Gandhi and Non-Violence Essay

had arisen regarding unification of personal and family laws of the parties such as marriage, divorce, wills, Intestate successionetc. The circumstance under which the Code was incorporated in our Constitution should also be taken into consideration. Non-interference in religious minority committee Personal Laws in the early years of freedom was something which was understandable. It was designed to assure them that, especially the Muslims, that though the sub-continent had been partitioned at…

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As defined by Merriam-Webster, abortion is a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus (Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary). Every religion has their own opinions on abortion; some being more strict than others. Whether it be Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism they all feel that abortion is wrong, but all have their own opinions on how wrong it is to abort a fetus. Churches believe that abortions lead to issues presently and later in life, decision…

The Hindu- Muslim communalism took its worst phase resulting in massive bloodshed. These were the Gujarat Riots of 2002. Godhra Incident The immediate provocation for this violence was an incident that took place at a station called Godhra. On the morning of 27 February 2002 at Godhra, a bogey full of Karsevaks, returning from Ayodhya was put on fire resulting in death of 58 people including 15 women and 20 children. They were…

Paul McCartney is a sensational man who was born on June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, England. Raised in a working class family Paul McCartney at an early age fell in love with music, partly due to his part jazz musician father. With the many various influences of music in Paul McCartney’s life, these influences impacted him to build a band that emerged as The Beatles. The Beatles by far were one of the first globally recognized all-male rock n’ roll and later pop performers. Following the explosion…

Authority, Subversion and the Telling voices of the Subalterns in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and…

with his encouragement of peaceful protest and criticism of British administration and taxes. In 1921, Ghandi called for all Indians to boycott paying taxes on farming tools to the British, a strategy to have a negative effect on the economy. His non-cooperation campaign, despite its nonviolent aims, periodically became violent, and Ghandi was imprisoned in 1922 for instigating the movement. He was released two years later. The movement, however, was quite successful in terms of uniting the…