CULTURAL EMERGENCY IN INDIA Is India facing what author Salman Rushdie calls a "cultural emergency" with writers‚ painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob? Consider the events that have made the front pages this week. Leading academic Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta
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Expression February 25‚ 2011 Texting While Driving The distraction caused when you try to do two activities simultaneously severely decreases the chance of being successful at both of them. One of the best examples of this is the use of cell phones while driving. An unbelievable 81 percent of Americans admit to texting while driving‚ despite the numerous warnings about the dangers of doing so. Texting while driving statistics and facts easily prove that this problem has reached epidemic proportions
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in the east end of London‚ Tesco today is the largest retailer in the UK with over £59 billion sales in 2008. In this dynamic environment‚ Tesco has managed to stay ahead of its competition through focus on people‚ both customers and employees. However‚ in today’s rapidly changing globalised environment‚ anything could happen. Companies today need to always innovate and reinvent themselves in order to maintain their competitive advantage. The macro environment that Tesco operates in provides both
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Language problem in india .... ITS DIVERSE EFFECTS ON OUR COUNTRYS ECONOMY India is one the greatest or well you can also say one of the weirdest countries in the world…. it’s a country u could never have thought would come over 50 years living together…. Our country on its way had to deal with many great problems… and the one I am going to speak about is the language problem that the Indians faced… According to the linguistic survey of India‚ there are 179 languages and 544 dialects… That’s
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Throughout all of American history there have been many events that occurred that mark an important turning point‚ they vary what they influence. One major turning point in space exploration was the first launching of a satellite in 1957. The satellites name was Sputnik. All that could be heard from the artificial satellite was just a series of rhythmic “beeps” on October 4‚ 1957. Those short beeps came from the first satellite to be launched into space as it passed overhead. Sputnik was a small
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Social Problems in India Social problems in India require deep insight into the rich heritage and culture of the country. It is deep rooted in the Indian heritage and from that is has outgrown to a serious crime prevailing within the boundaries. India is certainly one of the fastest developing nations of the world. It has been more than half a century ago that the country gained independence and became a republic but sadly the freedom of thought and freedom of life is not enjoyed by all even
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+Last year saw Tesco consolidate its dominance as the world’s third largest grocery retailer‚ both domestically and overseas in the US‚ Europe and Asia. Despite recent trading updates that indicate challenging economic times are having a direct impact on consumer incomes and slowing growth in its booming non-food business‚ Tesco has largely bucked the downward trend in UK-based retailers’ profits. They were up 5.7 per cent before tax during 2007/8 for the group‚ with total sales increasing 11.1
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Cultural Diversity in India India has a history of thousands of years . People have been living in India since the Stone Age. People from different regions of the world came to India. They became one with the Indian culture .From this has evolved the composite Indian Culture. All of us living in different parts of the country are Indians. Though there is a variety in our languages‚ literature and art‚ as Indians‚ we all are one. It is this diversity which has created a sense of unity among the Indians
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The writing process does not end with your first draft. Revising means “seeing again” and that is exactly what you do when you revise—you see your writing again from as many different angles as possible. More specifically‚ revising your writing means working with it so that it says exactly what you mean in the most effective way. Revision involves both content (what you are trying to say) and form (how you deliver your message). Revising content consists of working with your words until they express
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Degree Project Inter-cultural problems of IT-services outsourcing from Sweden to India Ahtsham Gul & Amir Zaib 2010-06-23 Subject: Information Systems Level: Master Course code: IV9024 Abstract IT-services outsourcing from Sweden to India has increased in the last few years and it is often regarded as a strategic measure to handle the increasing costs of IT-related development and maintenance operations. There are a number of advantages of outsourcing however‚ there are many challenges that
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