Guru Nanak Dev Guru Nanak Dev (1469’ 1538)‚ founder of Sikhism‚ was born to Kalu Mehta and Mata Tripta‚ wherein the Bedi Khatri clan of a Hindu family in the village of Talwandi‚ now called Nankana Sahib‚ near Lahore.[1] His father‚ a Hindu named Mehta Kalu‚ was a Patwari‚ an accountant of land revenue in the government. Nanak’s mother was Mata Tripta‚ and he had one older sister‚ Bibi Nanki. From an early age Guru Nanak seemed to have acquired a questioning and enquiring mind and refused as a
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Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava was born on July 31‚ 1880 in the small village of Lamahi‚ located near the city of Banaras in India. Although born into the Hindu Kaystha caste‚ made up of professionals including writers‚ doctors and lawyers‚ his family was poor. His father was a low paid postal employee. His mother died when he was only eight years old. His father remarried‚ but Dhanpat Rai did not like his stepmother. He studied Urdu and Persian‚ languages used in literature and administration in 19th century
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SBM ASSIGNMENT Submitted by: Madhavi Verma 12DM-081 Personal Branding Why people agreed to pay Rs.5 for attending Narendra Modi’s Rally? Why do we have people who build temples in name of Rajnikant and Amitabh Bachhan and not for any other equally successful movie star? Is it only because of the talents possessed by these individuals or something beyond that? Do these personalities “brand” themselves and consciously do or refrain from doing things that affect their brand image? We all already
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opinion as to how the government should have reacted so as to have a better outcome. At the creation of Pakistan‚ a large number Mohajirs migrated from India and settled in to Sindh. From 1947 to 1951 nearly 1 million Mohajirs settled into Sindh (Rais‚ Rasul Buksh). They had also gained majorities in Karachi‚ Hyderabad‚ Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah(Kardar‚1992). As time passed Mohajirs dominated the business and bureaucracy in the region. According to the 1981 census‚ the Sindhis made up 55% of the
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Lal Bal Pal (Hindi: लाल बाल पाल‚ Lala Lajpat Rai‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal) were the Swadeshi triumvirate who advocated the Swadeshi movement involving the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907. The last years of the nineteenth century‚ saw a radical sensibility emerge among some Indian Intellectuals. This position burst onto the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self
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One fine morning few months back‚ when people opened The Times of India they heard one sound of launch of one car into the market. It was about Volkswagen car. Advertisers attached one small chip into the inside cover of newspaper. When readers opened it‚ they heard the advertisement with the music… That’s the pure case of today’s world of advertising and in this world of innovation sky is the only limit. The first and foremost concept of advertisement is that it should attract the eyeballs of audience
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Ahmed and Suyash Rai August 2007 Rupalee Ruchismita (rupalee.ruchismita@ifmr.ac.in) and Imtiaz Ahmed (imtiaz@ifmr.ac.in) are with the Centre for Insurance and Risk Management at IFMR‚ Chennai (http://ifmr.ac.in/cirm). Suyash Rai is with the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition‚ Pune. The views expressed in this note are entirely those of the authors and do not in any way reflect the views of the Institutions with which they are associated. . Ruchismita‚ Ahmed‚ Rai: Delivering Micro
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in Bunty Aur Babli (2005)‚ Guru (2007)‚ and Dostana (2008). In 2010‚ Bachchan won his first National Film Award as a producer for Paa (2009)‚ which also won the award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. Married to actor and former Miss World‚ Aishwarya Rai‚ Bachchan comes from an illustrious Bollywood family. His father‚ Amitabh Bachchan‚ and mother‚ Jaya Bachchan‚ were leading actors in Hindi cinema In the year 2000‚ Bachchan began his career with J.P. Dutta’s Refugee. The film performed moderately
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Amitav Ghosh expresses hybridity in The Glass Palace through characters who adapt to the mixture of culture‚ and to those who experience the loss of their identity because of this mixture. In Robert J.C. Young’s Postcolonialism‚ the example of Algerian raï music is described as a hybrid genre. Hybridity can also be seen through the early writings of Gandhi according to the European education system and how it completely evolved from the previous form of education established in India. Each society is
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(Un)arranged Marriage In (Un)arranged Marriage Bali Rai shows us the spicy world of an Indian Punjabi boy and his family living in England. Bali rai has found inspiration for his main character in himself. He grew up in Leicester and wanted to become the best Liverpool player of all time‚ just like the main character. The boy who is the main character is called Manjit but he prefers being called manny‚ as to being more westernised. Manny has a good friend called Ady with whom he does things he should
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