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Amongst the Hindi film magazinesMadhuristands out as an engaged, earnest and agenda-driven journalistic intervention. It acted as a crucial bridge, an effective mediator between several disparate segments and stake-holders: the film makers, viewers, stars, fans, state, industry, litterateurs, directors, “Urdu” and “Hindi”, music makers, listeners, exhibitors, theatre-patrons, “commercial” and “art” cinema types, regional, national and world cinema-lovers, and so on. It also continued with the ongoing task of educating Hindi readers about the intricacies of the film medium and its evolving history, ran vigorous campaigns advocating adoption of Nagri (Hindi) script for credit-rolls, and identified progressive literature waiting to be scripted; excavated new locations for shooting films, and more generally, invented a new form to narrate in words some of the classics of Hindi cinema. This paper argues that the restraint, irony as well as exuberance evident in its editorial choices, content and design were very much grounded in but not circumscribed by the aspirations of an expanding middle class nuddddddrtured on a print universe marked by Hindi nationalistic sensibility of the 1960s and 1970s. All the same,Madhuri’s unique crowd-sourced campaigns lent a sense of civic identity to its readers, who started clamouring for better sonic, visual and hygienic facilities and comforts at cinema halls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on images on the cover of the "International Journal of Remote Sensing." It shows the damaged areas in the earthquake of January 26, 2001 in Gujarat State, India, estimated using the bi-temporal images method with night-time data from the DMSP-OLS. It is taken from figure 8 of the paper by M. Kohiyama on early damaged area estimation system using DMSP-OLS night-time imagery, which is published in this issue.

The article presents information about the articles published in the December 2005 issue of this journal. The papers in this special issue explore a number of the fascinating aspects of cyber-tourism that are currently beginning to emerge. One of the articles examines how new communications technologies have been employed by Ayurveda medical practitioners to promote the value of this ancient form of Indian medicine and develop it as a new tourism experience. Another article takes a different perspective and examines how new cyber technologies can assist convention organizers decide on which facility to choose for their conference, perhaps foreshowing new forms of business-to-business relations in a future cyber-world. Cyber-tourism in the many forms described in this special issue will continue to grow particularly as new technologies are developed and introduced into the global marketplace. The articles in this special issue touch briefly on the possible range of issues that will emerge as cyber-tourism, in its many forms, evolves in the future.

This article contributes to recent historical debates regarding the shared connections between the colony and the metropole in British-ruled India through the examination of Stri Dharma, a widely known journal started in India in 1918 by British feminists. Neither completely British nor Indian in character, this women-run journal emerged during the 1920s and 1930s as an international feminist news medium targeted at Anglo-Indian, Indian, and British women readers. This broad-ranging audience participated in a complex political dialogue determined by both class and race tensions that created a sometimes uneven forum for the exchange of ideas. Through a close examination of this title and other primary source materials related to the context of women's suffrage and Indian nationalism, this article engages with contemporary feminist scholarship in order to trace the underlying cultural and political factors that motivated British and Indian women writers to create a periodical based on universalist principles of gender solidarity and international cooperation during the late colonial period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a study that examined the correlation between an individual's assessments of specific characteristics of magazine and their summary appraisal and exposure to the magazine in India. Methodology; Comparison of the response of participants to the magazines 'Economic Impact' and 'Problems of Communism'; Analysis of the editorial tone and utility of the magazines.