In the tech capital of India, where dreams meet ambitions and create magic, “The Shadow of a Mirage” unfolds a heartfelt tale of friendship, ambition, love, and the invincible dedication to chasing dreams.The story follows two middle-class engineers, Adi and Joy, who met in a PG (paying guest) accommodation in Bangalore. Joy, a creative heart with a 9-to-5 mindset, believed in simple living, while Adi, with a challenging attitude and big dreams. Their vastly different personalities...

The book showcases the application of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies in the field of media and communication studies, with specific reference to hands-on projects on media policy analysis. The intent of the book is to translate theoretical ideas and knowledge in the light of the new pedagogic developments and effective learning and teaching designs that can be taken up in any classroom setting and can be applied to any curriculum in higher and further education. A precise ...

Gastronomy is a fundamental aspect of culture and the food and cuisine of any region can provide rich insights into the local lifestyle and traditions. Gastronomic tourism therefore involves visiting food producers, restaurants, food festivals or other establishments where visitors can dine and experience the typical products of a region. It is an enjoyable way for tourists to discover the cultural heritage of the places they visit and culinary pleasure is becoming an increasingly decisive...

This book explores the synergy between yoga and dance, enhancing physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It shows how yoga improves dancers' strength, flexibility, and focus, while dance adds creativity and fluidity to yoga. The spiritual essence of Odissi dance and the therapeutic benefits of both disciplines are also examined. Readers will discover how these practices promote a balanced, fulfilling life.

Virtual economic transactions have radically transformed the way we think about trade and markets in closed and open economies. Continuous decline in costs of information and communications and setting up of phenomenally large number of virtual platforms have brought in 'Time' as an essential element in the discourse on international trade. This work delves deep into the issue of how Time enters as a major catalyst of international trade and virtual transactions. This changes the way we lo...

This book presents high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Numerical Optimization in Engineering and Sciences (NOIEAS 2024) organized by the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. The main focus of this book is to present innovative ideas, methods, and results, and visions of the future related to the general theme of numerical optimization. The computational methods and engineering experiments used to solve various problems w...

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Disaster: Risk Analysis, Management and Mitigation (NDRAMM 2024). It discusses recent challenges in disaster risk analysis and provides solutions to mitigate and minimize the damage caused by natural disasters. The book covers diverse topics including but not limited to seismic hazard analysis and its mitigation, tsunami-induced hazard, landslide and erosion-induced disaster mitigation, liquefaction mitigation...

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Disaster: Risk Analysis, Management and Mitigation (NDRAMM 2024). It discusses recent challenges in disaster risk analysis and provides solutions to mitigate and minimize the damage caused by natural disasters. The book covers diverse topics including but not limited to seismic hazard analysis and its mitigation, tsunami-induced hazard, landslide and erosion-induced disaster mitigation, liquefaction mitigation...

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual an...

This book is a systematic investigation of Korean cultural wave in South Asia, discovering and analysing the dynamics of fandom, mechanism of media industry and growing phenomena of Korean culture in this part of the world. This is one of the very first academic volumes in South Asia that examines cultural politics, language and literatures of Korea in a regional location when there might be some on examining the political and diplomatic relations divorced from socio-cultural interactions....

This book concerns the developments in the field of e-waste management with a particular focus on urban mining, sustainability, and circular economy aspects. It explains e-waste recycling technologies, supply chain aspects, and e-waste disposal in IT industries, including health and environmental effects of e-waste recycling processes, and associated issues, challenges, and solutions. Further, it describes the economic potential of resource recovery from e-waste.Features:...

The theme of this book is sustainable e-waste management through effective amalgamation of information and communication technologies (ICT) and green recycling technologies to ensure development of intelligent, smart, and sustainable systems. It encompasses multidisciplinary interventions, including recent case studies from OEMs and IT industries as well as e-waste recyclers, and explores interdisciplinary research and industry–academia collaborations towards the development of smart and s...