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The concluding chapter summarizes all the major contributions of the book in the literary arena. It explains the fluid space that develops in the compartments of the moving trains, commuters’ experiencescape, productive commute hours, role of commuting on suburbanization and regional divisions and the gendered patterns of commuting.
Within the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ , the social was being reconfigured as mobile, with many aspects of social life, civil society, and political participation increasingly understood as being performed through mobilities. Mobilities sustained families, relationships, access and delivery to services, leisure, work and politics, bringing about material and discursive transformations to both urban and rural landscapes . Furthermore, ‘new mobilities’ perspectives sought to bring far more attention to both the empirical facts of mobility , and to precisely what was happening within the journey, through the movement from one place to another.
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Earphones are used to listen to an audio from any electronic device, such as laptop or mobile privately. It has two ear-buds and may or may not have wire. Thus, the sound does not disturb the next be-seated passenger.
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Mondal, B., Samanta, G. (2021). Conclusion. In: Mobilities in India. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78350-1_8
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