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The Bhagavad-Gita is an ancient Hindu text depicting the qualms of a prince during a war against his own kin. Despite the text coming into existence many centuries ago, the teachings are still relevant to this day. Although the characters and lessons are derived from Hinduism and the culture, the Gita is still applicable to day to day life even for one not of the Hindu faith. The lessons are taught from a deity under the guise of a lowly charioteer accompanying Prince Arjuna. Sri Krishna is the…

Amongst the enormous corpus of Hindu literature, Mahabharata stands out as a text of great magnitude, originally comprising of 100,000 Sanskrit shlokas, say about 2 million words. ‘Vedvyasya’, the author of Mahabharata has weaved a plethora of characters in this great Hindu epic, through which he takes the reader through every conceivable human emotion and situation, thus making it possible to identify with it even today. It even boasts, ‘What is here is found elsewhere. What is not here is…

Dar-ul-Ulum Deoband which became a reference point of Sunni intellectual activity in 1867 when this Madrasa was established but actually it was formed in 1945 when members like Shabir Ahmad Usmani broke from the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind to support All India Muslim League by joining the Pakistan cause in the Indian subcontinent. Its first president was Allama Shabir Ahmed Usmani. Now it is an Assembly of Islamic Clergy and religious political block in Pakistan. But, due to differences on…

the “Adivasis as a whole have gained least and lost most from six decades of democracy and development in India” Ramachandra Guha in his essay argues that Adivasis are the ones who has gained almost nothing from the development of India after its independence but instead they have been exploited and have lost so much from their lives in the process. He focuses on the tribals of peninsular India who are marginalized invisible victims with other minorities to show how they are socially,…

Sand Dunes; Authentic Rajasthani experience at Chokhi Dhani Difficulty Level: Easy Meal Type(s): Whatever you Choose! Overview: The ‘Fairytale Experiences of Rajasthan’ tour covers some of the most popular destinations of North India. It covers the Golden Triangle of India: Agra, Jaipur and Delhi, Jaisalmer that seems to have sprung out of the leaves of Arabian Nights with its camels and grand fort in a desert setting, the brooding Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur and the oasis-like…

In 1932, Iqbal additionally presided over All India Conference that was held at Lahore and during that conference he reiterated some of the conceptions and some of the noetic conceptions which he had presented in his Address at 1930. In his address, Iqbal called for the engenderment of "a Muslim India within India", especially in North-western India. Iqbal inductively authorized the right of self-regime for the Muslims as he verbally expressed: India is a continent of human groups belonging to…

When Hinduism fell into the blackhole of irrationalism, caste system, untouchability and illiteracy, Sree Chaitnya’s concept of humanism brought in a fresh air for the salvation of the downtrodden. The authentic knowledge of the ‘sastryas’ (scriptures) and the emotion of devotion of Sree Chaitanya penetrated the Bengali mind deeply. The writers in Bengal, later on, were profusely influenced by this concept of humanism. Bamkim Chandra Chattapadhaya, Sarat Chandra Chattapadhaya, Rabindranath…

Indian literature assignment Name- EKALAVYA CHADHA JSLH 2015 ID NO- 20155034 Question Q1) Name the two ancient epics written in Sanskrit and who were their authors? In the Bhagvad Gita what does Krishna explain to Arjun? A1)…

Polanski and starring Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson and lastly the movie slumdog millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle,written by Simon Beaufoy, and was produced by Christian Colson. Set and filmed in India, it is a loose adaptation of the novel 2005 by the Indian author and a diplomat Vikas Swarup, this tells the story of Jamal Malik who was 18 years of age from the Juhu slums which is located in Mumbai. The books shows comparative characteristics…

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…