Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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VIT University

Department of English

Emotional Intelligence (EI) since its inception in the 1990’s has made deep inroads into every sphere of life. As researchers acknowledge the importance of EI in various spheres, research has branched out to innumerous possibilities, and the role of gender in EI and its competencies is a very important area. As studies advance in this particular area, this paper tries to give a brief review of latest literature in this domain. © 2020 Innovare Academics Sciences Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

Journal of Critical Reviews

Are women emotionally more intelligent than men – A review of literature

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. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

World University root node

An expression of color psychology and human consciousness: Deconstructing the binarism of white color in Han Kang's the white book

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 multi-lingual 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. © AesthetixMS 2020. This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com.

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Role of code-switching and code-mixing in indigenous communicative contexts: A study of the god of small things

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 advocates for nature rather than men. The paper, therefore, aims to investigate ecofeministic elements among the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo tribes of Meghalaya and tries to express an ecofeministic view concerning family, marriage, religion, and food culture of the Meghalaya tribes. © 2020 Universidad de Alicante. All rights reserved.

Cultura de los Cuidados

Women, nature and culture: An ecofeminist reading of the matrilineal culture of the Khasis, Jaintia and Garo Tribes of Meghalaya [Mulheres, Natureza e Cultura: Uma Leitura Ecofeminista da Cultura Matrilineal das Tribos Khasis, Jaintia e Garo de Meghalaya] [Mujeres, naturaleza y cultura: una lectura ecofeminista de la cultura matrilineal de las tribus khasis, jaintia y garo de Meghalaya]

In the current era of Post-Truth, the concept of truth is not easily found out. Nowadays the false or fabricated appearance and ideas when presented make them appear more logical, reasonable and far widely accepted with emotional and personal belief, and appeal than the original and pure truth. Taking this concept into account, the current research paper aims to investigate how “Lord Shiva” who is worshipped by the Hindus the world over as the ‘Lord of Lords’, has been portrayed as a ‘human being’ possessing extraordinary prowess by Amish Tripathi in his first and debut novel of the Shiva Trilogy - ‘The Immortals of Meluha’. The paper examines the post-truth hidden in the evolution of myths and fables surrounding Lord Shiva and the other Indian deities and portrays the evolution of Lord Shiva as the ‘Supreme God’ from a ‘human being’ who lived centuries ago. The novel under investigation has been analysed using the Postmodern and Post-truth theories and perspectives. © 2020 Universiti Putra Malaysia. All rights reserved.

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Deconstruction of Lord Shiva in the era of post-truth: A study of Amish Tripathi’s the Immortals of Meluhaeluha

This paper embarks on with the opinion on identity adversity in the American society for people of other root. America has diverse culture and it includes various race, religion, ethnic etc. Like all other Jewish-American writers Roth's novels also convey theme of identity crisis because of his Jewish root. Taking catch from Roth's theme of identity and multiculturalism, The Human Stain, which recollects his drills of pluralism, ethnic mosaic, multiracialism, fusion, existence and self. The paper illustrates the American society in which there exist numerous distinct ethnic and cultural groups and searching for identity. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Identity adversity into the multicultural manoeuvre in Philip Roth's the human stain

In this world of gizmos, Master of Computer Application students are in dire need of enhancing their career opportunities and job prospects, possessing good communication and employability skills to achieve success in campus drives. To meet this demand, Technical Communication course in a three year MCA programme is viewed in a positive perspective in terms of reaching their goals and reducing the unemployment rate among Computer Application graduates. Against this backdrop, the present study specifically aimed at critically examining the Course Contents of the Technical Communication course for MCA programme in select institutions of Andhra Pradesh. Structured questionnaire has been administered to major stakeholders (i.e. students and faculty) to collect the data which is further analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Making use of the descriptive analysis and frequency distribution method, the results and recommendations are provided to the respective university officials to customize the course contents of Technical Communication course as per the students’ and industry needs. © 2020 SERSC.

International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology

Relevance and significance of technical communication course contents: A critical evaluation in the State of Andhra Pradesh

This paper highlights the importance of English pronunciation for an ESL learner while speaking the language to a native speaker as well as understanding the context of another English speaker. This paper also throws light upon the importance of phonetics in teaching pronunciation. The researcher attempts to find out the factors affecting English pronunciation of ESL learners by conducting an experiment on Indian university level students as samples. The selection of student sample is done through 'purposive sampling technique'. Based on the observations obtained from the experiment conducted by the researcher, the necessary methods and techniques that is feasible and adaptable for the learners to enhance their English pronunciation based on CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) theory is suggested. Acquiring native like pronunciation is not a short-term process. A few effective methods like drilling and minimal pair techniques will help language teachers to gradually give the learners an insight about the English sound system and support in the development of spontaneous speaking. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Teaching phonetics to enhance pronunciation in an esl classroom

The need to protect the intrinsic wealth of the world is becoming an important target for the young generation, as it provides avenues for travel, tourism and businesses to use the natural resources of the earth. Tourism is of course one of the fastest growing industries in the world and it positively and negatively impacts the environment in many ways. Tourism’s adverse effects minimize the inherent benefit it has in coastal areas and affect other non-tourist economic activities substantially. The adverse affects of tourism can be curtailed by proper resource management planning, putting emphasis on ecotourism and taking steps that are ecologically sustainable, socially useful and economically feasible. The aim of this study would be to determine the intrinsic and extrinsic effect of tourism on the environment. The connection between tourism and ecosystem is complex, and tourism has the potential to create possibilities for conserving and preserving the environment. The study obtained primary data using the personal contact method. Questionnaires were administered to 100 participants who visited Yercaud, Salem district of Tamil Nadu, India in the last five years through the Simple Random Sampling Method. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the environmental impact of tourism and its impact on natural resources, environmental damage and the surroundings of Yercaud. © 2020, IJSTR.

International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research

Counting the environmental costs of tourism in the hill station of Yercaud

This paper endeavours to analyse how the protagonist in the novel Memories of Rain takes her final decision and emancipates herself in the patriarchal dominated society, and it also highlights the struggles faced by the character and her inner feelings. Sunetra Gupta's Memories of Rain (1992) portrays the story which takes place in a single weekend, relatively it narrates the flashback of a marriage between an Indian girl and an English moor. The novel is tremendously complimented for its lengthy prose style. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research.