Contents: Vol. I: I. Burning Issues: 1. Legal aid-a step towards real justice/Aditya Kumar. 2. Recession and its impact on Indian economy/B.P. Singh. 3. Cross roads of Indian polity/Ajay Singh. 4. Loss of power and authority of the elderly person in Indian families/Manju Singh and R.K. Singh. 5. 21st century will be the century of women/Jayshree Purwar. 6. Global warming -- a threat/Asha Verma. 7. Indian music-a powerful mode of healing/Jyoti Sinha. 8. Causes and effects of violence/Pooja Tyagi. II. Environmental issues: 9. Global warming: consequences of the man-made catastrophe/Nikhila Bhagwat. 10. Role of people’s participation in environmental education for sustainable development/Ranjana Srivastava. 11. Climate change: natural disaster/Philomena Richards and Susheel Kumar. 12. Global warming: the truth about denial/Alka Dwivedi and Meenakshi Bajpai. 13. Global warming and its fatal impact on world/Vijay Pratap Mall. 14. Global warming: a concern/Varsha Rahul. 15. Environmental concerns: a review/Virendra Singh Yadav and Puneet Bisaria. 16. Depletion of ozone layer in 21st century/Vijay Chaudhary. 17. Global warming and climatic changes effects: the major problem of the world/C.P. Singh. III. Issues related to women empowerment: 18. Panchayat Raj system in India and women empowerment/Deepshikha Chaturvedi and Pratima Saxena. 19. Women’s empowerment/Vandana Agnihotri. IV. Contemporary literary issues: 20. Redefining religion: a study of Girish Karnad’s plays/Chandra Shekhar Rajhans. 21. Literature as revelation/Alka Rani Purwar. 22. Them of hunger and degradation in the novels of Kamala Markandaya/Bhupendra Pratap Singh Chauhan. 23. Marginality and Dalit literature: a perspective from the quest for identity/S.G. Puri. 24. Feminism: an overview/Jayakrishnan Nair. 25. Kamala Das’ A Hot Noon in Malabar -- A stylistic appraisal/D.K. Budholiya. 26. Marginalized becoming an entrepreneur in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger/Sangeeta Arora. 27. Recent Parsi fiction with a focus on Rohinton Mistry’s Such a long journey/Leela Kanal. 28. Crisis of adjustment between mother and daughter: a study of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters/R.K. Goswami. 29. Psychology and contemporary literary scenario (A critique of Ezekiel’s poetry)/Neeta Gupta and V.S. Shukla. 30. A mystical approach in Anita Desai’s journey to Ithaca/Sapana Pandey. 31. Feminine perspective in inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta/Fatima Ashana. V. Miscellaneous issues: 32. Human right: fundamental values of constitution/Kumari Rupam and Raj Kishore Prasad. 33. Technology emerging in teacher education/Shailja Gupta. 34. Potentials of island tourism/P.P. Rajput. 35. Natural disasters in India prevention, mitigation and management strategies/Pratibha Singh. 36. Impact of Turks and Persians on language, literature, culture and administration of India/Saroj Billore. 37. Changing scenario of mutual fund industry in Indian financial market -- an analytical study/Ashish Kumar Agrawal and Sweta Agrawal. 38. Wholesome development of physical education in new millennium/Sarita Yadav. 39. Socio-economic problems of Dalits/Deepti Gupta. 40. The role of Muslim Community in politics/Satya Prakash Gupta. 41. Revolution against the African Tradition and colonialism for identity and emancipation/Uttam Baliram Sonkamble. 42. Impact of intimate partner violence on women health/Manushi Srivastava. 43. Inter-relation between human being and environment/Meenakshi Vyas. 44. Child labour: condition and remedies/Dhrub Narayan Sinha.

Vol. II: I. Burning Issues: 1. Subalterns As Sovereign Through Social Engineering BSP’s Inclusive Politics/A.K. Verma. 2. Globalization and Gender Relations (A Sociological Study)/M.H. Siddiqui. 3. Mindful Consumerism: A Way to Reduce Mass Environmental Destruction/Anupama Kushwaha. 4. Environmental Concept in Vedas/Alka Dwivedi. 5. Nuclear Weapon Free World and Indian Genius Gandhi/Sanjay Baranwal. 6. Human Resource Development in 21st Century (A Theoretical Approach)/G.P. Sharma. II. Issues Related to Education: 7. Issue of Women Equality in Quality Education/Alka Rani Purwar and Kumarendra Singh Sengar. 8. Value Based Education: Need for a Suitable Paradigm/Puneet Bisaria and Virendra Singh Yadav. 9. Higher Education: Inclusive Growth vis-a-vis Privatization/Sudakshina Gupta. 10. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in New Millennium/Suman Verma. 11. From Teacher To Facilitator/Rajnish Pandey. 12. Innovation in Higher Education/Rachna Shukla. 13. Malaviyaji’s Philosophy of Education/Vinay Kumar Sharma. III. Contemporary Literary Issues (A) Feministic Issues: 14. The Feminism of Difference in Anita Desai’s Novels/Dipti Shukla. 15. Feminist Concerns in Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock/S.V. Singh. 16. Feminist Sensibility in the Novels of Sherwood Anderson/Bharti Gupra. 17. Portrayal of Madhu as a Rebellious Woman in Deshpande’s Small Remedies/Sanjay Prasad Sharma. (B) General Issues: 18. Problem of Love and Marriage in Anita Desai’s World/C.P. Singh. 19. Indo-Anglian Literature: A Review/Vinod Kumar Mishra. IV. Environmental Issues: 20. Environment Education for Sustainable Development/Kalpana Srivastava. 21. Factors Affecting Global Warming on Ecosystem/Anju Verma. 22. Water Resources and Management/Radha Singh. 23. Effects of Global Warming On Agricultural Practices/Ashutosh Agnihotri. 24. Environmental Protection Strategy for Sustainable Development/Neena Tendon and Poonam Vij. 25. Environmental Concern in the Vedas/Pranav Sharma. 26. Global Warming: Implication of Climate Change/Fatima Aashna. 27. Noise Pollution: The Burning Problem/Sadhana Bajpai. 28. Global Warming in the Twenty-First Century/Preeti Saxena. V. Issues Related to it: 29. Role of Information Technology in 21st Century India/Dinkarji. 30. Usage and Challenges of Information Communication Technology (ICT) In Teaching and Learning in India/B.D. Verma. VI. Economical and Agricultural Issues: 31. Global Financial Crisis and Economic Development of India/Manisha Shukla and Sangita Sitani. 32. Port Okha under Gaekwad’s In the Asian Trade, 1850-1950/Hitendra J. Maurya. 33. Chronic Poverty in Bihar/Prabha Kumari. 34. Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Development/Shalini Kapur and Anjali Srivastava. 35. Characterization and Improvement of Floral Crops by Hybridization and Induced Mutations/Babita Gupta, A.K. Yadav and G.S. Niranjan. 36. Shifting Agriculture and the Sustainable Development of the North Eastern Hill Region/Anita Nigam. VII. Miscellaneous Issues: 37. Ecocritical Thinking in Contemporary Literature of the Millennium/Anil Kumar Tripathi. 38. Youth and Lifelong Learning/Swati Chandorkar. 39. Critical Overview of Human Right and Criminal Justice/Kumar Yashwant and Kumar Jwala. 40. Domestic Violence and it’s Effect on Health/Archana Chaudhary. 41. Problems of the Toiling Future Generation of Women: Girl Child Labour/Neelam Saraswat. 42. Indo-Pak War of 1971: The Victory of Indian Foreign Policy/Shubha Johari. 43. Diet Plan for Indian Children of the 21st Century/Shikha.

Twenty first century has taught us a lesson that there is no place for the word ‘impossible’ in modern world. We have developed our skills so efficiently that we are in a position of challenging the almighty God, but all of its results are not good for mankind. The new age consumer oriented researches and developments have converted the man into a machine.

Now, in the outskirts of New Millennium, there are so many challenges before mankind such as  - whether man will be the super power of the world or machine will take his place and man will become slave of these machines? Will super technology get an autonomous shape? Will the man be able to live in space? Will the traditional nation state theory remain relevant? Will the state agencies be privatized? Will we find a new world organization in place of United Nations? Will Unipolar World system collapse and some new regional superpowers like India and China take lead? These are the few questions, raised in this book, which present century certainly has to face and try to seek their answers as well.(jacket)