Gangster State

Gangster State
Author: Sourjya Bhowmick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Communism
ISBN: 9788194970750

The Wild East

The Wild East
Author: Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787353249

The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined. By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.

Making News in India

Making News in India
Author: Somnath Batabyal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317809726

Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry as well as on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, ‘shining’ India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving interviews, observations and content analysis, this book explores the milieu of 24-hour private news channels in India today. It offers insightful glimpses into the workings of one of the mightiest news corporations in the world and its ability to manufacture everyday reality for its audiences. Based on fieldwork in Mumbai and Kolkata, this study not only provides a detailed description of the television newsroom, its rituals and rhythms, but ventures beyond it to investigate how editorial and corporate strategies converge increasingly in an industry driven by profit. Through analysing how TRPs work to produce a non-inclusive idea of the ‘audience’ and examining hundreds of hours of news content, the book explores how news channels construct a vision of nationhood and of a successful and vibrant economy that caters primarily to the needs of the resurgent Indian middle class. While it will be of particular interest to media and cultural studies scholars and students, and to journalists and media professionals in general, this lively, engaging book also aims to give the general reader the wherewithal to analyse and critique the continuous barrage of 24-hour news television today.

Bad News

Bad News
Author: Rob Brotherton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1472962877

From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world was to catch the latest newsreel at the movies. Times have changed. Now we're inundated. The news is no longer confined to a radio in the living room, or to a nightly half-hour timeslot on the television. Pundits pontificate on news networks 24 hours a day. We carry the news with us, getting instant alerts about events around the globe. Yet despite this unprecedented abundance of information, it seems increasingly difficult to know what's true and what's not. In Bad News, Rob Brotherton delves into the psychology of news, reviewing how the latest research can help navigate this supposedly post-truth world. Which buzzwords describe psychological reality, and which are empty sound bites? How much of this news is unprecedented, and how much is business as usual? Are we doomed to fall for fake news, or is fake news ... fake news? There has been considerable psychological research into the fundamental questions underlying this phenomenon. How do we form our beliefs, and why do we end up believing things that are wrong? How much information can we possibly process, and what is the internet doing to our attention spans? Ultimately this book answers one of the greatest questions of the age: how can we all be smarter consumers of news?

Mission India

Mission India
Author: A P J Abdul Kalam
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9351180174

Mission India: A Vision For Indian Youth has been written with the intention of challenging the Indian youth to bring about a positive change in the country by 2020. Kalam starts off by telling the readers that there has never been a time in Indian history such as this, where the nation has 540 million youth and 20 million Indians across the globe. He also states that several developed countries have directed their efforts towards setting up research centers across the country, which has benefited scientists, engineers, and professionals from various spheres. Kalam and Rajan tell the readers about their goal to make India one among the five top economic powers in the world by 2020. In the beginning of this book, Kalam presents the readers with a question as to whether India can become a developed country. He then provides insights into the current situation in the country, and explains that this goal is a realistic one. In the subsequent chapters, Kalam and Rajan begin to examine the five industries that need to become reasonably self-sufficient in the coming years, and each chapter tells the readers what can be done to bring a positive change in each industry. They also tell the readers about the current education system in the country, and the latest technology that can be used to improve the quality of education. The readers are also given insights into the present healthcare industry and infrastructural system, which are trademarks of a developed nation. Kalam and Rajan conclude by telling every individual and organization about the role they can play in transforming the nation by 2020

The Social Model of Disability in India

The Social Model of Disability in India
Author: Ranjita Dawn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000394220

This book presents various paradigms and debates on the diverse issues concerning disability in India from a sociological perspective. It studies disability in the context of its relationship with concepts such as culture/religion, media, literature, and gender to address the inherent failures in challenging prevalent stereotypical and oppressive ideologies. It traces the theological history of disability and studies the present-day universalized social notions of disablement. The volume challenges the predominant perception of disability being only a medical or biological concern and provides deeper insight into the impact of representation through an analysis of the discourse and criteria for ‘normalcy’ in films from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes the formation of perspectives through a study of representation of disability in print media, especially children’s literature, comics, and graphic novels. The author also discusses the policies and provisions available in India for students with disabilities, especially women who have to also contend with gender inequality and gender-based discrimination. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of disability studies, educational psychology, special education, sociology, gender studies, politics of education, and media ecology. It will also be useful for educationalists, NGOs, special educators, disability specialists, media and communication professionals, and counsellors.

'Bad' Women of Bombay Films

'Bad' Women of Bombay Films
Author: Saswati Sengupta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030267881

This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, and not as a moral or essential category, to examine some of the iconic disruptive women of Hindi cinema and to uncover the nexus between patriarchy and other hierarchies, such as class, caste and religion in these representations. The twenty-one essays examine the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s to the present day - both through in-depth analyses of single films and by tracing the typologies in multiple films. The essays are divided into five sections indicating the various gendered desires and rebellions that patriarchal society seeks to police, silence and domesticate.

The Cloning Conspiracy

The Cloning Conspiracy
Author: Arijit Goon
Publisher: FanatiXx Publication
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2022-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Year 2020: Randhir Mehta was elated with the success of his devious plan hatched long back. The Prime Minister Samir Roy was abducted and kept as a hostage in the sequester research centre of the Mehtas. The guileful Mehtas deluded the Nation with a cloned Prime Minister Prasoon. Getting a breakthrough in the unethical and morally questionable science was indeed arduous for the Mehtas. With their team of handpicked scientists, they delved in the undercover cloning web some three decades back along with their global alliance. The outcome was a scientific breakthrough in human cloning, which the world was never aware of during that era. The purpose was to gain dominance and supremacy of the country. Year 2021: The sagacious mind of the Prime Minister's secretary Sadashiv Unnikrishnan perceived something dubious from his behavioural pattern. If he could trust his hunches based on the fact that the current Prime Minister was a clone, then the Nation was staring at a catastrophe. Soon a closed team of security and medical experts were arrayed to probe deeper. If proven true, the swapping of the real Prime Minister with his clone would be another mystery to unravel. Could Sada's sneaking suspicion look beyond the shadows and sense the invincible ploy? What innovative cutting-edge technology was behind the creation of the clone well before the world knew its first mammalian clone? What technology was used to communicate with and control the actions of the clone? Can Sada and his team hatch a prudent plan to save their real Prime Minister or the Mehtas have innovative ideas to turn to superpowers The story explores these and the lesser-known facts about cloning and whirls into a thriller. A daunting mission to dig out the truth and save the country is on the cards.