Scholarly Article on “The Namesake” By Jhumpa Lahiri The article I chose is titled‚ “From Hybrids to Tourists: Children of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake‚” written by Natalie Friedman. This in depth article focuses on the inner personal struggle of an immigrant family to the United States with emphasis on Gogol Ganguli. Friedman distinguishes “the Namesake” from most other novels of its kind. As opposed to stories about immigrants coming to the United States in search of financial
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MY INDIA India is my country and I am an Indian. It is the seventh largest country in the world and the second most populated country in the world. India is called by names Bharat and Hindustan. It is a peninsula‚ surrounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east‚ the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south. Tiger is the national animal of India and peacock the national bird. The lotus in all its uniqueness is India’s national flower. The mango is the national fruit‚ which is cultivated
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The Role of Tourism in India Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.I want to do this! What’s This? Among the various service industries‚ tourism
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years and completed it in 1573. Agra Red Fort has been built in the shape of a crescent‚ which is flattened on the east with a long wall that faces River Yamuna. Built out of red sandstone‚ the fort lies 2 km to the northwest of the magnificent Taj Mahal. The Red Fort of Agra stands enclosed within massive double walls‚ which rise to a height of 69 ft and have a circumference of 2.5 km. The walls have two entry gates‚ known as the Delhi Gate and the Lahore Gate or Amar Singh Gate. The Delhi Gate
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then relatively dry and cool. Agra (Taj Mahal) Agra another‚ historical place located on the barks of river yamuna‚ and has achieved it fames because of the seventh wonder of the world “The Taj Mahal”. Rajasthan Rajasthan is known as the land of colors and kings. The land is encompasses most of the area of the large and wide Great Indian Desert. Rajasthan is famous for the majestic forts‚ intricately carved temples and attractively decorated mahals‚ which were built by Rajput kings. Capital
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Steel (including Tata Steel Europe)‚ Tata Motors (including Jaguar and Land Rover)‚ Tata Consultancy Services‚ Tata Technologies‚ Tata Tea (including Tetley)‚ Tata Chemicals‚ Titan Industries‚ Tata Power‚ Tata Communications‚ Tata Teleservices and the Taj Hotels. The group takes the name of its founder‚ Jamsedji Tata‚ a member of whose family has almost invariably been the chairman of the group. The chairman of the Tata group is Ratan Tata‚ who took over from J. R. D. Tata in 1991 and is one of the
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Panchayat- elected elders Chula- clay oven Castes- Social group status 4 Main groups are the: Bramans- Priests and scholars‚ highest group Kshatriyas- rulers and warriors Vaishyas- merchants Shudra- Artisans and laborers Taj Mahal- built as a tomb for Muntaz Mahal Mahabharata and Ramayana- 2 great epics Panchatrantra- oldest collection of Indian fables Bhakti- social religious movement Castes are not limited to India. They may be found in one form or another in most nations today.
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1. Blue whale weighs about 150 tonnes as much as 150 cars. 2. Marine iguana from Galapagos Islands lives only in sea for his whole life. 3. Reticulated python is ten metre long as long as 10 bicycles put in a row 4. Opera house is made up of sand‚ water‚ limestone and soil. 5. Plovers hop inside crocodile’s mouth to clean their teeth by eating up worms and insects. 6. banknotes are made up of cotton rags 7. Snakes do not blink as they do not have eyelids. 8. Giraffes and
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The Indian history and the Gupta Hindu Kingdom changed drastically by arts‚ religions‚ regionalism‚ and the caste system. The Gupta Rule also called the Classical Age refers to the time where much of the Indian subcontinent was reunited under the Gupta Empire. From the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD the Gupta Hindu Kingdom region of classical India started as a highly political‚ regionalized caste system to a religious Hindu based culture‚ and a more science thinking culture. Classical India
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THE SEVEN WONDERS [pic] PYRAMIDS OF GIZA [pic] HANGING GARDENS [pic] TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS [pic] STATUE OF ZEUS [pic] COLOSSUS [pic] LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA [pic] THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS [pic] The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was the tomb of king Mausolus. Halicarnassus (Modern Bodrum‚ Turkey) was the capital of a small Mediterranean kingdom. In 377 B.C.‚ Hecatomnus of Mylasa‚ the ruler of this land‚ died and left control of the kingdom to his son‚ Mausolus. Mausolus’
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