“mukulika banerjee”

Drawing on experiences from villagers in Bengal to scientists in Bangalore, this book explores the beauty, adaptability and personality of India's most iconic garment. Banerjee and Miller show why the sari has survived and indeed flourished as everyday dress when most of the world has adopted wester... More

In the heart of Lutyens' Delhi sits Jehangir Rangoonwalla, enlightened dispenser of tea, wisdom, and second-hand books. Among his customers are Brighu, a postmodern Ibn Batuta looking for obscure collectibles and a love life; Digital Dutta who lives mostly in his head, torn between Karl Marx and an ... More

Eighteenth-century Calcutta. The second city of the Empire is teeming with scandalous gossip and rumour. Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti, Sephardic Jew from Syria and trader in novelties such as corsets, aphrodisiacs and zebras, befriends the British officers and the local elite by day and... More

The growth of the energy sector is crtical for India's development. The provision of affordable energy services to the population in a sustainable fashion throws up several technological and research challenges. The development and adoption of energy effecient technologies and systems and cost effec... More

These are the proceedings of the XV International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 06) organised by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai from February 13-17, 2006.... More

The book provides an analysis of the historical origins of the problems of development as rooted firmly in the colonial trade and discusses the ways in which the rich-poor dichotomy was propogated and perpetuated.... More