Gutka- A Silent Killer By Anitha Varughese‚ LCSW Gutka‚ a form of smokeless tobacco‚ is a cocktail of tobacco‚ nicotine‚ and carcinogens that contains many unhealthy additives such as magnesium carbonate and phenyl ethyl alcohol‚ along with harmful perfumery compounds including musk ketones and other injurious fragrance compounds (which are known to be dangerous in toiletries). Gutka use is one of the major causes of oral cancer in India‚ is one of India.s most serious social problems‚ and is also
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Diwali Diwali (also spelt Divali in other countries) or Dīpāvali (Tamil: தீபாவளி‚ Gujarati: દિવાળી‚ Hindi: दिवाली‚ Kannada: ದೀಪಾವಳಿ‚ Konkani: धाकली दिवाळी‚ Malayalam: ദീപാവലി‚ Marathi: दिवाळी‚ Nepali: दिपावली‚ Oriya: ଦୀପାବଳୀ‚ Sanskrit: दीपावली‚ Telugu: దీపావళి‚ Urdu: دیوالی)‚ also popularly known as the Festival of Lights‚ is an important 5-day festival in Hinduism‚ Sikhism and Jainism‚ occurring between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali is an official holiday in India [1]‚ Guyana‚ Trinidad &
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Kannada or English. Earlier‚ the language was being used as medium of instruction in few Marathi medium schools in Tamil Nadu. It was in use as language of rituals along with Sanskrit. Most importantly‚ it was language of literature. However‚ as observed by native speakers‚ the use of Thanjavur Marathi has now shrunk to become a community language spoken only at home by the descendents of the Thanjavur Marathi people. Younger generations are denying the use of language even at the household. There
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Marathi: Big Newspapers Are Elephants By Robin Jeffrey To understand the Marathi press‚ one needs to appreciate two cities-Mumbai (Bombay) and Pune (Poona). Mumbai is the Manhattan of India-a buzzing‚ multi- lingual magnet of an island. As well as the industrial and commercial focus of India‚ it is the base for the advertising industry and for India’s two biggest newspaper chains‚ The Times of India and The Indian Express. Pune‚ on the other hand‚ is Maharashtra’s Boston (indeed‚ both have brahmins)
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freedom fighter‚ activist‚ linguistic activist‚ poet‚ author Language Konkani Ethnicity Konkani Ravindra Kelekar (March 25‚ 1925 – August 27‚ 2010) was a noted Indian author who wrote primarily in the Konkani language‚ though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi.[3] A Gandhian activist‚ freedom fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement‚ he is a well known Konkani scholar‚ linguist‚ and creative thinker. Kelkar was a participant in the Indian freedom movement‚ Goa’s liberation movement
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Asha Bhosle Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer who has fascinated the entire country with her voice. Asha was born on September 8‚ 1933 in a small village in sangli‚ Maharashtra to the Marathi family of pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar.She was the third child of Dinanath Mangeshkar and Shudhhamati. Her nickname is The Queen of Indi pop. Her father pandit Dinanth Mangeshkar was a theater artist and a classical singer. He trained her in classical music at a very young age .Her other sibling are
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Pathankot‚ Rupnagar‚ Sangrur‚ Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Tarn Taran. Punjab is divided into three regions namely Malwa‚ Majha and Doaba. Malwa region of Punjab covers as many as 11 districts. The major districts under this region are Ludhiana‚ Bhatinda‚ Mohali‚ Sangrur and Patiala. Districts like Amritsar‚ Pathankot‚ Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran constitute the Majha District of Punjab. Doaba region of Punjab include districts like Jalandhar‚
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Jowari‚ Juar Kannada : Jola Marathi : Jowari‚ Jondhala Oriya : Juara Punjabi : Jowar Tamil : Cholam Telugu : Jonna Bengali: Jowar Gujarati: Jowari‚ Juar Hindi : Jowari‚ Juar Kannada : Jola Marathi : Jowari‚ Jondhala Oriya : Juara Punjabi : Jowar Tamil : Cholam Telugu : Jonna English : Spiked Millet/Pearl Millet Bengali : Bajra Gujarati : Bajri Hindi : Bajra Kannada : Sajje Marathi : Bajri Oriya : Bajra Punjabi
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mimicking their culture‚ clothing style and language. Bal Thackeray caricatured the south Indians as ‘madrassi’ in his publications in the newspaper‚ thus publicizing his opinion which was‚ surprisingly‚ widely accepted by the Maharashtrians and the Marathi population had expressed its xenophobia to the migrants who came to Bombay to settle and earn their livings. In its very first Manifesto in 1966‚ Shiv Sena divided the population as migrants and locals as they blamed the South Indians for all the
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The Doab‚ unqualified by the names of any rivers‚ designates the flat alluvial tract between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in western and southwestern Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand state in India‚ extending from the Sivalik Hills to the two rivers’ confluence at Allahabad. The region has an area of about 23‚360 square miles (60‚500 square km); it is approximately 500 miles (805 km) in length and 60 miles (97 km) in width. Doab figures prominently in history and myths of Vedic period; the epic Mahabharata
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