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CONTENTS Tragedy and Quotient of Lives in Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1 Sagar Sangame Nabakumar Moumita Singha The Role and Significance of Water in Eliot’s Wasteland 6 Dr K. Thomas Baby Dalits’ Access to Water: Implications of the Cultural Practice 12 in India – A Constitutional Insight T. Tamil Kani St Francis of Assisi and Sister Water 17 P. J. Alphonsa The Weary Black: Resurgence of the Subjugated in 23 Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby Dr Mallika A. Nair Water- A Recurring Source for Finding New Identity in 27 Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy D. Vimala Importance of Saving and Harvesting Water 31 in the Light of the Glorious Quran and Thirukkural Prof. A. Shafee Ahmed Khan Prof. Dr A. Meeramaitheen Ganga Images in Cinema through an Ecofeminist Lens 36 Darsana Rajkumar Rationality, Religion and Childhood: Probing into the Metaphor 44 of Water in Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies Ritushree Sengupta Breaking the Crotchet: Decoding Idiosyncrasy in the Writing Style 49 of Paulo Coelho in Selected Short Stories of Like the Flowing River Sakina Thanawala The Colossal Presence of Sea in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid: 55 With Special Reference to Annie John and Lucy J. Lakshmi Mario Cassion Anand The Liquid of Awe- A Poetic Introspection of 59 Water through the Lens of Select Poems B. Steffi Sagaya Mary Malayalam Poems through the Ways of Ecological History 64 Sinu Varghese The Evil within Water: An Analysis of Evil 69 Aquatic Creatures in Harry Potter Texts Leonard D’Souza Psychological Effects of Yoga and Meditation: 73 Science and Superstitions Jijeesh T.K. Evaluating Rainwater Harvesting Programmes: 76 A Study in Ernakulam District Lakshmi C. S. H2O: From Cuneiform to Emoticon 86 T. Sugadev Death by Water: An Exploration of Humour in a Funny Ghost Story 92 Prasad Gowda T. S. Water: A Subjective Element in Select Movies 96 Sindamani B. S. Gods as Heroes and Friends: A Glimpse into Ganesh 100 Television Narratives for Children Arathi A. M. Water in Spirituality and Rituals 103 Dr Kshama Shashidhar THE INVESTIGATOR, Vol.3, No.3 (September 2017) ISSN 2454-3314 1 Moumita Singha Research Scholar in Linguistics The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad Tragedy and Quotient of Lives in Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Sagar Sangame Nabakumar A Bengali Romance novel ‘Kapalkundala’ (1866) by the eminent novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, translated into English by Devendra Nath Ghose (1919) is a collection of 9 short chapters out of which the first chapter is ‘Sagar Sangame Nabakumar’ (‘At the Estuary of the Ganges’) which introduces Nabakumar, a young gentleman and other pilgrims’ journey in a steamer while returning back from pilgrimage to Ganga-Sagar. Nabakumar, a wealthy young man from Saptagram experiences this turmoil with other co-passengers in a steamer where ‘lives’ are challenged amidst sea with minimum expectation of survival. The waves and the thick fog overspreading the morning horizons of sea bed, pose threat to existence of life in the middle of a sea. The story starts with a steamer full of pilgrims and the hero Nabakumar (the only man who was not on a pilgrimage and was there to enjoy the scenic beauty of sea and experience sea voyage), that got separated from its fleet and lost its way, young Nabakumar left behind the shores looking for a means to reach back Saptagram, his home. The author writes from within colonial Bengal while situating his reading of the classical novel in a pre-colonial era—the temporal displacement providing the ideological interval required to both critique and reaffirm the existence of an alien system. As one of the classics of sea literature, smithy of experiences accounts for discovery, return, voyage narratives, and exploration, thereby merge and reproduce many other literary paradigms. The novel opens at the Estuary of Ganges where a steamer full of pilgrims, crew and a young man Nabakumar was returning back from pilgrimage to Ganga Sagar. The novel is set some three hundred and fifty years ago in West Bengal when Bengal was colonized under the British rule. Life at sea used to be constantly threatened because of the Portuguese pirates who looted ships or boats that voyaged alone without any companion boats or ships. Therefore there was a constant tendency for such boats or ships to navigate in strong parties on account of the fear of the Portuguese. It was a winter morning of Bangla Magh month (January/February), when the sky was grey, covered with thick fog and mist. Due to overspreading of a thick layer of fog throughout the horizon, nothing could be seen around and hence the fleet lost its way. The crew, having lost their bearings, confused the direction and diverged a far long way from the little flotilla. Now there was no knowing which direction she was making for. Almost all the passengers on board were asleep. Only an old man and young Nabakumar laid awake, the former conversing with the latter. The crew kept the boat rowing amidst deep sea and the environment continued to allure them through its scenic beauty. As they kept rowing the boat, the old man enquired the possible distance the crew could cover then. But to his resentment, the crew gave a negative answer of their unpredictability over the distance to be covered. At this Nabakumar, the young man consoled him by explaining that something which is not in the hands of the almighty that is impossible to be predicted by an illiterate boat-man. He suggested the old man not to bother about the distance and the probable time. At this the old man was furious saying if he is not at his home in time, other village fellows would forcibly cut away paddy from some twenty odd big has (unit of measurement of lands) of his land THE INVESTIGATOR, Vol.3, No.3 (September 2017) ISSN 2454-3314 2 and there would be nothing left for his children to live upon the whole year. He received this piece of news from the fresh arrivals not before he had come out to the Ganga Sagar mela. Both of them started arguing over the fact of the justification of going to a pilgrimage. Nabakumar opined that as per scriptures of Hindu Mythology, only going for a pilgrimage to Ganga Sagar would not help doing pious rites for purity of the soul after life. The young Nabakumar was of the opinion that purity of the soul could be also carried out at home by doing good deeds for human beings, instead of going for a pilgrimage to some random holy places. Seeing Nabakumar against the idea of going for a pilgrimage, the old man enquired the reason for going to Ganga Sagar then. Nabakumar clarified his doubt by explaining that he always had a wander-lust for scenic beauty of sea and island and hence had chosen Ganga Sagar for this.