the course of time. India‚ as the name flickers‚ one thinks of religion‚ traditions‚ art and culture and it’s apt to think so because India is the country which is famous for its diversity in these aspects. The land where the great Raja Ram Mohan‚ Tagore‚ Gandhi transformed the thinking of people and removed the social stigmas like sati pratha (the practice of widows being forced to sit on the pior of their husbands)‚ untouchability and many more. India was known as “Sone Ki Chidiya” (The Golden
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literature and writing was still in its nascent phase in India and most of the Indian writers were either used to be Indian born British or Britain educated Indians. The list includes exponents such as George Orwell‚ Rudyard Kipling‚ Jim Corbett‚ Tagore and Sarojini Naidu among others. The post independence decades were largely dormant with only few names such as Nirad C Chaudhuri and R K Narayan inciting curiosity if any. It was as late as early eighties that the new breed of writers such as
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Passive Resistance: Nonviolence Mahatma Gandhi‚ the originator of “Practice of Passive Resistance”‚ or “Soul-force”‚ used nonviolence to solve problems. He believed that the practice of Satyagraha can use love to forget and forgive. The pain of suffering was not the true problem when it came to fighting for justice. Similarly‚ with the idea of suffering for one’s desire of freedom‚ the people of Republic of China also used hunger strike and nonviolence for the Tiananmen Square protest to present
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN A REGIME OF GLOBALIZATION: DEVELOPING INTEGRAL PERSONALITY (Abstract) (Man is neither mere intellect‚ nor the gross animal body‚ nor the heart or soul alone. A proper and harmonious combination of all the three is required for the making of the whole man and constitutes the true economics of education. After independence‚ India adopted the approach of planned development of the country. In the post – independence period‚ higher education has expanded fast‚ and it is mostly
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affluent family of progressive industrialists. He was one of eight children of Ambalal and Sarla Devi. He had his early education in a private school‚ “Retreat” run by his parents on Montessori lines. Some of the great men of India such as Gurudev Rabindranath‚ J. Krishna Murthi‚ Motilal Nehru‚ V. S. Shrinivasa Shastri‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Sarojini Naidu‚ Maulana Azad‚ C. F. Andrews‚ and C. V. Raman et al. used to stay with the Sarabhai family when they visited Ahmedabad. Mahatma Gandhi also once stayed
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offered him the wages for this labour‚ and then the Brahmin’s identity was disclosed. He was none other than Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. To labour with one’s own hand has an ennobling influence on character. God has given us hand to work with. When Rabindranath started his school at Santiniketan‚ each pupil was required to wash his clothes and utensils and dust his room. How much we will gain in self-help‚ if we attend to our personal needs! If we realize the place that labour occupies in human life
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LIS 13:Library Literature for Children and Young Adult Children’s literature (also called juvenile literature) consists of the stories (including in books) and poems which are enjoyed by or targeted primarily at children. Modern children’s literature is classified in different ways‚ including by genre or the intended age of the reader. Children’s literature has its roots in the stories and songs that adults told their children before publishing existed‚ as part of the wider oral tradition. Because
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books. Reading the great poetry of the past we seem to be carried away to a kingdom of joy and forgetfulness‚ a kingdom where there is no care‚ no worry‚ no anxiety. We come to be acquainted with the master minds of the world like Valmiki‚ Kalidas‚ Tagore‚ Shakespeare‚ Milton and Shelley‚ Shaw‚ Yeats and Owen and many others through the medium of their literary productions and feel inspired by their beauty‚ grace and idealism. Reading books is also one way of passing our spare time. A person given
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION This project titled “COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT PRODUCTS OF HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD And RELIANCE LIFE INSURANCE COMPNAY”. In this project we study about various insurance products offer by HDFC Life and reliance insurance company in the market. This report provides the various insurance products available in the market to protect the people life from particular risk and also provides knowledge about the various savings schemes available
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Self-Introduction Essay “Time and tide wait for no man”‚ this we all know. Hence‚ having done my schooling in India for 12 years from a very prestigious school I did not want to waste time and I started studying for the aptitude tests which finally helped me land in United States of America. My name is Dhruv Tyagi and I am from India – a country known for diversities. I was born in New Delhi‚ the capital of India and was brought up in the city of NOIDA. This is where I learnt my mother tongue
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