INDIAN CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN MEERASYAL’S LIFE ISN’T ALL HA HAHEEHEE

Cultural Perspective in Indian Psychiatry

V^ulture though apparently elusive is always present in our day to day practice of psychiatry. A look at the history of cultural psychiatry amply demonstrates it. With the gradual and difficult entry of psychiatry into the realm of medicine came classification of various mental problems into disease entities. Proof of both scientific status and physical causation lay in finding universality of ...

The Elements of Indian Hygiene

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Cultural Elements in the Translation of Children's Literature: Persian translation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda in focus

Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...

Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Indian Classical Dance

Dance has been an integral part and ventricular parcel of my life since childhood. I began this endeavor at the tender age of three with Sri Kunhiraman and Srimathi Katherine Kunhiraman of Kalanjali Dances of India. They were a great source of encouragement as they were the only teachers who consented to accept me into their tutelage at a young age. They have indeed inspired me to great depths....