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Journal of Indian Research JOURNAL OF INDIAN RESEARCH Mewar University Journal of Indian Research A Quarterly Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Volume 1 || Number 2 || April-June, 2013 || ISSN : 2321-4155 Editorial Board CA Ashok Kumar Gadiya, Chairperson, Mewar University Dr. Mahesh Chandra Sharma, Ex-Member of Parliament Ram Bahadur Rai, Senior Journalist Dr. Ram Chandra, Dr. D. B. Ojha Dr. K. K. Vashistha, Dr. V. P. Singh Editor (H.) Niraj Kumar Book Review Editor Pankaj K. Deo Contact Us Editor, Journal of Indian Research Mewar University Sector-4C, Vasundhara, Delhi-Gzb. Link Road, Ghaziabad-201012 (U.P.) Phone : 0120-4758300 E-mail: [email protected] Website : http://mujournal.mewaruniversity.in Abstracts and Indexing http//nkrc.niscair.res.in/ Printed at : Copyright© Authors. All rights reserved. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. The Publisher assumes no responsibility for any statement of fact or opinion or copyright violations in the published papers. The views expressed by authors do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the Journal. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chairman’s Message v Editorial vi A Call for Integral Thinking Articles The Socio-Economic Impact of Hydro-Projects- A Case Study of Pong Dam 1 Dr. Anurita Saxena The ‘BRICS’ Development Bank 23 Dr. Binod Singh The Myth of Jizya 32 Dr.Tarun Pratap Yadav New Media Technology as Public Sphere for Social Changes: A Critical Study 38 Dr. Abhishek Singh and Gopal Thakur Analysis of Three Frequency Undulator Intensity and Gain Due to Off Axis 44 Contribution in Free Electron LASER Abhishek Verma and Vikesh Gupta Design and Develop a Software Requirement Identification Tool 55 Sudhir Kumar Singh and Dr. Raj Kumar Fractal Geometry: An Introduction 66 Dr. Vyomesh Pant and Poonam Pant Starvation Resistance for Fructose Sugar in Three Indian Species of the 71 Genus-Drosophila Arun Kumar and Dr. Ajai Kumar A Study of the Managerial Skills of School Principals and Performance of Schools 81 Soma Mukherjee An Empirical Testing of Relationship Between Microfinance and Economic Growth 87 Dr. G.L. Sharma and Himanshu Puri An Overview of Merger and Acquisition 95 CA Sanjeev Kumar Gupta and Dr. Sambit Kumar Mishra Financial Stability: Is Monetary Policy Sufficient? 103 CA Raj Chawla and Dr. Sambit Kumar Mishra A Comparative Study of Intelligence and Academic Achievement of 108 Kashmiri and Pakhtoon Students Hafiz Mudasir and Dilruba Syed Yatu iii Rural Elementary School Education in India: A Gender Based Statistical Profile 114 Dr. V.P. Singh and Dr.Ranjit Kaur Pedagogies in Inclusive Set Up 119 Seema Sharma and Dr. Satveer S. Barwal A Comparative Study of English Communication Skill of Students Studying in 125 Government and Private Schools Shashi Sharma Student’s Attitude Towards Physical Activity: A Study of Gender & Caste Difference 133 Arun Kumar Tyagi and Dr. Ajay Kumar Right Attitude in Teaching Profession 139 Ashish Kumar Mittal and Dr. Neetu Chawla Domestic Violence- Reason and Remedy 143 Sham Chand Domestic Violence in India 146 Sudha Chaudhary Ganga River, Ganga Lake, Folklore and Poetry: The Five of Us 153 Gombojavyn Mend-Ooyo Advantages of Podcasts in English Languages Classroom 158 Dr. Seema Jain and Farha Hashmi Book Review Principles and Practices of Management by Smita Gupta(2012) 164 Sonam Sachdeva The Mortiloquist: A Barbaric interpretation of The Life and Problems of Western 166 Philosophy by Reza Negarestani( Forthcoming 2013) Niraj Kumar iv CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE We will be celebrating India’s 67th Independence Day on 15th August. This national journey must be celebrated with a tremendous sense of pride and accomplishment. We have travelled so far without any major domestic upheaval, in a more or less, peaceful manner. Our peaceful rise through democratic set up is exceptional. But, our share in current global knowledge common is not commensurate with our share of population, merit and intellectual strength. Though, Indians are known for their talents and accomplishments, why are we still poor in innovations or building new paradigms in academic research? The Indian government realized such lacunae and has established the National Innovation Council to spur innovations and prepare a Roadmap for Innovation 2010-2020. We realize how innovation is the engine for the inclusive growth and prosperity. In an open world system, we cannot thrive until and unless we participate in the competition. The government has declared the current decade as the Decade of Innovations with an objective to create an indigenous model of development suited to Indian needs and challenges. How can Indian model be made competitive if we continue to be mesmerized by the western mode of thinking about the world? Though, we fought for political decolonization world across, the decolonization of mind has still not been achieved. Without rethinking over our current thinking paradigms, we may not bring the desired innovation revolution in India. The current issue renews the journey of synthetic and innovative thinking from the last issue. The inaugural issue of the Journal was well received. The Journal has received high quality contributions from various universities. This is nothing short of remarkable for a journal in infancy. I appreciate the hard work of the Editorial Board of the JIR in bringing out this issue in time. We look forward to receive quality articles for the forthcoming issues of the JIR. On behalf of the Board of the Journal, its Editor, and those associated with the Journal, I wish to extend congratulations to the people of country on this auspicious event of Independence Day and wish for inclusive growth, peace and perennial prosperity for the nation. CA Ashok Kumar Gadiya v EDITORIAL A CALL FOR INTEGRAL THINKING The Himalayas as a system is Asia’s Kamandal. It is the source of water to the Indus, Amu Darya, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yellow River, Yangtze, Sutlej, Nu/Salween and Mekong. South Asia’s four major river systems, the Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra and Sutlej originate in the Himalayas. Water in a sage’s kamandal is considered auspicious and represents the amrita(nectar of life). The Himalaya’s water is like an elixir for Indian sub-continent. The combined river basin of the Indus, Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers constitute 43.8% of India’s total surface area. The Himalayas provide 63% of India’s fresh water. The Himalayas act as the site upon which utopias and fantasies are projected. Much of it is still a terra incognita and the geo-imaginative articulation by different Asian communities provide a structurally coherent meaning as well as reflect the centrality of the Himalayas in their practice of topopiety. For an Indian observer, the Himalayas appear as a crescent Moon dotted with fourteen highest mountain peaks (Eight thousanders) as stars on a relief map. The Mount Kailash would appear as the sixteenth digit of the Moon, the dot of immortality in Tantric parlance. The Kailash holds a special place as the axis mundi of the universe, the manifestation of the mythical Meru in the Asian imagination of the sacred landscape. The Himalayas has always been viewed as the abode of immortals. There are various Bon myths about the existence of Dmuthang, the rope to the heaven. Hindus believe in the hidden land of immortals in the Himalayas, siddhashrama, while for the Buddhists there are 108 similar hidden abodes (beyuls) across the Himalayas, Pemako being the most sacred site. From Tibetan side, the Himalayas appear as a rainbow. And it is not a strange coincidence that the rainbow holds highest importance in the Tibetan view of immortality. The rainbow for Tibetans is the body of immortals. There is an ancient tradition of Zhang Zhung where trekchod and togel practices lead one to attain rainbow body of deathlessness in which the master practitioner leaves no flesh behind after death and transforms into rainbow bodies. A 4th-5th century Chinese poet, Tao Qioan wrote about an earthly paradise hidden in the Himalayas. For the Chinese observer, the Himalayas appear as mighty dragon. On the relief map, the range that separates Tibet from India appears like the body and wing of a dragon and the range that curves out from Sichuan to Chiang Mai in Thailand appears as the foreleg and the neck. The curve that extends from Afghanistan to northern Iran appear as the hind leg and the tail of a dragon. In the Chinese mythology, the dragon symbolizes immortality, fertility and creativity. Thus, the Himalayas become the source of life and immortality for sacred imagination across Asia. Though only 0.3% of the planet area, the Himalayas contain 10% of the global biodiversity, many seemingly related with the belief in immortality ranging from jambu fruit, tea, caterpillar mushroom (Buddha mushroom). The Himalayas have transformed into an index of immortality. Therefore, it came as a rude shock to the pious devotees when a part of the Himalayan region in the Uttrakhand was devastated by what many terms, ‘Himalayan tsunami’ bringing death and destruction to the seekers of moksha. It is a national calamity in which thousands died, many thousands still missing and the major centers of the pilgrimage in the ShreeKshetra of the Himalayas, lies in ruins. A cloud burst followed by the breaking of the Kedar dome glacier caused a flash flood in the Kedarnath. The ancient holy site has been ravaged beyond recognition. The pilgrims who were standing in queue praying for salvation and prosperity, were swept away callously. The Alaknanda and the Bhagirathi swept away villages and the towns, temples and the sarai, ruthlessly. The environmentalists and the climatologists have been ruminating over the ecological reasons for the catastrophe. But, alternative view about the calamity is spreading fast. The calamity has reinforced the faith of millions. The devotees claim that the Himalayan Tsunami crisis started only when the guardian deity of Uttrakhand, Ma Dhari Devi (Goddess Kali) was shifted by a hydro- vi power construction company on 16th June on the pretext of surging water of Alaknanda that might have inundated the holy idol.
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