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    children alike can find something to enjoy and excite them. ISKCON Amritsar Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda Temple Amritsar, Punjab It is situated at walking distance from the Golden Temple. Built and maintained single- handedly by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, this Temple houses many gods and goddesses. Devotees flock to worship here. Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar, Punjab Jallianwala Bagh stands witness to the barbaric activity executed by the then General Dyer. Thousands of innocents

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    SYNOPSIS OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME FOR Ph. D DEGREE IN ENGLISH Research Topic: “Realism in Tagore’s Poetry” Research Scholar : (Sumer Prasad) S/o Late Mahendra Prasad Vill. Semari, P. O. Gothain Dist. Ballia, U. P. Supervisor : Dr.( Ravi Shankar Singh) P. G. College, Ghazipur U. P. Co-Supervisor : Dr. (A. K. Mishra) Reader, Dept. of English D. C. S. K. (P. G.) College, Mau, U. P. Research Centre : D. C. S. Khandelwal (P

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    This allows for knowledge to be passed down from generation to generation, person to person. The Turkish Muslim women 's foundation is a tool of empowerment and offers a resistance against the influence of mainstream society. These women are not looking to move away from Islam to an more mainstream secular life, they want a closer relationship where they play an active part. Through the foundation, they have a voice and gain control in their religious life and through

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    Essay On Anita Desai

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    recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Fire On The Mountain. Her novel, Where Shall We Go This Summer has won The Federation of Indian Publishers and Author's Guild Award for Excellence in Writing in 1979. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions in 1993, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri; and screenplay by Anita Desai. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won the Guardian Children's

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    The White Bollywood

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    targeted at a larger audience, commonly known as mainstream movies or Bollywood films, employ a different grammar of filmmaking than that is used in so-called sensible or parallel cinema while representing or portraying different aspects and sections of society, race, culture, gender and class. In this paper, I try to focus on the representations of Caucasian characters, or the white, in popular Hindi cinema, or Bollywood films,

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    Curriculum Implication

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    tool of cultural dominance and hegemony has an alienating and intimidating impact. Curriculum and the Scheduled Castes: For the Scheduled Castes who have sought education as a mechanism to transform as well as enter “mainstream” (read dominant) society, the central questions are of representation of their knowledge and culture and the critiquing of dominant knowledge and value systems of their lived reality and of social relationships based on dominance/subordination and exclusion. Dominant forms

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    part of cultural observance and spiritual ritual for many faiths… The role of food in cultural reasoning and religious beliefs is complex.” The difference between culture and religion Culture is the lifestyle of people that belong to a particular society, whereas religion is a set of rules or customs which people decide to follow and commit to this particular lifestyle. Which indicates that the culture is what we are born into and religion is

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    Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha, Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union.  Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar

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    INTRODUCTION We record our homage and deep admiration for the Womanhood of India who in the hour of peril for the motherland forsook the shelter of their homes and with unfailing courage and endurance stood shoulder to shoulder with their menfolk, in the frontline of India’s national army to share with them the sacrifices and triumphs of the struggle”. From a Resolution passed on January 26, 1931. When the history of India's fight for Independence comes to be written, the sacrifice made by the

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    a pattern of living life that includes ideas, beliefs, customs, and codes of conduct, rituals, ceremonies and symbol. The pattern of living life can be called as culture. Culture has played a very significant role in human evolution. Every human society has its own particular culture. An individual’s attitudes, values, ideas and beliefs are greatly influenced by the culture in which he or she lives. When an individual reluctantly or willingly puts in different milieu, there would be clash between

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