traditional – Itisaras

Gaps in Virtual Teaching

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments academics, administration, assessments, Catch-22, CBSE, challenge, classroom, content creators, content developers, Corona Virus, Coursera, COVID-19, Development, digitalization, disability, e-material, education, exams, experience, futuristic, helicopter parenting, incommunicado, indispensable, institutions, interference, Internet, invasion, knowledge, learning, link, malpractise, medium, ministry, online classes, online school, online teaching, pandemic, personality, planning, primary, privilege, repository, reputation, responsibility, secondary, skills, teachers, teaching, traditional, Udemy, UGC, virtual, Virtual teaching

Learning and gaining knowledge these days no more remains limited to the four walls of an institution or a classroom. With digitalization, spreading fast these have become a thing of the past, and more so due to ongoing pandemic. Moving ahead head first into the future is one thing, but should we not pause and consider if everyone is reaping the benefits of it?

Society

Stereotyping Clothing: Defining Social, Intellectual Status and Modernity

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 4 Comments attire, attires, backward, British, British government, city person, clothes, colonial, colonial powers, conservative, elite, equality, fashion, flip flops, generalisations, intellectual, jeans, judgements, Lala Deen Dayal, Lifestyle, middle class, modern, modern girl, modernity, privileged status, security, short dress, social mobility, social practice, social status, Society, stereotypes, stereotyping, traditional, trend, upper class, village person, vogue, western world

“Underlying the present quest for form and pattern is the basic assumption that dress is a systematic means of transmission of information about the wearer.”
M.L Damhorst rightly articulated that a person’s dressing speaks about his or her personality. Or does it really? Lets’ trace this stereotyping history till contemporary “modern” world.

History

From Dynamic to Dying: The History of Calendar Art

May 12, 2020May 15, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 0 Comments aesthetics, allegory, antiquarian, Art, art forms, calendar, Calendar Reform Committee, cultural integrity, desk calendar, Development, digital calendar, freedom symbols, Goddesses, gods, Gregorian calendar, household, Kingfisher, landscape, Lifestyle, lithography, models, modern art, Mother India, nationalism, printing press, Raja Ravi Verma, Religion, Representation, sceneries, social status, social symbol, Suzuki, tape recorders, technology, themes, traditional, utilitarian, youth

Checking days and festivals is now just a click away. Everything can be facilitated through smart phones and the internet. The age of calendars and it’s art now seems like a bygone era. Yet the remnants can still be seen in the corporate world.
How, when and why? Let's click on the link below to gain insights about calendar history in India.

Society

The Water Man of India

March 22, 2020March 30, 2020 Editor 0 Comments Arvari, Awareness, citizens, Government, groundwater, international, Jal Purush, johad, levels, livelihood, method, movement, national, parliament, private entity, rainwater harvesting, resource, river, traditional, villagers, Water, water conservation, water crisis, water man, water management, water management index, water rejuvenation

With people as young as Greta Thunberg fighting globally against the climate change, one might be surprised to find people like Dr. Rajendra Singh (‘The Water Man of India’) who had in the past contributed a lot towards reviving Arvari River in Rajasthan. Let’s find out his contribution not just to the Indian rivers but also towards initiating a global water conservation movement.