Editorial

Abstract

Every time through our Journal we try to present a collection of research papers and studies that bring to light new ambit of interdisciplinary research. With a similar aim, another attempt has been made to bring you an assortment of some interesting works in this 14^th volume of the Dev Sanskriti International Interdisciplinary Journal. This issue caters to a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary fields and topics ranging from environmental issues to psychology, from economics to chemical sciences, education and sociology. All of them are trying to integrating science and spirituality at their own level.

The first research article of this issue deals with the study of impact of counseling’s on self-efficiency in girls. The author Deepak Singh, et. al., had studied the psychological effect of counseling on 100 girls and concluded that counseling’s does have positive impact on self-efficiency in girls.

Among the international contribution Maureen P. Hall and Mary Keator shares their insight about different contemplative practices and pedagogy of east and west.  This article chronicles the  conscious  effort  to  create  community  between  two  like-minded  professors who  were religiously brought together.

Smartphone has  became an  integrated  part  of  today’s  life  and  it  has  significant  changed  cultural  norms  of behavior of individual. Neha Yadav explored the uses of smartphone for management students. In her study by using Descriptive statistical  technique she concluded that there  are  three  main  predictors  of smartphone  usages  among  management  students  -  sharing  &  collaboration,  Learning,  and  Creativity  & innovation.

Pradeep shah et. al., investigated the physico-chemical    parameters    of groundwater for drinking purpose taking different reference points in their study. Their research concludes that hard water and high level of EC is not suitable for drinking purpose and recommended that water treatment techniques such as boiling and filtration reduced the hardness in water.

Rahul Kumar Satuna presents his study on in Intercultural   Communication exploring its Social   attributes, and Promoting Components. In his research article he discussed the impact of intercultural communication and its challenges and concluded that understanding the patterns of interaction between cross cultures peoples/groups.

We would like to congratulate and thank all of the contributors and reviewers who made this edition of DSIIJ possible. We hope this issue will inspire and generate interest among researchers, educators, policy makers and professionals to understand the significance of indigenous knowledge in the present era. We would also like to thank all our readers and request them to send us their valuable feed back to make this journal a more effective vehicle of indigenous knowledge in the future.