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PERSONALITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION – 31102015-05 Title: Facts On Great Personalities – C V Raman Description: C V Raman was one of the India’s greatest scientists. Recognized internationally, he is famous for his discovery of Raman Effect and Raman Scattering. Keywords: Great Indian Personalities, scientists, C V Raman, Raman Effect, Raman Scattering, kids, kids world fun Text: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman or C V Raman was a famous Indian scientist. He is known for his work on the scattering

Even though women were center stage in the 19th-century colonial nationalist conversation in Bengal, they were not invited to be a part of it. High caste, Brahmin Hindu traditionalists had a strong foothold on not only women’s freedom, but their simple value as individuals. The woman went from an innocent child-bride, to being a confined wife, and then an outcaste widow. Against their policy to stay out of the conversation, the British colonizers finally decided to step into the growing dialogue

Protest and Negotiation in Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy I. Introduction Satyajit Ray (2 May, 1921- 23 April, 1992) is one of the best directors from the golden era of Bengali cinema (1952-1975). During that period parallel cinema movement emerged in India. This parallel cinema movement was mainly led by Bengali cinema. Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta, and his family was very prominent in the field of arts and literature. He earned his reputation with his first film Pather Panchali (1955), it

grandfather, Guruchanran was an active person who always involved in social movements and acting as treasurer and president of Brahmo Samaj through influences of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non- European winner of Nobel Prize. Gurucharan had moved to Calcutta in 1854 to starting a chemist shop. In 29 June 1893, P.C Mahalanobis was born, grew up in a socially active and intellectual’s family by his father and mother, Prabodh Chandra and Nirodbasini. Prabodh Chandra was the younger son of Gurucharan. He

Brahmin family in Calcutta. She is second daughter of three for the parent of Sudhir Lal, a Chemis and Bina Banerjee. Until all age of eight she lived with big family with 40-50 relatives. Mukherjee and her sister had opportunity to receive rich excellent schooling. In 1947, her father move to England for his job and he brought his family too. Until 1951 they lived in England. Her life in England gave opportunity to develop and perfect her in English language skills. Calcutta is a native for Mukherjee

American and Bengali culture but felt more in touch with the American side due to living there for the majority of his live and only occasionally visiting Calcutta. Gogol’s parents try to raise him in the Bengali culture, but not living there or being active in the culture has made it a struggle for him to do, causing Gogol to never really consider Calcutta his home. Living in America, Gogol still goes through conflicting situations throughout his professional and social life where by the end of the novel

I try to base my courage of my role model of courage. My role model of courage is Dorothy Day. Dorothy Day was born on November 8, 1897. She had 3 brothers and one sister. Later on she got a scholarship to attend The University of Illinois. She then moved to New York. Much like Blessed Mother of Teresa Dorothy set up a care home for the shelterless and needy. She would provide shelter, water, food, and clothes. Dorothy made a sacrifice living like the homeless so she could

Vander Mel 1 Christian Vander Mel Mr. Sagona Eighth Grade Religion May 18, 2015 Mother Teresa: The Life and Dignity of the Human Person Life and dignity of a human person is the basis for all Catholic Social Teaching. Mother Teresa embodied this statement throughout her entire life as she served the poorest of the poor throughout the world. Mother Teresa built schools to teach, hospitals to cure, orphanages to love, and hospice homes to comfort. All of these projects were based on the Catholic

was adopted by fair skinned parents, being 5 and dark skinned completely different to his family would be confusing. At some points frustrating, Saroo questioned whether he belonged or not, “I did I become the Saroo who used to live on the streets Calcutta rather than just Saroo, mostly wanted to be just Saroo.” This evidently shows that not just Saroo noticed something different about his home life, this put Saroo under a llot of stress. Sarro has had multiple troubles with wanting to find his family

in Kolkata. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs and plays. His short stories