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This book discusses the continued emphasis on development gains in
India's national policies and its quest to meet sustainable
development goals. It offers an analysis of the laws and
infrastructure for environment protection in the country and their
ineffectiveness in dealing with the water pollution which has had
dire consequences on India's ecological landscape. The book, while
highlighting the need and importance of industrial development,
argues for sustainable measures to moderate and monitor such
developmental efforts in light of severe environmental
degradations. Focusing on the state of Gujarat, it looks at
published and un-published data on industrial development and water
pollution levels and data obtained via applications filed under the
Right to Information Act. It also offers a detailed account of the
concentration of red industries which release the most hazardous
pollutants and their effects on the environment. The authors look
at the data from a theoretical and empirical perspective, offering
insights into how the checks and balances levied by the state have
been violated. They highlight the patterns and trends which emerge
from the study of these developmental efforts and underline the
need to improve the effectiveness of policy instruments, and the
need to diversify the existing mechanisms. The book will be of
great interest to students and researchers of environment and
development studies, public policy, sociology, law and governance,
human ecology and economics.
Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of
civilization. However, cities are slowly becoming overwhelmed and
therefore intervention is desirable towards green, blue and
egalitarian nature. Even with current urban issues, we must rise to
the occasion as professionals to create cities that are social,
cities that take care of the environment, and cities that are
digital. Increased citizen participation is indispensable in this
process. The 'International Conference on Future is Urban (IFCU'
21) Dec 16-18, 2021, Ahmedabad, India', takes into account
Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation for planning
Future and cities in future.
This book discusses the continued emphasis on development gains in
India’s national policies and its quest to meet sustainable
development goals. It offers an analysis of the laws and
infrastructure for environment protection in the country and their
ineffectiveness in dealing with the water pollution which has had
dire consequences on India’s ecological landscape. The book,
while highlighting the need and importance of industrial
development, argues for sustainable measures to moderate and
monitor such developmental efforts in light of severe environmental
degradations. Focusing on the state of Gujarat, it looks at
published and un-published data on industrial development and water
pollution levels and data obtained via applications filed under the
Right to Information Act. It also offers a detailed account of the
concentration of red industries which release the most hazardous
pollutants and their effects on the environment. The authors look
at the data from a theoretical and empirical perspective, offering
insights into how the checks and balances levied by the state have
been violated. They highlight the patterns and trends which emerge
from the study of these developmental efforts and underline the
need to improve the effectiveness of policy instruments, and the
need to diversify the existing mechanisms. The book will be of
great interest to students and researchers of environment and
development studies, public policy, sociology, law and governance,
human ecology and economics.
Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry
devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted
translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a
new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in
a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by
seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five
anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and
seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that
guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to
read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the
Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through
the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection
when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and
illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and
separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of
the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent
scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose
resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained.
Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries
despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and
passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from
the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and
tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable
poetic tradition.
The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with
some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across
Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a
result of urbanization; environmental challenges, especially
questions of climate change, natural disasters, and environmental
justice; and the challenges of urban infrastructure, built form,
and new emerging types of urban settlements. The essays demonstrate
that it is increasingly difficult to conceptualize the 'urban' as
one particular type of settlement. Rather, it would be more
accurate to say that the 'urban' characterizes a global transition
in the way we are beginning to think about settlements. This book
is of interest not only to researchers interested in comparative
and inter-disciplinary research, but also to urban practitioners
more broadly, illustrating through concrete cases the challenges
that urban regions in Asia and beyond are facing, and the various
opportunities that exist for dealing with these challenges.
Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story
of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet
representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess
Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life
undergoes the same fate as the anklet that is stolen and used as a
weapon. The story of Kannaki follows the conventions of classical
Tamil poetry and is told in three phases: the erotic, the mythic,
and the heroic. This epic ranks with the "Ramayana" and the
"Mahabharata" as one of the great classics of Indian literature.
Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry
devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted
translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a
new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in
a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by
seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five
anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and
seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that
guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to
read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the
Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through
the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection
when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and
illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and
separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of
the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent
scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose
resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained.
Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries
despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and
passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from
the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and
tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable
poetic tradition.
Since the beginning of human civilization, medicinal plants have
been used by mankind due to its therapeutic value, least toxicity
and cost effective. Nature has been a source of medicinal agents
for thousands of years and an impressive number of modern drugs
have been isolated from natural sources. Many of these isolations
were based on the uses of the agents in traditional medicine. The
plant-based, traditional medicine systems continues to play an
essential role in health care, with about 80% of the world's
inhabitants relying mainly on traditional medicines for their
primary health care.India has several traditional medical systems,
such as Ayurveda and Unani, which has survived through more than
3000 years, mainly using plant-based drugs. The materia medica of
these systems contains a rich heritage of indigenous herbal
practices that have helped to sustain the health of most rural
people of India. Therefore present work evaluation of Blumea
eriantha for Anti diabetic activity may useful for development of a
formulation from herbal sources which having least toxicity but
much more efficacy and gift for poor population for management of
Diabetes melitus.-umesh pratap singh.
INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY begins with a description of the
geometry of curved space, explaining geodesics, parallel transport,
covariant differentiation, geodesic deviation and spacetime
symmetry by killing vectors. It then introduces Einstein's theory
of gravitation followed by Schwarzschild solution with its
relevance to Positive Mass theorem. The three tests for Einstein's
gravity are explained. Other exact solutions such as Vaidya, Kerr
and Reisner - Nordstrom metric are included. In the Chapter on
cosmological solutions, a detailed description of Godel metric is
provided. It then introduces five dimensional spacetime of Kaluza
showing the unification of gravity with electromagnetism. This is
extended to include non-Abelian gauge theory by invoking compact
extra dimensions. Explicit expressions in this case for Christoffel
connections and ricci tensor are derived and the higher dimensional
gravity action is shown to compactification are given.
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