Festivals in India are characterized by color‚ gaiety‚ enthusiasm‚ prayers and rituals. The word festival means feast day‚ festive celebration. As kids‚ when there used to be festivals the only thing that came to our minds was holidays and sweets that in turn meant lots of fun. India being a society of may religions there are a lot many festivals. For the Hindus there is diwali‚ for the Muslims there is id‚ for the Christians its Christmas and for the Parsis it’s the New Year and apart from all these
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IS INDIA REALLY SECULAR? SOCIOLOGY TUTORIAL II SHRUTHEE SRINIVASAN 210056 INTRODUCTION How did laws actually originate? If one thinks in the Indian perspective‚ we come to the conclusion that religion provided the base for the formulation of all the traditional laws in our country. According to Robert D. Baird1‚ the sacred Hindu texts; Manusmriti‚ derived through spiritual insight‚ provided the basic platform for the formation of
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short essay outlining the origin and meaning of the caste system in India along with a critique on Stalin K.’s film – “India Untouched”. Is it a Façade that we subconsciously put on or is it the lack of knowledge about the prevailing evils that drives inaccurate judgement of our absolute surrounding? What in fact is “Untouchability”? Where does it occur? Who are the major victims of discrimination‚ caste or otherwise‚ in India? Does Stalin K. successfully strike a chord in the eyes of not only
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India is a constitutional democracy with a parliamentary system of government‚ and at the heart of the system is a commitment to hold regular‚ free and fair elections. These elections determine the composition of the government‚ the membership of the two houses of parliament‚ the state and union territory legislative assemblies‚ and the Presidency and vice-presidencyIndia is a constitutional democracy with a parliamentary system of government‚ and at the heart of the system is a commitment to hold
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Arabic word ‘Suf’ which means wool. Sufism believed that the Quran and Hadith have secret meanings of mysticism. The word mysticism can be defined as the consciousness of the one reality‚ also called wisdom or love. Sufism has become widely popular in India for mystical practices and thoughts. Sufism developed in the eighth and ninth centuries in three major places: 1) In the cities of Basra‚ Kufa‚ and Baghdad in Iraq. 2) In the city of Balkh in the Khorasan district of Persia. 3) In Egypt
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Corruption In India “Corruption is Social Evil” “Power tends to corrupt‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In its simplest sense‚ corruption may be defined as an act of bribery or misuse of public position or power for the fulfillment of selfish motives or to gain personal gratifications. It has also been defined as "Misuse of authority as a result of consideration of personal gain which need not be monetary". In recent Centuries India has earned a place among the THREE most corrupt
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Research on Corporate Social Responsibility in India: An Epirical Research By: Prof. Dr. Bernadette D’Silva‚ Prof. Dr. Stephen D’Silva To add a paper‚ Login. | In recent years‚ the concept of corporate social responsibility has gained prominence from all avenues. Organizations must realize that government alone will not be able to get success in its endeavor to uplift the downtrodden of society. The present societal marketing concept of companies is constantly evolving and has given rise
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got to know the intensity of the heat the second I walked off the flight. The moment I walked through the doors of the airplane into the tunnel‚ I felt a rush of hot air in my face. It felt like there was no way to escape it. I haven’t seen much of India yet but I can tell you that it is not the cleanest or calmest place. It was around ten at night last night‚ after I greeted my grandma and aunts‚ we were walking back to the car and it was a mad house. People were everywhere pushing and shoving; there
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The Power of Superstition in Public Life in India Why are superstitions a part of public life in India? The modern mechanisms for risk-management or “disciplines” ranging from statistics to modern medicine exist side-by-side with superstitions in the country. The answer to why these disciplines have not penetrated into the pores of Indian society lies in the history of political power in India. It is difficult to use the word “superstition” without imagining quotation marks around it. For‚
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Corruption in India is one of the most menacing threats that our economy has been battling with ever since the independence. At all levels of Indian bureaucracy corruption has seemingly taken its toll and has been corroding the structure of our nation. Be it private sector or public sector‚ Indian people have a tendency of misusing the public position/power in their favor to fulfill their motives and gain personal benefits. All these “allegations” are not solely based on observation but have statistical
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