Conventionally, agriculture is considered as a primary source of livelihood with focus on fulfilling the basic requirements of food, feed, clothing and shelter. Since many years, agricultural activities are concentrated within rural limits. Time has come to harness the potentialities of urban resources to take up agriculture related activities. Technological innovations have opened up the avenue for invigorating such activities under urban environment. Urban ecosystem comprising of various limitations like inadequate land area, restrictions in land use, high labour cost, etc. requires special interventions for taking up agricultural activities. The book contains diversified aspects of urban agriculture such as floriculture, vegetable production, fruit plantation, medicinal plants, landscape management, lawn preparation, mushroom production, bee keeping, value addition, vertical garden, hydroponics, green wall, bonsai making, etc.
March 2020: Thirty-six-year-old Mallika Rao is largely insulated from the struggles of the millions fighting for their existence all over India. Instead, her Delhi flat and her husband threaten to imprison her as she searches for the confidence that has always eluded her. A rescue dog in her care provides more fulfilment than her husband, who is consumed by work and self-obsession, and she must also confront the universal challenges of having a woman's body. Soft Animal unfolds in urgent present tense with illuminating flashbacks, whip-smart dialogue and conspiratorial footnotes. Bringing the deftness of deadpan humour and the precision of meticulous social observation to the self-delusions of India's privileged urban middle class, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's latest channels an uncomfortably-and sometimes heartbreakingly-intimate experience of millennial marriage that is seldom portrayed but all too real.
This is a book about embodiment and identity in the context of particular women’s lives in an urban setting. It is concerned with the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary, urban India. The focus on embodiment is mediated by gender and class, two critical elements that constitute identity in relation to embodiment. The study is based on material collected from interviews with working class women in an urban slum and with professional, upper class women, with young women in secondary schools and from material from a women’s magazine.
Conventionally, agriculture is considered as a primary source of livelihood with focus on fulfilling the basic requirements of food, feed, clothing and shelter. Since many years, agricultural activities are concentrated within rural limits. Time has come to harness the potentialities of urban resources to take up agriculture related activities. Technological innovations have opened up the avenue for invigorating such activities under urban environment. Urban ecosystem comprising of various limitations like inadequate land area, restrictions in land use, high labour cost, etc. requires special interventions for taking up agricultural activities. The book contains diversified aspects of urban agriculture such as floriculture, vegetable production, fruit plantation, medicinal plants, landscape management, lawn preparation, mushroom production, bee keeping, value addition, vertical garden, hydroponics, green wall, bonsai making, etc.
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