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The writings of the Indian Diaspora have received a great deal of attention and critical acclaim throughout the world. Rohinton Mistry is a well renowned author in the contemporary commonwealth literature and occupies a significant place among the writers of Indian Diaspora. Even though he is settled in Canada; it is his upbringing in Mumbai that reflects in all his writings. The distinct Mumbai culture, particularly the Parsee way of life, the people of the city and even the politics of India are major themes in his novels. Rohinton Mistry as a writer of Diaspora has carved a niche for himself. His works such as: "Tales from Firozsha Baag", "Such A Long Journey", "A Fine Balance" and "Family Matters"; mark a new kind of writing, resulting from a fragmented, splintered world. As a Diasporic Parsi writer, very sensitively he has recalled his community's journey through time and history with a sense of loss and nostalgia. His books portray diverse facets of Indian socioeconomic life; as well as Parsi Zoroastrian life, customs, and religion. Many of his writings are markedly "Indo-nostalgic". Rohinton Mistry through his Diasporic discourse has well depicted his ancestral background, his community's engaged situation in a metropolis like Bombay and his deep attachment with and nostalgia for a world gone by. In this paper an attempt has been made to delineate diasporic discourse in the works of Rohinton Mistry. Although he is obsessed with the colonial and postcolonial experiences in India, we can find some traces of Canada in his literature. His characters dream of being integrated into, and accepted by, Canadian society on the one hand and on the other hand, these same characters are torn by an insatiable desire to be true to their native culture; to honor and cherish their own, distinct cultural identity.Keywords: Diaspora, Cultural identity, Contemporary Canadian literature, Parsi.

The present study measures the influence of telecommuting on job satisfaction by taking job autonomy, schedule flexibility and work control, work–life balance and reduced job stress as outcome variables of telecommuting. The role of job satisfaction has also been investigated in determining organizational commitment and turnover intention. Confirmatory factor analysis was done to test the fitness of the data to the model along with ensuring the convergent and discriminant validity of the data. For testing the proposed hypotheses, the structural equations modelling technique was used. Results from the study confirm the role of telecommuting in enhancing the overall job satisfaction of employees which in turn improves their level of organizational commitment and reduces turnover intention. The findings of the study contribute empirically to the literature on voluntary part-time telecommuting and provide implications for the proper adoption of a part-time telecommuting arrangement post-COVID-19 and the using of telecommuting as a talent retention strategy.

Aim: To determine the circulatory procalcitonin levels, lipid profile and uric acid levels in patients presenting with preeclampsia and to correlate these with clinical severity of the disease. Methodology: This double blinded case-control study was conducted for two years in department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in collaboration with the department of biochemistry, Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida, UP. This study included 80 subjects out of 40 were in group I (Control) and other 40 were in group II (PE patients) admitted in the hospital in third trimester of pregnancy. General demographic and clinical data such as age, gestational week, number of gestation, and BMI were recorded, and the results of routine blood cell counts, PCT and other indicators were also obtained. The PE patients were women younger than 40 years old who met the diagnostic criteria for PE in the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of hypertensive diseases in pregnancy-2014. The healthy pregnant women were between 24 and 40 years old, with a single fetus, normal fetal development, normal liver and kidney function, and without eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, fetal growth restriction, or history of other adverse pregnancy conditions.