Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i6.9369
K. Stalin, S. Rani
{"title":"Alex Haley, As A Family Genealogist Who Traced His Roots From His Ancestors.","authors":"K. Stalin, S. Rani","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i6.9369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i6.9369","url":null,"abstract":"Alex Haley, a famous biographer, novelist and a family genealogist of an American writer. His most popular novel Roots is published in the year 1976. \u0000Roots: The Saga of An American Family, has 688 page fictional description of the genealogy of his family beginning with a kidnapped his ancestors of village Gambia. Roots covering seven generations, the story did not stop here. Alex Haley went two centuries back to find the trace of Kunta Kinte’s roots existence. Haley did claim that his actual ancestor was identified as Kunta Kinte as per the Griot, the story teller.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127718650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8752
M. Mary
{"title":"A Panoptic Approach To Diaspora In Kazuo Ishiguro’sa Pale View Of Hills","authors":"M. Mary","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8752","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, one of the most challenging and explorable areas of literature was the Diasporic literature. In earlier days, the term diaspora dealt with the Exile of the Israelites, but in recent days the word signifies the “Displacement of any living groups”. The Immigrant writers reveals the difference in their backgrounds as well as the contexts in which they have experienced. The Diasporic study deals with the issue of Dislocation, Quest for Identity, Discrimination, Survival, Struggle in Adaptation, Alienation, Cultural change andNostalgia. This paper focuses to bring about the diasporic elements in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “a pale view of hills”. \u0000A Pale View of Hills is a complicated novel, which weaves between present and past, reality and memories, major historical and private family events. Etsuko, is the narrator of the story, is a middle-aged mother who has transplanted her daughter Keiko from Japan to England in order that Etsuko can marry an English journalist with whom she eventually has a second daughter Nicki. Etsuko’s narration focuses on her review of the troubling past, including the loss of her entire family during the bombing of Nagasaki, her unhappy first marriage, the strange relationship with a neighbour she met in Nagasaki during her first pregnancy, and the recent suicide of her daughter Keiko after their move to England. The novel moves with the issue of Dislocation, aloofness, Nostalgia, which was created by a family Suicide and a Nuclear Genocide.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131360033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.9122
D. Sikand
{"title":"Relationship Of Creative Management, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Stress And Teacher Commitment With Different Dimensions Of Managerial Leadership","authors":"D. Sikand","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.9122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.9122","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted to study the relationship of creative management, teacher effectiveness, teacher stress and teacher commitment with different dimensions of managerial leadership. In order to conduct present study 450 teacher educators with doctorate degree and without doctorate degrees, with different levels of experience were selected from 45 selected colleges of education taking 10 teachers from each institution were selected randomly. Creative Management Scale prepared by the investigator, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 2003), Teacher Commitment Questionnaire (AmitKauts and AachalKalia, 2012), Teacher Effectiveness Scale (Mutha, 1982)and Teacher Stress Questionnarie (Otto (1983) and Adapted by Max Smith and Sid)were used as tools for the present study. The findings of the study revealed that there is significant relationship in the creative management and managerial leadership. This means that variation in the creative management in any manner would have remarkable impact on the managerial leadership and vice versa. It is also found that there is significant relationship in the teacher effectiveness and managerial leadership. Hence, increased practice of transformational and transactional leadership would ensure better teaching effectiveness in the educational institutions and vice versa. Another finding is that there is significant relationship in the teacher stress and managerial leadership. This means that increased teacher stress may become a cause for the action orientation of managerial leadership and managerial leadership may also act as a stressor among teaching professionals. It is also found that there is significant relationship in the teacher commitment and managerial leadership for transformational and transactional leadership dimensions of Managerial Leadership. Hence, increased practice of transformational and transactional leadership would ensure better teaching commitment in the educational institutions and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130538423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8674
Manu
{"title":"A Study On The Growth And Performance Of Service Sector In Kerala-With Special Refeernce To Kollam.","authors":"Manu","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8674","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to review, the growth and performance of service sector in Kerala. The service sector usually covers a wide range activities from the most sophisticated information technology (IT) to simple services provided by the unorganized sector like the services of the plumber, mason, barber etc. National Accounts classification of the services sector incorporates trade, hotels, and restaurants; transport, storage and communication, financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social and personal services. In World Trade Organization (WTO) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) classification, construction is also included in services sector.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122707541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8731
K. Suresh
{"title":"An Empirical Study on the Adoption of E-Commerce in Pondicherry.","authors":"K. Suresh","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8731","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This study investigates the consumer’s technology adoption toward electronic commerce. In addition to the variables perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use derived from TAM, the study included and tested factors like perceived security, perceived product value, personal cost, perceived enjoyment, perceived cost and perceived quality. \u0000Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was developed primarily based on the available scales in the already published literature. All model constructs requested participants to indicate their perceptions of Likert-style responses. The data analysis was executed using Smart PLS to test the validity and reliability of the measurement instrument.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123927938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8730
Biplab Tripathy, T. Mondal
{"title":"Socioeconomic Challenges faced by Basin’s People in India","authors":"Biplab Tripathy, T. Mondal","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8730","url":null,"abstract":"India is a subcontinent, there huge no of people lived in river basin area. In India there more or less 80% of people directly or indirectly depend on River. Ganga, Brahamputra in North and North East and Mahanadi, Govabori, Krishna, Kaveri, Narmoda, Tapti, Mahi in South are the major river basin in India. There each year due to flood and high tide lots of people are suffered in river basin region in India. These problems destroy the socio economic peace and hope of the people in river basin. There peoples are continuously suffered by lots of difficulties in sort or in long term basis. Few basin regions are always in high alert at the time of monsoon seasons. Sometime due to over migration from basin area, it becomes empty and creates an ultimate loss of resources in India and causes a dis-balance situation in this area.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117042468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8980
D. Sindhuja
{"title":"Perspectives of a Differently Abled Man: A Peep into VaibhavKolhe’s","authors":"D. Sindhuja","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8980","url":null,"abstract":"Disability studies provoke a clear and consistently thought provoking portrayal of differently abled people. Nowadays, people with disability face many problems in their day-to-day life. All people have their own dreams to achieve something special in this world. Likewise, the people with disabilities also have some dreams. The novel,The Incomplete by VaibhavKolhe deals with the difficulties and the challenges undergone by the protagonist in his life. The protagonist narrates several incidents from his childhood to his adolescence. He faces a lot of struggles in his life because of his physical disability. Even in his love, he fails because of expressing his inner emotions. This novel mainly depicts the fact that how the protagonist accepts his disability as a challenge and how he overcomes his weakness. The present paper focuses on the sufferings and reactions of a differently abled man and how he adapts to the environment and the people in the substandard society.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121674225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8907
S. Ganesan, T. Sridhar
{"title":"Banana Cultivators Marketing Pattern – A Study","authors":"S. Ganesan, T. Sridhar","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8907","url":null,"abstract":"An attempt has been made in the study to examine the production and marketing aspects of banana in Tiruchirappalli district. The present study was conducted in the Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu. 50 Banana growing villages selected randomly and categorized them into small, medium and large farmers based on their holding size. The present study is empirical and hence field survey method and personal interview technique were adopted. The study indicated that the all factors favour to cultivation of banana production. Hence the adequate steps may be laid to reduce the cost of production. The study also concluded that to improve the production efficiency, marketing of banana through creation of awareness programmes, provision for training facilities, organization of cooperative marketing facilities, supply of fertilizers and pesticides through co-operatives will be beneficial to the banana producers as well as the customer as a whole.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133815370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8996
Roopendra Kumar, S. Rani
{"title":"Teacher Effectiveness in relation to Values","authors":"Roopendra Kumar, S. Rani","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8996","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this present paper conducted a study of teacher effectiveness in relation to values. Teacher is a main role model for the learners for effective learning and changing appropriate behaviour in the schools and colleges. 200 teachers were selected from central schools of Uttarakhand state for the present study. Objectives were defined of this study to find out relationship between teacher effectiveness and values. Value has six dimension, theoretical value, economic value, aesthetic value, social value, political value religious value. Teacher effectiveness scale constructed by P. kumar and D.N. Mutha and value inventory standardized by Harbhajan L. Singh and S.P. Ahaluwalia for collecting of data. Results of this study reveal that there is a positive relationship of theoretical value, aesthetic value and social value with teacher effectiveness. And negative relationship of economic value, political value and religious value with teacher effectiveness was found.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126766743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Think IndiaPub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8869
K. Anupama, G. Chithra
{"title":"On Lunatics and Delirium: A Study of Madness in Select Malayalam Films","authors":"K. Anupama, G. Chithra","doi":"10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i5.8869","url":null,"abstract":"Malayalam films have never hesitated to bring out Multi layered complex characters on the Silver screen. Kumbalagi Nights (2019), Mundrothuruth (2016) and Munnariyippu (2014) are some of the bold attempts Directors have made, to redefine the conventional portrayal of effortless characters. So, this paper analyses three major Malayalam films featuring Mad-men as Protagonists, applying Michael Foucault’s concept of Delirium. Delirium is a Latin word, meaning to deviate from the normal path. Foucault’s archaeology of insanity in his groundbreaking work, Madness and Civilization can be read along with these films to have an in depth understanding of the delirious state of the central characters.","PeriodicalId":156391,"journal":{"name":"Think India","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131887235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}