the likes of Pankaj Misra‚ William Dalrymple‚ Chetan Bhagat‚ Anurag Mathur‚ Kiran Desai‚ Kamla Das‚ Hari Kunzuru‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy among others. Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh‚ a pioneer of English literature in India‚ was born in Calcutta (Now Kolkata) in the year 1956. Amitav Ghosh has been raised and educated at the same time in as different locations as Bangladesh‚ Sri Lanka‚ Iran‚ Egypt‚ India and the United Kingdom. George Orwell Born Eric Arthur Blair to an Anglo-Indian
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Commission by Indians‚ an all-party conference was held at Bombay in May 1928. This was meant to instill a sense of resistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929‚ or a countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929‚ however‚ in the midst of rising political discontent
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References: 1. Contemporary issues in Accounting and Research‚ Babutosh Banerjee‚ Calcutta.
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In 1915 Tata Sons Ltd. started regular air mail services between Karachi and Madras and on January 24‚ 1920 Royal Airforce started regular airmail services between Karachi and Bombay. Construction of Civil Airports in India started in 1924 (Calcutta‚ Bombay and Allahbad) April 1927 saw the setting up of a separate Department of Civil Aviation to look after all civil aviation matters. That year also saw the establishment of Aero Club of India. Between 1933 and 1934 a number of Indian airlines
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CHILD LABOR One of the biggest discussions about human rights in the world is child labor‚ which includes either legal and illegal types of labor for children. According to "The Children’s Rights Convention(CRC)"‚ everyone who is under 18 is agreed to be a child‚ and has the rights as those mentioned in the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". As adults‚ children also have rights about their work life‚ which are mentioned in the Article 32 of the CRC. Although this article declares that
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and ethnic identities Bhasha‚ argues that the places described in the novel are many. As Ghosh says a place must be ‘a part of history’‚ Trideb had lived in. For instance‚‘Their old family house in Bally-gunge Place with his aging grandmother’ in Calcutta‚ England‚ Banaras‚ America‚ London and Delhi and these are places that have a history. Her argument is genuine and gains ground as these places are relational and are associated with identity also these places have identity because these places have
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The church has influenced various issues in our society. The issues which have been influenced are abortion‚ divorce‚ homosexuality‚ and poverty. But before we look at how these issues were influenced lets first look at some of the aspects of the church. The churches mass is made up of two parts- the liturgy of the word and the liturgy of the Eucharist for the duration of which the Holy Communion is rejoiced. Mass is the center of worship that Catholics participate in. Catholics are supposed to
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contracts. In India the Insurance has evolved over time heavily drawing from other countries‚ England particularly. | | In India the advent of Life Insurance started in the year 1818 with the establishment of the Oriental Life Insurance Company in Calcutta. In the year 1829‚ the Madras Equitable had began the life insurance business in the Madras Presidency. British Insurance Act enactment was done in the year 1870. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century‚ the Bombay Mutual (1871)‚ Oriental
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The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times[6] through the low points of the medieval period‚ to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers‚ the history of women in India has been eventful. In modern India‚ women have held high offices in India including that of the President‚ Prime Minister‚ Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Leader of the Opposition. As of 2011‚ the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Leader
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In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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