Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India In our culture‚ it is for us a belief and an evidence tha the biological term and gender term of “sex” refers for two sexes‚ males and females. Throught this book Neither Man Nor Woman by Serena Nanda‚ focused on the hijras of India‚ a community of outside members‚ I will examine how hijras are categorized as a third sex group and how homosexuality and transexuality takes place in their community with the importance for a hijras of having a husband. Second
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entertainment and cultural programmes India’s Independence Day (Hindi: Swatantrata Divas) is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. It is celebrated all over the country through flag-hoisting ceremony and distribution of sweets. The main celebration takes place in New Delhi‚ where the Prime Minister raises the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally televised speech
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an interesting fact that the country that boasts of being secular in the international forum did not define themselves in the same way till 1976‚ which is till thirty years after independence. And funnily even after the forty-second amendment the word was mentioned only in the preamble and nowhere else. So does it reflect some kind of hypocrisy that a country was based on principles of secularism and did not have the word in their constitution for thirty years‚ and when it was finally introduced
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pricing strategy. Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price‚ intending to drive competitors out of the market‚ or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors. How it works: Big brands like Wal-Mart‚ Tesco etc. Buys goods from farmers or manufacturer in dirt cheap price then they sell those products to customers after adding up their margin on it. This process continues till other competitor exit from the business
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Inflation in India: India suffers with maximum inflation compared to chief markets. From the last two years India is trying to bring down the inflation rate but all the efforts are in vain. Started with the hike in food prices‚ inflation now has a strong foothold in the Indian economy. The consequence is that the hiked price is now considered as the “new normal” in an economy which has had subsidised prices since independence. To counter this Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised
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INCREDIBLE INDIA! SUPERPOWER? Alternate heading-(Is India really a superpower?) It has been more than 60 years since India got its independence and a lot has changed. Radios have been replaced by LCDs‚ tongas have been replaced by autos and busses and matkas have been replaced by refrigerators. Indian Companies have made it to the word stage. Companies like TATA own few of the most premium brands of the world such as Jaguar on one hand while the world’s cheapest car ‘Nano’ on the other. Indians
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The beliefs and ideas of Ancient India such as the caste system‚ karma‚ reincarnation and Buddhism greatly influenced its society by keeping the people calm and happy even in unbalanced situations. The caste system is a hierarchical structure in which people are born into their class‚ or caste‚ with no exception. For example‚ if two people were low-ranking farmers‚ the son and/or daughter of these parents would also be born as farmer even if he/she showed outstanding intelligence and leadership
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initiative by UNESCO and the Government of India UNESCO and the Government of India in a major new partnership The United Nations Educational‚ Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Government of India are embarking on a major new partnership to create the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. Through research and capacity-building‚ the Institute aims to develop and promote new Minister Kapil Sibal (India) and UNESCO’s Director-General‚ Irina Bokova
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referred to by other names. The number of internationally operating NGOs is estimated at 40‚000.[1] National numbers are even higher: Russia has 277‚000 NGOs;[2] India is estimated to have around 3.3 million NGOs in year 2009‚ which is one NGO for less than 400 Indians‚ and many times the number of primary schools and primary health centres in India.[3][4] C 1 Definition of NGO 1.1 NGO consultative status with ECOSOC 1.2 NPOs and NGOs 2 History 3 Types of NGOs 4 Environmental NGOs 5 Activities 6 Methods
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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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