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Editors: Neeta Inamdar, Praveen Shetty, Priya Vijaykumar Poojary

The unprecedented uncertainties marked by the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the war in Gaza have redirected our attention to the importance of partnerships and engagements in international relations.

India-EU dialogues through the annual summits have familiarized each other with a greater understanding of one another’s perspectives and interests. Their strategic engagement has broadened in the last few years to include climate change, energy, connectivity, migration, education, science and technology, and research and innovation. The growing convergence in Brussels and New Delhi’s strategic interests opens up new windows of opportunities for greater cooperation on diversified issues. Capturing the new momentum in India-EU relations, this book uncovers various issues and topics spanning across politics, education, and culture. Each chapter in this book analyzes the scope of the cooperation, the existing challenges that India and the EU encounter, and provides policy recommendations for the future.

The subject matter of this book also includes:

• Data Protection and Regulation
• Cultural Diplomacy and the Dynamics of Cultural Institutes in India and Europe
• India-EU Relations and the National Education Policy 2020
• Europe, Christendom and its Encounter in India
• Portuguese Citizenship to Goans and the Postcolonial Predicament in the Goan Response

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Author: K Sripad Bhat

Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences. This book covers the various models of cultural studies prevalent across the globe today and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, gender, ideology, and hegemony. The subject matter of this book also includes:

• Roland Barthes: Myth as Culture
• Blue cultural studies
• Agency and structure
• The Reality behind ‘Reality’ TV Shows
• James Bond: The Popular Hero

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Author: M S Valiathan

This book is a companion to Āyurvedic studies. It discusses the history and evolution of Ayurveda, its philosophy, and its practical uses in everyday life—from medicine to mental wellbeing.

It harks back to the traditional Indian concept of four aspects of lifelong learning. These were instruction by the teacher, individual effort, learning from companions and lastly, wisdom gathered over a lifetime.

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Editors: Neeta Inamdar, Pranjali Kirloskar

Universities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge. They are set to defy borders that exist in parochial forms. Globalization which opened up borders has by design or default created inequalities and imbalances in knowledge systems. Undoubtedly, knowledge is power but there is difference in the power that is intrinsic to it and the power that is ascribed which is determined by dominant political and economic hierarchies.

If knowledge predominantly flows from global north to global south, people seeking knowledge move from global south to global north. These imbalances are also seen within these regions, between cultures and communities, one claiming superiority over the other. These realities call for a reassessment of not only what constitutes knowledge, but also what encompasses the idea of borders.

This book elaborates on the inclusive role of education that can act as an equalizer or as a catalyst for creating a level playing field across borders.

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Author: H S Shiva Prakash Editor: Kamalakar Bhat

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator. Edited by Kamalakar Bhat, this book brings together Prof Shivaprakash’s interventions in the realm of issues that are entwined with the continuities and discontinuities in the cultural negotiations of India. Distinctively, these are essays on subjects ranging from the nature and significance of medieval works of literature in India to issues arising out of developments in Indian aesthetics. The unfeigned magnitude of this work must be found among students and scholars, who will gain from it a perspective significantly different from the ones available in the prevailing academic discourses, thus indicating a way beyond poststructuralist/postmodernist frameworks.

This is a book that will interest a wide variety of readers with its engaging insights and breadth of reference especially because it is written in a comprehensible style.

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