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    Shadow Lines. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11th of July 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan)‚ Sri Lanka‚ Iran‚ Egypt and India. After graduating from the University of Delhi‚ he went to Oxford to study Social Anthropology and received a Master of Philosophy and Ph. D. in 1982. He began his career as an editor in Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. Meanwhile he has also been a Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences‚ Calcutta. In 1999‚ he joined the faculty at Queens

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    Calcuttas Metro

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    | Some of the major problems that the Calcutta Metro faced before and during construction were lack of funding‚ poor planning‚ poor scheduling and no vision. If I were to have to do this project over‚ one of the first things I would do would be to ensure it has enough money not only to begin the project but enough to complete it. Along with funding‚ the project scope would be the next big issue for me to tackle. Without knowing how the contractor plans on taking this project on I could be setting

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    Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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    of Albanian[2][3] ethnicity and Indiancitizenship‚[4] who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta‚ India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor‚ sick‚ orphaned‚ and dying‚ while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion‚ first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[5][6] In the 1970s‚ she became well-known internationally for her humanitarian work and advocacy

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    Blessed Teresa of Calcutta‚[1] born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ was an ethnic Albanian‚ Indian Roman Catholic nun. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity‚ a Roman Catholic religious congregation‚ which in 2012 consisted of over 4‚500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS‚ leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children’s and

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    My Home My Environment

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    UNIVERSITY REGISTARTION NO 2 0 1 3 B.Com Accountancy Honours‚ 3rd year BUDGE BUDGE COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA My Home My Environment 2013 GUIDE CERTIFICATE It is hereby certified that the project report on “MY HOME MY ENVIRONMENT”‚ being submitted by “SUSMITA GAYEN” student of the degree BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (HONS) 3rd year of BUDGE BUDGE COLLEGE under CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY is an original work carried out successfully under my guidance and supervision and that no part of this

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    Kadambini Ganguly

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    Vidyalaya and while at Bethune School in 1878 became the first woman to pass the University of Calcutta entrance examination. She and Chandramukhi Basu became the first graduates from Bethune College‚ and in the process became the first female graduates in the country and in the entire British Empire. ------------------------------------------------- Medical education and profession Ganguly studied medicine at the Calcutta Medical College. In 1886‚ she was awarded a GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College)

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    framework for ethics in global health? If yes or no‚ how does Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome help you make your case? I believe the sublime can be an important framework for ethics in global health‚ because it calls on the unknown as the motivation to seek out ways of knowing what will hinder or advance the health of populations on the global level‚ despite the possibility of experiencing discomfort along this path. Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome help make my case by allowing its characters to encounter

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    Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar

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    Bengali alphabet and type‚ which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first wooden Bangla type fonts in 1780.[3] He received the title "Vidyasagar" ("Ocean of learning" or "Ocean of knowledge") from the Calcutta Sanskrit College (where he graduated)‚ due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy. In Sanskrit‚ Vidya means knowledge or learning and Sagar means ocean or sea. This title was mainly given for his vast knowledge in all subjects

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    Cv Raman

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    Presidency College‚ Madras‚ in 1902‚ and in 1904 passed his B.A. examination‚ winning the first place and the gold medal in physics; in 1907 he gained his M.A. degree‚ obtaining the highest distinction. Raman spent 15 years as a Professor in Physics at Calcutta University (1917-32)‚ and 15 years as a Professor in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science‚ Bangalore (1933-48). In 1948‚ Raman became the Director of the Raman Institute of Research at Bangalore‚ established and endowed by himself. On February

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    Consider Sea of Poppies as a historical novel Indian English novel writing shares a literary community. For instance‚ during 1930s‚ novelists like Mulk Raj Anand‚ Raja Rao and R K Narayan had ‘Gandhi’ as a shared literary‚ philosophical and cultural influence. Then post-independence period of novel writing portrays the partition fiction and subsequently the trauma. The decade of 1980s onwards‚ novels are exhibiting the political scenario of the nation either it is by Rohinton Mistry or novelists

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