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Abstract Book

Summary of Lectures

Delivered at 70th

Orientation Programme

August 27 - September 26, 2018

UGC-Human Resource Development Centre

Jadavpur University

Programme Coordinator

Nandan Bhattacharya

Assistant Director

UGC-HRDC, JU

Published By

UGC-Human Resource Development Centre,

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Published in September, 2018

Conceptualized by

Rajat Acharyya

Director (Additional Charge), UGC-HRDC,

& Professor of Economics

Jadavpur University

Editorial Team

Nandan Bhattacharya

Chaitali Mukherjee

Prabir Kr. Chatterjee

Printed By

Amar Ekushe

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Director’s Note

The UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Jadavpur University, is organizing the 70th

Orientation Programme, the last among the four such programmes sanctioned by the UGC in the

session 2017-18.

Like the 65th and 68

th Orientation Programme, we have organized a study tour at Satyajit Ray Film

and Television Institute (SRFTI) Kolkata, for the participants of 70th Orientation Programme. In this

study tour the participants would get first-hand experience in direction, sound, cinematography,

editing and animation through a guided tour of different units of SRFTI, which they would thereafter

document in terms of reports. My sincere thanks go to Debamitra Mitra, Director of SRFTI Kolkata

and Ashok Viswanathan, Dean, SRFTI Kolkata, for arranging such an important study tour for the

participants of the 70th Orientation Programme.

While selecting topics of the lecture sessions, three criteria have been kept in mind: topics of current

affairs of national as well as international importance (such as environmental preservation,

biodiversity); topics of general interest for moral, psychological and professional development (such

as lectures on IQAC, Gender issue, stress management, research methodology, CAS/service matters,

general financial rules); and topics of cross-discipline and multi-discipline in nature (such as lectures

on, philosophy and history of science, Disaster Management, Law, Media Studies). On top of all

these, there has been one session on performing arts with live demonstration.

This Abstract Book collates summary of most of these lectures delivered by experts and eminent

researchers in the relevant fields both from within and outside West Bengal. The summary lectures

are arranged thematically according to the above-mentioned perspectives. I hope that the participants

of the 70th Orientation Programme would find this Abstract Book useful for ready references of what

they have learnt through this programme.

On January 20, 2018, we have achieved a milestone by launching our own website (www.hrdcju.in)

and from the session of 2018-19 the application procedure has become on line both of which have

been the first of their kind among all the HRDCs in West Bengal. I sincerely thank the University

administration for all the help that has been provided to us in this regard. The e-copies of this Abstract

Book as well as the earlier ones can be downloaded from link to Archive in this website. Apart from

providing all necessary information regarding different programmes organized by us along with time

lines and application forms, the website contains a feedback link which can be used by the

participants and other stakeholders for providing us their valued suggestions. Such suggestions would

help us improve our performance and disburse our moral responsibilities more efficiently and

effectively according to the needs of the stakeholders.

At the end, I wish all the participants a memorable and enjoyable four weeks of interactive learning.

August, 2018 Rajat Acharyya

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Contents

From the Publication Desk i

Schedule of 70th

Orientation Programme 1

Programme of Study Tour at SRFTI 5

Topics of Group Project and Discussion 6

Summary of Lectures

Inaugural Lecture Samir Kr. Saha History of Science 13

CAS/Service Matters Indrani Choudhuri Dutt Data Sourcing, Management & Analysis:

Institutional Role & Involvement

Partcipation In Iqac

17

Gour Krishna Pattanayak Basic Financial Rules and Service Related

Rules Applicable for the College and

University Teachers

18

Value, Ethics and

Rights

Sumita Sen Human rights and women’s rights at

crossroads?

23

Debi Chatterjee 1. Human Rights Norms, Laws And

Upcoming Issues

2. Human Rights In Contemporary India:

Theory And Practice

25

26

Education Sanjoy Gopal Sarkar Concept of Marketing of Higher

Education: Indian Scenario

31

Methodology Chandan Mazumdar BigData Analysis 35

Pulok Mukherjee Publishing Research in Impact Journals -

Big research and better writing

36

Mihir Chakraborty An introduction to Propositional Logic 37

Asit Datta How not to teach 38

Current Affairs Rup Kumar Barman 1. Migration in theoretical perspective

2. Forced Migration, Environmental

Refugees and State Policies: Indian

Scenario in Global Context

43

44

Environment Pranabesh Sanyal 1. Biodiversity of Sundarban

2. Project Tiger

47

51

Stress Management,

Counselling and

Psycho-analysis

Santanu Biswas An Introduction to the Freudian

Unconscious

57

Sahana Nag Stress: Neuro-physiology and Management 58

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Media Studies Mainak Biswas Time and Reflection in Cinema 63

Pankaj Shil Sound Design 63

History and

Philosophy of Science

Pradip K. Ghosh Some Aspects of Philosophy of Science 67

Bichitra Kumar Guha Evolution of Scientific Ideas from Aristotle

to Newton

69

Manjusha Majumder History of Development of Modern

Differential Geometry

69

Science and

Engineering

Amitava Gupta

Atoms for war and peace- what happens if

the genie comes out?

73

Salil Kumar Sanyal Some Aspects of Communication And

Wireless Networks

74

Suddhasatwa Chakraborty Let's Light: A Journey Towards

Enlightenment

75

Bio Science and

Biotechnology

Somnath Ganguli Ergonomics 79

Sarmistha Raychoudhuri Genetic Engineering of Plants: Science

and Safety

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1

Schedule for 70th

Orientation Program (Aug 27th- Sept 26

th, 2018)

Date 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Aug 27

Monday

Inauguration Session: 11:00 am: Welcome Address by Prof. Rajat Acharyya, Director, HRDC, Jadavpur University

11:30 am: Tea Break

11:45 am - 1:15 pm: Inaugural Address by Prof. Samir

Kr. Saha, Former Professor, Dept. of

Mechanical Enginnering, JU

1:15 pm: Vote of Thanks by Prabir K. Chatterjee, UGC-HRDC

Amitava Gupta Department of Power Engineering JU

Atoms for Peace and War

Aug 28

Tuesday

Chandan Mazumdar Department of Computer Science & Engg. JU

BigData Analysis

Salil Kumar Sanyal Former Professor, Department of ETCE

Wireless Network

Aug 29

Wednesday

Pranabesh Sanyal School of Oceanographic Studies, JU

Biodiversity

Santanu Biswas Department of English, JU

An Introduction to the Freudian

Unconscious

Aug 30

Thursday

Sumita Sen Department of IR, JU

Gender in Human Rights

Debi Chatterjee Department of IR, JU

Human Rights in India : Law and Reality

Aug 31

Friday

Bichitra Kumar Guha Dean, Faculty Affairs, IIEST

Evolution of Scientific Ideas from Aristotle to

Newton

Indrani Choudhuri

Dutt Coordinator IQAC

Lady Brabourne College

IQAC

Lab & Library Work

Sept 01

Saturday

Suddhasatwa

Chakraborty Dept of Electrical

Engineering, JU

Let there be Light

Lab & Library Work

Partha Karmakar Deputy Secretary,

Academic. WBBSE

Shortcut

Mathematics in

Daily Life

Lab & Library Work

Lunch Break: 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

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Schedule for 70th


th, 2018)


Sept 03

Monday HOLIDAY HOLIDAY

Sept 04

Tuesday

Sahana Nag CCSSS, JU

Counselling

Mihir Chakraborty Department of Mathematics, CU

An introduction to Propositional Logic

Sept 05

Wednesday

Rup Kumar Barman Department of History, JU

1. Migration in theoretical perspective

2. Forced Migration, Environmental Refugees and

State Policies: Indian Scenario in Global Context

Lab & Library Work

Submission of Report of Survey based Group

Project & Discussion & Evaluation

Sept 06

Thursday

Survey based Group Project & Discussion &

Evaluation

Survey based Group Project & Discussion &

Evaluation

Sept 07

Friday Study Tour at SRFTI Study Tour at SRFTI

Sept 08

Saturday

Gour Krishna Pattanayak FO, JU

Basic Financial Rules and

Service Related Rules

Applicable for the College and

University Teachers

Lab & Library

Work

Evaluation of

Group Project

& Discussion

Ramaprasad Bhattacharya Joint DPI, GoWB

CAS/Service Matters


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Schedule for 70th


th, 2018)


Sept 10

Monday

Asit Datta Department of Physics, CU

How not to teach Lab & Library Work

Sept 11

Tuesday

Manjusha Majumder Department of Mathematics, CU

History of Development of Modern Differential

Geometry

Manika Pal Bhadra IICT, Hyderabad

TBA

Sept 12

Wednesday

Mainak Biswas Department of Film Studies,

JU

TBA

Pankaj Shil Department of Sound,

SRFTI

Sound Design

Sept 13

Thursday

Pulok Mukherjee Director, School of Natural Product Studies, JU

Publication in Impact FactorJournals

Santanu Tripathi Professor & HoD, Department of Clinical Pharmacology,

Tropical Medicine,

Medical Literacy

Sept 14

Friday

Somnath Ganguli Department of Physiology, CU

Ergonomics

Sarmistha Raychoudhuri Department of Biophysics Molecular Biology &

Bioinformatics, CU

Genetic Engineering of Plants: Science and

Safety

Sept 15

Saturday

Sanjoy Gopal Sarkar Joint Registrar, JU

TBA

Lab & Library Work

Evaluation of report of study tour


4

Schedule for 70th


th, 2018)


Sept 17

Monday HOLIDAY HOLIDAY

Sept 18

Tuesday

Pradip Kr. Ghosh Pro-Vice-Chancellor, JU

Some Aspects of

Philosophy of Science

Lab & Library Work Poushali Mukherjee

Artist

Odisi Dance

Sept 19

Wednesday

Lab & Library Work

Submission of Report of Seminar Presentation

Candidate’s evaluation

(Micro-teaching)

Sept 20

Thursday

Candidate’s evaluation

(Micro-teaching) Lab & Library Work MCQ

Sept 21

Friday HOLIDAY HOLIDAY

Sept 22

Saturday

Seminar Presentation and

Evaluation


Evaluation

Seminar Presentation

and Evaluation


and Evaluation

Sept 24

Monday


Evaluation


Evaluation


and Evaluation


and Evaluation

Sept 25

Tuesday


Evaluation


Evaluation Performing Arts Session

Ritacheta Bhatterjee

Sept 26

Wednesday

Valedictory Session 11 am – 12:30 pm: Valedictory Lecture by

Ashok Mukhopadhyay

Former Professor, RBU

TBA

Feedback and

Interactive Session

Certificate

Distribution


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Pogramme of the Study Tour at Study Tour at SRFTI

Day of the Study Tour: July, 20, Friday, 2018

Venue: SRFTI, Kolkata

10:15 AM Assembly at Preview Theatre, SRFTI

10.25 AM Welcome address by Director

10.30 AM-12:00 Noon Lecture on Literature and Cinema by the Prof. Ashoke

Viswanathan .

12:00 Noon – 1: 30 PM Lecture on Television by Prof. Avijit Dasgupta

1: 30 PM – 2:15 PM L U N C H

2:15 PM – 03.45 PM Lecture on Literature and Cinema by the Prof. Ashoke

Viswanathan

3.45 PM - 5:15 PM Lecture on Television by Prof. Sudipta Voumik

5:15 PM Visit at Departments of SRFTI: Editing, Producing

Animation, Television etc.

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UGC – Human Resource Development Centre Jadavpur University

70th

Orientation Program

(August 27th

- September 26th

, 2018)

Survey based Group Project & Discussion & Evaluation

1. Time slot of Group Discussion: 06.09.2018 at 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM & 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

2. Presentation shall be made for 20 Minutes followed by interaction for 10 Minutes.

3. Presentation shall be made according to the following order.

4. Write up (12 TNR; Single spacing) on the topic must be submitted on 05.09.2018 (5:15 PM)

Group Name Subject No. Topic

A Madhuvanti Chatterjee Botany 6 Gene Mapping: Where are we

heading to

Pranab Kumar Halder Zoology

Sanku Bilas Roy Zoology

Krishnendu Sinha Zoology

Debabrata Bera FTBE

B Mehabub Rahaman Chemical Engg. 5 Nano technology: Future of human

civilisation

Shreedhara Gupta Chemistry

Ratna Mukherjee Chemistry

Khokan Samanta Chemistry

Sambhu Nath Halder Science

C Rupali Mitra Computer Sc. 4 Machine Learning: Where are we

heading to

Sabir Ali Mondal ECE

Sudarsan Barui Electronics

Ranjit Das Electronics

D Priyadarshini Sen Geography 5 Non conventional energy is the

future of mankind Biraj Kanti Mondal Geography

Mousumi Naskar Geography

Agomoni Tikadar Geography

Moumita Nandi Geography

E Phonindra Nath Das Mathematics 5 Mathematical Logic and Natural

Phenomenon

Dawa Jangbo Sherpa Mathematics

Masiur Rahaman

Sardar Mathematics

Arijit Ghosh Mathematics

Sajjad Hossain Mathematics & Statistics

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F Koushik Sarkar Physics 5 Order vs. disorder: Angel vs.

Demon

Saumyadip Samui Physics

Abdul Lahil Safi Physics

Abu Jahid Akhtar Physics

Subrata Sarkar Physics

G Purnendu Chakraborty Physics 5 The science of today is the

technology of tomorrow

Prasad Basu Physics

Himadri Mullick Physics

Siddhartha Patra Mechanical Engg

Anindya Sundar Das Mechanical Engg.

Biswajit Mondal Biotechnology

H Madhuchanda Banerjee Zoology 5 Social Darwinism: Possible or

paradox

Suman Pratihar Zoology

Adrita Chakrabarti Zoology

Biswatosh Ghosh Zoology

Himani Biswas Zoology

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ABSTRACT

OF LECTURES

DELIVERED

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Inaugural

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Nation & Higher Education

Samir Kr. Saha

Former Professor, Department of Machanical Engg., Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 27th

August, 2018; 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

• India’s Higher Education Scenario

- Large Number of Universities but not many in top ranking either in THE,QS

or Shanghai ranking. The topmost in India is still IISC.

• NCF ( National Curriculum Frame Work )

- Incorporating Environment Concept with Science Education.

• Science in India.

• History of Science - The mysteries of heavenly bodies: Asistotle to

Copernicus Tycho Brabe, Kepler & Galileo.

• Gravity - Newton, Einstien.

• The story of Atom – Rutherford to Quantum Mechanics.

• The Computers: Mechanical Computation, Theories- Shanon, Touring to

Transistors to Computers.

• Internet & World Wide Web.

• The Future:

(1) Nanotechnology.

(2) Artificial Intelligence.

(3) Robots.

• Interdisciplinary

- Sustainable & Ethical Approach.

• Science & Society.

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CAS/

Service matters/

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Data Sourcing, Management & Analysis: Institutional Role &

Involvement Partcipation In IQAC Indrani Choudhuri Dutt

Coordinator, IQAC, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata

Date & Time: 31st August, 2018; 2:15 AM – 3:45 PM

• The lecture aims to emphasize that IQAC of an institution is essentially an interactive and

participative body.

• The Core Committee should present itself as a body of team makers and team leaders. The rest

of the Faculty should see themselves as key players in a team.

• A functioning IQAC must be open, interactive, communicative.

• It must instil among each Faculty member a sense being part of an integrated structure with

graded levels of activity – increasing magnitude of intensity to facilitate resolutions which are

holistic and beneficial for the institution.

• It must sensitize all Faculty members about

a) Primary data

b) Secondary data

c) Relative nature of the two kinds of data

d) Modalities of Analysis

e) Necessity for Analysis

f) Preparing Reports on the basis of analysis

g) Role of Analysis towards achievement of institutional goals.

• Beehive Role of IQAC Office: Storage hub of data, dynamism in collection and analytical

process, sustaining correspondence between primary and secondary data.

• In the final part the lecture attempt is made to relate the knowledge disseminated about data

collection & analysis by the IQAC to the latest templates of the SSR Manual introduced by

NAAC in July 2017.

• The talk tries to impress upon the participants that given the comprehensive, quantifying and

digital approach of the templates participation and involvement of the entire Faculty as

extended IQAC is essential.

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Basic Financial Rules and Service Related Rules Applicable for the

College and University Teachers

Gour Krishna Pattanayak

Finance Officer, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 08th

September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

General Financial rules normally includes sanction process, budgeting, spending

norms, purchase rules, service benefits, pay and promotion issues and taxation

matters, to name a few. The present lecture primarily focuses on these aspects.

Budgeting is essentially estimates for the future period based on past experiences, and

flow of funds and expectations thereof. The principle of budgeting is essentially

setting some benchmarks for future plan of growth and development. For academic

institutes, the main source of funds is funding by the State and Central Governments

and other agencies. In addition, there are incomes/revenues generated through fees,

testing and consultancy, sale of publications, alternative use of properties and assets,

and disposal of junk and other materials.

Purchase and expenditure thereof are primarily intended for academic and research

activities and primarily within budgetary allocations and/or sanctions. The purchase

of materials, equipment and furniture are now governed by GO No.: 5400-F(Y) dated

25.6.2012 of Government of West Bengal.

Accounting, reporting and auditing are the other crucial elements of general financial

rules. In this context, introduction of GST has added another dimension to accounting

of purchases. The present lecture shall briefly touch upon the scope, applicability,

rationality and impact of GST.

The lecture also elaborate upon Service Rules, particularly pay fixation and

promotion, promotion under CAS, retirement benefits and the new Pension Scheme

introduced by the GoI with effect from 01.01.2004. Salient features of this pension

scheme are as follows:

• This is a contributory Pension scheme, introduced w.e.f. 2004; 10% of Basic

Pay as subscription and matching equal contribution by the employer will be

provided monthly.

• A Pension fund will be maintained by a Fund Manager, where monthly the

subscription and contribution need to be send by a employer.

• The employer shall have no liability for Pension of the employees under the

scheme.

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• The Fund manager shall release Pension monthly, based on the income on the

accumulated funds with them.

• Such Pension would not have any DA or Pay-revision benefits.

• The employer has no financial liability for pension after the retirement.

• The fund manager receiving the funds will pay monthly pensions.

• There is a permanent Retirement Account number [PRAN], which is

transferable.

• The scheme is controlled by PFRDA.

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Value, Ethics and

Human Rights

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Human rights and women’s rights at crossroads?

Sumita Sen

Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 30th

August, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Human rights has become the most dominant feature in the contemporary world

.From the conceptual phase to the present day understanding,codification and

standardisation , human rights have universalised the basic rights of human beings.

International human rights ,in fact,underwent dramatic evolutionary process.

Human rights as we know today, finds its significant reference in the UN Charter in

the post World War II conditions.Despite the vagueness in the regulations, human

rights advocated global,regional,national political regimes that are not based on

race, sex, religion,political beliefs,etc.

The 1948 UN Declaration alongside the two Human Rights Covenants act as

standards of conduct of any state vis-a-vis its individuals.The human rights law ,in

fact ,have charter based system as well as that of treaty based system both of which

help establish guaranteeing conditions for enjoying human rights by individuals.This

exercise has helped examine human rights based policies and practices of states

which, in turn, makes states by them to publicly explain their anti human rights

policies if adopted . The growing significance of human rights regime prompted

large number of states to incorporate human rights provisions in their respective

foundational documents.This leaves its strong imprint on the justice delivery systems

of respective states.Developments in the area of human rights helped expand and

also strengthen political, civil, social, economic, cultural rights of individualsand

other groups while, at the same time , making human rights universal, inalienable,

inseparable, and interdependent set of rights for a life of dignity and honour.

An important feature of human rights is its catagorisation of human beings as

citizens, women, children, refugees,stateless,etc. towards whom state responsibility

follow.Violations of human rights bring serious political, diplomatic, economic

consequences .In fact, human rights violators commonly brings severe sanctions

against the violators. The recognition of human rights is a clear move forward in the

interest of humanity,but their violations worldwide are no less significant. Different

socio- cultural interpretations help support human rights violations by

countries.One should also notice that many individual human rights violations

remain unaddressed by the UN except the large scale violations.Secondly, several

UN agencies are susceptible to global politics resulting in non critical attitude on

many blatant human rights violations.

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The significant support to international human rights regime is not fully found in the

arena of women’s rights. The Cambridge Dictionary outlines that women should be

allowed the same rights,power,and opportunities as men and that they should

betreated in the samw way while indicating that a set of activities are required to

achieve the same.Till date free and equal life with honour and dignity is mostly

overlooked for women within the existing structure of power politics.The Personal

Integrity Rights data indicated the human rights issues violated against women.

Beginning from the personal rights to political, civil, economic,social and cultural

rights domain, women remain mostly within the deprivation limits .Political

participation, literacy rate, labour force, health care access,etc. point women’s

human rights deprivations.The most significant instrument for supporting women’s

rights as human rights remains the CEDAW.It defined the meaning of discrimination

against women due to unjust social relations,justified and legitimised by states

worldwide.reference can be made of Amartya sen’s observation that’ inequalities

result and become institutionalised when those suffering discrimination and

violence accept the legitimacy of the unequal social order.’ It is in fact a major

issue in implementing women’s rights for a life with dignity and honour providing

human security in several societies .The existing women’s organisations helped the

recognition of women’s rights but are yet to be fully successful in making human

rights real for all women.It is also to be noted that in democracies , in the name of

political participation of women, they are mostly limited in lower levels of

governance than in the legislature so as to impact better.Secondly,women in non

democratic regimes, also exercise very limited power of decision making.Also,

women’s rights get immediately restricted during wars and conflicts making them

vulnerable to higher degrees of exploitation, harassment,subjugation and atrocities.

Therefore women remain vulnerable to several forms of human rights violations even

today.

At the crossroad?

This millennium again brought global initiatives for human development and human

security, which cannot be achieved in the absence of human rights guaranteesThis is

well reflected in the Millennium Development Goals in which human rights

conditions make serious contributions to the achievement of the goals. Secondly,both

have have an emphasis upon states’ role for ensuring human rights,for human

development and human security.But often,human rights obligations of states are

ignored in the implementation of the MDGs. This is also found in cases of human

rights obligations while making effective adjustments between human rights and

development.

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Human Rights in Contemporary India: Theory And Practice

Debi Chatterjee


Date & Time: 30th

August, 2018; 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

The nation – a concept persistently under critical scanner since the late twentieth

century – has now been more or less recognized among critical scholars in the social

sciences and literary studies as an ‘imagined community’, rather than as something

that is objectively given. In imagining a nation, its authors do derive cultural symbols

from the actual lived experience of their community, but the way in which the motifs

are essentialised and/or selectively packaged into a hegemonic representation of the

nation is a product of the of the mind that tends to imagine the nation from its own

socio-cultural location of dominance, marked by race, class and so on. Gender, in its

own turn, is the patriarchal politics of disciplining society through a differentiation

and hierarchisation of the sexes based on the cultural constructions of masculinity and

femininity (in colonial contexts, on the notion effeminacy, too) as ‘appropriate’ social

roles. The proposed presentation critically opens up the concept of the nation to

demonstrate the ways in which gender is integral to its imagining; in other words, to

demonstrate how the notion of the nation is implicitly gendered. There is a crucial

sense in which the conceptualization of the nation is ideologically posited on

women’s bodies as the site of national ‘honour’, as this lecture would highlight,

among other things.

The presentation is divided into two parts. The first is concerned with the conceptual

aspect of the interrelationship of the notion of the nation and the politics of gender.

The second uses a historical perspective to examine the culturally specific ways in

which the discourse of nationalism in colonial India was deeply implicated in

gendered ways of thinking.

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Human Rights Norms, Laws and Upcoming Issues

Debi Chatterjee


Date & Time: 30th

August, 2018; 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

The concern for human rights is both a product of history as well as of civilization . It

has been a subject of constant change and evolution. Today’s global human rights

discourse stretches far back into history. Ideas pertaining to rights operated at

different levels for many centuries. Sometimes they were primarily moral codes, at

other times legally structured norms. They reflected and defined variously the

relations between the ruler and the ruled.

It was actually with the events leading up to the Second World War and the War itself

that concern for human rights came to the fore. With the setting up of the UN in 1945,

promotion and protection of human rights per se came in for systematic international

attention. It was recognized that all human beings have a right to a life of dignity and

basic human rights.

Human rights are seen as basic rights that every individual should be entitled to. They

are in fact global standards that states are expected to follow. They are birth rights

that cannot be denied or infringed upon on any grounds such as race, nationality,

ethnicity, gender , caste or class. These entitlements are not only inalienable but

interlinked. In other words, the enjoyment of one is a pre-requisite for the enjoyment

of the other.

The human rights discourse has today come to occupy center stage in national and

international politics. The oft expressed concerns range over a wide area including

spheres of politics, economics, ethnicity, religion, education, science and technology,

civil society as well as a variety of ethical and other questions. Central to it is the idea

of human dignity which inevitably calls for an acknowledgement of the indivisibility

and interdependence of different economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

As such, it goes beyond the understanding of individual rights, per se. Rooted in the

rights discourse, human rights concerns extend far beyond it. The lecture will attempt

an examination of these basic conceptual areas.

In the course of the lecture, the process of the evolution of the notion of human rights

will be highlighted, taking into account its multiple facets and implications.

Following an overview of the historical roots of the Human Rights discourse, we

shall proceed to look into the institutionalization efforts and adoption of major human

rights documents and move on to the effects of globalization on the human rights

scenario, noting the significance of the difference between human rights law and

human rights morality. It may be observed that the calls from European and other

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‘Western’ states and human rights activists for adherence to the contemporary liberal

European construct of society tends to create conditions of a backlash in the rest of

the world.

We shall also examine how recent advances in science and technology impact on

human rights both positively and negatively, playing the role of facilitator and

destructor. Scientists and engineers have been developing and applying tools and

methods that have strengthened human rights work, unearthing new truths, validating

findings and providing the credibility of robust empirical data to support claims. At

the same time, amidst growing scientific and technological capabilities, we find

desperate and destabilizing denials of human rights. Issues of GM food, human

cloning, surrogacy, euthanasia, clinical trials of drugs on human beings, use of

capacity inducing drugs and advanced technological devices aimed at encroaching on

privacy of the individual are just some of the many disturbing areas that are coming

up today raising major human rights concerns.

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Education

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Concept of Marketing of Higher Education: Indian Scenario

Sanjoy Gopal Sarkar

Joint Registrar, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 15th

September, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon

Marketing of Higher Education Institutions are primarily concerned with two different

levels of environments: external macro environment and internal controllable

environment. External environment which includes political, economical, social,

technological, and legal factors cannot be controlled by the marketers. But internal

controllable environmental factors comprising Product (Range/ Quality level/ Brand

Name/ Post transaction services), Price (Level/Discounts or Scholarships/

Allowances/ Commissions/ Payment terms/ Consumers Perceived Value/ Quality-

Price Relationship), Promotion (Advertising/ Personal selling/ Sales Promotion/

Publicity/ Public Relations), Place (Location/ Accessibility/ Distribution Channels/

Distribution Coverage ), People ( Personnel /Commitment /Training /Incentives

/Attitudes /Degree of Involvement /Customer contact), Process (Policies

/Procedures/Mechanism/ Employee discretion/Customer Involvement/ Flow of

Activities and Physical Evidence (Environment/ Furnishings/Layout/ Noise Levels/

Facilitating goods) are within the control of the marketers. A marketer mixes these

factors (7 P’s) to reach its set goals. Technically, the set of mix factors is known as

‘Marketing Mix’. The strategies behind mixing of these factors are mostly depended

on the analysis of the external environmental factors which is commonly known as

PESTEL analysis. After the introduction of General Agreement on Trade in Services

(GATS), the first legal trade agreement in 2003 by World Trade Organization (WTO),

the stakeholders interests in higher education has reached a great extent because of the

corporate entry into the field of higher education, which was historically in the arena

of public sector. The corporate marketers have been started to enter into education

with all possible corporate weapons for marketing of higher education with an

objective to fill up the gaps viz.:-i) Supply-demand gap in enrolment, ii) Low

quality of teaching and learning comprised of a chronic shortage of faculty, poor

quality teaching, outdated and rigid curricula and pedagogy, lack of accountability

and quality assurance and separation of research and teaching, iii) Constraints on

research capacity and innovation with a very low level of PhD enrolment and

enough high quality researchers and iv) Uneven growth and access to opportunity

for multidimensional inequalities in enrolment across population groups and

geographies.

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Methodology

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Big Data Analytics and Its Applications: An Introduction Chandan Mazumdar

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 28th

August, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

“Big-Data-Analytics” has become a buzz-word now. People from almost all walks of

life use the term most of the time even without understanding the mechanisms and the

effects it may have. During the last two decades, because of the progress in processor

technology, storage technology, network technology and sensor technology coupled

with the convergence of such technologies, huge volume of data are being generated

in various fields. These data have mind boggling variety, and the velocity with which

they are generated and transmitted are also very high. Of course, in some cases the

correctness and completeness are in question. Nevertheless, judicious analyses of this

huge volume of data and usage of the analysis results have the potential to change the

way we think and the way we behave. This may lead to an irreversible change in the

society and culture.

In the first part of this talk, the myth about Big Data will be discussed with real life

examples. The standard Technology of Big Data, namely, Map-Reduce will be

introduced. The significant problems of handling Big Data will be discussed. A

number of analytics problems will be highlighted.

The second part will be devoted to the applications of Big Data Technologies and

concepts to different fields like e-commerce, economics, physics, etc. This part will

be more participatory in nature.

The talk will end with the introduction of the analytics on Big Data

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‘Publishing Research in Impact Journals - Big research and better

writing’ Pulok K. Mukherjee

Director, School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 13th

September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Journals are the custodians of scientific endeavour and advancement. They aim to

publish sound research with enduring conclusions that will stand careful scrutiny and

validation Publishing research papers is an essential aspect of research work. They are

your passport in the scientific world. New advances in human knowledge are

communicated throughout the world through publications. Scientific success is not

only measured by how skilled or efficient you are in the lab but also by the number

and quality of articles published in scientific journals. Good publications are helpful

for a career standpoint which can be useful for chance of winning the fellowship,

research grant, faculty job, or other scientific prizes. It is effective to disseminate

knowledge, which is accurate, valid, reproducible and useful. It is essential to follow

the basic principles of scientific research and publishing criteria in important journals.

Several important aspects for publishing the articles in the high impact journals need

to be highlighted. Title of the manuscript should be very specific to the present work.

The abstract should be structured properly as per the guidelines of the particular

journals in which authors want to publish their work as research or review article. The

abstract should be highlighted on different aspects including the aim of the study,

materials and methods, results and conclusions. The text should not exceed fixed

word limit of the journal.

The presentation of the article is an important aspect for publishing in the high impact

journals. The essence of a good publication is always good science however good

science alone does not guarantee publication in a high impact journal. You can

undermine good science and your chance at being published by a poor presentation.

Presenting data in a clear and accurate manner and putting them into context require

skills you can only learn from experience or from people with experience. Citation

analysis is the one of the most objective way to measure the impact, importance or

peer recognition of articles through several citation data sources such as Science

citation index (SCI), Social sciences citation index (SSCI), Journal citation reports

(JCR), Google Scholar and Scopus. h-index reflects both overall publications and the

level of citation of the publications. i10-index refers to the number of paper with 10 or

more citations. g-index accounting the final score for highly cited articles. The impact

factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has

been cited in a given period of time. The impact factor is helpful to evaluate a

journal's relative importance, especially when you compare it to others in the same

field. Author should have specific publication strategy for publishing their work in

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high impact journals. The strategies should be based on the selection of the Journal,

manuscript organization, quality, originality, writing the manuscript, ethical issues,

finalizing etc. By giving appropriate acknowledgement to the sources you have used

and to ideas that you have developed other than your own, you will avoid plagiarism,

which passes off the work of others as your own. It is very important to researchers to

give value to their work and explore the opportunities by publishing in impact journal

which will not only increase the credential of the author but also the importance of the

institution where you are working.

An introduction to Propositional Logic Mihir Kumar. Chakraborty

Department of Mathematics, University of Calcutta

Date & Time: 04th

September, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

My talk will deal with the following sections as far as possible. The motivation of the

subject and "What is Logic?" Formal language and the language pf Propositional

logic. The notions of semantic and syntactic consequence in Propositional logic. The

notions of consistency and completeness. Soundness of the Propositional logic

system. Completeness of the Propositional logic system. Connection with Boolean

algebra. Modal Propositional logic. Many-valued logic and Fuzzy Set theory.

Concluding remarks : Soft computing , Is human brain a machine ?

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How not to teach: a pithier view Asit K. Datta

Former Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

Date & Time: 10

th September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

1. Act of teaching

“Inserting into the mind, knowledge that was not there before - as if putting sight into

blind man’s eyes” - Plato in his book Republic

2. Teaching - learning process

a) Teacher (Institution?) Centered: Institution is decided by learner, teacher,

course, syllabus, place & time of the lecture, assessment techniques; Teacher

selects method and structuring of course: Students select an institution

b) Student centered: Students select teachers, learning materials and media,

institutions, syllabus.

3. Retention criteria of a class room lectures are guided by: • Perceptual readiness of

students

• Stress

• Group pressure

• Interactions

• Role

• Reference group

• Organizational position

• Reward system

4. Classification of student groups

Complaint students 10%

Anxious dependent students 26%

Discourage workers 4%

Independent students 12%

Heroes 10%

Snipers 9%

Attention seekers 11%

Silent students 18%

Personality of a student = Heredity x Environment + Experience

5. Thought process of teaching

• Systematic: Accumulation ®Incubation®Thinking®Solution®Second

thought

• Genius: Frustration ® Relaxation ® Illumination

6a. Classification of a teacher:

• Innovator

• Pace-setter

• Majority adopter

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• Laggard

6b. Qualities of a pace setter

Originality of response 14%

Sensitivity to environment 10%

Copious flow of ideas 16%

Flexibility of approach 35%

Ability to concentrate 25%

6c. Ten commandments for improvements of majority adopters

Persistence

Acquaintance (Knowledge)

Curiosity

Enthusiasm

Skepticism (Iconoclast)

Environmentally sensitive

Tutor (Self)

Tremendous flow of ideas

Energy & integrity

Recollections

6d How to become a creative teacher

Guideposts

Roadblocks

Get to the subject Limited knowledge

Understand the subject Limited intellectual capability

Associate ideas Preconception

Orderliness Wishful thinking

Timeliness Group thinking

Establish a liaison Dramatization

Relax Passivity

Have a hobby Discouragement

6e. Ten further promotional steps ( for teachers nearing 40 )

• Do not burn midnight oil

• Develop your own style

• Put your emotional life in order

• Know your weakness and strength

• Make a start to put “I quit money”

• Establish a network

• Learn to delegate

• Learn to keep mouth shut

• Be loyal

• Develop a sense of humor

• And remember that nothing lasts forever

6d. A SMART teacher has to be Specific, and whose output is Measurable,

Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound.

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7. Teacher - a microcosm of society

Human relation and man management

• Appreciate even ordinary things

• Swallow & forget; don’t answer back

• Avoid vanity, inferiority, and insecurity

• Refuse gratification by heart and act by guts

• Do not really tangled up, even if she is your wife

• Silence is golden; tie your tongue, even if you are provoked

• Do not threat or advice

• Practice the habit of good team work

• Assume innocence of culprit until you have actual proof

• Don’t wait for tomorrow, do it yesterday

• Get to learn collectively

8. Learning about learning

Learning is …. A way of interacting with the world.

When a student learns, his conceptions of phenomena changes, and he sees /

evaluates the world differently. The acquisition of information itself does not

bring about such a change, but the way a student structures that information

and think with it does…

Education is about conceptual change, not just the acquisition of information.

9. Learning hierarchy is:

• Creating

• Evaluating

• Analysing

• Applying

• Understanding

• Remembering

10. At last a TEACHER is “ A man willing to listen to every suggestion, but

determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances; have no

favourite hypothesis; be of no school of thought; and in doctrine have no master. He

should not be a respecter of person, but of things, Truth should be his primary object.

if to these qualities be added industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of

the temple of nature” -Michael Faraday "I have come to believe that a great teacher is

a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching

might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

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Current Affairs

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Migration in theoretical perspective

Rup Kumar Barman

Department of, History Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 05th


Migration of people from their place of their origin to alien lands, from village to

town, from one region to another region, and from one country to another country, for

socioeconomic, political and cultural reasons, is a common trend in human society

throughout the ages across the world. There are two basic groups among the migrants.

While the people of the first group migrate voluntarily from the place of their origin

without being motivated by any external or internal force, the people of the latter

group are forced to migrate from the land of their habitual residence because of

‘force(es)’ as generated from multiple sources including social, political, cultural and

communal conflicts as well as for natural factors. Thus, the people of the second

group are ‘forced migrants’. Apart from the traditional forces of migration, we do

notice the generation of an internal force by environmental disasters and

‘environmental degradation’ leading to the creation of crisis in the livelihood of an

individual, a family, a community or a village/settlement. This trend of forced

migration (because of crisis in livelihood) has been defined as ‘crisis-induced-

migration’ in the recent years. It appears that the environmental disasters create

‘disaster - induced displacement’ or ‘environmental refugees’, the environmental

degradation generates the crisis-induced displacement what is a slow process. Thus in

this talk I’ll highlight all the aspects of migration in theoretical perspective.

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Forced Migration, Environmental Refugees and State Policies:

Indian Scenario in Global Context

Rup Kumar Barman Department of, History Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 05th

September, 2018; 12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM

Among different categories of ‘forced migrants’, condition of the ‘environment-

induced displaced persons’ or ‘environmental refugees’ is perhaps most vulnerable. In

most cases, they don’t cross the international border for which they can’t be identified

as ‘refugees’ or as ‘asylum seekers’ at per international covenants, conventions and

international laws. So the people, those who don’t cross international border, after

being forced to evacuate their place of origin for environmental reason; are beyond

the scope of international guidelines for recognition and protection as ‘refugees.’ The

United Nations Organization (UNO) prefers to recognize them as ‘internally displaced

persons’ (IDPs)

along with the ‘conflict-induced’ and ‘development-induced’

displaced persons. Although the International Governmental Organizations(IGOs) and

Non-Governmental Organizations(NGOs) have accepted them as ‘environmental or

ecological refugees’ and agreed to treat them at per the ‘conflict-induced forced

migrants’ or ‘refugees’, but practical scenario is quite different in the domestic affairs

of many countries. In this respect, India is no exception. Although India has a long

experience of handling the crisis of the ‘conflict-induced refugees’ since the

independence (1947) but the ‘environment-induced forced migrants’ have not come

under the jurisdiction of the state policy in the twentieth century. It is only with the

beginning of the twenty-first century , after facing certain catastrophic natural

disasters, the Government of India has adopted certain serious steps for disaster

management and protection of the ‘disaster-induced displaced persons’. These legal

arrangements are mostly administrative and precautionary in nature where the rights

of the IDPs are secondary. However, the National Human Rights Commission

(NHRC) of India has emphasized (in 2008) on the adoption on the right-based ‘relief

and rehabilitation national policy’ for the displaced persons including the

‘displacement on account of natural and manmade disaster.’ In this talk I’ll highlight

all these aspects of forced migration and environmental IDPs, international guidelines

for the IDPs and state policy in India for management of environmental disasters.

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Environment

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Bio-Diversity

Pranabesh Sanyal

Addl. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Research, Working Plan & Monitoring,

West Bengal

Date & Time: 29th

August, 2018; 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Definition : The variability among living organisms from all sources

including inter alia terrestrial, marine and other aquatic eco-

system and ecological complexes of which they are a part ; this

includes bio-diversity within species, between species and of

eco-systems.

There are 3 components of biological diversity

(1) Genetic diversity : The Allelic variation within a species such as different

rice varieties, different varieties of Babul, different

varieties of cows, sheep etc.

(2) Species diversity : This is the commonest method of measuring biological

diversity which indicates total no. of species and their

dominance. This also includes variation of different

Taxa at various levels. Total no. of terrestrial species are

much more than aquatic species. But total no. of

terrestrial phyla is 50 whereas total no. of aquatic phyla

is 52.

(3) Eco-system diversity : The forest eco-systems are mostly highly diverse and

within the forest eco-system Rain forests are more

diverse than low rain fall areas or mangrove.

BIODIVERSITY

So far 1.7 million species have been identified on globe as below:

- Plant and Algae :4%

- Protozoa, Fungal, Bacteria, Virus : 16.8%

- Vertebrates :0.4%

- Insects : 64.3%

- Invertebrates : 14.4%

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Position of India:

India has a total of 89,451 animal species i.e 7.31% of world’s fauna and

10.78% of world’s flora.

According to red list of IUCN,

Critically endangered endangered Vulnerable

Plant 44 species 113 species 87 species

Animal 18 species 54 species 143 species

Number of different animals and plants.

Mammal Bird Reptile Butterfly Angiosperm

INDIA 350 (8th) 1200 (7th) 53 (6th) 1500 (3rd) 45,000 (3rd)

Global Highest 515

(Indonesia)

1721

(Columbia)

717

(Mexico)

2100

(Indonesia)

55,000

(Brazil)

WEST

BENGAL

188 612 115 941 14,000

Endemism : 33% of plants, 32% of the reptiles, 62% of amphibians

MARINE & COASTAL DIVERSITY

Marine species constitute only 20% of the total number of species

but has greater diversity of higher Taxa as below :

All life form : 70 Phyla.

Exclusive marine live form : 20 Phyla.

Common marine and terrestrial life form : 22 Phyla.

Exclusive terrestrial life form : 18 Phyla.

Terrestrial and freshwater life form : 10 Phyla.

BIO-DIVERSITY INDEX

1. Shannon & Weaner Index (1963) :

H = - ∑ (Ni/N) Ln (Ni/N)

Where,

Ni = No. of individuals of the species.

N = Total No. of individuals of all the species.

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To compare between two systems each having 2 species

(i) Ratio = 95 : 5

(ii) Ratio = 50 : 50

Which one is more diverse?

2. Simpson (1949)

Species Diversity Index (D)

D = 1-λ

Where, λ = ni (ni-1)/N (N-1)

λ is a measure of dominance

Large λ implies aggregation of few species.

Small λ implies more uniform distribution.

3. C.B. Williams's (1964) index of Generic Diversity

The formula show higher diversity for greater number of genera. If 'G' is

number of genera and 'S' is the number of species in the sample ecosystem,

G/S = ((1-x)/x)*Ln(1-x). Coefficient of Generic Diversity is 100*G/S.

Generic diversity GD = (S*(1-x))/x

In SW Bengal the effect of Joint Forest Management is monitored by the simple

measurements of Biodiversity indices.

From species vs area curve it was determined that the plot sizes should be as follows:

Trees : 10 m x 10 m

Shrub : 5 m x 5 m

Herb : 1 m x 1 m

Dist. Burdwan

Mouza : Jalikandar

FPC : Jalikandar

Date : 15.02.93.

Category; Tree

Plot size: 10m x 10m

Species Local name No. p P ∧∧∧∧

² Ln (p) P*Ln (p)

Shorea robusta Sal 23 88% 0.783 0.123 0.108

Semecarpus

anacardium

Bhela 1 4% 0.001 3.258 0.125

Pterocarpus

marsupium

Peasal 1 4% 0.001 3.258 0.125

Madhuca latifolia Mahul 1 4% 0.001 3.258 0.125

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26 100 0.787 9.897 0.484

Relative freequency of species p

Total number of species S = 4

Simpson Index for dominance Sum(P ∧∧∧∧

²) = 0.787

Simpson Index for diversity

1- Sum (P ∧∧∧∧

²) = 2.13

Shanon Index for diversity Sum ( p*Ln (p)) = 0.484

Normalised Shanon Index Sum (p*Ln(p) / Ln(S)) = 0.349

Comparative chart of Mangal Diversity of Global top three mangrove eco-systems

Tomlinson’s

Types Indian

Sundarban

Andaman and Nicober

Islands

Mahanadi

Estuary

Major Elements

18 No. of species 21 No. of species 19 No. of species

Minor Element


Back Mangals


Total


Comparative Generic Diversity

Tomlinson’s Class Sundarban A&N Islands Mahanadi Estuary

Major Element

S/G 2 18/9 2.33 21/9 2.38 19/8

X 0.429 0.4289 0.429

Generic Diversity 23.96 27.96 25.29

Minor Element

S/G 1.18 13/11 1.23 16/13 1.4 14/11

X 0.529 0.523 0.518


Back Mangals

S/G 1.31 64/48 1.17 30/25 1.375 34/27

X 0.5128 0.527 0.52


Total Mangals

S/G 1.39 95/68 1.27 67/47 1.571 67/46

X 0.505 0.502 0.498

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FOREST CONSERVATION

Pranabesh Sanyal

Addl. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Research, Working Plan & Monitoring,

West Bengal

Date & Time: 29th

August, 2018; 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM

The global Carbon dioxide reserve of atmosphere is consumed by 2 large consumers,

the forest in the terrestrial area and corals in the marine area. These 2 large Carbon

sinks are indeed protecting the mankind from extinction due to global warming. The

total quantity of Carbon sequestered in the terrestrial eco-system in the planet is 2000

± 500 Giga Ton Carbon out of which Northern peats sequester 450 GTC.

This apart, annual Carbon sequestration which is done by the terrestrial eco-system

amounts to 2 GTC per year and forests play a major role in the same. An estimate has

recently been made about the total burning of global bio-mass which is found to be

3.94 GTC per year, out of which deforestation alone contributes 1.6 GTC per year in

the atmosphere.

The total global area of forests is 33% of the terrestrial area which is about 51 million

km². In India, the total standing bio-mass of forests has been calculated to be 2.4

billion tons Carbon. But the forest has also a special property to store additional

Carbon in the soil and thus considering both vegetation and soil, the forests sequester

5.4 Billion tons Carbon. Globally the potential yield of natural forests is much higher

in Amazon Basin (11 M³/ha/y) as against India (6 M³/ha/y). Of course, world average

potential yield of natural forests is 2.1 M³/ha/y.

Why forests are to be conserved?

From the aforesaid data, it is evident that forests are counteracting the global climate

change to a great extent. This apart, forests have the following role.

2 Amelioration of local and global climate.

2 Increase in rainfall.

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2 Decrease in temperature.

2 Decrease in surface run off for both soil and water.

2 Recharging ground water.

2 Makes the stream flow perennial.

2 Abode of Bio-diversity.

2 Place for recreation and eco-tourism.

2 As a pollution sink.

2 As a barrier to noise pollution and noise buffer.

2 Stores of timber, fuel-wood fodder and non-timber forest produce.

Forest Conservation in India

In India, there is age-old tradition of conserving the forest, right from the time of

Shakuntala. The first concept of Abhay Aranya was enunciated in the writing of

Chankya Kautilya’s “Artha Shastra”. In recent years, the first Forest Act came in

1878 as Indian Forest Act which was revised in the year 1928. The first Forest

Conservation Act came in the year 1980 and was revised in 1988 which envisages

33% forest area in the planes and 60% forest areas in the hills.

As on today, no felling of forests is allowed from the natural forests and the total

timber and fuel-wood need of India stands as below:

(Copy)

Management of forests

The forests are sustainably managed. The area of forests, which is felled, is also

subsequently replanted in order to maintain the equilibrium. During such

management, in the post-independence period, it was observed that there was a lot of

diversion of forestland for non-forestry purpose and the total area slowly dwindled.

The total recorded forest area in India is 75 million ha. was found to get reduced to 63

million ha. in the year 1983 in the satellite imageries. Today, the situation has

improved a bit and in the year 2001, the area has increased to 67.14 million ha. and

tree cover outside forest is another 10.48 million ha. which is nearly 20.55% of the

geographical area.

In West Bengal, the total recorded forest area is 1.209 million ha. i.e. 30.60% of

geographical area and tree cover outside recorded forest area is 0.44 million ha.

Social Forestry

During early 80s, it was felt that the existing extent of national forest is unable to

cater to the need of timber fuel and firewood. Thus, the concept of social forestry to

raise forests outside forest area in the form of farm forestry in wasteland, street

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plantations along canal banks, roadside, railway line etc. came into being. This apart,

this concept gave rise to the tree cover which today we find outside the forest areas to

the extent of 10.48 million ha in the country.

Participatory Forest Management

In the year 1989, Participatory Forest Management came into operation and the local

people were involved in forestry management, right from planning stage to

implementation stage and then to exploitation and monitoring stage. Today nearly

6,000 Kms² of forest area in West Bengal is managed by the Joint Forest Management

concept. In fact, this concept came from the Arabari village of Midnapore district of

West Bengal and today in India 1,42,500 Kms² area is managed under Joint Forest

Management. There are nearly 4,100 Forest Protection Committees in West Bengal

and 63,000 in India are managing the forests under Joint Forest Management.

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Stress Management,

Counselling and Psycho-

analysis

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An Introduction to the Freudian Unconscious Santanu Biswas

Department of English, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 29

th August, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Sigmund Freud described the unconscious (das Unbewusste) in two ways. To begin

with, in the period between the late 1890s and 1918, he described the unconscious

primarily in terms of the 4 formations of the unconscious, namely, dream-formation,

error-formation, wit-formation and symptom-formation. Then, from 1919 onwards,

Freud began to describe the unconscious in terms of repetition compulsion and the

death drive, with reference to children’s games; recurrent traumatic dreams in war

neurotics; repeated self-injurious behaviour of certain people that is also called ‘fate

neurosis’; the tendency of some people to repeatedly set themselves up for painful

failures or to repeatedly recollect or enact unpleasant experiences of their past;

masochism; and the strong wish to not be cured of one’s suffering, called ‘negative

therapeutic reaction.’ The one element in common to all of these is the repeated and

compulsive invocation of something distressful, which explains why the compulsion

is at once related to repetition and the death drive. In my lecture, I will try to explain

these two paradigms of the Freudian unconscious with reference to the relevant works

of Freud.

Works by Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious

Three essays on the Theory of Sexuality

The Ego and the Id

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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Psychological counselling Sahana Nag

Centre for Counselling Services and Studies in Self-Development,

Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 04

th September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Psychological counselling is a process to help a person help himself / herself and

progress towards growth and wellbeing by making self-determined choices through

talk-based method. Objective of counselling is to empower and to enable the person,

who seeks counselling support.

One of the major areas of counselling includes helping clients dealing with their

stress. Stress is an unpleasant internal condition which occurs when perceived

demands of asituation exceed one’s perceived resources beyond the threshold of

coping and resilience.

If the available resources appear to be adequate for dealing with the demands of the

situation,one remains relaxed. If the resources appear to be a bit inadequate, even then

one feelspositively aroused, but not stressed. In fact this might actually motivate the

person to performbetter and put in further passionate effort into the said pursuit. This

ability to stretch oneselfkeeping with the demands of the situation is called resilience.

The degree of resilience onecan allow varies from person to person. However, there is

a limit or threshold for everyone,beyond which it leads to stress.

At this point, the balance of our autonomic nervous system gets inclined toward

sympatheticover activity which leads to acute stress responses. This is mediated via

sympathetic adreno-medullary (SAM) system. As a result, heart rate, blood pressure

increases, there occursweating, trembling, rapid shallow breathing, palpitation etc.

Other internal physiologicalprocesses like digestion, sleep, bladder-bowel function,

immunity etc. get disturbed. If itcontinues for days, weeks or months at a stretch,

chronic stress responses usher in mediatedby hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical

(HPA) axis. This increases the risk of differentchronic diseases like diabetes mellitus,

peptic ulcer, rheumatoid arthritis, hormonal problems,obesity, autoimmune disorders

etc. Moreover, certain brain areas get adversely affected bysustained high level of

stress hormone (cortisol) in the blood. For example volume andconnectivity of

amygdala gets increased resulting in excessive anxiety, irritability, guilt,shame,

jealousy, frustration, anger outbursts etc. Depression can follow secondarily as

brainattempts to take defence against the ever increasing burden of emotional arousal.

On the otherhand, another important brain area called hippocampus gets diminished in

volume withdiminished number of neural connections (less synapses and dendritic

spines). This leads to adeficiency in the ability to learn and memorize. Such

paradoxically opposite impact ofchronic stress on amygdala and hippocampus have

been reported by the research of SumantraChattarji (2012). At the same time, the

prefrontal cortex of brain tends to perform poorlyunder such ‘amygdala hijack’

situation (Daniel Goleman, 2005). As a result rational thinking,problem solving,

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planning, time management, practical judgment, creativity, social skills – alltend to

suffer.

As an intervention strategy, cognitive approach recommends cognitive restructuring

of the appraisal system. A positive and more adaptive re-appraisal of the stressful life

situation as well as available coping options and resources can significantly reduce the

intensity of stress response and resulting impact on physical and psychological

wellbeing. The behavioural approach intends to bring back the autonomic balance

toward parasympathetic end and thereby inducing a state of relaxation. The life style

modification approach focuses on reducing stress prone lifestyle events. Instead, some

enriching and meaningful engagements in life can help one recover from the ill effects

of stress both physically and mentally. A positive, purposeful and esteem enhancing

fantasy about self, life and future is also helpful in maintaining the islands of

wellbeing amidst the ocean of stress. Psychological counselling can provide a space

for exploring such meaningful options and make more adaptive self-determined

rational choices in life so as to progress toward growth and wellbeing.

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Media Studies

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Time and Reflection in Cinema

Moinak Biswas

Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 12th

September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

It is common knowledge that time undergoes transformation in cinema:

it is hardly ever same as the real time we experience in life. But we

do not always notice the fact that the same transformation helps

figure thought in cinema. Thought is not necessarily put in words in

the most cinematic of films, it inheres in the way connections are

made, movements are ordered, duration is constructed. The lecture will

use moments from world cinema to illustrate the way time is composed

in them, and how such compositions work as modes of thinking.

Sound Design in Film

Pankaj Shil

Department of Sound, SRFTI

Date & Time: 12th

September, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

In film sound, there are mainly four components.

a) Dialogue, monologue, narration or voice over. These are the spoken speeches,

voiced by the characters acted on the screen or may not have on screen appearance.

b) Music has universal appeal but music (back ground music) in film has completely a

different meaning and it does not have any lone existence. Music can be considered as

the sound of emotional ambience of the film. Song is another major component in

Indian mainstream film.

c ) Synchronous effect sound is the sound, other than voice and music, matching to

the visual reference on the screen.

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d) Non-synchronous effect sound does not have any visual reference on the screen.

The silence in sound may be considered as the 5th component.

The sound designer tries to induce emotions and propagate certain information to the

audience by scheming sound with the above mentioned audio components. Obviously

the design should match the narrative of the film. The title of Sound Designer was

first granted to Walter Murch by Francis Ford Coppola in recognition for Murch's

contributions to the film Apocalypse Now.

The session on sound design will try to identify the rationales of certain thoughts of

sound designers to achieve a particular effect, which supports the narrative of the

film.

A few clips from films will be presented to explain the scheming of audio design in

cinema.

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History and

Philosophy of

Science

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Some Aspects of Philosophy of Science Pradip Kumar Ghosh

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University

Date & Time: 18th


In general idea we know that Physics, Chemistry and Biology constitute science with

Mathematics. In literature science viewed as: “Systematized knowledge covering

general truths or the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through

scientific method.” One of the key problems in Philosophy of science is to understand

how techniques such as experimentation, observation and theory construction have

enabled scientists to unravel so many of nature’s secret. The study of the most general

and abstract features of the world and the categories with which we think. In

philosophy the concepts with which we approach the world themselves become the

topic of enquiry.

Though History of science usually not embedded in the curriculum and while science

is taught rather in a historical way, it is argued that close attention to the history of

science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

It may be recalled that rapid scientific development occurred in Europe between the

years 1500 and 1750. There were scientific investigations in ancient and medieval

times- The dominant world was Aristotelianism. According to him all earthly bodies

composed of just four elements: earth, fire, air & water.

Ptolemy’s earth centric model of universe was uprooted by cCopernican model of Sun

centric universe. In fact the whole system of mechanics, explanation of fall of apple

and planetary motion was finally solved through Newton’s law of gravity. In leading

to the conclusion we saw how the collection of data based on of observation by Tycho

Brahe and predicting the formula of planetary motion by Kepler helped the discovery

of most natural force exist in Universe- “The force of Gravity”.

The scientific views established on Newton’s deterministic science upto late part of

nineteenth century saw development science through number of discoveries and

theoretical explanation. Concept of Atom by Dalton advanced many ways the

physical science which we generally termed as Physics and Chemistry while “Theory

of Evolution” by Darwin gives a better understanding of living being.

The entire scenario of science changed dramatically after discovery of Electron by Sir

J.J. Thomson and quick theoretical advance in developing atomic structure and

introduction of Quantum Mechanics on one hand and introduction of theory of

relativity by Albert Einstein on another hand. Their emergence caused considerable

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conceptual upheaval not only in physics but in other branches of science. Finally yet

incomplete revolution in biology took place in 1953 by Watson & Crick through the

discovery of the structure of DNA. It leads to development of molecular biology,

Understanding of Heredity & process of building organisms.

Scientific theories established through imagination, observation & experimentation.

Both observation & experimentation on a system cannot be done infinite times. Then,

how we can say that it still become effective in next experiment or observation. Here

lies the question why?

Twentieth century Philosopher Karl Popper’s Theory of Falsification, Lakatos’

observation and Hemple’s covering model are discussed to know how science and

philosophy are embedded. How deductive inference and inductive inference plays

role in understanding the philosophical aspect of science and its theory is looked

through Hume:

• Use of induction cannot be rationally justified.

• Whenever we make inductive interferences the presupposition is “Uniformity of

nature”.

Causality, conflict between Realist and Anti Realist are also discussed.

Finally we discuss how Thomas Khun arrived at paradigm concept. According to him

a paradigm, therefore, determines not only a set of beliefs about the world. It also

defines what counts as good science, and even determines what counts as a scientific

fact. It is a conceptual framework that determines how the world looks to those who

have accepted it. It defines not only the scientific outlook for practitioners of a

particular science, but also the scientific “form of life.”

In the conclusion it may be referred that in this lecture we have discussed about

Induction, Explanation, Realism and Scientific change which are within the purview

of General Philosophy of Science. There are scopes of issue based philosophical

questions specific particular sciences. Conflict in physical science, Biological Science

and human mind are dealt with examples.

Finally a short review of criticism on overdose of “Scientism” and idealistic

difference between Science and Religion is made.

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Evolution of Scientific Ideas from Aristotle to Newton

Bichitra Kumar Guha

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah

Date & Time: 31st August, 2018; 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Search for truth about the Universe surrounding us started from ancient times. A

number of philosophers in ancient Greece contributed in development of ideas about

the earth and the heavens; notable among them was Aristotle who proposed different

laws to work for the earth and the heavens and tried to establish logically the

workings of terrestrial and celestial mechanics. His ideas may also be compared with

those of ancient Indian philosophers. Later on, as the Catholic Church gained power,

Aristotle’s ideas were declared to be infallible and any contradiction was supposed to

be anti Bible. From the time of the Renaissance, systematic scientific ideas started

developing through Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo. After a long drawn struggle,

finally through Newton, the modern science took shape. The ideas of these great

thinkers have been discussed in details following chronologically the development of

scientific ideas.

History of Development of Modern Differential Geometry Manjusha Majumdar (Tarafdar)

Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Date & Time: 11th

February, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

The History of Geometry may be roughly divided into four periods. Euclid wrote a

book, named ELEMENTS about 300 B.C. There was a lack of perfection in the

definition of “point” and “line”. Mathematicians were not willing to accept V as an

axiom, as stated by Euclid. For 2000 years, they tried to prove it. Their failure, led to

the invention of NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY. In the early part of 17th Century,

a new approach of geometry was developed by the famous French mathematician

Rene Descartes. It is due to him that such type of geometry is called CARTESIAN

GEOMETRY. DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY is (loosely speaking) the study of

Geometry with the help of Calculus. Modern Differential Geometry requires the

knowledge of TOPOLOGY. The concept of a manifold generalises the concept of a

curve or a surface in IR3.

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Science and Engineering

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Atoms for war and peace- what happens if the genie comes out?

Amitava Gupta

Department of Power Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Director, School of Nuclear Studies and Application, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Date & Time: 27th

August, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

With dwindling fossil fuel resources and low credibility factor of renewables for bulk

power generation, nuclear energy still continues to be the most viable energy option

for the developing world. The growth and sustenance of a viable nuclear energy

program makes it necessary to concentrate on the 3Ss viz. Safety, Security and

Safeguards which are the buzzwords in the realm of nuclear energy today.

The proposed talk shall start with a video to explain the basic principle of operation of

a nuclear device for both peaceful and destructive purposes. It will then concentrate

on the safety aspects to bring out how accidents are avoided. The Chernobyl accident

is then chosen as a case study and the principles of mitigation are described. For any

nuclear energy program, wastes pose a major problem and thus waste disposal is an

integral part of safety from environmental aspects and this is also discussed.

The growth of nuclear energy also brings with it two more possibilities viz.

unauthorized use of radioactive materials by non-state actors like terrorist groups

(coming under the purview of nuclear security) and intentional use of nuclear

weapons by rogue states (coming under the purview of nuclear safeguards) or simply

use of a nuclear weapon by a state possessing nuclear weapons. It is important to note

that the atomic age descended on earth through war- and not in peace. Thus, it is

worthwhile to consider how an atomic bomb works and how it destroys and above all

what can be done in case of a fall out.

The talk ends with the measures that the world has evolved to deliver safe nuclear

energy to humanity viz. safety, security and safeguards.

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Some Aspects of Communication and Wireless Networks

Dr. Salil Kumar Sanyal

Retired Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Date & Time: 28th

August, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

This lecture begins with the technological developments of Communication and

Computer Engineering scenario starting from pre-2 nd World War era to the current

state of the art. Starting from the conventional Telegraph and Telephone networks,

emphasis has been given to the development of Computer Technologies with societal

applications to make the life of human being more comfortable at affordable price.

Different technological issues related to Computer Data Networks have been covered

in a lucid manner so as to impart practical knowledge to the common people having

little background on this vast technological domain. Several implementation aspects

of Computer Communication Network have been incorporated. The same trend is

being followed in the Wireless Networks also to figure out the fundamental basis of

Wireless Cellular Communication. The chronological development, access

technologies, control and data mechanisms associated with Wireless Communication

have been included.

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Let's Light: A Journey towards Enlightenment

Suddhasatwa Chakraborty

Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Date & Time: 01st September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

The definition of light as particle as well as wave has been established a long ego in

physics. But there is a fine line exists between light & lighting which is not well

defined still today. Lighting is apparently not to deals with physics only but the

application of light to illuminate a space. There is a myth that light source takes the

most vital role in lighting design, but real story says something more. The lighting

designs encapsulate the selection of luminaries, light source, the placement of the

luminaries moreover the energy efficient design. The classical tools of lighting design

are becoming outdated today, because of two revolutionary steps in field of lighting

design. The lighting design is now no longer restricted with the energy efficient

solutions rather a new dimension has been included, which is called future of lighting,

the “Human Centric Lighting”, which is really a revolutionary change in lighting. The

“Internet of Things (IoT)” is also a remarkable footstep towards future lighting,

where, internet can be used to control the level, color, intensity of light in any space in

concurrence the general harmony between human centric lighting requirements and

energy efficiency.

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Bio Science and

Biotechnology

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Introduction to Design Ergonomics Somnath Gangopadhyay

Occupational Ergonomics Laboratory

Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Date & Time: 14th

September, 2018; 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Ergonomics can be defined as “Science, Technology & Art of Man at Work”. The

subject is related with the definite aim on the enhancement of human performance. In

other word, application of ergonomics is “the improvement of individual and group

productivity”.

The subject seeks to change the things to better match capabilities, limitations &

needs of people.

Ergonomics is the application of the human biological sciences in conjunction with

the engineering sciences to the worker and his working environment, to obtain

maximum satisfaction of the worker which at the same time enhances productivity

On the basis of its application it can be divided in three categories: Physical,

Organizational and Cognitive ergonomics.

Cognitive ergonomics is the subfield of cognitive science. It concerns with the human

task oriented activities and deals with processing and decoding of information and

finally plays a definite role in understanding. It has a direct contribution in the design

of product. Through this way, ergo design term has recently been coined.

By application of cognitive science, ergonomics and anthropometry, product is now

becoming more easy to use with maximum comfort. Simplification in gadgets and

proper application of anthropometry in it makes the tools more user-friendly.

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Genetic Engineering of Plants: Science and Safety

Sarmistha Raychaudhuri

Department of Biophysics Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of

Calcutta, Kolkata

Date & Time: 14th

September, 2018; 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Biotechnology is the technique used by modern biologist to modify the genetic

makeup of an organism. This will pay tremendous dividend in future if under-taken

with safety measures. Both biological as well physical methods of transforming crop

plants could be used to improve the quality of nutrients, use of the plant as bioreactor

and all these need proper safety protocols. Electroporation, microinjection,

bombardment with microprojectiles are used regularly by the scientists. The soil

borne bacterium ‘Agrobacterium tumefaciens’ is also used to transform plants. The

present lecture will discuss the methodology and adopted safety measures usually

followed to carry out genetic engineering.

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The UGC-HRDC Team

Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor

Prof. Rajat Acharyya, Director

Dr. Pradip Kumar Ghosh, Registrar

Mr. Gour Krishna Pattanayak, Finance Officer

Dr. Nandan Bhattacharya, Assistant Director

Prabir Kr. Chatterjee, Section Officer

Chaitali Mukherjee, Computer Operator

Sumita Modak, Peon

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