In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich,…
Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâché into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these artists called the sessions "both buffoonery and a requiem mass. ” Soon they would be known by a more evocative name: Dada. In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we’re still struggling to understand today.
Disaster Management is a critical and integral part of any government’s planning strategy. Indian government has been struggling with it…
since long. This book discusses the varied threats, risks that the country faces. It talks about the Acts implemented, their advantages/disadvantages and their validity. It also talks about the different stakeholders involved, role players and decision makers in the country. It compare country’s disaster management with international decisive moments and acts and the UN’s ordinance.