Indian Viewpoint Research Articles

Swimming Against the Current Yet Staying Strong!—A Case of Boroline

A brand might achieve a lot of success throughout the course of its product life cycle, or it might lose its sheen over time. Brand revitalization is a remedy for providing a dying brand with a new lease on life. This case study presents the story of Boroline, a well-known creation from Gourmohan Dutta in 1950s, that had lost its relevance in the 1990s and made a comeback in 2000 onwards in one of the fastest growing markets in the world, that is, India. By comprehending how Boroline was able to reclaim prominence through time, the case presented an idea of brand revitalization from an Indian viewpoint. This case study discloses many open-ended questions related to root cause of real-world problems and wants students to explore potential solutions. By conducting a case study evaluation, students could develop the creative skills of thinking out of the box about selecting best solution for emerging challenges, decision making in complex situations, coping with ambiguities.

A Pilot Study Based on the Correlation Between Whole Exome and Transcriptome Reveals Potent Variants in the Indian Population of Cervical Cancer.

Cervical malignancy (CC) is the 2nd most prevalent malignancy among females, leading to cancer mortality. Primary detection of CC tumors results in an improved prognosis. CC is a malignant gynecological tumor, with few treatment options. New diagnostic and therapeutic agents are required to expand patient survival and quality of life. If CC tumors can be found at an early stage, the prognosis is much brighter. New diagnostic and therapeutic agents are needed to increase patient survival and quality of life. In this work, we performed whole-exome sequencing utilizing V5 (Illumina platform) 10 samples, 5 control and 5 CC tumour tissue, and we compared the results with transcriptome studies. KMT2C variations were shown to be among the most vicious in this analysis. From an Indian viewpoint, we found a plethora of SNVs and mutations, including those with known, unknown, and possible effects on health. Based on our findings, we know that the KMT2C gene is on chr. Seven and in exon 8, all three recognized variants are missense, synonymous, coding synonymous, non-coding variants, and GnomAD MAF (- 0.05). The variation at position (7:152265091, T > A, SNV 62478356) in KMT2C is unique, potent, and pathogenic. The missense coding transcript CIQTNF maps to chromosome 7 and displays T > C SNV. In addition, we performed single strand conformational polymorphism analysis on 64 samples and further confirmed them using Sanger sequencing to understand and verify the mutations. KMT2C shows a log FC value of - 1.16. Understanding emerging harmful mutations from an Indian viewpoint is facilitated by our bioinformatics-based, extensive correlation studies of WES analysis. Potentially harmful and new mutations were found in our preliminary analysis; among these ten top mutated genes, KMT2C and CIQTNF were altered in ten cases of CC with an Indian phenotype.

Comprehensive review of solid waste management strategies and disposal approaches

Solid waste management is a worldwide concern with substantial environmental, social, and economic ramifications. This review provides a complete assessment of solid waste management from an Indian viewpoint. It presents an overview of the current state, difficulties, and prospects in solid waste management, focusing on environmental sustainability and public health. The goal is to give a comprehensive overview of many approaches utilized to manage and reduce the expanding problem of solid waste. It examines a variety of waste management techniques, such as landfill disposal, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy practices, and waste elimination and minimizing. Many municipalities across the country prefer landfilling for the removal of solid waste. In landfills, waste is transformed through chemical, biological, and physical processes, functioning as an environmental furnace. Therefore, soil cover thickness, barriers, leachate collecting, landfill gas recovery, and flaring facilities are essential for sustainable landfilling. The benefits of composting and anaerobic breakdown for decreasing the environmental effect of biological waste are examined in this review. Hazardous chemicals in landfills can have severe ecological and public health consequences. It looks into the benefits of effective dangerous waste disposal, such as pollution control and resource recovery. Mining and reusing landfills for diverse uses, such as renewable energy generation and recreational areas, have the potential to be beneficial. The article discusses upcoming solid waste management trends and technologies such as intelligent garbage collection mechanisms, reuse and recycling concepts, and sustainable packaging solutions. It emphasizes the potential of these advances to improve overall waste management effectiveness and sustainability.

Advaita Vedānta and the Poetic Exploration of Transcendence in W.B. Yeats’ Poetry

This paper delves into the intricate interplay between Vedānta philosophy and the pursuit of universality in select poems by the esteemed Irish poet, W.B. Yeats. Drawing upon the philosophical tenets of Vedānta, which emphasize the inherent unity of all existence, this study examines how Yeats, a poet deeply influenced by the Eastern thought, grapples with and explores these profound ideas in his poetic oeuvre. Through an in-depth analysis of select poems, I aim to unravel the nuanced ways Yeats engages with Vedānta philosophy, seeking to transcend cultural and temporal boundaries in his quest for a universal poetic vision. Furthermore, the paper endeavours to elucidate why it is imperative to comprehend World Literature through Indic perspectives, challenging the foreign origins of the term. The argument posits the need to develop a theoretical framework rooted in the Indian viewpoint to comprehend literature from diverse global traditions.

Social, Ethical and Treatment Related Problems Faced by Healthcare Workers in the Care of Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Narrative Review from the Bioethics Consortium from India.

Head and neck cancer (HNC) presents a variety of ethical difficulties for an oncologist involved in screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation that are challenging to address, especially for those professionals/people who are not trained in medical ethics. The bioethics department has spent the last ten years compiling information and rating the seriousness of numerous niche ethical concerns and their effects on healthcare professionals practising in India. Based on these findings, the current analysis makes an effort to outline the different challenges faced by oncologists when screening, diagnosing, treating, and rehabilitating people affected with HNC, particularly in a traditional nation like India. According to the authors, this is the first overview to address these issues from an Indian viewpoint, and it represents a small effort to document a crucial but unaddressed component of cancer treatment. It is hoped that these endeavours would aid in educating upcoming healthcare professionals on how to effectively handle the difficulties.

An Indian Viewpoint On The Effects Of Covid 19 On Green Marketing And Organic Products In The Hospitality Industry

An Indian Viewpoint On The Effects Of Covid 19 On Green Marketing And Organic Products In The Hospitality Industry

Indian Viewpoint - Satyabrata Pal, High Commissioner of India in Pakistan

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, The problem with speaking at a valedictory session, without being at the earlier sessions, is that you do not quite know what it is you are saying goodbye to. Today, however, that is less of a problem, because none of us is bidding SAFTA goodbye; it needs a benediction, which I hope you have pronounced, not a valediction. Your Roundtable follows what has been described as the smoothest SAARC summit ever. It went so well because all its members perhaps now believe that it can help them, and that it must roll up its sleeves and work, moving quickly from declarations to implementation.

Association of Body Mass Index with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus—an Indian Viewpoint

Association of Body Mass Index with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus—an Indian Viewpoint

A study of eco-critical perspectives A River Sutra by Gita Mehta

Gita Mehta is the brightest of the shining lights in the constellation of Indian authors. Her works are written from an Indian viewpoint and explore the tensions that arise from east-west interactions. Her work A River Sutra is a vivid fictional portrayal of India that reflects the country's history and culture. It ties together Indian mythology and many images of love in all its forms. It was narrated through the eyes of a pen-pusher and his meeting with six pilgrims on Narmada's banks. In Western feminist studies, the woman is always depicted as seeking liberation from the oppressive urban culture and returning to nature. It's intriguing to see how this notion takes on new meaning in a different cultural situation. Mehta's attention in this novel has switched from connections between India and the west to the diversity of cultures within India. The Narmada serves as the connecting thread between the main plot and the six sub-stories, according to Gita Mehta. The current study delves into the idea of eco-criticism and seeks to clarify concepts like green studies and environmental studies, as well as outline the numerous subfields of eco-criticism, such as Cultural ecology, Eco-feminism, and Gyno-Ecology, in great depth.

Ethical considerations of COVID-19 and compulsory vaccination: An Indian Viewpoint

Following a devastating second wave of COVID-19, initiatives were taken to vaccinate India's eligible population, despite various barriers such as vaccine shortages, logistics, and popular skepticism of vaccination. India could manage to vaccinate 100 crore population.1 This has resulted in the manifestation of a seminal issue of autonomy vis a vis public health. The Central Government has evidently stated that vaccination is voluntary. However, there have been a few instances of coercive vaccination throughout India. This article debates the ethical contemplations and limitations of COVID-19 and compulsory vaccination across the Indian population

SiteForge: Detecting and localizing forged images on microblogging platforms using deep convolutional neural network

Microblogging applications are currently used to disseminate information with concise text and images. Nevertheless, they are also the largest platform for circulating forged images. Forged images are digital photographs that have been modified to deceive or distort the information they communicate. These manipulated images posted on microblogging apps like Twitter often create biased user emotions leading to harmful consequences like religious feuds or riots. Microblogging platforms and fact-checking industry are investing in artificial intelligence solutions to detect these forged images on time. Many image forensic techniques are proposed earlier, but their effectiveness falls short on real-world images shared over microblogging sites. As forged images shared over these platforms are typically altered using multiple manipulation techniques, it is hard for forensic techniques to detect them. This paper proposes a customized convolutional neural network with an attention mechanism to spot fake images shared over microblogging platforms. Deep learning convolutional networks learn the intrinsic feature set of images and can detect the forged images. To handle multiple manipulations in an image, the applied attention mechanism focuses on the most relevant image region to learn the inherent feature sets. The model utilizes High-pass filters from the image processing domain to initialize kernel weights of the neural network. This supports the proposed model to converge faster and achieve better accuracy. The pooling layers are designed to specifically handle images from microblogging sites. The solution is universal and can detect complex tampering scenarios like text-editing, face-swapping, copy-move, splicing and mirroring. Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME) is utilized to localize the manipulated region in a forged image. LIME also adds interpretability and confidence to the proposed model, a common concern in deep learning models. The model is verified against the publicly available CASIA 2.0 dataset. An accuracy score of 94.7% is achieved, which is better than the previous state-of-art papers in fake image detection. In order to test the model on real-world images published on Twitter, a recent dataset is built from an Indian viewpoint. The model achieves a modest accuracy of 83.2% over the real-world Twitter dataset. The experiment proves that the proposed model can accurately detect the forged images over social platforms. It can be utilized in the fact-checking field to improve manual efforts. It will also support manual fact-checkers in swift decision making.

Effect of On-Street parking on pedestrian flow characteristics and level of service - an Indian viewpoint

Urbanization and automobile-oriented development have resulted in a significant increase in vehicular trips towards central business district (CBD) areas, consequently increasing the demand for on-street parking. In many Indian cities, on-street parking demand is regulated by an odd–even date on-street parking scheme. Under this scheme, sidewalks are subjected to fully and partially confined boundaries, affecting pedestrian movement and the level of service (LOS). Therefore, it becomes imperative to study the influence of on-street parking on pedestrian characteristics to design efficient pedestrian facilities. Pedestrian flow data were collected at three study sites in the CBD areas of three major metropolitan cities of Gujarat, India, using a videography technique. Investigation revealed an 18% reduction in walking speed for parking sidewalk face (PSF) compared to non-parking sidewalk face (NPSF), attributed to the variation in density and presence of parked vehicles. The influence of parked vehicles probed for a similar set of pedestrian densities revealed a 14% reduction in walking speed for PSF compared to NPSF. For the same geometric attributes of the sidewalk, PSF had a deteriorated pedestrian LOS at a given average condition, promulgating the need to develop separate LOS thresholds for PSF and NPSF. Based on the developed speed-density relationships for PSF and NPSF, the Monte-Carlo simulation was performed to facilitate the development of LOS thresholds. Based on the developed LOS thresholds and cumulative percentile plots, the study recommends LOS B as the design service level for sidewalks in the CBD area characterized by on-street parking.

Modeling following behavior of vehicles using trajectory data under mixed traffic conditions: an Indian viewpoint

ABSTRACT The present research work provides a methodology of calibration of the vehicle-following behavior in VISSIM using vehicle trajectory data obtained under non-lane-based mixed traffic conditions. In this context, two access-controlled mid-block sections, one on the multi-lane urban road with six-lane-divided carriageway and the second one with eight-lane-divided carriageway are identified for extracting high-quality vehicle trajectory data. Later, using trajectory data, lane-wise time-space plots were developed for the vehicles’ movement simultaneously in the same lane as well as from adjacent lanes for studying non-lane-based movement.The investigation is carried out by developing a relationship (hysteresis plots) between relative distance versus relative velocity among the leader–follower vehicle for the vehicles in the same as well as in adjacent lane that is nearby position. Hysteresis phenomenon for vehicles under the following behavior is examined.Data about identified potential vehicular pairs are used for calibration of well-known psychophysical car-following models.

Editorial

The theme for the World Mental Health Day this year is, “Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention”. In keeping with this theme we are bringing out a special issue of our journal on Suicide Prevention. The issue comprises of articles which are of significant relevance to suicide prevention in Indian perspective. We have an article on risk assessment. Subsequent two articles are important from the perspective of our government policy on suicide prevention: One article delves into the need of a National Policy on Suicide Prevention whereas the other one deals with legal aspects of suicide in India. Finally, the concluding article deals with Non-Suicidal Self Injury from an Indian viewpoint. I sincerely hope that the readership would find it useful to broaden their knowledge regarding various aspects of suicide prevention in our country.

Myths And Misconceptions About Dental Care Among Adult Population Visiting A Dental Institution

Background: India, a developing country faces many challenges in rendering health needs to its countrymen. Indian population consists of people from varied cultural and religious backgrounds. In Indian view point, a dental myth regularly emerges from conventional belief of non exploratory base. People believe in spiritual treatment and alternative forms of medicine, they prefer visiting a hakim (local traditional practitioner) to a doctor. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted with approval from institutional ethical committee of SIBAR Institute of dental sciences, Andhra Pradesh. A self administered questionnaire based survey was conducted among out- patient division of the institution. Results: In the present study 87.7% of the participants said that tooth problems should be taken seriously and cannot be neglected.42.3% agreed to the myth that ‘’no visible dental problem means no need to visit the dentist’’. Discussion: A positive finding of the present study, i.e., 18.3 percent believed that placing a medicament beside a painful tooth can relieve pain is significantly less than 30.8 percent of Raina SA et al. Conclusion: The results of the current study showed that myths still hover in the minds of the common people. Key words: Myths, dental students, institution.

Mapping critical success factors in efficient court management: two case studies from India

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify and develop an understanding of various success factors in implementing an efficient court management system by the court managers employed at the trial courts and high courts in India. Court management implies using a professional approach using managerial tools and techniques in managing courts.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on a case study with two Indian states demonstrating efficiency in judicial operation with the adoption of court management techniques. Semi-structured interviews with the court registry, court managers, document studies, court visits, along with observation are the main data sources.FindingsIt was observed that managerial practices of job autonomy, regular feedback, clear job expectations and support from the supervisor/reporting officer act as critical success factors for court management efficiency.Originality/valueThis paper adds empirical insight from the Indian viewpoint on existing literature concerning management of courts.

Awareness during general anesthesia: An Indian viewpoint.

Background and Aims:The incidence of intra-operative awareness with explicit recall in the Western world has been reported to be between 0.1% and 0.2% in the general surgical population and up to 1–2% of patients at high risk for this complication. Awareness in the Indian population has never been studied; we therefore wanted to detect the incidence of awareness in patients who were at high risk of experiencing awareness during surgery in our population.Material and Methods:We conducted a prospective single-center observational study at a 600-bedded tertiary cancer care referral hospital. We recruited adult patients posted for major cancer surgery who were considered to be at high risk for awareness. These patients were interviewed at three time-points using the structured modified Brice interview questionnaire. The primary outcome studied was the incidence of definite intra-operative awareness.Results:A total of 934 patients were included in the final analysis of which none reported awareness. Using the rule of three (Hanley and Lippman-Hand) we conclude that the upper 95% confidence interval for the incidence of awareness in this population is <1 in 300 (0.33%).Conclusion:Awareness under anesthesia is a distressing complication with a potential for long-term psychological consequences, and every effort should be undertaken to prevent it. It is reassuring though that our data in Indian cancer patients at high risk for intra-operative awareness suggests that it is an uncommon occurrence.

Transfer Pricing of Accounts Receivables in the Case of an Extended Credit Period: An Indian Perspective

In this article, the author considers the transfer pricing aspects of imputation of notional interest on late payments from an Indian viewpoint and the conflicting case law regarding this issue. Finally the author suggests strategies for taxpayers to shield themselves from transfer pricing adjustments in respect of their accounts receivable.

English

This has been observed that due to many reasons, Indian movies are very popular in general public of Pakistan and particularly in young generation. This study focuses on the effects of Indian movies on Pakistani youths with special reference to Kashmir issue. Kashmir issue is a core issue between two neighbor countries - India and Pakistan. After the brief introduction and background of the issue, this is analyzed that after watching these movies, whether Pakistani youths has changed or mould its opinion regarding this specify issue under the influence of the stories, scenes and songs etc. of the Indian movies, and whether this young generation has any type of patriotism in their minds for its own country Pakistan .They have become the supporters of Indian viewpoint or not. For this purpose, the contents of those movies which were released after 2000 are analyzed and then a survey of 100 Pakistani youths are conducted randomly. After the results, the researchers have found that 95.2 % Pakistani youths are not affected by these Indian movies propaganda and responded that Kashmir should not be a part of India. They discussed and analyzed the data and some suggestions are pinpointed. It is found that Pakistani youths are not accepting the Indian viewpoint as such, which has been tried by the producers of Bollywood. Key words: Indian movies, Kashmir issue, Pakistani Youths, Independent Kashmir Front (IKF), Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Transfer Pricing Aspects of Marketing Intangibles: An Indian Perspective

In this article, the author considers the transfer pricing aspects of marketing intangibles from an Indian viewpoint, with particular emphasis on the controversy surrounding this subject. The author also analyses recent developments on the transfer pricing of marketing intangibles with regard to the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project.