Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2009

CONTENTS		PDF Pages
Editorial PHP Version | PDF Version		101-102
CRITICISM
“The Noble Savage and the Civilised Brute: Nature and the Subaltern Angst in Swarup Dutta’s Machh Master (The Expert Angler) Sajalkumar Bhattacharya PHP Version | PDF Version		103-114
Finding the voice of the Peasant:  Agriculture, Neocolonialism and Mulk Raj Anand’s Punjab trilogy Jonathan Highfield PHP Version | PDF Version		115-133
Rabindranath Tagore’s English Prose: “Some Qualities of Permanence” Fakrul Alam PHP Version | PDF Version		134-149
Aesthetics of Indian Feminist Theatre Anita Singh PHP Version | PDF Version		150-170
Representation of Indigenous Women in Contemporary Aboriginal Short Stories of Australia and India: A Study in Convergences and Divergences Indranil Acharya PHP Version | PDF Version		171-179
Giving the Lie: Ingenuity in Subaltern Resistance in Premchand’s short story ‘The Shroud’ Somdev Banik PHP Version | PDF Version		180-185
PERSPECTIVE
Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer Amit Shankar Saha PHP Version | PDF Version		186-196
CREATIVE
Painting and Illustrations Soumitra Mondal PHP Version | PDF Version		197-200
BOOK REVIEW
Book Review: Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai ed. Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History Jaydeep Rishi PHP Version | PDF Version	201-204
About the Contributors                        PHP Version | PDF Version	205-207

New Call for Vol 2, No 1

Visual Arts in the 21^st Century

In the wake of the digital revolution and globalisation policies the whole world is witnessing formation of certain conditions which are having and will continue to have tremendous impact on the production, reproduction, access, dissemination and appreciation of visual arts. While the old art forms and artworks are being revisited and reproduced in wholly new ways and for a variety of purposes, new types in the forms of digital arts are surfacing not only on the internet but also every place of our visual culture. The place and workplace of the artist also has undergone a radical change. The artists are themselves very keen to define their position globally as the web makes it possible, and along this they are also ready to take up social and political challenges (as always was the case).

Like convergence in all other fields, in the sphere of visual arts we are also witnessing a convergence of all the art forms in the case of computer games. With 2D video games giving way to highly complex PC games, we find attempts at accommodating real-life 3D experiences and complex situations into the digitally recreated virtual reality. In combination with the web a professional team of experts has been able to create virtual worlds, where millions of people—irrespective of age, gender, class, caste and race—have started ‘living’. This kind of converged art is allowing the reader/player/resident the highest ever freedom not only to enter the ‘text’ but also to modify and manipulate it up to a certain limit.

Keeping in mind this kind of situation we are inviting critical writings on a variety of areas. While we are open to the suggestion from the writers for the inclusion of any particular area, for their convenience we are giving below a list of probable areas for submission:

i.              Aesthetics of digital arts

ii.             Aesthetics of photography

iii.            Aesthetics of website design

iv.            Our visual culture—sociology/psychology of the need for the visual

v.             Sociology of the reproduction of old art forms and art objects

vi.            21^st century artist and the digital technology

vii.           Video and Cinema on the Web

viii.          Artist and the global politics

ix.           Viewers as users

x.            Gender and visual arts today

xi.           Focus on any artist/tradition from new perspective

xii.          Open Access and Fair Use Policies and Visual arts

For submission of critical writings, please send:
* Completed article (3000-5000 words)
* Abstract (100-200 words)
* 3 to 5 Keywords
* Brief CV
For submission of creative works, please send:
* Analytical Description of Works (2000-3000 words)
* Maximum 5 images in JPG format, at least 800 pixels wide or tall.
* Abstract (100 words)
* 3 to 5 Keywords
* Brief CV


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UGC Fitment Table of the 6th Pay commission Fixation for College and University Teachers

Fitment Tables in 6th Pay commission for College and University Teachers has yet not been officially published. But Dr.Akhilesh Kumar Kulshreshtha, Retd Reader and Head of Mathematics Deptt, D.B.S.College Kanpur, has posted fitment tables in MS Excel format for university teachers on Scribe.com. He says that he consulted "the notification No.1-32/2006-U.II/U I(!) of HRD ministry dated 31-12-2008” and “and grade fixation memo of central government F.No.1/1/2008-IC DATED 30-8-2008”. One can download the table from the following URL:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12684300/Fitment-Tables-for-University-Teachers

In order to download the table, however, you will have to register with Scribd. Registration is free and safe.

Another post on UGC fitment tables for ICAR Scientists Revised Pay Scales carries various comments along with the tables. The page can be accessed by following the URL:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Revised-ICAR-Scientists-Pay-Scales
But the Teachers’ Organisations seems to have forgotten the cause—the cause of realising what they really deserve in terms of money (INR). I wrote this post on 18^th March. But after such a long wait nothing is clear—neither the much awaited illusive “fitment tables” (what a coinage!) nor the declaration on the age of retirement from 60 to 65 or on 60. The teachers’ organisations are also painfully silent about it. It seems the recommendations have to be revived (gone to coma!) long after our democratic god, Election. We cannot be sure what will happen when a new government will come to power. Teachers are left with nothing but STRIKE. But who will bell the cat? Our leaders are busy with elections!

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