Posts

Showing posts from June, 2014

Block Makers of Pethapur

Introduction Origin People Tools Products A sight one sees is wood dust crumbling away, leaving an intricate design behind, and symbolizing how the fading eyes and wrinkled hands are trying to hold on to a craft degenerating under sharp laser cutes and digital images leaving behind a marvel that gives riches to other crafts. The village has seen better days but ironically block printing still flourishes. The block carvers have decreased, the younger generations are choosing more profitable careers but there is still plenty of work. Govind bhai Prajapati wants to propagate his art to the following generations but they are not interested and he feels that they lack patience. He is teaching the art to his nephew but criticizing his work and lack of perfection all the way. In few decades, growing effects of globalization have wrought irrevocable changes upon this traditional craft. Govindbhai Prajapati says he has enough work and his long term customers keep on giving h...

Studying Websites

        Government ·          URL: http://indianarmy.nic.in/ ·          Category: Government ·          Target Audience: The target audience for this website can be any Indian to see the archives, history, gallery and other information, even the people seeking an opportunity to serve the country as a part of the army. There are notifications and news so the army people may be surfing the website for circulars and other information. ·          Color: Home Page: The website has a distracting army green colored background. There are some abstract forms of brown and green color. The navigation tab is of a darker shade of green and the other areas have a gradient background of green and yellow. The news flash is a red colored line so as to highlight it. The written content has a darker backgroun...

Interesting Websites

http://www.ro.me/film http://wonder-wall.com/ http://mono-1.com/monoface/main.html http://www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/ http://www.wrist.im/ These websites take little more time to load than the other websites but once we start surfing, then they become extremely engaging and entertaining. Sometimes the different style of navigation surprises us and other times confuses us. The videos are seamless and almost takes us on a virtual tour. The display of information is organized and design makes us go “wow”

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was the founder of the psychoanalytic theory, he thought that the psychoanalysis could be treated as a science. He emphasized on the influence of unconscious mind on our behaviour. Freud argued that ordinary speech may contain hidden meanings of the unconscious. Our mind has three levels. The conscious mind includes everything that we are aware of. The preconscious mind is that part which represents the ordinary memory which we can retrieve. The third level is the unconscious mind which has all our thoughts, memories and urges. Our mind has three aspects which determine our personality and work together to create our behaviour. 1. Id -Id is a component which is present since birth and it is the source of all our psychic energy. Id consists of all unchecked urges, primal pleasures and desires. It tries to resolves the tensions by forming a mental image of desired objects. 2. Ego - Ego is the moral and self-aware aspect of mind, it is a component of pe...

Relevance of Satyajit Ray Movies in the Modern Times

"India has inspired so much painting and music and poetry which shouldn’t fail to move the filmmaker. He has only to keep his eyes open and his ears. Let him do so" Satyajit Ray has filmed masterpieces of lyrical realism set in India. Throughout his work, Ray focused his eyes on and attuned his ears to the extra ordinary drama of everyday life. Something every individual could relate himself to at one or the other level. What makes Ray much more than a great film maker is his humanism and relevance even today. He changed the way in which Indian cinema has been perceived and will be seen. Ray's films intimate the sense of a radical future and document the capacity to conceptualize a different world glimpsed in the remnants of a disappearing past. Satyajit ray was truly a cosmopolitan artist who combined elements of his own culture with that of west, creating unique synthesis. The merger of the east and the west gave birth to Bengali Renaissance. Ray shows new...