most populous city in India‚ and the fifth most populous city in the world‚ with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along with the neighbouring urban areas‚ including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane‚ it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. GEOGRAPHIC POSITION: Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2009‚ Mumbai was named an alpha world city. It is also the wealthiest city in India‚[9] and has the highest
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30 May 2013 Aesthetic Experience On Saturday March 8 I attended the rockabilly festival that took place in Pitzer College. This was a great experience because I had the opportunity to feel what it was like during the rock n roll times. I was invited to go through Mr. Molina in MECHA to help out with fundraising. I was there all day selling raffle tickets to people who attended the festival in order to raise money for the MECHA scholarship. Through this experience I had the chance to
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BRITISH YEAR: Festivals and Holidays 1. Although (1) Midsummer’s Eve is not traditionally a widely celebrated festival in Britain‚ it is celebrated by (2) druids (practitioners of an ancient religion now virtually extinct)‚ at the prehistoric stone circle of (3) Stonehenge . In recent years‚ groups of travellers — caravan dwellers — and (4) hippies have also tried to claim the right to enter the circle to see the sun rise on this day‚ but they have generally not been allowed‚ largely because of
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Country INDIA. The “I” in India is ‘Me’. ‘I’ am ‘India’ and ‘India’ is in ‘me’. Thus‚ if India‚ my Country‚ is not doing well in some spheres and is still amongst the Developing Countries of the World is spite of its man power then we need to ask ourselves as to who is responsible for it? Dr. Abdul kalam had once asked a little Girl‚ what was her dream for India? She replied “I dream of a developed India”.this impressed him and to be honest this is also ‘My Dream’. I dream of an India where every
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Hindi hai hum (hindi is our mother tongue) …….. are we really..??? Origin of ‘HINGLISH’ or as I say.. HINDIFICATION OF ENGLISH WORDS…!! After our independence‚ HINDI was declared to be the national language of our country. But this happened only in the paper‚ what came out in practice was much different. Few days back I was copying hindi notes from one of my classmate‚ shalini‚ now shalini hails from a Hindi-medium school which means that she studied all the subjects at school level in Hindi…
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overall structure of myriad controls with a rigid bureaucracy has stifled its development. However‚ on the science and technology side‚ India has built up the largest stock of scientists‚ engineers and technicians. Since 1950-51‚ when there were only 2‚63‚000 students in all disciplines in 750 colleges affiliated to 30 universities‚ the growth of higher education in India has been phenomenal. Today‚ there are more than 11 million students in 17‚000 colleges affiliated to 230 universities and non-affiliated
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driven. They have been confined to the hearth and home. The orthodox male-oriented society in India has still not been able to adjust itself to the fresh wave of women’s liberation. But today the times have changed‚ the Indian woman has cast off her age-old shakles of serfdom and male domination. She has come to her own and started scaling the ladders of social advance with proud dignity. In Vedic India‚ woman enjoyed an enviable status She was considered to be a goddess‚ something like the Greek
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1. Compare the main features of the social structure of the Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean‚ China‚ & India: The social structures in all three of these classical civilizations differ in various ways. In classical India‚ the social hierarchy was founded upon the very strict caste system. The caste system assigned occupations and regulated marriages. The hierarchy of this civilization was also based off of having husbands being the dominant ones in the family. One Indian code even
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1. Decision tree for Friday pressing Mr. Ward is trying to decide on how many CDs to press on the first night of the festival. His intuition combined with his experience allowed him to make some predictions of demand. These take the form of probabilities. “The probabilities may be subjective estimates from managers or from experts in a particular field‚ or they may reflect historical frequencies. If they are reasonably correct‚ they provide a decision maker with additional information that can
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want India to become a respectable super power in the world. India ha a rich past. it was because of its riches‚ that it was invaded innumerable times and its wealth was plundered. The British rulers exploited the country. At the time of independence‚ the country was in turmoil‚ its economy had been shuttered and there was unrest all around. In sixty years since independence‚ the country has made tremendous progress. However‚ it is still for behind the developed counties of the world. India of my
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