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View Resource HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA THROUGH MOOCS AND ONLINE COURSES

Online education has seen a rapid and significant growth in the 21st century. Online courses and MOOCs have had an extremely positive impact on higher education in India. Herein, is an attempt to study the growing sphere of online education in India, with special reference to developments in the past decade. In the study, the authors have examined the role of the public and private sector in...

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https://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v10.i3.2022.4545
View Resource HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AEROPLANES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT IN PRE-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD

Winning the blue sky became possible with the invention of the motor operated aero plane by Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright—the Wright Brothers in 1903. Shortly after their invention, aeronautic companies established in America and Europe started manufacturing aero planes. The year 1911 marked the beginning of the Civil Aviation in India when the Humber-Sommer biplane manufactured in England by...

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https://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v10.i8.2022.4727
View Resource REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MURAL PAINTINGS OF ODISHA: A SPECIAL FOCUS ON PAINTINGS OF BIRANCHINARAYAN TEMPLE OF GANJAM

The Painting culture of Odisha has in relation to her social and religious life. Since prehistoric times, Odisha has witnessed the advancement of this visual art. As literature, the painting of the medieval Odisha has obtained great success. Contemporary temples and Mathas in Odisha present wall paintings on the topic of epics and secular ideologies. However, while studying the history of women in...

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View Resource REYNOLDS’ USE OF EDITORIAL CARTOONS FOR FIREBRAND ENVIRONMENTALISM

Brandon Reynolds addresses issues of environment in his editorial cartoons and the paper aims to unravel how he manipulates the conventions of the medium for public awareness and opinion formation. Both the formal and thematic aspects of the cartoons are analysed. Reynolds’ cartoons are an ample testimony of how cartoons hold their own as literary texts in the...

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View Resource HISTORY, HERITAGE, AND PROSPECTS OF ZARDOZI AND BEADWORK BATUAS OF BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH

The word ‘Batua’ comes from Hindi language, and it means a small bag of leather or cloth which has partitions on its inner side. One such craft related to the humble batua is the ‘Batua- making’ craft of Bhopal. A ‘Bhopali batua’ is a small purse adorned with zardozi and bead work and was used for keepingpaan(beetle leaves),laung(cloves),itar(perfume) and other fragrant material by the ...

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