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The Internet, new information and communication technologies today are being entrenched into the fabric of our society at a very rapid rate. The Internet has emerged as an extraordinary prominent medium having a tremendous impact on and within society. Its remarkable attributes and rapid growth, and their profound influence within society have been the subject of enormous media coverage, scholarly publications, specialty magazines, and public discussion. The physical developments in these fields have had significant impact in the ability to communicate rapidly and efficiently around the world and in the functioning of society.Cyber spatial communication has provided possibilities for changing the way people communicate with one another and engage in social and cultural activities. Internet has become a powerful medium of communication and it seems that the people are more willing to take advantage of it. Internet communication does not make its users depressed or lonely, and it does not seem to be a threat to community life. The availability of the new modality of communication represented by the Internet does not lead to fundamental changes in social life and cultural practices. The Internet provides people with a technology that allows them to engage in activities that they have already had ways to engage in but provides them with some added efficiencies and opportunities to tailor their interactions to better meet their needs.

Pongamia pinnata, popularly known in India as Karanj has been found to be one of the most sustainable trees with regard to its soil enhancement and carbon sequestration properties apart from its stability in seed and oil yield. Pongamia pinnata is also credited with several preventive and curative properties as established by Ayurvedic medicine. It may be recalled that in the decades of nineteen seventies a few villages reaped sustainable incomes in the face of acute and chronic droughts that plagued the nation, solely due to the availability of some old Pongamia / karanj tree stands around those zones. Kranj oil has exhibited promise as a source of green energy. Nevertheless, the research on improvement of Karanj and its management as a productive plantation is nebulous. It is heartening that the Monograph on Karanj by Dr. M.V.R. Prasad fills this void. Dr. Prasad has been pursuing the work on oil bearing perennial trees of which Pongamaia pinnata has been studied in greater detail during the decades starting from nineteen eighties to date. The Monograph describes clearly as to how Pongamia pinnata could be harnessed to exploit the proven and potential benefits cited above, in addition to giving valuable information on its genetic improvement and plantation management.