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    Pandemic and the Social Fabric: Reflections on India
    (Granthamitra, 2022-05) Chakraborty, Ranjita; Ghosh, Gour Chandra
    The outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 hit a totally unprepared world. And it brought with it a realization, there is no magic bullet, there is no magic vaccine nor a date for its final recession. The governments amidst this conundrum responded through certain measures like lockdown, social distancing etc. whereas people utterly confused responded by fear, doubts, unnatural responses etc. The paper attempts to cast a light on first, the kind of governmental response in India that wasn't same across the states in India; second, the differential impact felt across the different stratum of society; third, the lessons we have learnt and the legacies left behind. Government responded through an unprepared hurried call for nationwide lockdown and a total confusion. The impact was experienced differently by different stratum of society. Vulnerabilities increased on the one hand combined with incidents of lawlessness, vulnerabilities and exclusions. At the same time there emerged a new hope amidst the gloomy realities. Social distancing was countered by social solidarity of a new kind as individuals and civil society organizations stepped out to extend their hands as partners to the government in managing the crisis.
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    NEP: Recharting Regulation in Higher Education
    (National Law University and Judicial Academy, 2022) Chakraborty, Ranjita; Ahuja, V. K.; Poddar, Debasis
    Education is one of the principal values that shape individual and social lives. It is both social and economic value. As a social value, it provides the required knowledge and skills to individuals and develops their personality and character to facilitate their social integration and upward social mobility. As an economic value, it makes persons employable, meets the knowledge and skills required by industries and professions, ensures economic growth, and helps reduce poverty. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development lays down seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (Goal 4 of this agenda, adopted by the General Assembly in 2015, seeks to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education am! promote lifelong learning opportunities for all." (Transforming our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) This goal is further divided into ten targets to be measured by eleven indicators. India has also given assent to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is actively designing and implementing suitable policies in this regard. The NITI Aayog has been assigned the responsibility of designing and monitoring the implementation of SDGs at the national level in India.
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    Caste Networks and Women Migrant Workers: Traps in New Normal Times
    (Mittal Publiocations, 2022) Chakraborty, Ranjita; Deb, Papia
    The pandemic since the past one year has been one of the greatest teachers for all of us as well as thrown towards the people and the policy makers diverse ranging challenges stretching from socio-political, economic to individual challenges at the micro level. One of the major impacts of the pandemic and the lockdown that followed in India was the huge job loss experienced by the people in the unorganised sector as well as in the small scale and medium scale enterprises. As the lockdown was declared India was a witness to a heart wrenching event, the walking back to home of a million individuals, men, women and children, rendered jobless and in the absence of a safety net, with the government clueless about ways to manage the crisis, walking to a shelter. For the first time we were awakened to a category of people--the migrant workers. These were not to be taken as similar to the urban educated workers employed in high profile white collared jobs and who were successful in sufficiently getting themselves integrated with the local people. The migrant workers were poor, working in low wage jobs and often seen as job competitors by the local poor populace who weren't much different from them. The pandemic converted the city of their employment into a foreign land as they found themselves without a safety net as well as no money to purchase basics. Moreover, they were now put under the radar of suspicion, carriers of the unknown virus.
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    Perception of Indian Consumers Towards Green Products
    (IGI Global, 2020) Chakraborty, Prabal; Laha, Sidhartha Sankar; Sinha, Madhabendra; Das, Ramesh Chandra
    Both consumers and corporate houses are paying attention to environmental issues, and green products are gaining momentum as a result. This chapter studies the concept of green marketing along with its important aspects influencing the buying decision of consumers in South Kolkata only. Convenience sampling method was adopted to select the total sample of266respondents consisting of 103 males and 163females with the help of structured open-and closed-ended questionnaires. Both primary and secondary data collection methods were adopted here in this research. Independent variables are environment friendly, packaging, innovative, quality, brand value, and dependent variables purchase intention. A mixed result is observed regarding perceptions towards green products. Thus, based on such findings, no such generalization can be made and have to consider heterogeneity among culture, demographic, geographical variables, which varies from place to place.
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    Health Care Spending in India: Pre & Post Reforms Perspective
    (BOOKWELL, 2014) Laha, Sidhartha Sankar; Mandal, Amal; Laha, Sidhartha Sankar
    Health is one of the vital indicators reflecting the quality of life and therefore it has been rightly said, 'Health is wealth'. Though preservation and promotion of health is one of the most basic human rights, India is stilllaggingbehind in realising this aspiration. Public health is concerned with the health of the community as a whole. Its key goal is to reduce population's exposure to disease. It has been said that: "Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time".
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    Role of Virtues to Resolve Crisis
    (J. K. Singh, 2022-01-01) Roy, Nirmal Kumar; Barman, Ranjit Kumar
    We are running through numberless crisis. But today the most fatal crisis we are going through is nothing but the pandemic called covid-19. Naturally our society is looking for a way out to resolve this crisis. But I think the solution of this problem may be of two types-- one is to discover the medicine to cure the patient affected by the pandemic and another is the prevention of the pandemic itself. The first one is the concern of medical science but the second one I think is the concern of our Sastras. I think the role of our Sıstras is more important than that of medical science.
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    Gettier’s Problem and Lehrer’s Solution Concerning the Problem of Knowledge: An Analysis based on the Logical Structure of Cognition
    (Northern Book Centre, 2022-01-01) Ghosh, Swagata; Das, Kanti Lal; Basak, Jyotish Chandra
    The paper attempts to the show the inadequacy of JTB conditions of knowledge as pointed out by Edmund Gettier, and discusses subsequent additional conditions for determining the logical structure of cognition, following latter theorists.
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    Usage of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs in Satyajit Ray’s selected Films An Aesthetic Discourse
    (IIP Interative International Publishers, 2022) Kundu, Subhrajyoti; Ganjoo, Maithili; Vats, Aman; Kumari, Suman
    If Rabindranath Tagore was the ultimate cultural figure of India in the first half of the 20th century (pre-independent India), the greatest cultural personality of second half of the 20th century (post-independent India) was Satyajit Ray. Ray was linked to Tagore through the Brahmo Samaj movement, as well as his own studies as a student at Tagore’s university at Santiniketan. Ray was also connected to Tagore through his father and grandfather (also great writers) who were close friends of the poet. Tagore’s profound influence on his work was openly expressed by Ray. Ray recognized Tagore’s prodigious influence in mentioning his personal sense of creative indebtedness: I consider the three years I spent at Shantiniketan at the most fruitful period of my life. This was not so much because of the proximity to Tagore who continued to remain unapproachable. It was just that Shantiniketan opened my eyes for the first time to the splendour of Indian and Far Eastern art. Until then I was completely under the sway of western art, music and literature. Shantiniketan made me the combined product of East and West that I am. As a filmmaker, I owe as much to Shantiniketan as I do American and European cinema. Tagore’s aesthetic influence was such intense that eventually led Ray to make three films from the poets’ visions. Teen Kanya (1961) is a collection of three short films adapted from Tagore’s short stories concerning lives in rural Bengal. Charulata (1964) is a rendition of Nashtoneer (1901), a short novel with the theme of women's emancipation. Ghare-Baire (1984) from a novel of the same name tells a story of the human condition and relationships in the time of the nationalist movement. Not only Tagore texts, but his songs also had a huge impact on Ray. He has used Tagore songs numerous times in his films. With such a background and body of work, this paper shall look into specifically two of his films, based on Tagore texts, Charulata and Ghare-Baire and try to analyze the usage of Rabindrasangeet in those films respectively.
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    Role of Media in Formation of an Alternative Public Sphere for LGBTQ+ Community: The Indian perspective
    (Press Club, 2022) kundu, Subhrajyoti; Sur, Snehasis; Pandey, Uma Shankar
    Jurgen Habermas’s public sphere belongs to the same theoretical family of civil society which offers a common platform for the representation of common interest in the public. In his book Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, he emphases on the bourgeois public sphere which was perceived as a sphere where private people transcending their private preoccupations come together as public and creates an interactive body of citizens involved in rational-critical discourse addressing common purposes. Communicating with each other, social actors learn to share ideas and create a unified public. Their communication was marked by certain features, by rationality, by disinterestedness, by irrelevance of inherited identities to their deliberation, and by rigorous separation of private and public spheres (Rudolph and Rudolph 2003). The Media and the Public Sphere promotes a deeper and more detailed understanding of the political process by foregrounding the multifaceted relationships between the media and the public discourse they constitute. It examines how the media co-create relationships of power, analyses the structure of these broad networks and illuminates the effects that different deliberative coalition types have on political debates. (Ajaya K. Sahoo, ed. 2006) Taking into account the growing social mobilizations, large-scale transformations in the society and polity, changes in the media scenario, booming of the social media and so on in last few decades, the paper looks into the issues of how the ‘civil public’ gets transformed into, what Habermas calls, the ‘political public’. How do the marginalized and subaltern groups in civil society use the language of rights to decentre domination, assert selfhood and chart out democratic discourses affecting the politics of everyday social life? And, how the morphology of the public sphere, which was restricted among the elites as an agency of upholding capitalist state hegemony (Gramsci) instead of mediating between civil society and the state (Habermas), has gone through a metamorphosis over time? Addressing such questions, the present paper tries to find the possibility of formation of an alternative public sphere for LGBTQ+ community in India and the probable role of media in doing so. The paper shall try to decode Nancy Fraser’s (1998) theory of social justice seeks to regenerate critical theory in a form fit for present dilemmas by developing a unique and powerful synthesis among (post)Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism. It interrogates key concepts in social and political thought and facilitates in-depth analyses of contemporary media scenario and the status of LGBTQ+ community in India and tries to articulate the possibility of formation of an alternative public sphere for them.
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    Bichitro Porjay Rabindrasangeet e nritya rupaker proyog বিচিত্র পর্যায় রবীন্দ্রসঙ্গীতে নৃত্য রূপকের প্রয়োগ
    (Utpal Mandal, 2023) Kundu কুন্ডূু, Subhrajyoti শুভ্রজ্যোতি; Mandal,Utpal; Roy, Ashis
    নৃত্য এমন একটি মাধ্যম যার দ্বারা শরীর এবং মনের না বলা কথা যা ভাষায় প্রকাশ করা সম্ভব নয়, তা ব্যক্ত করা যায়। রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর বিশ্বাস করতেন নৃত্য এক আধ্যাত্মিক মুক্তির পথ যা শরীরে কর্মক্ষম ভাবে অবস্থান করে। এই গবেষণাপত্রে রবীন্দ্রসংগীতের বিচিত্র পর্যায়ের ১৪০ টি গানের ওপর আলোকপাত করা হয়েছে। বিচিত্র পর্যায় কি, তা জানতে শুরুতে ‘বিচিত্র’ এই পরিভাষার অর্থ বুঝতে হবে। উক্ত বাক্যাংশ 'বৈচিত্র্য' অথবা 'অদ্ভুততা' তে সংজ্ঞায়িত হয়েছে, যা 'বিস্ময়' কে অনুপ্রাণিত করেছে। কোন প্রশ্নের অবকাশ নেই যে, ঈশ্বর প্রেম, ভালবাসা এবং দেশ বিষয়ক গানগুলি পূজা প্রেম ও স্বদেশ পর্যায়ে শ্রেণীবদ্ধ করা হয়েছে। যা দৃশ্যত ভিন্ন ও সম্পর্কহীন মনে হয়, যা কিছু অন্য কোন পর্যায়ে মানানসই নয়, তা সবই যেন বিচিত্র পর্যায়ে স্থান পেয়েছে। বিচিত্র পর্যায়্‌ কোন অর্থে ব্যবহার হয়েছে তার অন্তর্নিহিত কারণ খোঁজার চেষ্টা করা যেতে পারে। গবেষণাক্ষেত্রে গানের কথা পর্যবেক্ষণে তার অর্থের উপর নির্ভর করে কিছু দ্বিমত রয়েছে। গানগুলির মধ্যে বিশ্বব্রহ্মাণ্ডের ভিন্ন ভিন্ন সৃষ্টির স্বতন্ত্রসূচক বৈশিষ্ট্য প্রতিফলিত হয়, যা খালি চোখে দেখা যায় না কিন্তু সৃষ্টি সম্পর্কিত ও যথেষ্ট অর্থবহ। এই গবেষণাপত্রে বিচিত্র পর্যায়ের গানগুলি অধ্যয়ন করে, তা যে সর্বজনীনভাবে নৃত্যের মৌলিক বিষয়ভিত্তিক রূপক হিসেবে ব্যবহার করা হয়েছে সেটি বোঝা হয়েছেয়, যা গানগুলিকে স্বাধীন ও অন্যান্য সৃষ্টি থেকে ভিন্ন করে তোলে।