Mumbai

Throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European imperialism shifted and changed how India was controlled and how its people lived. The Europeans brought with them many new ideas and technologies that India had not yet been introduced to. Peace and order was established in India as well. On the other hand, almost all political and economic power had been torn from Indians and they were treated as inferior to the British. They were patronized and dehumanized by Europeans. As…

“Interpreter of Maladies”, by Jhumpa Lahiri, is a collection of short stories all involving individuals with some type of a connection to India. Through these short stories, the reader learns a tremendous amount about India’s cultural aspects and how these aspects define India as a country. By utilizing Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions framework, one can better understand what exactly creates India’s culture and how it is different from other countries. Hofstede separates these dimensions…

Personality traits of Indians • Indians treat Cricket as a culture. Indians are crazy about cricket and follow it religiously, they refer to cricket as a ‘religion’. • They are also very Socializing. Indians are hardly spotted alone, they are very talkative and don’t mind making conversation with strangers. • Indians are full of Empathy. They are caring and always ready to help those in need. Eg: due to their social nature, Indians make friends easily and they won’t back off if they see a…

The date March 12, 1930 signified an important day for the history of India. On that specific date, the prominent civil rights figure Mahatma Gandhi led the Salt March in protest of British rule. This particular march forged a spiral of events across the country that eventually ushered in the era of India’s independence. Gandhi initially led seventy-eight of his nonviolence disciples from Sabarmati Ashram to the seaside village of Dandi, with many more joining the Salt March as the crowd passed…

2.0 Overview of the Indenture System in Fiji Fiji was ceded to Great Britain in 1874 and the first Indian indentured labourers were brought to Fiji in 1879 (Lal, 2004). This new colony of Fiji was in a dire need of economic development so that it could sustain itself in the long run. Fiji’s first governor general, Sir Arthur Gordon, protected the Fijian labourers from commercial employment and believed that Fijians should continue to live in their own traditional surroundings, protected from the…

It has been often argued from the British point of view that British rule in India actually helped India, I would like to discuss the views from India’s perspective and if the atrocities of British rules translates into Britain paying reparations to India. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its thefts in India, Britain’s industrialization was actually based upon the deindustrialization of India. By the dawn of the 19th Centaury it is a noted fact that India was Britain’s biggest cash…

Mumbai Attack Overview The success of the Mumbai attack was essentially due to the fundamental failure of structure and organisation of the various intelligence agencies. This underlying failure led to a rippled effect that affected other parts of the intelligence cycle leading to multiple failures on several fronts. The 2008 Mumbai Attacks should therefore be viewed as an accumulation of multiple intelligence failures that was a result of the underlying structural problems of the intelligence…

diversity. Furthermore, this aspect of biodiversity also introduces other aspects of environmental politics like management of resources and control of the environment. These 3 aspects are highly interconnected and work together to frame the narrative in Mumbai. The presence of mangroves leads to the many different species of fish and crustaceans ("Why Should We Protect Mangroves."n.p., n.d.). The abundance of marine animals breeds a thriving fishing industry however; this leads to the problem…

Mumbai, similar to several other large cities across the world has been undergoing the process of urbanization which has lead to massive spatial restructuring of the city. The urbanisation process has to be understood as one of the many consequences of Globalization and not as a process functioning on its own. The nested economic interest of underlying the process of globalisation include increase in the inflow and outflow of foreign capital in the country, shift from manufacturing to service…

When I first stepped out of the plane in Mumbai, I paused and started to glance around the beautiful scenery that was in front of me. It was 5 AM; we got into the bus and the first thing I noticed was a cow half a mile away sitting on the street. I looked at my friends, and we started giggling. The city was like no other. Even at that time it seemed like the whole city was awake. The roads were filled with cars and “Tuk Tuks”. On each corner there would be a stand of food, clothing, or jewelry.…