This paper intends to focus on the points like: what is ICT? Why ICT? It’s advantages, some loopholes of it, tools of ICT used in Educational Institutes, and the most effective tool/method of ICT used for teaching now-a-days.

―We need no education‖, sang pop star Pink Floyd way back in the 70s in the famous super-hit album ―The Wall‖. While all this may sound fine, idealistic rebels, it is certainly not apply to the current education scenario. Technology is an ever-increasing part of the English language arts classroom. Today's teachers are developing new and exciting means of integrating language, writing, and literature with innovative technologies. Technology is a useful tool, but it should never be the heart of the teaching and learning experience. Students today are more accustomed to interactingwith their peers through texting, Twitter, and Face book. Virtually every type of languageteaching has had its own technologies to support it. Language teachers who followed the grammar-translation method (in which the teacher explained grammatical rules and students performed translations) relied on one of the most ever-present technologies in U.S. education, the blackboard—a perfect vehicle for the one-way transmission of information that method implied. The blackboard was later supplemented by the overhead projector, another excellent medium for the teacher-dominated classroom, as well as by early computer software programs which provided.

Hindi Abstract

This paper argues about the role of multimedia in language learning and its role in English language learning too. It will argue about the role of teacher in multimedia assisted English language class. It will throw light on the Computer-Assisted language Learning (CALL) and its evolution in language teaching and learning. Other major points of discussion in this paper will be about Web 2.0, open source, blog, pod cast, video sharing, Mobile Assisted Language Learning and Virtual Reality Leaning.

Abstract in Hindi

This paper attempts to examine and explore the study of Woman as a Major Character in Kamala Markandaya’s Novels: Nectar in a Sieve, Some Inner Fury, Possession and Two Virgins. Markandaya is a pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor who is one of the prominent and most distinguished Indian novelists in English of the post colonial era and is recognized for her masterpiece ‘Nectar in a Sieve’ published in 1954. She was a pioneering member of the Indian Diaspora. Despite the fact that she had remained away from India for long time, she was highly attached to the Indian society. This is reflected in her minute observations and discussions on the problems faced by the working class women and peasants in India. She belongs to a group of the writers associated with social novels like Ahmed Abbas, GV Desani, Zeenuth Futehally, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Nayantara Sehgal, Anand Lall, Attia Hosain, Sachindra Muzumdar, Khuswant Singh, Havana Bhattacharya, Manohar Malgonkar, Balchandra Rajan, Sudhindra Nath Ghose, M Anantanarayanan, Arun Joshi etc and the pioneering group of women writers in India who made their mark, not just through their subject matter but also through their vividly polished literary style.

Abstract in Gujarati