I belong to the ethnic Punjabi community. We are a friendly people‚ known for our resilience‚ love of adventure and good food‚ vibrant music and the pulsating Bhangra dance‚ apart from our ability to work hard and adapt to new situations and immerse in new environments‚ making them ours. My grandparents‚ paternal and maternal‚ moved to Delhi during the mass migration of 1947‚ when India and Pakistan became two sovereign nations. My grandfathers‚ both qualified engineers‚ etched new lives in what
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first language‚ which was Punjabi. Moreover‚ while he first came to Canada he only had a limited amount of money‚ which would only suffice him for a short period of time. Comparatively‚ while I was growing up‚ English was my first and only language‚ which I knew how to speak at the time. As a result‚ this had made a language barrier between the two of us from a young age. Even at the present age‚ my father and I have found ways to work around this‚ such as him speaking in Punjabi while I may respond in
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Essays on Rakhi Feel the spirit of Raksha Bandhan festival with these beautiful essays on Rakhi contributed by our visitors! You may also exhibit love for your sibling by sending reflections on Raksha Bandhan festival or a short paragraph on Rakhi. Your essay on Raksha Bandhan will be posted on this website with due acknowledgment to you. Rakhi is a sacred thread embellished with sister’s love and affection for her brother. On the day of Raksha Bandhan‚ sisters tie rakhi on the wrists of their
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Celebrated on the full moon day in the Hindu calendar month of Sharavan‚ Raksha Bandhan is one of the most widely celebrated festivals of India. It is a day that symbolises the sacred relationship between a brother and sister. Literally translated‚ raksha means protection while bandhan means bond. Raksha Bandhan‚ therefore‚ signifies the bond of love out which comes a sense of security and protection. On Raksha Bandhan‚ the sister ties a rakhi‚ comprising sacred threads‚ on her brother’s
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Festivals of India Festivals of India : Diwali Festival Diwali Diwali is regarded as one of the most important festival of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated across the nation with great pomp and excitement. The festival is mainly associated with lights as it is called the festival of light. On the day of the festival diyas (small clay lamps) are lit in everybody’s home irrespective of their social status. The name Diwali signifies ’rows of lighted lamps’. Diwali is a five-day festival
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INTRODUCTION: World is becoming multi-faith day by day. There isn’t any single country in the world occupied by the people of a single belief. Each country has different faiths in the form of minorities and majorities. People of different communities are living with each other around the world and coming closer day by day. This is an era of globalization which calls for “interfaith awareness and understanding”. A basic understanding of the diverse range of cultures‚ faiths and their histories has
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|Saturday | |4 | ID-UL-FITR |9th August 2013. |Friday | |5 |Raksha Bandhan |20th August 2013 |Tuesday | |6 |Janmashtmi |28th August 2013
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mall is a problem on weekends and national holidays since the visiting crowd is more than the available space. On Sundays‚ when we visited in the afternoon there was lot of space available and by evening it was almost full. When we visited on the Raksha bandhan festival‚ we somehow managed to get our vehicle parked luckily on the ground floor but it was away from the entrance. We had to take the the trolley to the car and it was quite a bit distance. We had to travel through the wet path‚ since it had
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are celebrated regularly every year. Among these festivals‚ some are religious; some are based on seasons while some are of national importance. All the festivals are celebrated with great enthusiasm in a colourful atmosphere. Diwali‚ Dussehra‚ Raksha Bandhan‚ Id-ul-Fitr‚ Id-ul-Zuha‚ Christmas‚ Mahavir Jayanti‚ Gurunanak Jayanti‚ Ganesh Chaturhi etc. are the religious festivals of India. These festivals are celebrated by different communities but they are celebrated as a whole. We can see festive atmosphere
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PARTITION OF BENGAL 1905 INTRODUCTION The Partition of Bengal in 1905‚ was made on 16 October by then Viceroy of India‚ Lord Curzon. Due to the high level of political unrest generated by the partition‚ the eastern and western parts of Bengal were reunited in 1911. INTRODUCTION The opening years of the twentieth century were stormy The British were beginning to feel a bit uneasy Discontentment was brewing. Political discontent was growing due to the inability of the government to organize
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