Steven Stoffel Professor: Dr. Francis Ngaboh-smart English 302 10 March 2012 Hinduism: Prayer for a son Kali defeats Raktabija by sucking the blood from his body. Kali then enjoys her victory by dancing across the battle field‚ prancing on the corpses of her slain. (David R. Kinsley 118-119) Kali is the goddess of wrath and vengeance‚ also the patron goddess of Mr. Bhowmicks’ family in the short story A Father written by Bharati Mukherje in 1985. Mr. Bhowmick is a Hindu Indian who migrated
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"Bangladesh" is a combination of the Bengali words‚ Bangla and Desh‚ meaning the country or land where the Bangla language is spoken. The country formerly was known as East Pakistan. Location and Geography. Bangladesh straddles the Bay of Bengal in south Asia. To the west and north it is bounded by India; to the southeast‚ it borders Myanmar. The topography is predominantly a low-lying floodplain. About half the total area is actively deltaic and is prone to flooding in the monsoon season from May
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areas where there is inadequate and lousy housing. There are illegal businesses that try to evade taxes and the law. In Kenya‚ it is the Jua Kali. In Nigeria‚ it the street hawker and marketmen and women. In the US‚ it is the prostitutes‚ drug dealers and the individual conducting underground businesses. The US example might sound like a stretch‚ but the Jua Kali according to the essay was formed because of the overcrowding of the city’s poorer areas by individuals looking for better
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CHHAT The people of Terai region celebrate many festivals. Different festivals are connected with different cultural and religious significance. Each festival is attributed to a god. In this festival‚ the sun god is being Worshipped. The Chhath Puja is performed in order to thank Surya for sustaining life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes. The rituals of the festival are rigorous and are observed over a period of four days. They include holy bathing‚ fasting and abstaining
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Puja’s eyes‚ an 11-year-old Indian girl‚ begins to introduce‚ with bold‚ unapologetic candor‚ her friends and their daily routine in the red-light district of Calcutta. With the help of a melancholic Indian score a slide show of photo stills‚ images of Puja and her friends‚ taken by them over the course of the documentary creates an appreciation for the complex realism of a concealed place existing in India today. Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids is a film directed by Ross Kauffman and photographer
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modesty‚ Chaudhuri avoids coordinate authorial interruption and gives Sandeep a chance to portray the story. The local space‚ customarily called ’the internal space’ is a key site of culture. The portrayal of Chhotomama’s home‚ the way it is cleaned‚ the puja rooms‚ and the depiction of different houses in the city of Calcutta which are near each other‚ has all been done in extraordinary profundity and detail: There were two rooms on the second and highest stories. The first was the expansive one confronting
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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 to prepare traditional dishes‚ new clothes for the occasion‚ etc. Besides‚ for the Karam-Puja‚ they buy oil‚ Sindoor‚ Daliya‚ et al. Being a very important community festival of the region‚ it is celebrated by the entire Oraon and other local communities of the region; now in its modern day re-embodiment‚ the festivity has spread far and wide
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Hinduism is a very unorganized‚ complex religion. It does not have a set of straightforward rules like other religions. Many things influence the study and practice of beliefs in Hinduism. However‚ there is something in common throughout all of these different forms. It is the belief in a higher‚ supreme power and devotion to concepts like Truth‚ Karma‚ and Dharma. Also‚ the belief in the jurisdiction of the sacred Hindu scriptures called the Vedas. There is many beliefs‚ teachings‚ practices‚ and
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Tripura Origin the origin of the name of Tripura is still a matter of controversy among historians and researchers. According to the ’Rajmala"‚ Tripura’s celebrated court chronicle‚ an ancient king named ’tripur’ ruled over the territorial domain known as ’Tripura’ and the name of the kingdom was derived from his name. Many researchers explain the name ’Tripura’ from its etymological origin: the word ’Tripura’ is a compound of two separate words‚ ’tui’ (water) + ’pra’ (near) which in totality
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habuk. Dengan perlahan‚ aku menyelak helaian demi helaian. Aku melihat diriku ketika berada dalam darjah satu. Berdiri dihujung sekali dengan berpakaian skirt sekolah. Aku tergelak sendirian mengenangkan hanya di situlah aku akan ditempatkan setiap kali gambar kelas diambil. Maklumlah‚ aku sentiasa menjadi pelajar yang paling rendah dalam setiap kelasku. Aku lihat satu-satu gambar kawan-kawanku dahulu. Rindu sungguh rasanya untuk kembali ke masa itu. Pada masa yang hanya dipenuhi dengan kegembiraan
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