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K. S. Sekhon ¹, Tejinder Pal Singh ¹, K. L. Ahuja ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Plant Breeding, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, IN

Abstract

Soybean was introduced in India primarily as an, alternative to meet shortage of oil and secondly as a source of protein.

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Tejinder Pal Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Sociology, Sri Guru Gobind Singh (SGGS) College, Chandigarh, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The dynamic and revolutionary aspects of our Constitutional democratic framework intrinsically geared not only to political freedom but also socio-economic transformation and human progress. Part III of the Constitution contains the “Fundamental Rights”, including the right to life, which in conventional human rights parlance may be termed as civil and political rights (CPR). Part IV of the Constitution contains the “Directive Principles of State Policy” (DPSP), which include all the economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) such as the right to food. Food security is a basic human right, indeed it is a pre-condition for the full enjoyment of the right to food. The „trust deficit‟ at the recent 2017 Eleventh Ministerial Conference to find a permanent solution for food security highlighted that food security should be considered as a complex democratic issue in the prevailing global governance paradigm. In this context, the paper attempts to sociologically analyze the “paradox” prevailing at both national (as a food surplus nation) and global (rules and agreements based on the notion of free trade) levels.

Keywords

Food Security, Right to Food, Governance, Food Democracy, Anna Swaraj.

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Tejinder Pal Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, IN

Abstract

The physics underlying non-relativistic quantum mechanics can be summed up in two postulates. Postulate 1 is very precise, and mentions that the wave function of a quantum system evolves according to the Schrödinger equation, which is a linear and deterministic equation. Postulate 2 has an entirely different flavour, and can be roughly stated as follows: ‘when the quantum system interacts with a classical measuring apparatus, its wave function collapses – from being in a superposition of the eigenstates of the measured observable to being in just one of the eigenstates’. The outcome of the measurement is random and cannot be predicted; the quantum system collapses to one or the other eigenstates, with a probability that is proportional to the squared modulus of the wave function for that eigenstate. This is the Born probability rule.

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