The great myths and religions of the world can often be traced back to a distinct few sources. The direct definition of religion is the “belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power‚ especially a personal God or gods.” Most of the time the religions of one culture are based on the beliefs of another or an earlier culture. The religious beliefs and practices of Athens‚ Greece can be quite thoroughly compared and contrasted to those of the Gupta Empire‚ because while they vastly differ‚
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DANCE ELEMENTS RELATED WITH MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES INTRODUCTION OF KATHAK The word ‘Kathak’ comes from the root katha‚ which means story- telling. Literal meaning of the word kathak is related to katha‚ the art of story-telling‚ “Katha Kahe So Kathaka Kahave”‚ which means “one who tells a story is a story-teller”. According to M. Monier Williams‚ Katha denotes conversation‚ story‚ speech‚ tale or fable. Katha also means to ‘ sing in praise’‚ ‘to say or inform something’. Thus‚ kathakars were originally
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Mythologies of War and Peace From the text: Myths o Live By Joseph Campbell Copyright 1972 From a lecture given in 1967 It is for an obvious reason far easier to name examples of mythologies of war than mythologies of peace ;for not only has conflict between groups been normal to human experience‚ but there is also the cruel fact to be recognized that killing is the precondition of all living whatsoever: life lives on life‚ eats life‚ and would otherwise not exist. “Man‚” wrote Oswald
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Hunt Bartlett Award. Subsequent collections have been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1991 she received a Cholmondeley Award. For Bhatt‚ language is synonymous with the tongue‚ the physical act of speaking. She has described Gujarati and the Indian childhood it connects her to as "the deepest layer of my identity". However‚ English has become the language she speaks every day and which she‚ largely‚ chooses to write in. The repercussions of this divided heritage are explored
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Urdu: محمد علی جناح‚ Sindhi: محمد علي جيڻا‚ Gujarati: મુહમ્મદ અલી જિન્ના‚ Audio (help•info)); December 25‚ 1876 – September 11‚ 1948) was a 20th century lawyer‚ politician‚ statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: قائد اعظم — "Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum (باباۓ قوم) ("Father of the Nation"). Jinnah served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan’s independence on August 14‚ 1947
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-Ethnicities: Indo-Aryan 72%‚ Dravidian 25%‚ Monogoloid and other 3- -Religions: Hindu 80.5%‚ Muslim 13.4 %‚ Christian 2.3%‚ Sikh 1.9%‚ other 1.8%‚ unspecified 0.1% -Languages: Hindi 41%‚ Bengali 8.1%‚ Telugu 7.2%‚ Marathi 7%‚ Tamil 5.9%‚ Urdu 5%‚ Gujarati 4.5%‚ Kannada 3.7%‚ Malayalam 3.2%‚ Oriya 3.2%‚ Punjabi 2.8%‚
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------------------------------------------------- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Gandhi" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Gandhi (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | | Born | 2 October 1869 Porbandar‚ Kathiawar Agency‚British Indian Empire[1] | Died | 30 January 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi‚ Dominion of India | Cause of death | Assassination by shooting | Resting place | Cremated at Rajghat‚ Delhi. 28.6415°N 77.2483°E | Nationality
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Darpan`. The first issue of this daily was published from the Serampore Mission Press on May 23‚ 1818. In the very same year‚ Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya started publishing another newspaper in Bengali‚ the Bengal Gazetti. On July 1‚ 1822 the first Gujarati newspaper was published from Bombay‚ called the Bombay Samachar‚ which is still extant. The first Hindi newspaper‚ the Samachar Sudha Varshan began in 1854. Since then‚ the prominent Indian languages in which newspapers have grown over the years
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Sindhi-speaking households make up 63.00% of Sindh’s population; Urdu-speaking households make up 18.00%; Punjabi 06.99%; Pashto 04.01%; Balochi 2.11%; Saraiki 01.00%; Hazaragi/Persian/Dari 0.89% and other languages 04.00%. Other languages include Gujarati‚ Memoni‚ Kutchi (last one being a dialect of Sindhi)‚ Khowar‚ Thari‚ Luri and Brahui. The Sindhis as a whole are composed of original descendants of an ancient population known as Sammaat‚ various sub-groups related to the Baloch origin are found
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Missile Man of India. The various Indian Missiles of world order like Prithvi‚ Trishul‚ Akash‚ Agni‚ etc. are mainly the result of his efforts and caliber. He is mainly interested in work. He is a bachelor. He is fond of music and the Koran and the Gita. He is a great lover of people‚ children in particular. Ever since becoming the head of the Indian State‚ he has been having interaction with children all over the country. May he live
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