In her book Vanada Shiva points out a growing concern many people do not pay attention do in their everyday lives. We take water for granted‚ and find hard to imagine a day when the tap runs dry. In Water Wars the author does an excellent job of analyzing the privatization‚ pollution‚ and profit of water in the International arena. She takes a scientific approach and explains the means and methods of water processing and extraction. In offering several tragic examples of where the water tables have
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Powerful environment movement . STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement‚ 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources “In the wake of reckless deforestation‚ a unique movement has bubbled‚”observed India Today in March 1982. The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources.“ Chipko movement in the Garhwal Himalayas‚ shoved aside urban armchair
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TRIBAL WOMEN IN CHIPKO MOVEMENT -AN APPRAISAL DEBASREE DE UGC Junior Research Fellow at Department of History‚ Jadavpur University‚ Kolkata. The women of Chipko movement have added to the world’s consciousness of environmental issues significantly by their slogan of ‘mitti pani aur bayar’. Major afforestation programmes have also been launched as a result of the movement. To celebrate the Chipko week (30th May to5th June) let us spread the message of Chipko to protect our natural resources
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Intro ;lThe Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance‚ through the act of surrounding trees to protect them from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas ofUttarakhand‚Then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26‚ 1974‚ when a group of peasant women in Reni village‚ Hemwalghati
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Moral Poverty In "What is Poverty?" Theodore Dalrymple argues that the poverty in England is not economic‚ it is moral and spiritual. In the text "The City by the Sea" by Shiva Naipaul discusses the poverty in Bombay and its economic and moral connections. Theodore Dalrymple also argues that the poverty his situation in England is worse than poverty in Third World countries. I agree with Dalrymple’s first thesis‚ but in Naipaul’s essay the life conditions are more miserable than England. That’s
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1)APTITUDE TEST: Questions = 70 ; time limit = 75 minutes. Sectional cut-off in each section its around 60% in Logical Reasoning part and 50% in Verbal Ability. no negative marking Offline (paper & pen) test Test Paper :3 Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 13 January 2010 Test Location : Graphic Era University‚ Dehradun Posted By : Devidas Analytical & Logical reasoning:(30 question : 40 minutes) English section:
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Case Study: Gujarat Earthquake 2001 Bhuj Earthquake: Preliminary Report from IITKanpur A Powerful Earthquake of magnitude 6.9 on Richter-Scale rocked the Western Indian State of Gujarat on the th 26 of January‚ 2001. It caused extensive damage to life & property. This earthquake was so devastating in its scale and suffering that the likes of it had not been experienced in past 50 years. Leaving thousands seriously injured‚ bruised and handicapped; both physically‚ psychologically and economically
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EXERCISE 1 1. Write the following as full (decimal) numbers in SI units: (a) 286.6 mm‚ (b)85 V (c) 760 mg‚ (d) 60.0 ps‚ (e) 22.5 fm‚ (f) 2.50 GV. 2. A typical adult human lung contains about 300 million tiny cavities called alveoli. Assume that the alveoli are spherical‚ and that the volume of a typical human lung is about 2 liters‚ estimate the average diameter of a single alveolus. 3. Two vectors have length and What are the maximum and minimum magnitudes of their vector sum? 4. is a vector
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Dravidian architecture Dravidian architecture was an architectural idiom that emerged in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India. It consists primarily of temples with pyramid shaped towers and are constructed of sandstone‚ soapstone or granite. Mentioned as one of three styles of temple building in the ancient book Vastu shastra‚ the majority of the existing structures are located in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu‚ Karnataka‚ Kerala‚ and Andhra pradesh. Various kingdoms
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destruction. The trimorti the three primary hindu devinities regulate this cosmic cycle. Brahma the creator brings this cosmos into it’s being‚ Vishnu the preserver ensures the world continues on it’s path until the cycle comes to it’s close. Then Shiva the god of death and destruction skin smeared white with the ashes of the cremated dead. When the world age comes to a close when the perfect creation so consumed by corruption and vice shiva’s job is to rpess the restart button and send the cosmos
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