In Afghanistan, these ethnic identities and groups have further played the role of creating political power blocs centred around them. The regions of the country are further divided on the basis of such ethnic identities.
However, in the race of power projection where no one wants to project oneself as weak, the genuine efforts of welfare find no place
Salt is considered as goddess Lakshmi. As Lakshmi and Vishnu reside in the pal kadal (Sea of milk, abode of Vishnu) and as salt (at least the majority) is also extracted from the sea, Tamils perceive salt as Lakshmi.
While I dream about moving away from home someday to write my own story, stories of such migrants bring me closer to home. As I adore every piece of pashmina, I think about every Kashmiri winter migrant that dreams of building something bigger back home.
These beings are peculiar in comparison to other primates; filled with the knowledge of wonders and mystery. They bountifully fill lands with dictatorship and mystifying perspectives. Whom might they be?
Our names are precious to us more than anything else. When a child walks down the hallways of a school for the first time and takes the first step to the classroom, the first question which the teacher asks is “what is your name?
Like other jurisdictions all over the globe, India too has witnessed a sudden spike in the rates of domestic violence since the country entered into a 21-day lockdown from 25 March to control this pandemic. The lockdown provides the perfect opportunity for the abusers to practice “intimate terrorism”, dictate and control all actions and movements of women with violence.
Rape is one of India’s most common crime against women. In India, a girl is raped every 20 minutes.
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Gandhi’s perceptions about the modern social institutions developed in India by the British Raj highlighted the egotistical, impatient and greedy facet of humankind.
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Advertisements are inherently promotional in nature and seek to create artificial needs in order to bait the consumer. The ‘complete pleasure with least effort’ comfort associated with the two food product advertisements analyzed above reflects how attractive presentation restricts viewers from pausing to examine whether the consumption is necessary at all.
Any modest attempt to understand women’s lives in general should not be starting with this type of portrayal of women.
Context explains why hatred is being spewed instead of the oneness Ekatvam espoused. Now, this doesn’t mean people should go out to Tanishq stores asking store owners to forcefully write an apology or belch out with such hostility online
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