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Akram Khan re-writes ‘Radha’: The ‘hypervisible’ cultural identity in Kylie Minogue’s ‘Showgirl’
Get PDFThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 19(1), 23 - 34, 2009 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07407700802655265.This paper attempts to analyze the British Asian dancer/choreographer Akram Khan's choreography of Samsara for Kylie Minogue's “homecoming” version of the 2006 Showgirl tour as an intellectual commentary on the 1906 American modern dance piece Radha by Ruth St Denis. On the surface Khan's choreography can be seen to reiterate some of the same Orientalist tropes that St Denis was accused of, within a popular “low”-culture context. Acknowledging this trope I scrutinize Khan's key choreographic strategies that challenge the potentially feminist reading of St Denis’ Radha by successfully reinstating the marriage plot within his choreography. More significantly, he makes “hypervisible,” the source culture of Kathak and the body of authority (himself) in the cultural exchange that shapes this choreographic project. Through an analysis of Khan's choreographic endeavor and a reevaluation of the power play between male and female bodies in the space, I wish to extrapolate Khan's intellectual vision within Samsara as an expression and assertion of the place of diasporic identity and cultural exchange within Western popular culture. I frame my paper within the preexistent frameworks from scholars like Sally Banes, Priya Srinivasan, Edward Said, Kobena Mercer, Rustom Bharucha and Philip Auslander
Universal Oneness as the Ulterior Motive of the Incarnation of Radha and Krishna
Get PDFMy Affair with Radha, the debut work of Kunal Desai is the dedication to his readers who firmly believe in the divine couple Radha and Krishna. The intention of the author was to spread the awareness of the significance of divine love to the world through the example of Radha and Krishna who remain to be the epitome of transcendental oneness. The human life that has been influenced in multiple ways throughout the life time, fails to overcome the temptations and eventually ends up in misery. A solution to all the misery in the world is to experience the feeling of oneness from within, which uplifts the individual from selfishness to selflessness and eventually the individual feels empathy towards all things. A world with such human beings with the feeling of oneness, will obviously be in harmony and without any miseries.
 
Introduction to the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC): A Conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
No full textIn "Introduction to the Court for International Climate Crimes (CICC): A Conversation between Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal" D’Souza and Staal discuss a wide range of issues from law, art, philosophy and social movements for the special issue of the Errant Journal on their project. The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (the CICC) is a project D'Souza and Staal initiated jointly and produced in collaboration with Framer Framed. The conceptual framework for the project is based on D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto Press, 2018), which draws on her research project on “Rights and Social Movements”; and Staal’s visualisation of large-scale art installation and art works. The exhibition was hosted by the art space Framer Framed in Amsterdam from 25 September 2021 to 13 February 2022. It included a performative component in the form of a tribunal presided over by four judges including D’Souza which hear evidence on intergenerational climate crimes committed by corporations and states which was presented by prosecutors and witnesses from the Netherlands, Mongolia, Peru, Bolivia, India, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Republic of Cameroon, Federative Republic of Brazil, MedWatch, Global Legal Action Network, Libya and Yemen
Father ‘Late ’ Sri R Rajeshwer Rao,
No full textMother Srimati R Radha and rest of the family For all their support and encouragemen
Exploring mitochondrial cholesterol (mChol) signalling for therapeutic intervention in neurological conditions
Get PDFThe pharmacological targeting of cholesterol levels continues to draw interest due to the vast success of therapeutics such as statins in extending life expectancy by modifying the prognosis of diseases associated with the impairment of the lipid metabolism. Advances in our understanding of mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic age‐related diseases of the brain have unveiled an emerging role for mitochondrial cholesterol (mChol) in their pathophysiology, thus delineating an opportunity to provide mechanistic insights and explore strategies of intervention. This review draws attention to novel signalling mechanisms in conditions linked with impaired metabolism associated with impaired handling of cholesterol and its oxided forms (oxysterols) by mitochondria. By emphasising the role of mChol in neurological diseases we here call for novel approaches as well as new means of assessment
Digging into the Elusive Localised Solutions of (2+1) Dimensional sine-Gordon Equation
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In this paper, we revisit the (2+1) dimensional sine-Gordon equation analysed earlier [R. Radha and M. Lakshmanan, J. Phys. A Math. Gen. 29, 1551 (1996)] employing the Truncated Painlevé Approach. We then generate the solutions in terms of lower dimensional arbitrary functions of space and time. By suitably harnessing the arbitrary functions present in the closed form of the solution, we have constructed dromion solutions and studied their collisional dynamics. We have also constructed dromion pairs and shown that the dynamics of the dromion pairs can be turned ON or OFF desirably. In addition, we have also shown that the orientation of the dromion pairs can be changed. Apart from the above classes of solutions, we have also generated compactons, rogue waves and lumps and studied their dynamics.</jats:p
DNA Triplexes in chemistry biology and medicine
No full textThe formation of DNA triple helices offers the possibility of selectively targeting specific genes to control their expression in vivo. This anti-gene strategy provides powerful tools for the development of therapeutics (anti-cancer drugs, drugs for viral infections) at the transcriptional level. DNA triplexes are formed when an oligonucleotide binds to the major groove of double helical DNA; the third strand can bind in either a parallel motif, or an anti-parallel motif. The requirement of low pH for the protonation of cytosine in the parallel binding motif makes the formation of triple helices difficult under physiological conditions. Described in this thesis is a novel method for the synthesis of the deoxycytidine analogue, 2-amino-3-methyl-5-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)pyridine (MeP). The phosphoramidite monomer of MeP was synthesised and incorporated as a “protonated” cytidine analogue into triplex forming oligonucleotides (TFOs). It was compared with other cytosine analogues, 5-methyl-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)cytosine (MeC), 2’-Omethyl MeP (MePOMe), and 2’-O-aminoethyl MeC (MeCAE). Triplex stability studies indicate that over the pH range 6.2-8.0, the general trend observed in terms of melting temperature (Tm) was as follows: MeP > MeC > MePOMe > MeCAE. DNase I footprinting studies indicate that at pH 7.5, MeP, when incorporated into the TFO, enhances the stability of the triplex by three-fold relative to MeC. In addition, UV melting, DNase I footprinting, and gel electrophoresis studies were carried out on a triplex formed by the binding of a TFO containing MeP and a 5’-Psoralen to a target duplex. This revealed the benefits of the combined modifications on the stability of the resultant triplex. “Soaking” experiments (in vivo) were also performed with this TFO on the organism C. elegans (the worms were soaked in solutions of the TFO for TFO delivery), to observe whether the TFO would induce loss-of-function phenotypes. Tm measurements indicated that in the pH range 6.6-8.0, photo-crosslinking of the TFO to the duplex created a shift in the triplex Tm of ~ + 26 °C when compared to the un-crosslinked triple
Bioactive Peptides from Groundnut
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Data for chitin binding activity of Moringa seed resistant protein (MSRP)
No full textAbstractChitin binding activity of moringa seed resistant protein (MSRP) isolated from defatted moringa seed flour was investigated in the present study “Characterization of soluble dietary fiber from Moringa oleifera seeds and its immunomodulatory effects” (S. Anudeep, V.K. Prasanna, S.M. Adya, C. Radha, 2016) [1]. The assay reaction mixture contained 0.4mg/ml of MSRP and different amounts (20–100mg) of chitin. MSRP exhibited binding activity over wide range of chitin concentration. Maximum binding activity was observed at 80mg of chitin. The property of MSRP to bind chitin can be exploited for its purification
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