#Brunton Central

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We suffer from stagnation and imagine that existence in the intellect and body is enough; it is not. The primary emphasis must be laid on the living principle of our being, the central self which creates both body and intellect.

Paul Brunton

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Pheobe Waller Bridge won Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the Critics Choice Awards. 

So far, Veep has lost every single award it has been nominated for except for the AFI Television Program of the Year (along with Chernobyl, The Crown, Fosse/Verdon, Game of Thrones, Pose, Succession, Unbelievable, Watchmen, When They See Us and a Special Award for Fleabag).

Here are all the awards that are left:

1. Producers Guild Awards (January 18, 2020)

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television

Comedy

●     Barry (Season 2)

Producers: Alec Berg, Bill Hader, Aida Rodgers, Liz Sarnoff, Emily Heller, Julie Camino, Jason Kim

●     Fleabag (Season 2)

Producers: Phoebe Waller‐Bridge, Harry Bradbeer, Lydia Hampson, Harry Williams, Jack Williams, Joe Lewis, Sarah Hammond

●     The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 3) 

Producers: Amy Sherman‐Palladino, Daniel Palladino, Dhana Gilbert, Matthew Shapiro, Daniel Goldfarb, Kate Fodor, Sono Patel

●     Schitt’s Creek (Season 5)

Producers: Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Andrew Barnsley, Fred Levy, David West Read, Ben Feigin, Michael Short, Rupinder Gill, Colin Brunton

●     Veep (Season 7)

Producers: David Mandel, Frank Rich, Julia Louis‐Dreyfus, Lew Morton, Morgan Sackett, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Jennifer Crittenden, Gabrielle Allan, Billy Kimball, Rachel Axler, Ted Cohen, Ian Maxtone‐Graham, Dan O'Keefe, Steve Hely, David Hyman, Georgia Pritchett, Erik Kenward, Dan Mintz, Doug Smith

2. Directors Guild Awards (January 25, 2020)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series

●    Dan Attias

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “It’s the Sixties, Man!” (Prime Video)

●     Bill Hader

“Barry,” “ronny/lily” (HBO)

●    David Mandel

“Veep,” “Veep” (HBO)

●    Amy Sherman Palladino

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” (Prime Video)

●    Daniel Palladino

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Marvelous Radio” (Prime Video)

3. Writers Guild Awards (February 1, 2020) 

Comedy Series

●   Barry

Written by Alec Berg, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Emily Heller, Jason Kim, Taofik Kolade, Elizabeth Sarnoff; HBO

●  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Written by Kate Fodor, Noah Gardenswartz, Daniel Goldfarb, Alison Leiby, Daniel Palladino, Sono Patel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Jordan Temple; Prime Video

●  PEN15

Written by Jeff Chan, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Gabe Liedman, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Andrew Rhymer, Jessica Watson, Sam Zvibleman; Hulu

●   Russian Doll, 

Written by Jocelyn Bioh, Flora Birnbaum, Cirocco Dunlap, Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, Tami Sagher, Allison Silverman; Netflix

●   Veep, Written by Gabrielle Allan-Greenberg, Rachel Axler, Emilia Barrosse, Ted Cohen, Jennifer Crittenden, Alex Gregory, Steve Hely, Peter Huyck, Erik Kenward, Billy Kimball, David Mandel, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Dan Mintz, Lew Morton, Dan O'Keefe, Georgia Pritchett, Leila Strachan; HBO

Episodic Comedy 

●  “Here’s Where We Get Off” (Orange Is the New Black)

Written by Jenji Kohan; Netflix

●  “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Written by Amy Sherman-Palladino; Prime Video

●  “Nice Knowing You” (Living With Yourself)

Written by Timothy Greenberg; Netflix

●  “Pilot” (Dead to Me)

Written by Liz Feldman; Netflix

●  “The Stinker Thinker” (On Becoming a God in Central Florida)

Written by Robert F. Funke & Matt Lutsky; Showtime

●   “Veep” (Veep)

Written by David Mandel; HBO

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The Redirect: Technology after Capitalism

Here are a few thoughts from Public Knowledge’s “The Redirect: Technology after Capitalism” event at SFMOMA with Xiaowei Wang, Andrea Steves, Kim Stanley Robinson, Finn Brunton, and Caitlin Zaloom, which I very much enjoyed. [These notes were shared on Twitter the day after the event, but I am just now piecing them together here with a few corrections.]

That description of late capitalism (finance-driven capitalism, neoliberalism, what have you) keeping us stuck in very short-term thinking reminds me of Stewart Brand’s “pace layering.” We need to zoom in and out. We need to inhabit various orbits.

That notion of the potential of art (in the broadest of terms) as a mechanism for thinking… in a way, it keeps us from doing (making messes, consuming more, etc.) by slowing us down through a process of considering, playing out possibilities and subsequently making less mess, which together with the Fred Jameson quote that came up (“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”) reminds of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

The, again, Fred Jameson (pretty sure, but I could be remembering wrong) thought that Kim Stanley Robinson shared about the need for everyone to be a technocrat/bureaucrat because commons have always been dependent on keepers/minders/custodians enforcing them, even if not visible.

But how to bring back commons if capitalism keeps up racing along and the capitalist always find a way to root out socialism? I think about a Fred Moten quote I saw earlier today:

I don't think that scale is our friend, it's our enemy. how to get together on small scale with patience, ethical regard for one another... maybe this renewal of our habits of assembly happens on a small scale." —Fred Moten #tinylife

… and the notion of pockets (small!) of resistance (some collected quotes and ideas), with a nod to John Berger for language and for the sense of urgency, which has only expanded since he wrote.

And then back to the struggle to imagine a post-capitalist world, to break free from systems we no longer recognize as human inventions nor anything short of laws of physics, even if they aren’t, we need “the third loop” (Open thread, see above and below.)

Essentially I understand the third loop to be the ability to question a system itself and clearly see it’s contours, while 1st and 2nd loops are working within that dominant system

See also notions of (1) “cultural dark matter” and (2) “transcontextualism” and the “double bind.”

So much more to chew on: Xiaowei Wang’s visit to Alibaba towns and the “rural revitalization” initiatives in China, KSR’s re-terraforming and/or terra-harnessing (my feeble attempts at naming) of California’s Central Valley, using existing geology as “French drains,” and Aldo Leopold’s land ethic (more or less, “What’s good is good for the land.”), and “Capitalism is a fear of the other, a prisoner’s dilemma.” And “You get Theranos because there are not enough places for money to go [in capitalism].” Etc, etc. Brain food.

FIN

Update 1:

Because it relates to many parts of the thread above (especially the imagining of alternatives to our systems and the practice of art), here is some bell hooks, who of course has said:

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is. It’s to imagine what is possible.

Update 2: From an exchange with Xiaowei Wang, whose prompts are in quotes, the rest of the words mine:

love this Fred Moten quote: so, so true. sometimes I get really excited about being part of a community/organizing + then get heartsick when we start using same vocabularies that capitalism has taught us since birth."whats the most efficient and productive political strategy" etc

yes! with sprinklings of “value” and “worth” and “human capital” and “achievement” not to mention all the hierarchy and war words… “merit” and “deserve” and “dominate” and “lead” and “win” and and

I am curious, especially wrt the "it's easier to imagine end of world than end of capitalism" quote. if capitalism did end, would our brains be able to handle it? i think of many friends who say if they could stop working, they're not sure what they would do instead!

I am curious too. I think we have so much of our identity wrapped up in our work (“What do yo do?” as one of the first questions we ask people new to us) and most of our education points to work, not life and leisure (largely discouraged beyond vacation, “idle hands…”) that even when people retire, many don’t know what to do with themselves. (If I recall correctly, there is some research about retirees and those without hobbies have greater health consequences.) But I think the answer lies in recreation and creativity. If our education emphasized creativity and recreation as part of a balanced life, then it would be easier to imagine days gardening, birding, walking/hiking, sports playing, making of all sorts (art, carpentry, writing, painting, filmmaking, etc.), care and maintenance (of children, homes, machines, etc.).

… reading, chatting, cooking, sewing, cleaning. But so many of those care and maintenance tasks today are paid poorly (when paid at all) and thus seen as something to aspire to remove from our lives (often with an app!, no less).

(Some disclosure.)

PS: Jenny Odell has some good answers to all this notion in How to Do Nothing (the text of a talk, the video of the talk, and the book).

Here’s Jia Tolentino referencing Jenny Odell in “What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away”:

It involves rejecting the sort of progress that centers on isolated striving, and emphasizing, instead, caregiving, maintenance, and the interdependence of things.

[…]

She locates the potential for change in individual acts of refusal, which, she argues, make space for others to follow.

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Rajeev Jhawar , Usha Martin Shares his Observation about the Industry Post Covid

Rajeev Jhawar, the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar, is an Indian industrialist with over three decades of experience in strategic management. He is an alumnus of Ranchi University and London Business School. He started his journey as Sr. Vice President (Commercial) and became the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited in 1998. He has been the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2008, and in the three decades that he has been at the helm of the Usha Martin Group, he has accelerated growth, built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. Usha Martin started its business as a wire rope manufacturing company. The group has set new standards in the manufacture of wire rods, bright bars, steel wires, specialty wires, wire ropes, strand, conveyor cord, wire drawing and cable machinery. The company is also in the business activities of Steel, Wire & Wire Ropes.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. He graduated from London Business School and completed Management Development Course at the University of Pennsylvania. Rajeev Jhawar has been Vice Chairman of Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since September 2010. His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, in-depth understanding of business administration and strategic decision making has taken the Group to an altogether higher growth trajectory.

Rajeev Jhawar has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Orient Cement Limited since August 09, 2014. He serves as an Executive Director of Usha Martin Limited. He serves as Director of Usha Martin International Ltd., Usha Siam Steel Industries Public Company Ltd., Thailand, Brunton Wolf Wire Ropes FZCO, Dubai, Usha Breco Ltd, Usha Breco Realty Ltd, KGVK Rural Enterprises Ltd, KGVK Social Enterprises Ltd, Redtech Networks India (P) Ltd, PARS Consultancy & Services Pvt. Ltd. And Jhawar Venture Management Pvt. Ltd. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since March 4, 2000. He has been Director of Usha Breco Limited since March 30, 2010. He is also on the boards of various corporates including Orient Cement Limited (part of CK Birla group companies) and Neutral Publishing House Limited which has a leading regional newspaper under the flagship title ‘Prabhat Khabar’ published in the Indian cities of Patna, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Jamshedpur & Kolkata.

Post Covid Market Analysis by Rajeev Jhawar:

Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid. After the coronavirus, the industry witnessed a pandemic and subsequent lockdown disrupted overall economic activity. The Indian steel industry struggled to keep pace with the sharp fall in steel demand.  Adverse market conditions forced steelmakers to cut their operations by up to 50% by the end of 2019-20 and early 2020-21. Further, he also makes his views on the various stimulus measure taken by the government to enhance the growth of the economy.

Rajeev Jhawar, managing director, UML, said the various measures announced by the central government to stimulate the economy are likely to bear fruit after the monsoon. While the pandemic has not yet been eradicated, the growth is likely to occur as all the industries had learnt to live together with the pandemic. Rajeev said while the demand for wire rope in the international market was very modest, domestic demand in various sectors was very low due to the lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rajeev Jhawar says that their plant is currently operating at 50-55% of the installed capacity.  However, export demand is good and we are supported by the depreciation of the rupee, he said. The company expects capacity to increase by the second half of this financial year once the covid situation is brought under control and domestic demand picks up.

Usha Martin in Wire Rope Manufacturing:

The company’s global R&D centre in Italy is actively engaged in the design of wire ropes and uses property design software to develop products. The company also has a comprehensive R&D facility in its manufacturing unit at Ranchi. “Product innovation that meets the customers’ needs is a continuous process for us. We are a major supplier of several OEMs,” explains Devadip Bhowmik, director, sales & marketing, UML. The market leader in India in wire ropes, Usha Martin can produce a wide range – from 4.8 mm to 130 mm in diameter – of wire ropes. “Our USP is diverse quality products that cater to large customers,” adds Bhowmik. “It is the concept of a ‘super market’, where one can pick up everything under one roof.”

Describing the advantages of the overseas operations, Rajeev Jhawar affirms that these operations provide a significant synergy and support to the overall business performance. It also helps us to spread the offerings across the globe. The Covid pandemic had adversely impacted UML’s demand but the international market is expected to open up, though slowly. Rajeev Jhawar thinks that in the next five years, the segment will see good demand.

Rajeev Jhawar has also cautioned all to remain agile and responsive to the changing market needs and focus on increasing market share in high contributory products. Rajeev is bullish about the segment and expects oil & gas, ports and shipping to be the growth drivers. On a consolidated basis, 35-40 per cent of Usha Martin’s revenue is from exports to Europe, South East Asia, the US and the Scandinavian countries.

“Usha Martin has been supplying us with wire ropes for heavy-duty cranes for ports over decades now,” says Harinder Singh, business head, coal import terminal, Adani Ports & SEZ. Performance-wise, UML’s products are on par with the imported ropes. But though the quality is good, there is a need to improve the services, says Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin enjoys strong brand recall in the segment.  Usha Martin is now in the process of strengthening its projects and services under the new leadership. The adopted HR policy of the company identifies future leaders. The HR processes find high-potential performers. UML nurture them internally through training and development, as part of a succession planning process, so that future leaders can be developed within the organization. This is what Rajeev Jhawar feels. Usha Martin has a workforce of 2,300. The average age group of the company’s management is below 50.

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Refurbishing of Business & Post Covid Business Expansion of Usha Martin Limited Under Rajeev Jhawar.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited and has been the Head of Usha Martin Group for over three decades. His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, deep understanding of business administration and strategic decisions led the group to a high growth trajectory as a whole. The pandemic outbreak of the corona virus globally and in India has led to significant economic unrest and slowdown. Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid.

Rajeev Jhawar, the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar, is an Indian industrialist with over three decades of experience in strategic management. He is an alumnus of Ranchi University and London Business School. He started his journey as Sr. Vice President (Commercial) and became the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited in 1998. He has been the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2008, and in the three decades that he has been at the helm of the Usha Martin Group, he has accelerated growth, built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. Usha Martin started its business as a wire rope manufacturing company. The group has set new standards in the manufacture of wire rods, bright bars, steel wires, specialty wires, wire ropes, strand, conveyor cord, wire drawing and cable machinery. The company is also in the business activities of Steel, Wire & Wire Ropes.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. He graduated from London Business School and completed Management Development Course at the University of Pennsylvania. Rajeev Jhawar has been Vice Chairman of Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since September 2010. His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, in-depth understanding of business administration and strategic decision making has taken the Group to an altogether higher growth trajectory.

Rajeev Jhawar has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Orient Cement Limited since August 09, 2014. He serves as an Executive Director of Usha Martin Limited. He serves as Director of Usha Martin International Ltd., Usha Siam Steel Industries Public Company Ltd., Thailand, Brunton Wolf Wire Ropes FZCO, Dubai, Usha Breco Ltd, Usha Breco Realty Ltd, KGVK Rural Enterprises Ltd, KGVK Social Enterprises Ltd, Redtech Networks India (P) Ltd, PARS Consultancy & Services Pvt. Ltd. And Jhawar Venture Management Pvt. Ltd. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since March 4, 2000. He has been Director of Usha Breco Limited since March 30, 2010. He is also on the boards of various corporates including Orient Cement Limited (part of CK Birla group companies) and Neutral Publishing House Limited which has a leading regional newspaper under the flagship title ‘Prabhat Khabar’ published in the Indian cities of Patna, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Jamshedpur & Kolkata.

Market Analysis By Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin Post Covid

Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid. After the coronavirus, the industry witnessed a pandemic and subsequent lockdown disrupted overall economic activity. The Indian steel industry struggled to keep pace with the sharp fall in steel demand. Adverse market conditions forced steelmakers to cut their operations by up to 50% by the end of 2019-20 and early 2020-21. Further, he also makes his views on the various stimulus measure taken by the government to enhance the growth of the economy.

Rajeev Jhawar, managing director, UML, said the various measures announced by the central government to stimulate the economy are likely to bear fruit after the monsoon. While the pandemic has not yet been eradicated, the growth is likely to occur as all the industries had learnt to live together with the pandemic. Rajeev said while the demand for wire rope in the international market was very modest, domestic demand in various sectors was very low due to the lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rajeev Jhawar says that their plant is currently operating at 50-55% of the installed capacity. However, export demand is good and we are supported by the depreciation of the rupee, he said. The company expects capacity to increase by the second half of this financial year once the covid situation is brought under control and domestic demand picks up.

Usha Martin in Wire Rope Manufacturing

The company’s global R&D centre in Italy is actively engaged in the design of wire ropes and uses property design software to develop products. The company also has a comprehensive R&D facility in its manufacturing unit at Ranchi. “Product innovation that meets the customers’ needs is a continuous process for us. We are a major supplier of several OEMs,” explains Devadip Bhowmik, director, sales & marketing, UML. The market leader in India in wire ropes, Usha Martin can produce a wide range – from 4.8 mm to 130 mm in diameter – of wire ropes. “Our USP is diverse quality products that cater to large customers,” adds Bhowmik. “It is the concept of a ‘super market’, where one can pick up everything under one roof.”

Describing the advantages of the overseas operations, Rajeev Jhawar affirms that these operations provide a significant synergy and support to the overall business performance. It also helps us to spread the offerings across the globe. The Covid pandemic had adversely impacted UML’s demand but the international market is expected to open up, though slowly. Rajeev Jhawar thinks that in the next five years, the segment will see good demand.

Mr. Rajeev Jhawar has also cautioned all to remain agile and responsive to the changing market needs and focus on increasing market share in high contributory products. Rajeev is bullish about the segment and expects oil & gas, ports and shipping to be the growth drivers. On a consolidated basis, 35-40 per cent of Usha Martin’s revenue is from exports to Europe, South East Asia, the US and the Scandinavian countries.

“Usha Martin has been supplying us with wire ropes for heavy-duty cranes for ports over decades now,” says Harinder Singh, business head, coal import terminal, Adani Ports & SEZ. Performance-wise, UML’s products are on par with the imported ropes. But though the quality is good, there is a need to improve the services, says Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin enjoys strong brand recall in the segment. Usha Martin is now in the process of strengthening its projects and services under the new leadership. The adopted HR policy of the company identifies future leaders. The HR processes find high-potential performers. UML nurture them internally through training and development, as part of a succession planning process, so that future leaders can be developed within the organization. This is what Rajeev Jhawar feels. Usha Martin has a workforce of 2,300. The average age group of the company’s management is below 50.

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Rajeev Jhawar the strength behind Usha Martin

Rajeev Jhawar, the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar, is an Indian industrialist with over three decades of experience in strategic management. He is an alumnus of Ranchi University and London Business School. He started his journey as Sr. Vice President (Commercial) and became the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited in 1998. He has been the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2008, and in the three decades that he has been at the helm of the Usha Martin Group, he has accelerated growth, built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. Usha Martin started its business as a wire rope manufacturing company. The group has set new standards in the manufacture of wire rods, bright bars, steel wires, specialty wires, wire ropes, strand, conveyor cord, wire drawing and cable machinery. The company is also in the business activities of Steel, Wire & Wire Ropes.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. He graduated from London Business School and completed Management Development Course at the University of Pennsylvania. Rajeev Jhawar has been Vice Chairman of Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since September 2010. His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, in-depth understanding of business administration and strategic decision making has taken the Group to an altogether higher growth trajectory.

Rajeev Jhawar has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Orient Cement Limited since August 09, 2014. He serves as an Executive Director of Usha Martin Limited. He serves as Director of Usha Martin International Ltd., Usha Siam Steel Industries Public Company Ltd., Thailand, Brunton Wolf Wire Ropes FZCO, Dubai, Usha Breco Ltd, Usha Breco Realty Ltd, KGVK Rural Enterprises Ltd, KGVK Social Enterprises Ltd, Redtech Networks India (P) Ltd, PARS Consultancy & Services Pvt. Ltd. And Jhawar Venture Management Pvt. Ltd. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since March 4, 2000. He has been Director of Usha Breco Limited since March 30, 2010. He is also on the boards of various corporates including Orient Cement Limited (part of CK Birla group companies) and Neutral Publishing House Limited which has a leading regional newspaper under the flagship title ‘Prabhat Khabar’ published in the Indian cities of Patna, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Jamshedpur & Kolkata.

Post covid market analysis by Rajeev Jhawar

Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid. After the coronavirus, the industry witnessed a pandemic and subsequent lockdown disrupted overall economic activity. The Indian steel industry struggled to keep pace with the sharp fall in steel demand. Adverse market conditions forced steelmakers to cut their operations by up to 50% by the end of 2019-20 and early 2020-21. Further, he also makes his views on the various stimulus measure taken by the government to enhance the growth of the economy.

Rajeev Jhawar, managing director, UML, said the various measures announced by the central government to stimulate the economy are likely to bear fruit after the monsoon. While the pandemic has not yet been eradicated, the growth is likely to occur as all the industries had learnt to live together with the pandemic. Rajeev said while the demand for wire rope in the international market was very modest, domestic demand in various sectors was very low due to the lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rajeev Jhawar says that their plant is currently operating at 50-55% of the installed capacity. However, export demand is good and we are supported by the depreciation of the rupee, he said. The company expects capacity to increase by the second half of this financial year once the covid situation is brought under control and domestic demand picks up.

Usha martin in wire rope manufacturing

The company’s global R&D centre in Italy is actively engaged in the design of wire ropes and uses property design software to develop products. The company also has a comprehensive R&D facility in its manufacturing unit at Ranchi. “Product innovation that meets the customers’ needs is a continuous process for us. We are a major supplier of several OEMs,” explains Devadip Bhowmik, director, sales & marketing, UML. The market leader in India in wire ropes, Usha Martin can produce a wide range – from 4.8 mm to 130 mm in diameter – of wire ropes. “Our USP is diverse quality products that cater to large customers,” adds Bhowmik. “It is the concept of a ‘super market’, where one can pick up everything under one roof.”

Describing the advantages of the overseas operations, Rajeev Jhawar affirms that these operations provide a significant synergy and support to the overall business performance. It also helps us to spread the offerings across the globe. The Covid pandemic had adversely impacted UML’s demand but the international market is expected to open up, though slowly. Rajeev Jhawar thinks that in the next five years, the segment will see good demand.

Mr. Rajeev Jhawar has also cautioned all to remain agile and responsive to the changing market needs and focus on increasing market share in high contributory products. Rajeev is bullish about the segment and expects oil & gas, ports and shipping to be the growth drivers. On a consolidated basis, 35-40 per cent of Usha Martin’s revenue is from exports to Europe, South East Asia, the US and the Scandinavian countries.

“Usha Martin has been supplying us with wire ropes for heavy-duty cranes for ports over decades now,” says Harinder Singh, business head, coal import terminal, Adani Ports & SEZ. Performance-wise, UML’s products are on par with the imported ropes. But though the quality is good, there is a need to improve the services, says Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin enjoys strong brand recall in the segment. Usha Martin is now in the process of strengthening its projects and services under the new leadership. The adopted HR policy of the company identifies future leaders. The HR processes find high-potential performers. UML nurture them internally through training and development, as part of a succession planning process, so that future leaders can be developed within the organization. This is what Rajeev Jhawar feels. Usha Martin has a workforce of 2,300. The average age group of the company’s management is below 50.

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Business Expansion of Usha Martin Limited Under Rajeev Jhawar.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited and has been the Head of Usha Martin Group for over three decades.  His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, deep understanding of business administration and strategic decisions led the group to a high growth trajectory as a whole. The pandemic outbreak of the corona virus globally and in India has led to significant economic unrest and slowdown. Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid.

Rajeev Jhawar, the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar, is an Indian industrialist with over three decades of experience in strategic management. He is an alumnus of Ranchi University and London Business School. He started his journey as Sr. Vice President (Commercial) and became the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited in 1998. He has been the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2008, and in the three decades that he has been at the helm of the Usha Martin Group, he has accelerated growth, built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. Usha Martin started its business as a wire rope manufacturing company. The group has set new standards in the manufacture of wire rods, bright bars, steel wires, specialty wires, wire ropes, strand, conveyor cord, wire drawing and cable machinery. The company is also in the business activities of Steel, Wire & Wire Ropes.

Rajeev Jhawar is the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. He graduated from London Business School and completed Management Development Course at the University of Pennsylvania. Rajeev Jhawar has been Vice Chairman of Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since September 2010. His leadership qualities, sharp business acumen, in-depth understanding of business administration and strategic decision making has taken the Group to an altogether higher growth trajectory.

Rajeev Jhawar has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Orient Cement Limited since August 09, 2014. He serves as an Executive Director of Usha Martin Limited. He serves as Director of Usha Martin International Ltd., Usha Siam Steel Industries Public Company Ltd., Thailand, Brunton Wolf Wire Ropes FZCO, Dubai, Usha Breco Ltd, Usha Breco Realty Ltd, KGVK Rural Enterprises Ltd, KGVK Social Enterprises Ltd, Redtech Networks India (P) Ltd, PARS Consultancy & Services Pvt. Ltd. And Jhawar Venture Management Pvt. Ltd. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Usha Martin Education & Solutions Limited since March 4, 2000. He has been Director of Usha Breco Limited since March 30, 2010. He is also on the boards of various corporates including Orient Cement Limited (part of CK Birla group companies) and Neutral Publishing House Limited which has a leading regional newspaper under the flagship title ‘Prabhat Khabar’ published in the Indian cities of Patna, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Jamshedpur & Kolkata.

Post covid market analysis by Rajeev Jhawar

Rajeev Jhawar shares his observation about the industry post covid. After the coronavirus, the industry witnessed a pandemic and subsequent lockdown disrupted overall economic activity. The Indian steel industry struggled to keep pace with the sharp fall in steel demand.  Adverse market conditions forced steelmakers to cut their operations by up to 50% by the end of 2019-20 and early 2020-21. Further, he also makes his views on the various stimulus measure taken by the government to enhance the growth of the economy.

Rajeev Jhawar, managing director, UML, said the various measures announced by the central government to stimulate the economy are likely to bear fruit after the monsoon. While the pandemic has not yet been eradicated, the growth is likely to occur as all the industries had learnt to live together with the pandemic. Rajeev said while the demand for wire rope in the international market was very modest, domestic demand in various sectors was very low due to the lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rajeev Jhawar says that their plant is currently operating at 50-55% of the installed capacity.  However, export demand is good and we are supported by the depreciation of the rupee, he said. The company expects capacity to increase by the second half of this financial year once the covid situation is brought under control and domestic demand picks up.

Usha martin in wire rope manufacturing

The company’s global R&D centre in Italy is actively engaged in the design of wire ropes and uses property design software to develop products. The company also has a comprehensive R&D facility in its manufacturing unit at Ranchi. “Product innovation that meets the customers’ needs is a continuous process for us. We are a major supplier of several OEMs,” explains Devadip Bhowmik, director, sales & marketing, UML. The market leader in India in wire ropes, Usha Martin can produce a wide range – from 4.8 mm to 130 mm in diameter – of wire ropes. “Our USP is diverse quality products that cater to large customers,” adds Bhowmik. “It is the concept of a ‘super market’, where one can pick up everything under one roof.”

Describing the advantages of the overseas operations, Rajeev Jhawar affirms that these operations provide a significant synergy and support to the overall business performance. It also helps us to spread the offerings across the globe. The Covid pandemic had adversely impacted UML’s demand but the international market is expected to open up, though slowly. Rajeev Jhawar thinks that in the next five years, the segment will see good demand.

Mr. Rajeev Jhawar has also cautioned all to remain agile and responsive to the changing market needs and focus on increasing market share in high contributory products. Rajeev is bullish about the segment and expects oil & gas, ports and shipping to be the growth drivers. On a consolidated basis, 35-40 per cent of Usha Martin’s revenue is from exports to Europe, South East Asia, the US and the Scandinavian countries.

“Usha Martin has been supplying us with wire ropes for heavy-duty cranes for ports over decades now,” says Harinder Singh, business head, coal import terminal, Adani Ports & SEZ. Performance-wise, UML’s products are on par with the imported ropes. But though the quality is good, there is a need to improve the services, says Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin enjoys strong brand recall in the segment.  Usha Martin is now in the process of strengthening its projects and services under the new leadership. The adopted HR policy of the company identifies future leaders. The HR processes find high-potential performers. UML nurture them internally through training and development, as part of a succession planning process, so that future leaders can be developed within the organization. This is what Rajeev Jhawar feels. Usha Martin has a workforce of 2,300. The average age group of the company’s management is below 50.

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The true self of man is hidden in a central core of stillness, a central vacuum of silence. This core, this vacuum occupies only a pinpoint in dimension. All around it there is ring of thoughts and desires constituting the imagined self, the ego. This ring is constantly fermenting with fresh thoughts, constantly changing with fresh desires, and alternately bubbling with joy or heaving with grief. Whereas the centre is forever at rest, the ring around it is never at rest; whereas the centre bestows peace, the ring destroys it.

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About MG Road

Mahatma Gandhi Road (MG Road) –  is the commercial hub in CBD Bangalore. MG road is part of the Bangalore central business district (CBD) which is a prominent commercial and financial centre of the city which covers a diameter of 20 kms from Vidhan Soudha. It houses some of the most posh areas, many corporate offices, head offices of multiple banks, has many famous premium hotels, famous restaurants, famous hangout spots, hip pubs, commercial complexes, shops, theatres and is well connected by metro lines.

Popular Shopping Centres : Brigade Road (fashion capital of Bangalore), Cauvery Emporium, Garuda Mall, UB city, Public Utility building, Central mall, 1 MG Mall.

Famous Company Offices : India Post, Sub-Registrar Office, Vijaya Bank, Manipal Centre, Raheja Tower, Cisco, Citibank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Group M, The New India Assurance Company, State Bank of India, Mediacom, Mindshare, Nitesh Estates, HDFC Life, PNB MetLife India Insurance Company, LIC, Y-Axis, Axis Mutual Fund, Indecomm Global Services, Design Cafe, Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd, 93.5 RED FM, Arvind Lifestyle Brands Limited, Standard Chartered Bank, The Times of India, NICE Limited.

Prominent locations : 1 MG Mall, Bishop Cotton Girls’ School, Bishop Cotton Boys’ School, St Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Scared Hearts Girls High School, Army Public School, Fame Shankarnag Chitra Mandira, Rex Cinema, St. Patrick’s Church, St. Andrew’s Church, Royal Orchid Central, Highgates Hotel, The Shelton Grand, Ashraya International Hotel, Iris – The Business Hotel and Spa, The Curzon Court, The Chevron Brigade, KSHA Hockey Stadium.

Popular Cafes, Hotels & Restaurants : Matteo Coffea, Le Jardin, The Oberoi, Hard Rock Cafe, Soul Cafe, Indian Coffee House, Communiti, Church Street Social, SkyDeck by Sherlock’s, Koshy’s, Empire, KFC, Nagarjuna, Pizza Hut, Cafe Coffee day, Subway, Hotel Ramanashree Brunton, OYO, Ebony, cafe Noir, Wow Momo, Mainland China, Truffles, PlanB, Olive bar and kitchen, Eat.Fit, Starbucks Coffee, Coconut Grove, The Open Box, Dunkin Donuts, Easy Tiger, Smoke House Deli, The Park, Taj MG Road, Vivanta by Taj, Taj West End.

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Interview extract from Memories of West Auckland at War exhibition held at Waitakere Central Library, 12 April - 21 May 2010.

“Amongst all the goodies we found the enemy had was a lot of food stuffs, and amongst the food stuffs was some condensed milk. The condensed milk had this label on, a lot of Chinese writing and so on. And it said ‘Pearl Condensed Milk’, canned in Singapore, you know made from finest New Zealand diary products. And so, when we found this we were very amused but the Aussie major who was rather a gung-ho guy, but I’m sure he was completely in jest but he called over Gus [Lieutenant Angus Rivers, 161 Battery] and said, “What’s this? You helping the enemy?” [Laughs].

So I got hold of this can of condensed milk and persuaded my colleagues – I had two new colleagues by now, because the other two had been shipped out. So we needed replacements and was joined by a guy called Wayne Radavanovich and Brutus Brunton. They were now part of our group of four, and we sat around and we used the condensed milk to brew ourselves some coffee.”

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Formal Setting - The Reggio-Emilia Approach

What is the Reggio-Emilia Approach

Reggio-Emilia (RE) is a formal learning approach to ECE whose name comes from the town where the first school of its kind originated. While viewed as a community-based start-up, it was founded by Loris Malaguzzi, who was committed to working with families within this region to create a learning environment for children that would prepare them to stand against oppression, injustice and inequality following World War II. It was thought that children needed a holistic approach to education. Central to the approach is that children develop their unique personalities in the early years and possess 'a hundred languages'; a plethora of ways to express themselves, creatively and emotionally. The RE education system is guided by 12 principles; collaboration, the image of the child, environment as a third teacher, relationships, transparency, documentation, pedagogical documentation, provocation, progettazione (curriculum of projects), one hundred languages of children, respect and reciprocity (Fraser, 2012). These guiding principles work collectively to enhance the child's holistic development.

The Setting of the Reggio-Emilia Approach

In a Reggio-inspired classroom, the environment is often referred to as the 'third teacher' (Gandini, 2011). The environment must be functional, flexible and reactive to the needs of the child and educator. The RE approach is built on a socio-constructivist model, viewing knowledge as being built on a foundation of interactions with people and the environment (Dodd-Nufrio, 2011).

Physically speaking, RE classrooms incorporate natural light and resources, allowing children to work both indoors and outdoors to promote their interests organically. The space should utilise other natural elements, such as live plants, comfortable furnishings and overall functionality (McNally & Slutsky, 2017).

An important aspect of RE is the documentation of the child's work and progress. A collaboration of work between parties can be found throughout the school. This allows the space to both demonstrate a passion for the students learning and work but allows others to engage with and understand what is happening in the school, encouraging communication and relationships regarding this (Hendrick, 1997). Here, growth in classroom environments can be achieved and developed through collaboration (Hewett, 2001). This understanding of the importance of the environment as more than just utilisation of space can be seen in the work of Bronfenbrenner (1979) who stresses a symbiotic relationship, where the child should have an impact on the environment, and then are impacted by this.

The Philsophy of the Reggio-Emilia Approach

RE puts a child's natural development and close relationship with the environment as central to the philosophy (Slipp, 2017). What was important to the development of the approach was that the environment of the learner plays a critical role in making learning meaningful, particularly to the student. The primary belief is that all children are "competent, curious, creative and capable" (The Compass School, 2017). Educators need to be aware of each child's potential and foster this development by targeting the child's interests. The approach is student-centered, with a 'self-guided' curriculum. What separates the foundation of the RE approach from others, is its unique view of the child. With the view that children have rights and are already bearers of knowledge, they are encouraged to share their thoughts and ideas (Hewett, 2001). Much of the educational philosophy has been linked with theoretical underpinnings of works from Piaget, Dewey and Vygotsky.

The Pedagogy of the Reggio-Emilia Approach

           One of the central aspects of the pedagogy is the concept of three teachers. With the desire to nurture their innate curiosity, the first teacher is the parent. The second teacher is other learners, including educators working alongside the child. The third teacher, a flexible environment, is responsive to the need for teachers and children to create learning together (Strong-Wilson & Ellis, 2007). Moreover, the third teacher can help shape a child’s identity as a player in his or her own life and the lives of others. To foster such an environment, teachers must go develop a deep understanding of the children’s thinking, questions, and curiosities. Imperative to this is ensuring that great care is taken in the environment design to allow for ease of exploration and development of interests (Thornton & Brunton, 2015).

           Alongside this, Reggio educators often state the method of teaching is "a long-term educational research project where children and adults are learning alongside each other," thus recognising the importance of understanding more about how children learn as opposed to the traditional idea of making them learn (Thornton & Brunton, 2015, p. 16). This environment then creates the right setting for a pedagogy which is based on active listening. Teachers become perceptive to exchanges between themselves, learners and the environment. The entire process of curriculum development can be adjusted through the experiences of the child and teacher (Gandini & Goldhaber, 2001), so the pedagogical approach is authentic and emergent to the needs of the learner.

The Role of the Whanau and Community

           When the first Reggio schools were developed, the parents were vital components to the development of the school’s philosophy. As previously mentioned, parents are the first teacher. Through a Reggio-inspired approach, learning doesn’t start and finish in the classroom each day; it can also take place in the home and community. Parents are encouraged to participate in their child's education and to extend learning opportunities. Parents are also given opportunities throughout the year to engage in activities with the school; exchange ideas, skills and questions (McNally & Slutsky, 2017). Of course, all parties are mutually interested in the healthy development and well-being of the child. This means each opportunity for parents and teachers to connect over the child holds its value and contributes to the mutual goal (McNally & Slutsky, 2017). 

The Role of the Teacher

           Teachers are viewed more than just leaders of education. They must actively participate in educational experiences, guiding students learning. As teachers are not expected to follow a comprehensive, structured curriculum, they are seen playing many roles.  First, teachers are researchers, they must investigate the child's learning process to change and inform their enriched learning experiences (McNally & Slutsky, 2017). Further, teachers are to be advocates for their students. They are to tell stories of the children so people can relate to this work and see children having value (McNally &Slutsky, 2017). The documentation created by teachers is a way for public engagement with what happens and what should happen in schools (Forman & Fyfe, 1998). Educators are also collaborators. For RE educators, collaboration is the backbone of the role (McNally & Slutsky, 2017).  Because teachers work in collaboration with their students, they are to help them find meaning in their work and experience (Rinaldi, 2012). This adds an important element of reciprocity to student learning. 

The Role oft the Student

           The child is seen as a ‘rich in potential, strong, powerful, competent, and most of all connected to adults and other children’ (Malaguzzi, 1993, p. 10). More specifically, the child is active in their learning, having the potential to construct this alongside educators (Edwards, 2011). With this active learning, it is a critical belief of the approach that children possess their rights, therefore the act of truly listening to the child is emphasized; their works and thoughts are taken seriously (Hewett, 2001). They are then seen not to be feed information and instruction, but instead as having an innate urge to discover (Katz, 1993).            Furthermore, if the teacher is seen as a researcher, and they work side-by-side, then of course this role is also true for the child. Children naturally are researchers, keen to derive outcomes and solutions amongst their discoveries (Staley, 1998).  The children are encouraged to discuss, question and observe, as a researcher should. At this point, it should be obvious that the RE approach places emphasis on the child as a social being. Malaguzzi (1993) has said that the system places a strong emphasis on the construction of knowledge via relationships. Malaguzzi believed that social learning was the proprietor for cognitive development (Gandini, 2012).  

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The Fantasy of Opting OutThose who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon. There are still ways to carve out spaces of resistance, counterargument, and autonomy. Image: Lianhao Qu, via UnsplashBy: Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance unprecedented in its precision and intimacy. As soon as she leaves her apartment, she is on camera: while in the hallway and the elevator of her building, when using the ATM outside her bank, while passing shops and waiting at crosswalks, while in the subway station and on the train — and all that before lunch. A montage of nearly every move of her life in the city outside her apartment could be assembled, and each step accounted for. But that montage would hardly be necessary: Her mobile phone, in the course of its ordinary operation of seeking base stations and antennas to keep her connected as she walks, provides a constant log of her position and movements. Her apps are keeping tabs, too. Any time she spends in “dead zones” without phone reception can also be accounted for: Her subway pass logs her entry into the subway, and her radio-frequency identification badge produces a record of her entry into the building in which she works. (If she drives a car, her electronic toll-collection pass serves a similar purpose, as does automatic license-plate imaging.) If her apartment is part of a smart-grid program, spikes in her electricity usage can reveal exactly when she is up and around, turning on lights and ventilation fans and using the microwave oven and the coffee maker. Surely some of the fault must lie with this individual for using services or engaging with institutions that offer unfavorable terms of service and are known to misbehave. Isn’t putting all the blame on government institutions and private services unfair, when they are trying to maintain security and capture some of the valuable data produced by their users? Can’t we users just opt out of systems with which we disagree? Before we return to the question of opting out, consider how thoroughly the systems mentioned are embedded in our hypothetical ordinary person’s everyday life, far more invasively than mere logs of her daily comings and goings. Someone observing her could assemble in forensic detail her social and familial connections, her struggles and interests, and her beliefs and commitments. From Amazon purchases and Kindle highlights, from purchase records linked with her loyalty cards at the drugstore and the supermarket, from Gmail metadata and chat logs, from search history and checkout records from the public library, from Netflix-streamed movies, and from activity on Facebook and Twitter, dating sites, and other social networks, a very specific and personal narrative is clear. If the apparatus of total surveillance that we have described here were deliberate, centralized, and explicit, a Big Brother machine toggling between cameras, it would demand revolt, and we could conceive of a life outside the totalitarian microscope. If the apparatus of total surveillance that we have described here were deliberate, centralized, and explicit, a Big Brother machine toggling between cameras, it would demand revolt, and we could conceive of a life outside the totalitarian microscope. But if we are nearly as observed and documented as any person in history, our situation is a prison that, although it has no walls, bars, or wardens, is difficult to escape. Which brings us back to the problem of “opting out.” For all the dramatic language about prisons and panopticons, the sorts of data collection we describe here are, in democratic countries, still theoretically voluntary. But the costs of refusal are high and getting higher: A life lived in social isolation means living far from centers of business and commerce, without access to many forms of credit, insurance, or other significant financial instruments, not to mention the minor inconveniences and disadvantages — long waits at road toll cash lines, higher prices at grocery stores, inferior seating on airline flights. It isn’t possible for everyone to live on principle; as a practical matter, many of us must make compromises in asymmetrical relationships, without the control or consent for which we might wish. In those situations — everyday 21st-century life — there are still ways to carve out spaces of resistance, counterargument, and autonomy. We are surrounded by examples of obfuscation that we do not yet think of under that name. Lawyers engage in overdisclosure, sending mountains of vaguely related client documents in hopes of burying a pertinent detail. Teenagers on social media — surveilled by their parents — will conceal a meaningful communication to a friend in a throwaway line or a song title surrounded by banal chatter. Literature and history provide many instances of “collective names,” where a population took a single identifier to make attributing any action or identity to a particular person impossible, from the fictional “I am Spartacus” to the real “Poor Conrad” and “Captain Swing” in prior centuries — and “Anonymous,” of course, in ours. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The secure browser Tor, which (among other anti-surveillance technologies) muddles our Internet activity with that of other Tor users, concealing our trail in that of many others.The browser plugins TrackMeNot and AdNauseam, which explore obfuscation techniques by issuing many fake search requests and loading and clicking every ad, respectively.The browser extension Go Rando, which randomly chooses your emotional “reactions” on Facebook, interfering with their emotional profiling and analysis.Playful experiments like Adam Harvey’s “HyperFace” project, finding patterns on textiles that fool facial recognition systems – not by hiding your face, but by creating the illusion of many faces.If obfuscation has an emblematic animal, it is the family of orb-weaving spiders, Cyclosa mulmeinensis, which fill their webs with decoys of themselves. The decoys are far from perfect copies, but when a wasp strikes they work well enough to give the orb-weaver a second or two to scramble to safety. At its most abstract, obfuscation is the production of noise modeled on an existing signal in order to make a collection of data more ambiguous, confusing, harder to exploit, more difficult to act on, and therefore less valuable. Obfuscation assumes that the signal can be spotted in some way and adds a plethora of related, similar, and pertinent signals — a crowd which an individual can mix, mingle, and, if only for a short time, hide. There is no simple solution to the problem of privacy, because privacy itself is a solution to societal challenges that are in constant flux. There is real utility in an obfuscation approach, whether that utility lies in bolstering an existing strong privacy system, in covering up some specific action, in making things marginally harder for an adversary, or even in the “mere gesture” of registering our discontent and refusal. After all, those who know about us have power over us. They can deny us employment, deprive us of credit, restrict our movements, refuse us shelter, membership, or education, manipulate our thinking, suppress our autonomy, and limit our access to the good life. There is no simple solution to the problem of privacy, because privacy itself is a solution to societal challenges that are in constant flux. Some are natural and beyond our control; others are technological and should be within our control but are shaped by a panoply of complex social and material forces with indeterminate effects. Privacy does not mean stopping the flow of data; it means channeling it wisely and justly to serve societal ends and values and the individuals who are its subjects, particularly the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. Innumerable customs, concepts, tools, laws, mechanisms, and protocols have evolved to achieve privacy, so conceived, and it is to that collection that we add obfuscation to sustain it — as an active conversation, a struggle, and a choice. Finn Brunton is assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet” and coauthor (with Helen Nissenbaum) of “Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest,” from which this excerpt is adapted. Helen Nissenbaum is professor of information science at Cornell Tech and the author or coauthor of several books, including “Privacy in Context” and “Values at Play in Digital Games.” She is one of the developers of TrackMeNot, a browser extension used to foil the profiling of users through their searches.