Mass Communication and Journalism

Dr. A.K. Shukla M.A., Ph.D. (Goldmedalist) is presently working as a Senior Reader in the Department of political science at R.R. Post-graduate College Amethi-Sultanpur, U.P. He has been active in post-doctoral research works since 1992 and had been awarded major and minor research projects by the University Grants Commission, govt. of India, New Delhi. He had also been awarded SAARC Fellowship in 2003. His area of interest and specialization is in comparative politics and political sociology although he has completed his Ph.D. on Lok Sabha, which has been published by Tiwari Publications, ghonda, New Delhi in 1990. The main focus of the author had been on women studies. Besides the above the author is engaged in active social and cultural works also. He is the life member of Indian Institute of Public Administration and the Secretary General of International Goodwill Society of India, Amethi chapter.