Social Sciences and Humanities

Urbanization has been held culpable in environmental degradation but with a weak link and blurry understanding of the process. Against this background, this paper assumes a disparate argument on the critique of urbanization on the core of urban sustainability. From most treatises of urban studies, it has always been sustainability versus urbanization. However, agglomeration of economy has not existed without human agglomeration and sustainability has been argued to have economic dimensions.

The present research focuses on two important influencing factors pertaining to the buying behavior of consumers in Gujarat towards purchasing of passenger cars. The paper emphasizes on two key factors which are ‘Perceived Quality” and “Country of Orginin” (COO as referred in later sections of the paper). The research is an attempt to explore the significance level of the above mentioned factors and analyzing their effects, whatsoever, in the buying decision making over the consumers in Gujarat.

It is becoming increasingly clear that parochial human settlement spaces have been engulfed by the commercial activities to the extent that spiritual and associated architectural qualities are widely deteriorating. Parochial human settlement spaces in its nature are intended to provide religious environment to the community members in order to listen the word of God. Unguided commercial spaces have emerged and changed drastically spiritual spatial planning, landscape, and its architecture.

The Government of India announced the demonetization of all Rs.500 and Rs.1000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series on 8 November 2016. The Government claimed that the action would curtail the shadow economy and crack down on the use of illicit and counterfeit cash to fund illegal activity and terrorism. The sudden nature of the announcement and the prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed created significant disruption throughout the economy, threatening economic output.

During the fifty-one days of attacks in 2014, about 2,200 Palestinian individuals were brutally murdered, a quarter of these Palestinian victims were still children, 142 Palestinian families lost about three or more of their family members.In addition to the injuries which reached to about 11,000 individuals of the people of Gaza. As an occupier state, Israel tends to use different types of propaganda techniques as an attempt to protect itself from the international community accusations.

Women entrepreneurship was a neglected domain during the past, but with the spread of education and awareness among the women the picture has been changed and the women have emerged as today’s most memorable and inspirational entrepreneurs. It is said that family is a chariot with wheels which are driven by both the male and female members of the family. If one of the wheels is lagging behind, the chariot i.e. the family will not be able to grow and develop.

Demonetization of high valued Indian currency notes of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 on 8th of November 2016 has shaken the country by disrupting normal behavior of Indian politics, economy, and society.The ruling coalition quickly articulated this as a big-bang step to unearth black money and attached its success in the elections held in the country post-demonetization as an endorsement of people for the demonetization decision.

Sports can be reached in large quantities. Because of this feature, it is seen that the circulation of the print media is used as a tool to increase the watching rate of the television. While sports media provide this opportunity, there is also a contribution to the spread of the media in sports as well. Sports is an interaction and relationship that can not be separated by mass media, as a field of work that appeals to a wide range of masses.

This article portrays two Gandhian Heroes, Moorthy in Kanthapura and Sriram in Waiting for the Mahatma, where Moorthy transform the life of an entire community from the bondage of high bound orthodoxy to struggle and sacrifice for an ideal and how Sriram transforms himself through the Impact of Gandhi which is transmitted through Bharathi. It also projects the fact that as an Indo-Anglian novelists. R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao are profoundly influenced by Gandhian idealism and that is reflected through their works.

Since Chetan Bhagat is the product of IITs and IIMs, he builds up the background of these institutes and presents his autobiographical vents in fictional tone. The paper presents the status, craze and vulnerability of IITs and IIMs which are the emblems of educational setup in metro cities of India. The paper explores the ragging system prevalent in these institutes and craze for placement by getting good education from the premier institures. Education from the branded institutes, like IITs and IIMs, can help them to get a lucrative placement in life.