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    Diwali Festival

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    Diwali is an annual festival of Hindus. Generally it falls during the month of October or November. Hindus throughout India celebrate this festival with great joy. The festival of Diwali has a religious sanction behind it. It was on this day thousands of years ago that Shri Ram Chandra set foot on Ayodhya after completing the 14 years of his exile. His return was a matter of great joy and relief to the people of Ayodhya. They celebrated the occasion by arranging illuminations on a large scale

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    Festivals Essay

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    entertainment‚ as such‚ festivals are found to be a cultural industry‚ involving large numbers of people working in organisation‚ administration‚ promotion‚ marketing‚ and the creative and performing arts. Festivals come in different forms including agricultural‚ cultural‚ historical‚ horticultural‚ and arts festivals to specific audiences and sub-cultures (fringe festivals). Culture is about‚ and has been used to shape and to govern‚ identity; therefore as Australia is a multicultural country rich with a complex

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    India: Dumping Ground For Developed Countries? By Chaitanya Gaikwad M.Sc. Environmental Science Paper presented at Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI)‚ Pune‚ India Basel Convention Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous wastes and their Disposal In the late 1980s‚ a tightening of environmental regulations in industrialized countries led to a dramatic rise in the cost of hazardous waste disposal. Searching for cheaper ways to get rid of the wastes‚ “toxic traders”

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    Pongal Festival

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    Pongal Festival Pongal is a four-days-long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu‚ a southern state of India. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food‚ there has been some form of harvest festival. Pongal‚ one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning "to boil" and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals‚ sugar-cane

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    Low Income: In India GNP (Gross National Product) per capita was $1‚180 in 2009 at current prices‚ roughly one third of the population is below the poverty line. On world scale‚ income inequalities between the developed and underdeveloped countries arc very large. According to the World Hank estimates‚ in 2009 the average GNP per capita of the high income economies was $38‚139 whereas it was $503 in low income underdeveloped countries. 2. Predominance of Agriculture: In India agriculture and

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    Holi Festival

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    on the eve of the festival‚ also known as Holika Dahan or burning of Holika. The Hindu people believe that Holika was a Demoness in Hindu mythology who was burnt to death with the help of God Brahma by Prahlad. This conflict suggests the victory of good over evil. At the end of the winter season on the day of the last full moon of the lunar month Phalguna Holi is celebrated. Historians also believe that Holi was celebrated by all Aryans but more so in the Eastern part of India. It is said that Holi

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    Songkran Festival

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    celebrate this festival. Mexico and Thailand are also celebrating New Year with friends and family. People are having local food and party. The festival is including local performance‚ dance and Music. Charreria festival is Mexico national sport festival held at the first week of September. The festival is about horse riding‚ races and roping skills. In Thailand there are also similar festival called Buffalo Racing Festival at Chonburi. It is about buffalo races. This two festival are reflecting

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    Festivals in the Philippines

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    Christ carried by male devotees during the procession. 2. BINIRAY – Romblon - January 9 A festival parade in the sea followed by a celebration in Romblon 3. LINGAYEN GULF LANDING - Lingayen‚ Pangasinan - January 9 Held in Lingayen Pangasinan‚ it commemorates the landing of General MacArthur’s Allied Forces in Luzon in 1945. 4. ATI-ATIHAN - Kalibo‚ Aklan - Third Week The Ati-Atihan Festival honors the 13th century land deal between 10 migrating Bornean chieftains and the indigenous Ati

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    Jharkhand Festival

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    Jharkhand Festivals [edit] In whole Chotanagpur Plateau Region‚ among the local people the Karam Festival is celebrated with great pomp and show. Among the Oraon Tribe‚ the Karam festival is one of the most important festivals and holds a very important place in their social and religious life. It is usually celebrated 15 days after the Kunwaar-Shukl-Paksh. After the fixation of the date for the festival‚ the local population start their preparation; for instance‚ they start buying the culinary-items

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    Sinulog Festival

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    About The Sinulog Festival The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines with a very rich history. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Niño‚ or the child Jesus‚ who used to be the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint‚ but God). It is essentially a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity

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