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In June 2024, delegates undertook two-week-long negotiations at the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference. These meetings concerned the modalities of the newly instituted Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund and the provision of financial assistance to developing countries. In this piece, we reflect on the future interactions between the L&D Fund and litigations regarding L&D. We argue that these two phenomena must be seen as having a synergistic relation, effectively benefitting the Global South.

The taxation of coffee in Mysore and Coorg went through three phases during the course of the nineteenth century. Waram tax (1799–1800) of equal sharing of the crop was succeeded by halat (1838) excise duty on the produce exported out of the taluks. Land tax was introduced in Coorg in 1864 and in Mysore in 1881. Coffee was cultivated on high forested hill slopes—in jungles, gardens, backyards, sacred groves and on inam lands. Local tradition, topography of coffee lands, pre-colonial assessment systems and colonialism impacted taxation. The varied sites of coffee cultivation and the long gestation period of the coffee tree influenced imposition of the three taxes. The waram phase was associated with revenue farming (1822–1837) and monopoly over coffee trade. The British administration encouraged the establishment of European plantations. Halat induced expansion of acreage and smuggling of coffee with revenue loss to the state. Increasing demand and competition led to a scarcity of suitable lands. Natives dominated coffee acreage and production in Mysore and preferred halat. Lands were granted with a variable halat and could be resumed if no coffee was planted. European planters wanted a fixed land tax for secure proprietary rights over their estates. A colonial discourse was created on 'slovenly' native coffee cultivation, juxtaposed to superior European plantation methods—thereby pressing for acreage assessment of coffee lands. It was introduced in Coorg, which was part of British India. Acreage tax was introduced after almost two decades of European demand in Mysore: a native Indian state. The state, however, did not give full proprietary rights over lands to the planters.

Rukmini Barua, In the Shadow of the Mill: Transformation of Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000 Cambridge University Press, 2022, 305 pp. $110, ISBN: 9781108838115.

Purpose
This study aims to identify the trending topics, emerging themes and future research directions in supply chain management (SCM) through multiple source of data. The insights would be of use to academics, practitioners and policymakers to leverage latest developments in addressing current and future challenges.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a multiple source of data such as published literature and social media data including supply chain blogs and forums contents on business-to-business (B2B) firms to identify trending topics, emerging themes and future research directions in SCM. Topic modeling, a machine learning technique, is used to derive the topics and themes. Examining supply chain blogs and forums offer a valuable perspective on current issues and challenges faced by B2B firms. By analyzing the content of these online discussions, the study identifies emerging themes and topics of interest to practitioners and researchers.


Findings
The study synthesizes 1,648 published articles and more than 1.3 lakh tweets, discussions and expert views from social media, including various blogs and supply chain forums, and identifies six themes, of which three are trending, and the other three are emerging themes in the supply chain. Rather than aggregate implications, the study integrates findings from two databases and proposes a framework encompassing the drivers, processes and impacts on each theme and derives promising avenues for future research.


Originality/value
Prior literature has majorly used published research articles and reports as a primary source of information to identify the trending theme and emerging topics. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to examine the potential value of information from social media, such as blogs, websites, forums and published literature to discover new supply chain trends and themes related to B2B firms and derive encouraging possibilities for future research.

In an op-ed, Leslee Udwin, the filmmaker of the controversial but meaningful documentary, India's Daughter speaks of the tensions she faced in India amidst her film's release. After her movie was banned in India, she abruptly left the country to avoid arrest. Her film explores the complexities and nuances of the 2012 Delhi rape case. It drew criticism when the trailer was released because it allegedly focused on the rapist's narrative. Drawing upon my interview with Udwin and archival research, I explore the multitude of ways in which Leslee's position as a powerful storyteller and an outsider influenced her documentary's success within and outside of India. A medium of social change, Udwin's documentary underscores the patriarchal and misogynistic attitudes that continue to exist while simultaneously challenging the role of the state, politicians and law enforcement who are in charge of protecting women's rights.

This paper seeks to view the device of magic realism used in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as a lens through which the political consciousness of the two nations (India and Pakistan) is presented. By using elements of fantasy, the very event of partition is given a new dimension. This dimension is one which projects itself as a binding factor for all those who have collectively been a part of that single moment- the stroke of midnight. The partition of India is reflected as that event which brings together the fate of all those who passed through it. This, certainly, has a much deeper implication in a political sense than what is reflected as the curious bestowing of supernatural powers upon the children born at the hour of the partition. The title itself becomes a product of both the magical realism presented by Rushdie as well as the political reality of the two countries in question. The "children" metaphor for these two countries is used literally by Salman Rushdie as he creates an alternate dimension of reality where magical children reside. Further, the protagonist Saleem Sinai's journey through the effects of partition as he struggles to make sense of his fragmented identity is deeply symbolic of the national consciousness within which Saleem and his family reside. Through this paper, it is aimed to decode the various symbols of the effects of partition, the national identity of people, and the postcolonial impact on them that are presented within the world of Rushdie's novel as magic and fantasy.

The exploratory research uses the framework of Communication Studies and Sociology to demonstrate how restructuring of social hierarchies impacts language use in the Business Communication class of an Indian management institute. The study examines how dominant communication practices are being subverted by issues of identity, power, privilege, sociopolitical forces and technological transformation. It suggests that instructors teaching Business Communication may benefit by aligning their pedagogy to the sensibilities of the present generation of management students. The paper is premised on the interpretivist belief that meanings and identities are socially constructed through respondents' engagement with everyday realities. Twenty-two in-depth personal interviews were conducted with participants of the postgraduate programme in management and instructors of Business Communication. Further, a questionnaire was administered to 51 participants of an executive management programme to understand attitudes towards language use at the workplace. The responses indicate that a variant of indigenised English appears to be acquiring legitimacy amongst young professionals, while instructors continue to emphasise grammatical accuracy, blindsided by their training in language and literature. Therefore, to cater to the next generation of managers, instructors may have to shed their bias against non-formal expressions in English, and consider focusing on the functional aspects more important for intra-national purposes.

The history of Mysore coffee is inextricably linked to the mountainous inam lands of Baba Budan dargah situated atop eponymous hills. In the Malnad region of the Nagar Division in the seventeenth century grew probably the earliest coffee gardens of India. This paper examines the significance of the Baba Budan inam lands coffee in the development of the coffee economy of Mysore. The trajectory of coffee, a peasant and a plantation crop, was shaped by regulation and domination by the British administration and European planters and embedded resistance to this control. Native cultivators and the Baba Budan inamdars, as indigenous coffee growers, clashed with European planters over land and labour issues. Coffee was a profitable and popular cash crop, and natives dominated land and production in the colonial period. Competition, collusion and contestation laid the foundation of the two components of the coffee industry in Mysore—native and European.