fields. Science and political administration reached new heights during the Gupta era. Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural center and set the region up as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and regions in Burma‚ Sri Lanka‚ Malay Archipelago and Indochina. The Golden Age of India saw achievements. Gupta made novel advances in the sciences‚ astronomy (Gupta philosophers proposed that the earth was not flat‚ but was instead round and rotated on an axis by viewing
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sun cream because the ultraviolet ray at there is extremely strong‚ usually the age of mine would got skin burned very serious. We packed many summer clothes and diving tools‚ which I bought with the sun cream. Our flight landed at the airport of Sri Lanka‚ we needed to cross the board lane from this airport with our formal documents. Finally we arrived at our destination Maldives‚ everything in that country was totally different than China. The air much fresh than my home country and people on
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adoption index. However‚ despite being behind most South Asian counterparts‚ Bangladesh has been catching up quickly in the field of e-Government. According to UN’s E-Government readiness report 2008‚ while most other countries (including India and Sri Lanka) in the region have slipped significantly in the rankings‚ Bangladesh advanced 20 steps between 2005 and 2008. Bangladesh’s Readiness Index value of 0.29 was not that far behind India (0.38)‚ although it was still some distance from the regional
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before.[1] According to Wink‚ Umayyad interest in the region was galvanized by the operation of the Meds and others.[2] Meds (a tribe of Scythians living in Sindh) had pirated upon Sassanid shipping in the past‚ from the mouth of the Tigris to the Sri Lankan coast‚ in their bawarij and now were able to prey on Arab shipping from their bases at Kutch‚ Debal and Kathiawar.[2] At the time‚ Sindh was the wild frontier region of al-Hind‚ inhabited mostly by semi-nomadic tribes whose activities disturbed
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Child labour is a major problem in India. It is a great challenge that the country is facing. The prevalence of it is evident by the child work participation rates which are higher in India than in other developing countries. Estimates cite figures of child labour between 60 and 115 million working children in India‚ the highest number in the world (Human Rights Watch‚ 1996). It is basically rooted in poverty. It is poverty that forces a child to earn money to support his family. Though it is prevalent
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lesser storeys with a larger footprint.’ GEOFFREY BAWA JUSTIFY - REGIONAL ADAPTATION ON MODERNISM OFTEN DISPLAY AWERNESS OF LESS COSTLY‚ USE OF PASSIVE STRATEGIES. GEOFFERY BAWA - Geoffery Bawa is the most renowned architect in Sri lanka and was among the most influential architects in southeast Asia in last decade of 20th century. - Bawa’s style is called “Tropical Modernism” - His architecture is a subtle blend of modernity and tradition‚ East and West‚ formal and picturesque
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South Asian countries was established in 1985 in Colombo. It was named “South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)” after dedicating to economic‚ technological and cultural development programs among its member countries which are Sri Lanka‚ Pakistan‚ India‚ Maldives‚ Bhutan‚ Nepal‚ Bangladesh‚ while Afghanistan joined this association later in 2007. Initially SAARC was established to retreat and up hold the peace in the south Asia region and create the opportunities of interaction
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Britain’s holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948‚ becoming four new independent states: India‚ Burma (now Myanmar)‚ Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)‚ and Pakistan (including East Pakistan‚ modern-day Bangladesh). The Indian subcontinent was partitioned into Hindu-dominated but secular India‚ and the Muslim state of Pakistan after attaining independence from Great Britain in August 1947. Unfortunately‚ it was accompanied by the largest mass migration in human history
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specifically in the areas of “Sri Lanka‚ Burma‚ Thailand‚ Laos‚ and Cambodia.”2 Theravada is one of the original sects of Buddhism. Its meaning is the ‘school of the elders‚’ or the ‘teaching of the elders.’ Theravadian Buddhism flourished immensely by the end of the first century‚ “and is today the sole surviving Hinayana sect of Indian Buddhism anywhere.”3 “Theravada uses scriptures recorded in Pali‚ and it was in this language that Buddhism spread from Sri Lanka to surrounding countries.”4 These
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Terrorism‚ as defined in the dictionary‚ is known to be making use of violence‚ intimidation and threats to achieve a certain goal‚ which happens to be of political purposes most of the times. In this essay‚ we’ll look into the different reasons of why people resort to terrorism‚ if it is really the last and best way to achieve what they want. I will also write about the opposing views of seeing terrorists as just terrorists alone‚ or if they are actually freedom fighters. Lastly‚ we will discuss
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