This study explains how a preparatory course helps the rural drop-outs to qualify themselves to pursue graduate program through distant education. It also explains how mobile learning helps them to enhance their capacity in learning despite their rural background and other disadvantages. In...

The management of traditional knowledge in India has come through successive stages. These stages include not only the adoption of technology but also the creation of social awareness. It is obvious that the Indian traditional knowledge is embedded both in scientific as well as non-scientific...

Culture exists prior to governance. Conflicts come and pass away. Governance is a process and it also comes and passes away. But the culture remains. Conflicts may reappear and resolved and the cycle goes on ever. The responsibilities assumed by the administrative class remain significant and...

Searching for compatibility between ethics and law in the terrain of human subjectivity is a perennial problem seen in the public sphere of democracy. It becomes almost an ideal of attaining a moral administrative community after prolonged failed endeavours of raising a political community. In...

Marx's treatment of political economy and conceptual emphasis varies from his early works to later works. The early works give importance to such concepts as alienation, private property and the division of labour, and human emancipation. The later works emphasize on labour power, exploitation,...

The significance of psychology in studying politics is embedded in philosophical issues as well as behavioural pursuits. For the former is often associated with Sigmund Freud and his followers. The latter is inspired by the writings of Harold Lasswell. Political psychology or psychopolitics has...

This paper describes the evolution of language politics and the part played by political leaders with reference to the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu. It explores the interesting evolution from separatism to coalition in sustaining the values of parliamentary democracy and federalism. It seems...

Tamil Nadu has ancient roots in theory and practice of health. In fact, health is linked with karmic and spiritual aspects. The eighteen Siddhars have classified the diseases and the method of cures. The British rule gradually introduced the western system of medicine. The concept of public...

This paper explores how women empower themselves instead of being empowered by an external agency. This exploration is supported by case studies. It brings out how women play meaningful and responsible role in family, civil society and formal organization. It shows how the disadvantaged women...

This paper examines the application and impacts of Mobile learning in providing sustainable distance learning in the case of developing countries having multiethnic social environment. The sustainability is conditioned by the structure of learners and well as the teaching community. This paper...