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India India is the seventh largest country in the world. It has vast geographical features. Three different bodies of water surround the country of India. These are the Arabian Sea in the west, Bay of Bengal in the east and the Indian Ocean in the south. Because of this, it is very recognizable on the world map. The country covers an area of about 3.28 million sq km. India divides into several different geographical regions. India is a federation composed of 29 states and 7 union…

Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’ is a response to the anti-Hindu riots that broke out in Bangladesh after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. Its intent is to warn the people of Bangladesh that communalism is on the rise, that the Hindu minority is badly mistreated and that the secularism they once fought for is in grave danger. Nasrin utilizes fiction's mass emotional appeal, rather than its potential for distinction and universality. Lajja is a poignant and unrelenting account of the…

that he was bald. After coming back to his cabin for his pipe, he opened his cabin to find his hairless roommate in shock. Sworn to secrecy, Dahl was to tell nobody that Savory was bald. Infact, he wasn’t crazy, he was only doing this to respect the Sikh religion that he works with. This religion does not approve of bald people so that's why Savory went to the extent of having so many wigs and…

Changing Identities by Changing Places or Identity Crisis in Postmodern Novels A sociological approach to self and identity begins with the assumption that there is a reciprocal relationship between the self and society (Stryker, 41). The self has an influence upon society via the actions of the individuals, consequently creating groups, organizations, networks, and institutions. Reciprocally, society has influences the self via its common language and meanings which enables a person to…

The state should treat equally to all the religion, acceptance of religious laws and equal participation of different religions, is secularism. Francesc Fontanella is famous Catalan playwright his plays are delt with renovation and updation the current trends. His important plays were Tragicomedy (Tragi-comedy of love, strength and perseverance) and Lodesengany (disappointment), which was written, ten years later. Both plays were written for wealthy people’s houses. Another type of play that…

Book Review: Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao transformed India by Vinay Sitapati. Published in Viking by Penguin Books India 2016. Around the time when the family of P.V. Narasimha Rao was commemorating the former Prime Minister’s 95th birth anniversary and India was marking 25 years of economic liberalisation; a young scholar, Vinay Sitapati, launched his debut book ‘Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India,’ in New Delhi. The book is a biography, that has given Pamulaparthy…

Canada has always thrived on being a country that people can trust to be welcoming and compassionate. Since the first world war, Canada’s participation and success on the battlefields did the most to create a sense of distinct nationhood; resulting in a flood of cultural nationalism across the country. However, in recent years, Canada’s familiar reputation for being a peacekeeping nation quickly changed as a certain political party took over the country. Spending billions of dollars to send…

Individual Media Case Study Based off the show “Jane the Virgin”, Jane Gloriana Villanueva is a 28-year-old female that is the second-generation Latin American in her family. Jane identifies as a straight woman and is currently a widow to her husband, Michael Cordero Jr. The client is a full-time worker at the local city’s hotel, where she participates in tasks such as, bartending, serving, and cleaning hotel rooms. The client goes to college full-time to receive her degrees in teaching and…

The partition of India is the most painful and traumatic episode of Indian history. Partition in general was accompanied by a huge wave of violence, but the atrocities against women were probably the most horrible ones. Though women were neither the part of the political decisions that divided the nation nor they had any role in the violence that followed partition, yet they were the worst targets of brutality inflicted by the men of other communities. The impact of the partition on women was…

Islamophobia― one word that caused a catastrophic effect in the Muslim community. Islamophobia is derived from Etienne Dinet, a French painter who was interested in Islam and the Arabic culture; but it was soon used as a term of hatred and discrimination against Muslims. There are four major types of Islamophobia which are pre-reflective personal Islamophobia, post-reflective personal Islamophobia, institutional Islamophobia, and political Islamophobia. Pre-reflective personal Islamophobia is…