Festivals of Jammu Lohri (13 January) Lohri bonfire This festival heralds the onset of spring and is also known as Makar Sankranti. The whole region wears a festive look on this day. Thousands take a dip in the holy river‚ called Havan Yagnas‚ and candles light up nearly every house and temple in Jammu. In the rural areas‚ it is customary for young boys to go around asking for gifts from newly-weds and parents of new-borns. A special dance called the Chajja is held on the occasion of Lohri.
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Benefits of Zakat Zakat‚ the forth pillar of Islam is obligated to be payed by every sahib-e nisab among the Muslims. Those who have wealth beyond their needs and it are saved till the end of the Islamic fiscal year the 2.5 percent share of it must be deducted as zakat. Zakat cannot be paid on money earned from haram sources. There are several benefits associated with zakat which the modern economic and monetary systems claim to produce but fail to do so in real. Zakat means prolifraton or growth
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Sikhism 1. Every living being has a soul 1. Sikhism believes in One GOD. 2. Every soul is potentially divine‚ with innate qualities of infinite knowledge‚ perception‚ power‚ and bliss (masked by its karmas). 2. Sikhism believes Guru Granth Sahib as the last and eternal Gurus of Sikhs. 3. Regard every living being as you do yourself‚ harming no one and being kind to all
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judgment for the sake of being ridiculed. In Orwell’s thesis he states‚ “ I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow‚ posing dummy‚ the conventionalized figure of a sahib… He wears a mask‚ and his face grows to fit it”(7). The oppressor and the oppressed are both corrupted by imperialism. Doing what is expected of a person to do and doing what is morally right are not always
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OUR OWN ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL‚ ABU DHABI GR.8‚ HISTORY NOTES TOPIC: REVOLT OF 1857 ❖ GREASED CARTRIDGES INCIDENT: 1. New rifle introduced-Enfield‚ cartridge covered with greased paper wrapper. 2. Sepoys had to bite off the cart.‚ before loading the cartridge into the rifle. (it had gunpowder and an iron ball) 3. News spread that the grease was made from fat of cows and pigs. 4. Hindus consider cows: sacred Muslims consider pigs: dirty
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1. 1829 – Abolition of Sati System ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- This event is the most important in Indian History. India in ancient time was the place of high superstitions and much disbelief. Wives were to self-immolate themselves after the death of their husbands. The practice of this widow self-immolation was abolished by the great reformer of Bengal‚ Raja Ram Mohan Roy. With the help of Lord William Bentick‚ the then Governor-General
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Racism plays important roles in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Author uses the racism to describe the characters and the culture represented in the stories. In The Kite Runner‚ Khaled Hosseini uses prejudice as a tool to tell this story of betrayal and redemption. This novel is set in Afghanistan and the ethnicity of the characters plays an essential role in the relationships and situations that arise. While the author uses individual characters to tell the story‚ he portrays the general attitudes
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The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College‚ which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship‚ which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was
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George Orwell‚ one of the most famous English authors‚ was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari‚ India‚ in 1903. His father was a colonial official for the British and his mother’s family also had colonial ties. In 1922‚ Orwell worked as a British imperial policeman in Burma for five years but he finally returned to England again because he recognized the injustices of the British imperial rule in Burma and could not suffer the guilt of oppressing the Burmese anymore. Later‚ Orwell spent the next twenty
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Heritage Tourism in India | Subject – Global Marketing Strategy | Submitted by:- Pooja GuptaStudent no – 12251208 | Introduction This essay draws a light to a very important sector running as an industry and playing major roles in changing the economic scenario and modifying the cultural‚ religion‚ regional and social perception of the residents of the world. It is said that “The world is a small place” and this has been proven by the changes in human wants and their wish to see each corner
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