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Popular Hindi cinema in India has come a long way in portraying women. From the 1910s, when male actors used to play heroine characters, to the 1950s, when female actors started playing lead roles, women's depiction has undergone various forms of experimentation. One such aspect constantly discussed in cinema, literature, and other art forms are their depiction of the extremes and their take on the marginalities. This paper attempts to analyse the representation of women in refugee camps in popular Hindi cinema. There are works available focussing on the depiction of women in cinema content-wise. However, the cinematographic portrayal explicitly referring to refugee camps is not widely explored. This paper attempts to fill these existing gaps. It also discusses the current political landscape of India vis-à-vis popular Hindi cinema. The cinematographic representation of women exemplifies their nurturing and caring nature. The screen time shrinks when the focus shifts to their inner conflicts and emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on understanding different approaches that have been adopted by scholars to study the genre of biopics. Topics discussed include comprehensive study of the genre of a biographical film by biographer George F. Custen, monochromatic view of history systematically distorted in regard to race, nationality, gender, and profession and various forms of biopics including theatrical releases, made-for-television, and short films.

The government of India is the final authority for country-wide policy making and policy implementation in the country. Recent times have witnessed increasing use of data-driven approaches in policy and decision making. This is true for public policy formulation as well. This paper is an effort to highlight how data science and artificial intelligence have the potential to revolutionize the field of public policy in India. The paper discusses some such applications and lists down the likely challenges. An extensive review of the research activities in this field has been undertaken. Cases of data science and artificial intelligence reviewed in this paper span over various sectors of public policy such as- policy making process, health, education, environment, agriculture, economy, and security. This paper, thus, aims to facilitate collaboration in the fields of public policy and data technology, in order to enable higher levels of public service in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article evaluates Jean Renoir film "The River" based on Rumer Godden 1946 book of the same name that is symbolic of the identity formation of India as a colonized nation. Topics include considered that history, as documentation of past experiences and narratives, has predominantly existed in the form of written texts.

A mystery story which focuses on a crime and the investigation of that crime is commonly understood as a crime fiction narrative. Its ability to excite the readers, challenge their rational abilities and involve them in the gradual unravelling of the mystery is what makes crime fiction a huge success. With innumerable critical works, scholarly study and continued relevance, crime fiction has entered the canon of literature. A genre that closely reflects the socio-political, historical and cultural aspects of the society, it has gradually acquired a significant role both in critiquing the social order and at the same time for documenting history through its gradual evolution and development. This paper attempts to map the evolution of crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the contemporary times. In doing so, the paper aims to study how social changes impact literary traditions. This study also aims to establish the relevance of crime fiction as a literary genre as it evolves into multiple sub-genres, structures itself into specific rules and regulations and metamorphosises into extra-literary forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Group Discussions (GD) are a robust way to teach not only communication skills to the students but also non-verbal communication, difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness, how to be polite, how to put across your points, how to encourage the reticent participants, etc. GD has been an important component of 'soft skills for professionals', course offered to second and third year engineering students at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. This paper focuses on the objectives of teaching the theory of GD and highlights the learning outcomes after all the GDs were conducted in the class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present job scenario demands aspiring professionals to be highly focused and targeted in the area of their work, expecting them to be proficient in their one-to-one dealings with their peers, superiors and subordinates. It requires them to be highly skilled in this technology-driven world, demanding them to be proficient in life skills such as interpersonal, leadership, time management, negotiation, critical thinking and problem solving, which would enable them to deliver the best in their personal and professional life. One of the effective methodologies to develop life skills among the college students is through storytelling. Cinema has proven to be a successful medium to develop and sustain life skills among university students. As said by Syed Sultan Ahmed who uses cinema to teach life skills to students, "A lot of knowledge in the past was acquired from books. But today, we live in a world where a lot of content is relayed by the audio-visual media. It is the only medium that children can relate to and are naturally drawn to them".1 The paper attempts to explore the concept of life skills as understood and experienced by university students as part of their course structure. It deals with the concept of inculcating life skills among university students with a special emphasis on the case study of students at BITS, Pilani through certain specific course modules. This paper specifically focuses on the observations of the course Short Film and Video Production, and the findings show a substantial difference in their understanding and practical implication through the course modules selected as a part of course assignments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper discusses the strategies to develop the communication competence of the students through face-to-face conversation. It has taken up the case of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, one of the premier institutes in India, and has limited itself to the course on Business Communication offered to the students of engineering and sciences as an elective. It discusses an approach to teaching a significant communication component of face-to-face conversation and the skills acquired by the students during such situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineering education in India largely focuses on imparting knowledge in the respective technical areas. Undoubtedly, technical expertise is important for students aspiring to become successful professionals at their workplaces; however, apart from their technical expertise, they have to work with people from varied backgrounds. Hence, presentation skills, teamwork, negotiations, emotional intelligence and leadership skills are some of the soft skills required by the technocrats in their respective arenas to discharge their duties successfully. Right from the moment, they appear for the interviews, their soft skills come to the driver seat. In fact, even the hiring officials place the soft skills as a top priority for the job. Moreover, acquisition of the skill to communicate persuasively, positive attitude towards work, teamwork, etc. impart a finishing school touch to the students undergoing engineering education. The present paper discusses the multifarious soft skills the engineering students need to possess and the various ways in which these skills are imparted to them. The paper also discusses the experience of handling such courses in one of the premier institutes of India-Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Rajasthan). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cinema dexterously explores and experiments with the myriad portrayals of women which is diversely rich; they are represented as submissive and oppressed on one hand and educated, open-minded, strong-willed on the other. However, there is a continuous change with respect to the stereotyped image and its depiction. The present paper attempts to highlight not only the different images of women but also the changed perception of the society that has exquisitely been captured in the films made in the recent context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]