‘And not destroyed by the destruction of the body’: Documenting Incarceration: Joya Mitra’s \u3cem\u3eKilling Days\u3c/em\u3e

This paper discusses an unusual and disturbing narrative of a young student who is incarcerated for four years in Indian jails for participating in an ideological battle with a state government that steadily escalated in violence and brought students like her in direct confrontation with the state machinery. In prison, she is categorized as a ‘political detainee’ and must await her trial which is not allowed to happen until the political dispensation changes. Killing Days is a prison memoir – not of Mitra alone but of all the women she meets and shares pain and anguish with through the period of her imprisonment. Mitra realizes that the women lodged in the prisons are more victims of exploitation and oppression than perpetrators of crime. Most of them are poor, illiterate and friendless women who have nowhere to go, no one to care for them and no access to the law. Killing Days narrates the stories of such inmates of prisons and describes the horrifying conditions of institutionalization, brutalization and exploitation that prevail in the prisons and their adjunct asylums and hospitals. Even after her release Mitra remains a prisoner of her traumatic memories. The narratives of those anonymous women of the female wards who are waiting forever for legal help must be set free before Mitra finds freedom herself

Stock Liquidity and Firm Value: The Mediating Role of Capital Structure

Despite the substantial volume of research on the direct relationship between stock liquidity and firm value, no agreement has been reached on this nexus. This relationship may be influenced by some other intervening factors which have not been captured in the empirical studies. The present study aims to explore the link between stock liquidity and firm value and empirically tests the mediating role of capital structure on this relationship in the Indian context. Using sample data from 97 National Stock Exchange (NSE) listed top non-financial firms from 2010 to 2019 and adopting the Baron and Kenny approach, the results show that higher stock liquidity leads to a greater firm value. Furthermore, firms with liquid stocks are found to have significantly lower leverage. The results also confirm that capital structure fully mediates the relationship between stock liquidity and firm value. The empirical findings have important managerial implications when it comes to devising policies to maximise firms’ value

Hemingway and Hollywood: An Uneasy Relationship

Analyzing the film versions of A Farewell to Arms and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Mukherjee argues that Hemingway’s lean style has not translated well in Hollywood where both critical and aesthetic dimensions have been manipulated to fit the Hollywood formula