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Indian Literature and the World. Multilingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere
No full textIndian Literature and the World is a collection of critical essays featuring up-to-date scholarship on the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. Multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere all shape the orientation of our volume. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, we wish to approach Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”
A new subfamily of starlike functions of complex order using Srivastava-Owa fractional operator
No full textThis work is about investigation of a certain new subfamilyof starlike functions using the Srivastava-Owa fractional operator. Forfunction in this new subfamily, a number of interesting problems, likecoefficient bounds, distortion and radius bounds, which are best possible,are tackled. Various special cases deduced from the present results arealso listed. This paper brings extension and refinement to earlier works ofvarious author
Identity and Diaspora : Practices of Migration, Religion, Ethnicity & Culture in South Asia.
No full textBy Prateek Srivastava, International Affairs, Journalism
Advisor: Megan Lamkin
Presentation ID: Room417_2
Abstract: Identity and Diaspora discuss about five different ethnic crisis and violence in Asia. These communities and cases are not only lesser known but also are examples of grave violence, discrimination, and migrations. These cases deal with identity such as race, religion, color and gender and how these identities have triggered certain violence and policies within Asia. The author emphasizes understanding different aspects, like religious and racial animosity, constitutional negligence and strategic violence, ethnic discrimination, among these cases. In five chapters, the author discusses the case of Burmese Indians, Muslims in Sri Lanka, Nepalese in Bhutan, Indophobia, Assam-Bengali crisis. In this accessible and student-friendly book, author Prateek Srivastava focuses on discussing certain aspects of migration and identity crises, which happened on a low scale or were lesser known. The author also discusses the policies followed by these countries/governments and how international communities and policymakers can prepare for any such kind of crisis or event that may happen in future. These cases are described after extensive research and can act as a framework to understand the perspectives of countries, governments, and regimes for any future practice of such kinds
Kate Richards: madness
No full textKate Richards’ bleakly beautiful, confronting and important book, Madness: A Memoir, describes her 15 years coping with psychosis and depression, and her long, hard-won journey back to sanity, with the help of a wise and compassionate psychologist.
In this video, she speaks with Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and fellow author, about her experience – and about being able to write from deep within it, with expertise as both a medical researcher and writer.
 
Design of helix slow-wave structures for high efficiency TWTs.
Get PDFTWTs for space applications commonly have a helix pitch profile which incorporates a section with increased phase velocity followed by a negative phase velocity taper. A simple method is described for the initial design of a helix slow-wave structure of this kind to achieve high overall efficiency. It is shown that the use of a section with increased phase velocity increases the beam efficiency of a TWT while reducing the generation of second harmonic power. The technique is illustrated by its application to a 70 W Ku-band TWT and the performance is shown to be comparable with that of an existing TWT
Debt maturity and firm performance : a panel study of Indian companies
Get PDFEconomic policy makers traditionally hold the view that, because of imperfections in capital markets, a shortage of long-term finance acts as a barrier to industrial performance and growth. Long term finance is thought to allow firms to invest in more productive technologies, even when they do not produce immediate payoffs, without fear of premature liquidation. As a result, special state-supported term-lending institutions have been established, especially in developing countries. But some believe that short-term finance may offer better incentives because it allows suppliers of finance to monitor and control firms more effectively, thus improving the firms'performance. The authors empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the term structure of debt. Using a rich panel of data on privately owned companies in India, they also examine the influence of debt maturity structures on those firm's performance, especially on productivity. The results are not conclusive, but seem to support conventional beliefs about the importance of long term finance to firm performance. Heavy leveraging, however, has a strong negative impact on productivity. They base their econometric evidence on estimates of a maturity equation and of a production function augmented by financial variables. The data on which these results are based have been generated by a financial system in which there is little competition, in which state-owned financial institutions are not guided by the profit motive and have no control over interest rates, so one cannot say whether short term finance would have been more beneficial in a less regulated system. Moreover, by the end of the 1980s, the capital base of India's government-owned financial institutions had been severely eroded and they carried a heavy burden of nonperforming assets. This means that the benefits of long term finance must be weighed against the costs.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Financial Management,Environmental Economics&Policies
Retrieving the missing data from different incomplete soft sets
No full textDealing an incomplete information has been a major issue in the theory of soft sets. In this paper, we
have presented an approach to deal with incomplete soft set, incomplete fuzzy soft set and incomplete
intuitionistic fuzzy soft set. For this purpose we have discussed about the notion of distance between
two objects (parameters) which will be used to compute the degree of interdependence between them.
This approach will use the full information of known data and the relationships between them. Data
filling converts an incomplete soft set into complete one which makes the soft sets applicable not only to
decision making but also to other field
Mann Iterative Process for Multivalued Mappings in Uniformly Convex Banach Spaces
No full textIn this paper we have introduced certain conditions for multivalued nonexpansive mappings in uniformly convex Banach space which assure convergence of Mann iterates to a fixed point. This generalizes the results of Bancha Panyanak[1]. We prove a convergence theorem using Mann iterates for a mapping defined on a noncompact domain
Modeling The Elastic Differential Cross-section At Lhc
No full textAn empirical model for the pp elastic differential cross section is proposed. Inspired by early work by Barger and Phillips, we parametrize the scattering amplitude in building blocks, comprising of two exponentials with a relative phase, supplementing the dominant term at small -t with the proton form factor. This model suitably applies to LHC7 and ISR data, enabling to make simple predictions for higher LHC energies and to check whether asymptotia might be achieved. © Copyright owned by the author(s).Antchev, G., (2013) Europhys. Lett., 101, p. 21002Phillips, R.J.N., Barger, V.D., (1973) Phys. Lett., B46, p. 412Grau, A., Pacetti, S., Pancheri, G., Srivastava, Y.N., (2012) Phys. Lett., B714, p. 70D.A. Fagundes, A. Grau, S. Pacetti, G. Pancheri and Y.N. Srivastava, arXiv:1306.0452 [hep-ph]Amaldi, U., Schubert, K.R., (1980) Nucl. Phys., B166, p. 301Ambrosio, M., (1982) Phys. Lett., B115, p. 495Breakstone, A., (1984) Nucl. Phys., B248, p. 253Amos, N.A., (1985) Nucl. Phys., B262, p. 689Breakstone, A., (1985) Phys. Rev. Lett., 54, p. 2180Grau, A., Godbole, R.M., Pancheri, G., Srivastava, Y.N., (2009) Phys. Lett., B682, p. 55Achilli, A., (2011) Phys. Rev., D84, p. 094009Khuri, N.N., Kinoshita, T., (1965) Phys. Rev., 137, pp. B720Froissart, M., (1961) Phys. Rev., 123, p. 1053Martin, A., (1963) Phys. Rev., 129, p. 1432Abreu, P., (2012) Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, p. 06200
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