Theme for Seminar

Themes for Seminar
The main theme of this year’s seminar will be ‘The Geo-Political
Economic and Cultural Perspectives of Developing Countries’.
There are also sub themes as:
a) Environmental Problems
• Environmental Degradation, Ecological, Imbalance, Natural Calamities
and Imperativeness of Awareness and Action
• Urban Planning and Flood Management
• Climate Pathways, Renewable Energy and Production of Bio-fuel as the
fuel for future
• Waste Management : Lessons from the past and future trends
• Environmental Ethics, Laws and Protection of Human Rights and mananimal boundaries.
b) Science and Technology
• Advances of Science and Technology in Third World Countries – Sciences,
Engineering, Space Technology, Biotechnology, Agriculture and fisheries.
• Technological Revolution- Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and
Networking
c) Health and Medicine
• Health planning for the marginalised – the Rural, Tribal and slum areas
• Disability as a Development Issue – Towards a Third World Discourse.
• Relevance and contributions of Traditional Medicinal Systems in spheres
of health preservation
• South Asian Marketing trends in traditional medicine
d) Political Issues
• Contemporary Polity and Society in South Asia and the impact of the
Middle Eastern war.
• Global Crisis of Social democracy and inclusive development efforts in
India.
• Vote Bank politics and unresolved problems of the marginalised.
• Neo Liberalism and cultural Nationalism – Impact on Indian Political
Ideology.
e) Economic Trends
• Emerging Trends in Indian Economy, markets and human capital.
• Impact of Digital economy in Indian financial sector.
• Strategic human resource management
• Understanding India’s Investment landscape and the role of foreign
capital.
• New thrust in Entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs and economic
growth
f) Sociological, Psychological and Gender Issues
• Continuing menace of violence against women and minors : voice for
sociological, psychological and urgent legal correctives.
• Rural women Empowerment programmes in India – problems and
prospects
• Eldercare – Mental Health and challenges in Indian Health Sector
• Tribal Situation in 21st Century – the South Asian scenario.
• National and International imperative of curbing the drug – liquor mafia and
saving the perishing generations.
g) Educational and Legal Questions
• Trends in Higher Education, student migrations and the social situation
• Teacher interventions for the visually challenged High school and Higher
Secondary students in India in developing learning models with adaptive
softwares.
• Indian Constitution, Women and Religion
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and legal revamping
h) History, Archaeology and Literature
• Historicizing people’s struggles and Movements for an equitable society
• Traditional knowledge systems of India – the legacy and relevance.
• Decolonization concepts reflected in historical writings
• Postcolonial Fallacy in Literature and Aesthetics
• Rationalist thought and Decolonizing trends in South Asian Literature
• Need for Revambing spheres of Archaeological research and Epigraphical
Readings – The Indian context
I) Music, Art, Religion and Philosophy
• Developments in Music, Theater, Cinema and performing arts in South
Asia
• Retrieval and reinterpretations of the artistic and aesthetic traditions of
South Asia
• Debates on the traditional knowledge, art and belief systems of the tribes of
India
• Conquering communalism through the universal philosophy of Sree
Narayana Guru of Kerala.
• Legacy of Martial Art Forms – The Indian Context.