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Sukti Dasgupta and Sher Singh Verick (Eds.). Transformation of Women at Work in Asia: An Unfinished Development Agenda. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India, 2016, pp. 312, ₹995, ISBN 9789385985058 (Hardcover).

COVID-19 has revealed vulnerabilities in many different sectors and amplified the risk of cyber security attacks. As humanity turns to digital platforms and connectivity, the cyber domain becomes increasingly critical but challenging. Who takes responsibility for providing leadership in cyber security?

AbstractThis article develops the concept of recombinant urbanization to show how agrarian landed property and land‐based caste/class relations shape the production of post‐liberalization urban real estate markets in India. I focus on two interrelated but differentiated agrarian property regimes in western Maharashtra to argue that real estate development is building on prior uneven agrarian land markets, which were themselves sociotechnically produced by colonial and postcolonial development politics. Through an examination of the organizational form of sugar cooperatives, which mediated agrarian capitalism in an earlier era, I track how these primary agricultural cooperatives are now being reorganized into real estate companies, sometimes with former sugarcane growers as company shareholders. The same caste‐based political and social capital that made sugar cooperatives possible in a capitalist agrarian society is now being leveraged by agrarian elites to ease their own and their constituents' entry into an urbanizing economy. The concept of recombinant urbanization opens new methodological entryways to analyze the entangled agrarian and urban question in predominantly agrarian and late liberalizing societies.

The training programme for handloom weavers needs for modernization of handloom technology and skill up gradation for weaving process. The hand loom weavers need for training on loom setting, pre loom activities, weaving, Dyeing, Frequent design changing, introducing new variety, Repairing and replacing the damaged loom accessories and weaving defect free cloths. In addition to it, development and awareness programmes are needed for the modern marketing practices, costing and co-operative management. The both state and central governments are taking the accountability to impart the training to poor hand loom artisans. The handloom training centers are established in Erode, Paramagudi, Kumpakonum, and Kanchipuraum as a specialized institute to provide the various types of training programmes for the weavers in the respective handloom circles in Tamil nadu. In additions to it, weavers services centers (WSCs) are taking the responsibility of conducting the training for handloom weavers in all the district of Tamil nadu

The paper tries to problematize the concept and contexts of digital anonymity by placing it along with literary modernity. The biopower that digital text generates has created and complicated an industry of data and surveillance of user profiles and throws the processes of textual subjectification to more visibility. Anonymity in print has been a phenomenon that was consequential of and integral to the institution of authorship. Even if authorship has been an important terrain of interest in digital studies, print authorship in all its socio-cultural specificities as a Eurocentric patriarchal construct within the field of artistic production has rarely been studied in relation to the evolving digital existence. The paper attempts to present an overview of contexts of anonymity in print and a review of existing approaches toward it in the web and to address a theoretical gap found therein. Away from the prevalent moral perceptions about anonymity, the paper presents anonymity as a larger apparatus rooted in the publishing practices in literary modernity where authorship and anonymity remained as mutually augmenting mechanisms of absence and presence. In algorithmic cultures, the materializing of absence as presence endures in more rigid forms necessitating continuous struggles over the question of anonymity. The paper is concluded by referring to gendered anonymity in the digital space as one terrain that reflects the nature of this continuous struggle.

The Sangam Age between 300 BC to 300 AD is called as the Age of Tamils. The Sangam classics gives many good details and historical synchronisms works like Silappadikaram and Manimekalai reflect the socio-political and cultural life of the people. The Sangam literature contains the much valuable information about the kings and kingdoms. Nachchinarkkiniyar speaks of the four divisions of Tamilaham. Chera, Cholar, Pandya and Tondai Mandalams. But the rulers of the three Mandalams Chera, Chola, Pandya alone were crowned Monarchs.

This article attempts to analyze the relation between individual, the machinic systems and capitalist ideology that gets more consolidated with the digital by looking closely at the ways in which the human–machine relation gets standardized through the 'stabilization' of technology in what is referred to as Web 2.0. Considering certain aspects of print culture that led to what Foucault refers to as the 'principles of exclusion'—the way in which discourses delimit itself—the larger cultural economies that involved the production and manipulation of symbols in web is critically re-examined. The print-informed relation of individual and text finds its contemporary ramifications in our understanding and usage of hypertext as HTML. The article traces the crucial stages during the establishment of World Wide Web at the turn of the century and affects the question 'What is a blogger' in the same vein that the question 'What is an Author' was asked to trace the role that weblog format played in the constitution of 'access' to cyberspace. The larger implication of such an enquiry would be to situate 'cyborg' subjectivity as one that consolidates human identities as more textual, archived and accessible. The amalgamation of human–machine capacities through the stabilization of material technologies in the digital world concern the governmentality of bodies through HTML, its ideological significations and the praxis that led to its stabilization in the turn of the millennium.