Ancient Indians were not known to have a great sense of history. Historians have had to rely a lot on accounts by foreign travellers and foreign sources to reconstruct our history. And all such sources‚ including Megasethenes‚ Fa-hsien and many medieval Arab travellers‚ have uniformly found that Indians were remarkably law abiding and that crime was very rare. Most historians including A.L. Basham and recent writers like Abraham Eraly have treated such rosy accounts with suspicion merely because
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Republic Day Awards‚ 2012 A total of 109 persons‚ including 19 women‚ have been selected for the Padma awards. Five personalities have been given Padma Vibhushan‚ 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shree awards. PADMA VIBHUSHAN: K.G. Subramanyan (painting and sculpture)‚ Late Mario De Miranda (cartoonist)‚ Late (Dr) Bhupen Hazarika (vocal music)‚ Dr Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (orthopaedics)‚ T.V. Rajeswar (civil service)‚ Delhi. PADMA BHUSHAN: Prominent among winners were Shabana Azmi (cinema)‚ Khaled
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EK BHARAT- UNITY IN DIVERSITY 1.India is a multi-cultural‚ multi-racial‚ multi-lingual and multi-ethnic society. It is a land of diversity. People of different creeds‚ customs‚ cultures and traditions live here. They have their different festivals‚ manners and lifestyle.Their religions and beliefs are also different. Despite all these‚ there are certain common visit able bonds that link them together. This is a distinct feature of India and it is popularly known as unity in diversity.Basically
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2007. He was fondly referred to as “The People’s President” during his term. He has honorary doctorates from over thirty universities and is the recipient of the country’s three highest civilian awards – the Padma Bhushan‚ the Padma Vibhushan and the Bharat Ratna. My thoughts on the book: … “He who knows others is learned‚ but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use.” Another excerpt that looks into life was… “The trouble is that we often merely analyse life
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Swachh Bharat Date 2 October 2014 Location India . New delhi Organised by Narendra Modi Government of India Participants Anil Ambani Sachin Tendulkar Ruby Yadav Salman Khan Priyanka Chopra Yog Guru Baba Ramdev Kamal Hassan Mridula Sinha Shashi Tharoor Arvind Kejriwal The team of TV series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah Amitabh Bachchan Hrithik Roshan Aamir Khan Swachh Bharat or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Campaign Clean India) is a national
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MOTHER TERESA In my English assignment‚ I was asked to do a report on someone or things that I am interested with. So‚ I decided to choose Mother Teresa as my role model to accomplish my task. To me‚ a role model is someone you want to emulate or hope to be like one day. Besides that‚ a role model is also someone who has inspiring actions or words. However‚ I feel that a role model needs to be honest‚ kind-hearted‚ humble‚ and caring. Therefore‚ I choose Mother Teresa as my role model because
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Swami Vivekananda Contributor Personality Program An Adani Group Initiative UNIT 3: The Contributor’s Vision of Success ...Not only external rewards but also deep inner fulfillment for students and faculty of Gujarat Technological University by University Services COPYRIGHT DECLARATION This Study Material is designed‚ developed and published by Illumine Knowledge Resources Pvt. Ltd. and licensed to Career Knowledge Resources Pvt. Ltd‚ the promoters of I-Become. All rights are reserved
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No battle was fought at Valley Forge‚ yet it was the turning point in the Revolutionary War because it gave the army a backbone‚ made the soldiers stronger for upcoming battles‚ and helped them win alliance with the French. It was here that the Continental Army was hopelessly drenched. After the battles they had fought‚ Valley Forge gave them another reason to give up. They arrived bloody‚ beaten‚ and war-torn. What would you expect from an army who went through these difficulties and yet‚ life
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Valley Forge: Would you Quit? It’s like Thomas Paine said‚ “These are the times that try men’s souls.” (Paine 153) This is Valley Forge. It’s the middle of the Revolutionary War. Me‚ along with 12‚000 other soldiers are at Valley Forge. So far‚ there are a lot of bad of living conditions. The weather is too cold to bare and most of us don’t have shoes and are lacking in clothing. Twelve men share a room in a hut and there is bad ventilation. I don’t know if I should re-enlist or quit. For me
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Open defecation – Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan Objective: To eradicate open defecation practice that is still widespread in our country completely in next 10 years that is by 2022. Background: More than half of people(60 %) defecating openly in world lives in our country. According to the 2011 Indian census‚ 53 per cent of households do not use any kind of toilet or latrine. This essentially matches the 55 per cent found by the National Family Health Survey in 2005.Open defecation is not so common elsewhere
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