India’s Independence Day "At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new...India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru After more than two hundred years of British rule‚ India finally won back its freedom on 15th August‚ 1947. All the patriotic hearts rejoiced at seeing India becoming a sovereign nation and the triumph of hundreds and thousands
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"Draupadi" by Mahasveta Devi Translated with a Foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Translator’s Foreword I translated this Bengali short story into English as much for the sake of its villain‚ Senanayak‚ as for its title character‚ Draupadi (or Dopdi). Because in Senanayak I find the closest approximation to the First- World scholar in search of the Third World‚ I shall speak of him first. On the level of the plot‚ Senanayak is the army officer who captures and degrades Draupadi. I will
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“Morrowbie inside the Caste” In Rudyard Kipling’s story “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes” there are many aspects of the India’s traditions and customs. But one custom that is strongly present though out the story is the role of the Indian caste system. Within each character you are taken into the five levels of the caste system. The caste system has been present in Indian culture for as far back as their history can be traced. The five levels that are present with in the characters in the
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This case study is to be presented in class‚ March‚ 12th‚ 2014. TEAM WORK FOR SESSION 7 A naive sahab in India (case inspired and adapted from “A naïve sahab in India” by Charles A. Rarick‚ of the Andreas School of Business‚ Barry University‚ in Cases and Exercises in International Business‚ Prentice Hall. ) Read the following case and answer the questions in the document “Bindi_Brake_Company_CaseStudy.pptx” : It was the opportunity of a lifetime‚ or so Brian Moseley thought
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Scene 1st Drawing room dad and the minister of the education relaxing on the sofa‚ his son watching movie 3 idiots and very much inspired by that‚ after watching cinema he went to his dad and asking…. Sucking his thumb he moved towards his dad on knees….. Son: dad I want to do engineering Dad; why Son: because I want to be like ranchod das chachan. Dad; what? Son: please dad Dad; what is in doing engineering‚ there is no career in engineering‚ you have to work hard and nothing to earn
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English 111 October 13th 2013 Argument Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” In the essay‚ Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell writes about his experiences as a British police officer in Burma‚ and compares it to the nature of imperialism. Orwell hates his job because imperialism has negatively affected him‚ as well as others around him. Orwell’; the white man is being treated very disrespectfully by the Burmese. Giving him a reason to hate his job as well as the British Empire; the root of everything
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CULTURE OF INDIA Independence Day = 15th Aug 1947 In India‚ Republic Day honors the date on which the Constitution of India came into force–on 26 January 1950–replacing the Government of India Act (1935) as the governing document of India. Incredible India is the name of an international marketing campaign by the Government of India to promote tourism in India in 2002 to a global audience. Tourism is a major industry in India and the Ministry of Tourism launched a campaign to promote Incredible
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For the post of Written Recruitment Test for the post of Postgraduate Assistants in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service. Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02) Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600) Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion Wyatt‚ Surrey: Selections in Peacock’s English verse‚ Vol-I Ballads : Peacock
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Assistant Professor‚ Deptt. of Electrical Engineering‚ Baba Hira Singh Bhattal Institute of Engg. & Technology‚ Lehragaga‚ Punjab‚ India. 2 Associate Professor‚ Deptt. of Electrical Engineering‚ Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College‚ Fategarh Sahib‚ Punjab‚ India. 3 Assistant Professor‚ Deptt. of Electrical Engineering‚ Baba Hira Singh Bhattal Institute of Engg. & Technology‚ Lehragaga‚ Punjab‚ India. singhsran08@gmail.com1‚ brargs77@yahoo.com2 and navdeep1984virgo@gmail.com3 1 Abstract: Recently
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The Epic of Manas: An Epic Still Alive The epic Manas is one of the most precious expression the Kyrgyz national heritage. Composed in oral form and rhyme‚ Manas has preserved its significance as the magnum opus of the Kyrgyz epic tradition for centuries past. Despite being relatively unknown‚ Manas is an epic that constitutes a role as large as those of the Homeric epics. Moreover‚ Manas is still not entirely recorded and Turkologists from all over the world continue an ambitious project to get
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