There are no doors or windows on the south side. Understood, only one window on the north side and the door on the west side next to the gate. Ahmad Musa breathed his last. He saw that there was no one on the verandah. He curled up next to the tub and thought about how to get inside. In front of it is a long east-west verandah. Three entrances from the porch. One along the middle. Two on two ends. Ahmad Musa noticed a large red dot flashing at the lock point of the door at its end. But the other two doors do not. Instead, those two door lock points have bright green eyes. To Ahmad Musa this light signal stands for simplicity, the door of the red signal cannot be knocked, this door is not for entry. There are two green doors.
There are no doors or windows on the south side. Understood, only one window on the north side and the door on the west side next to the gate. Ahmad Musa breathed his last. He saw that there was no one on the verandah. He curled up next to the tub and thought about how to get inside. In front of it is a long east-west verandah. Three entrances from the porch. One along the middle. Two on two ends. Ahmad Musa noticed a large red dot flashing at the lock point of the door at its end. But the other two doors do not. Instead, those two door lock points have bright green eyes. To Ahmad Musa this light signal stands for simplicity, the door of the red signal cannot be knocked, this door is not for entry. There are two green doors.
The work explores the representation of socio cultural margins of caste and gender in Indian contexts in works of fiction written in various Indian languages in the twentieth century, taking representative samples from Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and English. The focus of enquiry is the narrativization of these important cultural and political questions in representative texts of fiction. What are the socio political and cultural implications and underpinnings of the representation of marginalization in the medium and genre of fiction, what could be the politics, ethics and aesthetics of such narrating, how far such representations are subversive or consensual/complicit, what are the limitations and pitfalls of such intervening radicalism in fictional narration all these questions are taken up in detail in the analyses. In the greater sense this study is also a critique of modernity and its discontents as it analyses the dialectics of modernity, its radical as well as reactionary aspects. A problematic premise of contextualizing the text and textualizing the context would also be prominent in the attempt. Fictional texts from five Indian languages including English (two texts from each language ) are incorporated in the study to ensure regional and linguistic representation within the limits of the availability of works in translation. Questions of class analytical perspectives in the context of Brahmanic patriarchy are explicated and critiqued. The need for a subaltern hermeneutics and the urgency of epistemological democratization are also discussed as a political and emancipatory outcome of the study. Both the formal as well as thematic concerns of the novel in the Indian languages are found to be shaped and determined by the material realities and associated attitudes and worldviews of caste and gender hierarchy emanating from internal imperialism. Though the ten texts chosen attempt intense critique of the gender question, the more profound and specific cultural question of caste evades comprehension and critical understanding. Caste often escapes as the un-representable in narration as it is in conversion.
Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in cities, thus causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution, energy insecurity and sustainability problems in cities and the planet itself, this book presents new paradigms that are emerging to address these problems, along with other topics of note, including economic efficiency, health, the well-being of cities and their residents, urban mobility transformations, and the role of social media. In addition, the book looks at Integrated Corridor Management and how it improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose. Provides previously unpublished research on new approaches to integrating governance, the changing role of IT, and shared mobility initiatives Links transportation and land use, climate change, and poverty reduction and gender, going well beyond the technical issues of transport planning Highlights successful factors that have worked and how they can be tailored to different contexts Includes learning aids, such as case studies, text boxes and chapter openers and summaries
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