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"Impromptu: Amplifying our humanity through AI" by Reid Hoffman explores the capabilities of generative AI, particularly the GPT-4 model, and its potential impacts on various fields such as education, creativity, justice, journalism, social media, and the transformation of work. The book discusses the benefits and challenges of using the GPT-4 model, including model hallucinations, and highlights the importance of considering diverse perspectives when integrating AI technologies. Written by Vivek Kumar Singh, the book provides insights for business scholars and practitioners interested in the future of AI, although it may have limitations in discussing other aspects of generative AI and prompt engineering." [Extracted from the article]

Ranjan Chakrabarti (Ed.), Critical Themes in Environmental History of India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2020, xxii + 476 pp., ₹ 1,495, ISBN: 978-9353883140 (Hardback). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reid Hoffman's book, "Impromptu: Amplifying our humanity through AI," explores the capabilities and potential impacts of generative AI, particularly the GPT-4 model. The book discusses the use of AI in various fields such as education, creativity, justice, journalism, social media, and the transformation of work. It highlights the benefits and challenges of using AI tools like ChatGPT, including increased productivity, democratization of creativity, and potential biases and misinformation. The book also addresses the concern of model hallucinations and the impact of AI on public discourse. Overall, it provides a user's perspective on generative AI and can be a valuable resource for those interested in the future of AI. However, it has some limitations, such as limited coverage of non-text-based generative AI models and the lack of discussion on prompt engineering best practices. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Rethinking Disasters Through Slowness: The Brahmaputra Valley's Unfolding Transformation" by Mitul Baruah analyzes the socio-ecological transformation of Majuli, the world's largest river island in the Brahmaputra River in India. Baruah challenges the conventional view of disasters as sudden events, highlighting the slow, non-spectacular processes that contribute to disasters. The book explores the everyday experiences of vulnerability, agency, and resistance of riverine communities facing socio-ecological changes, presenting a nuanced understanding of 'slow disasters' through anthropological accounts and personal experiences. Despite some limitations, the book offers valuable insights for environmental anthropologists, disaster studies scholars, and those interested in South Asian riverine communities, providing a critical perspective on disaster management approaches and the impact of state interventions on marginalized groups. [Extracted from the article]

As Roy accurately points out, the uncontrolled capital accumulation process in neoliberal age of capitalism dehumanizes labour with the tag of "informal" and tries to contain and control the labour force by disciplining beyond the realm of rights (P. 120). In overall, Roy in this book makes a serious attempt to unfold the real character of neoliberal capitalism. The large segment of petty producers residing in developing countries which have been brought into the accumulation network of capitalism through sub-contractual or arm-length production, have expanded the process of proletarianization and precariousness in third world countries. [Extracted from the article]

While turning towards comparing the public policy initiatives during the liberalization and new initiatives taken by the NITI Aayog vision document, the author has recognized and appreciated the refreshing perspective and thinking offered by the NITI Aayog. The grand theories of economic development have examined the process of transformation of a capitalist economy. [Extracted from the article]

Pankaj Jha, Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 304 pp., ₹ 1,095, ISBN: 9780199489558. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kaustav Chakraborty, Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India (London and New York, NY: Routledge. 2021), x + 197 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gitanjali Nain Gill, Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal (Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2017), xxv + 238 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book provides a detailed account of rise into prominence of Ajit Singh as a radical Economist who was born in a Sikh family at Lahore in 1940, the undivided capital of pre-partitioned Punjab. He also mentions establishment of contract between Ajit Singh and Dr. Manmohan Singh who was teaching at Economics Department of Panjab University, when Ajit Singh joined this department for 2 months in 1958 and then he left for the USA to join Howard University, Washington, DC, for his M.A. When Ajit Singh entered Cambridge University, there was a clear division of faculty on ideological lines between real Cambridge economics called Cambridge heterodoxy and neoclassical economics. He also admires the resistance of this group through establishment of Cambridge Journal of Economics and pivotal role played by Ajit Singh. Saith describes the stories of the successive episodes of intellectual purges and ideological cleansing of the diverse heterodox lineages in economics and related disciplines from the faculty of economics, relentlessly carried out by the orthodox camp in the grip of a disciplinary fundamentalism. [Extracted from the article]

Chand Singh, Aspects of Medieval Indian Architecture. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2015, ₹2,950, 147 pp., ISBN: 9788173201554. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness,-Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Yale University Press, New Haven Et London "Status quo bias" says that the humans stick to status-quo and prefer to go with the default options in a situation where they are faced with multiple choices between picking a default (recommended feature) and making a custom choice. Economic theory considers money as "fungible" but mental accounting considers it as non-fungible and assigns money for different purposes which cannot be infringed cutting down on temptation The state has ownership over the organs of the individuals and state has right of removal over it. [Extracted from the article]

The paper aims at analyzing Mahesh Dattani's play Bravely Fought the Queen which portrays the subalternization of Indian women in the domestic and public realm in the patriarchal society. The paper reflects what Kate Millet has inferred in her treatise, Sexual politics that politics is not confined to political parties and Parliament, but it is exercised in any powerstructured correlation, arrangements where one gender is dominated by another. These oppressive relationships are most prevalent in our society and exaggerate gender differences. Politics is profoundly present in the man--woman relationship in family as well as at the societal level; it also focuses on successful and unsuccessful man-woman relationship and traces the reasons behind their manifestation and sustenance in the society. Mahesh Dattani's Bravely Fought the Queen is a typical Indian family play that depicts the life of the middle-class Trivedi family. Dattani has presented Jiten as a dominant advocate of patriarchy as he does not respect women. Lack of genuine feelings for woman is the major drawback of Jiten as a man. The objective of the study is to put forth the discrimination and injustice done to women of our society. Further, it highlights the transition of women from being mere victims of patriarchy towards being self-assertive and questioning male authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amitav Ghosh has won many accolades for his fiction that is keenly intertwined with history. His fiction is characterized by strong themes that may be sometimes identified as historical novels. His themes involve emigration, exile, cultural displacement and uprooting. He illuminates the basic ironies, deep seated ambiguities and existential dilemmas of human condition. He, in one of the interviews, has observed, "Nobody has the choice of stepping away from history" and "For me, the value of the novel, as a form, is that it is able to incorporate elements of every aspect of life-history, natural history, rhetoric, politics, beliefs, religion, family, love, sexuality". Amitav Ghosh's success as historical novelist owes much to the distinctiveness of his well-researched narratives. He remarkably manifests a bygone era and vanished experiences to life through vividly realized detail. The better reference in this context is his celebrated second Amitav Ghosh's success as historical novelist owes much to the distinctiveness of his well-researched narratives. He remarkably manifests a bygone era and vanished experiences to life through vividly realized detail. The better reference in this context is his celebrated second novel, "The Shadow Lines" (1988) which was published four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. This constitutes a logical background in the novel, and it makes readers probe various hammering facets of violence. Also, his treatment of violence in Calcutta and Dhaka in this novel is valid even today. The novel deals with the concerns of our period, the search for identity, the need for independence, the difficult relationship with colonial culture. It magnificently interweaves fact, fiction and reminiscence. It is a continuous narrative which replicates the pattern of violence not only of 1964 but also of 21st century. The fragmentary narratives unfold the narrator's experiences in the form of memories which move backwards and forwards. While focusing upon the text of "The Shadow Lines" I aim to examine and elaborate elements of historicity in the novel and their implications. I also aim to investigate the theme as well as technique employed in the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]