rise to a sense of insecurity and confusion for many who still loves to think that “Mother India” loves all her children equally. But the sense of pessimism has been encouraged again and again. Sometimes through the Sikh riots and sometimes through the incidents like Babri Masjid. And horribly enough even with India stepping in the 21st century with a never before economic growth rate elections in India can be easily won by playing the “hindutva” card. Narendra Modi a person who brought so much
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Festivals in India are characterized by color‚ gaiety‚ enthusiasm‚ prayers and rituals. The word festival means feast day‚ festive celebration. As kids‚ when there used to be festivals the only thing that came to our minds was holidays and sweets that in turn meant lots of fun. India being a society of may religions there are a lot many festivals. For the Hindus there is diwali‚ for the Muslims there is id‚ for the Christians its Christmas and for the Parsis it’s the New Year and apart from all these
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INCREDIBLE INDIA Everyday I go to school and speak the pledge "India is my country and I love my country".One day a question instantly popped up in my head‚"Do I really mean it? The pledge that I have spoken since the first day of school.The answer came as soon as the question‚"Yes‚I love my country! Agreed that there is corruption‚poverty and dirt everywhere. Today‚even after 67 years of independence‚we find men‚women with their children begging on the streets‚people spitting and throwing
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work at the prevailing wage but is unable to find the job. India‚ with a vast population of over 2 billion individuals‚ is facing the biggest problem of the century in the form of unemployment of worthy and productive citizens. Our country is set to be progressing by leaps and bounds in the matter of economy but this progress is low sided that the net results is the sharp increase in the number of unemployed. Population of our country India is increasing day by day. It is the second highest populous
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short essay outlining the origin and meaning of the caste system in India along with a critique on Stalin K.’s film – “India Untouched”. Is it a Façade that we subconsciously put on or is it the lack of knowledge about the prevailing evils that drives inaccurate judgement of our absolute surrounding? What in fact is “Untouchability”? Where does it occur? Who are the major victims of discrimination‚ caste or otherwise‚ in India? Does Stalin K. successfully strike a chord in the eyes of not only
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This is a list of the notable beaches in India. List is sorted by states anti-clockwise. Contents • 1 West coast o 1.1 Gujarat o 1.2 Maharashtra o 1.3 Goa o 1.4 Karnataka o 1.5 Kerala o 1.6 Tamil Nadu • 2 East coast o 2.1 Andhra Pradesh o 2.2 Odisha o 2.3 Pondicherry o 2.4 Tamil Nadu o 2.5 West Bengal West coast Gujarat The beaches along the western state of Gujarat are: • Chorwed Beach • Diu Beach • Umbirgam Beach • Tithal Beach • Mandvi Beach - Mandvi
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Nationalism in India Nationalism It involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms‚ i.e.‚ a nation. Modern nationalism was associated with the formation of nation-states. In India‚ as in many other colonies‚ the growth of nationalism is connected to the anti-colonial movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. The First World War‚ Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement The war played an important role in shaping India‟s freedom
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Arabic word ‘Suf’ which means wool. Sufism believed that the Quran and Hadith have secret meanings of mysticism. The word mysticism can be defined as the consciousness of the one reality‚ also called wisdom or love. Sufism has become widely popular in India for mystical practices and thoughts. Sufism developed in the eighth and ninth centuries in three major places: 1) In the cities of Basra‚ Kufa‚ and Baghdad in Iraq. 2) In the city of Balkh in the Khorasan district of Persia. 3) In Egypt
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Corruption In India “Corruption is Social Evil” “Power tends to corrupt‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In its simplest sense‚ corruption may be defined as an act of bribery or misuse of public position or power for the fulfillment of selfish motives or to gain personal gratifications. It has also been defined as "Misuse of authority as a result of consideration of personal gain which need not be monetary". In recent Centuries India has earned a place among the THREE most corrupt
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got to know the intensity of the heat the second I walked off the flight. The moment I walked through the doors of the airplane into the tunnel‚ I felt a rush of hot air in my face. It felt like there was no way to escape it. I haven’t seen much of India yet but I can tell you that it is not the cleanest or calmest place. It was around ten at night last night‚ after I greeted my grandma and aunts‚ we were walking back to the car and it was a mad house. People were everywhere pushing and shoving; there
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