Routes Beyond Roots: Alternative Ecological Histories in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

Murderous Ritual versus Devotional Custom: The Rhetoric and Ritual of Sati and Women’s Subjectivity in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

The representation of the practice of sati, the immolation of widows on their husbands’ funeral pyre, has garnered interest for long from postcolonial and feminist discourses among others. While advocates of Western modernity perceive sati as a murderous ritual, the proponents of orthodox Hinduism, on the contrary, claim sati to be a courageous cult of “wifely devotion”. In both bigoted beliefs...

Amitav Acharya

Asian regionalism is in a state of flux. Recent Chinese initiatives such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the new Silk Road, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), and more broadly what some have called “China-led alternative institution-building in Asia,” could redefine the contours of Asian regionalism. China is not the only country t...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

The Ecological Relations of Roots

Tracing the roots and routes of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy.

Neurology 2008;71:1854–1855 The behavioral and cognitive comorbidities of epilepsy are increasingly recognized, but their etiologies remain elusive. Advances in structural and functional neuroimaging have led to increasing understanding of the brain systems that may be abnormal in individuals with epilepsy and that contribute to these cognitive difficulties.1 In this issue of Neurology, McDonal...