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In today's world where technology permeates in every nook and corner, it is indispensable for the language teachers to forgo the use of mass media in the classroom. Effective usage of mass media can foster learner's learning experience. Moreover, it also enhances the collaborative learning among learners. Researches have proved that the use of mass media either an auditory form or visual form acts as a stimulus in enhancing the four basic skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a much more exciting and effective manner. Therefore, the present paper attempts to study the efficacy of mass media in teaching English to undergraduate Engineering students in the university. Moreover, the study discusses the possibilities and limitations in exploiting the mass media in the English classroom. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Journal of Critical Reviews

Efficacy of mass media in English language teaching

Social, political, and historical event continue to be a significant theme adopted by various writers throughout the world to reveal the situations that occurred in the past and continue till date. Contemporary Indian writers use these themes to reflect the impact of events and its effect on the ordinary people. They mainly focus on socio-political issues like war, violence, displaced communities, and marginalization. Rohinton Mistry is one among these writers whose works reflect the contemporary social and political life of the parsi community. Nostalgia, alienation, diaspora, politics and marginalization form the basic tenet of Rohinton Mistry's novels. Such a Long Journey is one of the important works by Mistry which explore the various aspects of India like culture, community, administration, society, life, and faith of the Parsi community. Mistry, re-portrays the historical backdrop of this group and nation as it has been in the post-independence period. This paper attempts to analyze the experience, anguish, and the nostalgic feeling of the Parsi community in India even after the independence. © Serials Publications.

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Man in India

An exploration of socio-political concerns in Rohinton Mistry's: Such a long journey

The previous century has witnessed an amazing blossoming of literary genres from the formerly colonized countries. Post-colonial writing originated from Britain's former provinces like the Caribbean, Africa, and India. Several Post-colonial writers lay emphasis on common themes such as the struggle for independence, migration, displacement, diaspora, hybridity, emigration, national identity, and colonization. Amitav Ghosh, a widely acknowledged among Indian authors who writes with a Post- colonial perception. He belongs to the nation that was once incarcerated and governed by the imperialist. This has influenced his writing a lot. This paper is based on post-colonial theory which investigates the conquests, dissatisfaction of dislocated and subjugated people and about their exiled King in a Post-colonial world through the analysis of Amitav Ghosh's novel The Glass Palace. The story pirouettes three eras of two families in Burma, India, and Malaya. It is a historical novel about the British colonization of Burma. In this novel, Ghosh exposes the suffering of the folks at different levels. Colonization makes the people completely unconscious of their roots and makes them feel alienated in their own country. His novel "The Glass Palace" serves as a paradigm of Postcolonial text. © Serials Publications.

Post colonial concerns in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace

This article seeks to analyze Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 cli-fi Flight Behaviour where the author carefully blends the fictional and real world climate change predicaments, beliefs and disbeliefs to elaborate the inundated ecocatastrophes. The novel indelibly provides insights rather than concrete solutions to decipher the crisis. Kingsolver’s notion of instigating such alternative perceptions would help one redraw or rethink the existing beliefs about climate change and also instills the indispensable need for a symbiotic living between the human and non-human world. Besides, Flight Behaviour with the dynamics of cli-fi, not only probes deep into the ecological concerns of the real world but also sheds light on the mysterious interplay of the natural world and humans’ conflicted hearts. The article also infers that Kingsolver’s flight toward emotional responses is nothing but a journey heading from ignorance to certainty. © Research India Publications.

International Journal of Applied Engineering Research

Rethinking climate change: Cli-fi dynamics in Barbara Kingsolver’s flight behaviour

The escalating environmental problems and its impact pose a major threat to the humans and the environment. Man is always left in the lurch by natural disasters like famine, drought, flood and earthquake etc. We are facing the global crisis today mainly because we are concerned more about the functioning of the ethical system rather worrying about the functioning of the ecosystem. The only solution to solve the crisis is finding the lacking element in the functioning of ecosystem and trying to reform them. The survival of human life is impossible without the natural world. Nature is regenerative and inturn a revenger, the mother earth has an infinite power to cause destruction to humans and it is left in the hands of human to handle the natural world with care and caution. Due to this prevailing environmental degradation there came up a range of environmental movements and activists voiced for the protection of the environment. Some of the prominent activists include Aldo Leopold, Wangari Maathai, and Rachael Carson. Inspite of these movements and activists there were people from various disciplines who have come forward to voice for the voiceless. Literature being the mirror of society reflects the actual contemporary world issues and writers feel it is their responsibility to bring about some changes in the accelerating environmental problems through their writings. Amitav Ghosh is one of the reputed Indian writers whose novels project the social, political, cultural and the environmental issues of the past and present. His novel “The Hungry Tide” deals with the wrath of nature and the colonial suppression in a predominantly. This paper aims to bring to light some of the major and minor characters who raise their voice in order to protect nature and their immediate environment. © Research India Publications.

Protectors of nature: An ecocritical rendering of Amitav Ghosh’s the hungry tide

The global environment crisis has led various people from various regions to voice their concerns towards environment. Ecocriticism as a literary genre started gaining its significance first in the US and in the UK as more literary scholars came up with the questions concerning what their field has contributed towards the environmental crisis. Ecocriticism is the discipline which shows interconnection between nature and culture. "Eco" in short means ecology which refers to the relationship between organism and natural environment and logically eco-criticism is concerned with relationship between literature and environment. Ecocriticism is a literary theory of recent origin, which takes an earth centered approach to literary studies. Eco-critics believe that the human culture and the physical world are interlinked. On par with the bygone critics the literary critics of the recent era also try to bring out the relationship between nature and society through their writings. This paper attempts to analyse on Kiran Desai's "Inheritance of Loss" from crosscultural eco-critical perspective. Through this novel Kiran Desai poignantly delineates culture as one of the causes leading to the destruction of the nature and also picturizes people who are in search of their identity in their own land and how they get entrapped in the Indian class system and also under disturbing environment.