Indian Girl Research Articles

Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma in a 5-year-old Female Patient: A Rare Case Report

Abstract Peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) represents a rare entity among the frequently encountered solitary gingival growths. It is a reactive benign lesion of connective tissue whose pathogenesis is idiopathic, but authors believe that inflammatory hyperplasia originating in the superficial periodontal ligament can cause POF occurrence. Indistinguishable clinical features of soft-tissue lesions make the diagnosis strenuous for clinicians. However, we can achieve a definitive diagnosis with the help of histological findings. The favorable therapy of POF is surgical excision of the lesion along with the underlying periosteum after eliminating all possible local contributing factors to reduce its recurrence. This article presents a case of POF in a 5-year-old Indian girl who reported painless swelling in the area of mandibular anterior and also discusses its clinical presentation, radiographic findings, histological features, diagnosis, and satisfactory clinical management.

Lexical Changes in Indian English: A Case Study of Novel “One Indian Girl”

Lexical Changes in Indian English: A Case Study of Novel “One Indian Girl”

Neo feminism in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl

Neo feminism is symbolically important because it signifies a commitment to women’s empowerment and appropriates an importantly radicalized term, while also recognizing that the approach is new because it incorporates intersectional anti-subordination analysis and responds to observed problems with past interventions (Gruber 2014). It is an emerging view of empowered woman who is conventionally feminine. The term is widely used in the early 21st century which refers to a popular cultural trend which champions the free choice of women in appearance, lifestyle, and sexuality. This consumerist orientation retains the advances of legal equality in political space but urges women to celebrate their femininity in their personal lives, a category that includes careers, clothing, and sexuality. “We need a new language, better words that can more closely describe women's fear of and resistance to one another; words that will not always come out sounding like dogma. (Moraga 1981b: 30)”. The present paper tries to critically analyze the various facets of neo feminism in an Indian society with reference to Chetan Bhagat’s novel One Indian Girl. Radhika Mehta is not only intelligent but also successful in her career and this quality makes it difficult to be loved. She expands on why she ‘finds it difficult to get love’ and the reason why the society judges women achievers, especially in India.

The New Woman Avatar in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl

The paper aims at exploring the female protagonist, Radhika Mehta, of One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat in the light of the ideals of the New Woman in Indian context. This is an ideal which had emerged in the late 19th century and has had a profound influence to date. It associates women as independent, physically adept and mentally acute, and able to work, study, and socialize equal to men. Having been exposed to many Western countries during her career, Radhika focuses on her status and career, earns more than boys normally does, involves in premarital sex, and shows her individuality. However, she cannot renegotiate the traditional roles altogether. Rather, she tries to evade a critique of power relations within the family and attempt to get the best of both worlds, concretizing existing gender roles and taking on additional new ones.

Spondylocostal dysostosis: A rare case report

Spondylocostal dysostosis (SCD), also known as Jarcho Levin syndrome, is a rare congenital dysostosis characterized by multiple congenital vertebral and rib anomalies. The child usually presents with respiratory distress at birth with eventual development of short trunk dwarfism. Associated congenital anomalies are rare; however, they need evaluation. We report a 6-month-old Indian girl with SCD who presented with respiratory distress and an asymmetrical small thoracic cavity. The diagnosis was made with radiographs, computed tomography scans, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showing multiple rib and vertebral segmentation anomalies. We would also highlight the importance of MRI in these patients and illustrate other associated brain and spine anomalies.

Discovering Self-Identity and Confronting Racism in the Novel, 'Indian No More' by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell

Indian No More is about the story of a little girl whose identity and world changed circumstantially due to a certain government intervention. Her life of struggle in search of finding her identity in this perplexed world while facing racism is the focus of this article. This entire aspect has been discussed in the article through the four main phases of her life, which can be said to be the turning point. The first part of her life was of an ordinary Indian girl living with her family members in a reservation shelter with her fellow Indian tribes. The second phase of her life was when the United States Congress passed the bill for removing the tribal status of the Umpqua tribe. The third phase of her life was when the government passed the law to settle those tribes in the Urban areas of the United States, where they were dealing with problems like racism. In the final phase, the real character appeared, where she worked with all the challenges and became successful in her life.

‘No Home’ and ‘No Host’ but a ‘Third Space’ for Jasmine

In Jasmine, the conceptual understanding of Bharati Mukherjee’s protagonist Jyoti is often caught between two worlds and cultures. This is the story of a simple Indian village girl Jyoti’s journey from India to America. During her journey, her transformation and feminist role are significant to understand the cultural changes in her life. This article analyses Mukherjee’s Jasmine with the diasporic postcolonial theoretical framework. This article explores Jyoti’s struggles, assimilation and accommodation in the Third Space with scholars like Bhabha, Lin and Schwartz et al. The postcolonial concepts like a Third Space, identity transformation and acculturation process create a space to explore Jasmine’s journey. To conclude, her efforts to assimilate and identity construction attracts us to explore diasporic space in women’s life. This research finds a potential scope to explore the cross-cultural psychology of the female character in the novel to (re)present the diasporic journey from India to America. This research finds that Jasmine’s role as a diasporic figure creates a Third Space and acculturation.

Role of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Preoperative Assessment of a Patient with a Petrosquamous Sinus: a Case Report.

We report a case of a 15-year-old Indian girl who presented with tinnitus, pain and ear discharge for one month and was preliminarily diagnosed with Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) with mastoiditis. She underwent a routine presurgical CT scan which revealed an aberrant vein, making it essential to exercise caution during surgery for CSOM. The aberrant vessel was identified as a Petrosquamous Sinus. A Petrosquamous Sinus is a persistent fetal vein that connects the transverse sinus with the retromandibular vein and may regress in an individual by birth. Its importance lies in the risk of haemorrhage it carries during otological surgeries. A Digital Subtraction Angiography proved to be a vital step in isolating the path of the vein for better visualisation of the course, thus giving a better idea about the anatomical relations of the vessel during the surgery. The tympanoplasty was performed with care to prevent damaging the vein. The patient had no complications in the postoperative period and made a quick recovery.

A rare case of fundus albipunctatus with a novel RDH5 gene mutation

Fundus albipunctatus (FA) is a rare, genetic retinal dystrophy that belongs to a heterogeneous group of genetically determined flecked retina syndromes. The presence of multiple retinal yellowish-white lesions of various sizes and configurations, without vascular or optic nerve abnormalities are characteristic features of these disorders. We report a case of fundus albipunctatus in an Indian girl child born out of consanguineous marriage with a novel homozygous nonsense variation in the RDH5 gene.

Infantile Systemic Hyalinosis: A Clinical Masquerader for Clinicians

Infantile systemic hyalinosis (ISH) is an extremely rare disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. The syndrome clinically presents with multiple joint contractures with chronic severe pain, papulonodular skin lesions, hypotonia, gingival enlargement, developmental delay, and systemic manifestations. In this case report, we present the case of a 21-month-old Indian girl with ISH. This case demonstrates that ISH, though rare, should be considered in differential diagnosis in patients with subcutaneous nodules and raised lesions on the face and neck.

The Indian Enigma revisited

This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande (JP) argue that the key to the Indian Enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children, particularly girls. Analyzing new data, and taking into account issues relating to robustness to model specification, weighting and existing critiques of JP., we find: (1) Parameter estimates are sensitive to sampling design and model specification; (2) The gap between the heights of pre-school African and Indian children is closing; (3) The gap does not appear to be driven by differential associations by birth order and child sex; (4) The remaining gap is associated with differences in maternal heights. If Indian women had the heights of their African counterparts, pre-school Indian children would be taller than pre-school African children; and (5) Once we account for survey design, sibling size and maternal height, the coefficient associated with being an Indian girl is no longer statistically significant.

Hemingway’s Nick Adams and His Lost “Indian Girl”

Two Scribner’s-excised passages from the manuscript of the posthumously published “The Last Good Country” reinforce the importance of the Indian girl Trudy in Hemingway’s fiction and of Prudence Boulton in his life. Both passages underline Nick’s depth of feeling for Trudy and the pain of her loss—a metaphor for the fate of Indians, who “all ended the same way. Long time ago good. Now no good.” But the theme of Indian extinction is itself a metaphor for the power, prominence, and even prevalence of loss in Hemingway’s fiction. Excepting the positive portrayals of Nick Adams and Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s earliest protagonists, loss dominates—in at least half the In Our Time stories, in the bitter conclusion of A Farewell to Arms, and in the four new tales of defeat and death that open The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Hemingway agrees with Jig that “once they take it away, you never get it back.”

Becoming Global Citizens through Global Literature: A Case Study of English Teacher Candidates in Korea

This study investigates the ways in which English teacher candidates in Korea can cultivate global citizenship through reading and responding to global literature. While reading Kashmira Sheth’s Keeping Corner, a story of a young Indian girl navigating her life as a widow, they were invited to build their own intercultural understanding through participating in various critical literacy activities. Employing a qualitative research method, this study analyzes the texts that they produced during the class. The findings reveal that through self-reflexivity they were able to move beyond a surfacelevel conceptualization of culture usually represented as specific artifacts or traditional practices and then recognize the dynamic factors that play a role in constructing their cultural identities. In addition, they were able to make personal, local, and global relevance and significance and thereby identify some issues that local and global communities are currently facing. Although many raised their awareness on global citizenship by deconstructing the self-other dichotomy and recognizing multifaceted aspects of one’s lived experience, the study also identifies some challenges in unraveling deeply rooted ideologies and superiority, as well as apathy toward local and global relevance and significance in a one-semester course. Finally, this study calls for more integration of global citizenship education into teacher education programs.

Stiff hip managed with capsular incision in adolescent girl: a case report

<p>Idiopathic chondrolysis is an uncommon condition defined by the complete loss of femoroacetabular articular cartilage in a child with no previous trauma, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, infection, or extended immobilisation. Because of the gradual onset of symptoms, escalating radiographic abnormalities, and the lack of a diagnostic laboratory test, diagnosis is sometimes delayed. Localized osteoporosis, subchondral erosions, femoral head alterations, and a reduction in joint space are all common radiographic findings. We report a case of Idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip in a 14‑year‑old Indian girl who presented with pain and stiffness in her right hip with an MRI differential diagnosis of avascular necrosis/ tuberculosis of right hip joint.</p>

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. London: Penguin Books Ltd. 2009. 270 pages. Paperback. £ 14.99.

Behavioural economics is an emerging field and superfreakonomics provides useful insights into human behaviour observed with respect to issues that have economic implications. The underlying theme of the book is that human beings respond to incentives. The authors have set up a number of interesting examples to convey how different incentives work. The case studies discussed in the book are based on the authors’ recent academic research; motivated by fellow economists as well as engineers and astrophysicists, psychotic killers and emergency room doctors, amateur historians and transgender neuroscientists. Most of the stories fall into one of the two categories: things you always thought you knew but in fact did not; and things you never knew you wanted to know, but do know. The authors, with the help of data, show that drunk walking is eight times more dangerous than drunk driving. The message is that the misaligned incentives (penalties) are responsible for this—only drunk driving is penalised. To show the influence of positive incentives the authors demonstrate how cable TV might have improved the status of women in India. A baby Indian girl, who does grow into adulthood, faces discrimination in provision of education, health care and remuneration in job market. In a national health survey, 51 per cent of Indian men said that wife-beating is defensible under certain situations and more surprisingly, 54 per cent of the women agreed. But things are changing, albeit at a slow pace. The authors find that cable TV has empowered Indian rural women—families with cable TV are more likely to have a lower birth rate and more schooling.

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease-like disorder in an Indian girl with a missense variant in GJC2 gene

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease 1 (PMLD1) is a slowly progressive leukodystrophy that typically presents during the neonatal or early infantile period with nystagmus, commonly associated with hypotonia, delayed acquisition of motor milestones, speech delay and dysarthria. We present a 7-year-old female born to a nonconsanguineous marriage with developmental delay. On examination, she had 22 teeth, and nystagmus with pseudophakia. Neurological examination showed spasticity with increased deep tendon reflexes. On investigation, MRI of the brain done at 3 years showed hypomyelination. Targeted exome sequencing revealed a homozygous non-synonymous variation c.138C>G in exon 2 of the GJC2 gene. Sanger sequencing was done which showed the presence of a variant in the heterozygous state in both parents. PMLD1 should be suspected in any child presenting with diffuse hypomyelination with abnormal eye movements, especially in a girl child with PelizaeusMerzbacher disease phenotype with hypomyelination in the pons.

The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine

The current paper examines the Native American people's identity, especially the main female character's cultural identity in the short story entitled The Search Engine. Sherman Alexie, the author of the story, is a Native American writer who harnesses the Indian identity as one of the main topics. The identity presented in the main character, Corliss, shows the challenges of the stereotypes of Native American girls. For that reason, the paper aims at exploring the new Indian woman’s cultural identity represented in the main character, Corliss, in the short story The Search Engine. The study applies feminist literary criticism that enables the writers to deeply explore the issue of woman's identity among the American native people. The main character, Corliss, shows the new female image identity, in which she can challenge traditional stereotypes of Native American women. Corliss is represented as a highly literate woman, with a lot of reading on English literary works, and has concern on her Indian-ness, which is often incommensurable to her big family’s views. The main character shows the new female image of an Indian girl evidenced in her excellent literacy and attitude toward Indian and White people. She has new consciousness in seeing the Indian men and women and their relation to White people.

Desiring Whiteness in Jasmine

The novel Jasmine is written by Bharati Mukherjee, a South Asian English novelist. The novel revolves round Jasmine, the protagonist, who migrates to America desiring whiteness. My major argument in the research article is that she is obsessed with whiteness to have American identity, to materialize her husband’s dream of migrating to the USA, to counter the cultural binding of widowhood prevalent back in her home land, India and to have the privilege of gender equality by shifting to America. The study reflects how on the one hand, Jasmine’s journey to America is influenced by transnationalism and globalization; on the other hand, whiteness primarily appears to her as her desire and it also appears to her as identity, threat and negotiation. For the broad theoretical framework, I have used Kalpana Seshadri- Crooks’ and Frantz Fanon’s theory as theoretical modality to deal with the theory of whiteness. The novel reveals Jasmine, a young Indian girl’s journey from her village Hasnapur in India to Iowa in the USA, the land dominated by whites. Her migration to the USA, the assumed land of gender equality and opportunity shows her obsession with whiteness. Her movement from illegal migration to being an immigrant in pursuit of an American identity uncovers her belief of transcending the cultural barriers and taboos of home land. KalpanaSeshadri-Crooks defines whiteness as “a master signifier that establishes a structure of relations, a signifying chain that through a process of inclusions and exclusions constitutes a pattern for organizing human difference” (3). Likewise, Samir Amin argues “Whiteness is entirely related to Europe or the eternal west” (89), which can be a relevant idea to support why Jasmine migrates to the USA. Besides, the non-whites travel from the colonized nations to the west in search of whiteness, while whiteness travels from the west to the east to assert the hegemony over the orients. In this light, France Widdance Twine and Charles Andrew Gallagher further urge “Whiteness as a form of privilege and power travels from western countries to colonies throughout the world” (10). Finally, the write-up focuses on the significance of the study of desiring whiteness of South Asian characters like Jasmine for their migration to the USA.

Identity predicament and search for values in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

Identity is fundamental to each and every human being because it is the means by which a person locates himself or herself in society and culture. In the case of immigrants, nevertheless, many of them face identity crises as part of their integration into the host community. 'Jasmine,' by Bharati Mukherjee, is the narrative of an Indian rural girl who immigrates to America and faces many identity crises in order to find her place in American culture. This dissertation delves into Jasmine's journey of changing identities and also how she arises as both a survivor and a successful immigrant in America. It also explains why these various identities are so important to her survival as an immigrant.

Audiological findings in an Indian child with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome: a case report

Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by multi-system involvement and facial dysmorphic features. Sensorineural hearing loss is one of the most common manifestations of this pathology. Detailed audiological evaluation in confirmed cases of JBS is essential for the appropriate management of hearing loss. We present the audiological features of a six-year-old Indian girl with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome along with the less emphasized association of café-au-lait spots with JBS.