Despite of different diversities there are bonds of unity in India. These bonds of unity may be located in a certain underlying uniformity of life as well as in certain mechanisms of integration. Herbert Risley‚ Census Commissioner in 1911 has rightly observed‚ “Beneath the manifold diversity of physical and social type‚ language‚ custom and religion which strike the observer in India there can still be discerned a certain underlying uniformity of life from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin”. India
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Beed (Maharashtra): India’s national bird‚ the peacock‚ is under severe threat from nature’s vagaries at one of the largest peacock national parks in the country at Naigaon here. The threat is not from its natural predators or humans‚ but from the extreme heat wave conditions in the Marathwada region‚ around 400 km east of Mumbai‚ that virtually suffocate and even kill the magnificent bird. | | According to local conservationists‚ nearly 13 adult peafowl have reportedly perished this summer
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is a state in the western region of India. It is the second most populous state after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India. Maharashtra is the wealthiest state in India‚ contributing 15% of the country’s industrial output and 13.3% of its GDP. Maharashtra is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west‚ Gujarat and the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the northwest‚ Madhya Pradesh to the north and northeast‚ Chhattisgarh to the east‚ Karnataka to the south‚ Andhra Pradesh to
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ity C ^^^r Mira Kamdar Bombay is no longer Bombay. The official name of the city is now Mumbai‚ after a local female deity whose distinguishing characteristic is the lack of a mouth. In the wake of decolonization and the retreatof the West‚ many cities in Asia that formerly sported Anglicized names have reindigenized them. We are now used to Beijing instead of Peking. We are getting used to Yangon for Rangoon. Across India‚ the recoveryof city names from Anglicized versions has
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Is cultural diversity proving to be compatible with social unity? Britain has changed quite significantly over the past few decades in terms of cultural diversity. Whereas Britain was largely white not so long ago‚ the number of ethnic minorities has been steadily increasing and this growth does not look likely to stop anytime soon. Demographic experts have‚ infact‚ predicted that by 2050‚ 1 in every 5 British person will belong to an ethnic minority. The question issue I will be discussing in the
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We Indians boast about unity in diversity as we have many varieties of religions‚ castes and communities but do we really appreciate and embrace this difference? The answer is a big no. We‚ in our school textbooks‚ read about this and discuss this very briefly but what we fail to do is to analyse the present situation. Today I saw a documentary on honor killings. Honor killings are done under the name of protecting the caste name. The very popular and recent case is the case of Ilavarasan and Divya
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UNITY OF THOUGHT •A sentence has unity if it expresses only one main idea. SENTENCE UNITY HOW TO ACHIEVESENT ENCE UNITY? Consistent Use of Tenses • A verb in an adverbial clause generally agrees with the tense of the verb in the main clause. • Avoid unnecessary shifting from first person to third person or vice versa Consistent use of Number • Shifting persons of pronouns will destroy unity. The pronouns must agree with their antecedents Consistent Use of Persons of pronouns • Do
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PERSEPOLIS: Unity in Diversity Submitted by: Akoijam Malemnganbi 13HEMA50 ‘If you prick us‚ do we not bleed? If you tickle us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in
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The “discovery” of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 linked the worlds of Europeans‚ West Africans and Native American Indians. The Portuguese and Spaniards led the colonization of the Americas‚ but were soon followed by the French‚ English and Dutch. The slave trade created a trading triangle in between Europe‚ Africa and the Americas. European and West African societies are similar in their hierarchal social order‚ involvement in the slave trade and farming societies; yet differ in
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The discourse of “The West versus the rest” has certainly shaped attitudes and‚ hence‚ the realities of colonization and subsequent development of the world outside of Europe. The evidence of this is perhaps most striking in the Americas. We can clearly see the roles played by European’s existing “archive” of information regarding the outside world and the stereotypes that developed‚ post “discovery”‚ of America’s native inhabitants. I should note here that in writing this paper I am doing so
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