Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy: A Pen Picture of Socio-Cultural Crisscross of Post-Colonial India

Vikram Seth’s prodigious and brilliant literary journey so far has encompassed several books of poetry, a travelogue, a verse novel, an epic novel, modernist fiction and a memoir-cum biography. Each book is set in a different cultural landscape and background in terms of form and genre. Every new book of Seth creates a fresh departure in form and theme. His first novel, The Golden Gate (1986) in verse about the lives of young professionals in San Francisco, established him commercially as one of the promising Indian English writers. A Suitable Boy (1993), his 1474 page voluminous second novel as a postcolonial narrative deals with the socio-political issues that covers the issues of national politics, elections in 1952, inter-sectarian animosity, the status of lower caste people, land reforms and the eclipse of feudal princes and landlords amidst four family saga. This paper is an attempt to re-examine Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy as a pen-picture of Socio-Cultural Crisscross of postcolonial India and its varied ramifications in the socio-political realms. The many different themes and episodes discussed here present an all-inclusive idea  of  socio-cultural crisscross  with  all  its  plurality,  challenges  and shortcomings to present my views and reading of A Suitable Boy as an authentic picture of post-independence India

Emergence of New Novel and Contribution of Salman Rushdie to Indian English Fiction

After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel Midnight’s Children (1980), there is an emergence of New Fiction marking the beginning of New Era in the history of Indian Writing in English. A large number of novelists living in India and abroad write fiction in great number and thereby breaking the stigma of the marginalization of Indian English Fiction. They introduce various components of modern theories regarding the composition of the fiction. They also prove their superiority over their western counterparts by achieving remarkable recognition on international platforms and by winning various coveted awards like Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize and even Nobel Prize by V S Naipaul. These Indian English writers include Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat, Rohintan Mistry, Arvind Adiga, Shashi Tharoor and many more. The New novelists of the 21st century handle the themes of globalization, Political reality and cross-culturalism more effectively and brilliantly. In the present paper the focus will be on the assessment of emergence of New Fiction with its various traitsand contribution of Salman Rushdie in Indian English Fiction in the development of New Novel

Clinical Evaluation Of Rubrics Of Pulsatilla From Synthesis Repertory To Assess Its Validation By Bayesian Theorem

Abstract: Homoeopathic prescription is done on the Totality of symptoms formed by indicative symptoms and signs of the patients, but knowledge about those symptoms is not organized and controlled. Moreover, there are numerous rubrics and symptoms listed in our Repertories and Materia Medica for specific medicine which are based on their absolute frequency. There are false entries in our repertories due to this absolute occurrence in successful circumstances. To consider a symptom a keynote or characteristic of a specific medicine, the Likelihood Ratio (LR) of that symptom must be higher in the patients exhibiting good therapeutic response to that medicine than in the remaining population. Based on Bayesian statistics, likelihood Ratio (LR) may yield a better estimation of a medicine’s indication than the existing method of entry of symptoms into Materia Medica and Repertories. An Observational Retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate Rubrics of prominently present symptoms of Pulsatilla by implication of the Likelihood Ratio (LR). 316 cases of prescriptions of Pulsatilla were taken for study and 20 most prominent symptoms of Pulsatilla were selected for the study. Pulsatilla for 1 Rubrics (Company desire for) could be upgraded for BOLD CAPITAL and 1 Rubric (Fullness sensation of, Epigastrium) could be upgraded for bold small typeface, for 4 rubrics (Consolation amelioration, Timidity, Fear-alone being of, Eructations; Type of-sour), the typeface is analogous to the existing typeface in Synthesis Repertory, for others (Weeping-tearful mood, Thirstlessness, Menses-suppressed menses, Eruptions acne, Menses beforeaggravation, Heartburn-fat food-after, Head-pain-pulsating, Cough-Dry night at, Warm-agg) rubrics, the typeface could be downgraded but with caution while as 1 rubric (Leukorrhea- cream like) is still doubtfu

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