UNTOUCHABILITY IN INDIA Untouchability is not unique to India; it was practised in parts of Europe until a few centuries ago‚ and Japan still has a large number of ’untouchables’‚ called the burakumin. But it is in the Indian sub-continent that this system survives‚ closely bound with culture‚ religion‚ history and contemporary politics. Today over 170 million men‚ women and children in the India are considered untouchable‚ and improvement in their lot has been slow despite legal safeguards and
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twenty three year old student was gang raped on a moving bus and later died in New Delhi‚ India. This attack led to the breakout of aggressive protests for India’s officials to strengthen their laws to better protect women against this kind of violence. Now India is being criticized for a slow response to the attack. Most recently‚ a five year old little girl was kidnapped‚ raped‚ and tortured in New Delhi‚ India. It was a brutal attack and doctors even say they had to remove foreign objects from the
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Reaction Paper 1: Mother India Mother India is a 1957 Bollywood film‚ written and directed by Mehmoob Khan. The movie was made 10 years after India obtained its independence from the British. The movie had major significance in terms of the patriotism and the changing situation in the nation at the time‚ and how the country was functioning without British authority. The term "Mother India" has been defined as "a common icon for the emergent Indian nation in the early 20th century in both colonialist
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TREES OF INDIa Submitted By Anish Pendharkar 11AR10002 Guided By Prof . Uttam Kumar Banerjee CONTENTS 1. THE BANAYAN TREE 2. NEEM 3. FIRANGAPANI 4. PEEPAL 5. AKASH NEEM 6. USTARD TREE 7. TAMARIND/IMLI 8. ASOKA 9. BAEL 10. COCONUT 11. GULER 12. PHANAS 13. CASHEW 14. ARJUN 15. MANGO 16. TEAK 17. SITAPHAL 18. BADAM 19. PALASH 20. CHIKU 1. THE BANYAN TREE Ficns bengalensis Linn. (Order: Urticaeeae). Ficus is the Latin for fig. Bengalensis‚
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the world that once visited get into your heart and won’t let go. For me India is such a place when I first visited‚ I was stunned by the richness of the land by its lush beauty and exotic architecture by its ability to overload its senses with the pure‚ concentrated intensity of its colors‚ smells‚ tastes and souls. It was as if all my life I was seeing the world in black and white and when brought face-to-face with India‚ experienced every thing rendered in brilliant Technicolor. - Keitlt Bellows
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ABOUT INDIA INDIA: India‚ officially the Republic of India‚ is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area‚ the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people‚ and the most populous democracy in the world. Capital: New Delhi Population: 1.241 billion (2011) World Bank President: Pranab Mukherjee Official languages: Hindi Language‚ English Language Government: Constitutional republic‚ Parliamentary system‚ Federal republic . INTRODUCTION: It is impossible
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Corruption in India is a major issue and adversely affects its economy.[1] A 2005 study conducted by Transparency International in India found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully.[2][3] In its 2008 study‚ Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public office.[4] In 2012 India has ranked 94th out
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http://www.studymode.com/essays/Essay-On-India-Of-My-Dream-1445580.html http://www.studymode.com/essays/India-Of-My-Dreams-1315397.html Home About Site Content Quality Guidelines Suggest Us Report Errors Contact Us Our country India has completed 63 years of her independence. In every walk of life‚ we find Indians on the top. For example‚ earlier in sports we found Indians winning only in cricket‚ but now we have been captivating other sports like Chess‚ Boxing‚ and Badminton
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cat150 years of University Education in India : Challenges Ahead Prof. K. Sudha Rao Dr. Mithilesh Kr Singh Introduction The emergence of a world wide economic order has immense consequences for higher education more so under the changes that have taken place in the recent past with regard to globalization‚ industrialization‚ information technology advancement and its impact on education aided to these are the policy changes that have taken place at the UGC‚ AICTE‚ DEC‚ NCTE‚ Medical Council
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Terrorism In India The attacks on Indian Parliament and on Mumbai has left the people of India in a state of shock and fear for their life. The situation on Kashmir is still haunting the government and to add to the problems of Indian government is the recent attack on hotels in Mumbai killing many people including people from different nations. I think its time that India should follow a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism and the terrorists. The attack on Mumbai is “an attack on the spirit
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