Indian Camp Written assignment: Nick is son of a Doctor, who one night gets a call from an Indian camp from the other side of the river. Nick accompanies his father and Uncle George by boat over the river. When they arrive to the camp, they enter a shanty where they find an Indian woman, who has been in labour for two days. She needs a caesarean really quick and Nick’s father starts to do the incision with a jack knife and without anaesthetics and sews the stiches with fish line. Nick´s father
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India India is a multi-faceted nation. Home to the largest diversity in Culture &Tradition, it can trace its civilization back to over 10,000 years. It has timeless pre-historic relics, caves, paintings and artifacts. It is home to some of the erstwhile great Empires who’s Monuments, Palaces and Legacies continue to live on. India is home to some of the World’s best Ancient Architectural wonders inspired by Hindu, Persian, Buddhist, European & other Architectural styles. India’s Cultural & Social
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are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. With the possible exception of Russia, the BRICS members are all developing or newly industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional and global affairs. As of 2012, the five BRICS countries represent almost 3 billion people, with a combined nominal GDP of US$13.7 trillion, and an estimated US$4 trillion in combined foreign reserves Presently, India holds the chair of
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become men” (Rabindranath Tagore, Letters from Russia) The debate on affirmative action in India is long and not always geared to the desired aim: creation of equality of opportunity. Just like Indian secularism, reservation system in India has always a different political aim to make the system more unequal than what it is. Indian secularism, rather than making the state independent of religion, is intended to provide
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PAST India is a Third-World Country. It is a developing economy. It started out as a mixed economy. However, Post 1991, India has been moving towards capitalism with gushing force. Liberalization and globalisation opened Indian economy. Opening up sectors for foreign direct investment (FDI) has attracted great investment and employment opportunities. Liberalizing FII (Foreign Institutional Investor) norms has helped in easy availability of capital. There has been an easy availability of loans
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contemporary Bombay. Lin begins his journey by meeting Prabhaker, a quintessential Bombay tour guide, who impacts Lin the most in this mesmerizing novel. The two of them together pay a visit to a small village in Maharashtra where Lin falls in love with India and earns the name “Shantaram.” Subsequently, following his return Lin forfeits the life he made in Bombay circling Leopold’s and moves into the slums where he establishes a free health clinic and also joins the mafia and works as a money launderer
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Bhaarat is the program and campaign initiated by the Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi on 2nd October, 2014. Mr. Modi himself had cleaned a road in Delhi to initiate the campaign in style. It was started to realize the dream of Mahatma Gandhi of Clean India. Gandhiji used to give a lot of importance and attention to cleanliness and hygiene. He wished that Indians learn about hygiene and be on par with the westerners in practising hygiene. Swachch Bharat mission has two components. The urban component
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Sri Lanka and its Caste Systems Outline Title: Sri Lanka and its Caste Systems Thesis: A vital part of the Sri Lankan culture is its caste systems. Introduction Paragraph Thesis - A vital part of the Sri Lankan culture is its caste systems. Sub Topic - What is a caste or caste system? A caste system is a system of which label a person’s ranking at birth based on a _____ scale. Sub Topic - How many caste systems are there in Sri Lanka? There are
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How Railways Modernised India? (Tutorial -1) Submitted by: Monali MM-401 Media in Modern India Railways Modernised India Modern era starts with the Industrial Revolution in Europe which influenced the colonised countries as these constituted the periphery of the central imperialist countries. However, the time and period of inception of modernity is controversial. Modernity is a change European society was undergoing and injecting these changes in the colonised oriental world for “their
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A good place to start is understanding what Brooks Bond imagines itself to be. Having celebrity sponsors – Zakir Hussain, Saif Ali Khan, Madhuri Dixit – isn’t anything new or surprising for a large, cross-national brand. Usually these celebrities are used to invoke either a social or sensual aura, given their fame and beauty. Brooks Bond, however, uses its ambassadors to curate a sense of aristocracy, regality, and sophistication. Start with the description of Taj Mahal on the company’s website
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