Culture of India

enduring impression on the taste of the people of India. When the great Mughals came and conquered India and consolidated their power there, they carried the art of gardening like other fine arts to the highest pitch ever attained by it before. The greatest epoch of the Mughals was spread over the reign of six Emperors from Babar to Aurangzeb. During this time the successive Emperors, their wives and their noblemen created innumerable gardens in northern India. An enduring part of Iranian art…

Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’ is a response to the anti-Hindu riots that broke out in Bangladesh after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. Its intent is to warn the people of Bangladesh that communalism is on the rise, that the Hindu minority is badly mistreated and that the secularism they once fought for is in grave danger. Nasrin utilizes fiction's mass emotional appeal, rather than its potential for distinction and universality. Lajja is a poignant and unrelenting account of the…

A Brief note on Nationality: According to my perception, nationality means belongingness to a particular nation by birth or by nationalization, it also comprise when people have common tradition, culture, values, ethics, origin or often a nation. For example, immigrants of same nationality often seek out for each other, this usually defines their sense of nationality and belongingness. Nationality is also considered as a legal relationship between a state and a person, and nationality usually…

likewise suggests a profound and common temperament. The most profound sense of being has dependably been an indispensable piece of Indian life. A hunt of self and a mission for most profound sense of being has been in the consciousness of Indian culture since old times. Free and frank treatment of affection is additionally the primary component of Indian consciousness. It might likewise be reached out to a general affection for mankind or a need of humankind. Maybe the most exact and clear sign…

I. (2012). Human rights issues of minorities in contemporary India: A concise analysis. Journal of Third World Studies, 29(1), 203-230. Retrieved from: ProQuestDatabase http://search.proquest.com/docview/1038374397? Gomez, P. (2012). Survivor 's Colton Cumbie says he 's received death threats. Retrieved from: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20581262,00.html IK Foundation Lecture Series (2002). Indian culture in the modern world. London: Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

For a long time, people thought King Asoka to be nothing more than a myth. With several writings concerning him, each relayed too fantastical an image to be convincing as truthful, keeping him in a legendary status. This all changed in 1837, well over a thousand years after his death, when a scholar James Prinsep managed to translate writings on a stone pillar in Delhi. After several other scholars raced to translate similar writings all over the Indian landscape, it became known that this King…

The essay by M N Srinivasan, a well-known and much -revered sociologist, deals in the concept of Westernisation. He begins by observing the effects of British Rule on Indian society and culture on various levels – technology, institutions, ideology and values, and how those effects helped in introducing new social institutions and in changing the old ones. Some of the defining values of this period were humanitarianism, equalitarianism and secularisation. He illustrates this by citing the…

A Dalit writer and activist, Kancha Ilaiah, is issued a "fatwa' for writing about centuries of upper caste atrocities committed against the Dalits, in his book, Post- Hindu India: Discourse on Dalit Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009), and another book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) by an Adivasi writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, is banned by Jharkhand state government on the charge of 'misrepresenting" the Adivasi, indigenous, people. Indian Independence "liberated" the…

the heart of Virginia Beach. The word “Suswad” is a Sanskrit word which means “Good taste”. Suswad serves pure vegetarian Indian cuisine in Indian style in an ambience similar to restaurants in India. In India, large population are vegetarian. Thus, there are many delicious vegetarian dishes popular in India. Suswad prepares Indian vegetarian dishes in Indian style, by Indian cooks. In Indian dishes, a variety of vegetables and used. There are 20-30 basic spices used in Indian cuisines. Indian…