Matter of Life or Death India is the seventh largest Country in the world‚ home to one billion people and vast ethnic diversity. It has been making great leaps with education‚ industrialization and technology. Literacy rates are continuously going up along with life expectancy. India has been making continuous progress in many aspects for a country that has been relatively poor and extremely poverty-stricken. India is also one of the world’s largest democracies meaning that citizens have a great
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Membranous | | | This instrument is Indian equivalent of the African instrument Djembe. It has membrane on only one side and has a typical torch shaped body. It is used for accompanying certain folk dances. | | | | | Dumroo is probably the oldest form of percussion instrument in India. It is the only remaining form of hour-glass drums which are so commonly seen in ancient Indian statues. Its musical role is minimal and it is most commonly known for its association with Lord
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Elections in India India has an asymmetric federal government‚ with elected officials at the federal‚ state and local levels. At the national level‚ the head of government‚ Prime Minister‚ is elected by the members of Lok Sabha‚ lower house of the parliament of India.All members of Lok Sabha except two‚ who can be nominated by president of India‚ are directly elected through general elections which takes place every five years‚ in normal circumstances‚ by universal adult suffrage. Members of Rajya
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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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Globalization in India: Effects and Consequences Subhankar Chatterjee What is Globalization? The term globalization means International Integration. Opening up of world trade‚ development of advanced means of communication‚ internationalisation of financial markets‚ growing importance of MNC’s‚ population migrations and more generally increased mobility of persons‚ goods‚ capital‚ data and ideas. It is a process through which the diverse world is unified into a single society. Wave of
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SOUTHERN AMERICA AND ITS COUNTRIES Guyana‚ officially called the Cooperative Republic of Guyana‚ is a country located on the northern coast of South America. It was previously known as British Guiana and it is a former colony of the Dutch and British. Guyana is the third smallest country on South America and it is one of eight nations that is non-Spanish speaking as English is its official language. In addition‚ Guyana is considered a part of the Anglophone Caribbean - the independent English-speaking
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Province‚ British India (modern day Pakistan) | Result | Afghan Pashtun tactical victory‚ British Indian strategic victory | | Belligerents | British India | Pashtuns (Afghans) | Commanders and leaders | Havildar Ishar Singh † | Gul Badshah | Units involved | 36th Sikhs of British Indian Army | Afridis and Orakzais | Strength | 21[1] | 10‚000[2][3] | Casualties and losses | 21 killed (100%)[1] | 180 killed (Afghan claim)[4] ~800 killed[5] (British Indian estimates)* Many
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The economy of India is the ninth-largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[1] The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS. On a per-capita-income basis‚ India ranked 141st by nominal GDP and 130th by GDP (PPP) in 2012‚ according to the IMF.[12] India is the 19th-largest exporter and the 10th-largest importer in the world. Economic growth rate slowed to around 5.0% for the 2012–13 fiscal year compared with 6.2% in the previous
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A Cultural Journey A Cultural Journey The American comedy-drama film Outsourced was directed by John Jeffcoat in 2006. In this movie‚ the main Todd Anderson grudgingly traveled to India to train his replacement because his job and whole department were outsourced. In this foreign land‚ Todd started his new work; saw dingy but distinctive scenery; got a new name‚ Toad; met new people. Beside the living aspect‚ he also have an assignment needed to complete‚ which is to decrease the time of the
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Page 1 : India is a South Asian countries‚ accounting for most of peninsular India. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south‚ the Arabian Sea on the south-west‚ and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east Indian border with Pakistan‚ China‚ Myanmar‚ Bangladesh‚ Nepal‚ Bhutan and Afghanistan. Its the 7th largest country in the world and the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people Page 2: India has Indus civilization ‚ it had strong development 5000 years ago India is the birthplace
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