Mythologies of War and Peace From the text: Myths o Live By Joseph Campbell Copyright 1972 From a lecture given in 1967 It is for an obvious reason far easier to name examples of mythologies of war than mythologies of peace ;for not only has conflict between groups been normal to human experience‚ but there is also the cruel fact to be recognized that killing is the precondition of all living whatsoever: life lives on life‚ eats life‚ and would otherwise not exist. “Man‚” wrote Oswald
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Modern English poetry in India is one of the many new literatures which began to emerge at the end of the Second World War‚ after the end of colonialism. Unlike the Africa and Caribbean creative writings‚ modern Indian poetry in English did not have an obvious direct relationship with the cultural movements that had led to national independence. The emergence of modern English poetry was a part of modernization which included urbanization‚ industrialization‚ mobility‚ independence‚ social change
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POTTERY‚ TERRACOTTA AND PAPIER MACHE Unglazed Pottery Although the art of glazing pottery was known in India from ancient times‚ the finest pottery in India is of the unglazed variety. This unglazed pottery has a wide range. Very fine paper-thin pottery is produced in Kutch‚ Kanpur and Alwar. Alwar is known for paper-thin pottery called Kagzi. There are three different styles in unglazed pottery. 1. Paper thin‚ biscuit colored pottery with incised patterns. 2. Here the pot is polished
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Proto-Indo-Iranian or Proto-Iranian culture. Tajikistan was part of Scythia in Classical Antiquity. Most of modern Tajikstan had formed parts of ancient Kamboja and Parama Kamboja kingdoms‚ which find references in the ancient Indian epics like the Mahabharata. Linguistic evidence‚ combined with ancient literary and inscriptional evidence has led many eminent Indologists to conclude that ancient Kambojas (an Avestan speaking Iranain tribe) originally belonged to the Ghalcha-speaking area of Central Asia
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CRIMES REASEARCH PAPER Criminalization of Attempt to Suicide Nishant Jain Section C Introduction Whoever attempts to end his life but unfortunately fails to end it is liable for punishment. The offence is punishable under Section 309 of Indian Penal Code‚ a self contained section prescribing punishment. Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code reads as: “Whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the commission of such offence shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term
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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY The self-fulfilling prophecy is‚ in the beginning‚ a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come ’true’. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true‚ by the very terms
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LITERATURE: Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work and can‚ in some circumstances‚ refer exclusively to published sources. The word literatureliterally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature‚" as in the figures of speech "arts and letters" and "man of letters." Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose
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Research Proposal on A COMPARATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TRIAL BY JURY IN NEPALI LEGAL SYSTEM Submitted to BA/LLB Programme Nepal Law Campus Faculty of Law Tribhuvan University Submitted by SauravNath Pant BA/LLB‚ 3rd Year Roll No. 13 Section: A March 3‚ 2013 1.1 Introduction I have always been a firm believer in trial by jury. Somehow it is ingrained in me. As it is in most Englishmen. It is a lesson which has been handed down from one generation to another during the last 800 years. The trial
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INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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ASAS Mysore B.Sc Visual Media Nirmal‚ Vishnu Menon 0ctober 13 ‚2014 [ The Timeless Vedas ] A brief description on Vedic literature‚ its structure and content. The Timeless Vedas Compiled by Nirmal and Vishnu Menon B.Sc Visual Media ASAS Mysore Preface The Vedas are divine and eternal. The Vedas are truly considered to be boundless repository of “knowledge par excellence”. Ours is a humble effort in briefing about Vedas. An attempt like this is similar to sipping handful
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