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Building a bond with books : An activity
Full text linkThe significance of a school library increases when teachers help children develop a deep friendship with books. This article is about one such interesting, joyful, and challenging activity of playing with books. Through the opportunities created by this process, children read storybooks together, reflected on them, and asked imaginative and fun questions. They responded to these questions, reasoned through them, and felt delighted when they identified books from the cues hidden in the questions
Economic concentration in India: The role of financial conditions
Full text linkThis paper examines recent trends in corporate concentration in India’s non-financial sector, with a focus on developments since 2015. Using firm-level data from the CMIE Prowess database we document changes in asset and income distribution across firms.
We find that while the overall decline in the public sector’s share of assets and income contributed to a reduction in measured concentration in earlier years, this was accompanied by a steady increase in the share held by large private business groups.
By 2023–24, the top five business groups—Reliance, Tata, Adani, Aditya Birla, and Bharti—accounted for approximately 24(%) of total assets and 16(%) of total income in the non-financial corporate sector
Making and using pinhole camera models
Full text linkWhat can teachers learn from the experience of constructing and testing their own models of pinhole cameras
Exploring the Impact of Social Networking Sites on Scholarly Communication: An Analysis Based on Selected LIS Journals through Altmetric Explorer.
No full textThrough an altmetric analysis of publications from the top ten LIS journals, this study examines publication patterns, mentions across various SNSs, the geographical distribution of user engagement, and the distribution of AAS for open-access versus closed-access articles. Data were sourced from Altmetric.com through Altmetric Explorer as indexed between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2023, and analysed using MS Excel and SPSS. The study found a significant increase in research output and engagement until 2017, followed by a fluctuation and decline in subsequent years. The study also reveals that X (formerly Twitter) is the primary channel for research information dissemination, with notable contributions from X handles of respective publishers and editors. The study also found that the most mentions are associated with the United States (30, 791) and the United Kingdom (16, 318) among 194 countries. Additionally, the analysis shows that open-access and closed-access AAS do not follow a normal distribution according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests. Overall findings highlight the importance of SNSs in shaping academic communication and provide valuable information for researchers and stakeholders to enhance scholarly engagement and dissemination. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved
The teaching of Maitri
Full text linkWe want education to shape children into good members of society. But children are pulled in different directions by different people. For us, a good member of society means someone who does not discriminate, seeks justice for all, and respects everyone. But children’s immediate social environment often teaches them that their own group is superior and other groups (castes, religions, genders, classes and so on) are inferior
Education and teachers : the need to understand ground realities
Full text linkThe first and foremost step towards bringing about positive change in education is one’s own thorough preparation. This preparation has two parts. The first is building connections with teachers, children, parents, and the community, and understanding them and their contexts, while the second is academic preparation. For everyone engaged in education, whether they are part of the government system or a non-government support structure, such preparation is essential. This article is about this preparation and the clarity of understanding that must come with it
Scholarly Insights into Sustainability, Climate Change, & Blue Food: A Perspective Aligned with Adoption of Sustainable Development Goals
No full textThe increasing global demand for food, coupled with the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, has shifted attention towards blue food systems. While these systems offer a potential solution to food security challenges, their sustainability is threatened by various factors, including overfishing, habitat destruction, and climate change. Recognizing these challenges, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, UN) advocates for ensuring the sustainable contribution of aquatic food systems to global food security and nutrition, aligning with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). It was hypothesized that adoption of UN-SDGs would increase the interest of researchers in sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis of the relevant literature published between 2000 and 2023 was conducted to test this hypothesis. The analysis revealed a significant rise in publications addressing climate change and sustainability after the adoption of the UN-SDGs. The countries exhibiting high vulnerability to climate change contributed disproportionately fewer publications to the database. The United States emerged as the leading contributor in terms of publication volume, while Canada’s University of British Columbia was identified as the institution with the highest number of contributing authors. The findings underscore pronounced geographical disparities in research output, with a predominance of countries from the Global North. The underlying factors contributing to these disparities are discussed. Furthermore, the study discusses the policy implications of these findings and emphasizes the imperative to prioritize equitable research initiatives. Such efforts are essential to effectively support the realization of the SDGs within the domain of blue food systems and sustainability. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025