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Women civil servants have to put up an incessant fight to assert and defend their 'identity' in Indian workplaces. The article discusses the perception of women civil servants based on semi-structured interviews that were audio-taped and transcribed. The discussion is situated within Indian culture that elevates woman's status to that of a deity (Basham, 1954) but practises rampant discrimination through dowry harassment, violence within the family and harassment at workplaces. The role of women civil servants produces sharp tensions between perception and reality; as civil servants, the women attempt to reconcile men's perceptions of women with their true identity and capabilities. The purpose of the study is to examine how this affects women's life and work. The methodology adopted is the case study with narrative inquiry supplemented by the Listening Guide (Gilligan et al., 2003) and voice poems (Gilligan, 1993) to comprehend the views of the respondents. The analysis and findings highlight the cognitive, emotional and behavioural defences used by women civil servants. They attempt to reconcile their experience of powerlessness at the workplace with the sense of power that accrues to their socially ascribed position.

Using Cultural Studies as the framework, this study investigates how north Indian migrants living in Kandivali east, Mumbai, exercise agency and appropriate Bhojpuri media texts to maintain their regional identity. Bhojpuri, a dialect of Hindi, has emerged as the lingua franca of these migrants hailing from the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Beleaguered by the identity politics of the host city, the migrants turn to the Bhojpuri media to sustain the shared cultural beliefs that permeate their social relations. Familiar images in the media texts ensure continuity with tradition, feeding the resurgent pride of the community. The migrants' aggressive defence of all things Bhojpuri, as well as their desire to sanitise Bhojpuri media of its bawdiness, is a manifestation of their embattled identities seeking validation.  This article examines how the Bhojpuri media are intertwined with the migrants' everyday realities. The media reinforce gender roles, alleviate anxieties and gratify desires vicariously. Media representations meld cultural memory with the migrants' newly acquired understanding of the metropolis. In the process, hybrid identities are being fashioned by people on different points of the socio-economic axis.

Both health communication scholars and practitioners concede the seriousness of stigma in several disease contexts. But the literature on how to deal with it and possibly reduce or remove it is thin. The case of leprosy in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, however, illustrates a simple, innovative and community-grown strategy to combat stigma. Supported by the government and designed by the Danish International Development Agency's Leprosy Unit (DANLEP), the strategy relied upon a small band of trained and motivated leprosy workers. Their main task, among other things, was mobilizing the community. The community was at first cautious, but it began to perceive the benefits in leprosy worker's effort and argument, and began approaching the afflicted. The community's concern transformed the patients' worldview. They grew to be less ashamed of their health condition and themselves. The growing participation of the community in the state transformed leprosy into an ordinary treatable disease. This transformation did not come about at one go, but in slow, sometimes tentative, but measured steps. This article describes the process of demystifying leprosy. It shows how the three important stakeholders (3Ps)—persons with leprosy, persons with concern and providers of health services—forged a strategic alliance that not only helped eradicate leprosy but also deal with the more intractable issue of social stigma attached to the disease. If leprosy is a common ailment today, it is to a large extent due to community participation. The article emphasizes that if health problems are identified and approached through the community, not only are fears and misconceptions of community removed, but the community reinvents itself to bring about desirable changes.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the leadership preferences for the set of five dimensions of leader behavior i.e. training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support and positive feedback of state level and female wrestler players. Two hundred sixty four (Males=140, females =124) state level wrestler players representing their respective university in state competitions and who volunteered their participate in this study, were selected to serve as subjects for this study. The subjects were in age group of 18 to 23 years. The subjects were selected from among the male and female Wrestler players taken part in State competitions. The leadership scale for sports development was used to measure the preferred leader behavior of State level male and female Wrestler players on five dimension of leader behavior i.e. training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support and positive feedback. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to see the significance of difference between means of male Wrestler players on various dimensions of preferred leadership behavior which resulted significant f-ratio (20.934). further application of Scheffe?s test of post-hoc comparisons indicated that State level male Wrestler players of proffered their coaches more of training and instruction (4.352) followed by positive feedback (4.243), social support (3.813), democratic behavior (3.057), and autocratic behavior (3.643). as the paired mean difference between training and instruction – social support (.439) followed by positive feedback (.109), autocratic behavior (1.295) and democratic behavior (.709) : social support – positive feedback (.430) followed by autocratic behavior (.756), democratic behavior (.070) : positive feedback – autocratic behavior (.186) followed by democratic behavior (.600) and autocratic behavior – democratic behavior (.586) were higher than C.I. In case of female Wrestler players, ANOVA was also applied to see the difference between means of five dimensions of preferred leadership which resulted significant f-ration (112.603). the applications of Scheffe?s rest of posthoc comparison indicated that State level female players of cross country also preferred in greater amount o training and instruction (4.441) followed by positive feedback (4.251),social support(3.823), democratic behavior (3.544), and autocratic behavior (2.857). as the paired mean difference between training and instruction – social support (.598) followed by positive feedback (.191), autocratic behavior (1.584) and democratic behavior (.898) : social support – positive feedback (.427) followed by autocratic behavior (.966), democratic behavior (.270) : positive feedback – autocratic behavior (.393) followed by democratic behavior (.707) and autocratic behavior – democratic behavior (.686) were higher than C.I. To find out the significance of difference between means scores of preferences on leader behavior dimension of male and female Wrestler players, t-ratio was computed. The State level male and female Wrestler players expressed significantly similar preferences on democratic behavior (1.10), autocratic behavior (1.877), social support (.154) and positive feedback (.111) but the State level male and female Wrestler players were significant difference in training and instruction (2.00).

Using Cultural Studies as the framework, this article attempts a content analysis of selected Bhojpuri films to determine how the media help maintain the regional identity of migrants from UP and Bihar residing in Kandivali (east), Mumbai. The Bhojpuri media are closely entwined with the migrants' everyday realities and social interactions; they reinforce notions of ideal gender roles, alleviate anxieties associated with acculturation, gratify desires vicariously and are instruments of pseudo-empowerment. Familiar images embossed in the media texts ensure continuity with folk traditions, feeding the resurgent pride of the community. The study examines how certain conventions and formulas in Bhojpuri cinema strengthen perceptions of the 'Bhojpuriya' identity amongst the migrants, ensuring that the cultural offerings reflect their perspectives on social and cultural issues. Media representations delve into the cultural memory of the migrants, providing them emotional and cultural sustenance in their host city.