For him, life was replete with tragic incidents one following the other – as if they were rehearsing for the next macabre dance. Even before he could speak up and call out for his mother, life had dealt its first cruel blow. And then, at every stage of his life, whenever he tried to stand up, he was knocked down.But he refused to surrender.It took months of pain, years of struggle and decades of determination to regain control of his life, and his body.And then, traged...

Venkat Iyer was living a fast-paced life in the IT world in Mumbai when he decided to stop and take a long, hard look at where he was headed. Disheartened by his stressful existence in the city, he decided to give it all up and take up organic farming in a small village near Mumbai. But it wasn't easy. With no experience in agriculture, his journey was fraught with uncertainty. He soon went from negotiating tough clients, strict deadlines and traffic to looking forward to his first bumper ...

“Tell the world about this discovery. Let them know that we are not alone.”‘We have seen something that no one was meant to see.’It began with a rooftop explosion in San Francisco and ended with a race into the most secretive military base on Earth. Dr. Marshall Sharma only wanted to investigate recent UFO sightings and prove they weren’t extraterrestrial. But when black-clad attackers and classified coordinates begin to surface, his mission turns deadly.Teaming up w...

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Computing in Engineering and Technology (ICCET 2020) [formerly ICCASP]. A flagship conference on engineering and emerging next-generation technologies, it was jointly organized by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University and MGMs College of Engineering, Nanded, India on 9–11 January 2020. Focusing on applied computer vision and image processing, this proceedings volume includes papers on imag...