Name: Abhay Malviya Roll no.11009 "Language and Religion" Introduction Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication‚ and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. A religion is an organized collection of beliefs‚ cultural systems‚ and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Religion may or may not have God or deities. What makes religion an organized
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Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) Contributing Editor: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Classroom Issues and Strategies It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her
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Nashik ( pronunciation (help·info))[1] is a city in Maharashtra‚ India. Nashik is located in the northwest of Maharashtra‚ 171 km (106 mi) from Mumbai and 210 km (130 mi) from Pune. Nashik is the administrative headquarters of Nashik district and Nashik Division. Nashik is located in the Western Ghats‚ on the western edge of the Deccan peninsula on the banks of river Godavari. The Nassak Diamond‚ derives its name from the fact that it long remained in the Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple‚ near Nashik
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Lord Shiva‚ meaning the Auspicious One is Sanskrit‚ is a highly worshipped deity in Hinduism. In Hindu mythology‚ Brahma and Vishnu were born out of Lord Shiva and the three were separated into three different aspects of divinity. Shiva is the Destroyer God as he dissolves the universe for the next cycle of creation and destroys obstacles for his devotees. Today‚ Shaivism is a popular sect in Hinduism‚ predominantly in South India‚ where devotees believe Shiva is All and omnipresent. Lord Shiva
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Explain why devotion to Druga has become such an important part of Hinduism? One of the most distinctive goddess of Hinduism is Durga. Her supremacy and power appears in many forms to protect the world from demons who threaten the stability of the cosmos. Her devotion is celebrated in one of the most important festivals; Durga Purja that occurs at the begging of October around harvest time‚ Durga is also linked with fertility and the ceremony last nine days. The importance is to commemorate the
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Exam Name: UGC- NET / JRF Examination Subject: General Awareness or GK (Second Paper) 1. Which novel has a nameless narrator? (a) Moby Dick (b) Anna Karenina (c) Invisible Man (d) The Grapes of Wrath 2. Samuel Beckett wrote - (a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
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By Indian English Writing‚ we mean that body of literature which is written by Indians in English. It could be in the form of poetry‚ prose‚ fiction or drama. English is not our mother tongue and we are not native speakers of English‚ yet when in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ English was introduced as the medium of instruction in our educational system‚ Indians were able to read Western literature that was available in English. They found the language
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Kerala poets and writers * Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri - A famous Malayalam poet who is honored by the epithet Mahaakavi. He won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award for Malayalam in 1973. His famous poems include ’Irupatam Nuttantinte Ithihasam. Akkitham is associated with Tapasya _ a cultural organization. * Arundhati Roy - Writer‚ awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things‚ which is set in Kerala. Born in Kerala. * Balachandran Chullikkadu - Poet admired for his realistic
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traditional Hindu beliefs is that of submissiveness and obedience. This traditional role of serving the husband and taking care of the children is emphasized in figures from Hindu mythology such as Sita who was the beautiful wife of Rama‚ the hero of Ramayana; and Savitri which symbolizes a faithful wife (Oxtoby‚ 2010). These mythology figures represented faithful beings and reflected Hindu women because they suffered and
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Ancient Hindu & Muslim Judicial System Introduction: If we glimpse over the world history we can see a lot of civilization existed from the beginning of the mankind. In the initial stage no legal institutions existed in those civilizations. It developed slowly according to their need‚ safety as well as establishment of humanity. The people who lived in India till the Muslims invaded India were Hindus and they govern by their personal law and that is called Hindus Law. During the ancient
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