of the poems ‘’Singh Song!’’ and ‘’Checking Out Me History’’‚ both personas show a strong link to their cultural heritage through both the content of the poems and the use of nonstandard English to emphasise their accent. The speaker in ‘’Checking out Me History’’ seems to feel irritated that he has been ‘’blind[ed]’’ to his own roots and cultural background‚ using simple rhyme to emphasise the silliness of the white history he’s been taught rather than his own. Whereas in ‘’Singh Song!’’ the individual
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Muslim and Sikh religious and political gathering Shooting‚ mass murder‚ massacre Rifles 379-1500 1100-1500 British Indian Army unit under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer Number of participant(s) 50 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Punjabi: ਜਲ੍ਹਿਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ਼ ਹਤਿਆਕਾਂਡ‚ Hindi: जलियांवाला बाग़ हत्याकांड‚ Urdu: ﺟﻠﻴﺎﻧﻮﺍﻟﮧ ﺑﺎﻍ ﻗﺘﻞِ ﻋﺎﻡJallianwala Bāġa Hatyākāṇḍ)‚ also known as the Amritsar massacre‚ took place in the Jallianwala Bagh public garden in the northern Indian city of Amritsar
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Raghunath. Rajguru had fearless spirit and indomitable courage. The only object of his adoration and worship was his motherland for whose liberation he considered no sacrifice too great. He was a close associate of Chandra Shekhar Azad‚ Sardar Bhagat Singh and Jatin Das and his field of activity was U.P and Punjab‚ with Kanpur‚ Agra and Lahore as his headquarters. Rajguru was a good shot and was regarded as the gunman of the party. Shivaram Hari Rajguru was an Indian revolutionist from Maharashtra
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reproductive goals. The general secrecy surrounding induced abortion because of its illegality does not mean‚ however‚ that it is not possible to study the subject or that there have not been efforts to measure the magnitude of the problem (Singh et al.‚ 1997)‚ or to document the various aspects of the practice of induced abortion (Ramosa-Jalbuena et al.‚ 1978 and 1988; Raymundo et al.‚ 1996 and 2001; Perez et al. 1997). We know from previous studies that Filipino women who decide not
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accordingly. Here’s a list of common festivals celebrated all over India. January: Lohri : Lohri marks the culmination of winter‚ and is celebrated on the 13th day of January in the month of Paush or Magh‚ a day before Makar Sankranti. For Punjabis‚ this is more than just a festival‚ it is also an example of a way of life. Lohri celebrates fertility and the spark of life. People gather round the bonfires‚ throw sweets‚ puffed rice and popcorn into the flames‚ sing popular songs and exchange
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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Kashmir will have the second link when the route passing through Chakan da Bagh will open on 31 March‚ officials said on 30 January. 30 January 2006 Opposition leader in Indian Rajiya Sabha and India’s former minister for external affairs Jaswant Singh is arriving in Pakistan on 30 January by train through Khokhropar-Munabao border along with an 80-member delegation for a week long visit to Pakistan. 29 January 2006 Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on 28 January expressed his country’s willingness
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Secularism In India -- A Brief Study - By Kamaluddin Khan By Kamaluddin Khan‚ The challenges of castism‚ communalism and religious fundamentalism‚ involving separatism and violence in India‚ are the major threats to our secular polity. They weaken the working and stability of our secular federal system and militate against the basic principles governing our national life and providing meaning to our new identity. Our national movement was the biggest and the most widespread anti-imperialist movement
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of different cultures starting from the Punjabis and sindhis to the tribal cultures of the easternmost Pakistani provinces. Now these cultures have strongly been influenced by surrounding cultures of India‚ Central Asia and the Middle East along with other places. Pakistani society is largely multilingual and multicultural. There are some similarities than differences that can be found as most Pakistanis belong to Aryan heritage. Like sindhis and Punjabis obviously have a language difference. Traditional
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