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Abhishek Saha, No Land's People: The Untold Story of Assam's NRC Crisis, HarperCollins, 2021, 303 pp., ₹599, ISBN-10 9390351855 (Paperback).

AbstractThe efficiency of rainwater tank systems depends on tank size, local climate, and potable water demand. This study investigates optimum tank size to maximize water saving potential in semi‐arid Southern California using a simple daily water balance model. The model evaluates the performance of various tank varying sizes collecting rainwater from 10,000 m2 rooftop area of a college campus for the local historical dry, average, and wet years. Results show tank sizes of 130–630 m3 having 100% capture efficiency but system reliability varies from 2.8% to 37.75% in the dry to wet years, respectively. An optimal tank size range is derived from the reliability curves that represent the tank system performance in the local climate. Optimal tank size ranges from 180 to 240 m3, which can capture more than 64% of the roof runoff and thus the campus can reduce on an average 10% of urban water demand.

Contemporary socio-economic reality is like a robbery, where the wealthy people have all the money, and the workers live from hand to mouth. These systematic inequalities are happening through capitalist consumerism and creating a growing economic contrast globally. Rather than considering imitative freedom promoted by the mainstream media that drives us to power, greed, or ego-centric mentality, I believe human rights can direct us to real freedom. In current society, basic rights are being taken away from many, while a great number of us are trapped in our utopian reality without recognizing the truth. We are stimulated by our socio-economic status; without questioning it. These defective conditions are aware of the errors in the system but do not certainly clarify the reasons behind them. From our collective experience, we understand that a larger population around us and the world is suffering, and the reasons are merely economics, besides any other factor. From there we can connect the web that takes us to power and politics. In the current global economy, we see an extreme division, where 80% of the wealth is reserved by a small circle of people. Through my work, I am confronting this situation to address that. Our focus on this contemporary crisis is too narrow; where I am exploring the consequences of these issues to gain a new perspective on our shared situation.

This paper reviews recent corporate financial literature dealing with family business issues. It discusses research papers that explain the nature and type of agency problems in family firms. It provides empirical evidence of the association of family ownership with information asymmetry. It also portrays the influence of family firms over corporate disclosures. We have analyzed literature to explain the empirical association between family ownership, and so ownership control, and firm performances. This paper also attempts to find out the research gap based on reviewed papers and tries to give the future directions of research in this regard.

Bodies are vulnerable because they are intrinsically linked to death. Bodies are social and they are embedded with meaning. They cannot be extracted from their specific contexts. The nation is also often equated with body politic. As a result individual bodies become the site of security/ insecurity depending on the social location of bodies. Within this discourse, this article tries to locate the bodies of women. It will look at the bodies of women as victims of terror as well as perpetrators of terror. It will try to understand if in these differentiated roles, women are able to break away from stereotypes or are still caught in heteronormative narratives.

Purpose: The objective of the present study is focused on the development and validation of a job performance scale. An empirical framework was developed to measure the teacher's performance by adopting four dimensions of measurement viz. Task-Performance, Contextual-Performance, Counterproductive-Work behavior, and Adaptive-Performance.Methodology: The self-designed supervisory rating scale has been used for the present study. Thirty-Six items were generated to measure the job performance scale. A convenience sample of 423 principals was taken to rate the teacher's performance. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were used for validation of the job performance scale.Findings: The outcomes of EFA indicated three factored structure of job performance constructs. The results of CFA confirmed job-performance as a reliable and valid construct.Research limitations/Implications: The present study provides the theoretic development of a scale for the operationalization of job performance among teachers. It will help the principals, supervisors and academic policymakers to design, modify and organize the performance of teachers which will upsurge the long-term performance of students in academics. The performance of a teacher cannot be assessed only from a single perspective i.e., principal or supervisor with a minimum sample of government school principals only. Therefore, future research should validate the performance of teachers with all the three perspectives including principals, teachers, and students considering both private and public sectors.Originality: The study developed and validated the job performance construct with an updated scale developed procedure.Paper type: Empirical

In many ways this journal issue presents some remnant fruits of a conference entitled Engaging the Contemporary 2019: The Philosophical Turn Towards Religion, and convened by the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Malta, on the 7–8 November 2019. The conference featured almost seventy papers on topics which ranged very widely from metaphysics to epistemology, from ethics to politics, and from phenomenology to analytic philosophy. Indeed, the conference was a living witness to the immense fecundity of the philosophy of religion. ; peer-reviewed