PHD Progress Review Report 1.pptx

Present presentation contains the draft of PHD progress report of 1st term of PHD @ Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.

1. MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY Registration number : 2117 Prepared by, Research Scholar Ruchi Joshi [email protected] Registration date: 21/01/2022 Research Title: A Study of Identity Crisis and Socio-Cultural Relevance of Women Characters in Raghuveer Chaudhari’s Amrita , Julian Barnes’ s The Sense of an Ending , Jitesh Donga’s North Pole and Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence Research Supervisor Dr. Bhavesh Parmar I/C Head & Assistant Professor Government Science College, Gariyadhar , Gujarat, India Progress Review Meeting Date : 14/06/2022 Progress Review Meeting Semester 1

2. Active participation in Course work

3. Active participation in Course work

4. Glimpses of Course work “Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.” - Konrad Lorenz  

5. Watched videos for further references and clarification (It were suggested during course work) Topic Resource Person Link Research and Publishing Ethics Dr.Dilip Barad https://youtu.be/PYTgIOienuI Translation Studies as World Literature and World Literature as Translation Studies Prof. Sachin Ketkar https://youtu.be/v9E3kOxkkpQ Academic Writing Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay https://youtu.be/IT3mk0ufTdA Quality Research Publication: Impact Factor, i-Index, h-Index, i10-Index Prof. Kiran Trivedi https://youtu.be/RUGLwp8wVh0 Practical Ways of Organizing Research Dr. Kalyani Vallath https://youtu.be/QVRLr_8uH0E Research Techniques Prof. Balaji Ranganathan  https://youtu.be/NUpBSk6pDCI Critic, Researcher & Scholar | Richard Altick | The Art of Literary Research Prof. Dilip Barad https://youtu.be/M6j0mE8lCd4  Mind and Temperament of Research Scholar | The Art of Literary Research | Richard Altick Prof. Dilip Barad https://youtu.be/cebk1nzzrJw

6. Planned a questionnaire to have an idea of public review for selected literary texts It will help researcher to get opinions and these opinions will help to have another aspects and angles, too Questionnaire Design Library Visit

7. Presentation in Seminar and Publication Participated in The National Conference on ‘Innovations and Recent Trends In Commerce And Humanities’ held by Gopinathji Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Managed by Swami Shree Paramhans Foundation Trust, Held at Shihor On 6th March, 2022 and presented paper entitled ‘Silence- the only language in That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande’ The Article entitled ‘ Silence- the only language in That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande’ has been published in the Most Referred and Peer Reviewed Multi-Disciplinary E Journal of Research entitled Shanti E Journal of Research ISSN 2278-4381, March-2022 Volume-41, Issue-11. It can be accessed at www.shantiejournal.com

8. Interaction with supervisor Date Discussion Remarks of Research Supervisor 08/05/22 Discussion of theoretical aspects on feminist reading     15/05/22 Thorough reading of original text Amrita and North Pole     22/05/22  Tried to discuss and modify the answers of Paper – 2 for the Course Work   05/06/22 Thorough reading of original text The Sense of an Ending  

9. Collection of Articles and research papers & other reading Collected maximum articles and research papers on The Sense of an Ending from online resources. (Reading of these article is on it’s way) This book is borrowed from the central library of MKBU dated on 06/05/2022. (Reading is still in the process) This book is divided into two parts. 1 st part contains author’s view, introduction where as second part deals with selected and collected articles on literary text ‘Amrita’

10. Feminism and Social Justice (Enrolled into online course at COURSERA) Researcher is still working on this course at present. University of California, Santa Cruz

11. Thank You