combined relationships remain extremely limited, particularly in the context of Indian B.Ed. and D.El.Ed. teacher trainees. The study emphasises the need to incorporate resilience, spiritual intelligence, life skills, value-based education, and psychosocial support into teacher education programmes. It also recommends the use of structural equation modelling, longitudinal studies, and mixed-method research approaches in future investigations. In alignment with the National Education Policy 2020, the present review provides an important conceptual foundation for preparing competent, sensitive, and mentally resilient teachers.

Voices from the Heteronormative World: A Study of Queer Experiences in the Autobiographies of Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and Manobi Bandyopadhyay

2026-08-11T12:03:53+00:00

For the voiceless and oppressed, writing their lives in their own words is a most empowering and self-representative act. It is especially important for transgender and hijra people, who were long ignored or misunderstood, writing their biographies enabled them to share their experience with the world. This study focuses on the two Indian trans-women who choose to write about their lives. Me Hijra, Me Laxmi (2015) is a life account of transgender rights campaigner Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, who wrote the narrative in Marathi. It was translated by R. Raj Rao and P. G. Joshi. A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid biography of India’s First Transgender Principal (2017) is about Manobi Bandyopadhyay, who recounts her life with the help of a journalist Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. Both women, assigned male at birth, embraced womanhood. Yet, they both struggled to do so in a society that resisted their choices and questioned their gender identity. Tripathi and Bandyopadhyay were both shaped by their families, caste, religion, and social norms, which have been long associated with the status of hijras. Nevertheless, the two women choose different paths in their quests for social acceptance. Tripathi found a new home in the guru-chela (master-disciple) system and later became an activist, while Bandyopadhyay pursued an academic career, eventually becoming the first transgender principal in West Bengal. The study briefly discusses how the experiences of transgender women can be seen within the context of Indian history and society. This study offers a comparative reading of these two autobiographies and examines how each writer develops a sense of self while facing family rejection, social prejudice, discrimination, and a legal system that did not formally recognize their identities for much of their lives.

The Ambivalence of Faith: Sanctification, Religious Mitigation, and the Ethics of Suffering in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter

2026-08-11T12:28:14+00:00

Greene was born on October 2, 1904. His father served as the headmaster at Berkhamsted School, where Greene received his early education before attending Balliol College, Oxford. Greene found school life difficult and monotonous, leading to a period of depression that eventually required psychoanalytic intervention. In his essay The Revolver in the Cupboard (1946) and his autobiography A Sort of Life (1971), Greene articulates the profound sense of despair he experienced during his school years. Oxford did little to alleviate his psychological distress, and he became increasingly aware of what he perceived as the futility and moral ambiguity of human existence. Although not naturally inclined toward scholarship, Greene aspired to academic achievement and ultimately earned a degree in modern history. In The Heart of the Matter (1948), the character Scobie is not a Catholic by birth but converts at the time of marriage. While Scobie regards his faith more as a habitual practice than a passionate conviction, it nonetheless transforms his life. He becomes one among many churchgoers, treating prayer as a formal obligation akin to maintaining a diary.

Wordsworth and the Environmental Humanities: Reimagining Nature as Teacher in the Age of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence

2026-08-11T12:28:13+00:00

This article reconsiders William Wordsworth’s poetry through the interdisciplinary lens of the Environmental Humanities, asking how his conception of nature as a formative teacher might speak to an age marked by climate change and artificial intelligence. It argues that Wordsworth’s natural world is neither a passive backdrop nor merely an object of aesthetic contemplation; it is an active presence that educates perception, cultivates emotional awareness, and deepens ethical responsibility. Through close textual analysis of Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, The Tables Turned, The World Is Too Much with Us, and selected passages from The Prelude, the study examines how observation, memory, affect, and embodied encounter generate an ecological mode of knowing. The article addresses a gap in scholarship by bringing Wordsworth’s pedagogical understanding of nature into sustained dialogue with contemporary debates on technological mediation, climate consciousness, and more-than-human ethics. It further considers the implications of this Romantic ecological imagination for environmental education and sustainable futures. Ultimately, the study suggests that Wordsworth offers not a nostalgic retreat from technology but a critical resource for rethinking human–nature relations in an increasingly AI-mediated world.

Beyond the Threshold: Memory, Paratext, and the Semiotics of Titles in Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence

2026-08-11T12:28:11+00:00

In modern literary studies, the notion of memory has taken on new significance, and now plays an important role in the fields of memory, history, identity and literature, where it continues to play a fundamental role in the understanding of these fields. Due to its focus on these themes, Orhan Pamuk's novel has been widely read and researched, particularly with regard to the representation of cultural memory, political struggles, nostalis and material remembrance. Yet, the critics in the past have focused on memory as experienced in the narrative; the characters, historical events, work of imagination and real-world objects are the primary sites of memory. Very little has been said so far about the use of literary names and how they lead readers towards a particular mode of memory before the story. The article mentions that the title of the books, My Name Is Red, Snow and The Museum of Innocence, are significant literary clues for the reader as they are exposed to the text, not merely as means of identification. It draws on the theory of paratext raised by Gérard Genette, as well as on the theories of Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Nora, Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco, and connects the three titles with different aspects of memory. Preservation is memory's response to time in the Museum of Innocence, identifying is its response in the emphasis on identification, and concealment in Snow, quiet, and the uncertainties of historical remembering. As a collection these titles indicate a link in philosophy from self-awareness to historical memory to cultural memory/individual memory retention. This work does not detract from previous interpretations of Pamuk's work, but rather augments them, by moving the focus of past literature on memory in the story to memory before the story. It claims that literature titles are memory markers that open the literary text, from which a philosophical perspective is encouraged and which guide the reader to a symbol world which invites her to the world of the literary work from the outset. The article provides an innovative view on Pamuk scholarship and extends broader discussions in memory studies, paratext theory, and literary interpretation by placing emphasis on how titles may be an important aspect of interpretation.

Flood Prediction in the Musi Catchment Region of Telangana Using Machine Learning and Hybrid Models

2026-08-19T13:34:44+00:00

Flooding is a common natural disaster that causes severe damage and loss. The aim of flood prediction is to take preventive measures and reduce the damage caused by floods. Flood occurrence is influenced by multiple meteorological factors, rather than rainfall alone. This study used multiparameter weather data, including precipitation, humidity, temperature, surface wind, and sea level pressure, to understand the atmospheric conditions. Historical and forecast weather data for the Musi catchment region were collected from meteorological sources, such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and Aphrodite data repositories. The data from 2015 to 2049 included multiple environmental parameters. Seven model configurations were developed as four ensemble classifiers (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost), a two-layer Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, and two hybrid architectures combining LSTM temporal encoding with XGBoost and CatBoost. Hyperparameter optimization used the Optuna framework with Tree-structured Parzen Estimation (TPE), which was applied uniformly across all models. Random Forest achieved the highest accuracy of 95.59% with an F1-score of 85.41%, whereas both hybrid models exceeded 94% accuracy, substantially outperforming. The model performance was evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC, and per-class confusion matrices. It also supports area-wise flood risk mapping.

Awareness of Life Skill Education among Adolescence

2026-08-19T13:34:43+00:00

Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhiji gives more important to man making education with bundle of information in the particular area. The term 'Life skill” refers the skills need to make the most out of life. Life skills are usually associated with managing and living a better-quality life. Life skills enable us to translate knowledge, attitude and values into actual abilities. Life skills are abilities that enable adolescents to enable deal effectively with demands and challenges of every life. Adolescence is a time where in teenagers goes through a lot of physical and emotional changes. Their body begins to grow rapidly shape and size. They also experience hormone change make them uncomfortable. If adolescents are equipped with life skills they will be able to cope with all such situations successfully. This paper reflects on awareness of life skill education for Adolescence, which is very important in today's challenging life. In fact, life skills are the inevitable part of the modern era which is essential to sustain in the cut-throat competition through the Globe. The importance of equipping adolescents with life skills to make informed decisions, solve problems, and lead a healthy lifestyle.

Impact of the Use of Educational Technology in Secondary Schools on Students’ Interest in Learning and Academic Achievement: A Study

2026-08-19T13:34:42+00:00

This systematic review research paper aims to analyse the impact of the use of Educational Technology in secondary schools on students’ interest and engagement in learning as well as on their academic achievement. Studies, including short-term research and other research works published between 2015 and 2025, were selected from ERIC, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Indian research sources. A total of 48 studies, including meta-analyses, experimental studies, and quasi-experimental studies, were included. The findings indicate that when technology is integrated with teacher training, active teaching methods, and context-appropriate content, it produces a moderate to high positive effect on students’ interest and a small to moderate positive effect on academic achievement. The impact was found to be relatively greater in Mathematics, Science, and Language subjects. In contexts such as India, inequalities in resources, lack of teachers’ technological-pedagogical knowledge, difficulties faced by teachers, and an overdependence on merely providing technological devices tend to limit the effectiveness of educational technology. The review concludes that technology is not magical in itself; its effectiveness depends on instructional design, the role of the teacher, and the active participation of students.

Towards Inclusive Education: NEP 2020, Indian Cinema, and Changing Social Attitudes towards Children with Special Needs

2026-08-19T13:34:41+00:00

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 represents a significant milestone in India’s movement towards inclusive education. In accordance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, the policy emphasizes providing equal opportunities in mainstream education to Children with Special Needs (CwSN), also referred to as children with disabilities. Parallel to these policy developments, Indian cinema has witnessed a remarkable transformation over the past two decades in its representation of children and individuals with special needs. Films such as Taare Zameen Par (2007), Paa (2009), Barfi! (2012), Hichki (2018), Margarita with a Straw (2014), and the recent Sitaare Zameen Par (2025) have contributed to shifting social attitudes beyond pity and sympathy towards acceptance and empowerment. This research paper analyses the provisions of NEP 2020, the contribution of Indian cinema, and their combined role in transforming social attitudes towards children with special needs. The study reveals that educational policy and media together are contributing to the foundation of a more inclusive society. However, significant challenges related to resources, professional training, implementation, and persistent social stigma continue to remain.

Concentration or Inclusion? CSR Portfolio Priorities in Selected Maharatna Companies, 2014-15 to 2023-24

2026-08-19T13:34:40+00:00

This study evaluates whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) portfolios of four Indian Maharatna public enterprises were broadly inclusive or concentrated in a small set of conventional activities. It analyses cumulative identified expenditure of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), NTPC Limited, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), and Coal India Limited (CIL) for 2014-15 to 2023-24. The evidence base is a locked 12-category activity matrix constructed from annual reports, CSR annexures, official project disclosures, and controlled company workbooks. Administrative, technical, residual, and inseparable multi-theme amounts are excluded from thematic ranking. The analysis applies activity shares, three- and five-category concentration ratios, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, Shannon entropy, the effective number of categories, pairwise rank correlations, and Kendall’s coefficient of concordance. Identified substantive expenditure totalled Rs.5,428.65 crore. Education and skill development accounted for 21.35%, health and nutrition for 21.00%, and environmental sustainability for 15.62%. The five leading categories absorbed 83.72% of the identified portfolio. CIL displayed the greatest concentration, while SAIL had the widest thematic spread. The four companies nevertheless showed significant agreement in their overall priority rankings. Women’s empowerment, vulnerable-group welfare, livelihood and entrepreneurship, and senior-citizen welfare received relatively low separately identifiable expenditure. Because 35.24% of total CSR expenditure remained unresolved or mixed, these findings represent a conservative, lower-bound description rather than a complete thematic allocation. The study concludes that the selected companies shared a strong human-development orientation but need clearer portfolio safeguards and beneficiary tagging for inclusion-oriented activities.

Juxtaposing Gender and Nature in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

2026-08-21T00:48:08+00:00

Ecofeminism constitutes one of the fundamental features of Ecocriticism/Ecological Study in postcolonial discourse. It is primarily intended to study/examine the connections between women and nature with special emphasis on their unavoidable interconnectedness with environment. From the postcolonial perspective, it can also be viewed as an attempt to address the issue of subjugation of women, nature and environment with special reference to environmental injustices as against preservation of Environmental Ethics. Rousseau's concept of environmental ethics can be correlated with the concept of environmental justice which is more explicitly linked to racial politics- the reason why scholars tend to emphasize environmental racism in African American fiction with special reference to Toni Morrison. Ecofeminism is grounded upon the conception that the ideology which recommends oppression of women on the basis of race, class, gender, sexuality etc. is exactly the same ideology which sanctions the oppression of nature. Women, environment and nature are therefore, three important segments of ecofeminism. In the light of the above, the present paper purports to examine Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye through ecofeminist lens by mostly concentrating on the ideals of Ecofeminism.

From Padma’s Bank to Gun Island: A Narrative of Ecological Witnessing

2026-08-27T15:01:41+00:00

In 2016, when Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement came into prominence, he made an argument through this book that climate change is not only a problem of politics or science but also a crisis of literature and imagination. To him modern bourgeois fictions view the non-human or the environment as a mere background to stage human drama. As a result the modern fictions that was initiated in the 19^th century and still dominating the literary world, fail to confront or bear testimony to phenomena like climate change. The reason he provided, was that of modern fictions inclination towards “probability,” “realism,” and “regularity of bourgeois life,” which he calls “derangement.” However, this paper challenges Ghosh’s diagnosis or his argument, which is basically based on modern English fiction, by discussing four fictions from Bengal delta. It ranges from Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1936), to Adwaita Mallabarman’s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1956), to Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019) through a single, evolving practice of ecological witnessing. This essay uses these texts as counter-archive, where it will try to establish that fictions from Bengal Delta never rejected or neglected its non-human part ever. This essay tries to read this dialectic through a special lens, called ‘ecological witnessing’. By the term ‘ecological witnessing’ I mean a voice, a record in literature on behalf of those who find it difficult or fails to raise their voice in front of the word. It is a testimony that refers to harm, damage or catastrophe done to a body of non-human. It could be a river, a forest, animals, insects or the very body of flora and fauna. Therefore the key thrust of this essay is to see the drying up of river, gradual degradation of mangrove forest, decrease of fishing stocks, rise of silt bed on river or beached dolphin not as the setting or the symbol of a human drama. Instead the paper will see them as ‘ecological witness’ that literature preserves or bear. In order to make the argument clear, this paper draws together testimony theory of Giorgio Agamben, Shoshana Felman and Laub, Rob Nixon’s account of slow violence, Stacy Alaimo’s trans-corporeality, Dipesh Chakrabarty’s thesis of geological agency, and Ghosh’s own argument from The Great Derangement. In so doing this paper shade light to a riverine and mythic tradition where non-human holds a position of an agent.

Self-Help Groups and Social Capital Formation among Rural Women in Africa: An Integrative Review

2026-08-27T14:47:33+00:00

Tens of millions of rural women in Africa have since organised themselves into savings clubs, rotating credit associations and village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) – these are invariably referred to as sources of social capital. But the assertion is made much more frequently than it’s investigated. Based on development economics, anthropological, and gender studies and public health evidence, I turn to a narrower, more useful question: when does such participation in a SHG generate social capital for rural African women that remains and when does it only change who has a claim on them? It builds on three lines of thinking that connect the notion of capital with social interaction, and three of the African feminist contributions to the notion of social capital, from Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam, respectively, and points to the existence of three registers of group-generated social capital: bonding, bridging and linking, and to the production and the blocking of each of these registers in the African rural context. Four arguments follow. Firstly, there is an ease of establishing the bonds of capital and of the process of making them, although much of this is a formalisation of an existing bond of kin and neighbourhood, and not a net addition. Secondly, it is the least common and most developmentally critical, and most programmes are not intended to be bridging capital. Thirdly, capital is bound to institutional counterparts, typically banks or extension services or local government, which may not be present, resulting in groups becoming stagnant. Third, the economic gains are not as persistent as the empowerment gains, as economic gains were shown to mediate with household bargaining and gender norms. The effect of economic gains and empowerment gains were found to be persistent, but not as persistent as the impact of economic gains as household bargaining and gender norms mediate the link. The article concludes with a research agenda broadly focused on the need to measure social capital over time, to measure non-members and dropouts separately and to measure social returns separately from the stock of social capital.

उच्च शिक्षण संस्थानों में अध्ययनरत विद्यार्थियों की वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति: एक व्यवस्थित समीक्षा

2026-08-27T14:50:25+00:00

वर्तमान परिपेक्ष में देखा जाए तो वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति शिक्षा में एक अहम भूमिका अदा कर रही है विशेष कर उच्च शिक्षा के स्तर पर जहां विद्यार्थी केवल सूचना ग्रहण नहीं करते हैं; बल्कि ज्ञान का सृजन और समाज के निर्माण में अपना योगदान देते हैं। प्रस्तुत शोध पत्र में उच्च शिक्षा में अध्ययनरत विद्यार्थियों की वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति और उनको प्रभावित करने वाले कारकों के मध्य संबंधों का एक व्यवस्थित साहित्यिक सर्वेक्षण के माध्यम से अध्ययन किया गया है इस व्यवस्थित साहित्यिक सर्वेक्षण में वर्ष 2000 से वर्ष 2025 के मध्य प्रकाशित हुए 85 से अधिक राष्ट्रीय, अंतरराष्ट्रीय शोध पत्रों, सरकार की नीतियों एवं शैक्षिक दस्तावेजों के माध्यम से गहन विशेषण किया गया और उसके आधार पर समीक्षात्मक निष्कर्ष निकालकर यह प्राप्त हुआ कि वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति केवल ज्ञान का परिणाम नहीं है बल्कि यह जिज्ञासा, संदेह, खुले दिमाग, तथ्यों का पर निर्भरता और वैज्ञानिक पद्धति के प्रति सम्मान का एक समुच्चय का अध्ययन है। शोध में यह भी पाया गया कि भारतीय उच्च शिक्षण संस्थानों में परंपरागत आधारित शिक्षा और शिक्षण विधियां जो वर्तमान परिपेक्ष में उपयोगी और वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण से उचित नहीं है; क्योंकि यह वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति को बढ़ावा नहीं देती हैं। पाठ्यक्रम में प्रयोगात्मक शिक्षा (Experiential Learning), परियोजना आधारित अधिगम (PBL), और बहु-विषयक (Interdisciplinary) दृष्टिकोण की गंभीर कमी पाई गई है। समीक्षा यह भी प्रकट करती है कि शिक्षकों की भूमिका, डिजिटल संसाधनों की उपलब्धता, और सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक परिवेश वैज्ञानिक अभिवृत्ति को गहराई से प्रभावित करते हैं। इस शोध पत्र का एक उद्देश्य नीति निर्माता और शिक्षाविदों के साथ पाठ्यक्रम निर्माता के लिए एक मार्गदर्शिका (Evidence-based blueprint) उपलब्ध कराना है जिससे उच्च शिक्षा को अधिक तर्कसंगत,जिज्ञासु, रचनात्मक एवं जीवन उपयोगी बनाया जा सके।

A Feminist and Cultural Reconstruction of the Self: Rereading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

2026-08-27T14:59:51+00:00

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia occupies a unique place in modern literature. The novel has been translated into many languages and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than two years. A memoir that records the personal life of the author, the text explores spirituality, cultural differences and the energising experience of emerging from a painful divorce and an equally traumatic rebound relationship. Gilbert travels to Italy, India and Indonesia, spending her time equally among the three places. Each place represents a different stage of healing: pleasure, prayer and equilibrium. The novel emerged into a scenario in which self-help literature was on the rise. This paper examines how the journey undertaken by Gilbert is an assertive attempt to reconstruct her fragmented female identity. The paper scrutinizes how the new identity is forged through influential cultural factors layered along the tripartite structure. Each destination is not a place to visit but rather a deliberate attempt to venture into a new redemptive scheme, designed to reconstruct the self. Eat Pray Love remains a cultural touchstone, due to the fusion of diverse elements into one: the feminist overtones of the novel, the cultural implications embedded in the text that reproduce and expand the original version into infinite possibilities, the exotic lure of Oriental lifestyles that hold promises of rejuvenation and the fantasy associated with travelling to new places. Read closely, the text emerges as a deliberate projection of self-mythology.