"Ramayana and Mahabharata are called The Itihasas. Itihasa in Sanskrit literally means 'it happened thus'. So these are to be distinguished from the Puranas. Ithihasas were composed or written by those who witnessed what was happening so these are historical accounts. Valmiki lived during Ramayana period as did Veda Vyasa during The Mahabharata. Valmiki's Ramayana is in the form of poetry and is of great beauty. It is considered as the world's first poetry. It is set to Anushtup meter. It ...

முனைவர்.கு.செந்தில்குமார் அழகப்பா பல்கலைகழகத்தில் அரசியல் & பொது நிர்வாக துறையில் இணை பேராசிரியராக பணியாற்றி கொண்டிருக்கிறார்.குடிமை பணிகளுக்கான தேர்வுகளுக்கு பயிற்ச்சி அளித்து கொண்டிருக்கிறார்.பல ஆராய்ச்சி கட்டுரைகளை பன்னாட்டளவில் பிரசுரித்த இவர் சமீபத்தில் ஜோஹன்னஸ்பர்க் பல்கலைகழகத்தில் தனது ஆராய்ச்சி கட்டுரையை சமர்பித்துள்ளார்.இவருடைய சமீபத்திய வெளியீடு நவீன அரசியல் பகுப்பாய்வு ஆகும்.பன்னாட்டு உறவுகள்,மனித உரிமைகள் போன்ற பிரத்யோக பாடங்களில் தற்ச்சமயம் கவனம் செலுத்தி வருகிறார். இவரின் சமீ...

This interdisciplinary volume explores how graphic narratives engage with urgent global issues—ranging from identity, trauma, and health to racial injustice, reproductive rights, disability, and ecological awareness. Featuring contributions from the U.S., Brazil, India, Canada, and Europe, the book highlights comics as powerful tools for storytelling, healing, and activism. It offers a globally relevant, intersectional perspective across fields such as graphic medicine, gender studies, dis...

The switched reluctance machine (SRM) is the least expensive electrical machine to produce, yet one of the most reliable. As such, research has blossomed during the last decade, and the SRM and variable drive systems using SRMs are receiving considerable attention from industry. Because they require a power electronic converter and controller to function, however, successful realization of an SRM variable drive system demands an understanding of the converter and controller subsystems and ...

Several contributions in our first book about schizo affective disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizoaffective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986) supported the assumption that schizoaffective disorders differ in relevant ways from schizophrenic disorders. The classification of schizo affective disorders as a subgroup of schizophrenia has also been criticized, and empirical research in clinical, genetic, therapeutic, and prognostic areas supports the idea that there are some strong similari ...

This book traces the global and national process of gradual change in the integration of development and environment and, in a deeper sense the ethics of the relationship between humans and nature. One may say that the basic message of the book is “…Nature protects if protected.”Nitin Desai, Secretary-General to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002).“The book is a veritable treasure of knowledge that shows how to live today for a common future in wh...

This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets. The IPCC assessment reports, published every 6–7 years, constitute im...

Do you know how to pray? Is there a correct way to pray? Have you wondered if there is an effective prayer you should repeat as most of your prayers seem to be unanswered? A prayer is a conversation with God that you can have at anytime, anywhere. The purpose of prayer is not to beg to God but to talk to him and ask for his help. You should feel as burden has been lifted off your shoulders after you are finished with your prayer. If not, you may not be praying correctly. This essay teaches...

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and writing her first book. Building on the insights of the memoir, in the critical essay ...

For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions. This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model. It addresses questions like:- Why can th...

“Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times

The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the non-s...