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Omar Sadr, Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan. Oxon: Routledge, 2020, xiii+242 pp., US$112.11, ISBN: 978-1138371057

This paper contains a comprehensive analysis of the New Education Policy of India (2020). For instance, it would be interesting to analyse, compare and understand whether the BJP-ruled Indian government passed the National Educational Policy (NEP; 2020) so as further privatize the nation's educational system. What multidimensional impacts could the New Education Policy (NEP) have on the future of India's educational system? We would also like to investigate how it affects institutional autonomy, premier public universities, cultural dynamics, and intellectual diversity. This paper investigates how the NEP will reshape education in India. The broad conclusion is that said education is witnessing deep shifts and changes which will not only lead to a deepening of social inequalities and affect learning but will also burden poor and middle-class families with added financial pressure.

Coherence as a quality demonstrates logic, consistency, and unity between thought and action to create a unified whole. By extension, the testing of foreign policy coherence involves the evaluation of the congruence or divergence between the intended/expected and actual outcomes. This use of coherence as a diagnostic tool sees foreign policy as a product. While the testing of coherence using foreign-policy-as-a-product template gives us necessary clues about the implementation of a foreign policy, coherence can also serve as an analytical tool to provide us information about how the same policy came about in the first place. That is, coherence can also be used to evaluate foreign policy as a process. Using the case study of Inter-Services Intelligence's (ISI) use of Taliban, this article will show that in evaluating the coherence of this policy, we can work our way backward to establish a genealogy of Pakistan's foreign policy on the whole.

Anita Nair's The Ladies Coupe is itself a literary journey into the world of rediscovery, reimagining and reawakening of feminine consciousness; a cluster of anecdotes weaving a pattern of fabricated motifs exposing the afflictions of 'the other.' Feminine subjectivity has always been put into custody to prove its significance amidst the bounties of phallic nature. Body has received vehement tortures and blows to stand erect against the supreme soul which has already been declared the sine qua non of human existence by the classical philosophers. But as days passed by the soul receded to the back and the body blossomed into prominence. Body is a powerful symbolic form in which metaphysical undertaking of culture is impressed upon. Body is the direct locus of social control which manifests itself through a series of cultural, political activities vis –a-vis the generic power of womanhood. But women are transformed into docile bodies whose energies and forces are habituated to external regulation, subjection and oppression. The body and its gestures often become the canvas over which she and its society struggle for vehement control. Helene Cixous's powerful dictates over writing the body had phenomenal responses from various corners and women propagated proudly "the more body the more writing."The body which speaks clearly exposes the multiple inflictions on it and in other way the mutilations on the body has their own voices. Female sexualisation is thus a counterpart of a valid requirement of the existence of a language which is sublime with respect to the bodies. Thus rediscovering one's own body is parallel to subjectivising female hood, awakening feminine consciousness and establishing own valid identity in a patriarchal societal framework.

This paper analyses the political future of the Indian National Congress (INC). The abysmal performance in elections at various levels shows that the INC, the grand old party, is losing its grip among the masses. Even in the ideological and organizational context the INC is facing problems in some form or other. Recently a group of 23 dissenting leaders wrote a letter to interim president Sonia Gandhi and questioning the party's functioning. We aim to analyse, compare and discuss the Congress' crucial ideological stands and shifts, as well as the main defects in its electoral strategies for the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019. Although the Congress has managed to win elections in some states, this study suggests that affirmative actions need to be taken so as to reform the party's organizational functioning and improve its electoral performance. Our conclusion is that the Congress needs to revisit its foundational principles and rich political history so as to reconnect with the electorate.

This article will focus on the 'blogosphere' in India as an emerging forum for critical readings of social and political events and issues. By concentrating on the blogosphere, read as a morphology of horizontal societal communication enabled through a network of blogs and social media sites on the internet, we have tried to offer a glimpse into the kind of issues and interactions that various groups and communities are engaging with and the scope for such online activism to usher in social transformation. For this study, we have limited our discussion to a close reading of contents on blogs as one confronts the positions and critiques offered by individuals and groups and gets a sense of the local concerns articulated in the blog entries. Our concern in this article is to fathom the potential of blogs in transformative politics and mass mobilisation, namely civic engagement against the framework of an emerging public sphere on the Internet by analysing case studies of select blogs, primarily—Kafila, an academic-activist blog, Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA ), a students' blog and Round Table India, a Dalit blog.