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Sheetal BhopalAbstract: This review essay critically engages with Svati P. Shah’s “Street Corner Secrets: Sex Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai.” Despite being published in 2014, the book remains relevant as it provides significant insights into understanding the everyday realities of sex work, labour and urban precarity. The essay situates Shah’s work within the context of the feminist debates on prostitution, particularly the tensions between abolitionist and sex work perspectives. It then examines the author’s position vis-à-vis sex work, which analyses the issue through the conceptual frame of migration across three urban sites, namely, naka, street and brothels. The essay concludes with a discussion on limitations and possibilities, simultaneously affirming its importance in the contemporary debates on informal labour, gendered survival, and urban precarity. |
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1-6 |
| 2 |
Dr. Bani NarulaAbstract: Growing research in environmental, urban, and positive psychology highlights the critical role of physical environments in shaping mental health. The present study examined how home environment quality and exposure to natural settings contribute to psychological well-being in adults. A sample of 120 participants aged 25–45 years using standardized measures revealed that both supportive home environments and frequent contact with nature significantly predicted better mental health and enhanced well-being. Additionally, restorative perceptions of nature mediated the relationship between environmental factors and mental health outcomes. These results underscore the importance of designing nurturing residential spaces and integrating accessible natural elements into urban planning to promote overall well-being and healthier work–life functioning. |
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7-14 |
| 3 |
Dr. Jitendra Kumar JajoriaAbstract: Gender parity in higher education has emerged as a crucial benchmark of social equity and developmental progress globally. While institutions in both India and the United States have made significant advances in increasing female participation in higher education, disparities persist in degree completion and access to equitable academic outcomes. This paper compares gendered patterns in higher education participation and completion rates in Indian and American universities using the newest available statistical data and examines structural, socio cultural, and economic barriers that influence women’s educational trajectories. The study highlights that although female enrollment has grown, especially in India where the Gender Parity Index exceeds 1, completion gaps and systemic obstacles remain evident. The paper concludes with policy recommendations aiming to promote sustained gender equity in higher education systems. |
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15-19 |
| 4 |
Dr. Anuj Kumar SinghAbstract: Bangladesh, one of India’s closest neighbors in South Asia, has been witnessing persistent political turmoil marked by confrontational politics, contested elections, shrinking democratic space, and recurring street unrest. This internal crisis is not merely a domestic issue for Bangladesh; it carries significant strategic, security, economic, and geopolitical implications for India. Given the deep historical, cultural, and strategic interlinkages between the two countries, democratic instability in Bangladesh places India in a delicate diplomatic and strategic position. |
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20-27 |
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Satish Kumar YadavAbstract: This research paper aims to investigate Malini Chib’s “One Little Finger” as a critical landmark in contemporary Indian disability studies, which defies the dominance of the medical gaze and reclaims the authority of lived bodily experience. Largely influenced by disability studies, feminist theory, and phenomenological approaches to embodiment, it asserts that Chib’s autobiography resists the objectifying frameworks through which disabled bodies are pathologised and diagnosed on a routine basis within medical and social discourses. Malini, in her One Little Finger, seeks to highlight the everyday, affective and relational dimensions of disabled womanhood in the Indian socio-cultural milieu. Besides, this paper shows how Chib shifts narrative attention from clinical representations of cerebral palsy to experiential knowledge of inhabiting a disabled body through which she also tries to dismantle the ableist norms, which accord precedence to autonomy, productivity and bodily normalcy. With the help of a close textual analysis, it highlights the ways in which the autobiography regains agency by turning vulnerability into a source of epistemic authority. This point is driven home by Chib’s narrative, which seeks to unsettle patriarchal attitudes, as well as those embedded in institutional care, education, and familial structures, and asserts a selfhood shaped by interdependence rather than independence. This paper also tries to emphasise that One Little Finger contributes to a broader rethinking of embodiment in Indian autobiographical writing by situating the disabled body as a site of meaning-making rather than the medical gaze. It also attempts to assert that Chib’s work is a counter-narrative, reinterpreting disability as a lived, gendered, and culturally embedded experience, offering significant insights for disability studies and feminist life writing. |
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28-33 |
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Dr. Yasharth GautamAbstract: United Nations peacekeeping has emerged as one of the most valuable tools for keeping international peace and security within conflict-prone areas. After gaining independence, India has been an active and year-round participant in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions (UNPKMs). Coming on board as one of the most contributing countries in terms of troops, India has shown its interest in multilateralism, global peace and world security. The Indian peacekeepers have been deployed to various operating platforms in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, where they have been deployed to perform a variety of jobs which may include ceasefire and monitoring, civilian protection, and post-conflict rebuilding. The paper will discuss the development of India in terms of its participation in the UN peacekeeping operations, its contribution to the operations, its successes and difficulties, and its implications on the foreign and defence policy of India.\\r\\n |
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34-43 |
