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This article articulates culture in the terrain of water diplomacy. Situating the 'local' turn in transboundary water discourse, we argue that dialogue should be made a distinct precursor to formal processes of negotiations in South Asia. Notions of 'culture' and 'community' are revisited to examine shared ground between social/cultural anthropology and diplomacy studies. The central proposition here is that the idea of transition from political community to water community highlights the potential of culture as a fluid interlocutor. Culture, we argue, can be a non-verbal communicator not only for constituting water communities but also for giving meaning to water flowing in transboundary rivers in holistic terms. Given that these holistic ways of knowing and understanding water are not alien to 'South Asian perspectives', culture is offered as a transformative dialogic technique which can help rewrite the notion of community in complex geopolitical settings such as that of South Asia.

Cet article s'attaque au manque d'informations sur les nombreux conflits de distribution écologique (EDC) provoqués par l'extractivisme minier en Inde au cours de ces dernières années. Le minerai de fer est le métal le plus extrait en Inde et, par conséquent, les conflits liés à cette activité sont importants. Nous analysons ici neuf conflits majeurs surgis dans différents états de l'Inde. Dans l'analyse de ces cas, nous mettons l'accent que les conséquences de l'extractivisme prédateur dans le secteur de l'exploitation des minerais, ainsi que leurs impacts environnementaux, sociaux et culturels sur les régions minières « périphériques » de l'Inde.

Tea cultivation and processing was a well-established industry during the British period in the mountains of Uttarakhand State in northern India. Tea gardens, however, gradually got abandoned and even vanished for various reasons, with the departure of British. The Government of Uttarakhand initiated concerted efforts in 1995 to revive the tea industry with a view to generate employment and income for the locals. Many of the abandoned tea gardens were revived, as well as uncultivated community and private lands were brought under new tea plantations. This has generated enthusiasm among the locals, and the primary survey carried out with 168 small tea growers (STGs) of the region has revealed that this shiftfi-om small scale agriculture and animal husbandry to cash crop (tea) based livelihood has helped the marginal farmers, including women to improve their social status. Otherwise non-cultivable wastelands and abandoned croplands, now under tea plantations, are providing employment opportunities as well as additional income. Ecological considerations of tea cultivation are suggestive of following a cautious approach, since this involves the practice of monoculture on relatively large parcels of land. Further, it needs to be emphasized that the lessons learnt in the past (problems associated with the British tea industry in the region), as well as making the cultivation of tea more cost effective, should be adequately addressed to make this expanding activity sustainable, environment-friendly and socio-economically sound. Efforts are also needed to encourage organic farming of tea, improving quality and yield of tea using clones suitable for the agro-climatic zones, keeping in mind that the region experiences seasonally dry climate. It is felt that tea plantations should be encouraged keeping the above considerations in view and with a focus on STGs.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I : TOURISM - AN OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER II : TOURISM - THE CONCEPT AND EMERGING TRENDS -- CHAPTER III : TOURISM POTENTIALS & PRODUCTS -- CHAPTER IV : INTERNET - A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR GLOBAL MARKETING -- CHAPTER V : INTERNET MARKETING TERMS AND TECHNOLOGY -- CHAPTER VI : INTERNET - A FUTURISTIC NETWORK OF CHANNELS -- CHAPTER VII : GEARING UP FOR INTERNET MARKETING -- REFERENCES.

This article explores how British Asians negotiated the politics of race in the formative years of British broadcasting from the 1960s to the 1980s. Marked by significant changes within the BBC and British society at large, this period saw the first institutional initiatives oriented towards Caribbean and Asian communities. Drawing on primary research materials from the BBC Written Archives, we analyse the Immigrant Programmes Unit and the Immigrant Programme Advisory Committees as sites where ideas of race, ethnicity and citizenship were continually debated and worked out. We argue that the BBC functioned as a profoundly asymmetrical contact zone in which British Asians' efforts to counter assimilationist ideas and programmes were stymied by senior managers working with deeply ingrained ideas of cultural, ethnic and racial differences. Immigrants would be accommodated, but in ways that would not challenge the viewing habits of the majority or imagine solidarities across racial, ethnic and national lines.

In this paper, we attempt to show how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted routine health services in India and has created further inequalities in the society. By taking a few examples of non-COVID diseases and conditions like immunization, maternal health services, tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases, this paper shows how these services have been disrupted by the pandemic. The paper argues that these disruptions have not emerged only as a result of the current crisis, but because of the paradigm shifts in the healthcare delivery in the country towards privatization which have disproportionately marginalized particular sections of the society. The paper concludes by stating that if adequate measures are not taken now to transform the health system and strengthen the public healthcare system, it might lead to catastrophic consequences in the future, especially for the marginalized sections.

Assam state in north-eastern India experiences annual floods which displace people, destroy crops, kill livestock and damage infrastructure. Dependence on natural resource-based livelihoods in an area that is also less developed makes local households vulnerable to floods. Lakhimpur district of Assam is among the worst flood-affected districts in the state. Remittance inflow increases in the aftermath of the floods that occur in this area and is used to procure provisions, rebuild livelihoods and repair houses. In action research conducted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development's Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme with the Institute of Integrated Resource Management, and Swayam Sikshan Prayog, women recipients of remittances are envisaged as the household level change-makers. Financial literacy training in particular aims to maximise the financial returns, avoid unnecessary expenses and support saving in the recipient households. The training on flood preparedness envisages training the women in aligning flood preparedness with the savings plan. Adapted from the source document.