EPH - International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

THE RAMAYANA'S PHILOSOPHICAL PATHWAYS: UNDERSTANDING DUTY AND VIRTUE

2024-08-21T12:33:12+00:00

This article is the philosophical analysis of the concepts of duty and virtue of the ancient Indian epic called Ramayana. Hence, based on the critical evaluation of the text, we pay more attention to the concept of dharma, its correlation with virtues, morality and character building. Thus it can be said that Ramayana as an epic contributes significantly to philosophical interpretation and implications of duty and virtue and the meaning of life and human condition.

CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES RELATED TO THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED THROUGH THE STUDY OF SRIKANTH

2024-12-13T05:29:48+00:00

The present paper is an attempt to study Tushar Hiranandani’s film Srikanth (2024), which is inspired by the real-life events of Srikanth Bolla, an industrialist and the chairman of Bollant Industries from the perspective of critical Disability Studies. It highlights the plight of the specially abled in India, the problem of access and equal rights and the stereotypes in the representation of the visually impaired in a medium as powerful as film. The paper seeks to explore how the Indian society ostracises the specially abled persons, especially, the visually impaired. It also analyses how Srikanth battles these stereotypes around the visually impaired and becomes a successful entrepreneur with the help of his teacher, Devika. It also seeks to explain that though he is visually impaired but his disability is the result of the societal and infrastructural barriers and how the filmic representation of his real life story plays a pivotal role in sensitising the masses about the stereotypes related to the visually impaired.

HOW SOCIAL-MEDIA CREATES A FAKE REALITY?

2024-08-27T11:22:54+00:00

How Social-Media Creates a Fake Reality?Social media was created with the aim of making people’s life easier through knowledge sharing, networking, and interacting with their nearest and dearest, it all began with universal benefits and user-friendliness. But today, people are ruining their lives due to social media, by comparing the fake lives of others with our own, we spoil our own lives. We are considering our real lives as waste by comparing them with others fake lives, but it may be possible that behind the scenes, that person’s life is worse than yours. You don’t know anything, but we feel bad comparing our real lives with the fake lives of others. Social media use and declining mental health are related in a number of researches. Even though most individuals are aware that social media only represents a small portion of reality, admiring your peers’ gorgeous, promising, and successful lifestyle can have a major negative impact on your mental health. Therefore this study focuses on how people have created a fake world around them.

Rationale of the study: This study helps us to understand the factors influencing such fake behaviour of peoples on social media; we could help them to understand the consequences of such behaviour.

Method: with the help of structures questionnaires researchers have gathered 384 responses using convenient sampling method and interferences are drawn using suitable statistical methods

PLASTIC MONEY LITERATURE: JAMTARA—SABKA NUMBER AYEGA DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF HOMO ECONOMICUS AND HOMO POLITICUS

2024-09-07T10:36:04+00:00

Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega is an Indian crime drama web series that shares many similarities with the plastic
money of globalization. This article investigates the dynamics and dramatization of what the research scholar mentions
as plastic money literature using plastic money as a theory machine. It argues a case for plastic money in India with its
properties like phishing racket—big enough to grab their small town the title of being the cyber-crime capital of India in
Netflix's Jamtara. However, a comparison proves very fruitful since plastic money literature and the web
series Jamtara investigate the extent to which poverty, frustration, hopelessness, and humiliation play a role in the
complicated factors that transform ordinary people into maverick homo economicus characters and getting associated
with homo politicus characters. Plastic money transactions represent a spatial consciousness in which plastic money
seeps into cybercrime, corruption, and revenge; this does not discriminate between its point of origin and eventual
destination, race, caste-color discrimination, and the misuse of political power for corruption and independent benefits.
On the contrary, Jamtara goes so far as to explain crime and corruption in Jharkhand concerning the transgressions
routinely performed by homo economicus and homo politicus as they rise to the top of the phishing racket, startling the
country in the instance of the plastic money scandal. Thus, plastic money stimulates relationships with a twist that
speaks of society's advantages and disadvantages. In a globalized society, is plastic money rewriting the literature?
Plastic money literature becomes our new dramatization of generating cashless living and rethinking globalized
literature in India. Jamtara is a web serial that encourages comparison because human behavior remains an extended
identity around the globe since there is no employment in Jharkhand, prompting the youth to engage in the criminal
domain of cybercrime.