driven to such a pass by circumstances. He wanted to live no more because he was frustrated with life and wanted an answer to the purpose of human existence. The story goes that one day at the New Delhi Railway Station‚ he chanced upon a book on Swami Vivekananda. Drawn by Vivekananda’s photograph‚ he is quoted as saying that he read the book and found his answer - that the motive of his life lay in service to his fellow humans. Today‚ Anna Hazare is the face of India’s fight against corruption
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An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks) Oliver Sacks is a physician‚ best-selling author‚ and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of ten books‚ including The Mind’s Eye‚ Musicophilia‚ Awakenings and An Anthropologist on Mars and was the first to receive honors as a Columbia University Artist in recognition of his contribution to the arts. This book contains seven stories he telling the readers about the case in which he studied about
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for this seems to be: “The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts‚ but how much it digests. The power of the mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated‚ when they are concentrated they illumine”. These words of Swami Vivekananda are really true in this context. As the saying states ‘All that glitters is not gold’ similarly our youth are faced with numerous obstacles which makes the bright future murky‚ including poverty‚ violence‚ child abuse‚ limited educational
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Ref.No.NSE/MEM/06498/215 October 12‚2010 PRASHANT JAYANTILAL PATEL 21-28‚GOKUL ARCADE SWAMI NITYANAND ROAD VILE PARLE (EAST) MUMBAI-400057 Kind Attention: - MR.PRASHANT J PATEL‚PROPRIETOR. Dear Sir/Ma’am‚ Sub: NTU/Modem Return against surrendered X.25 leased lines. The Exchange has successfully migrated all connectivities from X.25 network to IP Protocol. It has been observed that in case of few X.25 leased lines below mentioned activities are still pending from member end. 1) Modem
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HINDUISM Basic Principles of Hinduism Hindus believe in a one‚ allpervasive Supreme Being. Hindus believe in the divinity of the four Vedas‚ the world’s most ancient scripture. Hindus believe that the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation‚ preservation and dissolution. Hindus believe in karma. Hindus believe that the soul reincarnates‚ evolving through many births until all karmas have been resolved‚ and moksha‚ liberation from the cycle of rebirth‚ is attained. Hindus believe
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi The man who led India ’s struggle for independence against Great Britain was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandar‚ in Gujarat. Gandhi studied law in London and became a barrister. He went to South Africa to work as a lawyer. The white people in South Africa treated the natives and the Indians settled there badly. He was distressed to see it. He fought for their cause for more than 20 years. He was a man of great courage and determination
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INTRODUCTION Cervical disorders are common diseases that are frequently disabling and costly. Patients with cervical disorders can be classified into a two groups‚ one with specific complaints with etiology like tumors‚ fractures and degenerative spine disorders like disc herniation‚ ligamentous abnormalities‚ cervical canal stenosis and the other group of patients with nonspecific complaints (1). Most patients require surgical intervention eventually as a result of significant neurologic impairment
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Classical Dance Since there are few audio recordings in this category‚ this is a complete list of what is held by the Music Library. Bharatanatyam The sounds of Bharathanatyam / by Sudharani Raghupathy. New Delhi : Super Cassettes Industries‚ p. 1990. Music Media Center --- SCI 627 Bharathanatyam songs / by M.L. Vasanthakumari. Madras : Sangeetha‚ [1983?]. Nataraja anjali -- Alarippu -- Jatiswaram -- Varnam -- Kasturi thilakam -- Krishna nee -- Nee maatale : Javali -- Thillana -- Mangalam
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“So‚ you want to marry my daughter?” The Caste System: An Overview A summary of the first lecture in the IK Foundation Lecture Series‚ ‘Indian Culture in the Modern World’. 23rd October 2002‚ London First speaker: Prof. M Narasimhachary‚ Senior Associate Fellow‚ Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies Preamble The phenomenon of Caste has aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Some see India’s caste system as the defining feature of Indian culture and some
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The Munda are tribal (Adivasi) people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. They are found across much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha ‚ West Bengal‚ Chhattisgahr ‚ Bihar and into parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari‚ which belongs to the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family * Mostly Munda people follow the Sarna religion‚ believing in a god called Singbonga. * However one-fourth of them have adopted Christianity.[citation needed] * The surname
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