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Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2015
For the former colony, decolonization is a dialogue with the colonial past, and not a simple dismantling of colonial habits and modes of life. Nowhere are the complexities and ambiguities of this dialogue more evident than in the vicissitudes of cricket ...
Arjun Appadurai
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Spatiotemporal distribution and geodynamic mechanism of the nearly NS-trending rifts in the Tibetan Plateau

open access: yesDizhi lixue xuebao, 2021
A set of nearly NS-trending rifts developed in the Himalayan orogen and southern Tibet, which are the large-scale extensional structures formed under the continuous compression of the Indo-Eurasia continent, playing a significant role in revealing the ...
BIAN Shuang   +6 more
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Making Friends and Playing the Game

open access: yesJournal of Extreme Anthropology, 2022
Bribery relations are a way to cope with the uncertainties of everyday life for many people living in Tanzania. For members of the Tanzanian Indian communities, the uncertainties not only count the faltering bureaucratic systems and a state lacking ...
Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen
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Mozart Effect in Musical Fit? A Commentary on Yeoh & North

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2010
Musical fit, the congruence between music and product leading to improved response, is presented as an explanation of differences in recall of food items from two cultures. Musical fit predicts that, in this case, more Indian food items would be recalled
Emery Schubert
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Polish Indian Hobbyists and Cultural Appropriation

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2018
This article attempts to describe the Polish-American Friends Movement (PAIFM) in the context of cultural appropriation. It first describes the history of the movement by linking it to the phenomenon of playing Indian, which started in the United States ...
Wilczyńska Elżbieta
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From Leda e il Cigno to Masala Coke, or from the English Novel in India to the Indian Novel Written in English around the World

open access: yesBetween, 2011
Indian culture is playing an increasingly imposing role in shaping new scenarios of globalization. This article attempts to highlight the contribution offered to the international literary scene by the multifarious variegated corpus of fiction ...
Rossella Ciocca
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Sea level anomalies in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean as a potential predictor of La Niña beyond one-year lead

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Most climate forecast agencies failed to make successful predictions of the strong 2020/2021 La Niña event before May 2020. The western equatorial Pacific warm water volume (WWV) before the 2020 spring failed to predict this La Niña event because of the ...
Xia Zhao   +10 more
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Exploring adoption disclosure through Indian adoptive parents: A qualitative study

open access: yesAnnals of Indian Psychiatry, 2023
Background: With the increasing rates of adoption and its acceptance in India, the question of whether to tell or not about the adoption to the adoptee always remains.
R Kashika, N Maheshbabu
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Risk of eating disorders and the relationship with interest in modern culture among young female students in a university in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2023
Background Eating disorders (EDs) emerge most often in adolescent girls. While the basic neural and psychiatric mechanisms of ED development remain unknown, their incidence has increased with sociocultural modernization.
Md Monjurul Ahasan   +2 more
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DECONSTRUCTING FALSE IDENTITY: EXPLORING GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND ROLE-PLAYING IN THE GIRL WHO TOUCHED THE STARS

open access: yesCelt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2016
Mahesh Dattani, is an avant-garde Indian English dramatist known for his radical and unconventional dramatic themes. His plays are characterized by an extremely sensitive temperament that delves into the intricacies of the human nature and strives to ...
Neeraj Sankhyan, Suman Sigroha
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