5 INFLUENTIAL LEADERS WHO TRANSFORMED THE WORLD- 1. Mother Teresa-Mother Teresa was an Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun. In 1950‚ she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta‚ India‚ a religious congregation that is currently active in more than 130 countries. In her work with the Missionaries of Charity‚ Mother Teresa cared for the poor‚ sick‚ orphaned and dying. The Missionaries of Charity gradually expanded beyond India‚ and in 2012‚ consisted of more than 4‚500 sisters operating in 133
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One of Mukherjee’s main arguments in her essay is that not everyone moves to a new country for the same reason. She compares her intentions of migration to those of her sister’s. Mukherjee explains that her sister and her were both raised in Calcutta and have both been living in America for about thirty-five years‚ but their lifestyles differ drastically from one another. Her sister married an Indian student and has remained at the same job
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Places to Visit St Paul’s cathedral‚ close to BBD‚ beyond Park Street‚ Kolkata‚ was built in 1847‚ in Gothic Revival style with stained glass windows and two frescoes in Florentine Renaissance style‚ partly rebuilt after the 1934 Calcutta Earthquake. The building itself stands on the "island of attractions" in Kolkata - beside the Victoria Memorial‚ Nandan‚ Rabindra Sadan theatre complex‚ and the Birla Planetarium. Victoria memorial‚ BBD‚ Kolkata‚ was built in 1921‚ memorial building dedicated
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The principal notion of concluding the decline of the subcontinent based on the decline of Mughal power in the 18th century still exists. The time period after Aurangzeb’s death and before the pre-Colonial regime in the subcontinent encountered various political conflicts and extensive cultural progress. In terms of the political conflicts‚ the Mughals faced a financial crisis which was generally caused by the immense expansion and catalyzed by other events. They also had to deal with the numerous
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of the characters to match with that of an actual historical timeline (The story begins with ‘In 1939‚ thirteen years before I was born…’). The story is also placed in a very real Calcutta‚ London and Bangladesh and reference to real places in these cities like Gole Park‚ Dhakuria overbridge and Gariahat Road in Calcutta (pg 8‚ 9) and Lymington road in West Hampstead only add to the reality effect. The author also talks about newspapers – specific newspapers from specific time frames (pg 224 ‘I turned
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The Park Hotels By : Abda Khan Divya Rathaur Meenakshi Singh Ritu Gupta Introduction Located in Bangalore‚ Chennai‚ New Delhi‚ Navi Mumbai‚ Kolkata‚ Visakhapatnam‚ Hyderabad‚ Kerala Backwaters & Goa‚ The Park Hotels are a collection of luxury boutique hotels managed by Apeejay Surrendra Hotels. With over 45 years of industry experience‚ we are renowned for our global standards of product quality and service excellence. The location of the hotels makes them the preferred luxurious downtown spot
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Tommy Tran English 4 1/6/14 The Namesake Jump Lahiri used woman as a literary device‚ “foil”‚ in her novel The Namesake to help contrast with the protagonist‚ Nikhil “Gogol” Ganguli in order to shape his identity. There were quite a few women that came and went through Gogol’s life span in the novel but three essential women were his mother‚ a woman by the name Maxine‚ and his first wife‚ Moushumi. The literary device that is being used allows the women to either be completely different‚ or
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Early Political life 3. Mujib became politically active when he joined the All India Muslim Students Federation in 1940. He enrolled at the Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College)‚ a well-respected college affiliated to the University of Calcutta to study law. He joined the Bengal Muslim League in 1943 and grew close to the faction led by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy‚ a leading Bengali Muslim leader. During this period‚ Mujib worked actively for the separation of the Muslim state of Pakistan and
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Another Dakota VT-CBC brought in king Tribhuvan from Patna on the 18th of February‚ 1951‚ to announce the drawn of democracy in Nepal. The Government of India donated this aircraft to Nepal. Later‚ Indian National Airlines started flights between Calcutta and Kathmandu. The advent of commercial aviation in Nepal was the outcome of democratic spirit if 1951 when a private airlines from India‚ Indian national Airways was allowed to link Kathmandu with Patna‚ three flight a week. Commercial Services
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References: Das‚ Kamala. Summer in Calcutta. Kottayam: DC Books‚ 2004 Dhawan‚ R.K. ed. Indian Women Novelists. New Delhi: Prestige Books‚ 1993. Set II. Vol.I. Jain‚ Jasbir. Writing Women Across Culture. Jaipur: Rawat Publications‚ 2002. Naik M.K. Dimensions of Indian English literature. New
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