Research

Since India is an ethnically and culturally diverse country, it provides a culturally responsive education. Even the constitution of India guarantees equality in education. Hence, the purpose of the study were to analyze the Indian institutes competence in imparting education to culturally diverse students belonging to different nationalities and to understand international student’s perception towards a culturally responsive education provided. The findings presented in this paper results from a solid set of data collected from the opinions of students hailing from 11 countries across the globe. This research is done by the means of in depth interviews of International Students perusing their higher education in variant streams from different institutions/universities within India. All the interviewed students were rather comfortable to interact with their local peers and even established meaningful friendships with them. According to them living in India was meaningful and provided an understanding of multiculturalism. Present study also identifies that the institutional highlights and the constitutional guarantees are unnoticed by the international students.

The active participation of citizens in the process of governance enhances the possibility of transition from good governance to better governance. The participation of the people in the administration, increasing free access to information can curb the level of corruption in administrative sector. In the year 2005 the Indian Parliament passed the Right to Information Act for increasing the accountability and efficiency of the governing system. The ultimate objective of act is to give power to citizens to seek relevant information and transparency from the government. Through this Act, citizens can keep a vigil on the government’s decisions and activities.

India is known for its gender differences in the ownership of mobile phones. There is also a substantial urban-rural divide in mobile phone ownership with 71 per cent urban penetration and 55 per cent in rural. Therefore understanding its usage among men and women are also important because it will enable the media and government to segregate their target group.

The ‘gurukul’ system of education was in vogue where the guru and ‘sishyas’ learnt in the circuit of nature. With the advent of western system of education, things went through a sea of change. Students were made to learn within the four walls of the classroom, focused bookish and spiritual growth in an individual. Over the years various changes have been made to promote knowledge and technology is not an exception to it. Adoption of smart class rooms can be considered as the latest trend in Indian education sector.

The rapid development of new media technologies creates a suitable platform for the youth to tap the unlimited possibilities of internet. At this juncture it is important to identify the user behaviors to analyze whether the Indian internet users are powerful participants or powerless victims

Politicians and political parties are on a constant strive to woo the young voters by being constantly active on all the social media platforms through instant messaging and live video streaming. Infographics has become an integral part of all the social media campaigns.

Political leaders are concerned about their online presence and reputation. The offline existence of polarization is relatively high because of multi cultural and multi lingual factors and adoption such trends on social media needs to be analyzed.

Majority of the Indian newspapers have substantial numbers of regular readers who read them digitally. In spite of an expanding variety of ways to get news, a sizable minority of young people continues to go news less on a typical day even though they spent vital time on social networking sites. In these context individual teachers can play the role of a catalyst in emerging students depend on technology on a day to day basis by making the students dependent on technology, teachers can mould the future career of their students by exposing them to various technological advancement.

Poverty is the cause of oppression, social exclusion, and greater sufferings and lost. In this context media has a vital role to play in creating awareness and the traditional media had its limitations in reporting poverty. The advancement of technology can transform the way media create, transfer and discuss issues pertaining to poverty.

There is no doubt that the transformation from letters to phone calls to email the basic methods of communication has consistently progressed and adoption of machine learning in different media verticals are going to provide a better perspective.