Major characters Govind: Govind Patel is an ordinary guy with whom anybody can relate. He has very few desires but he is obsessed with the desires he covets. His main ambition is to become a businessman as he thinks that being a Gujarati‚ business is in his blood. His best friends are Omi and Ish (Ishan). Govind is an agnostic. His father has abandoned him and his mother‚ who runs a business of selling home-made food items. To support her financially‚ he takes mathematics tuitions. He continues
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Gandhi on Providence and Greed Y. P. Anand and Mark Lindley Although Gandhiji is often quoted as having said‚ “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not enough for any man’s greed‚” we would like to point out that he said something significantly different instead‚1 but that 15-20 years earlier‚ his view in regard to food had indeed amounted to what the famous alleged statement says. The alleged statement is a distorted version of a remark attributed to him by a first-hand witness
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There was a time when people used to write on palm leaves. This was before the discovery of paper. Some of the old Manuscripts written on palm leaves are preserved in our National Manuscript Library in Delhi. The Chinese were the first to invent the art of printing. They made wooden blocks to print letters. This was started during the period of the Tang Dynasty in 600 AD. The oldest known surviving printed work in a woodblock is a Buddhist scripture of 684 AD. It is now exhibited in a calligraphy
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honours. Soon he went to the United States for higher studies. He took up a job with a civil engineering firm and eventually became a green-card holding citizen of USA. In the meantime his family‚ through their own network‚ found an American educated Gujarati girl and got Harish married to her. His brothers remained in and around Ahmedabad‚ some in farming others in the business of cotton trading. Harish and his family used to visit Harish’s parents and other relatives‚ on an average‚ almost every two
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Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi ( pronunciation (help·info)‚ born 17 September 1950) is the 14th and current Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat‚ representing theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the upcoming 2014 Indian general elections. Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns‚ as well as a major campaign figure in the 2009 general elections
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Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી‚ pronounced [moːɦən̪d̪aːs kərəmʨən̪d̪ ɡaːn̪d̪ʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience‚ a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa‚ or total nonviolence‚ which helped India to gain independence‚ and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom
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At the time of the first war of independence‚ any number of papers were in operation in the country. Many of these like Bangadoot of Ram Mohan Roy‚ Rastiguftar of Dadabhai Naoroji and Gyaneneshun advocated social reforms and thus helped arouse national awakening. It was in 1857 itself that Payam-e-Azadi started publication in Hindi and Urdu‚ calling upon the people to fight against the British. The paper was soon confiscated and anyone found with a copy of the paper was prosecuted for sedition. Again
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Adivasi Adivasi is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups claimed to be the aboriginal population of India.[1][2][3] They comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India. The same term Adivasi is used for the ethnic minorities of Bangladesh and the native Vedda people of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ආදී වාස).[4] The word is also used in the same sense in Nepal as is another word janajati (Nepali: जनजाति; janajāti)‚ although the political context differed
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that the marriage is usually arranged by the parents. When it comes to dressing in India the women usually wear a Sari which is a piece of cloth that is draped in different ways. There are many types of these also‚ they include Bandhani‚ Patola‚ Gujarati brocade‚ Paithani‚ Chanderi‚ Gadawal‚ Banaras brocade‚ Kota doria‚ and many more. The men usually wear a Dhoti and/or a Kurta. Dhoti is a piece of cloth that is tied around the waist and part of it is passed between the legs and is tucked at the
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Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: મુકેશ ધીરુભાઈ અંબાની) (born on 19 April 1957) is a Yemeni-born Indian business magnate who is the chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)‚ the foremost company of the Indian energy and materials conglomerate Reliance Group.[4] The company was ranked #134th in Fortune Global 500 and is India’s most valuable company by market value and second-largest Indian company by turnover.[5][6] His personal stake in Reliance
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