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 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS BY THE AUTHOR

Publications:

 Vaidhy.R, Illustrated Manuscipts of Satriya School: An Aesthetical

Medium of Faith in Assam, Shodh Drishti (An International Referred

Journal), ISSN: 0976-6650, Volume 6, No.3, April 2015.

 Vaidhya.R, Visual Connotations Evoluted Under the Satras of

Majuli: Assam, International Journal of Social Science and

Interdisciplinary Research, ISSN: 2277-3630, volume 3, Issue (10)

October 2014.

 Vaidhya.R, The Ecological Thoughts and Conservation Reflected

In Manuscript Paintings of Majuli, Glo-cal Crises and Environmental

Governance in North-Eastern Region of India, ICGCEG-2013, ISBN:

978-81-908302-6-3, November 2013.

Workshops:

 Research Methodology in Social Sciences with a Special focus on the

disciplines of Socio-Cultural and Communication Research, organised

at Department of Mass communication, ,Assam University, Silchar

Sponsored by ICSSR – 5th January to 14th January 2015.

 Research Methodology and Computer Applications in Social Science

Research, (Ten days) Workshop organized at Department of

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 Education Assam University, Silchar. Sponsored by ICSSR – New

Delhi, 31st December to 9th January 2013.

 Research Capacity Building program for faculties in Social Sciences,

Workshop Organized at Department of Business Administration,

Assam University, Silchar. Sponsored by ICSSR – New Delhi, from

25th November to 11th December 2013.

 Special Workshop (North-East) on Painting at Shillong from 27th june

to 1st july 2011, Organized by Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi.

 Terracotta workshop 2010, Sponsord by UGC (SAP-1) DRS project,

Department of Visual Arts Assam University, Silchar, Assam.

Seminars:

 Proliferation of Egalitarianism and Communal Harmony Through

Neo-Vaisnavism and Satriya Art Forms in Assam, Research paper

presented in International Seminar on ‘Media Initiative for Peace and

Communal Harmony in North-East India’, Organised by Department

of Mass Communication, Assam University, Silchar, 30-31 January,

2015.

 Aesthetics of Controversy in Contemporary Art, Research Paper

Presented in the National Seminar -2014 on ‘Issues and Trends in

Art and Communication’ Organised by the Department of Visual

Arts, Assam University, Silchar. Sponsored by ICSSR-NERC.

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 Participation, as Repporteur in National Conference on Media &

Women:Different Emerging Perspetives in the way of Development

Organized at Department of Mass Communication, 15-16 March 2013

Assam University Silchar, Sponsored by ICSSR-New Delhi.

 Delievered Training Lecture on ‘ Avedan, Tippani, Dvibhashi Mohar

adi ka prayog’, in Rajbhasha Training Workshop Organized by

Rajbhasha Cell, Assam University, Silchar during 15th to 22nd February

2010.

 Purvottar Kala Jagat Aur Hindi Samanvay, Research paper

presented in National Conference, Organised by Rajbhasha Cell,

Assam University, Silchar 21st January 2011.

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