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We present a CCD photometric study of the star with ASAS ID 134738+ 0410.1 using V band observations obtained from the IUCAA Girawali Observatory (IGO) 2-metre telescope, India. The star was selected from the 6 Scuti database of All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) (Pojmanski 2002). Our analysis reveals that the star is not a δ Scuti variable but is in fact a W UMa type contact binary with an orbital period of 0.2853067 day. Two new times of primary and secondary minima were determined from the observed data. A preliminary solution obtained using the Wilson-Devinney light curve modelling technique indicates that the star is more likely a partially-eclipsing W UMa type contact binary. However, the determination of actual subtype of this binary is quite impossible from the photometry alone, as the observed light curve can be fitted for both A- and W-type solutions. The exact classification of this binary needs to be determined from high resolution spectroscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, lndian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600 036, India (email: jyotirmaya@iitm.ac.in) and Dharmabrata Mohapatra, Department of Economics, Christ College, Cuttack, Orissa -753 002 (email: dbmchrist@yahoo.com) argue that the gender-centric development models are directly borrowed from First World success stories and while implementing these models policymakers tend to ignore the historicity of these frameworks and the lived experience of underdeveloped countries. Quite predictably, these theories thrive on creating and sustaining Western binaries like home/outside, feminine/masculine instead of transcending them. Gender analysis also tends to undermine the workings of culture and equates the latter with underdevelopment, thus suggesting that development can occur only outside culture. The paper examines various myths, home/outside dualism in particular, promoted b y First. World and some Third World experts. It pleads for a kind of rural development that takes into consideration the importance of culture in the life of rural lndian women and their sociocultural and educational condition. While advocating appropriate rural development through dairy farming that recognises rural realities, the paper shows the difference between home and outside, and other binaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]