Alternative Tourism Paving Way for Destination Development - A Study of Kullu Manali

This study examines how alternative tourism helps to build destinations, with a particular emphasis on Kullu-Manali as a case study. Using a multifaceted methodology, the study seeks to thoroughly analyse the constituents of alternative tourism in this region. The study includes a SWOT analysis—a review of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats —of alternative tourism in Kullu-Manali to provide light on the current state of Alternative tourism in the region. Furthermore, the study explores tourists' perspectives on alternative tourism in Kullu Manali, using survey data to identify the activities that are popular, interest locations, and liking for alternative activities. The results show that respondents had a good understanding of alternative tourism, with hiking, camping, and white-water rafting standing out as the most popular activities. These observations highlight the potential of alternative tourism to draw tourists while also advancing the destination's sustainable growth. The study uses observations and interviews as part of a qualitative research approach to determine Kullu Manali's potential for alternative tourism. To provide insights that might direct sustainable destination development in the Kullu Manali region, this study paper looks at the elements of alternative tourism, comprehends visitor viewpoints, and makes recommendations

“What is new is the comprehensive nature of the political assault on academic institutions”—An Interview with Niraja Gopal Jayal

Niraja Gopal Jayal is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research, at the crossroads between political theory and the study of Indian politics, focuses on four main areas: democracy, representation, citizenship and governance (including local governance, and gender and governance). She is presently working on the crisis of the public university in India. Interview STLR: Niraja, you have previously written on ..

BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN THE STORED WHOLE BLOOD ASSESSED AT PERIODIC INTERVALS IN CPDA-1 ANTICOAGULANT CONTAINING BLOOD BAGS: A STUDY AT THE BLOOD BANK OF TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF SOUTHERN RAJASTHAN

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to study the various biochemical changes occurring in a stored whole blood unit at day 0, day 17th, and the 35th day in full blood bag containing citrate phosphate dextrose adenine-1 anticoagulant. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study had been carried out among 110 healthy volunteer donors in the Department of Transfusion Medicine, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, between August 2019 and July 2020. A 10 mL blood sample from each bag containing anti-coagulated blood being collected, and the level of sodium, potassium, chloride, total protein, and albumin were measured on days 0, 17th, and the 35th. Mean and standard deviation had been calculated for the parameters, a one-way analysis of variance test was applied to compare the differences, and a p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: A higher proportion of males in the age group 18–27 years, and a generally steady increase in serum potassium level with a steady decrease in serum sodium, chloride, total protein, and albumin levels over the 35-day storage period. Conclusions: In this study, stored whole blood undergoing changes in its biochemical parameters had been studied and found to be significant. The study also recommends transfusion of fresh blood for high-risk patients

Indigenous Games: Game Changer for Indian Tourism Industry?

Tourism in India has primarily been associated with culture without much emphasis being assigned to other tourist motivators. Many tourist destinations across the globe have started promoting event-based tourism by repositioning their marketing strategies. India, being a blend of modernity and ancient culture, has a treasure of many indigenous, long forgotten traditional games. Considering the cultural paragon in the form of traditional Indian games, this paper is an effort to gauge the effectiveness of indigenous games as catalysts for enhancing destination competitiveness leading to enriching the tourism resources of India. A survey of 100 domestic tourists visiting Himachal Pradesh (a small North Indian hill state) was conducted by way of administering close ended questionnaire to study their profile and to gauge their opinion regarding traditional game-based events. Respondents were selected randomly. The survey led to the findings that for majority of respondents traditional game-based events appeared as one of the major pull factors for tourists. Keywords: Inventory, Event, Traditional Games, Indigenous, Destination Competitivenes

La démocratie locale dans les métropoles indiennes

Le bilan de la politique indienne de décentralisation, après douze ans de mise en oeuvre, est très mitigé. Le renouvellement démocratique qu’elle promettait se limite largement au renouvellement du personnel politique local, grâce aux quotas électoraux (pour les femmes, et pour les castes et les tribus répertoriées). Pourtant, dans de nombreuses métropoles, on observe une implication croissante des habitants dans la gestion des affaires locales, principalement à travers des associations de résidents qui se réclament de la démocratie participative et se présentent comme les porte-parole de citadins citoyens. Cet article identifie quatre facteurs explicatifs de la légitimité nouvelle de ces associations comme acteurs de la gouvernance urbaine, et conclut par une réflexion sur les rapports (de classe) entre les dimensions participative et représentative de la démocratie locale en Inde.The Indian decentralization policy launched in the mid-nineties has borne mitigated results. The democratic renewal that it heralded seems largely limited to the renewal of local political personnel through electoral quotas (for women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes). Yet in many Indian megacities today, one can observe an increasing involvement of residents in the management of local affairs, mainly through neighbourhood associations that invoke participative democracy and claim to be the spokespeople of urban citizenship. This paper identifies four factors that explain the new legitimacy of these associations as players in urban governance; and it concludes with consideration of the relationship, informed by class categories, between the participative and representative aspects of local democracy in India

Political Representation in the Discourse and Practices of the “Party of the Common Man” in India

One of the many challenges presented by populism concerns its relationship with political representation. What happens when an anti-politics movement wins elections? This article offers an analysis of the exercise of power by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, Party of the Common Man), which has been ruling the city-state of Delhi since 2015, in order to bring elements of answer to this question. On the basis of discourse analysis as well as direct observation of meetings, the article first identifies a series of populist tropes in the official discourse of the AAP, including a de-emphasis on representation to the advantage of participation. It then describes the two main participatory schemes implemented by the AAP government since 2015, and shows that these generate, in different ways, a magnification of the mediation work that is central to political representation at the local level in the Indian context. Finally, the article argues that the party has been developing, through these participatory schemes, a form of “inclusive representation” (Hayat, 2013), in which inclusion is linked to mobilization

Continuity and settlement structure--a study of tradiational and colonial spatial patterns in Benares, India

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-100).by Arun Kumar Rewal.M.C.P

Studying Elections in India: Scientific and Political Debates

Election studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the major phases of the electoral process, i.e. the campaign, the vote, the announcement of results and subsequent government formation) constitute a distinct sub-genre of studies on democracy, which focuses, so to speak, on the ‘mechanics’ more than on the ‘substance’ of representative democracy. This sub-genre, being relatively more visible than other studies of representative democracy, has specific implications, in the academic but also in the political arena, which are the focus of this critical review of the literature on Indian elections since the 1980s. The paper argues that election studies are really in between science and politics, and that it is important, therefore, to contextualize them