earth’s mantle. 17. The mere thought of adding acidity to my stomach stirred more nausea. (Page 229). Acidity: The quality of being acid or sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste. 18. “A world of thanks for your benevolence‚ Agha sahib.” (Page 248). Benevolence: A kindly act. 19. One of them was hobbling on one leg‚ his other leg amputated below the knee. (Page 259). Amputated: To cut off‚ as a limb or other part of an body; 20. I made no mention of the executions at Ghazi
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History and Experience of the Sikh Diaspora in the United States Sikh migrants began arriving in the United States more than one hundred years ago‚ and now have reached numbers close to half a million. Like most other immigrant communities in the United States‚ Sikhs have faced problems that are both specific to their community and that are also shared by other ethnic communities making their way in a new land. Despite their recent numbers and century long history in the United States‚ many
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INTRODUCTION 1In the context of making of the Pakistan‚ it is said that the ground work was done by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan‚ foundation was laid by Ali Johar and building was built by Mohammad Ali Jinnah. On that Liaquat Ali and others only did the painting work. In that way‚ me can say about Indian Independence movement that its ground was prepared by the ‘Gadar Movement’ (1907-1919)‚ its map was prepared by the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh‚ its foundation stone was laid down by the movement of Guru
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RELIGIONS IN CHINA AND INDIA There are many different religions in both China and India. The most popular religions in China are ancient Confucianism and Taoism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ Protestant‚ Catholic‚ and a new form of religion Falun Gong. India has many religions that are different or the same as the Chinese. Indian religions include: Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Christianity‚ Sikhism‚ Buddhism‚ and Jainism. There are also many people from China that do not follow a religion because of its communist
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Comments You love him or hate him but you can’t ignore him in the hinterlands of Haryana and Punjab. We are talking about none other than MSG the acronym associated with the Godman who matters in Haryana and Punjab‚ Baba Ram Rahim. The man loves to be in news and Mr Anil Vij has very good reason to choose him on a purpose to donate largesse of 50 lakhs and that too on the eve of National Sports Day which incidentally falls on 29th August. GURMEET-RAM-RAHIM-SINGH Why a senior minister in Haryana
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Kahar community of HansuliBank and the forces of change Karl Marx says in his article ‘The British Rule in India’‚ “England has broken the entire framework of Indian society‚ without any symptom of reconstitution yet appearing. The loss of his old world‚ with no gain of a new one‚ imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo‚ and separates Hindostan‚ ruled by Britain‚ from all its ancient traditions‚ and from the whole of its past history”. The novel ‘Hansuli Banker
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Those who have studied the psycholinguistic development of a child are very clear about their findings. They say that language and cognitive development are intimately related. According to them‚ a child learns best in his mother tongue because he is not doubly burdened with the task of acquiring literacy skills simultaneously with learning another language not his own. That is why very often the student taught in a non-mother tongue learns to read syllable by syllable with very little comprehension
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The British distinguished themselves from the Burmese in a physical and mental sense to maintain their own superiority within the colony. In order to mentally separate themselves from the Burmese‚ the British instilled cultural ideas inferiority that can be seen in characters like U Po Kyin. He was “a man of fifty‚ so fat that for years he had not risen from his chair without help…for the Burmese do not sag and bulge like white men‚ but grow fat symmetrically.” Orwell clearly distinguishes Po Kyin
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Qasim was unable to believe his eyes and ears‚ his brute of a cousin who had an attitude as big as the size of a mountain‚ was acting like a guy next door. The way he held the girl‚ it was quite clear the he was not only being polite and considerate‚ but he was actually trying to appease her fear. If he didn’t know better‚ he would swear that this was not his cousin‚ instead some mysterious doppelgänger‚ sent in his place. But what shocked him beyond words was the girls’s behavior towards his cousin
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Background Sangam Literature was written in the ‘Sangam Age’‚ which is not a concrete time range. Some literature may have been written as long ago as 10‚000 BCE‚ but most was written from c. 400 BCE to c. 400 CE. of Between 350 BCE to 200 CE‚ South India (mostly Tamil Nadu) was ruled by the three Tamil dynasties of Chola‚ Pandya and Chera. The Cholas The heartland of the Cholas was the fertile valley of the Kaveri River‚ but they ruled a significantly larger area at the height of their power from
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