NAVIGATION AND REINVENTION IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S "JASMINE" AND "MISS NEW INDIA"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) had been a dominant writer of Indian origin settled in Canada and then in the United States of America. Her stories are about psychological navigation and reinvention especially about women immigrant in an alien land. This research paper focuses mainly on the character of Jasmine protagonist of the novel "Jasmine" and on Anjali the character of "Miss New India". Jasmine metamorphoses. Herself constantly ferrying between these multiple identities. (Jyoti, Jasmine, Jase and Jane) by navigating herself in different spaces and at different times. In the novel "Miss New India" Anjali is torn between a life described by traditional rituals and a life of Independence in the gleaming metropolis of Bangalore (now Bengaluru). Anjali begins to realize that to survive she has to forget the ideals that she held dear and needs to re-invent herself in the ways she never dreams of. Both Jasmine and Anjali navigate and re-invent themselves facing travails and tribulations because of their realizations that America or big Indian cities are their ultimate destination with a hope of permanent settlement. They tide over the present situation to the unknown resulting in reinventing themselves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".