• TRANSGENDER RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT IN A REVATHI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Monika

Abstract: The autobiographies of well-known Indian transgender rights activist Revathi are examined in this abstract in order to examine issues of transgender empowerment and resistance. Two important autobiographies, "The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story" and "A Life in Trans Activism," chronicle Revathi's life path. These autobiographies offer a distinctive perspective on the struggles and victories faced by India's transgender community. Revathi's autobiographies illuminate the ongoing problems that transgender people—especially hijras—face in a culture that is marked by marginalization and discrimination. They draw attention to the widespread discrimination and acts of violence against transgender individuals, in addition to the challenging social and economic conditions they frequently face. The stories also stress the significance of empowerment and resistance. Through navigating a complex web of cultural expectations as a hijra, Revathi became a formidable fighter for transgender rights, as her memoirs demonstrate. Her experience can serve as motivation for other transgender people who want to stand up for their rights and identity in a society that frequently tries to marginalize and erase them. We see the strength of self-acceptance and how a person's personal suffering can serve as a catalyst for social change via Revathi's path. The autobiographies describe the emergence of transgender communities, the struggle for legal acceptance, and the opposition against discrimination and stigma. They emphasize the value of empowerment and education as means of emancipation and advancement.

• INDIAN FOLK CONVENTIONS AND GIRISH KARNAD DRAMA TECHNIQUES

Kanchan Punia Dr. Farha Naz Farrukh

Abstract: The heightened awareness of suburban paperwork not only acquires food but also is oriented towards the new fashion, which presents wonderful assets for self-expression. Harmonises the western doctrine of drama by the most part of the civic political critical point, revert of jeopardy, frustration, seclusion, blue devils, or track of attainment in Indian sensibility, stocks his trouble: tensions in the cultural yesteryear of the artless and its colonial horse and buggy day, surrounded by the sights of Western modes of kernel and our mortal traditions, and someday between the offbeat visions of the karma that perceived up earlier the commonplace case of political consent changed facing done.

• THE ORAL NARRATIVES AS HISTORY IN URVASHI BUTALIA'S 'THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE: VOICES FROM THE PARTITION OF INDIA'

Dr. Rashmi Paraskar

Abstract: Urvashi Butalia is a renowned historian writing from feminist perspective. Current feminist theory, in validating women’s own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women’s history to view the use of women’s oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women’s written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women’s lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women’s contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence is an attempt to validate oral narratives as history. Women suffered a lot during the partition of India, but they are almost invisible in historical narratives. Urvashi Butalia had set for herself the task of making women visible in history by delineating the brutal side of partition through women’s lens.

• A Study of Selected Indian Women's English Autobiographies

Mrs. Sonu

Abstract: The exclusion of women's life stories from mainstream biographical studies has been questioned by many feminist critics. Through these questions, they began to create the concept of women's lives and re-create women's spaces. This article traces some of these efforts, marking the transition from pioneering nineteenth-century Indian women's narratives to twentieth-century narratives of affirmation. This article presents a comparative study of Rambai Ranade's 19th century biography and the biographies of Kamala Das and Indira Lankesh. Ranade's Ramabai: His Wife's Reminiscences (1963) was originally written in Marathi and later translated into English. Kamala Dass My Story (1976) marked a major turning point in women's biographies in India. Indira Lankesh's Hulimavu Mattu Nanu (2013) – a Kannada-language biopic – tells the story of a woman who turns out to be a very independent and successful entrepreneur. This study confirms the development of communication strategies over the years, which strongly supports the fact that women have changed their lives and created their own space by breaking the communication patterns.