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Social Change characterizes every society. However its direction, speed and nature are affected by several factors.Main factors which affect social change can be discussed a follows: 1. Natural Factors: ADVERTISEMENTS: Natural forces and factors play an important role in unifying or disintegrating the society. Although human beings have made tremendous progress during the last 150 years or so, yet they have not been able to wield full control over the nature.A storm, earthquake, flood, drought, disease and similar natural events even today can disrupt the social system. Natural calamities like floods, earthquakes, draughts, famines and other natural disasters always force changes in the social conditions and life of the affected people. Image Source: saridreams.files.wordpress.comOn the one hand these factors and forces act as a source of big loss for the…

Festivals are the celebration of togetherness the celebrations of being one of the family. Festival of Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan is one such major occasion. It is the celebration of brothers and sisters.It is one festival that primarily belongs to the North and Western regions of India but celebrated throughout the country with the same verve. Regional celebrations may be different but Raksha Bandhan has become an integral part of those customs.Raksha Bandhan is known by different names in different states of India, by different communities. Raksha Bandhan significance also varies with the region. Raksha Bandhan has a different significance in southern and coastal regions. Rakhi Purnima is celebrated in the northern and north-western parts of India with a lot of zest and esprit. ADVERTISEMENTS: Here, Raksha Bandhan is the…

The post-Independence period in the history of Indian English poetry is generally equated with the modern period. As ex­plained in the foregoing section of this introduction, not all the poets of this period fit into the group which can be considered as ‘modern’ in the sense in which the term is often used. Poets like Harindranath Chattopadyaya, Surendranath Dasgupta, Anilbaran Roy, K.D. Sethna and J. Krishnamurti lived and wrote in the post-Independence period but they belonged more to an older tradition drawing as they did their inspiration from poets like Aurobindo and from indigenous philosophical and mysti­cal traditions.Their poetry was to say the least, not ‘new’, for new poetry is said to have begun only with Nissim Ezekiel and the poets of the Writers Workshop group led by P. Lai.…

This poem is a revolt against the commonplace reality. According to Keats there is a difference between ordinary object and an object of beauty. While the effects of an ordinary object are temporary to our senses, they do not remain long in our minds and fade away with the time passes.But on the other hand the effects of the objects of beauty permanently appeals to our senses, they do not fade with time and lingers in our senses. No time and space can destroy the effect of beauty of objects.Keats describes the sun, the moon, the old trees, the daffodils, the clear streams and the forest which are rich with beautiful flowers-as the objects of beauty. These objects permanently appeals to our senses and nothing neither time nor space can…