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    Nikolai Gogol‚ the author he was named after‚ was Russian. An Indian having a Russian name would have been unheard of in Calcutta where his parents are from. In America it isn’t like that at all. All kinds of people have all kinds of different names and more often than not parents pick out their children’s name simply because they like it‚ and not because it has any significance

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    CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN INDIAN BANKING SECTOR By‚ Sushanta Chakraborty PGDM 1st year‚ SEC B Roll No. 57 INTODUCTION Business need to attract and establish a customer market and would need to retain it through satisfaction. That is the key to its business performance (Johnson et al. 2000). In order to attain this goal‚ a company should have a high satisfaction rate from its clients. The increasing competition

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    Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta‚ supposedly one of India’s more liberal cities‚ because authorities fear protests from fringe Muslim groups. Similar groups have demanded a ban on actor-director Kamal Haasan’s new film Vishwaroopam‚ prompting the star to complain about "cultural

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    relationship between the police and the party (CPI-M) could not have been more cordial than this. This dreadful and appalling reality of malgo-vernance of this State by the CPI-M came out in all its ugliness and monstrosity before the Hon’ble High Court of Calcutta when the Division Bench headed by the Chief Justice had to pass an order to hand over the investigation of the Netai genocide to the Central Bureau of Investigation from the CID of the Bengal Police. When the PIL was filed in the Netai case on January

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    Railways in india

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    CHAPTER I COLONIAL POWER AND THE INTRODUCTION OF RAILWAYS IN INDIA Transport is an important infrastructure inevitable for the developmental process of a country. The progress of a country depends upon the availability of a viable system of transport facilities. Without proper means of transport and communications it may not be possible for any government to administer a vast country like India. Indian Railways played a vital role in the 1 economic development and national integration

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    Swami

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    was equivalent to worship of God. Birth and childhood Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (in short‚ Narendra) in Calcutta‚ the capital of British India‚ on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. He belonged to a traditional Bengali Kayastha (a caste of Hindus) family and was one of nine siblings.His father‚ Vishwanath Datta‚ was an attorney of Calcutta High Court.Durgacharan Datta‚ Narendra’s grandfather‚ was a Sankrit and Persian scholar who left his family and became a monk

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    The Lowland

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    galaxyimrj.com Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal ISSN: 2278-9529 Jhumpa Lahiri ’s The Lowland: A Family Saga with a Political Perspective Sugata Samanta West Bengal‚ India Abstract : Jhumpa Lahiri ’s The Lowland‚ partly set in Calcutta of the 1960 ’s and 70 ’s and partly in Rhode Island of America‚ tells the story of four generations of Mitra family with a sweeping‚ addictive plot. The initial development of the story centers around the Naxalite insurgency in West Bengal in late

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    Origin and introduction to the market The history of newspapers is argueably one of the most dramatic episoodes of human experience. The actual origin of newspapers lies in the renaissance Europe when local merchants used to distribute hand written newsletters amongst each other‚ however it was not until the 14th century when Germany introduced the precursors of printed newspapers. Since then newspapers have evolved dramatically and today there are more than 6580 daily newspapers in the world. A

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    From : English - detected To: Hindi Translate English - detected English Spanish Hindi Swami Vivekananda is the name of a world famous monk. He was born as Narendra nath Dutta in Calcutta on 12 January‚ 1863. His father Viswanath Dutta was a learned lawyer at the High Court of Calcutta. Narendranath obtained his education irregularly. He at first read in a Primary School with other children of suburban area. For fear of the bad influence of the rough children‚ he was then kept at

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    Abolition of sati

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    was first formally banned in city of Calcutta in 1798‚ but it continued in the surrounding areas. The Bengal Presidency started collecting facts and figures on the practice of Sati in 1813. The data showed that in 1817 only‚ 700 widows were burnt alive in Bengal alone. From 1812 onwards‚ it was Raja Rammohan Roy‚ who started his own campaign against the Sati practice. His own sister-in-law had been forced to commit Sati. Raja Rammohan Roy used to visit the Calcutta cremation grounds to persuade widows

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