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It is difficult to find the necessary discursive focus on English inmultilingual India. Its aspirational youth still need this language of colonialprovenance to keep its otherness from the native cultures of India theynonetheless esteem. This article acknowledges the radical ambivalenceEnglish thus creates, beside an analysis of the others English engenders inIndia's globalizing progress. It critiques what academics often practise asa version and variant of Cultural Studies, and how they end by practicingStranger Studies. The concluding part of this article probes the reservationsmost Indians seem to have about their visitors and guests, and how Englishinflects their transactions with the 'other' world. A Harold Pinter tableaufrom Mountain Language is read as an object lesson for students who investin English, unmindful of its undiminished potential still as an imperialistlanguage. When Language fails the Human, it is time we rethink thehumanities. The article ends with a reformist hope that no Indian or otherstate capital will ever be a stage for such an overbearing English scenariothe way it appears so blatantly in Pinter's play.

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have gained a lot of interest due to the partial success of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in eradication of poverty and human development. India has taken a lot of initiatives to meet the targets for the same and have achieved progress in this regard. The MDGs were particularly helpful in communicating a clear purpose of development aid to mobilize public support. The SDGs seek to address not only the root causes of poverty but also the universal need for sustained development to provide a life of dignity to all. The main objectives of the present study are; to examine the performance of Millennium Development goals (MDGs) and make a comparison with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in India; to compare the compo nent wise progress and policy initiatives of MDGs and SDGs in India; and to analyze the current progress of SDGs in India and also make a comparison among Indian states using the report of SDG India Index 2019. The data has collected from various official publications of UN, Government of India, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The present study finds that SDG proposals will ensure momentum generated by MDGs is carried through to 2030 to end deprivations. India's achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals will require a focus on the acceleration of inclusive economic growth; guaranteed access to comprehensive social services; vast investment in basic infrastructure and women's empowerment. The present study is an attempt to analyze these issues in India .

Introduction: Recent legislation requires schools to provide free drinking water in food service areas (FSAs). Our objective was to describe access to water at baseline and student water intake in school FSAs and to examine barriers to and strategies for i

In March 2020, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. At the genus rank, 20 new genera were added, two were deleted, one was moved, and three were renamed. At the species rank, 160 species were added, four were deleted, ten were moved and renamed, and 30 species were renamed. This article presents the updated taxonomy of Negarnaviricota as now accepted by the ICTV. © 2020, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply. ; Peer reviewed