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When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. It's a book about bad dates, good friends and above all else about recognising that you and you alone are enough. Glittering, with wit and insight, heart and humour, Dolly Alderton's debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age while making you laugh until you fall over. "Everything I know About Love" is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty

Introduction -- Storytellers -- Difficult loves -- State loves -- The Haats -- Extractive relations -- Carbon fantasies and aspirations -- Carbon citizenship -- Epilogue: past, present, future.

Dolly manages to show how the Indian state is deeply implicated in escalating the culture of sexual violence and impunity in Nagaland by extending the fields that feminists in conflict regions have explored to date. The arc of violence now must be seen to extend from a militarised nation and a militarised region downwards to the constituent units upon which its edifice is located: home, family and community. This is a book that deserves the widest reading; it will make us all think about impunity in multiple ways and perhaps help to widen the resistance that we must spearhead in seeking a more just acknowledgement of the harm women and men experience when they are sexually assaulted

This paper describes how cultivator caste Kolis, who are the largest electoral bloc in Gujarat, India's flagship state of Hindu chauvinism, navigate, circumvent, and are constituted by the intensification of Hindu chauvinism in the state's borderland districts dominated by subordinated social groups. Once the centerpiece of a secular political coalition in Gujarat, the personhood of Kolis at the intersection of the Aravali hills and Malwa plateau, a window onto rural central- and western India, has been constructed in complex ways since 2014. Mass-mediated media narratives potentiate Brahminical hegemony, the temple-industrial complex produces affective potentialities with caste Hinduism, and the politics of cow protection promotes new relationalities with bovines. However, this identity formation is fraught with slippages and reveals the always open possibilities of oppositional subjectivities. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)

Although "youth" can refer to any time in a person's life when they are young, itis most usually used to refer to the time between childhood and maturity. There are manydiverse interpretations of what ages are considered to be among the young. Newness,wrath, vitality, sport, and energy are all usually associated with the concept of youth. Weare still building our sense of self while we are young. A young person's concept of self isfrequently moulded by a variety of influences, including their peers, way of life, gender,political system, and culture. It is the period of a person's life when they make decisionsthat will affect not just their personal future but also the future of their country, eitherdirectly or indirectly. If a country's young people are self-aware and capable of takingresponsibility for their actions, they have the power to affect major change in their country.The youth of a country are its most significant asset and source of strength. Young peoplewho are given more power frequently prove to be the single most crucial component intheir countries' prosperity and development. Young people have the ability to makeimportant contributions in any field; as long as they are focused on doing their very best,nothing will be able to stop them from succeeding. Any nation's or cultures potentialvitality can be discovered in its youth. They are a nation's pride as well as its powerhouse,capable of storing a limitless amount of energy and generating an infinite amount ofenergy. The study's goal is to draw attention to the critical role that young people in Indiacan play in bringing about positive change across the country.