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Energetic and passionate, Rebecca recently completed a new book focusing on the links between design, craft and sustainability. The book highlights bamboo’s versatile applications and their impact on ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability. Boldly Rebecca outlines a “Sustainability Checklist” to empower designers to guide and evaluate their designs, and move from not just green, but sustainable.
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The Love script sets in the backyard of a University Campus. The love reaches it's highest point till destiny intervenes. It is a roller coaster ride which takes the reader up and down.
The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) has completed more than a decade. The Indian state brought upon itself an acute intensification of the chronic fiscal and balance of payments difficulties. The statist economic growth model in force during the 1950-1990 in its various avatars was increasingly made nominal, friendly and subservient to the market forces: it was demonised as the root cause of the crisis of macro-economic management in early 1991. The ...
Despite widening awareness about the adverse effects of human activity on our natural environment, there are multiple perceptions of what needs to be urgently attended to and by whom. Whose reference point defines the value of nature? For a vast majority of Indians, nature continues to be the source of life, it provides subsistence and meaning, and it contributes to their self-definition of who they are. It is also brutish and unpredictable, often bringing ...
This volume provides perspectives on a range of issues in some key areas that have exercised scholars and activists in women’s studies for more than two decades. The richly diverse collection brings together contributions by some of the leading scholars in women’s studies who critically reflect on complex questions and challenges facing women’s studies and the women’s movement. The papers address issues such as legacies and futures of women’s studies, a ...
The very origin of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is shrouded in controversies on the very shape and character of the organisation. It has been about seven years since the final agreement was signed and WTO came into existence. But there are no signs that the implementation of these agreements is likely to be smooth. The reasons are many. There are doubts about the spirit of inclusion and exclusion of certain provisions, which amount to fears of ...
The concept of 'good governance' came into political and academic discourse only recently when the World Bank and other aid giving agencies blessed it as a part of pre-condition for economic aid or a process of reform qualifying for such aid. It has, however, been an aspiration of people, a challenge to rulers, and a romantic ideal for philosophers and political thinkers round the ages. Though narrowly conceived by the World Bank and other money lender agencies; ...
Poetry, in the SAARC region, occupies a lot of spaces, both private and public. From personal anguish to social protest, from longing to loss and love, from racial ancestral memories to rude ruptures, it covers a very wide and complicated range of experiences, emotions, feelings and insights, amalgamating history, politics and myth. Nurturing itself from the immense resources of tradition while responding deeply to the new challenges, it has been resorting to a ...
Raza remains characterised by the crossbreeding of the modernity of Europe and the USA and the spirituality of India. His evolution can be observed in the successive stages that structured his life: at every moment of his thought process Life, Nature and their Mysteries have been forever present. His Indian canvases and those of his early years in Paris were realistic in the sense that they show the visible. Later, he distanced himself from this concept to tend ...
Education has always been an arena of contestation. More so, in our times, when we are witnessing the resurgence of the debate on the meaning of education—its social objective, its politics and ideology, and, above all, its relationship with the larger social structure. The present volume throws new light on this stimulating debate in the sociology of education. It examines the theoretical literature, reveals the socio-political history of ...
In the first years of the nineteenth century a British army officer called Thomas Duer Broughton became enchanted by the songs and poems that his soldiers knew by heart. He started to get them noted down and eventually his collection became the first published anthology of Hindi poets. What sort of poems were memorised by Indian sipahis at that time? Surprisingly enough most of them were not folk poems but apart from some devotional quatrains and songs, were ...
It is probably not a coincidence that ‘Andhere Mein’, which is often considered to be one of Muktibodh’s last poems, is also the longest one: here we may see the attempt to crown a lifetime of creative writing with a poem that is representative of all that has been attempted elsewhere; a poem that is representative of its time and of its changing tendencies, and at the same time representative enough to ...
At the level of facts and their presentation in the official discourse, systematic recourse is made to falsification and mis-representation ignoring their linkages with policies. The way the NDA government went about playing up the GDP growth rate of over 8 per cent estimated for the year 2003-04 and turned it into a ‘Shining India’ election campaign. However, the growth rate was basically an episodic phenomenon. It was the democratic spirit and political ...
This volume emerges out of an experience-sharing international workshop of concerned researchers and social activists drawn form nine developing countries. It contains papers on poverty alleviation programmes implemented in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Kerala (India), Egypt, Tanzania and Uganda. The programmes show the wide variety of strategies followed: checking environmental degradation with people’s participation, increasing agricultural production through ...
Women have developed a new self-confidence owing particularly to their involvement in social production and in the different social movements. This has again enhanced public awareness of the struggle for their liberation. The two authors, Monika Gartner-Engel and Stefan Engel, intend their polemical treatise as a contribution to this societal discussion. At the same time they take an uncompromising stand for the liberation of women in a society freed from ...
This book explores elements of Rajasthani kathputli puppetry--one of several traditions of string or marionette puppetry that evolved in Europe, Asia and Africa. In addition to performance techniques, it focuses on the views and attitudes expressed by the hereditary puppeteers, the kathputli Bhats, through their art as well as through their verbal expressions. Interviews with forty-seven puppeteers, photographs and audio and video recordings of kathputli events ...
Cinema is not just a visual medium; it is also an emotional medium. This emotional dimension is what makes some films-like Kismet, Aawara, Baiju Baawra, Pyaasa, Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam, Mere Mehboob, Sholay, Amar Akbar Anthony DDLJ-our films. Each year a few films become mega-hits in India (and Pakistan) because we all choose to see them, and some of us more than once. M F Husain the painter was famously quoted as having seen Hum Aapke Hain Kaun 62 ...