Short Essay on Guru Nanak Jayanti

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Guru Nanak Jayanti, the most sacred festival of Sikhism celebrates the birth of Guru Nanak; the first Sikh Guru.The Nanakpanti Hindus and the other followers of Guru Nanak’s philosophy apart from the Sikhs also observe this sacred festival.Guru Nanak or Guru Nanak Dev Ji regarded as the founder of Sikhism were born on 15th April 1469 in Rai-Bhoi-di Talwandi in the present Shekhupura District ofPakistan, which is now known as Nankana Sahib. Guru Nanak’s birthday is celebrated in the month of Kartik on the day of full moon known as Kartik Purnima. Image Source: images.earlyyearsresources.co.uk ADVERTISEMENTS: The Sikhs celebrate the birth of all their 10 Guru’s; the celebrations are similar but the hymns uttered on each of the occasions are completely different. The morning of Guru Nanak Jayanti starts with…
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Essay on "Aquarium" (500 Words)

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Human is the animal who loves to live in a community. Human beings prefer to live in a family or group. Food, clothing and shelter are the three basic need of human. Exactly opposite is the case with aquatic life. There are fishes that swim in group but never live in a group. They do not have any shelter under the water. They feel safe hidden inside a rock.Man uses fish tank in his house to decorate it. This fish tank comes in small sizes. However there are many museums and even hotels and restaurants that have aquarium inside the premises.Aquarium is the place where different species of fishes are preserved. Many fishes look attractive due their body colors and feathers. They look stylish and can definitely increase the beauty…
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Life Sketch of Alauddin Khalji – Essay

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Historians are not unanimous about the achievements, successes, works and policies of Alauddin Khalji but there is no denying the fact that he was one of the best Sultans of Delhi Sultanate. Elphins-tone remarks, “Alauddin’s reign was glorious and in spite of many absurd and oppressive measures he was, on the whole, a successful monarch, and exhibited a just exercise of his power.”Barani has also commented, “Alauddin could not read or write a letter, and was bad-tempered, obstinate and hard-hearted; fortune befriended him and his schemes were generally successful.” Historians like S. R. Sharma, Dr. K. S. Lai, Dr. R. C. Majumdar and Lanepoole have also praised him for his successes achieved during his life time which were great and unique in the sphere of territorial expansion and adminis­trative reforms.…
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Complete Biography of R.K. Narayan

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Narayan is a classic teller of tales: R.K. Narayan regarded as one of the “Big three” among the Indian novelists in English has been admired for his remarkable gift for telling stories, portraying memorable people of small oddities and eccentricities, and for his humour. To tell a story engagingly is no mean gift for a novelist. image source: vicklinde.files.wordpress.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and humor, about a fictional town Malgudi and its inhabitants; and their little lives. Narayan is a classic teller of tales; an enduring appeal springs from his canvas where common men and women of all times and places are joined in their commonalty.Narayan had an extensive writing career marked with a rich literary output: Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer…
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Short Summary of “The Bachelor of Arts” by R.K. Narayan

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The world offers a more inscrutable fate in Narayan’s second novel, The Bachelor of Arts (1937), where the youthful energy and irony of the young graduate Chandran only take him so far. Narayan’s dislike for the colonial education Swami and Chandran receive seems to have hardened into conviction by now: the system of education churns out “clerks for business and administrative offices,” and reduces India to a “nation of morons.”But a lot of clerks is what a dependent economy needs; there is really no way out for the intelligent and sensitive Chandran, who joins, as reluctantly as Swami once did, other adolescent students in playing at being grown up and serious. He is not at ease in doing so; he feels “distaste for himself’ as the secretary of his college’s…
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Essay on Hegel's Theory of State

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The most seminal contribution of Hegel to Political Philosophy is his theory of state. Like Plato, Hagel is a great system builder. His theory of state is rooted in the axiom: “What is rational is real and what is real is rational”. It means that whatever exists in the world is according to Reason and whatever is according to reason exists.Hegel’s theory of state is based on the basic premise about the gradual unfolding of Reason or Spirit or Absolute Idea through a dialectical process, Reason gets its perfect realisation in the state. Thus, the state is Reason personified. State is rational, state is real; therefore what is rational is real.Here, real does not only mean that which is empirical but that which is fundamental. In fact, Hegel distinguishes between…
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Views of John Stuart Mill on Representative Government–Essay

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Mill began his Representative Government by stating that we can only decide which is the best form of government, by examining which form of government fulfils most adequately the purposes of government.For Mill, the point of having a government was that it performed two main functions: it must use the existing qualities and skills of the citizens to best serve their interests, and it must improve the moral, intellectual and active qualities of these citizens.A despotic government may be able to fulfil the first purpose, but will fail in the second. Only a representative government is able to fulfil these two functions. It is a representative government that combines judiciously the two principles of participation and competence which is able to fulfil the two functions of protecting and educating the…
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Sketch of Chandran’s Character in R.K. Narayan’s Novel – The Bachelor of Arts!

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Chandran, the darling of his family is deeply attached to his parents: Chandran, the final year student of B.A. History in Albert Mission College, Malgudi and the hero of the novel is the son of H.C. Venkatachala Iyer, a retired District Judge. Chandran lives with his parents and younger brother, Seenu in their palatial house in Lawley Extension. Chandran is very much attached to his parents. image source: itsmylifenmyspace.files.wordpress.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Though Chandran is not their only son, he is the darling of the family. His brother Seenu is also very much attached to him, and when he is absent from home for long during his sanyas, he finds no one in the house except the cook to talk to. Chandran is very much attached to his parents. He spends some…
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Essay on Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry

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The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian poetry edited by Prof. V.K. Gokak has listed about fifty earlier Indian poets writ­ing in English. While the most important of them have been discussed in the foregoing pages there are a number of others who, even if they were not of the stature of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, had written poems of quality which deserve attention. These are poets who have more in common with the earlier poets rather than with the poets of the post-Independence period though many of them lived and wrote in the first few decades of the twentieth century.Behramji Malabari (1853-1912), for instance wrote in the style of the eighteenth century English poets, particularly like Pope and Dryden. His The Indian Muse in English Garb (1876)…
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Short Biography of Henry Louis Derozio

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Henry Louis Derozio (1809-31) was an Indian only in the sense that his mother was an Indian, for his father was Portuguese. Indian poetry in English may be said to have begun with this talented young man who was also a teacher of poetry who inspired in his pupils a great love for the language and literature of England. Unfortunately Derozio died young, at twenty-one. Though from his father Derozio had inherited a strong prejudice against Hindus and Hinduism, he had inher­ited from his mother a great love for India. image source: file2.answcdn.comDerozio was undoubtedly influenced by the Romantics, particularly by Byron, Scott, Shelley and Keats. As E.F. Oaten has observed, in both Keats and Derozio “there was a passionate temperament combined with unbounded sympathy with nature. Both died when…
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