To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must ask: What kind of a Hindu Rashtra is this where a billionstrong Hindus have been, through our parliament, through our courts, our education system, and our constitution, reduced to not just secondclass but, rather, eighthclass citizens? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, Durga pooja processions, and even Garba celebrations, are attacked and stoned with impunity? What ...

The poet personifies himself as a swallow, etching the things and events seen before his eyes. Among the flock of swallows, he signals the arrival of a summer singly. Here it has arrived in A Swallow Can Make A Summer.

In a world overloaded with data, analytics, and noise, Speak Human invites you to rediscover the ancient power of storytelling, at work, in leadership, and in life. Blending personal experiences, neuroscience, cultural wisdom, and practical techniques, this book helps you unlock stories that do not just inform, but inspire change. Whether you are leading a team, raising a child, or standing on a stage, your stories can connect, influence, and inspire, if you know how to tell them. This is ...

Focusing on the design aspects of ports and harbour structures, including shipyards, this book details various Indian codes and compares them with prevalent international standards. It covers the estimation of loads acting on the system, as well as the design of slipways, marine travel lifts and ship lifts. Sediment transport and the movement of shoals are illustrated with typical examples for green port development, including capital dredging and disposal. The book also explains procedure...

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavalsOver the past two decades, Bengaluru’s exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its “world-city” transformation...

The mere thought of nuclear power often evokes mixed feelings among people due to its age-old association with the word ‘danger’. This book will elaborate on the efficiency of nuclear power as an energy source. It will also emphasize how nuclear power is eco-friendly, clean and green. At present, the availability of power determines the success of a country across many fields. It is crucial for the survival of mankind and thus high in demand. At such a time when energy resources are much i...

Treaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, states have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts as context to explore the role of international law, in legal thought and practice. Her examinations of the International Law Commission's work on treaties and of various scholars' proposals on...

This second edition includes two new chapters: one on domination in graphs and the other on the spectral properties of graphs, the latter including a discussion on graph energy. The chapter on graph colorings has been enlarged, covering additional topics such as homomorphisms and colorings and the uniqueness of the Mycielskian up to isomorphism.This book also introduces several interesting topics such as Dirac's theorem on k-connected graphs, Harary-Nashwilliam's theorem on the ham...

The book builds an understanding on the issue of girls’ education and empowerment in the backdrop of a broad geographic canvas of countries in South Asia. Using select education and gender-related indicators and qualitative data, it presents the status of girls’ education across these countries. It proceeds to explore the dominant structural, systemic, situational, and macro- and micro-level inter-related barriers to girls’ education. Country-specific situational issues like economic crise...

Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entanglements of political authority with mercantile, ...

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies conference (ICICCT 2023), held on May 22–23, 2023, at Gnanamani College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. The book covers the topics such as Internet of things, social networks, mobile communications, big data analytics, bio-inspired computing and cloud computing. The book is exclusively intended for academics and practitioners working to resolve practic...

The book features original papers from International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Social Networking (ICPCSN 2021), organized by NSIT, Salem, India during 19 – 20 march 2021. It covers research works on conceptual, constructive, empirical, theoretical and practical implementations of pervasive computing and social networking methods for developing more novel ideas and innovations in the growing field of information and communication technologies.