By Krishna Chaitanya.E Assistant Professor of English MGIT‚ Hyd. UNIT –IV DISASTER MANAGEMENT THE CUDDALORE EXPERIENCE (TEXT BOOK) Objectives of the Lesson To comprehend the magnitude of tsunami and its consequences in Cuddalore To know about the crisis management/disaster management To inspire to take up the social responsibility during nature’s fury To extend support during natural calamities To understand the role of rescue and relief operations To train how to open relief operations and
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Minneapoli : Fortress Press‚ 2000. Mwaura Philomena Njeri Mission as Service of Justice‚ Peace in the Church in Africa [Book Section] // Towards a Reconstruction of Mission Stories / book auth. al Joshva Raja et. - Birmingham : SOCMS/ISPCK‚ 2010. Sen Amartya Development as Freedom [Book]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press‚ 1999. Thangaraj Thomas The Common Task:A Theology of Christian Mission [Book]. - Nashville : Abingdon Press‚ 1999.
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(1913)‚ the school was expanded into a university in 1921‚ but in 1951‚ it became one of the central universities of India. Many world famous teachers have become associated with it. Indira Gandhi‚ Satyajit Ray‚ Abdul Ghani Khan and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen are among its more illustrious students. Kala Bhavana‚ the art college of Shantiniketan‚ is still considered one of the best art colleges in the world. Other institutions here include Vidya Bhavana; the Institute of Humanities‚ Shiksha Bhavana;
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PSIR 502 Comparative Political Development Development as Freedom – Sen‚ Amartya p.3-11 “Development as Freedom” by the economist Amartya Sen mainly focuses on the development and the factors that are related with it. In this book‚ Sen explores the relationship between freedom and development‚ as freedom is a basic component of development and it’s a key to other aspects. In the Introduction‚ Sen states that freedom on one hand depends on many determinations: social and economic
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poverty and placed human development at the core of their concerns. ActionAid’s HRBA builds on this idea that human development is the central concern. It takes the lead from Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen‚ who defines development as a process of expanding people’s freedoms. According to Sen: “These freedoms are both the primary ends and the principle means of development. They include freedom to participate in the economy‚ which implies access to credit‚ among other facilities; freedom of
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This needs saying at the outset. In itself‚ it might seem like an unremarkable fact‚ but it actually is not: Amartya Sen is a citizen of India. While most of his countrymen who have been able to leave India for a long time try their best to become citizens of the country they might have gone to (Britain‚ America‚ Canada‚ Australia)‚ Sen‚ a man whom Cambridge and Harvard are said to have fought over for the privilege of offering an appointment‚ resolutely retains his blue Indian passport after half
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the India that we see today is not quite as it was imagined to be. We still have a long way to go. Even though‚ as Indians‚ we have a lot to be proud of: we are the citizens of a country which has given birth to scholars like Rabindranath Tagore‚ Amartya Sen‚ Scientists like Jagdish Chandra Bose‚ C.V. Raman‚ visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi and Sportspersons like Kapil Dev‚ Saina Nehwal‚ who have represented our country and brought respect to our nation‚
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Universal Values and the Justification of Internationality By Shaya Aldosari Introduction: Does cultural plurality deny any possibility of universal morality? Universality means‚ among many definitions‚ internationality. It also means the eternal validity of human ethics. Before the so-called postmodernism‚ humanity used to believe in transcendental values and ideas that hold good of everyone1‚ that is‚ every ‘animal rationale’ which according to Aristotle is the only animal who is capable
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Hritwick Banerjee 12210030 Why should a privileged person help an underprivileged person? As the definition suggests that the privileged person is someone who is having the special rights‚ advantages or immunities or having the rare opportunity to do something that brings particular pleasure. On the other hand the unprivileged person is someone who is not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of the people in the society. So in a socio economic point of view the presence
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who debate about what the ideal conception of development is. In the book Development as Freedom‚ Amartya Sen argues development is the “expansion of… basic freedoms” and the removal of “deprivations such as starvation… and undernourishment” (36). He lists out the five types of freedom: political freedom‚ economic facilities‚ social opportunities‚ transparency guarantees‚ and protective security (Sen 38). These five are interrelated and affect one another. For example‚ having political freedom gives
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