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The paper highlights impact of environmental pollution on Health. The present study has been taken up in Tuticorin industrial town area. Major industries numbering 12 established in the district. They are engaged in the production of cotton, staple yarn, caustic soda, PVC Resin, fertilizers, soda ash, carbon-di-oxide gas in liquid etc., The important major industries are sterlite, SPIC, Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals, Dharangadhra chemicals work, Madura coats, Kilburn chemicals industries. The public sector undertakings are the Thermal power unit (620mm), Heavy water plant, and port trust. The district contributes 70% of the total salt production of Tamil Nadu and meets 30% of salt requirement of our country. Aside from deficiencies in the life support system, men is subjected to a variety of environmental Hazards. Some of these are natural, but increasingly environmental hazards result from man’s activities and numbers. Sometimes manmade hazards are direct in their impact on other man. But they may be indirect in their influence, acting through other biological systems or overburdening the capacity of natural systems for renewal, dispersion, or assimilation. The following factors can be used in categorizing environmental hazards. (1) Biological (2) Chemical (3) Physical (4) Psychological and (5) Sociological. Hence more than 12 major industries have established in and around Tuticorin. This becomes one of the source of air pollution, water pollution, Noice pollution, in this area. Air pollution may be broadly defined as the presence of one or more contaminants like dust, smoke, must and odour. The atmosphere which are injurious to human beings, plants and animals which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Air pollution seriously damages human beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an in-depth analysis of women characters in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. Bharati Mukherjee, is a famous diasporic writer born in India and settled in America. She calls herself as an American writer and not a hyphenated immigrant. The characters Tara in 'Tiger's Daughter', Dimple in 'Wife' and Jasmine in 'Jasmine' are analysed in detail in terms of women migrants. The change in place and time brings about a change in the behaviour of human beings. Such kind of physiological and psychological changes happen irrespective of the gender. The conventional experience of migrants revolves round the phases as alienation, displacement, dislocation and depression. Breaking this, Mukherjee introduces the feelings of acceptance, delight and pleasure in being a part of new land. Feminism and feminist theory are applied for the study. The problems undergone in various situations and the transformations of the heroines are explored in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an in-depth analysis of portrayal of South Asian Women in the select novels of Bharati Mukherjee. As a result of globalisation, the world has become a global village due to which, migration has become very common and people's movement has increased considerably in recent days. The process of migration, settling down in new land and adapting to the new culture involve several issues and affect both men and women irrespective of the gender. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-born diasporic writer who achieved a special place in Indian diaspora as well in the American Literary World. Being an immigrant, Mukherjee exhibits the lives of the migrant women lively and artistically. She expresses the social reality of the Asian Immigrants' lives in the contemporary America. She perfectly merges fact and fiction in her writings. She focusses on the sufferings and pains of the immigrants through her protagonists. The voyage of migration includes expatriation, racial discrimination, alienation, displacement and cultural shock. The women characters face many problems, endures all odds and emerge as survivors. The characters Tara in the Tiger's Daughter and Dimple in Wife denies to forget the past and accept the new. But, Jasmine undergoes many transformations at different locations and changes her identity along with the change of her names, where she emerges as a rebel and survivor, giving confidence and creates an optimistic view among the readers. She serves as an example for all the South Asian women immigrants to accept, adapt, adopt the new culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]