Diwali‚ all the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks with family members and friends. Most Indian business communities begin the financial year on the first day of Diwali. Diwali commemorates the return of Lord Rama‚ along with Sita and Lakshman‚ from his fourteen-year-long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana. In joyous celebration of the return of their king‚ the people of Ayodhya‚ the Capital of Rama‚ illuminated the kingdom with earthen diyas (oil lamps) and burst firecrackers
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great change in today’s world‚ the women have improved their status a lot. Now a days they can be seen in every field‚ hey have left a great impact of their excellence and made many in records in various fields. A number of examples can be seen like Sita Sahu‚ Saina Nehwal‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Reena Kaushal Dharsnaktu and many more. The greatest of all achievements made by the women is in the field of defense. For over 3‚000 years in a large number of cultures and nations‚ women have played many roles
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Shri Swaminarayan Mandir‚ Houston The Mandir is a place of worship and prayer for the followers of Hinduism. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir was built by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha which is headed by Pramukh Swami Maharaj. The Mandir is located in Stafford. It took around 28 months to build the Mandir and it consists of 33‚000 pieces of hand-carved Italian marble and Turkish limestone in India by 2‚400 artusans. It was shipped over to Houston in containers. The marble pieces were fitted together
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language. The writings of people like Raja Ram Mohun Roy‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ Mahatma Gandhi and others started pouring in and gave rise to a body of prose literature having great socio-cultural relevance. Soon poets like Romesh Chandra Dutt‚ Toru Dutt and many others took to writing poetry in English. But this literature was highly influenced by the style and content of English literature. When Sarojini Naidiu wrote poetry while in England and showed it to Sir Edmund Gosse‚ he advised
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What Is Needed for a SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE? Would you choose to dive into a river without first learning to swim? Such a foolish act could be harmful—even deadly. Think‚ though‚ of how many people jump into marriage with little awareness of how to take on the responsibilities involved. JESUS said: "Who of you that wants to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense‚ to see if he has enough to complete it?" (Luke 14:28) What is true of building a tower is also true of building
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religious syncretism is given in Miller’s book about the two most widely known stories of Mahabharta‚ which is the story of a war between two patrilineages in which Krishna plays an important role‚ and the Ramayana story of king Rama and his devoted wife Sita. Miller states that “Throughout India‚ many local stories also exist‚ some containing elements from pre-Vedic times.” (Miller‚ 214) Buddhism too‚ has evolved its fair share of syncretistic beliefs and practice‚ making its profound spread to countries
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The achievement of full equality between women and men is one of the most important essentiality for global prosperity and the advancement of society. The denial of such equality perpetrates an injustice against one half of the world’s population and stimulates male dominance that is carried from the family to the workplace. Being in 21st century after so many years of male dominance we are almost standing in the threshold of a feminine era‚ but there are still some signs of gender discrimination
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The other name of Abbey Falls is Abbi Falls. It is very near to Madikeri. Here water falls to the rocky valley. This Abbey falls were called as the Jessy waterfalls in the remembrance of the Madikeri’s first chaplain’s daughter. It is very famous picnic spot for the visitors. The winter season is the best time to visit this place. AdiChunchanagiri Mandya‚ Karnataka This place Sri Adichunchanagiri is said to be one of the best and most divine places of Lord Shiva. We can observe two familiar and
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http://www.indiaedu.com/education-india/women-edu.html Sanaa Unus. (2000). the Education of Women. Retrieved February 7‚ 2011 from http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=ZoneEnglish-Family/FYELayout&cid=1157279524883 Sita Agarwal. (1999). Genocide of Women in Hinduism. (Location Published N/A) Victoria A. Velkoff and Arjun Adlakha. (1998). Women of the World Women’s Health in India. Retrieved February 7‚ 2011 from http://www.census.gov/ipc/prod/wid9803.pdf
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Women of the Vedic period: - With regard to the status of women in Indian society at large‚ no nation has held their women in higher esteem than the Hindus. Perhaps‚ no other literature has presented a more admirable type of women character than Sita‚ Maitriya‚ and Gargi. Hindu mythology witnesses that the status of Hindu women during the Vedic period was honourable and respectable. Their marriage was regarded as sacrosanct and the family ideal was high. Women on marriage acquired an honourable
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