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The age of globalization ushered in by the fourth industrial revolution has completely transformed the way individuals in an economy operate and interact with one another. At the helm of this revolution lies technological innovation. The article tries to evaluate the progress made by member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Co-operation (BIMSTEC) with regard to technological enhancement. It also evaluates how Sri Lanka, which has been entrusted with the responsibility of leading the technological revolution in the region has progressed and what challenges lie ahead for the regional bloc. This article explores the importance of technology imports and the high digital skill levels in the workforce, and how these will be instrumental in the economic growth of nations. The last section discusses the gains that member states stand to make if they digitize their economies and parallelly establish necessary regulations.

The present effort is a compendious review of the theoretical orientations of political anthropology. Authors deliberately unfold the discussion with a paradox between the ?political anthropology? and the ?anthropology of politics? as a key that ought to relate the contemporary multidisciplinary stands of the subfield. It further focuses on the ?troubled history? of the sub-discipline to understand how it intensified sensitivity towards the pervasiveness of the embedded power and politics within the ?everyday? practice. The ubiquitous ?anthropology of politics? essentially prioritizes the increasing politicization of every single anthropological theme which was beyond the matrix of a single review article. So, the present attempt is rather an outline to render the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the century. By focusing on the successive approaches and recent trends authors try to extend the further scope of the interdisciplinary researches on the complexities and challenges of political anthropology within the age of neoliberal globalization.

The Indian prime minister's clarion call for a 'Swachh Bharat' or 'transparent India' officially seeks to cleanse the image of a 'squatting' nation through building 'toilets first, temples later' ('Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya')—a laudable slogan that sounds bizarre when heard from the member of a nationalist 'Hindutvavadi' political group that usually prioritises hardcore religious sentiments over civic issues. Keeping in mind the traditional Hindu discourse of ritual pollution, it is hard to believe that the Hindu mindset could bear the juxtaposition of the two sites within the space of one single sentence without considering the act as straightforward blasphemy! This article seeks to understand how—and under what sort of social circumstances—this kind of ideational somersault is being attempted today. This ingenious move is polysemic too, we argue, as the virtues of transparency and cleanliness could be rhetorically employed for a variety of purposes. We would examine whether a finer version of Hindutva is on its way to replace a cruder one by enfolding a series of tropes—from Shauchalaya to Mahatma Gandhi—that have never been within its order so far!