Rohinton Mistry is widely acknowledged for his postcolonial approach to the marginalized. In his novels, he has not only highlighted the marginal position of the poor and the destitute in the Parsi community but also in the wider Indian society. In Family Matters, we find he locates the marginalized within the family set up also. The aged people are objects of neglect, more so in poor families where financing the upkeep of old people seems burdensome. As is his wont, Mistry shows the impact of dirty politics on ordinary, politically unattached lives. Politics is also responsible for the fall of the city of Bombay from a cosmopolitan to a ghettoized one. As an intellectual, Mistry cannot escape casting a glance at the declining numbers of the Parsi community and comes up with his views on the issue ty and how the community can forge links with other communities. For his focus on the Parsi identity, political suppression, and the weak and the destitute in society, Mistry comes out as a great postcolonial humanist.

During the colonial period, plantation authorities in Cameroon, like elsewhere in Africa and Asia, depended on male labour and showed little or no interest in the recruitment of female labour. Over time, the incessant shortage and unstable nature of the labour force led them to reconsider the permanent engagement of women as was the case of the Tole Tea Estate. The plantation hierarchy believed rightly or wrongly that women would be docile and therefore, would not agitate against the exploitative plantation policies as opposed to their male counterparts. This was however, a gruesome miscalculation as the women soon developed a “militantic” behaviour that even surmounted that of male workers in the plantation milieu. The nature of their comportment and the manner in which they agitated for the amelioration of their working condition was sharpened by their affiliation to some Christian domination in the Tole vicinity. As such, with the help of a random survey carried out among 150 women in 2016 and with the use of a historical approach guided by both primary and secondary sources, this work argues that some Christian teachings acted as an eye opener to the women in knowing and claiming their rights. It further contends that some of the protests that the women staged against the plantation management could be attributed to their accumulated knowledge and behaviour imbued with religious feelings and actions as portrayed in protest songs, placards and other related aspects. The paper concludes that the Christian background of the women was therefore, a vehicle for dismembering the obnoxious plantation policies and forcing the authorities to act in their favour.

This paper has leaned on the Critical Discourse Analysis of Malcom X’s speech entitled “Organization of Afro-American Unity Program (February 21, 1965). Drawing on Fairclough’s (1989) Social-Discoursal Approach and Fowler and Kress’ (1979) Critical Classification theory, the speech has been described, interpreted and explained. The conceptual classification has been carried through lexicalization, overlexicalisation, position of adjectives and the choice between adjectives and nouns. The critical classification being a pivotal means through which ideological orientations are deduced, the interpretative and explanatory analyses have disclosed the ideologies of oppression, racism, modern slavery, unity and freedom. On balance, Afro-Americans were fraught with slavery treatments, racist power structures and oppressive aggressors and are currently confronted with racial inequalities and discriminations which sometimes culminate in manslaughters mainly by White American policemen. This unfinished battle of Malcom X should be perpetuated to the period when criminal acts and racial injustices are eradicated in the present US under Joe Biden’s administration (2020-2024) and even beyond.

The prime aim is to investigate whether the influence of social media have changed the cultural patterns of tribal society in West Bengal. Four districts of West Bengal, with 115 householders of 500 samples were selected for the present study. Self-made standardized questionnaire tool of 40 items were constructed by the investigator to study the impact of social media in changing the cultural patterns of tribes on the selected districts of West Bengal through survey method. There is significant relationship between social media and changing lifestyle of tribes. The impact of Social media has influenced the tribal people and social media have led to occupational displacement of tribes of West Bengal.