CRITICALANALYSIS ON THE POEMS OF JAYANTA MAHAPATRA WITH REFERENCE TO THE ECO-CRITICAL PRAXIS: ECO-POETICS AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY.

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the doyens of Indian English literature. Being an Indo- Anglican writer, he came to the literary arena in his later half of his life. He was then conferred with Sahitya Akademy award for his seminal work Relationship in 1981. This gave him the title of a modern Indian writer among the international literary circle. Most of his works are bound to the culture of Orissa and his works are rich in images picked from Bhubaneswar, Konarka, Puri and Chilka lake. He is a patron of Indian civilization and an ardent ghter against environmental concerns, social issues and political inequalities. Reading Mahapatra’s poems under Ecocritical praxis is an interesting realm of inquest where he has penned his genuine concerns and cultural tracks through his poems. Eco-poetic aspects are abundant in his poems that Mahapatra reconnects the human activity with nature and also resist the current human intervention in this exploitive capitalistic world. Cultural ecology has a deep connection in his poems that his characters are the testimonies of the reconnection between man and nature. Irrespective of his age, he is still an ardent writer who has a vision for optimistic posterity.

Origin of orthopyroxene-bearing felsic gneiss from the perspective of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: an example from the Chilka Lake migmatite complex, Eastern Ghats Belt, India

Orthopyroxene-bearing felsic gneiss occurs as foliation-parallel layers and bands together with aluminous granulite, mafic granulite, and quartzofeldspathic granulite in the Chilka Lake migmatite complex of the Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Belt, India. The rock was classified previously as charnockite which underwent granulite-facies metamorphism. Field and textural features of this rock show evidence of the partial melting of a biotite-bearing greywacke protolith. Orthopyroxene with/without garnet and cordierite were produced with K-feldspar as peritectic phases of incongruent melting of presumed metaluminous sediments. Fluid-inclusion data suggest the presence of high-density CO2-rich fluids during peak metamorphism, which are similar to those found in associated aluminous granulite. Whole-rock major and trace element data show wide variability of the source materials whereas REE distributions show enriched LREE and flat HREE patterns. Zircon grains from representative samples show the presence of inherited cores having spot dates (SHRIMP) in the range c. 1790–3270 Ma. The overgrowth on zircon was formed predominantly during c. 780–730 Ma and sporadically during c. 550–520 Ma. Some neoblastic zircons with c. 780–730 Ma ages are also present. U-rich dark zones surrounding cores appear partially metamictised, but spot ages from this zone vary within c. 1000–900 Ma. The <1000 Ma ages represent metamorphism that mirrors the events in associated aluminous granulite. The sources of metaluminous sediments are speculative as the rock compositions are largely modified under granulite-facies metamorphism and partial melting. Considering the accretionary tectonic setting of the Eastern Ghats Belt during the c. 1000–900 Ma time frame, a greywacke-type protolith for the migmatite complex has been proposed.

A new species of Ogyrides (Decapoda, Caridea, Ogyrididae) from Kuwait

A new species of telescope shrimp, Ogyrides sindibadi sp. nov. is described from Kuwait. The new species is morphologically similar to O. striaticauda Kemp, 1915, originally described from Chilka Lake (India), but can be distinguished by the shape of the scaphocerite, the much longer dactylus of the third pereiopod, as well as the shape of the distal margin of the telson.

ECOLOGY OF SOME MARINE LAGOONS ALONG THE EAST-COAST OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MANAGEMENT AND UTILISATION OF THEIR RESOURCES

The marine lagoons along the east coast of India such as the Chilka-lake in Orissa State, the Pulicat and the Ennore lakes near Madras, Silvatturai lagoon in Tuticorin, and the Mandapam lagoon in Ramanathapuram are shallow, vast sheets of saline water whose physical and chemical characteristics are quite different from the backwaters of the west coast and constitute distinct categories of biological environment. The main characteristic feature of these lagoons is that they are connected to the sea by a narrow mouth which is closed by a sand bar for varying periods of the year. One or more seasonal rivers open into some of these lagoons and flood them during the monsoon. The land run-off during monsoon is the only source of freshwater for others. The bar-mouth connection with the sea is opened by the thrust of the flood waters aided in some cases by human effort. This opening operates for a few months between November — December and June - July or throughout during some years following heavy monsoon. The closure occurs by general silting and formation of a sand bar.