... this mission to pay a remarkable tribute to our national leader Mahatma Gandhi for his 150th anniversary by the year 2019 and to make Gandhiji's dream come true. The Duration of Swacch bharath will be over a period of five years commencing from 02-Oct-2014. Our prime minister has ... long way in pursuit of its mission to mobilise community responsibility for environmental assessment and improvement, which has also earned it numerous laurels from both within as well as beyond its shores. But a greater opportunity of work and engagement still awaits our footsteps and we are committed to tak...

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WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published ... manuscript to an Indian editor he immediately loved the book and saw a marketing potential far larger than Ms. Roy had hoped. He contacted an agent in England. Within three days that agent was on Ms. Roy's doorstep asking to represent her. Rights to the book were sold in 18 countries prior to publication - now, ... of the brutality we...

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... -setting movement of new state formation quite positively and thereby created a new state, a regional one indeed! Thanks to the supreme sacrifice of its students and youth, the new Telangana became a dream true. Thus, a trend-setting event has happened in the recent past. With the success of such a democratic movement, many more new state movements might emulate the Telangana path. The 29th ... so far! For, the four and half crore population of this new Telangana has had a saga of democratic struggles and desperately awaited a momentous occasion such as this. It's a long anticipated drea...

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... religion was based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.who was born 563 BC. The myth surrounding his birth involved a dream that his mother had while she was pregnant. She dreamed that a white elephant entered her womb through her side. This dream was interpreted by Hindu priests to mean that she would have a son who would become a universal teacher or monarch. Gautama ... God. The world and everything in it is not considered to be something distinct from the Absolute Being. In Hinduism these things are the Absolute Being and the Absolute is within as opposed to beyond. b) Problem wi...

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... akin to these sediments. Any effort to pick one pebble leads to dislocation of all the others, and ultimately, erodes some part of the riverbed. Where perfect unity is a utopian dream, the only way out to liberality is through tolerance. And the world is yet to embrace this tolerance in entirety. In simpler words-yes, we are a flawed nation. How then ... Wi-Fi have been immensely effective. The 'Kiss of Love' campaign, demanding freedom of expression for affection, was a mirror to the society where moral policing rules the roost. Somewhere within the tornado of change, we've begun ...

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... pay for the technological secrets or for the actual ingredients for these weapons. One such case is that of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, who "was so fixated by the dream of owning atomic bombs that he allegedly offered to pay India the equivalent of its national debt- nearly $18 billion for the technology." But India refused to sell Qaddafi its ... war when the hostility gets too high to handle. The favorite biological weapons of nations with biological weapons are Anthrax, Botulinum, Clostridium and ricin. These agents usually kill the victims within a day or two after it has co...

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... refer to the physical touch, but to the human one. Its people are even more varied than its geography, different castes, a variety of languages which no other country can come within reach of, religions and people who amongst themselves are very different, have always lived together. Living together, despite some certain conflicts, is peaceful. In general Indian people are very inviting ... is shocking, there is another point to consider, that there are two parts of one hour and a half each, and that there are in hindi without English subtitles. Bollywood, the dream city built in the Bo...

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