...significant slowdown in Industrial growth. One of the reasons for this was RBI's initiative to curb inflation. The central bank had consistently maintained high interest rates for more than a year. Even though Inflation came down to 5% [2], it adversely affected the industrial growth. Many organizations curbed their expansion plans and many new ventures were deferred due to high cost of capital. 2. A further analysis of the Structure of Indian Economy reveals other important aspects: Year wise contribution of 3 major sectors viz. Agriculture, Industry and Services to GDP is as under: Table-1 Source: [1] A comparison of the contribution of Rural and Urban India to GDP for FY 2011-12 is as per the following figures: - As can be seen, there is a wide disparity between contributions of Rural and Urban India to GDP. While 69% (approx) of our rural population is contributing to just 14% of our national Income, the remaining 31% is contributing to nearly 86% of the national Income. - Further analysis of Sector-wise growth rates indicates that in order to achieve high growth rates, we cannot depend solely on agriculture since the agricultural land in any country is fixed and there is a limitation on the maximum growth rates that can be achieved in...
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...Farming is no more remunerative. Don’t you know for every thirty minutes one farmer is committing suicide? The situation is pathetic in Indian villages. ” “Tell me the greatest achievements of India, Ramesh Babu !” “ I recollect many achievements in various fields that make India proud , in Science, Space research, Commerce and Industry. One gigantic achievement in recent times is Mangalyaan for example.” “ Ramesh Babu ! One of the greatest achievement is, our farmers without much infrastructure, without any science , from traditional knowledge provide food to 1.25 billion people. We never count this as an achievement. The farmer who gives us food, who nourishes us , is barely nourished , his children are starving. The one that gives me, food is committing suicide. This is a point of shame to me. I can’t walk with my head held up high. When I watch the farmers, I don’t see them, I see myself. I can notice that they cannot afford to buy medicines for their family, food...
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...Story of India Today in society, I think people are not conscious that the way we develop we can learn through other people’s lifestyles or their personal experiences. There are extreme forms of ethnocentrism that happen to relate to social problems in today’s society from racism, ethnic cleansing, and all the way down to colonialism. In this paper I am going to talk about the film of the Story of India. Story of India This film or movie has a series of six sets. This movie talks about the world’s largest democracies and the rising economic giant. The movie was actually a documentary that was written or presented by Michael Wood and it related about the 10,000 year history of the Indian subcontinent in six series. It came on BBC in august and September of 07 and was named “India and Pakistan 07and it explained the independence of both countries With the story of India it talked about the historical events, places to travel and the inside of looking at archeological and historical evidence on sight with interviewing different people. The series was broken down in six different categories or series. The first episode was about the beginnings throughout the subcontinent and how they talk about the diversity and the cultures of their people. The second episode was about the power of ideas and talked about how Alexander the Great's invasion of India inspired her first major empire, and it relates to the revoluntary years after 500bc. The 3rd episode is spice routes...
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...of Susmita Bhattacharya's short story "Dusk over Atlantic Warf" The short story “Dusk Over Atlantic Warf” is written by Sismita bhattacharya in 2006. The Story “Dusk Over Atlantic Warf” takes place in Cardiff the capital of Wales, which the narrator informs us about. The story is taking place in the present time, because movie theaters, nightclubs, high school, Hollywood movies and Jennifer Lopez are mentioned in the text. The social environment in the text, is much as it is today in Cardiff, with nightclubs and movie theaters. The text start in Medias res, and the narrator is from a reliable third person narrative. The story is about Lata and her husband Anuj. Lata is married off by her father, to an Indian man named Anuj. The Indian couple is living in Cardiff. Anuj has lived in Great Britain for six years and Lata has been in Great Britain for 4 months. One day she is looking out of the window and thinking about her neighbors. She finds the day dull and she want to do something exciting. Lata and Anuj were going to the Atlantic Wharf theatre and watching a Bollywood movie. Lata is fascinated of the movie because it is an Indian movie and therefor recorded in India. Instead of watching the movie, Lata is telling about the things in the background. After the movie she is sad and crying. Anuj is overwhelmed and ask her if she is alright. She said that she is alright and wants to go home. Lata is the main character in the short story. Lata is a young woman probably...
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...The Management of Grief Radians College By: Anita Eric Instructor: Clyde Buzzard English 102 July 1, 2009 The Management of Grief “The Management of Grief” is a story written by Bharti Mukherjee. She was born in Calcutta, India on July 27, 1940. The story dramatizes one of the historical catastrophic events and also presents the complicated emotional response of those affected by it. On June 12, 1985 Air India Flight 182 crashed. All 329 passengers and all the crew members aboard were killed. The cause of an incident was a bomb explosion in the front luggage compartment. The debris fell into the North Atlantic Ocean, hundred and ten miles southwest of Ireland’s coast. About 90% of the passengers aboard were Indian Canadian. Among the killed were the husband and the two sons of Shaila Bhave who is a narrative voice of the story. Shaila Bhave is a protagonist of the story and is a narrator of the story. Her tone can be expressed as detached and understated but still full of hope. There is a regret, guilt and hope in her words and actions. Though she is shocked by the dreadful events she stays calm and does not openly express her pain. She even goes to the shore of the sea and sit there for hours in a hope that her loved ones are alive by miracle. Mostly in India according to Hindu tradition, the berieved family does not cook for a week. The food is being provided either by neighbours or family friends or is being prepared at berieved family’s house by visting friends...
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...marriages in India. In the western world are arranged marriages not so widespread, and we do not see it so often. In the short story, ‘’Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf’’, by Susmita Bhattacharya, we hear about an Indian girl, Lata, who is in an arranged marriage. So the question is, can there really be love in an arranged marriage? The story takes plays in Cardiff, which is the capital of Wales. In the beginning we are in Anuj’s and Lata’s apartment. The weather is grey and quite depressing: “The sky loomed large and grey over the chimney tops and television aerials. Lata missed the drama of colours played out in the sky. She observed it has been the same dull grey throughout the day.” (P. 1, L. 11-13). This description of the weather can also be used to tell us about Lata’s emotional state. She is having a tough time, where everything seems dark and grey, and she needs India’s drama of colors played out in the sky. The main character in the text is Lata. Lata is originally from India, but has moved to Cardiff in Wales, because she has been given away to Anuj. She has only been in Cardiff for four months (P. 1, L. 30-31), so she is still struggling to fit into the new surroundings. Now she has to cook, clean and wash, which she normally had hired help for back in India. (P.1, L. 35-37) This also indicates that she did not come from a poor family. Lata is of course missing her old life in India. All her friends and family still live in India. This longing to India gets very clear...
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...Arranged Marriage and “The Girl Deficit’ grows in India” In a mirror lies a reflection. A lie it is in that the reflection is partially determined by the person who stands in front of the mirror. In a patriarchal world, if that person is a woman, the reflection is often affected by the society of male dominance and unequal rights. How can self-image be perceived in a positive way for women? Self-Acceptance, much like self-esteem, at our deepest levels is either complete or not at all. Self-acceptance is something that is only achieved by those who can accept who they really are, “an acceptance of one’s self despite deficiencies” (Wikipedia.com). In some cultures, much like those of India in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni stories in Arranged Marriage self-acceptance seems to be an impossible achievement. Many woman in India, in addition to many woman across culture, enter a life from birth till “chosen” by a husband that is pre-defined. Given that, how does a woman find self-acceptance? A true sense of self and love? In “The Ultrasound” Divakaruni and in a supporting article by the Boston Globe called “The Girl Deficit”, Woman are shown as people who are manipulated and forced to make choices against their will. “The Ultrasound” tells us a story of two woman and their pregnancy and how when the gender is revealed, for one of the woman their life made a turn for the worst. Woman in 3rd world countries and in this case India, are summoned to choose death of their own child...
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...in India.(???) In the western world, arranged marriages are not so widespread, and we do not see it so often. In the short story, ‘’Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf’’, by Susmita Bhattacharya, we hear about the Indian girl, Lata, who is in an arranged marriage. So the question is, can there really be love in an arranged marriage? The main character in this story is Lata. She is originally from India, but has moved away, because she has been given away to Anuj.. The story takes plays in Cardiff, which is the capital of Wales. Lata has only been in Cardiff for four months. In the beginning of the story, we are in Anuj - and Lata’s apartment. The weather is grey and quite depressing: “The sky loomed large and grey over the chimney tops and television aerials. Lata missed the drama of colours played out in the sky. She observed it has been the same dull grey throughout the day .” This description of the weather can also tell the reader about Lata’s emotional state. She is having a tough time, where everything seems dark and grey, and she needs India’s drama of colors played out in the sky. Because of her being the external one, she is struggling to fit into the new surroundings. Back in India, she never did any cleaning, washing or anything like that, but with her new situation, this seems to be everyday work for her now. The fact, that Lata normally would have hired people to clean and wash for her, indicated that she definitely did not come from a poor family back in India. She...
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...I N DI A / H AT E P O L I T IC S into a taxi late one night two years ago. Tehelka, the newsmagazine I work with, had just broken a major investigation. It was an hour past midnight. e airwaves were still crackling with the amplifying shames of the story as television anchors quizzed a conveyor belt of public figures on its implications. In February 2002, 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya – the symbolically surcharged birthplace of Lord Ram – had been burnt alive in a train by a Muslim mob in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Over the next week, retaliatory Hindu mobs hacked and burned 2,500 Muslims across the state. As the world watched in shock, an impenitent government led by the rightwing Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) put out smart theories about ‘action and spontaneous reaction’ – Hindu retaliation for Muslim crime – and refused to apologize. A year later, though evidence of his culpability was piled high, Gujarat strongman Narendra Modi – an inscrutable fascist and skilled demagogue – was re-elected as Incandescent: Hindutva chief minister of Gujarat on a zealots rage against the mega vote: a terrifying reflection arrest of Sadhvi Pragya, of popular Hindu sentiment in the a Hindu ascetic, under state. Success can be a tremendous suspicion of a terror attack. sanction. With the fig leaf of the popular mandate in his pocket, even India’s liberal élite began to look the other way. Now four years later – S H A I L E N D R A PA N D E Y / T E H E L K A coincidentally...
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...the film again as I felt I didn’t belong to them. Based on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India, Earth is an Indian film directed by Deepa Mehta launched in 1998. It is the second part of her Elements Trilogy which consists of Fire, Earth, and Water. The story is narrated through the voice of Lenny (Maia Sethna) who is from an affluent Parsee family. She has a close relationship with her nanny, Shanta (Nandita Das) who is passionately involved with the Muslim masseur (Rahul Khanna). The Ice Candy Man (Aamir Khan) who also adores Shanta is disappointed for her choice and finally their complicated relationship causes the unexpected disaster of friendship, love, politics, and religions. Lahore is part of the borderlines between India and Pakistan. When the British Empire in India started to collapse in 1947, the haste independence caused turmoil in the partition of Indian Subcontinent. Even though the United Kingdom declared the independence to Indian Subcontinent, did India and Pakistan gain their so-called independence? Is it strange? The historical event in the timeline is stimulating. People need power. We are pleased to be inferior to others so that we feel safe. Nehru said on August 15, 1974: “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” The bloodshed also begins at the time. The timeline of the story really shows the history of India, but plot,...
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...India and Pakistan India and Pakistan, both are countries with a long history in their upcoming. In this essay I will discuss the history, geographical, social, family and ethical context. Also, I will cover three short stories in the text “Multicultural Voices” (written by Richard D. Lewis,2005) along with a movie called “Chandni Bar” (Directed by: Madhur Bhandarkar, 2001). India is the seventh largest country in the world that lies entirely on the Indian plate. It lies right above the equator and has a variety of different types of land. Mostly the Himalayan Mountain range defines the northern frontiers of India, where the counties are bordered by China, Bhutan, and Nepal. Its western boarder is Pakistan, which has the Punjab Plain and The Thar Desert. It is bordered in the Northeast by the Chin and Kachin hills with thick-forested mountains that separate India and Burma. Pakistan is bordered with the West part of India. On the Western side of Pakistan borders Afghanistan. Its landscape consists of plains, deserts, forest, hills and plateaus. In India lies the longest river Ganges. The Ganges, Indus and the Brahmaputra rivers form the Indo-Gangetic plain, which covers most of the Northern, Central and Eastern parts of India. The Thar Desert covers most of the western side of India and the Deccan Plateau Covers the Southern side. The highest point in India is the Kanchenjunga, at a height of 28,209 feet. The first civilization of India happened in Indus Valley around...
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...future Today, I got a speech from very kind and witty ambassador of India, Vishnu Prakash. He asked whether we know story of Kim-Suro to explain how we deeply connected to each other. Following the story of Samguk Yusa, Indian princess Suriratna came to Korea in 48 AD, married King Kim-Suro and became queen Huh Hwang-ok. So that 5 million Koreans trace their ancestry to the royal couple. This story represents that there is deep historical links between Korea and India from long time ago. In the another story, Korea Buddhist monk Hye-cho visited India from 723 to 239 AD and wrote the travelogue, “Pilgrimage to the five kingdoms of India” which shows a vivid explanation of Indian culture, politics and society. Thus, even though two countries are far from each other but there are various connections between the two. The ambassador explained about characteristics of India. First of all, India has many races among its population like the picture of people he showed us. India also is rounded by many countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan and Nepal etc., These facts have affected to India’s cultures and policies. In the last two decades, Asia has been under huge transition in politic, economic as well as social ways. Now, people are predicting that in next 20 years the global centre of economic gravity might shift to Asia, especially East Asia. In this context, combined national wealth of China, Japan, Korea and India as well as ASEAN countries would exceed that of the US and EU. It means...
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...A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet, "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country," India. The poem was published before Derozio's untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti rhyme scheme. In Derozio's, there is Spenserian concatenation (rhyme and meaning linkage) at the cc couplet in the second quatrain. It is at this couplet that the poetic speaker hits the crescendo of his song and reveals the emotional motivation behind the story he tells and behind the resolution he will promise. In an apostrophe addressing India, the poetic persona, who is tightly associated with Derozio himself, recounts India's "days of glory past" when glory, reverence, and deity were like a "beauteous halo circled round thy brow." These four short lines of iambic pentameter paint a vivid picture of the India that existed before British colonization. They also reveal the deep emotional ties the persona has to the memory of the true India, the free India, the India that commanded respect from other civilizations. The address to India continues in the second quatrain, but line 5 turns the topic from glory to misery. India's fallen estate under colonization is lamented and compared to a subdued eagle whose wings are chained, which renders...
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...Today’s Comic Culture in India Manan Kumar A Brief History The realm of comics has evolved relatively later in India than in the West. Around three decades ago comics were not much in vogue in India. The selection that was available was in the form of imported digests and books like Tintin (originally French private detective), Asterix and Obelix (superheroes of Gaul, erstwhile France), Archie and Commando (war stories of World War II) etc. A costly product for an average Indian, these comics were rather available to the children of the wealthy. The change came in the mid ’60s when a leading newspaper publication house of India launched Indrajal Comics. It was the first serious effort directed towards the evolution of comic culture in India. Well within the buying capacity of middle class children, Indrajal Comics made foreign comic heroes like “Phantom- the ghost who walks”, Mandrake the magician, and Flash Gordon household names in India. The immediate success of Indrajal Comics gave a further boost to the indigenous comic industry and in 1967 came the educational comics series called Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Stories) by Anant Pai, who is also considered the father of Indian comics. A welcome change, Amar Chitra Katha effected a fusion of the rich treasure of folk tales and exploits of mythical and legendary characters in comics. Each of the comics in this series was devoted to a person or event in Indian history, religion and mythology. Anant Pai conceptualised...
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