Indira Gandhi

According to Indira Gandhi, the first woman to be elected Prime Minister in India, “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.” As a person whose life has spanned across Kuwait, India, Chicago, and now Colorado, I have personally experienced how education has improved the lives of individuals and communities. Conversely, I have observed how…

Introduction: The term nationalism can be traced as byproduct of colonialism. It is terms as a postcolonial phenomenon, nation and nationhood which are highly ambivalent and ambiguous in the context of globalization and imagination. The nationalism, transnational’s and transmigration these ideas are inevitably linked to geopolitical entities like nation states and nationhood. The formations of nation and subsequent reformations have undermined the nations of stability and fixity. There was a…

Names, an instrument of and for power Names are not just terms used to refer someone or something. They play a very deeper and important role in today's society. Along with the names, the process of naming reflects a lot about the community and the individuals. The essay by Sunil Kumar, titled "Naming", taken from the book, "The Present in Delhi's Pasts" while talking about names of people, says that names are used as a tool to classify the people "socially and culturally" (93). A certain…

The 2016 United States presidential election results have highlighted the shortcomings of a modern trendsetting nation. The United States has yet to gain a female president and has in turn not yet shattered the ultimate political gender barrier within the country. Today in more than 70 countries across the world, women have sat in top leadership positions. Women in such positions have included Margaret Thatcher and currently include Angela Merkel, yet not one of these women are American.…

The literary manifesto of many a novelist in the past as well as in the present is to write for social, political and economic purpose. The purpose is not only to throw light upon the social evils and malpractices prevailing in the society in those days, but also to employ fiction to the cause of social amelioration. The establishment of novel in the world of literature manifests itself multifariously encompassing almost every facet of social life, which is regarded as Social Realism. Realism is…

encouraged. Secularisation is not simply a linear process that exists purely as a method of removing religion. Religion is not a passive element in the process, some retaliation can occur, as seen in the context of Turkey and similarly in India with Indira Gandhi. While secularisation does include a separation of state and religion and some restriction of religion is necessary for this to be effective, the process in Turkey aligns somewhat with the more pragmatic coercion seen in Egypt with…

Introduction: Business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and services to customers with the motive of earning profits. Business today is an essential part of the modern economy due to the changes that have occurred in time, place and the human needs and desires. It leads to the growth of economy. It creates jobs and provides goods and services for consumers. Therefore; it has occupied a higher statues in different societies. Business is divided into three types…

Rohinton Mistry, a prominent Indian writer, has emerged as a significant literary figure in the sphere of English Literature. He established himself quite rapidly as an exciting new voice on the literary scene. An immigrant writer’s total experience is stored in his memory and only the writer’s own conscious choices and unconscious energies might regulate his artistic expression, so did in the case of Mistry. As a diasporic writer Mistry exposed varied ways in his narrative that explored…

aircrafts. It had 101 operational aircrafts and pending orders of 27 aircrafts. It served various domestic and international airports. It was headquartered at the Indian Airlines House in New Delhi. Air India had: • Two major domestic hubs at Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at New Delhi and Mumbai respectively • Two secondary hubs at Chennai International Airport and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at Chennai and Kolkata…

Mizo Secessionist Movement Mizo Hills was officially declared as a part of British-India in the year 1895, following which in 1898 the North and South Hills were combined together to form the Lushai Hills district. In the year preceding the impending independence of India, the first every political party emerged in the Mizo Hills called Mizo Common People’s Union; later renamed as Mizo Union. Mizo Union is important to note because it submitted a resolution to the Advisory Committee appointed…