system‚ if we ourselves are not the products of that astern and whether we are not‚ more or less‚ quite well-equipped deal with our responsibilities. t is noteworthy that the greatest representatives of the Indian renaissance‚ from Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati to Sri Aurobindo had perceived in the ancient Indian system of education such an uplifting and inspiring model that they had all advocated for free India a national system of education‚ rooted in the ancient Indian conception of education‚ which
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Thar Desert From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Thar The Great Indian Desert Desert Thar desert Rajasthan‚ India Countries India‚ Pakistan State India: Rajasthan Haryana Punjab Gujarat Pakistan: Sindh Punjab Biome Desert A NASA satellite image of the Thar Desert‚ with the India–Pakistan border superimposed. View of the Thar desert The Thar Desert (Rajasthani: थार मरुधर‚ Hindi: थार मरुस्थल‚ Urdu: صحراےَ تھر also known as the Great Indian Desert) is a large‚ arid
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Indians call our nation mother India and are great devotees of Mothert Goddess in various manifestations. * But we all are openly playing a double standard game with our country as well as our goddess. * One end we say that we worship Maa Saraswati‚ Maa Durga‚ Maa Laksmi and at the other end we are continuously destroying the precious gift of nature‚ a girl child. For this reason‚ Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves --
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EDUCATING A BIRD CHILD IS A BURDEN Education of a child starts from the family and mother is the first teacher. But‚ the irony in India is that although the deity of education is a female i.e. Goddess Saraswati according to the Hinduism‚ innumerable number of women are illiterate. They are not remaining uneducated by their own wish but they are being forbidden from receiving education because of the patriarchal families in our society. In most of the families the birth of a girl child is not desired
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Hinduism is a vast and profound religion. Some of the sacred elements that characterize Hindu religious traditions are the Hindu scriptures‚ the Vedas‚ the Upanishads‚ and the main deities. One of the most important beliefs in Hinduism is acceptance. They have scriptures‚ mythologies that deal with many elements of life which are considered unacceptable. For example‚ Gita (considered to be main scripture which tells way of Hindu life‚ its duties) has story about Dropadi who is married to 5 brothers
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of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi‚ the Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati‚ the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that “No home is complete without a woman.” Indian is a “Male Dominated Society” hence women are the receiving end. They are always
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History of the Indian caste system From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Indian society has consisted of thousands of endogamous clans and groups called jatis since ancient times. The Brahminical scriptures and texts tried to bring this diversity under a comprehensible scheme which hypothesised four idealised meta groups called varna. The first mention of the formal varna Indian caste system is in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda‚ although it is the only mention
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The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide range of areas like political organizations‚ philosophies and movements which had the common aim to ending the company rule (East India Company)‚ and then British imperial authority‚ in parts of South Asia. The independence movement saw various national and regional campaigns‚ agitations and efforts‚ some nonviolent and others not so. During the first quarter of the 19th century‚ Rammohan Roy introduced modern education into India. Swami Vivekananda
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Hindi is the most commonly spoken language in India. It is the fifth most spoken language in the world with about 182 million native speakers in 1998. The script used in writing Hindi is Devanāgarī. More than 180 million people in India regard Hindi as their mother tongue. Another 300 million use it as second language. Outside of India‚ Hindi speakers are 100‚000 in USA; 685‚170 in Mauritius; 890‚292 in South Africa; 232‚760 in Yemen; 147‚000 in Uganda; 5‚000 in Singapore; 8 million in Nepal; 20
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name was Govinda Sastrulu. They eventually moved to Thanjavur‚ Tamil Nadu. While there is significant dissention as to his exact time‚ historians place him between 1610 and 1745 AD. An extensive research done with the help of archives preserved in Saraswati Mahal Library has helped place the time closer to 1650 AD – 1745 AD‚ and he reportedly lived a long life. He mastered music at a very early age and studied Puranas‚ Bhagavata Purana and other Sanskrit works. He renounced family at a very early age
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