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Robert D. Kaplan— Tiresias, the old, blind seer, the prophet who knows better than anyone else the will of the gods, is a recurring character in Greek mythology. "Mine is... READ MORE
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Elisabeth Braw— The globalization love story involving Russia and the West is definitely over. In response to a plan by Group of Seven (G7) governments to seize assets belonging to... READ MORE
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Yael A. Sternhell— Early in his presidency, commentators began calling Donald Trump "the first Confederate president."1 There were obvious reasons why the sobriquet seemed to take—Trump spoke in a language... READ MORE
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AbstractMass disease and starvation in the princely state of Travancore during the Second World War claimed some 90,000 lives. However, this episode has never received much prominence, especially when compared to the simultaneous crisis in Bengal. It is, in many ways, forgotten. Instead, Travancore's wartime food management apparatus appears in some accounts as a success story. How did this happen? Integration into the world economy, the reordering of a rigid social structure, and popular political pressures on an autocratic princely regime created a unique set of conditions that left Travancore vulnerable to food scarcity and conflict during the Second World War. A particularly draconian princely regime that suppressed civil liberties prevented the gravity of the situation from being understood. This culminated in vastly unequal suffering and disease-related deaths. But the story is not merely one of despair. The Indian communists took advantage of war conditions to bring together agricultural and factory labourers and contribute to improving the food situation in this 'People's War', while mainstream nationalists sought to obstruct the war effort and have the British 'quit' India. Wartime activities would shape the unique post-colonial politics of what became the state of Kerala in 1956. Intervening at the intersection of the historiographies of food and the princely states, this article adds a regional perspective to the nation-centric social history of the Second World War in South Asia. Hunger was a constitutive experience of this period across various parts of India, but the post-colonial political legacies of war could be regionally distinct.

Tamil Poetry has a long historical tradition. Although the literature appears to be up to date, not all have survived. Only a few works are being read in a new perspective in the contemporary political and social context. When Re -Reding a work in a multifaceted way without a biased reading, it is possible to get closer to the author's focus. On that basis, the Kambaramayana is subjected to the Rereding of the Chambumalivathai Padalam in the Sundarakanda.

Though knowledge and information exchange are vital for the success of virtual intercultural teams, there is often an unarticulated assumption that it will developnaturally in the course of a collaboration. Data gathered from virtual German-Indian engineering teams indicates that variances in cultural communication routines lead toknowledge / information withholding, whether intentional or accidental, and impair team functioning. Consequently, effective facilitation is needed to create and maintainreciprocal cognitive and socio-emotional information exchange. The biggest challenge in this venture is achieving the proper synthesis between the structures needed to provide stability and the agile, open-ended VOPA approach required in a VUCA environment.To this end, some of the methods available to promote knowledge exchange are reviewed for their benefits on both fronts.

In tamil nadu which was predominantly agricultural, the maximization of agricultural productivity and output was an essential condition of economic growth and improvement of the masses. the system under which the cultivator worked was of key importance in determining the agricultural growth. The cost of living index, which started increasing during the world war, continued its upward trend even after the war. wages and dearness allowances were not proportionately increased to completely neutralize the price rise. it caused much finance by labor the establishment of war industries generated employment opportunities for workers and yet the soaring prices, low wages and rising cost of living adversely affected the standard of living of laborers. hence the war period was marked unrest in madras and under the defense of india rules; the government declared strikes illegal in many essential industries. On the direction of the central government, the state government advised the employers to pay compensation for involuntary unemployment, resulting out of shortage of coal and raw material. nevertheless, problems of this kind caused disturbances in the labor front for the workers retrenched from 1 april 1947.

The levels of fine (PM2.5), derived from combustion sources, in both outdoor and indoor environments within cities can be very high and are therefore of health concern. In recent years, the focus of several air pollution studies has shifted from PM2.5 to other urban pollutants such as Black Carbon (BC) and ultrafine particles (UFP) due to their association with negative health effects. BC is a light-absorbing component of PM, and a good indicator of exposure to harmful particulate-bound chemical substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emitted from combustion sources such as urban vehicular traffic. UFP (those with aerodynamic diameter less than 0.1 μm) may be more toxic than PM2.5 due to their enhanced pulmonary deposition efficiency and much higher surface area. We assessed the personal exposure to PM2.5, UFPs and BC in diverse outdoor and indoor microenvironments (MEs) in Singapore. Since individuals are always on the move, it is important to follow their activity patterns, which determine their actual exposure. Consequently, a GPS was used to track individual's movement and exposure across MEs. Potential health risks associated with inhalation exposure to airborne particles were estimated. The findings obtained from the study can be useful for citizens to make informed choices to reduce their exposures to particulate pollution in both outdoor and indoor environments. In addition, the study outcomes provide a scientific basis for the government to implement effective mitigation measures to lower people's exposure to airborne particles at the city scale, contributing to improved urban air quality and enhanced health ...