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  Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  4 November 2022, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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  Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
  Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN: 9781009180214 __0__
  This book seeks to redraw the map of Bangalore, based on the experiences of street-based sex workers—so that we begin to see the city through their eyes. Their livelihoods rendered increasingly precarious due to neo-liberal (…)

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  Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’

  4 November 2022

  Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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  Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
  2020. 324 pp
  (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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  Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

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  Photo: Ernö Vadas - Factory, Budapest, Hungary (1955)

  4 November 2022
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  Music: Wes Montgomery - Here’s That Rainy Day - Live London 1965

  4 November 2022

  Stan Tracey (piano) Wes Montgomery (guitar) Rick Laird (bass) Jackie Dougan (drums)
  Television broadcast, "Tempo", ABC TV, London, England, May 7, 1965 Play
  Wes Montgomery - Here’s That Rainy Day - Live London 1965 by saag111 https://youtu.be/-iVgONy8kMY

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 29, 2022

  29 October 2022

  * Transfers of School Teachers in Haryana | Rajinder Chaudhary
  * Where did India’s millions of working women go? | Rajendra P. Mamgain
  * Russia: Impact of War & Mobilization on Industrial Workers | Azamat Ismailov

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 29, 2022

  29 October 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 29, 2022
  The election this week of the immigrant minority origin Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister of UK been painted with a broad brush by some as ‘a revenge from the colonies’ having a man born from South Asian diaspora in Africa attain the highest position in Britain —the former colonial power. Some politicians particularly the right-wing lot in India are falsely labeling the British Citizen Sunak as Indian to give it a further nationalist (…)

• Messed Up Transfers of School Teachers in Haryana: Minister and Senior Officers Must Be Held Accountable | Rajinder Chaudhary

  29 October 2022

  by Rajinder Chaudhary *
  Appointments and transfers in government sector have a crucial role not only in the functioning of the government agency concerned but also in the quality of politics of the state too. As a major employer, appointment and transfer policy of a government has a major bearing on politics of the state. In 2016 new BJP government in Haryana had brought in transfer policy for teachers where in transfers were to be ‘carried out only through approved web based application’. (…)

• High Levels of Workplace Violence Lead to Increasing Concern | Bharat Dogra

  29 October 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  High levels of workplace violence are becoming a cause for serious concern in many countries. According to the European Working Conditions Survey, 6 million workers in the European Union are exposed in one year to workplace violence. If verbal violence is included, then the number exposed to violence is likely to exceed 30 million. France, Denmark and Belgium are among those countries which are on the higher than average side of this violence.
  In the USA during 2015- 2019 as many as (…)

• Paradoxes of Public Policy and Protest Politics under BJP Rule | Rohit Kumar

  29 October 2022

  by Rohit Kumar*
  THE IMPORTANCE OF movements and protests for the good health of a democracy is inevitable, keeping in view that these consolidate new political consciousness and help to spread and form new political cultures. However, after 2014, the authoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party government has sidelined and de-legitimised every opposition, every protest and every movement in a syncretic India. Demeaning of dissent has, thus, become the new normal of Indian democracy and undoubtedly (…)

• Playing with Public Perception: Opposition and the Public Enquiry | Shilp Shikha Singh

  29 October 2022

  Public perception plays a crucial role in today’s politics. While inclusivity of such public remains questionable it nonetheless creates a perception of common will. While BJP has mastered the art of creating perception through its meta narratives during and in-between elections, other parties fall far behind. What works for BJP does not seem to work for others. While the credit for building this rapport with public goes to BJP and its leadership, a large role is played by academia and media (…)