Ancient practices and the modern trade: A case study of eight prostitutes in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Understanding humans across the globe seem to be simple on the surface level, however, it is quite difficult to understand the complexity of human nature every one exhibit. This depends on the person himself and the person with/ to whom he is communicating, situation, gender, feelings, place of exposure, lifestyle & culture, social exposure, the family upbringing which altogether makes a person think and react at that particular moment, resulting in action. However, inclined sexual instincts among both the genders get them connected through one or the other ways with mutual benefits, which is popularly known as an illicit or extramarital affair. While there is also a large section of women who irrespective of their sexual inclination serve people with their physical needs for mutually agreed money; has been a trade for survival to many of them. While these kinds of relationships between the two genders are not those emerged in the recent centuries, they have references of previous ages survived on the earth. India, since then has witnessed the social culture of an illicit affair between the two genders in various forms such as devadasi, extramarital affair with one or many, which later turned to prostitution. Though the prostitution and devadasi system in modern India is constitutionally banned, the devadasi tradition persists to be in the remote rural areas while prostitution has mushroomed across the country irrespective of their geographies. With a lot more of scholarly articles available, this study attempts to present few cases of women who were interviewed with an effort to understand the lifestyle, earnings, social background, reason to be in prostitution, the treatment and respect they receive and the challenges they encounter every day.
Published by: Dr. Prashanth G Malur
Author: Dr. Prashanth G Malur
Paper ID: V4I5-1277
Paper Status: published
Published: October 1, 2018
Food insecurity in India in light of growing climate change concern
This paper examines current climate predictions and how climate shifts in various regions may impact global agricultural production and food security. The purposes of this paper are to (i) outline the notion of food systems, their relation to food security, and links to climate change; (ii) explore the vulnerability of food systems to environmental change; (iii) examine some prospects for adaptation of food systems in response to climate change. It was in September 2013 that the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was enacted. Though a landmark legislation, and despite its life-cycle approach, the NFSA falls short of realizing this objective due to lack of universalized coverage, concerns exist about the inordinate delay in implementing the law as the tasks of framing rules and identifying beneficiaries. Problems lie with the PDS scheme of the Act, suggestions for the same is given. .It concludes that agricultural practices will need to be modified or adapted to correlate with anticipated shifts in weather patterns if food security is to be maintained into the future. The first chapter talks about climate change, food security, and food systems. It further explains the interrelationship between climate change and food security. The second part deals with analyzing the effects of climate change on Indian agriculture. The third part talks about the National Food Security Act, 2013 followed by its shortcomings in the fourth section. The article closes by discussing various adaptation efforts that could help to maintain Indian food security.”
Published by: Nitish Pande
Author: Nitish Pande
Paper ID: V4I5-1299
Paper Status: published
Published: October 1, 2018
Analysis of surrogacy laws in India
Surrogacy is when a woman carries a baby for another couple and gives up the baby at birth. In the past decade, commercial surrogacy has grown tremendously in India. It is currently estimated to be a $2-billion industry. Before November 2015, when the government imposed a ban, foreigners accounted for 80 per cent of surrogacy births in the country. The total disregard for the rights of the surrogate mother and child and have resulted in a number of public interest litigations in the Supreme Court to control commercial surrogacy. To overcome this problem, The Surrogacy Regulation Bill 2016 was introduced. The bill does seem to do more harm than good. Although formulated to curb the exploitation of women and trafficking of children; again, it exhibits the general policy of a state banning or censoring an activity almost completely, instead of looking at ways to use laws to regulate and improve the situation. Hence the need of the hour is that the laws need to be re-looked so that they actually benefit surrogate mothers, prospective parents, and children born from surrogacy.
Published by: Pranav Rao
Author: Pranav Rao
Paper ID: V4I5-1295
Paper Status: published
Published: October 1, 2018
Determination of natural frequency of the building using the microtremer measurement and comparison its result with SAP analysis
Micro tremor measurement of Building of Thapathali in Kathmandu valley was analyzed to determine the natural frequency of the building. Natural Frequency of the building was determined from the Fourier spectra and its value is 2.48 Hz and 2.40 Hz in the longitudinal and transverse direction respectively. Regarding the damage in building due to Gorkha EQ-2015 three types of modal were prepared for sap Analysis. Among them, 1st modal of the building was prepared without any damage that resembles the normal building before EQ and its obtained frequency is 2.372 Hz. Similarly, 2nd modal of the building was prepared with considering the damaged part of the column due to EQ. We have reduced the stiffness of the cracked section by 70% of its original value and modal is prepared and its obtained frequency is 2.358 Hz. Finally, the third modal was prepared according to retrofitting condition and its obtained frequency is 2.521 Hz. Similarly, codal procedure was also performed to determine the frequency of the building and its value was found to be 2.207 Hz.
Published by: Thaman Bahadur Khadka
Author: Thaman Bahadur Khadka
Paper ID: V4I5-1246
Paper Status: published
Published: September 29, 2018
Assessment of fuel consumption for tobacco
India stands 3rd in production of tobacco (about 800 M.Kg) and its exports after Brazil and USA. Tobacco offers significant employment opportunities both in On-farm and Off-farm situation and provides livelihood to millions of people in India. The Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI) has estimated that tobacco provides livelihood security to 45.7 million people including farmers and farm laborers engaged in tobacco farming besides those working in processing, manufacturing, and exports, in India (CTRI, 2018). Among various types of tobacco, Flue Curing Virginia (FCV) type of tobacco is grown in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and requires fuel as a source of energy for curing. The present study looks at the aspects of overall energy management in flue-curing of tobacco through the use of fuel-efficient technologies in the barns, usage of alternative fuels and Energy plantation to bring self-sufficiency in fuelwood requirement. The study was conducted across the FCV crop growing regions with the survey of 1500 farmers and 31 Focused group discussion. The study details about the specific fuel consumption in tobacco, adoption status of energy conservation technology in the barns, alternative fuels used for tobacco curing, sources of different types of fuelwood, Industry effort’s to grow trees as a sustainable source for tobacco curing and energy plantation requirement to bring self-sufficiency for tobacco curing. The study validates and confirms the self-sufficiency and sustainability in fuel usage for Indian FCV tobacco curing.
Published by: Dr. Uma Ramachandran
Author: Dr. Uma Ramachandran
Paper ID: V4I5-1260
Paper Status: published
Published: September 29, 2018
Publicity rights under fantasy sports
The research paper is based on a doctrinal research on the publicity of players against its free-selling through fantasy sports online. My topic comes under the technological law and sports law. To give an introduction to my topic, the issue I’m dealing with is whether the growth of fantasy markets owe any liability to players publicity. Online fantasy started with a group of friends over basketball and now is a multi-million dollar industry. It starts with a person acting as a ‘manager’. Before the start of every season, the player picks players from the draft of currently active players and then receive points throughout the season for their performance in the real world. For example, a hockey player who scores a lot of goals, or a baseball player with a high batting percentage, would be highly sought-after both in the real-life professional league and in the various fantasy leagues. Online fantasy sports providers are battling against the professional sports leagues and their players’ associations over whether the fantasy providers should pay licensing fees to use the players’ names and the statistics they generate. This question turns on whether the players have an enforceable right of publicity interest in their names and playing records.
Published by: Abhishek Bansal
Author: Abhishek Bansal
Paper ID: V4I5-1278
Paper Status: published
Published: September 29, 2018
