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India’s Engagement With South Asia: A Feminist Perspective On Foreign Policy
Full text linkThe study aims to uncover the ways through which gender influences and moulds India’s engagements within the South Asian context. It explores India’s diplomatic engagements, trade pacts, cultural exchanges, and developmental endeavours with South Asian countries. By integrating feminist international relations theory and employing qualitative content analysis of policies, narratives, and power dynamics, the study highlights the impact of gender norms, disparities, and empowerment strategies on India’s ties with its neighbouring countries. The research outcomes contribute significantly to a deeper understanding of the complexities within regional diplomacy in South Asia and underscore the importance of incorporating gender perspectives in shaping international relations. Additionally, this research examines how gendered power structures and societal expectations influence decision-making processes and the allocation of resources in India’s foreign policy. By focusing on India’s role in promoting gender equality in South Asia, the study provides a nuanced view of how gender considerations can enhance or hinder diplomatic efforts. The study proposes policy recommendations directed towards the adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) framework within the Indian context. The findings advocate for more inclusive and equitable foreign policy frameworks that recognise and address gender-based challenges, ultimately promoting more effective and just international relations in the South Asian region
Dreaming a Transhuman Mind: Speculative Texts and the Potential of the AI-Machines
Full text linkThis study explores the changing relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and human cognition, highlighting how AI is now seen as a necessary component of everyday life rather than a sci-fi fantasy, especially in literature and language. It investigates how AI is a revolutionary force that is changing human perceptions of reality and creativity. According to the research, AI-generated fiction, like Ross Goodwin's 1 the Road, exemplifies the potential of AI in storytelling by combining algorithmic design with human curation. AI has evolved from its science fantasy origins to become a tool that affects ethics, creativity, and how we see people. The results show that the integration of AI has had a significant impact on mental processes and blurred the lines between human and machine capabilities. This change emphasizes how crucial it is to consider the philosophical and ethical ramifications of AI, particularly as it influences human imagination and future views. The study highlights both AI's creative benefits and intrinsic limitations by looking at algorithmic storytelling from a transhumanist perspective. The study highlights the need for a cautious, thoughtful approach to AI adoption as technology continues to reshape human creativity and cognitive frameworks, making sure ethical considerations steer this revolutionary path. Understanding the dynamic human-AI relationship and its implications for the future of creativity and cognition is fostered by this research
Kalyan Kumar Sarkar’s Perception on Early India and Cambodia: Unveiling A New Source In The Historiography of India - South-East Asia Interaction
Full text linkThis article tries to analyze the writings of Kalyan Kumar Sarkar regarding early India's interaction with Cambodia thus intending to highlight over an intriguing aspect of India's historiography. Emerged as a significant part of Indian cultural nationalism, this historiography aims to focus on India's cultural contribution to the neighbouring countries. Books and articles written by the author under discussion, show how they successfully endorsed such a concept of 'Indianization' where India's inclusive impact on Cambodia, like many other South-East Asian countries, led her to form a part of 'Greater India' or extended India. Various scholars have made efforts to discuss the contributions of eminent historians who were part of this academic endeavor. But the discourse also shows active academic participation from scholars whose writings have failed to get the necessary attention from researchers. Study of these sources is important as they provide a comprehensive understanding of the relevant historiography. My article thus attempts to discuss Kalyan Sarkar's writings and examines their limitations and significance- how far they showed biasness towards Indian impact yet acknowledged the local characters. A comprehensive discussion is attempted to understand the author's ability to interpret sources and rational analytical framework present in his writings
Changing Nature of Electoral Democracy in Delhi: A Lok Sabha Perspective
Full text linkElections are the vital political expression and the main source of power for the voters in a democratic setting. Elections act as a link among the voters, electoral politics and political parties. The very basis of democracies are the people because the real sovereignty lies in the hands of the people. Political parties in democracies work as an important channel of communication through representation, integration and transformation. They serve as democratic wheels that allows people to have a meaningful say in the power. In democracies, parties constitute the link between people on the one hand and government on the other. Hence, Political parties and democracy are closely intertwined with each other, and through elections nature of electoral politics becomes more evident and observable. In this context, this study investigates the changing nature of electoral democracy in Delhi. The objectives of study are to examine and analyze the Lok Sabha verdicts of Delhi. The study will explore the relationship among the voters, political parties and electoral democracy. This research highlights and examines the issues, promises and manifestos brought in by the political parties for the voters. The study underscores an especial analysis of 2014, 2019 and 2024 Delhi Lok Sabha electoral verdicts in detail
Socio Economic Conditions of Coir Workers in Tamilnadu – A Study with Special Reference To Paramathi Velur Taluk of Namakkal District
Full text linkABSTRACT: In India coir is produced from coconut trees, known as cocosnucifera and sometimes as cocos fibre. Water and salt water can damage the natural fiber due to the high water content of coir fibers. The history of coir in the world indicates that the introduction of coir in the England. From the moment Indian coir produced in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Orissa took over European and global markets, the power and dominance of Indian coir was in a success position and it held without retreating. Large corporate firms soon set up coir factories in other areas such as Pollachi, Kanniyakumari, Thanjavur, Salem and Namakkal coir industry was established as the most important hereditary cottage industry and one of the traditional industries in southwest coastal areas such as Kerala, Alleppey, Kanniyakumari. Thanjavur, Pollachi occupy a most important place in Tamilnadu India. The agro-based coir Industry is mainly export oriented and rural based. This traditional industry is notable for its economic importance in terms of income such as foreign exchange and employment. Tamilnadu employment 2.10 lakhs this traditional industry provides employment opportunities in the manufacture of cottage handicrafts and benefits 3 lakhs people. The coir industry in Tamilnadu is the third largest sector as the only sign of non-agricultural employment for the rural poor. Pollachi, Thanjavur and Namakkal are the nerve centers of Tamilnadu for coir production. This paper is a survey of life, socioeconomic status and profile of coir workers in Paramathi Velur taluk, Namakkal District, Tamilnadu.
Water Crisis by Design: Unpacking India’s Political Economy of Water Crisis Through the Marxist Framework of Environmental Justice
Full text linkIndia represents around 18 % of the world's population as one of the most populated countries, leaving behind China, and only 4 % of global fresh water resources for drinking water. According to the World Bank's estimates, around 163 million people face clean and fresh water availability for drinking purposes. In terms of the impact of polluted and unclean water, nearly 21 per cent of communicable diseases in India are linked to unsafe water, and around 500 children die every day due to diarrhoea. Thus, the water crisis in India is severe, and India's population is facing the worst crisis of water for drinking purposes as well as other purposes related to life and health.
Despite the Constitution of India being an egalitarian document that guarantees certain fundamental rights in Parts III and IV without these guarantees and their inalienability, the scarcity of availability of fresh water or clean water has become so acute in India that billions of people, especially the underprivileged and peripheral, are deprived of their basic need for water. Without fulfilling this basic need of water, the meaning of life is meaningless, and the concept of right to life, envisaged under Article 21 of the Constitution and recognised by the judicial pronouncements, is of no practical use.
This paper will deal with the fundamental question of whether the water crisis in India is by design or just incidental. In this regard, policies and laws will be briefly analysed and why the judiciary interpreted Article 21 of the Constitution to recognise the right to clean water as an integral part of the right to life in its broader sense of term and meaning.
The Marxist framework of environmental justice will be adopted to unpack the political economy of the water crisis in India. The central focus of the analysis of the political economy of the water crisis will be the policies, laws, and programmes that are, by design, responsible for the water crisis, resulting in environmental injustice
Assessment Of Sports Competition Anxiety Among Selected Female Sports Persons (18-23 Years) Of Colleges Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
Full text linkAnxiety is an important psychological factor that can have both positive and negative effects on sports person's performance. Sports persons are subjected to a great amounts of pressure for victory and performance. The unpredictable nature of sports and the outcome of matches can place an individual in a state of competitive anxiety. The aim of this study is to assess the sports competition anxiety among female sports persons from colleges affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi university. Kottayam, Kerala. 400 female sports persons were selected for the study. The tool used for the study was sports competition anxiety test (SCAT) questionnaire (Martens,1977). The study found that majority of the selected female sports persons had moderate level of anxiety
Geographical Indications Regime in India: Commitments and Consequences
Full text linkGetting into WTO willy-nilly brought many changes in India’s trade sector, with IPR being a dominant tool in the hands of powerful economies. Geographical Indicators (GI) are a form of complete ownership over knowledge-based products, sometimes even traditional articles, and their necessity is rationalized through their possibility of being used for the benefit of the owners/producers of commodities. This group of beneficiaries is believed to essentially include people with low incomes. This paper is intended to bring out specific fundamental issues like the distribution of benefits across sectors and beneficiaries. Here, we integrate qualitative and quantitative data using a mixed-methods methodology and some crucial case studies as support. Data used are also from official GI registries, government papers, and academic literature, which provide secondary data to understand patterns in GI registrations across several product categories. The skewed distribution of the benefits of GI registration across beneficiaries is noted. It raises an issue of the possibility of GI favouring veiled capitalist tendencies of the usual market operators, with a new tool
Government expenditure and economic growth in North Eastern Region of India: Toda-Yamamoto causality approach
Full text linkThis study examines the impact of government expenditure on economic growth in the North Eastern Region of India, addressing whether government spending causes economic growth or vice versa. Using the Toda-Yamamoto causality approach, the analysis reveals that the Wagner hypothesis holds in one state, while the neutrality hypothesis is supported in the other states. These findings suggest that policymakers should consider not only the amount of government spending but also the efficiency of public expenditure when formulating fiscal policies
Desire, Identity, and Rhizomatic Analysis of Social Media’s Role in Shaping Wedding Photography Trends
Full text linkSocial media acts as a catalyst for the spread of popular wedding photography trends, shaping the desire and mentality of couples’ choices in celebrating their nuptials (Holzar, 2022). Especially, Instagram and Pinterest had played a greater role through its hashtags and collaborative features. This paper dives into the intricate relationship between social media dynamics and evolving trends in wedding photography. Over the last few decades, there have been big changes in how people hire wedding planners, use technology and social media for weddings (Maheshwari, 2018). Deleuze and Guattari’s (1985) Rhizome Theory is underpinned within this research to examine the non-linear connection, multiplicity and heterogeneity of controversial wedding photos in social media. The technical parameters i.e., costume, location, special effects, and properties are considered in arousing desire and identity among the couples. This study also investigates how social media assists in getting wedding photos controversial and the ways in which these controversial photos are recreated from 2020 to 2024 in Kerala