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This book presents select proceedings of the International
Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments
(VALUE 2020). Various topics covered in this book include context
responsive architecture, green architecture, energy efficient
buildings, energy conservation, inclusive spatial environments,
security in buildings and cities, green/smart/ intelligent
architecture, sustainable mobility and smart communities. This book
will be a valuable reference for students, researchers, and
professionals interested in built environment and allied fields.
This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family
structure in India over the past few decades. It captures the
diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a
culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and
change generationally. The book explores the paradigms of
understanding family life in India through illustrations which
trace patterns of family formations in the context of large-scale
social, economic and media-driven changes. Besides discussing the
ongoing debates on the sociology of family, the chapters in this
volume also look at diverse families experiencing poverty, conflict
and displacement and demystifies families with members having a
disability or non-normative sexual orientation. The book will be
useful to students and researchers of various disciplines, such as
sociology, social work, family studies, women’s studies and
anthropology.
This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family
structure in India over the past few decades. It captures the
diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a
culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and
change generationally. The book explores the paradigms of
understanding family life in India through illustrations which
trace patterns of family formations in the context of large-scale
social, economic and media-driven changes. Besides discussing the
ongoing debates on the sociology of family, the chapters in this
volume also look at diverse families experiencing poverty, conflict
and displacement and demystifies families with members having a
disability or non-normative sexual orientation. The book will be
useful to students and researchers of various disciplines, such as
sociology, social work, family studies, women's studies and
anthropology.
This volume is a collection of Devi Prasad's essays on Gandhi,
social justice and social change. The different essays address
themes ranging from Gandhi's ideals of satyagraha and ahimsa, civil
disobedience and non-violence, to the Gandhian approach to
education as founded in making and crafting as well as
participation in the political and social movements of our times.
They also engage the revolutionary potential of Gandhi's thought,
drawing parallels between Lenin and Gandhi and analysing the
historical significance of Gandhi's anti-imperialist yet
non-violent political philosophy. In sum, the volume dwells on the
continuing, critical relevance of Gandhi in our times. It will be
of interest to those in education, political science, peace and
conflict studies, history and philosophy, as well as to the general
reader interested in Gandhian thought.
This volume is a collection of Devi Prasad's essays on Gandhi,
social justice and social change. The different essays address
themes ranging from Gandhi's ideals of satyagraha and ahimsa, civil
disobedience and non-violence, to the Gandhian approach to
education as founded in making and crafting as well as
participation in the political and social movements of our times.
They also engage the revolutionary potential of Gandhi's thought,
drawing parallels between Lenin and Gandhi and analysing the
historical significance of Gandhi's anti-imperialist yet
non-violent political philosophy. In sum, the volume dwells on the
continuing, critical relevance of Gandhi in our times. It will be
of interest to those in education, political science, peace and
conflict studies, history and philosophy, as well as to the general
reader interested in Gandhian thought.
This book presents select proceedings of the International
Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments
(VALUE 2020). Various topics covered in this book include context
responsive architecture, green architecture, energy efficient
buildings, energy conservation, inclusive spatial environments,
security in buildings and cities, green/smart/ intelligent
architecture, sustainable mobility and smart communities. This book
will be a valuable reference for students, researchers, and
professionals interested in built environment and allied fields.
Ramkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth
century India, is regarded as the first major figure in modern
Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura district,
Bengal, he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan, at the
university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, at the age of 19. Having
made his home and found his creative metier there - as a student
first and a teacher later - he was one of the pioneering trio of
artists, along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee, who
made Santiniketan the most important center for art in India
between 1920 and 1947. Ramkinkar, as he was popularly known, was a
man who had enormous gifts but never aired them; an artist who was
single-minded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with
philosophic unconcern. Indifferent to success, fame and money, he
lived an unworldly and capricious life. His works reflect a great
zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of
poor and laboring people. The subject of this book is Ramkinkar's
sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad,
supplemented by discussions on the artist's life and work in his
own words and through the eyes of his students, friends and
associates. Devi Prasad, who was a student at Kala Bhavan during
1938-44, went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the
year 1978. During his stay there, he undertook a photographic study
of 60-odd sculptures of Ramkinkar. Towards the end of that year,
during the seventh Pous celebrations, he exhibited nearly 150 of
these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan. Ramkinkar himself,
though in poor health by then, inaugurated the exhibition; he was
deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his
works.This book on Ramkinkar's sculptures by Devi Prasad is
published as a tribute, to mark the artist's birth centenary year.
In recent years, fly ash is a subject of worldwide concern due to
considerable environmental importance. It has been recognised that
use of fly ash in stowing or backfilling of mines is an attractive
solution to its disposal problems. Characteristics of fly ash and
its response to imposed load must be studied beforehand for its
effective utilization in stowing. This research work presents the
physico-chemical characterization of fly ash of two thermal power
stations located in the eastern part of India utilizing Talcher
coal as fuel for power generation to assess their suitability for
stowing in underground coal mines. An effort has been made to
enhance the settling of fly ash particles and water drainage from
the hydraulically stowed pond ash using polymeric flocculant.
Besides, the geotechnical properties, viz. the compaction and
consolidation properties of the fly ash are studied in this
research. Lastly, the competency of stowed pond ash in taking load
of the overlying strata has also been predicted. This research will
be useful for the mining professionals, researchers, and students
as a guide to assess the suitability of fly ash for stowing and
help in its bulk utilization.
Over the last decade, public schools in developing countries have
faced chronic shortage of funds, skills and expertise to offer the
quality education to the children. Traditional source of funding is
no longer adequate to finance public schools. There is plenty
literature available on public private partnerships but little
exists on models for state and non- state partnership. This book,
therefore, provides three models (non-state financing to public
school, state financing to non- state provision and a joint
financing) for partnership arrangements. Qualitative methodology
particularly grounded theory is used to build models. It seeks to
interpret partnerships in various perspectives and developed
relevant partnerships models for school level based on the socially
constructed meanings. The book demonstrates the application of
qualitative methods in financing education. It is useful to policy
makers, program managers, educationists, community leaders and
students for policy formulation, program development, research and
study design in the field of school finance.
This book provides basics as well as new methods of municipal solid
waste management including generations, collection and storage,
transportation and treatment and disposal. The problems and
prospects of MSW management in Mysore city have well explained with
sevral images of MSWM operation.Further, difficulty faced generally
by most of the municipal body in managing solid waste is discussed
in comprehensive manner which will update the readers of solid
waste management. This book fulfills the needs of undergraduates,
post graduates and researcher of Environmental science,
Biotechnology, and other related fields.
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