Comparative Study of Bogart and Popo in V. S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street

V.S. Naipaul has depicted a panoramic gallery in Miguel Street and almost every story of his present work introduces a new character. All of these characters are representative of the Miguel Street in which Naipaul has spent his childhood. He has depicted many characters in Miguel Street but present paper attempts to analyze and assess two pococurante characters Bogart and Popo in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street to compare how these both characters have some similarities and contrast also in their attitudes, temperaments and dealings. Their life decelerates at times and then both of them play a game of hide and seek like children as they periodically disappear somewhere without telling others their whereabouts. They both live in the same street named Miguel Street among many other eccentric, odd, bizarre and funny characters hailing from different cultural roots. Both Bogart and Popo live a hibernated life and have sign boards to show off that they are busy in their respective profession but in fact, neither Bogart stitches the clothes nor Popo does any work in his workshop. They just kill their time in a new cultural environment. Through this paper it has been tried to highlight how Naipaul has portrayed his characters in the environment where they strive for their own identity and space in the third world. Naipaul’s two characters from Miguel Street have been analysed in this paper

INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL AND FOLK KNOWLEDGE WITH CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM: INDIANIZING EDUCATION SYSTEM AND REGAINING THE STATUS OF VISHWA-GURU

Indian education became westernized owing the implementation of Macaulay’s Minutes on Education 1835. Gradually, not only English was taught as a language and also the medium of instruction but western literature, science and technology etc. was also taught; totally bypassing the Indian languages, science, technology and culture etc. English education instilled in young minds a western worldview even to look at their indigenous knowledge and education system. Consequently, the grand tradition of teaching-learning, science and innovation was offshored from the education system. Now, National Educational Policy (2020) recommends the integration of traditional and folk knowledge into the current education with a target to meet the contemporary global demand and simultaneously Indianization of education and knowledge system in the country.  Therefore, in the backdrop of modernization, its synchronization into a global village, locating Indian cultural heritage and gyan prampara, the objective of this paper is to investigate if the Indianization of education and knowledge system, through the integration of Indian traditional and folk knowledge, can be f\more meaningful, fruitful and useful than the western education system and a great bridge to make Indian students proud of India’s gyan prampara. The study proves that the folk and traditional knowledge is not only scientific, logical, and relevant even today but more practical too which may help future generations learn easily, use that knowledge in the time of need, establish the Indian knowledge system at a global level and restore its gyan prampara and also take pride in India and its Indianness

Production of phytate-hydrolyzing enzymes by thermophilic moulds

138 isolates of thermophilic/thermotolerant moulds were isolated from soil, straw and compost samples, collected from various regions of India. Among the thermophilic fungal isolates screened for the secretion of phytase (phytate-hydrolyzing enzyme), Sporotrichum thermophile BJTLR50 produced a very high enzyme titre at pH 5.0, 45°C and 250 rpm in 5 days with an inoculum level of 1 × 107 spores per 50 ml medium prepared from 6 days old culture. Glucose and ammonium sulphate supported higher phytase production than other carbon and nitrogen sources. The phytase of S. thermophile was optimally active at pH 5.0 and 60°C. An overall 2-fold improvement in the phytase production was achieved due to optimization.Key words: Phytic acid, phytase, thermophilic moulds, Sporotrichum thermophile, Humicola lanuginosa, submerged fermentation, optimization

A Feminist Reading Of Mahesh Dattani’s Selected Plays

Mahesh Dattani is a very renowned playwright in the galaxy of Indian English playwrights who has achieved remarkable success in Indian drama. He has bedecked his plays with the burning issues of the society. Present paper is also a piquant attempt to analyze Dattani’s two plays Tara and Thirty Days in September from the feminist angle. Both the plays have touching and poignant themes related to women. In the first play, Tara is victim of gender discrimination since her birth. She wants to twinkle like a star in her life but she finds nothing except darkness and gloominess in her life and becomes a victim of gender discrimination. Another play Thirty Days in September also tells the anguish of a girl named Mala Khatri who is molested by her own maternal uncle, Vinay and to the great dismay, Mala’s mother, Shanta knows everything about the physical and mental torture of her daughter but she remains silent. Mala’s mother also has been the victim of rape by her same brother in her childhood but she remains silent but Mala emerges as a valiant girl and she breaks the age-old rotten systems of the society and teaches his maternal uncle a lesson to molest him. Thus, through this paper, gender discrimination and physical abuse of a girl have been the core themes of these plays and this paper has been structured to cover these twin themes. &nbsp

Applications of phytase of thermophilic mould,Sporotrichum thermophile: A review

411-414This study presents a review on applications of phytase from thermophilic fungal isolate, Sporotrichum thermophile. Under optimization, improvement in phytase production can be achieved in both solid state (2-fold) and submerged (2.6-fold) fermentations. Phytase could also be produced by alginate-immobilized S. thermophile, and enzyme production was sustainable over 5 repeated cycles. Purified phytase is a homopentameric glycoprotein (mol mass, 456 kD) and is optimally active at pH 5.0 and 60°C with a T1/2 of 16 h at 60°C and 90 min at 80°C. It is insensitive to trypsin and pepsin, and unaffected by EDTA. Phytase has all requisite properties for application as a feed and food additive, dephytinization of soymilk and wheat flour and soil conditioner for plant growth promotion

Fixed Point Theorem for Fuzzy B-type Contractions in Fuzzy Metric Spaces

Recently, in 2021, Bijender et al. proposed the establishment of  -contraction. Such sort of contraction is a genuine generalization of the standard contraction in the study of metric fixed point theory. The aim of the present study is the establishment of the novel concept of the fuzzy B-type contraction in the settings of fuzzy metric space and such contractions are also used to establish a few fixed point theorems

COLOUR: REVEALS YOUR PERSONALITY

Colours are forces radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not in our daily life. The effects of colours should be experienced and understood not only but also psychologically and symbolically. This paper investigates the various effects of light and colours on our visual apparatus –eye and brain and their anatomical relationships and functions. This paper describes the influence of colour radiation on our mind and spirit. Discovery of relationships, mediated by the eye and brain is major concern of my studies. Paper describes colour perception and colour aesthetic in three directions: 1) Impression (visually) 2) Expression (emotionally) 3) Construction (symbolically)

Biotechnological Potential of Lignocellulosic Biomass as Substrates for Fungal Xylanases and Its Bioconversion into Useful Products: A Review

Lignocellulose, the most abundant and renewable plant resource, is a complex of polymers mainly composed of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) and an aromatic polymer (lignin). Utilisation of lignocellulosic biomass for biotechnological applications has increased over the past few years. Xylan is the second most abundant carbohydrate in plant cell walls, and structurally, it is a heteropolysaccharide with a backbone composed of β-1,4-d-xylopyranosyl units connected with glycosidic bonds. Xylanases degrade this complex structure of xylan and can be produced by various microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, and yeasts. Lignocellulosic biomass is the most economical substrate for the production of fungal xylanases. The bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to industrially important products, i.e., xylooligosaccharides and biofuels, is possible via the application of xylanases. These enzymes also play a key role in enhancing the nutrition of food and feed and the bio-bleaching of paper and kraft pulp. However, the demand for more potent and efficient xylanases with high activity has increased, which is fulfilled by involving recombinant DNA technology. Hence, in this review, we thoroughly discussed the biotechnological potential of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of fungal xylanases, their purification, molecular strategies for improving their efficiency, and their utilisation for the production of valuable products and in other industrial processes