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Mary Shelley’s debut novel Frankenstein was composed and written during a period of immense creative and personal turmoil in the summer of 1816. A summer spent in exile from England after her elopement with Percy Shelley and the resultant cleavage from all that was dear and familiar. Away from family and friends the novel casts a long look backwards at her parent country and conveys an acute sense of displacement. Having moved away from the uneasy status of ...
The anxiety of man to explore nature and discover new forms and aspects of life has led to a vast heritage of knowledge and ideas. The diversity of microbial flora and their role in molding the ecology has always raised a number of queries in the human mind. The microorganisms have posed influence in the social and economic structure of human civilization from time immortal. The influences have been beneficial as well as detrimental. These effects points out the ...
The text book of Microbiology as taught in different courses in various universities. It has been divided in five sections. Sections I deals with the history of microbiology, taxonomy, morphology and reproduction of microorganisms, wherein, a brief account of eukaryotic microorganism is also discussed. Section II covers physiology wherein, a basic account of biochemistry and details of enzyme and metabolic processes in microorganisms is included. Further, certain ...
In India the radio and T.V. networks are entirely under the control of the central government while the press is almost government while the press is almost entirely in private hands. Radio and T.V. are under government control because they are seen as agencies of mass education. However, there is substantial support in favour of auto-nomy for T.V. and a demand that provincial governments be given greater say in deciding programmes for radio and T.V. According to ...