“Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee is about Bharati and her sister Mira who have emigrated from Calcutta‚ India to America. They have lived in the United States for about 35 years however they have completely different ideas about immigrant status. Bharati married an American citizen while Mira has a green card and works in pre-school education. Bharati has embraced her new found American identity whole heartedly while Mira prefers to maintain a green card. Mira feels that while
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Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar
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1. From the book of Amos‚ state how the poor and needy were afflicted. (4) In the book of Amos‚ the poor were treated as outcast and were discriminated against. The government collected taxes from the poor such as rent thus fine buildings were built and pleasant vine yards were established. Selling the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of sandals tells us a lot about the social conditions of that time when the poor had to fight for their just rights‚ which were all too frequently ignored
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Essay Topic: Computer Literacy/ Computer Education -Is Computer Literacy Becoming The Need Of Today? The modern age is the age of computers. Computers provide the wide range of education and executive software. Information technology has achieved a great success. Use of computers is widely spread. It is used for storing‚ analyzing‚ and distributing information. It has created a great revolution. It has proved a miraculous development in almost every field. These days‚ computers are used almost everywhere
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January A rumour spreads throughout the Sepoys about the animal fat being used to grease the cartridges for the new Enfield rifles. 26th February After the rumour spreads‚ Sepoys at the 19th Native Infantry at Berhampore refuse rifle practice‚ causing upset between the Sepoys and the British officers. 29th March At Barrackpore‚ in Bengal‚ Mangal Pande wounds two British officers during mutiny of 34th Native Infantry. 31st March 19th native infantry at Berhampore are disbanded.
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wheeled version of the $100 computer. Its name is NANO. Appropriately called the “People’s Car”‚ (not‚ however for the likes of the People’s Princess‚ the late Princess Diana who preferred her Bentley) Mr. Tata says that the Nano has its origins in Calcutta rickshaw cabbies and a very Indian scenario of scooters with four family members perched on top‚ but Tata has been careful to avoid giving the Nano the image of an auto rickshaw or a four wheel scooter. The aim was to produce a proper car that will
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Western thinkers such as Plato‚ Plotinus‚ Kant‚ Bradley‚ and Bergson. In 1918‚ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was selected as Professor of Philosophy by the University of Mysore. In 1921‚ Radhakrishnan was nominated as Professor of Philosophy at the Calcutta University‚ 1921. In 1923‚ Dr. Radhakrishnan’s book "Indian Philosophy" was published. The book was hailed as a "philosophical classic and a literary masterpiece." Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was called to Oxford University‚ to deliver lectures on
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Subhash Chandra Bose was born on January 23‚ 1897 at Cuttack‚ in Orissa. He was the sixth son of Janakinath and Prabhavati Bose. Subhash was an excellent student and after school joined the Presidency College‚ Calcutta‚ where he studied philosophy‚ a subject he was interest in. As a young boy Subhash felt neglected among his 8 siblings. At his English school he suffered under the discrimination faced by Indians which made him even sadder. He wanted to work for the poor but his father‚ had other
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the likes of Pankaj Misra‚ William Dalrymple‚ Chetan Bhagat‚ Anurag Mathur‚ Kiran Desai‚ Kamla Das‚ Hari Kunzuru‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy among others. Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh‚ a pioneer of English literature in India‚ was born in Calcutta (Now Kolkata) in the year 1956. Amitav Ghosh has been raised and educated at the same time in as different locations as Bangladesh‚ Sri Lanka‚ Iran‚ Egypt‚ India and the United Kingdom. George Orwell Born Eric Arthur Blair to an Anglo-Indian
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Commission by Indians‚ an all-party conference was held at Bombay in May 1928. This was meant to instill a sense of resistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929‚ or a countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929‚ however‚ in the midst of rising political discontent
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