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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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In the 12 January edition of Hindustan Times‚ eminent Nehruvian Ramchandra Guha expressed dismay over the controversy surrounding the Indian Science Congress where it was claimed that ancient Indians were well versed in aeronautical technology among other things. First of all Mr. Guha should be informed that the the section under which the much controversial paper was included has itself been titled ‘Vedic Mythology about Aviation’. So the Indian science congress organizers were clear about the distinction
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As civilizations have progressed‚ there have been many changes in the way society chooses to view certain things. Different civilizations had their own beliefs on what characteristics gave a person character. They also set standards on how that individual would be viewed in society. Throughout history‚ heroes have arisen in many forms. Some of these heroes have been loyal and sacrificed themselves for the greater good and others have been great warriors that have passionately fought for their kingdom
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Cultural Emergency? In the latter half of the 1990s‚ censorship became an obsessive topic in the Indian media. For about five years‚ it seemed that one could not turn around without coming across yet another story about a magazine editor being harassed or even beaten by right wing goons‚ about cinemas showing the films of Deepa Mehta or Mira Nair being trashed‚ about Bollywood starlets or saucy models being summoned to court for obscenity or indecency‚ about offending books‚ paintings and articles
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Literature Literature (from Latin litteraetantri (plural); letter) is the art of written works‚ and is not bound to published sources (although‚ under circumstances unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated‚ the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two major classification of literature are poetry and prose. "Literature" is sometimes differentiated from popular and ephemeral classes of writing. Terms such as "literary fiction" and
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diversities and differences there runs the invisible link of common culture‚ common civility‚ common heritage‚ the same form of greeting one another‚ the same form of respect shown to elders as well as there are common Vedas‚ the Bhagwad Gita‚ the Ramayana and the Mahabharata‚ the festivals‚ National symbols and finally the struggle for Independence that united the whole mass of Indian people. Thus‚ national integration means a feeling of oneness among the entire Indians. All our countrymen must feel
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Despite of different diversities there are bonds of unity in India. These bonds of unity may be located in a certain underlying uniformity of life as well as in certain mechanisms of integration. Herbert Risley‚ Census Commissioner in 1911 has rightly observed‚ “Beneath the manifold diversity of physical and social type‚ language‚ custom and religion which strike the observer in India there can still be discerned a certain underlying uniformity of life from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin”. India
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Human rights dilemmas facing social workers The primary objective of social work is to improve the living conditions of human beings and help them in meeting basic human needs‚ with special focus on people who are oppressed or those living in poverty. Social workers relentlessly work towards ending various form of social injustice such as discrimination‚ oppression and poverty through a coordinated effort that includes consultation‚ administration‚ policy‚ advocacy‚ social and political action‚
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Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayanswami Iyer (R.K.Narayan) was born in Madras (now Chennai) in 1906. His father was Rasipuram Venkatarama Krishna swami Iyer was a School Teacher in Mysore. His mother was Gnanambalwas a housewife. His elder brother was a popular Cartoonist R.K.Laxman. He graduated at Maharaja college‚ Mysore. He married to Rajam in 1935. They had a daugheter named Hema‚ their happiness was shortlived‚ Rajam died with Typhoid in 1939. A number of female characters in his writings
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