Volume 12 | Issue 2 |

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Abstract: The queer people are 'strange', at least that's what the name suggests. Their strangeness is ridiculed, ostracized and mocked on all societal and corporate fronts. Though the 'difference' was celebrated in pre-colonial India, the Criminal Tribes Act (1871) imposed by British India's Governor-General put the community under negative strands. The decriminalisation of Section 377 of the IPC in 2018 brought a breath of fresh air into their existence. Fashion has become their arena of self-expression and has given them the power of freedom, through which the very 'difference' is appreciated, identified, respected, and treasured. Very few research papers are published in the area of Indian queer fashion. "My language of rebellion is not asking people for acceptance, but about showing them that I am queer and so is my fashion," says Luna, a gay model (2023). The first part of the paper will discuss the queer history of India, including the spiritual connection. It will also discuss traditional genderless Indian costumes like dhoti, kurta, and angrakha. The second part of the paper will bring about an elaborate portrayal of many firsts in queer fashion in India. The details will include the first trans fashion designer, Saisha Shinde; the first talent management agency dedicated to the queer community, Current Management; the first LGBTQ Pride shop in Mumbai, TRIB Fashion; the first transgender model to feature in the India Fashion Show, -Anjali Lama; and the first LGBT fashion show in India, at Agra in 2016. The third part of the paper will highlight a few collaborative community projects that involve LGBTQ+ activists, artists, designers, and models who weave the web of unity through freedom and empowerment. Lakme Fashion Week 2018, Feronia Fashion Night (the event that encourages only queer people to be the participants); the exclusive brands for LGBTQ+ - BeUnic; queer-owned small businesses - Gagged and Sassage Stickers; Inclusive fashion brands available in India - H&M, Marc Jacobs, Levi's, Calvin Klein and Adidas; The last part of the paper will amplify the achievements of Indian queer designers who rule the roost in the fashion world - Rohit Bal, Param Sahib and others. It will also deal with Pranshu - a 16-year-old queer artist from Ujjain who ended his life owing to the hateful comments he received when posting his video on his Instagram handle (2023).

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Queer fashion, transgender, genderless, LGBTQ+, Pride, inclusion, drag queen

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Shiva and Hinduism are expressed by different authors form India in different languages from time immemorial. Amish Tripathi is the one who popularized Shiva and many other gods to the people of English reading community with his Shiva Trilogy. Shiva Trilogy includes three novels: The Immortals of Meluha(2010), The Secret of the Nagas (2011) and The Oath of the Vayuputras (2013). Here Shiva the mythical character and his family is narrated in the backdrop of Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism. He used science and technology in this novel to depict Shiva in a different light. Amish's Shiva's human quality and appearance is accepted by more than 40 million readers of the world. Shiva is also presented by Namita Gokhale but is completely in contrast with Amish's Shiva and she depicted Shiva as god as per Hinduism with all its rituals and belief (bakthi) and this book was also read by many as she is a powerful writer. Both of them selected Shiva as their hero because of his wide acceptability by all alike.

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Shiva, Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma, God, and Myth.

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Trying to gather personal information through deceptive ways is becoming more common nowadays. In order to assist the user to be aware of the access to such websites, the implemented system notifies the user through email and also pop-up, when trying to access a phishing site. This paper proposes an approach of phishing detection system to detect blacklisted URL also known as phishing websites, so that individual can be alerted while browsing or accessing a particular website. Therefore, it can be utilized for identification and authentication and become a legitimate tool to prevent an individual from getting tricked.

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LSTM, CNN, Machine Learning

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Nouveau Humanist Traditions and Standpoints In Mainstream The paradigmatic shift from humanism to nouveau narrative called posthumanism is all set to have a pop up in the western as well as other ethnicities. The unsurpassable human intelligence is being overshadowed by the artificial intelligence which is the most discussed hotpot of current scenario. The onto epistemological regularity of post humanism is discussed in the mixed perception of humanity where Donna Haraway (1985) has pointed out the origin without any origin, secondly the term posthumanism can be seen as post humanism that is a strong critique of human supremacy. The objective of my proposed research paper is to substantiate how this genre helps producing more great and productive and rich ideas that not only excel through the technological advancement but also through change in cultivating humanity. These dystopian post humanist ideas in literature will enable us to subsume both pros and cons of new ideas and advancements along with the disrupting equivalence of society and human being and disheaveled approaching posterity.

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Posthumanism , Mainstream, Artificial intelligence, technological advancements.

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Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy, and its growth and sustainability are critical for ensuring food security and economic development. However, the sector faces numerous challenges, including unpredictable weather patterns, natural disasters, and price fluctuations, which significantly impact farmers' livelihoods. Agricultural insurance has emerged as a vital tool to mitigate these risks and empower farmers to withstand uncertainties. This research paper examines the evolution of agricultural insurance in India, examining policy initiatives, government interventions, and institutional frameworks. It examines crop, livestock, and weather-based insurance products, highlighting their effectiveness in financial security. The paper also examines technology and data analytics' role in enhancing schemes' efficiency. It explores India's agricultural insurance sector's challenges, such as limited farmer awareness, delayed claim settlements, and innovative risk assessment methodologies. It emphasizes the importance of insurance in empowering agriculture and promoting resilience, especially in the face of climate change.

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Agricultural Insurance, India, Sustainable Growth, Risk Mitigation, Climate Resilience.

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North East is an umbrella term, a uniform phraseology which collectively refers to the eight Indian states-Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim commonly known as North Eastern Council (NEC). Is a wonderful place, a frontier territory, an onto-teleological concept that encompasses cultural, lingual and socio-political differences. From the view point of political convenience, North East is marginalized in case of issues like border, boundary, identity, center, mainland,nationality and the likes. In the words of Bibhash Choudhury, "the idea of North East India can be seen in terms of geographical location as it encompasses a specific territorially defined space of the country ". If we look into the literary situation of North East India, we must go back to some historical events such as the Bhakti Movement, the beginning of British Colonialism, the advent of the Christian Missionary, the imposition of Bengali language on the Assamese people, the Assam Movement and the likes. These events had tremendous impact on the socio-political, religious and cultural aspects of the people of North East. This cultural loss and instability are remarkably reflected in the following lines from Tilottoma Misra's book "The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North East India:Fiction " "An intense sense of awareness of the cultural loss and recovery that came with the negotiation with 'other' cultures is a recurrent feature of the literatures of the seven north eastern states ".

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Literatures, North East, NEC,Marginalized, Identity, Cultural loss,

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Hereditary knowledge production refers to knowledge or practices passed down from generation to generation that form part of the traditions or heritage of Indigenous communities. Missionary activities and the spreading of western education system gradually uprooted the traditional education systems of Travancore. Education not only confined in the four walls of a class room or grasp knowledge from the textbooks but it reflects the character formation, cultural, vocational, mental and physical developments of the students. Moral, intellectual, physical, mental and academic development of the student is guaranteed in the indigenous educational institutions. Colonial domination in the educational field adversely affected the traditional knowledge structure of a society. To imitate an alien system of education a system was completely rooted out from the society without preserving it for future generation. This paper throws light on the importance of traditional education system, what was its limitations, about how they vanished from the society due to westernization of education and how could it be reinstated by making improvements in a value-based education system.

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Traditional knowledge, Colonialism, Gurukulam, Salais, Ezhuthupalli, Westernization, Indigenous knowledge structure.

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Particles at the nanoscale are nothing new. They are produced by combustion processes as well as occurring naturally. Since much molecular biology research is already done at the nanoscale, biologic systems are by nature made of nonscale building blocks. The capacity to manage manufacturing and create tailored particles with extremely precise sizes and shapes is what makes nanomaterials novel. For a considerable amount of time, chemists have been able to manipulate the configuration of individual atoms within molecules, which has allowed them to develop materials for specific purposes and produce pharmaceuticals that work well. These days, the study, processing, and application of materials based on their atomic-scale features are all included in the field of nanotechnology. One billionth (lxlO-9) of a meter, or 1/80,000th of the thickness of a human hair, is one nanometer (nm). It is equivalent to the length of ten hydrogen atoms arranged side by side. The arrangement of atoms and molecules in the size range of 1-100+ nm is the subject of nanotechnology. A DNA molecule has a width of about 2.5 nm. Cell membranes vary in width from 6 to 10 nm. Pirotn has dimensions that fall between 1.0 and 15.0 or 20 nm. Nanoparticles are a subfield of quantum physics, which is the discipline of physics that uses quantum theory to explain and predict the features of a physical system. They behave unlike solids, liquids, or gasses. The use of nanotechnology for biological systems monitoring, control, diagnosis, and therapy is known as nanomedicine. Nanomedicine is a broad field that covers, among other things, nanofibers and polymeric nanoconstructs as biomaterials, sensors, and laboratory diagnostics, as well as nanoparticles that function as biological mimetics.

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Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, piroton, nanostructures.

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Cloud authentication is a vital security measure that verifies the identity of users and devices before granting them access to cloud resources through Biometric authentication, Certificate- based authentication, Multi- factor authentication, password-based authentication. Authentication methods are essential security measures that prevent unauthorized users from accessing systems. andresources. IAM models shield resources from unauthorized access by managing who and what can access themThis version focuses on the security aspect of using IAM models to control access to resources. to access resources in a PaaS model, users and devices must be authenticated. This can be done in a number of ways, including passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Data security , Authentication ,Access control, Insecure API'S

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The term justice covers an extremely broad scope. It may be social, economic, and political. Justice is sometimes understood as the just distribution of available resources in society to all the sections of people residing in it. John Rawls in his theory of Justice stated that justice consists of the just distribution of primary goods. He talked about 'justice as fairness' with equal liberty and opportunity to all sections, and the contribution of the possible benefits to the less advantaged sections of society. He believed in the greatest benefit of the least advantaged group. Affirmative actions taken by the governments of various independent States in the world are somewhere close to the vision of John Rawl's Just State. These affirmative actions are based on providing special assistance, representation, and benefits to weaker sections of society, whose members are socially and economically backward. The members of these backward sections may belong to different groups of people associated with specific caste, race, creed, sexuality and nationalism. In this paper, I will try to cover the positive evolutions in the social status of various sections of society through affirmative actions taken by the States. Different steps taken by the governments, with special emphasis on Indian lawmakers, to bridge the gap between the higher sections and the weaker sections of society will be studied. But equal distribution of resources and Affirmative action cannot go side by side without conflict. Hence, the paper will also highlight the conflicts among different sections of society with special emphasis on Indian society. Emphasis will be on the past and present social developments based on these actions by the governments. Examples will be included to shed light on the actions of the Indian government taken so far to promote equality and justice among all its citizens. Conflicting claims by various sections that are not included in these beneficial schemes will also be included in this research paper.

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Affirmative Distribution Justice Discrimination

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