Hindu

interesting to me, but I do not know a lot about the country. If you asked me a few weeks ago, I would associate India with bright colors, elephants and a love of cows. That’s it. Throughout the past few weeks, I have expanded my knowledge of India and Hindu culture and am intrigued to learn more. Viewing the film Water, has helped me gain a visual perspective on what culture in India was like in the 30’s. Through the film, I was able to learn more about Hinduism and…

HINDU PEOPLE Hindu people also follow the tenets of Dharma, Karma, and Moksha. Dharma is the ultimate goal in Hinduism and is the “right way of living”. It also proposes that there is a way of living life according to your own path of truth and that these paths vary between all of us. On the other hand, Karma proposes that anything a person does, whether good or bad, will eventually return to them in this or a future life. This concept is closely related to that of reincarnation, doctrine in…

Approximately eighty-four percent of Indians identify as Hindu (Zimmerman). Hinduism is viewed as more of a way to life in India as opposed to a religion. Karma is an essential characteristic of their way of life, meaning that the actions an individual takes throughout the course of his/her life will have an effect…

Sea (west), and the Bay of Bengal (east). When looking at a map of India it is shown that this subcontinent is isolated. Due to this isolation, India has created a culture that is rare and fascinating (Experiencing the World’s Religions). The word ‘Hindu’ does not belong to Indian language; it is derived from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which is a local name for the Indus River that flows throughout India. The Saraswati-Indus civilization developed in India and eventually became the world’s…

Is it ever possible for a young child to be considered psychotic? The main character in Teddy by J.D. Salinger acts in a way that may be considered strange by many. By Western standards, Teddy is viewed as a mentally disturbed child, but through a Hindu perspective, Teddy is actually viewed as being a very spiritually advanced human being. Teddy is viewed in this way because of the way in which he chooses to act with adults, the manner in which he views life, and the feelings he has towards the…

Through a team approach, the following environmental scan of entering India’s automobile industry in presented for review and analysis. Geographical, political, sociocultural, economical, technological, and competitive profiles have been viewed and analysis are supported by governmental and empirical resources. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed view of the emerging market and expose opportunities which may be faced while entering the market, which will lead to strategic planning…

1. Today, India and the United States share similarities in the diversity found within their citizens, but I would argue, there is a higher degree of differences regarding both. In Octavio Paz’s, In Light of India, he makes note of the striking similarities of India and Mexico but first, points to their inversion of creation. Paz, on Mexico, claims “the pre-Hispanic civilization was destroyed, and what survives are its remnants: in India, the ancient civilization is a reality that encompasses…

around everywhere, surprisingly, the term is roughly only two centuries old, which was constructed by the British during India’s colonial period. Hinduism stems from term “Hindu,” gained from the “Indus” River, formerly named the “Sindhu” river. Arabic speakers miscomprehended the word “Sindhu” as “Hindu,” and it’s true the word “Hindu” was a geographical reference to the people who lived along the Indus river. This river was…

This final project will discuss the music of India, specifically the music that my interview subject, Mr. Ravi David, grew up listening to. I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Ravi David, a member of Bayview Glen Church, in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. He is a retired gentleman who serves as an Elder in my church. He was born in India in the 1950’s and lived there until he old. He was raised in a traditional Indian family; however, he is a seventh generation Christian. Due to his fathers work…

The grounds on which the debate on sati was taken up was through the invention, preservation and gendering of Indian culture and tradition. British Colonial authority employed orientalist scholarship as a way to challenge sati from within Indian tradition and in turn become masters of that tradition . Thus, the protection of women and women’s agency became absent in the discourse as scripture was used as the defining feature of sati, furthering the project of preservation. Scripture was thus…