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University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

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This paper departs from the hegemonic notion of truth—the cognitive notion of truth—and arrives at four other notions of truth in Marx, Gandhi, Heidegger and Foucault. It puts the four to a possible dialogue. It argues that one can get a glimpse of the cusp of Marxism and spirituality in the dialogue among the four. The work at the cusp, in turn, renders Marxism asketic and the spiritual phronetic. Thinking at the cusp also inaugurates the possibility of an anti-Oedipal future for Marxism and a this-worldly present for spirituality.

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Rethinking Marxism

Marxism as Asketic, Spirituality as Phronetic: Rethinking Praxis

This conversation with the fourteenth Dalai Lama—the spiritual-political inspiration of the displaced Tibetan community—revolves around questions of why a practitioner of the Buddha Dharma would like to call himself Marxist and also his views on the violence of both Marxist praxis and religion. The Dalai Lama splits Marxism into, on the one hand, violent paranoid statecraft and, on the other, the moral principle of equal distribution. He aligns with the latter. He also displaces other-worldly religion to this-worldly moksha; he calls it spirituality. The conversation brings to dialogue the possible political consequences of a this-worldly spirituality and the possible spiritual consequences of a reflexive Marxism keenly attuned to experiences of human suffering.

Crossing Materialism and Religion: An Interview on Marxism and Spirituality with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and tariff reform produce favourable effects on the wage inequality while the liberalized investment policy becomes counterproductive. The basic model has been extended to treat domestic capital differently from foreign capital. In the extended model, all of the above results hold. Additionally, it has been found that domestic capital formation is likely to produce a favourable impact on the gender wage inequality. These results have important policy implications for a small open developing economy.

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Journal of Quantitative Economics

Economic Reforms and Gender-Based Wage Inequality in the Presence of Factor Market Distortions

Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene behaviour, referred to as the wash variables by the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, are acknowledged as the three main determinants of diarrhoeal diseases. But the impact of their complementarities on disease incidence remains understudied. This study uses state and household level data to examine the determinants of child diarrhoeal incidence. It introduces indicators of wash quality and combined presence, both atthe household and state levels. It combines them in a novel analysis to understand their roles. In the Indian states, with the worst wash infrastructure, these variables are strategic substitutes, but as wash infrastructure improves, they become strategic complements. Thus, resource allocation to lower diarrhoea incidence must take into account the complementary rather than individual presence of these focal variables. Further, the quality of wash also matters. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, targeting universal sanitation coverage, is unlikely to be effective unless it breaks the Gordian knot of complementarities and wash quality holding up the burden of childhood diarrhoea.

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Economic and Political Weekly

On incidence of diarrhoea among children in India: Can the Gordian knot of complementarities be cut?

Urban Inequalities in India: Contradictions in Urbanisation in Contemporary {\ldots}

Urban Inequality: Going beyond Income for Inclusive Urbanisation

RETHINKING MARXISM-A JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS CULTURE \& SOCIETY 28 (3-4)

MARXISM AND SPIRITUALITY Introduction

Vertical Linkage between Formal and Informal Credit Markets

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Changing phenomenon of aquaculture land through space and time using geoinformatics techniques: A case study of Moyna and Nandakumar Block, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

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Trade liberalisation, health care and International: role of health capital mobility