Poverty Amidst Plenty “India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people”- Manmohan Singh‚ Prime Minister For the past few decades‚ India has been categorized as a developing country. In spite of significant landmarks and rapid advancements in various sectors‚ India has failed to become a developed country. While the nation has been making headlines for economic boom‚ multitudes of billionaires‚ construction of skyscrapers‚ million dollar investments and achievements in technology;
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Andrew J Potter looks at the emerging relationship between the newly independent Republic of Indian and superpower that was the United States during the Cold War era in his book‚ Comrades at Arms: The United States and India‚ 1947-1964. It is‚ however‚ the angle from which he decides to look at this relationship that is most interesting. Rotter decides to look at this budding complicated relationship from a culture angle as‚ in his own words‚ “Like the rest of us‚ policymakers and diplomats do not
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America is considered the land of the free and the home of the brave. Citizens here are allowed to exercise their rights freely in their day to day lives. The United States is also known around the world as one of the largest Superpowers. Behind this large superpower is a small‚ but ever important document known as The United States Constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by the original founders in 1787 and is the fundamental principles that establishes
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The unity of the two great nations in World War 2 had brought hope and eventually victory to the allies‚ and the suffering people of the world. However‚ surely the ‘unnatural alliance’ between the USSR and the USA couldn’t last? The vast ideological gap‚ a difference in the leading figures contributed to the breakdown of friendship after the defeat of a common foe. Not only this‚ but it seems that the difference and change of the leading political figures‚ as well as the fear of spreading communism
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as a result of events in Cuba between 1959 and 1962 and how the Cuban missile Crisis affected relations between the USA and the USSR. The USA and the USSR never really got on after WW2 ended‚ it was always a competition to see who the greatest superpower was. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the nearest that both sides came to an actual nuclear war. The tensions were intense for both sides‚ for both USA and USSR could have started a war if they wanted to because of their opponents. And in this essay
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aid‚ by all accounts should have doomed the country whose very right to exist has become one of the greatest international relations dilemmas of modern history. The question is why the United States‚ the beacon of hope and new economic‚ military superpower would stand by and do nothing for what would become its greatest ally in the Middle East during its most perilous time‚ how
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APJ ABDUL KALAM Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam born October 15‚ 1931‚ at Rameswaram‚ in Tamil Nadu ‚ Abdul Kalam was born in a middle-class family ‚ His mother tongue is Tamil. His father‚ a devout Muslim‚ owned boats which he rented out to local fishermen. His father‚ Jainulabdeen‚ possessed neither much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages‚ he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate‚ his mother Ashiamma & three
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‘Détente was a failure’ How far do you agree with this assessment? In the period of the 1970s‚ the policy of Détente is often viewed as a failure because the main themes of the Cold War remained present‚ for instance Soviet Expansionism continued and new advances for nuclear production came about despite laws capping old types of nuclear weapons. In addition‚ not all agreements were taken seriously‚ such as Helsinki which was deemed by Soviets as ‘just a piece of paper’. However‚ the term Détente
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the 20th century saw a colonized world‚ with a few superpowers ruling the majority of the globe. The indigenous people of these colonies were usually oppressed and forced into some form of slavery. Although these people formed pocket resistance groups on occasion‚ they did not have a strong enough sense of national unity to cohesively fight against their colonizers‚ who always presented a solid‚ single front to any dissident groups. The superpowers‚ for the most part‚ tried to gain the trust‚ and subsequently
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Interestingly enough‚ this also seems to be the case when two superpowers of their time confront each other‚ like the Chinese and English in the late 18th century. Although there has been much change in the nature of the relationship between the English and Chinese—between 1792 and 1900—with regards to the exchange of ideas‚ commercialism and each society’s view on the other‚ there has also been much continuity the relationship between two superpowers‚ such as the general contempt for Chinese from British
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