Born May 7, 1861, in Calcutta; died there Aug. 7, 1941. Indian writer and public figure. Son of Debendranath Tagore. Tagore studied in Calcutta, where in 1875 he published his first work, and at the University of London. While in England from 1878 to 1880, he continued to write in his native Bengali, the language he was to use in all his works. He also composed songs. A musical drama he wrote during this time, The Genius of Valmiki (1881), combined national Indian melodies with popular Irish tunes
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SILVIO NAPOLI AT SCHINDLER INDIA (A) Schindler was established in 1874 in Switzerland by Robert Schindler. In 1889, the elevators has been started to manufacture by company. Then, Alfred N. Schindler, fourth generation the family, transformed the firm from manufacturing Company to customer-oriented service company. Schindler is the leader in supplying escalators and second largest Swiss based company which supplies elevator. CEO, Alfred Schindler decided to enter the India market since it is a growing
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Information about India: Capital: New Delhi Prime minister: Manmohan Singh Official language: Hindi Language, English Language Population: 1,241,491,960 (2011) World Bank Average income: Rs 50,000 Gross domestic product: 1.848 trillion USD (2011) World Bank. Information about India: Capital: New Delhi Prime minister: Manmohan Singh Official language: Hindi Language, English Language Population: 1,241,491,960 (2011) World Bank Average income: Rs 50,000 Gross domestic product: 1.848
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Each feather shimmers with green, blue, and gold. It’s a pattern on their tail called an eye-spot. The body is covered in bright colorful feathers. This type of covering helps the peacock by attracting female peacocks. The Indian peacock lives in India and other parts of eastern Asia. They also live in Pakistan, western China, and Sri Lanka. Tropical forests are their type of habitat. It’s filled with lowland and foot hills with brush and scattered trees. Indian peacocks can live in this area because
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invitation regretting your inability to attend it. OR Design an attractive Poster on “Say No to Plastic” issued by Sarva Suraksha Samiti an NGO stationed in Bangalore. (5) 4. You are Mudit/Manasi working as a newspaper Reporter for The Times of India, New Delhi. Yesterday, you were invited to attend a press conference convened by the Union Minister for Human Resources Development on the proposed changes in the examination pattern for the present class X, to bring about a stress free education system
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1947 - Britain, as part of its pullout from the Indian subcontinent, divides it into secular (but mainly Hindu) India and Muslim Pakistan on August 15 and 14 respectively. The partition causes one of the largest human migrations ever seen, and sparks riots and violence across the region. 1947/48 - The first Indo-Pak war over Kashmir is fought, after armed tribesmen (lashkars) from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (now called Khyber-Pakthunkhwa) invade the disputed territory in October 1947
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India has one of the largest populations in the entire world, and with that comes the second largest education system in the word. It is estimated that around thirty percent of India's population is under the age of fifteen[1], thus more children in the education systems. The large education system in India has not always had the best of reputations, and still does not hold a very reputable name for itself. Though there has been strides for improvements in the system of education for India in the
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reputed style of music which even today espouses the aesthetics of the ancient times despite having had influence from other genres of music (Massey & Massey, 1996). The classical music of India is categorized into two; the Hindustani music which is from Northern Indian region and Carnatic music from Southern India. Massey and Massey (1996) argue that a common similarity of the two genres is that they employ one raga per song and the music has heavy improvisation element. Raga is what may be compared
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reputed style of music which even today espouses the aesthetics of the ancient times despite having had influence from other genres of music (Massey & Massey, 1996). The classical music of India is categorized into two; the Hindustani music which is from Northern Indian region and Carnatic music from Southern India. Massey and Massey (1996) argue that a common similarity of the two genres is that they employ one raga per song and the music has heavy improvisation element. Raga is what may be compared
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Indian nationalist movement and was imprisoned by the British three times on accounts of her struggle to free India. In 1937, she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated as the minister of local self-government and public health making her the first woman in India to hold a cabinet post. During the course of her work as a diplomat for independent India, she became the first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1953. After holding office
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