R.N. Misra
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A low sound is pleasant, whereas, loud sound is unpleasant and is commonly referred to as "Noise". Noise can be defined as an unpleasant and unwanted sound. Sound pollution causes due to industrialized urban life and congestion and over population. Noise pollution is not fatal to human life, yet its importance cannot be overlooked, because repeated exposure to sound reduces the sleeping hours and productivity or efficiency of a human being. Sound is not ...
This volume is a collection of papers presented in a seminar that was held under the auspices of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. It endeavours to offer an integral vision of Indian arts in their autonomous and related domains and is designed to meet the requirement of having an authentic and popular sourcebook to enlighten average readers on different manifestations of Indian arts down the ages. It underscores that despite the vicissitudes of ...
Population explosion is a burning problem of our country. India occupies second place in the world in population whereas occupies 7th place in terms of area. India has 2.4 per cent of world’s land with 16 per cent of world’s population. The nature has given us air, land and all other resources with limited means. Unless a positive and effective check has been made on the growth of population, no doubt India will overtake China and we will face a number of ...
Yakshas afford an opportunity to comprehend how something which was conceptually fluid in the beginning eventually assumed a corporeality invested with character and attributes, and through a historical process of transformation altered so much that what had originally started as a nebulous idea, somewhat enigmatic in its content, ultimately assumed demonic attributes and functions. There is a queer touch of both sacred and profane in the character of Yakshas and ...
The Indian Ocean ad India’s Security are closely linked with each other. The economic prosperity, the territorial integrity and the very existence of India as a free nation depend upon the security and defence of this ocean and its adjacent territory. The Indian Ocean region serves as an important source of strategic raw material for India and is also an ever-growing market for her industrial an engineering goods. Newly acquired maritime zones and continental ...
In the present study, an attempt has been made to assess the impact of commercial banks on the rural artisans of Ganjam district of Orissa, further an attempt has also been made to ascertain the various factors for mounting overdues of institutional and non-institutional credit. The study has tried to ascertain whether literacy, age, caste of the borrower, quantum of credit, processing time taken by the banks in sanctioning the loans, under finance (credit gap) ...
Man is the most important biotic element in shaping the natural environment. The advancement of science and technology during the present century have been undoubtedly made the man most powerful species of the biotic environmental degradation. Effect of such type of changing environment conditions are more prominent in tribal areas where the technological agricultural and economic developments have recently got their impact. Garasias are one of the most backward ...
India is rural in character and 70 percent of its population lives in rural areas. We have completed nine five year plans, despite that the standard of living of the people could not be improved to satisfactory mark. The development of rural economy depends on various factors, coordinating each other. Eleven eminent writers have contributed articles to this book. This book throws light on various aspects on the rural development of the country, like, Transport, ...
The book attempts to examine certain basic conceptualizations about art (silpa), artists (silpi) and the canon (sastra), the three defining elements in traditional Indian sculptures. It takes up issues concerning the valorization and devaluation of silpa, including its concordance with form (rupa), its secular domain and, for that reason, its vulnerability. Using both textual and epigraphic sources, its section on artists and craftsmen of different ...