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Opportunities for India and Bangladesh
No full textIt is widely agreed that, over the past decade, accelerating infrastructure investments in India's North Eastern Region (NER) and neighboring countries, along with connectivity agreements with Bangladesh, hold immense promise for unlocking NER's economic potential. Other global trends, such as the growing incomes and consumer awareness in India and neighboring countries; a rising preference for fresh, healthy, safe, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible products; the growing role of services in manufacturing; and increasing demand for skilled resources are also very favorable for NER. Together, these developments can help NER showcase its strengths in agriculture and services, thereby developing value chains in these sectors, which will lead to sustainable, better-paying, job opportunities for the people of NER.
In this context, the World Bank, in consultation with stakeholders--government, private sector, and academia--analyzed two cross-cutting constraints that are encountered across all value chains and sectors in NER: connectivity and logistics, and product standards and quality infrastructure. These are discussed in Playing to Strengths: A Policy Framework for Mainstreaming Northeast India (Kathuria, S., and P. Mathur, eds., 2019, World Bank). This volume is a companion piece to that report; it analyzes four value chains--fruits and vegetables, spices, bamboo and related products, and medical tourism--and provides an assessment of how Bangladesh can benefit from NER’s increasing connectivity and growth prospects. The sector studies emphasize the need to reorient the supply base in NER toward serving the changing global demand and puts an explicit focus on women as well as the bottom 40 percent of the workforce. In light of the mutual benefit offered by economic exchange, improvements in connectivity offer a win-win opportunity for NER and Bangladesh
A Policy Framework for Mainstreaming Northeast India
No full textIt is widely agreed that, over the past decade, accelerating infrastructure investments in India's North Eastern Region (NER) and neighboring countries, along with connectivity agreements with Bangladesh, hold immense promise for unlocking NER's economic potential. Other global trends, such as the growing incomes and consumer awareness in India and neighboring countries; a rising preference for fresh, healthy, safe, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible products; the growing role of services in manufacturing; and increasing demand for skilled resources are also very favorable for NER. Together, these developments can help NER showcase its strengths in agriculture and services, thereby developing value chains in these sectors, which will lead to sustainable, better-paying job opportunities for the people of NER.
In this context, the World Bank, in consultation with stakeholders--government, private sector, and academia--analyzed two cross-cutting constraints that are encountered across all value chains and sectors in NER: connectivity and logistics, and product standards and quality infrastructure. To ground the policy in specific contexts, the team studied four sectors in depth: fruits and vegetables, spices, bamboo and related products, and medical tourism. Playing to Strengths lays out an initial policy framework for NER that integrates demand and supply and shows that, even with a low base in manufacturing, NER can leverage its strengths in agriculture and services to step up its growth. However, implementing this framework will require a different approach to doing business compared with the existing ecosystem and its associated value chains, which are mostly geared to local and/or price-conscious consumers. In capitalizing on its advantages, NER will not only accelerate its own development, but also will play an increasingly critical role in the government of India's "Act East" policy
"Author Meets Critics: Predrag Cicovacki, Author of Gandhi's Footprints, Meets Critics Sanjay Lal and Carlo Filice"
No full textTwo critics respond to Predrag Cicovacki’s book, Gandi’s Footprints. Cicovacki opens the discussion by presenting his motivations for exploring a paradox, that Gandhi’s work is widely revered but not widely emulated. Cicovacki explores a resolution to the paradox by suggesting how Gandhi’s promising visions may be followed without being imitated, especially Gandhi’s insight that we must seek spiritual grounding for life in a materialistic world. Critic Sanjay Lal affirms Cicovacki’s insight but suggests that precisely because Gandhi’s aspirations for spiritual life were profoundly transformative we should take care not to dilute them into our conventional wisdoms. Critic Carlo Filice asks how Gandhi’s commitment to unified reality could be more clearly articulated once a distinction is drawn between spirit and matter, also how Gandhi’s nonviolence could manage to embrace important exceptions. In reply to critics, Cicovacki proposes an approach to Gandhi informed by the insights of Tagore
Author interview: Q and A with Dr Ian Sanjay Patel on we’re here because you were there: immigration and the end of empire
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Dr Ian Sanjay Patel about his new book, We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire, which explores post-war immigration laws, the afterlives of British imperial citizenship and related attempts to reimagine and rejuvenate British imperialism after 1945. Contributing to transnational histories of decolonisation, the book also explores the interconnections between human rights, post-war migration and international diplomacy. Author Interview with Dr Ian Sanjay Patel, author of We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire. Verso. 2021
Ascending the Nonviolence Continuum: Sanjay Lal, Author of \u3cem\u3eViolence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, \u3c/em\u3eMeets Critics
Full text linkIn this author-meets-critics discussion, Sanjay Lal presents the main ideas of his book Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, arguing that nonviolence meets violence along a continuum where there are degrees of greater and lesser examples, including a wide range of examples that combine both tendencies. Lal defines nonviolence in terms of three components that emphasize attitudes over actions: (1) a willingness to not harm others, (2) wanting to facilitate the well-being of others, (3) and not sacrificing one\u27s own moral worth. Three critics share their praises and concerns: Predrag Cicovacki challenges Lal to be more specific on the definition of moral worth, on the relationship between violence and nonviolence, and on the account that he gives for value theory and value conflict. Jennifer Kling asks if beliefs can serve as pre-existing grounds for action, if reconceptualizations of pop culture are bound to any limits, and if there are good reasons for assuming that all people are approachable. Danielle Poe asks what it means to reconceptualize popular culture as an approachable resource of nonviolent insight. Answering these questions, Lal reflects on what it means to be inspired by Gandhi’s example
Sanjay Bajekal, Participant
No full textMr. Bajekal is the Senior Technical Fellow, Research, at Collins Aerospace Interiors Advanced Technology and Excellence in Engineering organization. He is the holder of twenty-seven granted patents, author of numerous peer reviewed publications and an invited speaker on wireless and communications topics as applied to aerospace applications. Mr. Bajekal and his teams have been responsible for advanced communications and signal processing architectures ranging from consumer wireless products to broadband (10 GHz) active crosstalk cancellers for internet switch router backplanes.
He chaired the sub working group on co-existence and non-interference of RTCA’s sub-committee 236 that is working to develop the Minimum Operating Performance Standards (MOPS) for Wireless Avionics Intra-Communications (WAIC) systems. The work performed by this group resulted in DO-378 and DO-378A. He has also been active on the SAE Cabin Secure Media Independent Messaging (CSMIM) committee, whose work is scheduled to be published as ARINC 853.https://commons.erau.edu/avcysecworkshop-bios-2024/1006/thumbnail.jp
Correction to:The state of HRM in the Middle East: Challenges and future research agenda (Asia Pacific Journal of Management, (2019), 36, 4, (905-933), 10.1007/s10490-018-9587-7)
No full textThe author group in the original version of this article contained a mistake. The last author’s name should be Sanjay Kumar Singh, instead of Sanjay Singh. The correct name appears above. The original article has been corrected.</p
Transformation of polysialate matrixes from Al-rich and Si-rich metakaolins: Polycondensation and physico-chemical properties
No full textTwo metakaolins from Al-rich and Si-rich kaolinitic clays were used to design polysialate matrices with different Si/Al and NaK/Al ratios. The aim was to investigate the influence of oligomers formed during dissolution and hydrolysis on the polycondensation and transformation to hard and stable matrices. Products of geopolymerization of the different matrices were subjected to mechanical testing considering various loading configurations. The geopolymer matrices showed compressive strength from 51 ± 5 MPa (Si/Al = 1.23) to 61 ± 2 MPa (Si/Al = 2.42) and bi-axial four-point strength from 11 ± 2 MPa to 16 ± 1.1 MPa respectively. These results obtained were consistent with density, leaching ability, and microstructure. It is proposed that the mechanical properties and the stability of the products of reactions can be discussed as the important parameters for the evaluation of geopolymer matrices. Moreover, polycondensation and the final performance of the product are greatly influenced by the unreacted crystalline or semi-crystalline phases that act as fillers and contribute to increase the stability and mechanical properties
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No full text<p>volume = {1}, Edition = {1}, author = {Dwivedi Dr. Sanjay Kumar}, title = {India's Efforts in Coping the threats of Climate Change}, publisher = {Saurabh Chandra}, journal = {SOCRATES},ISSN 2347-6869 year = {2013}, pages = {55-72}</p>
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Development of single-, few- and multiple-nanowire gas-sensor two-terminal devices on ceramic substrates and characterization by impedance spectroscopy
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