Durga

Economists, theologians, and sociologists have all hypothesized why societies, both Christian and Hindu, continue to embrace defined gender roles. Economically, financially independent women are often perceived as a threat. An Oregon survey of engineers reported, “Men maintained their objection (to the pay increase of women ) even though their own wage would not be lowered if the women’s wage were increased” (Aker 456) . A proposed explanation was the potential degradation of a man’s…

FOR AGES, INDIA has been seen as an image of the otherworldly and outlandish East. Releasing India as a platitude runs the genuine danger of setting India in an immortal zone outside of this present reality, which is progressively current and complex. India is an unfathomable and quickly creating nation with twenty-eight unique states and seven union regions. India has a considerable number of dialects, religions and societies, which coincide and intermix. Delhi nightfall by Wili_hybrid…

Children born in a foreign country often times wander their identity between their two origins. They are often times encouraged to follow their family’s traditions while that might look odd within their peers. They may not experience what their peers does on holidays, what they eat at home, and what language they hear the most. Their names may sound strange for local people. Jhumpa Lahiri, the writer of the novel The Namesake, is also a child of immigrants in America. In the novel, Lahiri…

woman pulling out a prosthetic abdomen and while he tries to figure out why she would fake a pregnancy, Vidya strikes the gun away from his hand, pulls out her hair pin and thrusts it first into his left foot and then his neck, almost like Goddess Durga spearing the Asura. The image of the hair pin recurs again and again throughout the film. Vidya gives it to Rana to unlock the door of the old NDC office and also Milan's deserted residence. She searches…

In my culture paternal grandparents gives name for a newborn child. Usually they give name of a god because they believed that this was the only way to remember a god every time they call the child such as Krishna, Devi, Durga, Ganesh and many more. However, my paternal grandparents were not living, so my older sister chose the name Sobita for me. The meaning of Sobita is bright and happy. My older sister’s name is Devi, which was chosen by my grandparents. There are some…

Beauty And The Beast The original story starts when there lived a king happily in his life . Once a ugly lady came to him and asked about some help to him because there was winter . And the poor women was suffering from cold . But when king came to know about this he was annoyed. And demanded the lady to live the kingdom as soon as possible .she offered him a red rose but still he refused to help her . After hearing such talks from him she appeared in her…

wealth and thus it has been part of many of the rituals in many of the cultures. According to Hindu culture, Gold is considered auspicious and hence we find that the demand for gold in the festive seasons like Akshaya Tritiya, Pongal, Onam, Ugadi, Durga Puja, Baisakhi increases many fold despite mounting prices. Gold as a symbol of wealth and prosperity creates a huge demand (approximately 50% of total domestic gold demand in India). Hence during marriage seasons and even a month prior to that,…

Hinduism is the leading religion, or way of life, particularly in India. Although Hinduism contains an overall variety of philosophies, it is a family of connected religious cultures by shared concepts, rituals, cosmology, and shared textual means. What does it mean to be Hindu? Hinduism recommends the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from harming living beings, patience, mercy, self-restraint, compassion, among others. When people refer to being Hindu they refer to a certain god or…

There are many religions around the world, and many that are different from what we have in America. Sikhism is a religion based out of India, but its people are often confused with Muslims and Hindus. Because of this, there has been a significant amount of hate crimes against them. Sikhism is its only religion, so it is important to know its aspects and how it differs from Hinduism. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion that believes in the ten Gurus. The first of these Gurus is Nānak, who at…

This project has been Submitted by Prakash Kumar Id. no. - 214089 Monsoon semester Topic Female Feticide in India: Issues & concerns Abstract We are facing the major problem which is harmful for human species. It is Female Feticide. After the globalization, the practice of the killing of female fetus could be found in almost all the parts of the Country. There are many reasons behind such gruesome practice. We are facing gender inequality; killing of girl child in a large scale is the main…