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Book Review: Rohith Vemula, #Caste Is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula and Kanhaiya Kumar, From Bihar to Tihar
No full text Rohith Vemula, #Caste Is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula. New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2016, E-book, 268 pp., ₹250. Kanhaiya Kumar, From Bihar to Tihar. New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2016, 200 pp., ₹250, ISBN: 978-8193237274 (Paperback). </jats:p
The Justice for Rohith Movement: Performance and Performativity of Dalit Student Politics in India
No full textThis thesis analyses the everyday performance of Dalit politics and Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit doctoral student, died by suicide in his hostel room at Hyderabad Central University (in Hyderabad, India) on January 17, 2016. Rohith’s death sparked national and international outrage and led to the shutdown of the university for over a month and gave rise to the ‘Justice for Rohith movement’, which continued for over a year. Rohith’s death became a symbolic representation of other Dalit deaths due to systemic caste violence; the symbolism of his death expanded to include other marginalised groups who have faced systemic violence historically.
The protesting students at Hyderabad Central University embarked on a wide range of creative and performative interventions such as paintings, graffiti, installations, posters, songs, banners, marches, rallies, seminars, and lectures, as part of the Justice for Rohith movement (JFRM). In performing these creative acts, the students transformed various spaces in the University into sites of resistance to challenge discriminatory practices against Dalits. The thesis analyses the everyday performance of politics and protests and how, for Dalits, the distinction between the personal and political is blurred as the very act of resistance is carried forward as embodied memory. I examine how the participants in the JFRM performed and wrote songs about Rohith, drawing upon earlier regional, national, and global movement cultures. The thesis also explores the resistant objects produced by the students using Rohith’s images and quotations from his final letter, which transformed Rohith into an iconic figure within the genealogy of Dalit protest culture.
The acts of resistance and the aesthetics of the objects produced by the protesting students drew upon larger debates around caste as well as Dalit political culture. Analysing Dalit political culture from a performance studies lens will highlight how Dalits, and Dalit students in particular, perform their political identity through various acts of resistance. Paying specific attention to the performance and performativity of these acts of resistance shows how the activists of the Justice for Rohith movement performed Dalit political identity as an everyday performance of politics and protest
Caste and higher education: the Rohith Vemula case
No full textLast month a 26 year old Dalit PhD student at the University of Hyderabad took his own life following an unjust indictment from the administration. Amal Shahid writes that despite a progressive constitution and policies to support lower caste access to higher education, the Rohith Vemula case highlights that even the students who do make it to university still face severe discrimination which seriously undermines their full and equal participation
India’s dual dependence in a weaponised world economy
No full textDespite the recent US-China trade deal, US tariffs on Chinese goods remain high and countries that depend on both the US and China face persistent uncertainty. In this post, Rohith Jyothish argues that India’s exposure is not symmetrical but overlapping: the same industries that face higher US import barriers also rely heavily on Chinese inputs. Conventional diversification strategies may no longer secure developmental autonomy
The Justice for Rohith Movement: Performance and Performativity of Dalit Student Politics in India
No full textThis thesis analyses the everyday performance of Dalit politics and Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit doctoral student, died by suicide in his hostel room at Hyderabad Central University (in Hyderabad, India) on January 17, 2016. Rohith’s death sparked national and international outrage and led to the shutdown of the university for over a month and gave rise to the ‘Justice for Rohith movement’, which continued for over a year. Rohith’s death became a symbolic representation of other Dalit deaths due to systemic caste violence; the symbolism of his death expanded to include other marginalised groups who have faced systemic violence historically.
The protesting students at Hyderabad Central University embarked on a wide range of creative and performative interventions such as paintings, graffiti, installations, posters, songs, banners, marches, rallies, seminars, and lectures, as part of the Justice for Rohith movement (JFRM). In performing these creative acts, the students transformed various spaces in the University into sites of resistance to challenge discriminatory practices against Dalits. The thesis analyses the everyday performance of politics and protests and how, for Dalits, the distinction between the personal and political is blurred as the very act of resistance is carried forward as embodied memory. I examine how the participants in the JFRM performed and wrote songs about Rohith, drawing upon earlier regional, national, and global movement cultures. The thesis also explores the resistant objects produced by the students using Rohith’s images and quotations from his final letter, which transformed Rohith into an iconic figure within the genealogy of Dalit protest culture.
The acts of resistance and the aesthetics of the objects produced by the protesting students drew upon larger debates around caste as well as Dalit political culture. Analysing Dalit political culture from a performance studies lens will highlight how Dalits, and Dalit students in particular, perform their political identity through various acts of resistance. Paying specific attention to the performance and performativity of these acts of resistance shows how the activists of the Justice for Rohith movement performed Dalit political identity as an everyday performance of politics and protest
Nonlinear dynamics of superposition of wavepackets
No full textWe study nonlinear dynamics of superposition of quantum wavepackets in various systems such as Kerr medium, Morse oscillator, and bosonic Josephson junction. The prime reason behind this study is to find out how the superposition of states influences the dynamics of quantum systems. We consider the superposition states, which are potential candidates for quantum computing and quantum communication, so it is most necessary that we study the dynamics for their proper understanding and usage. Methods in nonlinear time-series analysis such as first return time distribution, recurrence plot, and Lyapunov exponent are used for the qualification and quantification of dynamics. We found a profound change in the dynamics of quantum systems when we consider the superposition of wave packets. These changes are observed in various dynamics such as periodic, quasi-periodic, ergodic, and chaotic dynamics.11Nsciescopu
Cardiac failure with bevacizumab: An oversight
No full textRohith Valsalan, Rohit Joshi, Jacqui Adams and Margaret Arstal
Institutional and Economic Dynamics of Water Users Cooperative (WUC) Societies in Cauvery Basin of Karnataka
No full textThe economic and institutional dimensions of water users cooperative (WUC) societies have been analyzed with regards to performance, membership and transaction costs in forming organization in the Cauvery basin of Karnataka. Field data have been collected from presidents and members of 30 WUC societies in Tirumakudalu Narasipura taluk of Mysore, Karnataka. Using cluster analysis, these have been grouped into (i) well performing, (ii) moderately performing, and (iii) poorly performing WUC societies. To understand institutional and economic dimensions, the selected WUC societies have been grouped based on command area, membership and conjunctive use of water. The odds ratio determined using logit model has indicated that for every one chance of not willing to pay additional water charges, there are seven chances of willingness to pay. Landholding size of farmer, conjunctive use and distance of the farm from canal have been found to significantly influence his/her willingness to pay for the assured summer irrigation. The mean willingness to pay amount for assured summer canal water has been found as ` 178 over and above the existing charge of ` 100. With all the odds being faced by these cooperatives, this study has revealed the inner strength of water user cooperative societies in canal water distribution through collective action.Water users cooperative society, Institutional economics, Water institutions, Cauvery Basin, Agricultural and Food Policy, Q13, Q15, Q25, K00,
Dynamics of circular arrangements of vorticity in two dimensions
No full textThe merger of two like-signed vortices is a well-studied problem, but in a turbulent flow, we may often have more than two like-signed vortices interacting. We study the merger of three or more identical corotating vortices initially arranged on the vertices of a regular polygon. At low to moderate Reynolds numbers, we find an additional stage in the merger process, absent in the merger of two vortices, where an annular vortical structure is formed and is long lived. Vortex merger is slowed down significantly due to this. Such annular vortices are known at far higher Reynolds numbers in studies of tropical cyclones, which have been noticed to a break down into individual vortices. In the preannular stage, vortical structures in a viscous flow are found here to tilt and realign in a manner similar to the inviscid case, but the pronounced filaments visible in the latter are practically absent in the former. Five or fewer vortices initially elongate radially, and then reorient their long axis closer to the azimuthal direction so as to form an annulus. With six or more vortices, the initial alignment is already azimuthal. Interestingly at higher Reynolds numbers, the merger of an odd number of vortices is found to proceed very differently from that of an even number. The former process is rapid and chaotic whereas the latter proceeds more slowly via pairing events. The annular vortex takes the form of a generalized Lamb-Oseen vortex (GLO), and diffuses inward until it forms a standard Lamb-Oseen vortex. For lower Reynolds number, the numerical (fully nonlinear) evolution of the GLO vortex follows exactly the analytical evolution until merger. At higher Reynolds numbers, the annulus goes through instabilities whose nonlinear stages show a pronounced difference between even and odd mode disturbances. Here again, the odd mode causes an early collapse of the annulus via decaying turbulence into a single central vortex, whereas the even mode disturbance causes a more orderly progression into a single vortex. Results from linear stability analysis agree with the nonlinear simulations, and predict the frequencies of the most unstable modes better than they predict the growth rates. It is hoped that the present findings, that multiple vortex merger is qualitatively different from the merger of two vortices, will motivate studies on how multiple vortex interactions affect the inverse cascade in two-dimensional turbulence
Hybrid lunar inflatable structure
No full textBefore man had even stepped foot on the lunar surface, the idea of establishing a base was discussed extensively, be it in science fiction or academia. Although, to this day there has not been an actual base on the Moon, many studies have been conducted regarding design possibilities and environmental impacts. There exists a prevalent challenge in regards to the predictability of the effects the lunar environment has on surface structures. This thesis discusses those aspects of lunar habitats and proposes a new design concept.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rohith Dronadul
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