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Prerequisite to the formation of a developed nation is the need to ensure education for all. Recognizing the need to address this issue, especially in a developing nation like India, Emerging Trends in Higher Education in India: Concepts and Practices provides critical insights in the field of Education to achieve this goal.
The essays in this volume present a comparative perspective of national and global education policies. These discussions by eminent scholars ...
Greater self-employment or entrepreneurship can put India on the road to rapid economic growth. With this idea as its underlying theme, this book examines what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and explores the possibility of India emerging as an entrepreneurial nation. In the process, it delves into the history of entrepreneurship, examines the qualities required for it, presents the stories and experiences of many Indian inventors and entrepreneurs, ...
'Today’s Icarus may well be tomorrow’s Phoenix,’ says T. P. Sreenivasan, former ambassador and Shashi Tharoor’s long-time friend, in this personal narrative on the fight for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in 2009. This is the absorbing story of an extraordinary election in which Tharoor carefully orchestrated his campaign by highlighting his past accomplishments and promises for the future.How did a virtual outsider, who was not ...
VHDL: Basics to Programming is a methodological guide to VHDL and its applications. The book is written to teach fundamentals of VHDL to students at the beginner’s level, but advanced users will also benefit from the complex embedded-system designs, included with simulation and synthesis. Presented in simple, easy-to-understand language, it proceeds gradually from HDLs to VHDL and its applications in the real world. Several examples are given for commonly ...
Geography in India' is the fifth ICSSR survey of research in the subject and discusses its priority research areas as identified by the Council, namely, physical geography, population and settlement geography, regional geography and regional planning, remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS), and analytical techniques--with special reference to quantitative techniques in geography. The comprehensive chapters, written by leading specialists in ...
Caste in Life: Experiencing Inequalities brings together nineteen stories of real-life experiences of caste-based social practices in India. This book does not seek to complement the mountains of existing literature on the subject, which has already been studied from all conceivable angles. Instead, it engages with caste as a subjective category of how it is lived and experienced. Some of the contributors are internationally known scholars of caste as an academic ...
Our world is witnessing a major change in communication patterns, with expanding social spheres, openness in communication and professionals working in multicultural environments. It is crucial, therefore, that India’s workforce remains world-class, through re-training and continuous improvement, to remain competent, competitive and successful. To create and nurture successful professionals, the acquisition, cultivation and fine-tuning of soft skills are ...
It is now common knowledge that the world is greying. The elderly are increasing in number, and the birthrate is declining. The trend is universal, but not all nations are greying at the same time or at the same pace. This unequal greying is setting in motion a new social dynamic, idenitified by Dr. Bagchi as “grey dynamicsâ€. Slender families, the breakdown of marriages, children with no siblings or cousins, and vanishing multi-generational homes are all ...
The framework of administrative operation is based on the evolution of public policy. This is the sphere of politics and governance, of which bureaucracy is an integral part. The growth and harmony of the executive and legislature provide the foundation for the administration in operation. But does this task belong to the administrative sphere, independent of public policy? The play of public policy appears in the quality of the rule of law. It defines the role ...
This book by the well-known management guru, Kenichi Ohmae is meant to help us get a sense of how the global economy works. Based on his firsthand experiences while travelling across the world, Ohmae tries to explain how the world has changed in the past two decades. The traditional principles held sacred in the past, do not apply today. In particular, Ohmae focuses on the role of information technology and the rise of region states, a theme for which the author ...