...Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday accused the NDA government of turning the programme to clean Ganga as a "Hindutva project" by attempting to polarize politics through the initiative on the holy river. "Don't look it as a Hindutva project. This is not a Hindutva project. This is a national project. Don't try to polarize politics through Ganga cleaning," Ramesh told the government ahead of the first national dialogue on river Ganga - Ganga Manthan — being organized by the Centre tomorrow. The former environment minister said the government's Ganga Mission programme should be a people's programme and "we must involve society". "But don't make it on sadhus and sant's programme. Ganga is a national river. Ganga defines Indian culture," he said, adding Jawaharlal Nehru also spoke about the role of Ganga in Indian culture. Union and state ministers, MPs, experts, NGOs, sadhus and sants are expected to participate in the day-long brainstorming on Ganga cleaning plan. Spelling out the steps taken by the previous UPA government to conserve the holy river, Ramesh said, "The NDA is going about this whole thing as if nothing has happened." He accused the BJP-led government of not acknowledging the initiatives taken by the UPA including establishment of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for cleaning Ganga. NGRBA was established in 2009 when Ramesh was environment minister. "They are not talking of NGRBA, they are not talking of IIT-River Basin management...
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...Phase 2Individual Project Elaine Thornton Colorado Technical University HUMN250-1303B-11 World Values and Cultures Professor Bunch September 2, 2013 In India, Hindu residents create large funeral pyres on the River Ganges for their dead. This ritual burning of the dead is not done for everyone as some individuals are buried in a certain manner. Holy men are buried sitting upright while young children are not cremated as they are still considered pure. This may also be the reason why pregnant women are also not cremated. Individuals that passed away due to an illness or violence, such as leprosy, small pox, cobra bites, murder and suicide are also buried rather than cremated in the funeral pyres. One aspect of this ritual that can cause those that are outside of the Hindu religion to frown upon it is no longer practiced in most places as it was outlawed by the British in 1829 which is called sati. According to Renard (2001), “Incidents of sati still occasionally make headlines, but increasing social action on behalf of women’s rights continues to improve the situation all over India” (p. 302). Sati is the ritual suicide of a wife throwing herself or being thrown onto her dead husband’s funeral pyre to join him in the afterlife. The burial rituals that a society sets for itself help to build identity because a person is constantly in contact with the community that the person belongs to when they are born or...
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...Article Analysis Name: Parnamoy Dutta. Class: PGDM (IB) Year: 2012-14 Roll No: 13 Geography: * Situated on the Ganges delta. * Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station on the Howrah-Tarakeshwar line. * It is on the Durgapur Expressway/ National Highway 2 that joins Kolkata with the national capital-Delhi. It also forms an important part of the golden quadrilateral. Economy: * As it is situated in the Ganges delta, Singur has a fertile land which is utilized by the people residing there for agriculture purposes. Hence it is mainly an agricultural economy. * Along with agriculture cattle breeding is also practised. History: * The controversy was generated by land acquisition of the proposed Nano factory of Tata Motors at Singur in Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. * The state government of West Bengal (then Left Front) facilitated the controversy by using an old rule to conduct an eminent domain takeover of 997 acres (4.03 km2) of farmland to have Tata build its factory. * The project was opposed by activists, displaced land owners and the then opposition party in Bengal (Trinamool Congress). * The Tatas finally decided to move out of Singur on 3 October 2008. Ratan Tata blamed agitation for the pullout decision. * Also if there would have been further delay in operations it would have been difficult for the small car to be priced at `1 lakh due to rise of inflation, as it was promised to be so. Developments: ...
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...existence of many gods; thus is classified as polytheism. One might ask from where these sacred believes or religion first emerged. Mircea Eliade theorized that hierophany, a manifestation of the sacred, is the basis of the religion. In his book The Sacred & The Profane, Eliade analyzed this massive idea of religion with four categories—sacred space, sacred time, sacred nature, and sacred self—under the assumption that every religion possesses these four frameworks in common. Hinduism, the third biggest religion in the world following Christianity and Islam, also follows Eliade’s framework. According to Eliade, for religious men, the nonhomogeneous characteristic of the spatial aspect is shown in sacred places of the region. The river Ganges, also called Ganga in Hindi, has long been...
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...Originating as the Yarlung Tsangpo River in China's Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet) and flowing through India's state of Arunachal Pradesh, where it becomes known as the Brahmaputra ("Son of Brahma"), it receives waters from five major tributaries that total some 740 kilometers in length. At the point where the Brahmaputra meets the Tista River in Bangladesh, it becomes known as the Jamuna. The Jamuna is notorious for its shifting subchannels and for the formation of fertile silt islands (chars). No permanent settlements can exist along its banks. The second system is the Padma-Ganges, which is divided into two sections: a 258-kilometer segment, the Ganges, which extends from the western border with India to its confluence with the Jamuna some 72 kilometers west of Dhaka, and a 126-kilometer segment, the Padma, which runs from the Ganges-Jamuna confluence to where it joins the Meghna River at Chandpur. The Padma-Ganges is the central part of a deltaic river system with hundreds of rivers and streams—some 2,100...
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...1. Recently, the union government has given in-principle approval for the creation of two new tiger reserves at ____? [A]Ratapani and Sunabeda [B]Rajaji and Bor [C]Kudremukh and Bor [D]Ratapani and Rajaji 2. Currently (July 2014), which country holds the chair of the Group of Twenty (G-20) forum? [A]Russia [B]Australia [C]Brazil [D]Canada 3. The Kameng hydropower project is a 600 MW hydropower project in ____? [A]Andhra Pradesh [B]Arunachal Pradesh [C]Sikkim [D]Haryana 4. The sobriquet “Oracle of Omaha” is refers to which of the following business tycoons? [A]Carlos Slim [B]Warren Buffet [C]Bill Gates [D]Lakshmi Mittal 5. Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated on ____? [A]July 14 [B]July 17 [C]July 18 [D]July 19 6. The Union government has announced the setting up of “Jal Marg Vikas” project on river Ganga to link which of the following places? [A]Allahabad and Haldia [B]Allahabad and Kanpur [C]Kanpur and Patna [D]Varanasi and Haldia 7. As per the latest report, which among the following countries has the world’s highest deforestation rate? [A]Brazil [B]Indonesia [C]Kenya [D]South Africa 8. Recently, India and which one of the following countries has signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of environment? [A]Brazil [B] China [C] Russia [D]Japan 9. The controversial “Mankading Law” is associated with which one of the following sports? [A]Tennis [B]Cricket [C]Football [D]Hockey 10. Recently, NASA has launched Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical...
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...The Ganges River State of Decay The Ganges River is one of India’s most famous rivers. It has been used for domestic, commercial, and industrial purposes. The river, for a long time, was unpolluted and full of aquatic life. Now, however, the river is in a state of decay and degradation resulting from man-made hazards. Pollution has done a lot of damage to the The Ganges River and its inhabitants. The River is home to over 140 fish species, 90 amphibian species, and five habitats that support birds found nowhere else in the world. A variety of fish which helped keep the river clean are now near extinction. Dolphins once found in the Ganges River are near extinction as well. Studies (1) show that tumors exist in zoo plankton which is eaten by the dominant fish and now the food chain has been contaminated. The sources of pollution are many and varied. The Ganges River is now polluted by chemical waste oxygen depleted freshwater, carcasses, trash, bacteria, and all of these add up to a colossal amount of waste. The river is said to now contain over 200 times more fecal bacteria than sustainable levels (2). The river flows through 29 cities with population of over 100,000 each who depend on the river for recreation and livelihood. Cultural and traditional rituals have also aided in the pollution of the river. Every year on the first day of The Kumbh Festival, five million people are said to bathe in the river, and as the festival continues, the amount of bathers dramatically...
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...something beyond human. After his tape ran out Garson Poole felt an intense rush of emotion and feeling simultaneously, a literal, real, physical synesthesia; Garson Poole felt human for the first time. The details he sees, hears, tastes, smells, and touches are significant because they are what finally cause Poole to feel human. The tape filtered Garson's senses: he had one type of touch, one type of hearing, one type of sight, etc; when the tape ran out, the filter was removed, and Garson was able to experience the contrast of an unfiltered world. His statement, "I am living, I have lived, I will never live," can be interpreted as an allusion to "veni, vidi, vici" through the use of asyndeton. The Narrator describes what is happening to Poole's actual mechanical body as if it had no person relying on it, as something that is simply replaceable. After Poole discovered that he was indeed not a human, his quest was to get rid of his reality tape in order to have the "opportunity to experience everything. Simultaneously. To know the universe and its entirety, to be momentarily in contact with all reality. Something that no human can do" (Dick 236). Once Poole did cut the tape, although he had up to 40 minutes to put it back together, he choose to delay long enough so that when he looked into his chest he saw it was too late for him and came to the realization that it was going to be over finally. Dick then uses extensive imagery and metaphor usage with phrases like "the silky texture...
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...contributions to the overall project and report. We are grateful to Status of Women Canada for funding this project and for the continued sponsorship of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres. We also thank the members of our Advisory Committee for pushing and challenging us throughout this project. We thank the women who facilitated focus groups and helped us contact the women in this study. Finally, this report would not be possible without the contributions of the women who told us about their experiences. © 2004 Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children ISBN# 0-9688655-3-4 1 “To understand violence, we have to examine both the personal experience and the terrain of that experience.” Dr. Yasmin Jiawani This report is built on the personal experiences of women who have experienced workplace harassment, but their stories are also about the “terrain” or the context of those experiences. In drawing out the commonalities of their experiences, we have begun to shed light on the terrain. We must transform the terrain if women are to have equality and safety in their workplaces. 2 We dedicate this report to Theresa Vince whose death in 1996 changed the views of many people in Ontario about sexual and workplace harassment. Her tragic and untimely death showed us that workplace harassment can no longer be easily dismissed as a trivial problem. Fundamentally, the goal of this report is to prevent any other woman from losing her ...
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...personnel I have mentored. I believe my motivation to work mostly unsupervised and the innovative ideas I have applied to GCSS-J and other programs has established a trustworthiness of my character to TEP for my own task or a current one already contracted by the company. 2. I want to continue in enhancing data accessing or mining applications for the GCSS-J program, as well as mentor others in applying the same application to their programs. Leadership: 1. Since the trust of the company’s leadership has seen fit to place me in areas of greater responsibility, I want to continue with working with peers and mentoring less experienced associates, so the company may optimize my experience. Teamwork is an essential element in TASC’s service to our government. 2. With my seasoned experience in testing protocols and the research requirements prior to fielding, my valuable knowledge would be appropriately used in leading a program or assigned more involvement in mentoring others in preparation for testing, requirements during the testing, and standards for compiling testing data. Development: 1. I would like to continue my development at TASC by submitting a bid for a government project. In so doing, I would research, coordinate, and conduct all phases required to meet the contracted project. Concurrently, if the task requires additional personnel, I want to develop an environment of responsibility while leading the task with the core competencies of leadership...
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...The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his views and opinions on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentioned a few of his past experiences and his feelings based on his travelling days. Based on this article, we conclude that travelling is not only moving elsewhere other than our homes and coming back the same person. It changes a person’s perception of life in either positive or negative ways. Through his personal travels, he has highlighted travelling makes him sees in a different point of view in most of the countries like in Paris, Mickey Rourke was still known as the greatest actor since Jerry Lewis. I’m in a full agreement in his statement of his definition of the joy travelling as people have to be open minded to enjoy ourselves. An example which would be meeting and understanding the local trends like I did when I was in Japan. Their trending faster than Malaysia when I was there. Besides that, he brought up that travelling is a way to reverse time to a small extent, and make a day last a year. I also strongly support this as families tend to cram a bunch of activities all in a day because no one in this world wants to “waste time” but wanting to make use of the little time they have away from home. I have also experienced travelling and wanting to accomplish all the plans in a day as I was in Italy for 2 months of vacation but unfortunately did not manage to visit all the...
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...1. I can identify almost all type of variables that could affect performances reviewing the two interviews. The way the candidates describe their experience shows off that they have , even if in different views, a role perception about the job. Furthermore, opposite motivations and aptitude to the work are remarked through their expectancies and behavioral strategies. They present skill levels depending on their carrier’s path . I think organizational (defining only the area) and the environmental factors relating to the job are missing. 2. In my opinion, Dag Wicklo (DW) has a better perception of the work is going to do because of his previous experience in this field as employee and his love for selling and speak with people. Katharine Bryant (KB) knows the specific technical language but she never work as sales in this particular field and maybe she doesn’t know or remember what does it means to work as employee instead of being an owner. For J.P. Reynolds I think a good variable for perception could be the accuracy in the way candidates see the job with all the pro and cons, so being experienced in this particular field matters. Within motivations I can see again a remarkable will to make money from DW and but I could not for KB. She doesn’t feel stimulate to gain money and this could affect her performance as well. The company’s point of view on motivations has to be in line with maximization of the opportunities. DW seems more willing to try to exploit his balance...
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...Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry “Not Everything That Is Learned Is Contained In Books” By: Reem HachacheENG202 Fall 2013-2014Term Paper | “Learning is defined as a human adaptation process. It is a process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. The learning cycle theory begins with...
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...“Plato does not value experience enough” Discuss (10) Plato was a philosopher and mathematician born in Greece. If someone does not value something, it suggests they do not believe in its worth, importance or usefulness. To begin with, Plato was not an empiricist; someone who believes that knowledge is derived from the experience of their senses. This was due to the fact that Plato believed in A prior knowledge; knowledge gained before experience. Plato believed that when we were born, our immortal soul already gained some sort of knowledge which we are able to use in this world. Therefore Plato does not value experience enough due to his beliefs. Furthermore, Plato understood that the world in which we live is the World of Appearances, where the objects in this life are just poor copies of their true forms in the Realm of Forms. We are deceived by our senses because they limit us to how much knowledge someone can have. For example, there is only so much that we can see from our eyes, which therefore limits our knowledge. On the other hand, pain can argue against this. If you were to hit your head on something quite hard, you will feel pain and come to understand this the world we live in is real and not an “appearance”, and the experience we get here is the only experience that exists. This illustrates that Plato did not value experience enough because he thought that our senses deceived us. Similarly, Plato argued that everything in this world, the World of Appearances...
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...never experience writing to larn, not just to learn about a particular project but to learn about themselves, their values, their experiences, their environment. As teachers of composition, at some point in our careers we have undoubtedly experienced writing apprehension. We can understand why some develop an aversion to writing and would do almost anything to avoid it. WRITING APPREHENSION DEFINED the term as the tendency to experience high degrees of anxiety when asked to write, resulting in an approach-avoidance conflictive state which manifests itself in one’s behaviors, attitudes, and written products. Behaviors 1. They tend to select careers which they perceive to require little or no writing. 2. They tend to avoid courses and majors which require writing on a daily basis. 3. They write very little out of class. 4. They lack role models for writing at home, in school, and in the society at large. 5. They score lower on tests of verbal ability (SAT), reading comprehension, and standardized tests of writing ability used for college placement. 6. They do not necessarily lack motivation. Attitudes 1. Their self-concept is often lower, and they may lack self-confidence. 2. They report low success in prior experiences with school-related writing. 3. They have received negative teacher responses to prior writing attempts. 4. They are more apprehensive when writing personal narratives in which they must express personal feelings, beliefs, and experiences. 5...
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