Meera always knew she wanted to be an artist. Art follows her everywhere. But something is missing from her art ... Find out about the life of celebrated sculptor Meera Mukherjee and her artistic journey in the Art Exploration Series.
A graphic anthology of five famines in India and Britain, interpreted by traditional scroll painters and comics book artists
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Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for its varied applications. Divided into three sections, covering taxonomy and physiology, interactions with plants and applications and significance, this book also discusses topics that have seen rapid developments in the recent years. Various aspects of Trichoderma like molecular taxonomy, sexual and asexual developments, secondary metabolism, beneficial interactions with plants, applications as cell factories and harmful interactions with humans are discussed. This book, thus, hopes to be an essential ready reference for researchers, students and people form industry as well.
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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee is the first book to examine this pioneering author’s complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Maxey offers new insights into widely discussed texts and recuperates overlooked works, such as Mukherjee’s first and last published short stories, her neglected nonfiction, and her many essays. Critically situating both well-known and under-discussed texts, this study analyzes the aesthetic and ideological complexity of Mukherjee’s writing, considering her sophisticated, erudite, multilayered use of intertextuality, especially her debt to cinema. Maxey argues that understanding the range of formal and stylistic strategies in play is crucial to grasping Mukherjee’s work.
This revelatory monograph explores the work of Indian female sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949‒2015). Committed to sculpture, Mukherjee worked most intensively with fibre, making significant forays into ceramic and bronze towards the middle and latter half of her career. Within her immediate artistic milieu in post-independent India, Mukherjee was one of the outlier artists whose art remained untethered to the dominant commitments of painting and figural storytelling. Her sculpture was sustained by a knowledge of traditional Indian and historic European sculpture, folk art, modern design, local crafts and textiles. Knotting was the principal gesture of Mukherjee’s technique, evident from the very start of her practice. Working intuitively, she never resorted to a sketch, a model or a preparatory drawing. Probing the divide between figuration and abstraction, Mukherjee would fashion unusual, mysterious, sensual and, at times, unsettlingly grotesque forms, commanding in their presence and scale. In retrospect, Mukherjee’s artistic output appears iconoclastic, singular, calling out for assessment and analysis across multiple registers, as well as for an account of why, in hindsight, it was relegated to the margins. Within these pages are deliberations on Mukherjee’s place within both an Indian and a more international art history, and her work’s relationship to other fibre-art practices from the mid to late 20th century. There are also efforts to understand her nuanced attention to the natural environment and evocations of sexuality, a discussion of her working methods and a parsing of her biography. Lavishly illustrated with over 350 archival and newly commissioned photographs in a dynamic contemporary design, this book will introduce Mukherjee to a new generation of scholars, art historians and artists.
Harvesting Hope: The Ultimate Guide for Establishing a Sustainable Farmers Producer Organization is a must-read for anyone interested in the concept and status of producer companies. The book is designed to provide a clear understanding of the classification of FPOs, related theories, and the current status of FPOs in India. It is an excellent resource for researchers, academicians, policy makers, students, farmers, and anyone interested in the development of sustainable farming practices. This book provides a clear understanding of the concept and status of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) for researchers, policy makers, students, farmers, and others. It covers FPO classification, related theories, promotion guidelines, and success stories. It also offers advice on sustainability, business planning, and better functioning strategies. One of the unique features of this book is the inclusion of FAQs on Farmer Producer Company/ Farmer Producer Organisations. This section clarifies the answers to general questions about FPOs, making it easier for readers to understand the key concepts and principles behind them. It is a must-read for those interested in FPOs and their potential.
This book presents a comprehensive knowledge on the diseases and pests of fibre crops, causing economic damage. It covers major disease and pest damages with the methods to combat them in fibre crop cultivations. The diseases and pests are described elaborately, giving emphasis on both morphological and molecular characteristics of pathogens and biology of different insect pests. The latest and most up-to-date knowledge on these aspects which acquired from diverse, complex, contemporary scientific discoveries in the field of fibre crop diseases and pests are compiled and presented in this book. This book is written in eight major chapters, each representing a certain type fibre crop, except for chapter 2 (two) which deals with both Mesta (kenaf) and Roselle for their similarities in disease and insect pest attacks. Each of the eight chapters is again subdivided into 2 or 3 (only for Chapter 2) subchapters to deal with different types of diseases and pests separately. This is a reference book in textbook format which intended to provide undergraduate, postgraduate and research personnel a means to acquire deeper knowledge on diseases and pests of nine major fibre crops, viz., cotton, jute, kenaf, roselle, sunnhemp , sisal, ramie, flax and hemp. Plant pathologists, entomologists and agricultural research scientists, and in academia, may find much of great use in this book.
The present volume ‘Forest Seed Science and Management deals with various aspects of seeds and is comprised of 14 chapters highlighting aspects on historical perspective, recent research trends, insect, pest and disease management, physiological, biotechnological and molecular aspects, collection to processing and storage, testing, industrial approach, seed policy & legislation, IPRs and rural extension.
The main character Chandran, born to a woman who was accidentally saved from Burma as a child by a Tamilian during an exodus during the Second World War and brought up as his own daughter, goes to Warsaw. He, a computer engineer, a product of modern India, finding solace from his personal tragedy of the death of his wife due to fire, meets a lot of Polish characters and the scenario of which forms the social and philosophical backdrop of this novel where the east meets the west in a different way. This novel having been set in the early part of this century in Europe gives, amidst the narratives of tragic and magic details of migration and an Indian-medicine practicing Brahmin god-man who during his illegal transportation is jailed in Germany, a clue to understanding the modern meaning of globalization.
The present book is based on twenty five excellent scientific contributions of seventy researchers from topmost research organizations. The book begin with plants used in Sowa-Rigpa system of food and medicine, followed by traditional uses of plants as medicine among Khasi tribe living in northeast India. This compilation contains several research techniques highlighting methods and analysis of documented data, and procedure for scientific validation of findings. Methods for assessing traditional knowledge of highly threatened plants such as Hodgsoniaheteroclita, pharmacological applications of family asteraceae, ethnobotany of family apiaceae, plants used in managing leucorrhea, plants as animal care, phytochemistry of Arisaemajacquemontii, Andrographispaniculata, Blumealacera, Boerhaaviadiffusa, Hemidesmusindicus, Pterocarpussantalinus, Rauwolfiaserpentina, Rauwolfiatetraphylla, and several other ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological parameters used in studying current science is described in this book. Besides, it is followed by several research topics focused to the clinical arena, plants used in relation to cancer, diabetes, skin disorders and many other aspects relates to animal and human health care. Todays food supplements derived from plants are of high demand, and this compilation also highlighted several plants used as nutraceuticals. It has been observed that herbs contain many bioactive compounds with powerful antioxidant properties as evidence from the scientific data, and few research on lianas, lichens and role of allylisothiocyanate as a bioprotective agent also discussed added more value to this compilations. Focused theme such as ethnobotanical trends and techniques, phytochemistry, biological activities, ethnopharmacology and clinical studies is adding and contributing a lots value to this book in discovering leads for medicine formulations.
This book will provide an exposure to recent developments in the field of geostatistical modeling, spatial variability of soil resources, and preparation of digital soil maps using R and GIS and potential application of it in agricultural resource management. Specifically following major areas are covered in the book.
Weeds pose a major threat to the productivity of agricultural and horticultural crops. Weeds are the menace in agriculture and horticulture and cause in the lowering of yield of crops they infested. Keeping these facts in mind, Weed science is published to provide basic information of the weeds along with their control measures to Students, Teachers and persons engaged in agricultural activities. I do not pretend to claim credit for any original contribution on the subject. Rather; it should be viewed as a concise collection of various topics from different, books, bulletins, scientific paper, wave sight etc, the names of which are mentioned in the text itself or in the selected references.
Solid Waste Management has been a major challenge for the Urban local bodies in developing countries like India. It is one of the major concerns for the environmental managers, industry personnel and policymakers. It has been one of the areas on which the research community focused the greatest energy in the last couple of decades. This book offers readers methodical and technological aspects of solid and hazardous waste management, Challenges associated with waste management in developing countries, Techno-economic assessment of waste management systems in the Indian context. Special emphasis is given on applying advanced technologies coupled with novel tactics used for sustainable solid waste management, and various environmental impacts caused due to improper waste management practices are also discussed in detail. Environmental education and communication as a foundation in sustainable development, an essential aspect for strict enforcement of various environmental policies, is also explicated in the present book.
The book comprises of topics on concepts of climate science and strategies to mitigate the impacts. The book therefore, covers topics of wider areas such as urbanization, coping strategies, water resources, watershed, land use patterns, atmospheric deposition, agriculture, carbon footprint etc. The book provides comprehension on which the researchers in the field may on which they can build up understanding on issues to be addressed. The articles are designed to interpret experiments, observations from the field and theory to understand the subject of climate change and its impacts.
This book to comprehensively present the standard methodologies for studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture, measuring and developing inventories of greenhouse gas emission, and analyzing the vulnerabilities and mitigation options. The book describes the methodology in a simple and lucid way so that a researcher can adopt it in field studies. Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as quantification of climate change impacts on crops in controlled and field conditions, impacts of climate change on water resources, soil fertility, erosion and carbon sequestration, insects, pests, weeds, microbes and diseases; greenhouse gas emission assessment, assessment of regional vulnerability to climate change, selection of crop. The book converted its 23 chapters into four sections. The 1st Section deals with recent mitigation strategies developed by the scientists to reduce the effect of climate changes and promote the Sustainable Agriculture by different ways viz., Role of Marker in Development of Climate Resilient Varieties. Section 2 deals with the conservation agriculture and mitigation strategies, Biofertilizers helps in development of sustainable agricultural practices. Section 3 deals with impact of climate change on pest scenario across the crops and has given insight on possible avoidance of pests. Final sections deals with the agroforestry and how they can minimise their affect of climate change. Finally Section 4th deals with Impact of climate change crop and livestock sectors and strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Role of ICT and extension agencies on framing policies and effective dissemination of technologies were discussed.
