14th–17th centuries‚ a great Bhakti movement swept through central and northern India‚ initiated by a loosely associated group of teachers or sants. Ramananda‚ Ravidas‚ Srimanta Sankardeva‚ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu‚ Vallabhacharya‚Surdas‚ Meera Bai‚ Kabir‚ Tulsidas‚ Namdev‚ Dnyaneshwar‚ Tukaram and other mystics spearheaded the Bhakti movement in the North while Annamacharya‚ Bhadrachala Ramadas‚ Tyagaraja among others propagated Bhakti in the South. They taught that people could cast aside the heavy burdens
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GANDHI’S WAY Decentralization According to Gandhi‚ modern civilization was responsible for impoverishing the Indian villages‚ which occupied a pivotal position in the Indian situation. Gandhi has always been a critic of the centralization of economic and political power. Large scale production inevitably led to concentration of economic and political power. Labor and material‚ production and distribution became the monopoly of the few rich. Such a concentration of economic power resulted
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Rama’s Play in Rama’ Town The Dusshera festival that falls on the 10th day of the waxing moon during the Hindu month of Ashvin (around September or October) celebrates the victory of Rama over Ravana and Ramlila; a dramatic folk play is enacted during this festival. During the Dusshera festival there are many thousands of these Ramlila productions being staged all over India. It is widely enacted throughout northern India. The most popular Ramlilas are those of Ramnagar‚ Varanasi
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ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY Posted by essays and articles on December 26‚ 2010 in FAMOUS SAYINGS • 0 Comment There were things in the world which take a considerably long time to mature. It is the nature of a task that determines the length of time it would take to be accomplished. Some people are in the habit of getting impatient‚ when a task takes a little too long to complete. They do not understand or rather coyeniently forget the nature of the task and start losing heart. This idiom is used
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Jump to: navigation‚ search |Sree Rama Navami | |[pic] | |Ram (center)‚ with consort Sita‚ brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman | |Observed by |Hindus | |Type |Hindu | |Significance |Birth day of Ram; Marriage ceremony of Ram
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Mohandas Gandhi ’s‚ "Satyagraha‚" and Martin Luther King Jr. ’s‚ "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" each argue for non-violent civil disobedience. However‚ each author uses different rhetorical appeals‚ such as ethos‚ to establish their credibility. In paragraph ten of King ’s statement he asks rhetorical questions the Clergymen might have. "You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins‚ marches and so forth? Isn ’t negotiation a better path"(King 2)? Gandhi also does a great job of breaking down
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The unravelling attention drawn towards the plight of millions of females behind the comfort of their doorsteps has been a landmark impact of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act‚ 2005. For the first time in the Indian society which holds family as the most fundamental unit of its structure‚ household abuses and violence were put on show for the public. This article intends to examine the power relations shared between both the partners in a heterosexual marriage under a predominantly
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DANCE ELEMENTS RELATED WITH MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES INTRODUCTION OF KATHAK The word ‘Kathak’ comes from the root katha‚ which means story- telling. Literal meaning of the word kathak is related to katha‚ the art of story-telling‚ “Katha Kahe So Kathaka Kahave”‚ which means “one who tells a story is a story-teller”. According to M. Monier Williams‚ Katha denotes conversation‚ story‚ speech‚ tale or fable. Katha also means to ‘ sing in praise’‚ ‘to say or inform something’. Thus‚ kathakars were originally
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Baffling as certainly an endeavour to provide an exhaustive list of Tagore’s achievements in the various fields like music‚ dance‚ painting‚ histrionics‚ education‚ etc.‚ would be‚ even the effort to describe his output within the limited field of literary and poetic writing would be‚ difficult. Indeed his contribution to ever so many types and forms of writing is amazing‚ if not defying adequate enumeration. As one of his admirers‚ the lateMahamahopadhyaya Harprasada Sastri‚ said: “He has tried
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Dayaram Dayaram ( (1777–1853) was a Gujarati poet. He belongs to middle age or " Madhya-kal " in Gujarati literature. He was known for his literary form called " Garbi " in Gujarat. He was a follower of Pushtimarg of Hindu religion. Dayaram‚ along with Narsinh Mehta and Meera‚ is considered as major contributor in Bhakti-kal in Gujarati literature.Although Dayaram has written in prose a major chunk of his published work is in poetry. The total number of his creations is not known and is still under
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