the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India’s religious and philosophical literature for the English speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921-?) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University (1936–1952). Among the many honours he received were a knighthood (1931) and the Bharat Ratna (1954). His birthday is celebrated in India as Teacher’s Day on 5
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government and the upper classes through armed struggle. A radical section of students in Calcutta and other parts of India was attracted towards it. It inevitably brought a very strong reaction from the government of the day to crush the movement. In 1972‚ Mazumdar was arrested and died in Alipore jail. But the impact of the movement continues till today. The play opens in a classroom in a College in Calcutta. Prof.Datta‚ a renowned Professor of Law faces a set of students who are intelligent‚ alert
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Subhash Chandra Bose was born into an affluent Bengali family on January 23‚ 1897 in Cuttack ‚ Orissa. Subhash’s public prosecutor father ensured that his son availed the best of education in eminent institutions such as Scottish Church College ‚ Calcutta and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University . In 1920‚ at the insistence of his parents‚ Bose appeared in the prestigious Indian Civil Service and secured the fourth place. During this period the civil disobedience movement called by Mahatma
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hegemony are violently shaken by Kamala Das who can defy the conventional ideological discourse of sexism and love. She herself became a victim of a young man’s carnal hunger . In ‘The Freaks’‚ a remarkable lyric which was published in Summer in Calcutta contains a picture of love that is full of dirt and filth as the man ensconced in sexual intercourse turned his ‘sun-stained / Cheek to me ‚ his mouth ‚ a dark /Cavern‚ where stalacities of /Uneven teeth gleam ‚ his right / Hand on my knee‚ while
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beloved mother - Freya’s ongoing quest to find her true self has had a huge impact on the way Sydney is today. Along with having to deal with her mother’s difficult ways‚ Sydney is also forced to look after her two younger twin sisters Galway and Calcutta twenty-four-seven. She is more than just an ordinary 11 year old girl as Sydney captivates the reader’s imagination with her amazingly non-conformist‚ curious and altruist personality. Throughout the novel it is evident that Sydney chooses to
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Airlines Ltd.‚ flies passengers and cargo to 59 domestic and 16 international destinations. Its fleet numbered 52 aircraft in 2000. Indian Airlines has traditionally based its network around the four main hubs of Delhi‚ Mumbai (formerly Bombay)‚ Calcutta‚ and Chennai (formerly Madras). The airline carries about six million passengers a year and has a substantial freight operation. Origins The Air Corporations Act of 1953 amalgamated India’s dozen or so airlines‚ most of them undercapitalized‚ into
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Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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Cabuliwallah cabuliwallah‚ penned by rabindranath tagore‚ explores the complexities of human relationships through the story of rahmun and the narrators daughter mini. Rahmun‚ the cabuliwalla does not belong to Calcutta and is always treated as an outsider . he is subjected to the mistrust ‚ curiosity and suspicion of the locals. mini was initially frightened by the cabuliwallah‚ rumoured to be a child abductor ‚who actually peddled dry fruits and went door to door in the hopes of earning a few
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta [pic] By:Ashley Rivas May 22nd ‚ 2013 English Mother Teresa‚ was a woman who never lost faith in herself and in her people. She always found a way to help the poor and provide for them. She cared for the world and the effects of the people who didn’t have a well enough income to pay for their illness. She cured thousands of people gave many preaching’s and gave food to the hungry. From this day on‚ Mother Teresa‚ has feed the hungry‚ gave a roof to sleep and built
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Movie-Thesis Based on the Movie: The Namesake by Mira Nair (2007) Based on the Novel By Jhumpa Lahiri Does culture affect identity and behavior? The Namesake is the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli from their traditional arranged marriage in Calcutta‚ India‚ to their immigrant life in America and the family they raised in the suburbs of New York. The film explores cultural identity and tends to reflect at key turning points in the story on the Russian “pet” name‚ Gogol‚ that Ashoke gave his
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