An Empirical Study on the Existing Legal Framework Against Domestic Violence in India with Special Reference to Chennai

Violence against women has become a promine nt topic of discussion in India in recent years Politicians and media have placed great focus on the issue due to continuously increasing trends of violence against women Domestic violence also named as domestic abuse family violence is a pattern of behavior This involves violence or abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting According to a national family and health survey in 2005 total lifetime prevalence of domestic violence was 33 55 and 8 5 for sexual violence among women aged 15-49 65 of Indian men believe women should tolerate violence in order to keep the family together and women sometimes deserve to be beaten The instance of violence was reported to be lowest among Buddhist and jain women and highest among Muslim women in India Domestic violence can take place in number of forms including physical verbal emotional economic religious aspects Domestic violence murders including stoning bride burning Honor killings and dowry deaths Globally the victims of Domestic violence are overwhelmingly women and women tend to experience more severe forms of violence The Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 is an Act of parliament of India enacted to protect women from Domestic Violence The act of domestic violence towards women is a human rights violation as well as an illegal act under Indian law The Domestic Violence Act of 2005 has been used to prosecute domestic violence cases but activist s state that it discriminates against men The Delhi high court clarified that the Act could be used to prosecute wome

ANGELS WHO STEPPED OUTSIDE THEIR HOUSES: “AMERICAN TRUE WOMANHOOD” AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY (TRANS)NATIONALISMS

“Angels who Stepped Outside their Houses” examines the fashioning of a gendered white American middle-class Protestant subject called the “American true woman” as a fitting representation of the emerging new American nation, as reflected in the writings of white American women authors from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Locating the formation of this identity on a transnational plane, this work argues that in their myriad texts, these women authors reveal the significant role that imperial Britain and the non-national/not-yet-national colonial Orient played in the (de/)construction/(de/)centering of American true womanhood. For, in the face of a particular Englishness and an Oriental otherness that these texts produce, American true women become interstitial and ambivalent subjects

Spectra of generalized corona of graphs constrained by vertex subsets

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of corona of graphs. This construction generalizes the generalized corona of graphs (consequently, the corona of graphs), the cluster of graphs, the corona-vertex subdivision graph of graphs and the corona-edge subdivision graph of graphs. Further, it enables to get some more variants of corona of graphs as its particular cases. To determine the spectra of the adjacency, Laplacian and the signless Laplacian matrices of the above mentioned graphs, we define a notion namely, the coronal of a matrix constrained by an index set, which generalizes the coronal of a graph matrix. Then we prove several results pertain to the determination of this value. Then we determine the characteristic polynomials of the adjacency and the Laplacian matrices of this graph in terms of the characteristic polynomials of the adjacency and the Laplacian matrices of the constituent graphs and the coronal of some matrices related to the constituent graphs. Using these, we derive the characteristic polynomials of the adjacency and the Laplacian matrices of the above mentioned existing variants of corona of graphs, and some more variants of corona of graphs with some special constraints.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figur

Magnetoresistance of metallic perovskite oxide LaNiO3−δ_{3-\delta}

We report a study of the magnetoresistance (MR) of the metallic perovskite oxide LaNiO$_{3-\delta}$ as a function of the oxygen stoichiometry $\delta$ ($\delta \leq$ 0.14), magnetic field (H $\leq 6T$) and temperature (1.5K $\leq$ T $\leq$ 25K). We find a strong dependence of the nature of MR on the oxygen stoichiometry. The MR at low temperatures change from positive to negative as the sample becomes more oxygen deficient (i.e, $\delta$ increases). Some of the samples which are more resistive, show a resistivity minima at $T_{min}$ $\approx$ 20K. We find that in these samples the MR is positive at T > $T_{min}$ and negative for T < $T_{min}$. We conclude that in the absence of strong magnetic interaction, the negative MR in these oxides can arise from weak localisation effects.Comment: 10 pages in REVTeX format, 4 eps fig

Stages of Action in Mullai Songs from a Rhetorical Point of View

Mullai songs is the fifth song in Pattupattu. It contains 103 beats, composed by Asiriyappa and authored by Napothanar. Mullai songs are about the lifestyle of Mullai regional people. It is also about the separation of husband from his wife and she waits for him patiently.&nbsp; In Mullai region the white flower is seen as a symbol of chastity while the mulberry flower symbolizes chastity. The location of Mullai land is forest and forested area. Motifs belonging to Mullai land are thirumal, kannai flower, mullai flower, and deer etc, and takes place in the Mullai songs

Change in the room temperature magnetic property of ZnO upon Mn doping

We present in this paper the changes in the room temperature magnetic property of ZnO on Mn doping prepared using solvo-thermal process. The zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetisation of undoped ZnO showed bifurcation and magnetic hysteresis at room temperature. Upon Mn doping the magnetic hysteresis at room temperature and the bifurcation in ZFC-FC magnetization vanishes. The results seem to indicate that undoped ZnO is ferromagnetic while on the other hand the Mn doped ZnO is not a ferromagnetic system. We observe that on addition of Mn atoms the system shows antiferromagnetism with very giant magnetic moments.Comment: 5 figure