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Beginning with a promise of realizing a spatial critique in film studies, this book contributes to the spatial turn in film studies.It discusses a variety of issues using space as an entry point: cinematic space, place images, institutional and pre-production contexts and their afterlives. The book broadly uses colonial films, Hindi cinema and Bengali films in constituting India as a filmed space; a clarification to this end would have been useful. [Extracted from the article]

Assam is unquestionably a beautiful state of India that upholds the real picture of 'Unity in Diversity. No one can deny the immense role played by Sankardeva's neo-Vaishnava movement in expediting the process of formation of a larger Assamese society in the right direction. In order to sow the seeds of unity and solidarity among the masses from different ethnic groups, they have to be brought to the same religious-social and cultural stage as said by Sankardeva. Simply by analysing the essence of Sankardeva's philosophy, we may understand the relevance of his teaching in modern Assamese society for its overall growth and development. The creative work of the great Srimanta Sankardeva has contributed to the social, cultural and spiritual development of Assamese society and has given impetus and scope to the national life of Assam. His thoughts and teachings have enriched the Assamese society from different angles. Therefore, it has been attempted by the writer to explore the religious and humanistic perspective in his teaching. The findings of this paper have been summarised that there is a pressing need to revive the teaching of Sankardeva in the modern Assamese society considering the rising religious intolerance and degradation of human values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sethi further asserts that "there has been no systematic or detailed attempt to compare censorship policies and practices across these periods" (p. 5). As Ian Stephens, editor of the major English-language daily, the I Statesman i , noted, apart from one or two of the largest papers, "almost every other paper in the country was in difficulties" (p. 162). According to Devika Sethi, I War over Words i "locates itself within the traditional model of censorship studies, and its focus is on direct forms of institutionalized and regulatory censorship. [Extracted from the article]

The topics including race, gender, history and sexual orientation play major roles in women's participation in sport. Women‘s participation in sport can create a substantial contribution to social life and tradition development. Throughout the history of sport, it has been known that the arena of sport is mainly male dominated. Since time immemorial, the society has constructed the order that it seems natural where man belongs to marketplace, woman belongs to household chores, woman the mistress of domesticity, man the master of all else, man the rational thinker, woman the guardian of morals, man dominant, and woman subordinate. Although it is believed that the status of women in North East India is comparatively better than that of mainstream India and since ancient times women have been playing a vital role in contributing to the peace and progress of the region. Many inspirational women from the region have been pioneers and leaders, breaking gender barriers and making considerable progress in diverse fields. The path towards success is no bed of roses for womenfolk especially when it comes to sports. Besides, one's racial or ethnic background greatly shapes the experience they may have in sport. One of such inspirational woman who has carved a niche is Mary Kom, hails from Manipur whose contribution is immense in the field of sports. This paper will specifically focus on the struggles that she has faced during her sports career which is reflected in her autobiography entitled Unbreakable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By Lilly Irani. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

The Koyna Dam in western India has the unfortunate distinction of being the site of the most famous example of reservoir-triggered seismicity. The lead microbiologists in the Koyna drilling project is Dr. Pinaki Sar of the Indian Institute of Technology. Sar's group first analysed core samples retrieved from boreholes that penetrated to 522-1490 m depth in the Deccan basalt and a short distance into the underlying Archean, 2.5 billion-year-old granite. Quantitative PCR of 16S rRNA genes indicated abundance of ~10 SP 5 sp cells/g of rock; qPCR of dsrB and mcrA genes indicated high numbers of sulfate reducers and methanogens, respectively, in the basalt. [Extracted from the article]

The book also corroborates the finding from other research that rural proprietary classes along with the state are important mediators in the rampant land acquisition by the industrial capitalist class in India. Whereas there is evidence of successful accumulation by the class of capitalist farmers and the newly emergent "gentleman farmers" with the aid of the state's resources, the crisis of peasant agriculture appears to be universal. A key finding of the book across all three states is that agrarian policies in the post-liberalization era have undergone a shift as the state has renewed its role. [Extracted from the article]

McClish's analysis of the text explodes this idea as the result of a later redaction of an originally independent and secular text on politics that he provisionally calls the I Da aniti i (5). Nevertheless, I here record some regret that McClish did not take the opportunity to address political theory in sources before and after the I Artha'sastra i , with the exception of Dharma'sastra. The strength and clarity of McClish's argument derives from his focus on the text of the I Artha'sastra i . [Extracted from the article]

It is unclear as to how trade unions can be apolitical organisations when the "neoliberal" economic policies of the state are inherently political in nature and unions often mount intensive political campaigns against these neoliberal policies. It is often argued that with economic liberalisation, India has been witnessing a major change in its labour regulatory framework since 1991 but particularly so since 2014 when the right wing Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) won the parliamentary election and subsequently got re-elected with an increased majority in 2019 general elections. Chinese government uses repression, while Indian government relies on neoliberal policy approaches. [Extracted from the article]

Clearly, then, current cow-protectionist rhetoric, which often invokes vegetarianism as a central element of "Indian culture", reflects neither the extant historical record nor contemporary food practices (p. 165). First, it is apparent that many people who identify or are identified as nonvegetarian may eat meat only rarely, while those who identify as vegetarian may in fact eat meat on occasion, for instance, to signal their cosmopolitan sophistication. [Extracted from the article]

This book fills this knowledge gap by conducting both quantitative and qualitative research studies on support service workers in India's IT industry. What seems to be missing in Chakraborty's book, in contrast, is how India's support service workers have organised and resisted the structural exploitation of their jobs in the IT industry or the wider society. Dr. Chakraborty, the author of this book, has written the best and most comprehensive study on India's support service workers to date. [Extracted from the article]

What follows is a fascinating study of the philological projects of Nilaka ha Dik ita and how the influence of these works permeated all aspects of the Smarta-'Saiva tradition and helped to reify the identity of the community. One of the most interesting and at times perplexing approaches to Fisher's work is her emphasis on the public nature of sectarian theology. Fisher explains that by "public", she refers to the process of theologies leaving the monasteries and temples in order to reify itself in contradistinction to its competitors. [Extracted from the article]

Iyengar women told Nagarajan that shining rice-powder drawings reinforced a link between the women of the house and Lak mi, the gleaming goddess of prosperity. Nagarajan's encounters with I kolams i constitute a strand running through her book. Dissertation fieldwork in Tamil Nadu in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought Nagarajan into contact with numerous I kolam i makers and the meanings they assigned to these rice-powder drawings. [Extracted from the article]