1. In India 828 million people‚ or 75.6% of the population‚ live on less than $2 a day‚ compared to 72.2% in Sub-Saharan Africa.[ The World Bank further estimates that fully one third (33%) of the world’s poor reside in India. According to the latest (as of December 2008) World Bank estimates on poverty‚ based on 2005 data‚ 256 million Indians‚ or 41.6% of the country’s population‚ survive below the updated international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day 2. Although Indian economy has
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Indian English Literature * Top English Writer & Their Famous Creations * R.K. Narayan: R K Narayan is one of the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute‚ he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi‚ first introduced in his semi autobiographical book ’Swami and Friends’. Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর‚ Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚ sobriquet Gurudev‚ was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚ he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona
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Kanthapura as a novel of village or rural sensibility: Raja rao’s Kanthapura is a tale of atypical south Indian village in the kara area of Mysore. The novel is a saga of village life with a political bias. There is no conventional hero or heroine in it. The village of Kanthapura itself; with its presiding deity Kanchamma‚ with its live giving river Himavath‚ with its rustic topography‚ crops‚ weeds and diseases‚ with its characteristics‚ superstitions and customs is one of the main character. The
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Company law tutorial question year 3 Semester1. 1."Under the ordinary rules of law‚ a present company and a subsidiary company‚ even a 100 per cent subsidiary company‚ are distinct legal entities and in the absence of an agency contract between the two companies‚ one cannot be said to be the agent of the other. This seems to be clearly established by the rule in Salomon v. A. Salomon &
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Name: Jayanti Magar Title: Observations of Chemical Changes Date: 02/11/015 Pre Lab Questions: Use what you learned in this lab to answer the following questions. A. Suppose a household product label says it contains sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate). How would you test this material for the presence of sodium bicarbonate? I would add hydrochloric acid (HCl) with carbon dioxide with NaHCO3‚ and it should bubble and form gas. B. You know what color phenolphthalein and bromothymol
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forgotten the man who gave up his entire life‚ struggling for the cause of non-violence. The man who according to Nehru‚ strived throughout to wipe a tear from every human eye‚ now remains confined to pages of history textbooks. But for Gandhi Jayanti and Martyr’s Day‚ Mahatma Gandhi would have almost been a distant past‚ for many‚ considering that his ideals of ahimsa have long been buried as outmoded philosophies that have no relevance whatsoever to present-day India. If not‚ would there
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Books | Authors | A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul | A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral | A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli | A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral | A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani | A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander | A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov | A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale | A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History
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The Unorganized Sector and Urban Poverty: A Policy Analysis Manas Kumar Mallik( & Dr. C. Aruna( Abstract The construction of poverty line should be on the basis of socially accepted minimum standard of living. Poverty abounds both in the rural and urban sectors of the economy. The nature of poverty in rural sector is intense and manifest amongst the peasant-cultivators with very small holdings and landless labourers. Poverty in urban areas is an extension of rural poverty where migrant’s
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What is a Presidential doctrine: it indicates a program that a president uses to implement a policy towards either a country or region to attain foreign policy aspirations for the United States. The term "doctrine" denotes "A declaration of certified government policy‚ particularly in foreign affairs and military strategy" ("Doctrine‚" n.d.). Presidents like Jimmy Carter‚ James Polk‚ and George W. Bush put together their doctrines‚ but amid these the doctrine of President Ronald Reagan is most notably
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