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India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.

Until now, no book addressed convexity, monotonicity, and variational inequalities together. Generalized Convexity, Nonsmooth Variational Inequalities, and Nonsmooth Optimization covers all three topics, including new variational inequality problems defined by a bifunction. The first part of the book focuses on generalized convexity and generalized monotonicity. The authors investigate convexity and generalized convexity for both the differentiable and nondifferentiable case. For the nondifferentiable case, they introduce the concepts in terms of a bifunction and the Clarke subdifferential. The second part offers insight into variational inequalities and optimization problems in smooth as well as nonsmooth settings. The book discusses existence and uniqueness criteria for a variational inequality, the gap function associated with it, and numerical methods to solve it. It also examines characterizations of a solution set of an optimization problem and explores variational inequalities defined by a bifunction and set-valued version given in terms of the Clarke subdifferential. Integrating results on convexity, monotonicity, and variational inequalities into one unified source, this book deepens your understanding of various classes of problems, such as systems of nonlinear equations, optimization problems, complementarity problems, and fixed-point problems. The book shows how variational inequality theory not only serves as a tool for formulating a variety of equilibrium problems, but also provides algorithms for computational purposes.

Malaria is by far the world's most important tropical parasitic disease.Caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, malaria disables and kills more people tham any other infectious disease.Every year it causes clinical illness often very severe in 300 to 500 million people, causing death amongst 1.5 to 2.7 million of whom succumb to the illness.At present, some 90 countries or territories are considered malarious, with almost half of them located in Africa.Of the four species of malarial parasite that can infect humans, P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae, only P. falciparum results in fatal infections. Consequently, it constitutes the focus of much of malaria research worldwide.Malaria is most serious in the poorest countries, among underprivileged populations living under the most difficult and impoverished conditions, thus contributing to the continued marginalization of people living in such areas.It undermines the health and welfare of families, endangers the survival and education of children, debilitates the active population, and strains the resources of both the countries and their inhabitants, limiting their ability to contribute to economic and social development. Human malaria has existed from antiquity till date. Enlarged spleens, presumably due to malaria, have been found in Egyptian mummies more than 3,000 years old, and the Ebers Papyrus (1570 B.C.)mentions the symptoms of malaria and a variety of remedies. Descriptions of malaria have been found in clay tablets (2000 B.C.), writings from the Vedic period (1500 to 800 B.C.), to those from Greek authors like Aristophanes, Aristotle, Plato and Sophocles, giving clear indication that by the fifth century B.C. Plasmodium malariae and P. vivax were present in Greece.In spite of such old accounts of this natural curse, the causative agents were not identified until fairly recently.The discovery of the three cycles of malaria took centuries and involved the contributions of hundreds of investigators.Importantly, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, in 1880, observed the parasite in the Plasmodium infected patient blood.Ronald Ross and Giovanni Grassi identified the vector of malaria transmission.

The Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal published by Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), a New Delhi-based think tank dedicated to pro-active, independent, non-partisan, and policy-based research. Editors: Simi Mehta and Soumyadip Chattopadhyay ISSN 2693-1427

Novel based on twelve year-old girl who feel lack of love and attention from her mother.