planning in India and Demographics of India India suffers from the problem of overpopulation. The population of India is very high at an estimated 1.27 billion.[1][2][3] Though India ranks second in population‚ it ranks 33 in population density. Indira Gandhi‚ Prime Minister of India‚ had implemented a forced sterilization programme in the early 1970s but the programme failed. Officially‚ men with two children or more were required to be sterilised‚ but many unmarried young men‚ political opponents and
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help to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. The LTTE was a help to the Tamil cause because they had tried to voice their unhappiness regarding their human rights on behalf of all the other Tamils in Sri Lanka. This gave them hope that they would be heard and actions would be taken for them to regain the human rights they deserved and to be fairly treated by the Sri Lankan government. For example‚ when the Tamil’s demands were not met‚ the LTTE resorted to violence by attacking the Sinhalese‚ Tamil members of
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Share Supreme Court of India PETITIONER:INDIRA NEHRU GANDHI (SMT.) Vs. RESPONDENT:RAJ NARAIN & ANR. DATE OF JUDGMENT24/06/1975 BENCH:KRISHNAIYER‚ V.R. CITATION: 1975 AIR 1590 1975 SCC (2) 159 ACT: Representation of the People Act‚ 1951‚ S.116B(2)-Stay of election judgment and order-Judge-Power-Dimensions of Judge power to stay-Difference between executive discretion and judicial discretion‚ explained-Cognisability of non-legal arguments in such cases-Equity and ground of
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Community based group intervention for tobacco cessation in rural Tamil Nadu‚ India: a cluster randomized trial Abstract Objective: To determine the efficacy of community based group intervention for tobacco cessation and to identify the barriers for cessation intervention among rural men. Methods: We recruited 400 men (20-40 years) currently using any form of tobacco from 20 villages of the Indian State of Tamil Nadu and randomized them equally into intervention and control groups. A
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Visakhapatnam ( pronunciation (help•info)‚ Telugu: విశాఖపట్టణం) (sometimes spelled as Vishakhapatnam and often abbreviated to Vizag) is a port city on the southeast coast of India and often called "The Jewel of the East Coast" . With a population of 2‚035‚690‚[1] and occupying 681 square kilometres (263 sq mi)‚[2] it is the second largest city in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the third largest city on the east coast of India (after Chennai and Kolkata). Visakhapatnam is located 625 kilometres
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Mohandas K. Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were two people who are very different but similar in many ways. When Dr.King was in college he learned about Gandhi‚ so Gandhi was like a teacher to Dr.King even if they never met. Both Gandhi and Dr.King wanted rights for their people. Dr. King followed Gandhi and started nonviolent protest against segregation as Gandhi did to achieve independence and rights in India. They were both educated‚ strong in public speaking‚ were brave and determined
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Throughout history many different tactics have been used to try to stop violence. Gandhi was one of the most successful in using non violence to resolve a conflict. A very unsuccessful protest was Tiananmen Square. There are many different determining factors in order to have a non violent protest succeed or not work. Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most famous nonviolent peaceful protesters. Gandhi led protest against economical and political restrictions. He fought for national independence
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struggled to get where they are today and most might have fought and committed violent acts to get what they wanted‚ but there are some that used the non-violent way to achieve their goals. Non-violence isn’t something that today we here much about‚ but back in Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.’s time non-violence was the key. There were both positive and negative attributes that they used in their teachings and some of the negative attributes lead them to miss their mark in some way. However all of their
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Abridged Autobiography Abridged by: Bharatan Kumarappa Rs. 15/- Printed & Published by: Navajivan Publishing House Ahmedabad 380 014 (INDIA) Phone: 079 – 27540635 E-mail: jitnavjivanlO@gmail.com Website: www.navajivantrust.org Abridged Autobiography EDITOR’S NOTE Gandhiji’s Autobiography in English as originally published and his History of Satyagraha in South Africa together run into almost 1000 printed pages. An attempt has been made here for the first time to condense the
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Mohandas Gandhi and Frantz Fanon were influential persons of the twentieth century‚ notable for their work in post-colonialist theory and activism. Though they shared the same vision of a decolonised world‚ they differed in their perspectives of colonisation‚ decolonisation and their approach towards the latter. The paper will examine the distinction through the framework of violence and non-violence‚ and begin with the complete examination of Fanon’s perspective before analysing Gandhi’s with Fanon
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