Jawaharlal Nehru

School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Interconnectedness between Lotus, Pillar, Tree and Serpent in early Indian Art. In this essay, I am trying to locate the interconnectedness between the four most depicted symbols or beings in Indian art. They are the pillar…

Free Trade is a Free Pass to Oppose Climate Control Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything Capitalism vs The Climate argues that in order to begin to solve the issue of climate change we must abandon the free market system American democracy is based upon. Klein states, “We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism” (Klein 18). Here, I will be focusing on the claim made by Naomi Klein that free market…

percentage of them being troubled. Once British soldiers noticed the crime, they immediately led to arrested thousands of people which at the end of the year, totaled to around sixty-thousand people, including Gandhi and India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru (History). Although Gandhi was highly disappointed by the outcome, he was relieved by the fact that the protest was a forward step to India’s Independence when he received important news by Lord Irwin, who was a Conservative…

Introduction Following colonisation and later independence from the British in 1947 India has continued to struggle with extreme poverty. According to Nelson (2013), “India now has a greater share of the world’s poorest than it did thirty years ago.” Statistics from this research have shown that the proportion of the world’s poorest in India has increased from one fifth to one third, approximately 400 million people. This negatively declining trend, however, has not been characterised by every…

Through technological globalization, advanced computer systems are proven to help record and preserve many minor languages in developing and even developed nations. From 2005, Anvita Abbi , a renown and credible professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi as mentioned in the report by H. Guyford Stever, utilized bettering technology that stemmed from globalization to document not only her language but also the cultural, historical and ecological knowledge that it relayed…

Cattle slaughter is the killing of nonhuman animals also referred as killing domestic livestock. The animals are generally killed for food; however, they might also be killed for other reasons such as being diseased or unsuitable times for families to feed it. The animals most commonly slaughtered for food in India are cattle and water buffalo for beef and goats for goat meat and mutton, pigs for pork and ham, horses for horse meat, chickens and ducks, and increasingly, fish farming in the…

Hindu and Muslim Communalism 1. Introduction “Hindus hear and enjoy the Azan as dusk falls, Muslims walk past and enjoy the smells of Hindu flowers and incense and the sounds of chants and temple bells — that is India, that is Indian secularism.” ---------- Dr. Subroto Roy Communalism and communal parties and organizations are an integral part of present day politics. Communalism is one of the most serious problems that Indian society is facing since her freedom from colonial rule. It is…

Mother Teresa is one of the famous people on earth. She was famous because of what she has done and of how many people she has helped. Her real name is Ganxhe Agnes Bojaxhiu but most people call her Agnes. She was born in August 26 1910. She was born and lived in Skopje, is it a small part of Siberia which is now a part of Yugoslavia. She is the third child of the Bojaxhiu family. She has 2 siblings which are her sister Aga and her brother Lazar. Agnes’ father, Kole Bojaxhiu was a wealthy…

Amaranth yatra is one of the most famous Hindu pilgrimages of the world which gathers lakhs of people together every year. However, it was always prone to controversies and threats. Many people travel long distances to take part in this breath taking and tiring pilgrimage by some times even risking their lives. This yatra leads finally to a shrine which is in a cave in the Himalayas near the city of Pahalgam. Amarnath shrine is Hindu shrine located in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. This…

Review of Jayati Ghosh’s book “Never Done and Poorly Paid” Divya Mehrotra MA Women’s Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences 28/03/2015 Inroduction: Issues of labour and employment have been core areas of concern for most economists around the world. The following paper consists of a review of the book titled Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India written by Jayati Ghosh which was published in 2009 by Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for women, New…