Vol. 4 Issue 43 – Article: 'Soft Skills – Indispensable for Success' by B.Shoba Rao

Today soft have become very important and is the key mantra to success in both the professional and personal front.Soft skills is now a subject in most colleges in Chennai and students have to take an exam that gets them credits. With India emerging as a hub for different out sourcing activities, employers want their employers to have soft skills along with the technical or hard skills. Teachers therefore, do play an important role in enhancing soft skills among students at the tertiary level from where most of them refer to go for an employment.Academicians,course planners and material producers, collaborators and people at the helm of affairs are looking at how best these skills go to the students and they use them at work to bring success not only for themselves and the organization they work.

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Vol. 4 Issue 43 – Book Review: 'English Language Teaching: Perspective from Periphery (2012)' by Anand Mahanand

There is a need to undertake serious research studies catering to the needs of these demands of the marginalized and underprivileged sections of our society. Proper Investigations are necessary to discover how far English Language Teaching (ELT) can be integrated with the indigenous culture of the learners, how far learners can be trained to use English for their academic purposes and how best literature can be used in English language teaching and learning. There are few books which address all the above issues as successfully and succinctly as Anand Mahanand’s ‘English Language Teaching: Perspective from Periphery’.

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Vol. 4 Issue 43 – Research Paper: 'Eliot’s Concern to Modernity and The Story of an Un-heroic Hero Prufrock- An Evaluation of Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Chetan Trivedi

The works of T.S. Eliot are frequently interpreted in terms of the contemporary time-spirit as he is considerably influenced by his time and its scenario. The story of the misfortunes of modern society is the story of his poems. Eliot’s poetry has relevance not merely to the modern peculiar human situation but also to the universal human predicament. His poems are the analysis of ‘crisis’ and ‘contemporary disillusionment’. His poems also show the shadow of time-spirit, the predicament of modern man, the futility and misery of modern existence. In the Present Research Paper, the Researcher has depicted the Modernity and Un-heroic Heroism of Prufrock in the poem Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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