The volume: • Approaches global labour history from a South Asian perspective • will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of global history, especially labour history, literature, culture studies, sociology and social anthropology

The volume: * Approaches global labour history from a South Asian perspective * will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of global history, especially labour history, literature, culture studies, sociology and social anthropology

A haunting ode to those who paid the ultimate price-through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Ashutosh Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of violence and betrayal, love and obsession, and what it means to live with and write about death. From 2011 to 2015, Ashutosh lived in the Red Corridor in India wherein the Ultra-Left Naxalites, taking inspiration from the Russian revolution and Mao's tactics, work to overthrow the Indian government by the barrel of the gun. He made several trips thereafter reporting on the insurgents, on police and governmental atrocities, and on the lives caught in the crossfire. Ashutosh chronicles his experiences and bears witness to the lives and deaths of the unforgettable men and women he meets from both sides of the struggle, bringing home the human cost of conflict with astonishing power. Narrated in multiple voices, the book is a creative biography of the region, Dandakaranya, that combines the rigour of journalism, the intimacy of a diary, the musings of a travelogue, and the craft of a novel. The Death Script is one of the most significant works of non-fiction to be published in recent times, bringing often overlooked perspectives and events to light with empathy. Praised by India's topmost scholars and critics, the book has already won various awards.

In this project we have developed a parametric inversion algorithm to simultaneously determine the horizontal conductivities, vertical conductivities, bed boundary positions and dip angle from tri-axial induction logging data in anisotropic layered media. The inversion algorithm was first solved in an infinite homogeneous medium to obtain a good initial-guess model.The variance-based method was used to locate initial bed boundaries. The inversion problem has been solved by the method of least squares using the constrained Gauss-Newton minimization approach. Two globally convergent strategies based on a robust and efficient version of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm were implemented. The line-search algorithm was incorporated which guarantees a reduction in the cost function after each iteration.In the inversion algorithm a non-linear transformation has been incorporated to impose bounds on the unknown model parameters. To speed up the computation, the Jacobian was determined analytically for the whole space inversion. Boundary-merger routines were added to further accelerate the inversion procedure. The results show that the reconstructed model is consistent with the true model.