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Abstract This paper is an endeavor to go beyond debates concerning South Asian diaspora writers-Bapsi Sidhwa�s An American Brat and Monica Ali�s Brick Lane as �The Novels of Diaspora� and to understand their plight how these South Asian diaspora women face alienation, dislocation, discrimination, and establish their identity in an alien land. These writers represent different diasporas, such as Pakistani-American (Bapsi Sidhwa) and Bangladeshi-English (Monica Ali). Generally, diaspora studies discuss the nature of exile, displacement, dislocation, nostalgia, alienation, identity crisis, discrimination, and cultural change. Bapsi Sidhwa is widely recognized as one of the most prominent Pakistani-Anglophone novelists writing today. Her fourth novel An American Brat tells the story of a young Pakistani girl, Feroza, and her adventure in America. Later Feroza realizes how far she has come- and wonders how much further she can go. This delightful coming-of-age novel is both remarkably funny and remarkably acute portrayal of America as seen through the eyes of a perceptive young immigrant. Monica Ali, a Bangladeshi-born British writer, and novelist is widely known for her debut novel Brick Lane. The novel follows the life of a Bangladeshi woman Nazneen who migrates to London with her old husband Chanu, faces many problems like alienation, displacement, nostalgia, discrimination, communication problem. It explores her life and adaptations in the community, as well as the character of Chanu, and their larger ethnic community.

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cultural change, diaspora, discrimination, migration, nostalgia, the plight

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Climate change is accelerating, it is necessary that our society make a transition toward a green and low-carbon economy. One way to do so is through finance instrument that are tailored to fund low-carbon and climate-friendly projects. Such climate finance instrument can prove to be a distinguishing factor in how fast and how energized our society is to make the transition. An important tool in measuring the recent impact of climate change on financial markets has been the green bond. A green bond allows various parties whether countries or organizations to mobilize traditional debt investments into projects or assets that can help society adapt or alleviate climate change impacts. This study aims to study the effect, development and the growth of green bonds in Asia. The authors have utilized secondary data for the purpose of this research paper. This paper has been authored in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The geographic limitation of this paper is Asia. Green finance is still at an early stage in ASIAN countries and it faces several critical challenges. These challenges exist both for issuers of green bonds and investors. Two distinct challenges that have been found in the paper for issuers include limited credit retention limit and costs of meeting green bond requirements. The green bond market is going to grow at a rapid rate due to the ambitious renewable energy goals that the asian countries have set for themselves.

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Green bonds, Climate change; Finance; Asia, Low-carbon development Investment, Green Finance, Climate Finance, Renewable energy, Sustainable Finance

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Pandemics are a mirror for humanity which reflects the moral relationships that people have towards one another. The pandemic studies examine the ways in which the outbreaks have shaped politics, socio-cultural relations and gender discriminations. It has altered the society and thereby affects the natural world in which we live. They also reflect our relationships with the environment�the environment that we create and the natural environment that responds. The pandemic makes the society vulnerable and to study the society is to study its structure, political priorities and standard of living. It shows not only the dystopian vision of life but also altruistic and humane values. Jose Saramago�s Blindness is considered to be one of the most outstanding literary achievements. A speculative parable reminiscent of Albert Camus� The Plague, Blindness examines the mysterious social and moral breakdown in a typical modern society. The novel narrates the literal blindness of all the inhabitants of the unnamed city as a political, psychological and spiritual metaphor. Saramago uses blindness as a metaphor for moral depravity, filth, and social collapse.

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Blindness, Internee, Morality, Pandemic, Quarantine

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A study of how parental affection is seen as a selfish need easily gratified by replacement.

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Adoptive Motherhood, Adoptive Love, Betrayal, Metamorphosis.

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The main objective of the study is to explore reading habit of public library users. For the study, questionnaire method is adopted to collect data from the library users of Jayanagar public library. The study finds that majority of the library users read every day. Their purpose of reading in the library is to update their knowledge and newspapers and magazines reading are major identified from the study by the investigator.

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Reading habits, Public libraries, Public Library Users.

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This case study describe the attainment of Inclusive Growth in the field of agriculture during the period of First and Second Green Revolution. The sudden jump in agricultural production as a result of the application of high yielding varieties of seeds, increased use of chemical fertilizers and irrigation are collectively known as the Green Revolution which makes India self-sufficient in the field of food grains. It is termed as First Green Revolution and was in pre-reform period of 1967 - 68. As a result of this revolution India became the world�s biggest agricultural producer, and produced record grain output of 131 million tons in 1978-79. But it was a failure as its fruits are not achieved by small and marginal farmers. It provides an unbalanced growth among agricultural workers and not provided an inclusive growth in agricultural field. So it could not considered to be a 100 percent success. As first green revolution was not a 100 percent success, India needed a Second Green Revolution to eradicate the inequality among farmers and also bring food security to its billion plus population, to remove distress of farming community and to make its agriculture globally competitive. It is on post reform period in April 2013 in a coordinated effort to double agricultural output over the next few years. It will provide new technologies and better farming practices. In this endeavor, the problems of marginal and small farmers and raising agricultural productivity in dry areas need a special attention without compromising on preserving soil and water resources. As a result of Second Green Revolution the food grains production which was about 51 million tons in 1950-51, achieved an all-time record harvest of more than 250 million tons in 2012-13.It also helped the evolution of a low cost technology which can be adopted small farmers and which can use and exploit the local resources. Thus agricultural production increased along with balanced growth and through Second Green Revolution we attained inclusive growth along with agricultural growth. The main objective of this paper is to compare and analyse the attainment of Inclusive Growth during the period of First and Second Green Revolution.

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Green Revolution, HYVS, Multiple Cropping, Inclusive Growth etc.

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Ever since we were young we were told that money is hard to come by and we should work hard to earn that money. This statement holds true for most of us but when you think about it you might wonder as to why money is being termed as measurement for our success and mostly ponder upon the question as to why we use money as a medium of exchange. Does the money that we currently use have a value of its own? Or is it just a piece of paper with an inventive value that we are told to believe as its intrinsic value. The study aims to understand about the different currency�s and monetary systems and on the emergence of cryptocurrency.

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The Gold Standard, Bretton woods system, Fiat money, Quantitative Easing, Cryptocurrency

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MRI of the female pelvis displays the best anatomical information on the sagittal section. The standard sequence used in the MRI examination of the female pelvis in the sagittal section is the T2 Weighted Turbo Spin Echo (T2W TSE) . However, the use of the Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) is sensitive to movement , so that motion artifacts often appear. To reduce artifacts researchers tried a T2 Weighted Multivane sequence on MRI of the female sagittal pelvis. This study aims to determine the differences in anatomical image information between the T2 Weighted Turbo Spin Echo sequences ( T2TSE) and T2 Weighted Multivane (T2WM) and to find out which sequence is more optimal in producing anatomical image information on MRI examination of the female pelvis in the Sagittal section . This type of research is quasi experimental. Data were obtained from 10 volunteers who were examined using the MRI 3 Tesla device at the Radiology Installation at dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. Each volunteer was examined using the T2WTSE dan T2WM sequents on the sagital section. The resulting image was then assessed by 2 radiologist. Data analysis was carried out using the Wilcoxon test , while the selection of the best sequence used the mean rank. Significance test using ? = 0 , 05 . The results of statistical tests showed that there was a significant difference in Female Pelvic MRI images between the T2 WTSE and T2 WM sequences ( p-value <0.05). The mean rank value indacates that T2WM is more optimal in producing image information. The highest mean rank in rectal anatomy is T2WM 5.00.

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T2 Turbo Spin Echo, T2 Multivane, MRI of the female pelvis

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The research article tries to explore and study the social and cultural themes in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the most alluring authors of �diaspora�. The subject of �culture� is always a stuff of interest particularly when it has to do with a foreign setting. Lahiri�s characters signify different social walks of life and for all time discover them wedged in two diverse worlds, one that they have left at the back and the previous in which they try to fiddle with and as a result faces a cultural conflict. This cross cultural conflict is for all time at hand currently seen in almost all of her stories. The expatriates�, mainly that of America easily turn out to be habituated or familiarized to the custom and civilization and come across suitable place to settle there but the longing for their homeland for no reason goes from their minds and head. They see the America from the Indian viewpoint and it is the viewpoint which brings the inconsistent judgment though they get an improved ambiance and chance.

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Social, Cultural, Diaspora, Custom, Expatriates

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Keywords: China, Indian Ocean, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific, Modernization of PLA, 9 dash lines.

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