The Ganguli family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake has a problem. The mother and father are traditional Bengalese from Calcutta‚ and they are not particularly interested in assimilating into the United States‚ their adopted home. Gogol‚ their son‚ however‚ was born in the United States and is somewhat embarrassed by his parents Bengalese practices. Gogol is also uncomfortable with his name. It is neither a Bengalese nor an American name. No one he knows has a name like his. In school‚ kids make fun
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trample on the poor. Mother Teresa showed compassion for those who were less fortunate than she was. She gave them food‚ lifted their spirits‚ and helped them survive. She established hospices and hospitals for the sick and dying‚ she started in Calcutta as she started a new religious order‚ the Missionaries of Charity‚ which spread throughout the world. Today the Order still cares for the poorest of the poor‚ the sick and dying. Mother Theresa and her nuns went out into the streets and picked up
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES It has been argued that Malas and Madigas are one‚ and the sub-categorisation of 15% SC reservations leads to break their unity. If at all‚ if there is any similarity is to be arrived at‚ it is like the relation that exists between the Twice born‚ the Brahmins and the Vaisyas among vegetarians‚ the Kammas and Kapus among the Sudras. The Malas and Madigas are different in the sense that they among the so-called Un-touchables or Dalits. But in reality there was nothing that
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj (self-rule) and a strong radical in Indian consciousness. His famous quote‚ “Swaraj is my birt right‚ and I shall have it!” is well remembered in India even today. Coming from a father who was a schoolteacher and a Sanskrit scholar‚ young Tilak was a brilliant student who graduated from Deccan College in Pune in 1877. Tilak was among one of the first generation of Indians to receive a college education. He took
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the Karnatic (folk) and the Hindustani Vedic (religious). The Hindustani tradition which dominates the northern half of the Indian subcontinent largely developed in the courts of the major centers for Indian music such as Delhi‚ Lucknow‚ Benares‚ Calcutta‚ Varanasi and Farrukhabad. This tradition has been heavily influenced by Aryan peoples from the middle east and neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Karnatic tradition with its main musical center located in Chennai (previously
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* Protector of the Indian Constitution * Highest Court of Appeal The High Courts The High Courts exist in almost all the Indian states and Union Territories. Out of the 19 High Courts that function in India‚ the oldest one is the Calcutta High Court. The High Court judges are elected by the President of India. The High Courts are authorised to handle all kinds of civil and criminal cases. The Supreme Court controls the activities of the High Courts in India. The District Courts
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back to live the way she did before her marriage. As an Indian student‚ she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual” (120). However‚ once she started to live in Canada‚ then in America‚ she had to find another manner to describe her world. She makes sure to state that she chose to become who
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Bharati Mukherjee illustrates an example of adjusting to a standard American culture and its effects on a person’s identity in "Two Ways to Belong in America." {……}Two sisters mira and bharati are from calcutta lived in the united states for about 35 years as they do seem to disagree on the subject of of the status on immigrants .location affects one’s culture because of the people one is surrounded by and educational opportunities . Location is everything . the short story “two way to
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| |Born on |07 May 1861 | |Born in |Calcutta (Kolkata)‚ India | |Died on |07 August 1941 | |Nationality
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All-Indian Muslim league By McGlockers Creation • Sir Syed Ahmad Kahn was the finder • Came from Muslims believing that Congress didn’t fully represent them but more towards the Hindu faith • Some of the beliefs was that the intellectual class wasn’t represented • Hindu’s were now treating Muslims with little respect and Congress sis nothing about it Simla delegation - 1906 • Following the creation of a Muslim-majority province the Hindu’s outrage had convinced Muslims that when a vote was going
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