The first recorded incident of violence over the issue between Hindus and Muslims in modern times took place in 1853 during the reign of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh. A Hindu sect called the Nirmohis claimed the structure‚ contending that the mosque stood on the spot where a temple had been destroyed during Babar’s time. Violence erupted from time to time over the issue in the next two years and the civil administration had to step in‚ refusing permission to build a temple or to use it as a place
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River The Ganges River is very sacred to the Hindus. This river starts in the Himalayas and flows across the northern part of India and into Bangladesh and finally empties into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges River flows a total of 1‚557 miles and provides water for southern Tibet‚ northern India‚ Nepal‚ and Bangladesh. This is a very important river for everyone‚ especially the Hindus‚ but f we do not take care of it will be destroyed by pollution. The Hindus use the Ganges River to cleanse their sins
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Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote the article “Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?” in the New York Times Magazine on April 17th‚ 2011. Maukherjee is an American physician‚ scientist and writer. He currently is an assistant professor at Columbia University and is a physician at Columbia University Medial Center in New York‚ New York. Mukherjee is most known for his work with the formation of blood and the interactions between micro environment and cancer cells. He has many accomplishments such as his book
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enjoys her victory by dancing across the battle field‚ prancing on the corpses of her slain. (David R. Kinsley 118-119) Kali is the goddess of wrath and vengeance‚ also the patron goddess of Mr. Bhowmicks’ family in the short story A Father written by Bharati Mukherje in 1985. Mr. Bhowmick is a Hindu Indian who migrated from Ranchi‚ Bihar India to Detroit Michigan. Most Americans‚ especially in the 80’s‚ did not have much understanding of Hinduism‚ and still do not today. This could be because Hinduism
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"American Dreamer" Bharati Mukherjee In "American Dreamer‚" Bharati Mukherjee tells her story of coming to the United States and becoming a citizen. Mukerjee left Calcutta in 1961 to study at the University of Iowa. She was to return back to her family but instead Mukerjee fell in love and married. She moved to Canada‚ where her husband was from. After fourteen years‚ she and her new family moved back to the United States because of the race-related harassments faced in Canada. Once in the
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something very different. For the writer Bharati Mukherjee‚ who wrote the essay‚ “American Dreamer”‚ to be a true American someone has to want to be an American‚ not just prove that they merited citizenship. Her essay “American Dreamer” goes in depth into this idea and her opinion that as an American one should believe in bringing together the cultures in America. “We must think of American culture and nationhood as a constantly reforming‚ transmogrifying “we” (Mukherjee 438). For the author James Baldwin
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never feel at home in the new country that they are living in. In the essay Imagining Homelands by Bharati Mukherjee‚ the author suggests that that an immigrant is either like her sister‚ someone who religiously retains her ethnicity‚ or like Mukherjee‚ who changes what is necessary to adapt to her new environment. Her sister keeps her roots while Mukherjee loses hers. Upon moving to America‚ Mukherjee changes the way she dresses because her sari‚ traditional Indian attire for women‚ is impractical
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you couldn’t even stretch out your arms without hitting the other person in the room. Comparison and contrast- “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee In the story “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” Bharati describes her sisters and her relationship. They are on different sides of in the debate over the status of immigrants. Mukherjee tells us the differences between her sisters and herself live since they had gotten in America. She makes the essay with sympathy saying that she believed
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Out Of Many‚ One “Two Ways to Belong in America” published in the New York Times in 1996‚ written by Bharati Mukherjeee is her personal experience about how she decided on becoming an American citizen and her sister Mira’s decision to keep her Indian citizenship‚ and live as legal resident is the USA. This story was written to address various changes in immigration laws during that time when the American government decided to restrain legal residents living in the United States from some rights
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Benode Behari Mukherjee Binod Behari Mukherjee | Born | February 7‚ 1904 West Bengal‚ India | Died | November 11‚ 1980 (aged 76) India | Nationality | Indian | Field | painter | Binod Behari Mukherjee (Bengali: বিনোদ বিহারী মুখার্জি) (7 February 1904 – 11 November 1980) was an Indian artist from West Bengal state. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art‚ as a painter and as a celebrated muralist. He was one of the earliest artists in modern India to take up mural as
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