The old name of DHAKA is JAHANGIRNAGAR. It is the capital and the largest city of Bangladesh. Dhaka is located in the geographic center of the country .With its colorful history and rich cultural traditions‚ Dhaka is known the world over as the city of mosques and muslin. Its fame attracted travelers from far and near throughout the ages. Today it has grown into a mega city of about 10 million people becoming the hub of the nation’s industrial‚ commercial‚ cultural‚ educational and political activities
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর‚ Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚ sobriquet Gurudev‚ was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚ he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona
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child approaches school age‚ the matter of social acceptability becomes important in regard of his or her ways of learning” (www.nfb.org). There is a special form of written language termed as “Braille.” This language is characters that are represented by patterns of dots that are felt with the fingertips. Braille is an extremely useful language for the visually impaired and it is used all over the
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The Indian English novel evolved as a subaltern consciousness; as a reaction to break away from the colonial literature. Hence the post colonial literature in India witnessed a revolution against the idiom which the colonial writers followed. Gradually the Indian English authors began employing the techniques of hybrid language‚ magic realism peppered with native themes. Thus from a post colonial era Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post-modern era. The saga of the Indian English
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letter. The Deafblind person can wear a glove with the letters indicated so that the other person knows where to touch. Or one can simply use a chart that shows where to touch or how to form the letters with one’s hand. Central establishments for Braille have been developed in several countries‚ that is a central writing unit and a number of users connected to it. The intention is to enable one interpreter to serve several users at the same time. Stig is not aware of any case where these devices have
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Sectarianism can broadly be defined as divisions within a group‚ such as different denominations within a religion‚ based on perceived differences. It does not necessarily result in conflict‚ but historically‚ sectarian divisions along religious and political lines have contributed to conflict. Sectarian religious conflict has contributed to some of the most intractable‚ bitter and painful episodes of aggression and persecution throughout history. For instance‚ conflict between Irish Catholics
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My mother tongue is Bengali which is being spoken in our house since my childhood. I have done my preliminary education from Doon. While schooling I’ve studied in English as my first language and Hindi being the second. Thereafter after completing my secondary education I came to Kolkata where in I got a chance to learn Bengali i.e. my mother tongue. As I didn’t like the language I didn’t learn it very sincerely also. As English was my favourite subject during my school days. After finishing my
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administrative convenience. But whose convenience? Surely the convenience of the British related to the interest of British officials and businessmen. Perhaps the main motive behind partitioning Bengal was to curtail the influence of Bengali politicians and to split Bengali people. This partition infuriated people all over India and everyone opposed it. Public meetings and demonstrations were held. The struggle that unfolded came to be known as the Swadeshi movement. This movement opposed British
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At the start of the film‚ Ashoke and Ashima leave India for America and their life together begins. The move from the big city of Calcutta to the big city of New York is much lonelier because they have no family nearby and the land is unfamiliar. The climate is also different‚ it is winter time and the weather is cold. Ashima is learning very quickly that the living conditions are different. Ashoke explains to her that they have gas twenty-four hours a day‚ and the difference between hot and
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kids make fun of it. But the conflict goes deeper than that. The Namesake 1 Gogol’s father tries to explain why he gave that name to his first-born child‚ but Gogol could not care less. Gogol‚ in his attempts to get out from under the Bengali culture‚ even tries to
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