TRIBAL WOMEN IN CHIPKO MOVEMENT -AN APPRAISAL DEBASREE DE UGC Junior Research Fellow at Department of History‚ Jadavpur University‚ Kolkata. The women of Chipko movement have added to the world’s consciousness of environmental issues significantly by their slogan of ‘mitti pani aur bayar’. Major afforestation programmes have also been launched as a result of the movement. To celebrate the Chipko week (30th May to5th June) let us spread the message of Chipko to protect our natural resources
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Intro ;lThe Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance‚ through the act of surrounding trees to protect them from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas ofUttarakhand‚Then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26‚ 1974‚ when a group of peasant women in Reni village‚ Hemwalghati
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Moral Poverty In "What is Poverty?" Theodore Dalrymple argues that the poverty in England is not economic‚ it is moral and spiritual. In the text "The City by the Sea" by Shiva Naipaul discusses the poverty in Bombay and its economic and moral connections. Theodore Dalrymple also argues that the poverty his situation in England is worse than poverty in Third World countries. I agree with Dalrymple’s first thesis‚ but in Naipaul’s essay the life conditions are more miserable than England. That’s
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1)APTITUDE TEST: Questions = 70 ; time limit = 75 minutes. Sectional cut-off in each section its around 60% in Logical Reasoning part and 50% in Verbal Ability. no negative marking Offline (paper & pen) test Test Paper :3 Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 13 January 2010 Test Location : Graphic Era University‚ Dehradun Posted By : Devidas Analytical & Logical reasoning:(30 question : 40 minutes) English section:
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Case Study: Gujarat Earthquake 2001 Bhuj Earthquake: Preliminary Report from IITKanpur A Powerful Earthquake of magnitude 6.9 on Richter-Scale rocked the Western Indian State of Gujarat on the th 26 of January‚ 2001. It caused extensive damage to life & property. This earthquake was so devastating in its scale and suffering that the likes of it had not been experienced in past 50 years. Leaving thousands seriously injured‚ bruised and handicapped; both physically‚ psychologically and economically
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EXERCISE 1 1. Write the following as full (decimal) numbers in SI units: (a) 286.6 mm‚ (b)85 V (c) 760 mg‚ (d) 60.0 ps‚ (e) 22.5 fm‚ (f) 2.50 GV. 2. A typical adult human lung contains about 300 million tiny cavities called alveoli. Assume that the alveoli are spherical‚ and that the volume of a typical human lung is about 2 liters‚ estimate the average diameter of a single alveolus. 3. Two vectors have length and What are the maximum and minimum magnitudes of their vector sum? 4. is a vector
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which is collectively known as Shiva Triology. Immortals of Meluha is his debut book and the Shiva Triology became the fastest selling book series in the History of Indian Publishers. The Immortals of Meluha is a ground-breaking novel that has set a new bar for Indian-themed fantasy‚ and thus it is of immense value in that respect alone. Characters In The Book Shiva – Neelkanth – Mahadev Shiva is introduced as the leader of Gunas who later turns into the Saviour . Shiva ‚ the Neelkanth acts a catalyst
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Kālī (Sanskrit: काळी‚ IPA: [kɑːliː])‚ also known as Kālikā (Sanskrit: काळिका)‚ is the Hindu goddess associated with empowerment‚ shakti. The name Kali comes from kāla‚ which means black‚ time‚ death‚ lord of death‚ Shiva. Since Shiva is called Kāla—the eternal time—Kālī‚ his consort‚ also means "Time" or "Death" (as in time has come). Hence‚ Kāli is the Goddess of Time and Change. Although sometimes presented as dark and violent‚ her earliest incarnation as a figure of annihilator of evil forces
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various battles are fought between Guna and Prakritis‚ Suryavanshi and Chandravanshi‚ Naga and Suryavanshi. Keywords: Meluha‚ Shiva‚ war. Introduction Amish Tripathi
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Jessica Pellegrini Lord Shiva and Saivism There are over 330 million different deities worshipped in Hinduism. Many of which are lost to people today and many who are still thriving to be the highest they can. The three supreme gods: Vishnu‚ Brahma‚ and Shiva are still the highest of all today. Lord Shiva is the third and final of the Trimurti‚ the three supreme gods. The first was Brahma and the second Vishnu. Lord Shiva has been among the religion for centuries dated all the way back as far
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