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In Asokan K.M. v. State of Kerala (2017) at the behest of a disgruntled Hindu father whose daughter had converted to Islam and married a man of her choice, the Kerala High Court (HC) cast the daughter, Hadiya, as a 'vulnerable' woman before annulling her marriage. In this article, I place the infamous Hadiya case within a broader history of love-jihad – an ascendant Hindu nationalist conspiracy in India that asserts that Muslim men wish to convert Hindu women to Islam by feigning love and seducing them, thus posing a threat to all Hindu women, and by extension to the community and the nation itself. I then analyse the public perception and the media discourse around the trial, before turning to the Indian Supreme Court's (SC) judgment in the case. I argue that by denouncing patriarchy and ostensibly finding in favour of Hadiya, the SC judges portrayed themselves as feminist allies, yet by allowing the National Investigation Agency to continue their 'terror' investigation against her husband, they not only insidiously undermined Hadiya's decisions, but also revealed the shallowness of their feminist stance. In the last section, I appraise the rewritten feminist judgment offered by Urmila Pullat and Sandhya PR who situate themselves as the dissenting judges on the Kerala HC bench.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Cyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance, and Co-optation -- Cyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- Cyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- Cyber-Narratives: Roleplaying, Interactivity, and Authority -- References -- Part ICyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance and Co-optation -- 2 Finless Fishes in the Cyberian Sea: Internet and Exclusion in India -- Introduction -- References -- 3 Surveillance as Norm -- A Short History of Surveillance -- Tools of Surveillance -- Surveillance for Commercial and Political Interests -- Surveillance for 'common good' -- Surveillance and Media -- References -- 4 Cyberspace and the Illusions of Ultra-Democracy -- Born into Neoliberalism -- The Political Possibilities -- References -- Part IICyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- 5 Digital Feminist Interventions: A Critical Assessment of the Pink Chaddi Campaign and #MeToo in India -- References -- 6 New Media, Identity and Minorities: The Role of Internet in Mainstreaming of Muslims in India -- State of Muslims in India -- New Media as Harbinger of Change? -- Scope for an Alternative Media -- TwoCircles.Net as an Alternative News Portal -- Muslim Youths' Forum Against Communalism, Terrorism, and Sedition -- Twitter Trends -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IIICyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- 7 Cyberspace and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Perception -- References -- 8 A Cyberian Turn in Pornography: Understanding Internet as a Sexual Medium -- References -- 9 'Yeh Bik Gai Hai Gormint' Understanding Meme Culture in India -- Introduction -- References.

Food Substitutes, Health Supplements, and the Geist of Fitness in India -- Fast Food and Fatness in Popular Media -- Accio Food -- Who Eats Whom? -- What do you want for dinner, honey? -- Food for Thought-Feeling -- The Anatomy of Obesity -- Hunger Games -- Food for Soul, 'Soul' for Food.

Objectives To examine the primary risk factor for oral cancer in the US, smoking and tobacco use, among the specific US states that experienced short-term increases in oral cancer incidence and mortality. Methods Population-based data on oral cancer morbidity and mortality in the US were obtained from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database for analysis of recent trends. Data were also obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to measure current and former trends of tobacco usage. To comprehensive measures of previous state tobacco use and tobacco-related policies, the Initial Outcomes Index (IOI, 1992-1993) and the Strength of Tobacco Control index (SoTC, 1999-2000) were also used for evaluation and comparison. Results Analysis of the NCI-SEER data confirmed a previous report of geographic increases in oral cancer and demonstrated these were state-specific, were not regional, and were unrelated to previously observed increases among females and minorities. Analysis of the CDC-BRFSS data revealed these states had relatively higher percentages of smokers currently, as well as historically. In addition, analysis of the IOI and SoTC indexes suggest that many factors, including cigarette pricing, taxes and home or workplace bans, may have had significant influence on smoking prevalence in these areas. Trend analysis of these data uncovered a recent and significant reversal in smoking rates that suggest oral cancer incidence and mortality may also begin to decline in the near future. Conclusion Due to the rising costs of health care in the US and the limited resources available for health prevention efforts, it is essential to organize and direct more effective efforts by public health officials and epidemiologists, as well as funding from local, state and federal governments, to reduce and eliminate identified health disparities. This study provides evidence how these efforts may be directed to specific geographic areas, and towards the white males, previously thought to be unaffected by the increases in oral cancer among females and minorities.