Public speaking has re-emerged as a crucial communicative competence in the twenty-first-century English Language Teaching (ELT) landscape, especially within digitally mediated learning environments. As global employability increasingly depends on verbal fluency, articulation, and audience engagement, the teaching of public speaking has shifted from a traditional performance-based model to a technology-enhanced pedagogical framework. This paper examines how digital tools—such as virtual presenta...

Desirable Daughters (2002) by Bharati Mukherjee has generally been studied in terms of its preoccupation with identity, migrant family relationships, classes, caste and gender politics of migration. The present article will claim that the work of a continuous, albeit frequently hidden, dystopian imagination based on the varying types of surveillance is also in play in this novel. By applying the Foucauldian theoretical framework of panopticism and Deleuzian theoretical framework of control socie...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s fiction vividly portrays the struggles and negotiations of Indian-American women navigating the complex terrain of diaspora. This paper explores how her female protagonists embody the tensions between assimilation, resistance, and cultural memory in a globalized world. Drawing upon novels such as The Mistress of Spices (1997), Sister of My Heart (1999), and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives (2001), the study examines the ways in which Divakaruni reimagines migration as...

The authors of this chapter, which focuses on risk and portfolio management, attempt to draw attention to the part artificial intelligence (AI) in managing finance. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has disrupted various industries across all sectors. In addition to increasing the potential for alpha generation, artificial intelligence can assist with portfolio management in several ways, offsetting some of the shortcomings of conventional portfolio-building techniques. The study als...

Secularism is a core principle of Indian civilisation, having played a vital role in bringing together people from diverse backgrounds – a defining characteristic of Indian culture. The success of Indian democracy relies heavily on this principle, as it upholds fundamental values such as justice, liberty, equality, and unity. Its role in integrating different segments of society and fostering a sense of national identity warrants recognition. However, some argue that secularism is no longer rele...