Nine yard sarees : a family portrait

Abstract

The creative dissertation is a short story cycle titled Nine Yard Sarees. It is made up of eleven closely linked short stories that focus on the extended family of the Srinivasans, a Singaporean Tamil Brahmin family of four. Spanning across India, Singapore, Australia and even America, the multigenerational portrait with nine coprotagonists considers the varied evolutions of Tamil Brahminness as inherited tradition and identity in this diasporic family, touching upon myriad issues including patriarchy, arranged marriage, interracial relationships, pregnancy, sexuality and domestic abuse.

A Multi-Objective Improved Hybrid Butterfly Artificial Gorilla Troop Optimizer for Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Groundwater Monitoring Networks

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