WOMEN IN ANCIENT INDIA The sub-continent of India is both diverse in its history and geography. It was not until the Mauryan Empire in the third century b.c.e. when most of India was brought together under one ruling dynasty. Before the Mauryans there was the ancient era known as the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization‚ and then the invasion and settlement of the Aryans along the Ganges River plain. The Ganges and Indus Rivers are known as the mother and father of India. Other rivers traverse
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belong to the Austro-Asiatic‚ Tibeto-Burman‚ and a few minor language families and isolates.[3] The official language of the Central Government of Republic of India is Standard Hindi‚ while English is the secondary official language.[4] The constitution of India states that "The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script."[5] Neither the Constitution of India nor Indian law specifies a national language‚ a position supported by a High Court ruling.[6] However‚ languages listed
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will‚ so also millions of other boys and girls in India. I am not against learning or speaking English‚ it is a must for surviving in the present day world. My point is that basic education and technical education must be in native language‚ like Hindi‚ Tamil‚ Sanskrit‚ Malayalam‚ Kannada‚ Telugu etc. As long as we follow the present pattern of technical and higher education in English(foreign) language‚ we will never produce super genius scientists‚ engineers and other professionals‚ rather our
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Where do Hindus worship? Hindus commonly conduct pujas in shrines in three different environments: in temples‚ in the home‚ and in outdoor public spaces. It is equally common for any of the deities to be worshiped in any of these three types of shrines. Hindus believe that if proper care is not taken of a temple’s images‚ the deity will abandon the temple. Hence priests reside at the temple and take care of the gods’ needs. Priests perform puja at sunrise‚ noon‚ sunset‚ and midnight. For a layperson
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passengers were trapped briefly when a glitch stalled a Metro train underground during the evening rush hour which led to a cascading effect disrupting services in entire north Kolkata. The Dum Dum-bound train from Girish Park‚ overcrowded because of the puja rush‚ came to a halt due to a glitch in the tunnel before entering Sobhabazar station and Metro Rail employees had to carry out an emergency evacuation of the 2000 passengers on board. Angry passengers went on the rampage at the Sobhabazar station
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Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s Born into Brothels is‚ in my reckoning‚ a quiet miracle‚ a feature-length documentary that follows and transforms the lives of seven children growing up in the squalid red light district of Sonagchi‚ Calcutta. Carefully avoiding bathos and melodrama‚ Briski and Kauffman pull us deeply into the everyday existence of these kids - the verbal abuse and beatings‚ the drug addiction and atrocities‚the desperation and impoverishment‚ the rage and apathy that perpetuate their
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develop‚ it was influenced by Western Hindi dialects of Khari Boli‚ Brij Bhasa and Haryanvi. With the coming of Insha’s Darya-e-Latafat*‚ a need was felt to differentiate Urdu with other languages especially Hindi. It became a Hindi-Urdu controversy and as a result Khari Boli and Devanagari became the identity of Indians while Urdu and Persian of Muslims. In this context‚ Persian and Arabic words replaced with Sanskrit served the purpose of differentiating Hindi from Urdu. Urdu emerged as a distinct
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Research Proposal Aim: To study and compare the role of women in some of the women centric Hindi films released between 1980 to 1990 and 2000 and 2010. Objective: To study the issues of gender‚ caste‚ development that were perceived in Indian cinema then and now in women centric films. A comparative study about the representation of women in Indian cinema then and now in women centric films. Scope: There are a numerous women centric films that are created in diverse languages around the world
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islands surrounded by water‚ the mail is land if fiji is VitiLevu. Thought the exact origins of the fijian people are unknown‚905‚949 is the population of all of the archipelago islands of fiji.they speak english and Hindi in fiji the most popular language spoken there is hindi‚ hindi is - A form of hindustani written in devanagari and with many loanwords from sanskrit‚ an official language of india and most widely spoken language of northern
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Heaven and Earth. Texts The Vedas- Rig Veda‚ Sama Veda‚ Yajur Veda‚ and the Atharva Veda The Tripitaka and the Sutras The Si Shu Wu Jing Daode Jing Zhaungzi Ritual and practice (sacred elements & their meaning) Images of gods and shrines. Puja-morning ritual Meditation Reading scriptures
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