IOSR-JHSS   Volume-31 ~ Issue-10 ~ Oct. 2026

Abstract: Group singing is widely acknowledged for its socio-emotional and cognitive benefits. However, empirical scholarship examining how ensemble music performance relates to academic well-being within sub-Saharan local educational contexts remains sparse. This study investigated music teachers’ perceptions of the relationship between choral singing participation, life-skills acquisition, and self-discipline among secondary choral children....

Keywords: Choral singing, academic well-being, music pedagogy, self-discipline, life skills, child development, Nigeria, teachers perceptions..

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Abstract: This paper examines why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS, later renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi, BRS) won Telangana's first two state legislative assembly elections (2014 and 2018) by wide margins, and why the Indian National Congress unseated it in 2023 despite a vote-share gap of less than two percentage points between the two parties. Rather than treating these three elections as a sequence of discrete events, the paper develops an integrated....

Keywords: Regionalism; Welfare Populism; Subnational Politics; Telangana; Electoral Accountability

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Abstract: This paper undertakes a comparative close reading of Sylvia Plath and Forugh Farrokhzad, examining how each poet constructs a language of female resistance through embodiment, syntactic rupture, and the appropriation of masculine literary authority. Drawing on Hélène Cixous's theory of écriture féminine, Julia Kristeva's account of the semiotic's disruption of symbolic order, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's concept of the "anxiety....

Keywords: Sylvia Plath, Forugh Farrokhzad, comparative literature, écriture féminine, confessional poetry, Persian modernism, feminist poetics, gender and voice

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