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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English Project Work Nepal film Industry Prepared By: kamal neupane Submitted To: Table of content Acknowledgements ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Nepal Film Industry ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- History The making of Nepali films is said to have begun with D.B. Pariyar’s Satya Harishchandra
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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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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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Amitabh Bachchan. Born in a Srivastava Kayastha family‚ in the village of Babupatti (Raniganj) in the district of Pratapgarh‚ U.P. near Allahabad in the United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh) he was the eldest son of Pratap Narayan Shrivastav and Saraswati Devi. He was called bachchan (meaning Kid at home). He received his formal schooling in a municipal school and followed the family tradition of attending Kayastha Paathshaalas (कायस्थ पाठशाला) to learn Urdu as the first step to a career in law. He
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Born into Brothels 1 Born into Brothels A Film Analysis Donnalynn Sullivan Soc. 101/66 Film Paper April 23‚ 2012 Born into Brothels 2 INTRODUCTION: Born into Brothels is an powerful movie that documents life at the extremes. Henslin (2010) defines social stratificiation as the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property‚ power‚ prestige; applies to both nations
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3. Radhakrishnan‚ S‚ The Principal Upanisads‚ HarperCollins India‚ 1994 4. Singh‚ Harbans. The Heritage of Sikhs. 1994. New Delhi: Manohar. 5. Sharma‚ Arvind. Study of Hinduism. (Columbia‚ South Carolina: University of South Carolina‚ 2003). 6. “Puja”. Encyclopedia of Religion. 7. “Sufism”. Encyclopedia of Religion. 8. "Three Hundred Ramayanas." OPEN Magazine. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. <http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/three-hundred-ramayanas>. 9. “Varna and Jati”
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crafts were manufactured‚ apart from identifying different activity areas‚" said Shinde. The site is located at the confluence of ancient rivers Saraswati and Drishadvati‚ which have been mentioned in the Rigveda. "These rivers went dry at some stage and thus‚ we will also study when they went dry and the factors that contributed to it. The Saraswati region was important as nearly two-thirds of the known Harappan sites were located in this basin‚" he said.
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