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044867
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India's financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, and at its epicentre is GIFT City - a name synonymous with ambition and innovation. More than just India's pioneering International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), this operational smart city in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is a globally recognised hub for finance and technology. GIFT City offers a unique ecosystem where international financial freedom seamlessly blends with robust Indian regulatory oversight. It's a place where banks, insurers, fund managers, and trailblazing fintech companies converge to conduct effortless cross-border transactions and investments
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044866
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In the intricate machinery of a modern financial system, the clearing system stands as a critical, often unseen, engine ensuring the smooth and secure flow of funds between individuals, businesses and financial institutions. The clearing system is a complex set of procedures, technologies and regulatory frameworks that facilitate the transfer of money from one account to another, validating transactions, mitigating risks, and ultimately settling obligations.
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044865
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In an era where businesses, including banks, compete not only to capture more market share but also to retain consumers, understanding the deeper motivations behind consumer behaviour has become essential. Traditional marketing methods, though still effective to an extent, are increasingly supplemented with techniques rooted in neuroscience and psychology. One such technique is neuromarketing, which seeks to understand how the human brain responds to marketing stimuli. Alongside this, the Pareto Principle - or the 80 / 20 rule - provides a powerful lens for prioritising resources and strategies.
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044863
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The Constitution of India recognises all persons as equal before the law and guarantees them the right to live life with dignity. The Constitution of India entails special provisions for the disabled population in India. In order to minimise cases of discrimination, it is important that each and every person is aware of their rights.
The Constitution of India is like one biig umbrella embracing within its fold every person living in India. It is the lifeline of the people of India. It is the Parent Act from which emanates the numerous legislations enacted by the Parliament.
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044862
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Modernization in Education leads to the progress and prosperity of society to achieve sustainable development. Many efforts have unfolded the versatile scope and opportunities apart from mere classical traditional activities. With the development of science and technology, some progressive achievements have been obtained, though several challenges exist to overcome the obstacles to reach the goal - 'Education for all'. Some vital fields have been focused on along with those previously laid down in the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009.
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044861
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The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, is a landmark legal framework aimed at promoting transparency, accountability, and citizen empowerment in good governance. This study was undertaken with the primary objective of assessing the awareness and perception of graduate students regarding the RTI Act, based on the earlier studies and the existing literature. This study recognises that awareness of RTI among Gen Z is essential for fostering participatory democracy via transparency and good governance. Using a descriptive survey design, data were collected from students across diverse programmes through a structured questionnaire. The findings revealed higher female participation and notable subject disciplinary variations. It concludes that awareness initiatives related to the Act and Bill significantly contribute to strengthening civic responsibility and good governance among future citizens. This study also recommends integrating a module in the curriculum and awareness drives to sustain democratic engagement and promote informed citizenship among the students' community.
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044860
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"Constituting as you do, a large body of the most highly educated Indians, you should, in the natural order of things, constitute also the most important source of all mental, moral, social and political progress in India. Whether in the individual or the nation, all vital progress must spring from within, and it is to you, her most cultured enlightened minds, her most favoured sons that your country must look for the initiative. In vain many aliens like myself love India and her children, as well as the most loving of those: in vain may they for her and their good, give time and trouble money and thought: in vain may they struggle and sacrifice; they may assist with advice and suggestions; they may place their experience, abilities and knowledge at the disposal of the workers, but they lack the essential of nationality, and the real work most ever be done by the people of the country themselves".
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044858
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This article investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and fiscal consolidation on government debt share to GDP and GDP in BRICS countries. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model from 2009 to 2022. The article gives insights into the relationship between EPU, fiscal consolidation and government debt share to GDP with the GDP in the BRICS countries, then advance economies which are mostly undertaken in literature. The findings of the article are that EPU has an insignificant impact on government debt share to GDP in the short and long run. However, fiscal consolidation has a significant impact on reducing government debt share to GDP in the long run. In terms of GDP, EPU has a significant negative impact in the long run but not in the short run. Fiscal consolidation has a significant positive impact on GDP in the short run. Fiscal consolidation is recommended as a growth policy that does not reduce government debt share to GDP.
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044857
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Situated in the backdrop of Sri Lanka, this article delves into the challenges hindering work from home (WFH) for employees and explores how organisations have navigated these hurdles during the ever-evolving stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic turmoil. Employing a qualitative approach, 77 in-depth, semi-structured interviews were carried out with 46 individuals—comprising 20 employees and 26 human resources practitioners (HRPs). Some participants were interviewed multiple times, offering insights into various phases of the study. Through the lens of the job demands and resources (JD-R) framework, our analysis uncovered four key job demands impeding remote work and identified resources that have empowered employees to navigate and alleviate these challenges: (a) adjustment demands and resources, (b) work demands and resources, (c) family demands and resources, and (d) emotional demands and resources. Despite persistent challenges across stages, their manifestations were unique. Even after two years of widespread WFH practice and extensive use of resources, WFH demands endure in diverse ways. In conclusion, our findings underscore numerous resources available to HRPs, offering valuable insights to address WFH demands and fortify the success and sustainability of WFH practices.
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044856
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This study investigates how perceived work from home (WFH) stress affects job and life satisfaction and the role of specific personal and job resources in stress and job and life satisfaction for WFH employees. The rising demand for WFH due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes in employees’ job and overall life satisfaction. We conducted a quantitative survey of 283 first-time WFH employees in Bangladesh, applied the job demands–resources (JD-R) and conservation of resources (COR) theories, and employed a partial least squares–structural equation model. The results indicate that high stress resulting from WFH reduces job and life satisfaction; under such unusual work conditions, job satisfaction is a strong predictor of life satisfaction. Moreover, the effects of personal resources, such as job competence and perceived hope, on life satisfaction become operational through perceived supervisor support, perceived WFH stress and job satisfaction. Our study contributed to the literature by applying the JD-R and COR theories in a new WFH context to suggest that job resources, such as perceived supervisor support, become more effective when an employee is exposed to WFH for the first time, and some personal resources, such as job competence, become dependent on job resources.
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044855
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This article explores the effect of perceived job insecurity on employees’ turnover intention during the global pandemic. A conceptual model was developed and tested with data collected from 398 faculty members in higher educational institutions in Southern India. After checking the instrument’s psychometric properties using structural equation modelling, the hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression. The results indicate that three dimensions of job insecurity—the perceived threat to job features, the perceived threat to total job and the feeling of powerlessness—are positively associated with turnover intentions of faculty members. The results also reveal that age and gender moderated the relationship between (a) perceived threat to total job and turnover intention and (b) feeling of powerlessness and turnover intention. This study recommends that administrators not underestimate the perils of perceived job insecurity in terms of turnover intentions and steps need to be taken to ensure that employees feel safe and continue to work. This study highlights a simple fact: If adequate steps are not taken, crises like the global pandemic may adversely affect organisations.
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044854
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This study investigates how heterosexual working males respond to sexual harassment they encounter at work in an Asian patriarchal culture that prescribes strict gender roles for men and women and supports heterosexual hegemonic masculinity. Using a qualitative research methodology, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 19 men who identified themselves as heterosexual. The findings indicate how the participants have responded to their experiences of sexual harassment, primarily through passivity and avoidance. In addition, on rare occasions, they have also engaged in resistance and reluctant acquiescence. These responses are largely shaped by cultural scripts and ideologies about masculinity and heterosexuality. By acting passively, the participants appear to attempt to preserve and conform to the gendered status quo, protect the perpetrators, avoid rocking the boat and prevent the tables from being turned on them. All in all, the reactions of males to sexual harassment demonstrate how masculinity is actively constructed and maintained in work settings. These findings, therefore, expand and contribute to the broader research area of sexual harassment of heterosexual men in general and, more specifically, to their reactions to sexual harassment in a cultural context that is rarely explored.
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044853
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people work. When people started working from their homes, it also made them disconnected from the workplace. A majority of employees expected to continue to work from home, and organisations across the world saw high attritions during the latter half of the year 2021, and the main reason was that the employees did not feel a sense of belonging. Irrespective of whether the organisation adopts work from home, work from office, or even hybrid, it has become important for organisations to reinvent how they connect with their employees, to ensure that the employees feel that they are part of a larger cause. This study captures the evolution of ‘The Heartbeat Conversations’ (THBC), which is the critical component of The Heartbeat Framework (THBF). THBC is an outcome of a study within a product development company in South India with about 33 members over a period of 22 months. This study includes the iterative approach to refine the employee connect on a cadence, based on the feedback received. Through this work, we desire to provide a reference approach to initiate THBC to help practitioners. Two significant observations are (a) Keep the approach flexible and (b) People open up when they feel safe, and their opinions are valued. Hence, practitioners must ensure that they create a safe space for people to express themselves, which may sometimes need coaching at the leadership level.
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044852
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The hijras are a hypervisible gender-transgressive community in India. Their hypervisibility is courtesy of their sartorial and ritual practices, a particular discipleship-kinship organisation, and liminal moments of public presence and assertion. One of the ways in which the public recognises a hijra individual is through the clap—the taali, which it sees as profane. In this article, we provide a counter-text against commonsensical notions of the taali by documenting narratives from hijra individuals and transgender women closely associated with the hijra subculture. In doing so, we demonstrate the role of this embedded and embodied practice in shaping hijra belongingness and resistance.
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044851
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As women’s organisations have mobilised the Indian state since the 1980’s to institute a slate of laws on intimate violence, men’s rights groups (MRAs) have formed in counterpoint to challenge definitions of dowry, violence and economic restitution. Organised against women’s legal rights in marriage and prominent feminist spokespersons, the groups ironically feature several women MRA leaders, heading auxiliaries such as the Forgotten Women’s Association and the All India Mothers-in-law Association. As women leaders who are explicitly anti-feminist, while seeing themselves as working for women’s rights, they occupy a contradictory space. Drawing on my ethnographic work with Indian MRAs, this article will present some of the ways in which such female leaders critique legal reforms and suggest alternate registers of fair outcome, while also identifying and resisting misogyny within their own organisations.
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044850
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A significant development in Indian classical music during the early 20th century was the emergence of women trained in the vocal genre of Hindustani raga music.1 The city of Bombay, now Mumbai, which was growing in importance as a commercial centre in western India from the mid-19th century into the 20th, was a locus for this transition. As more and more women aspired to professions in the performing arts, the conditions under which they could be seen and heard, and were allowed to live, came to be constrained in new ways. Through stories of five women musicians in Bombay who led very different personal and professional lives, this article discusses the social and economic challenges they faced and the aesthetic, performative and professional choices that had to be made. Spanning over five decades, these stories offer glimpses into the possibilities, limitations and contradictions that were part of a changing musical landscape. They also give insights into the dispersed ways in which Hindustani raga music emerged and gradually became a viable profession for women of diverse strata.
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044848
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Kathleen Olga Vaughan (1869–1956) was a British medical doctor and obstetrician who worked in colonial India from 1903 to the mid-1920s. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she rejected racial explanations for childbirth complications, instead attributing them to pelvic anatomy. Based on her observations in India, Vaughan believed that the squatting position, commonly used by ‘native’ populations in daily life and childbirth, contributed to the healthy and functional development of the pelvis and to safer deliveries. Upon returning to Europe, she sought to validate her hypothesis scientifically and advocated for ‘civilised’ women to adopt practices from supposedly ‘less civilised’ societies. Through medical journals and her clinical practice, she promoted prenatal physical training to enhance pelvic flexibility, while engaging with the growing movement against the medicalisation of childbirth. This article examines Vaughan’s work, exploring how colonial encounters shaped ideas, practices and ideologies surrounding natural childbirth in the West. It also shows how the return to nature that Vaughan propounded as a form of prenatal care was deeply embedded in contemporary eugenic thought, reflecting broader concerns with white bodily improvement.
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044847
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The outbreak of the Second World War saw a wider recruitment of women for various roles in intelligence, counter-intelligence and espionage. There had already been an active policy of their recruitment by spy agencies in Britain, continental Europe and the United States, not just for desk work and signals intelligence but for active field duty as well. Agencies and organisations inimical to Western interests, such as the Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, Comintern (the Communist International), its London-based proxy, the Anti-War Movement, and a range of socialist and left-oriented workers’ unions, were arguably a few steps ahead in recruiting women and deploying them in sensitive roles. Using contemporaneous declassified records, this article briefly looks at three entangled women agents across the colonial–imperial sphere of conflict during the Second World War and the decade leading up to it. Drawing from contemporary conceptions of transnationalism and entangled histories wherein actors, entities and ideas across temporal and topographical spaces find common conceptual ground, this article relies on secret intelligence documents to discuss hitherto unexplored narratives, ambiguities and affective details.
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044846
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Focussing on colonial western India, this article discusses pioneering initiatives of women physical educators, exercise enthusiasts and founders of gymnasiums and physical culture clubs in the early decades of the 20th century. Examining a variety of sources, especially in the region’s primary vernacular languages of Gujarati and Marathi, it demonstrates that middle-class women engaged passionately in the ongoing ideological debates around the need for organised exercise, sports and active leisure pursuits. Going beyond previous historiography that has primarily identified a commitment to pronatalism and ‘race motherhood’ as fuelling physical education schemes floated by various actors in colonial India, this article highlights how women’s social role was being re-imagined and re-articulated as physical pursuits enhanced women’s daily social freedom and mobility. Further, by tracking the trajectory of socially acceptable physical activity for women, we get crucial insights into the unfolding of the Indian women’s sports movement.
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ID:
044843
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Allahabad, Kitab Mahal, 1970.
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xv; 520 pages
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