Rabindranath Tagore [pic]Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta‚ India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law‚ he returned to India‚ and instead pursued a career as a writer‚ playwright‚ songwriter‚ poet‚ philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories‚ songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend’s
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in 1956 in Calcutta‚ India. After spending almost the first two decades of her life in her home town she immigrated to the United States. There she earned her PhD from Berkeley and became a published author. One of the stories Divakaruni wrote was Live Free and Starve. This story deals with the issue of child labor in third world countries. The U.S. House passed a bill that no longer allowed the import of goods to America from factories that forced child labor
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INTRODUCTION Kolkata or Calcutta is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river‚ it is the principal commercial‚ cultural‚ and educational centre of East India‚ while the Port of Kolkata is India’s oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port. As of 2011‚ the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration‚ which comprises the city and its suburbs‚ was home to approximately 14.1 million‚ making it the third-most
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Partition of Bengal (1905) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Map of Eastern Bengal and Assam province Part of a series on the History of Bengal Somapura Mahavihara‚ Bangladesh.jpg Ancient Bengal Vedic Period Ancient Bengali States Gangaridai Kingdom‚ Vanga Kingdom‚ Pundra Kingdom‚ Suhma Kingdom‚ Anga Kingdom‚ Harikela Kingdom Mauryan Period Classical Bengal The Classical Age Shashanka Age of Empires Pala Empire Sena Empire Medieval Bengal Arrival of Islam Sultanate
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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: The First Muslim Woman Feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: The First Muslim Woman Feminist On 9th December every year‚ people of Bangladesh will commemorate the honor of Begum Rokeya Day for her contribution as the first Muslim Woman who struggled and worked hard for equal rights of men and women in Bengal. The foci of Rokeya’s works mainly on female education‚ campaign against the extremity of purdah practices‚ promotion of women’s participation in society and removing
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influence of her maternal great-uncle‚ Narayan Menon‚ a prominent writer‚ and her mother‚ Balamani Amma‚ a well-known Malayali poet. Das was also deeply affected by the poetry of the sacred writings kept by the matriarchal community of Nairs. Educated in Calcutta and Malabar‚ Das began writing at age six (her poems were “about dolls who lost their heads and had to remain headless for ever”) and had her first poem published by P.E.N. India at age fourteen. She did not receive a university education. She was
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from population. Then comes sound pollution. The harsh sounds of buses‚ its‚ mopeds etc. affect our power of hearing and causes fart trouble. It has been reported that there are two villages named Biraspalli and Devadas Palli near Dum Dum airport m Calcutta where a large number of people have lost their power of hearing. This is because of the frequent sounds of planes coming in and going out of Dum Dum Airport. The evils of sound pollution can be imagined from this example. The water of rivers and
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ICICI Bank‚ Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda. The bank traces its ancestry to British India‚ through the Imperial Bank of India‚ to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta‚ making it the oldest commercial bank in the Indian Subcontinent. Bank of Madras merged into the other two presidencies banks—Bank of Calcutta and Bank of Bombay—to form the Imperial Bank of India‚ which in turn became
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Type of Literary Work This sensational novel is an adventure novel consisting of an enterprising Englishman touring the globe. Woven within are historical facts‚ such as the British Empire and colonies around the globe‚ as well as historically accurate locations. Theme The theme of this breathtaking novel is one of daring and persistence. On the whim of a wager‚ Fogg is sent around the world in the impossible time span of eighty days. Throughout the work‚ Fogg’s limitless persistence‚
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What are the true characteristics of a Strategic Leader? Well from my experience I personally have seen terrific insight into the art of leadership and strategy. I have personally witnessed some of the leasers who practiced this art and took the organization they worked for to great heights. I have also witnessed the other side and learn how not to commit such mistakes. My opinion of an effective leadership involves training and also entails helping individuals form an enterprising and immensely
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