http://localhost:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/10 2026-10-29T10:08:31Z http://localhost:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/21766 Title: Reviving the Lost: Memory and Nostalgia in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Select Literary Writings Authors: Deepa Abstract: Memory is a tool to peep into the present and the past, between time and space. It is the base of our dreams. Memory with all its subtlety nurtured and recollected the direct experience of individuals. Which causes memory to communicate experience and history, consequently the notion of memory is not personal / simple, rather it becomes extraordinarily complex. In postcolonial literature we raise the question: What is Memory? Is it a remembrance or reflection and imagination? Is it the battleground we contest in struggles for dominance - of peoples, ideas, and politics? Pierre Vidal Naquet in “Assassins of Memory Essays in the Denial of the Holocaust” addresses many of the arguments and prejudices embodied in the personal experience and the memory of those who were affected. Philosophers, critics, Literature, poets, novelists all have particular concepts of memory. Postcolonial writers revisit these experiences and form narratives of identity. The concept of Mnemosyne, or memory, was anthropomorphised by the classics (Greeks and Romans) as the mother of wisdom and the daughter of ignorance. Philippe Aries, who led the way in studying memorials, commemorates it "History deals with the horizon between the known and the unknown, It is memory that lures us to this horizon. Even the widest horizon of our knowledge is overwhelmed by the mysteries of what lies beyond" (qtd. in Hutton 168). Memory as interlinked with nostalgia creates spaces for it, As Boym (2001) calls it “Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations, the longing for home (nostos), nostalgia is defined as the longing for a home that no longer exists”. (OED). 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/21738 Title: Global Financial Crisis vis-à-vis NPL Crisis: Impacts on Efficiency of Indian Banking Industry Authors: Saha, Soumik Kumar Abstract: The study aims to assess the impact of both the global financial crisis (2007 to 2009) and the non-performing loan (NPL) boom (2013 to 2017) on bank efficiency in India. The study also looks into the evolution of efficiency before the NPL boom (2009 to 2013) and during the NPL boom (2013 to 2017). For this purpose, the study calculated the technical efficiency scores of the Indian banks over the period 2007 to 2018. The study follows a non-parametric approach of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression models. The findings demonstrate that the global financial crisis (GFC) has a significant negative impact on the banks’ efficiency. Also, a slight improvement in the efficiency score was observed during the NPL boom. In addition, foreign banks have performed better than their public and private counterparts. 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/21737 Title: Crop Insurance policies in India: A comprehensive Study of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna Authors: Thorat, Sunil Navnath Abstract: Suicides of Agricultural Labourers rise by 18% in 2020 (NCRB report- 2021). India ranks 101 out of 116 countries in Global Hunger Index (Global Hunger Index 2021). Agriculture is a completely unique zone due to its dependence on the weather and organic variables. Therefore, in agriculture it's miles critical to pick out and examine dangers to Ensure that decisions taken on the farm and in the marketplace provide excellent results. A variety of risk assessment methodologies are accessible from a scientific standpoint. Due to recent climate change, there has been a major increase in natural dangers that are beyond human control. Natural hazards are key concerns in front of policymakers and farmers because of their effects on agricultural productivity, production, and farm revenue. As a result of natural disasters and market volatility, farmers' financial condition in the age of technical and economic progress remains precarious. Agriculture is a dangerous industry due to production instability and market hazards, which have a direct impact on farmers' income levels. The following figure shows percentage of agriculture households experienced a crop loss within six months for various crops due to different reasons. 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8081/jspui/handle/123456789/21736 Title: GARCH-Copula Model and its Application in Portfolio Optimization Authors: Vishwakarma, Svatantra Kumar Abstract: Every investor seeks to obtain a high return and face low risk, so he makes a trade-off before investing. Investment can be in anything like stocks, bonds, utilities, education, health, retirement, or something like this. Usually, people invested in single asset, so they sometimes face high losses. In 1952, Harry Markowitz, an American Economist, developed a theory called Portfolio Selection Theory. This theory says that investing in a portfolio, i.e., investing in more than one asset simultaneously, can reduce the risk compared to investing in only one asset. He supposed that investors are to be risk-averse; hence he/she wants high returns and small risk. Markowitz used variance of return as the measurement of risk and mean of return as the measurement of expected return by the following Formula: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z