(in Hindi, Bharat; official designation, Republic of India). India is a state in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean basin. It is situated along the most important air and sea routes linking the countries of South and Southeast Asia with Europe and Africa. The maximum length of the ...
The year 1947 had brought independence from British rule, and religion and politics have been intertwined ever since. Hindu pride caused nationalists to fight fiercely for positions of power in both spheres. In 1992, a sixteenth-century Muslim mosque was destroyed by an angry mob that was convin...
by the East India Company established their commercial control over vast areas in India, which very soon had an administrative dimension to it. The British rule in India was, however, formalised by the direct takeover of India by the British Crown, after the First War of Independence in 1857...
7. Either its English or Hindi and the regional news channels, the exasperation among viewers is clear. People have not just sort of 'boycotted' but consuming news through TV that used to be an essential part of one's life, is a thing of past now. 8. The hate peddlers and hate prom...
(Greek; in Hindi, probably Parvataka). King of an ancient Indian state in central Punjab. In the battle of the Hydaspes (Jhelum River) in 326B.C., Porus, at the head of a great army that included many war elephants, offered strong resistance to a Greco-Macedonian invasion. However, ...
In a revision of her 2011 doctoral dissertation at Ghent University, Verbeke examines a certain construction in the Indo-Aryan language Hindi-Urdu that has long attracted the attention of linguists because it is rare among languages in the Indo-European family. She elucidates the structure and form...
There is the 5 hour version in English, a shorter version which runs for 2 hours and 16 minutes, and an even shorter version which runs for an hour. A Hindi version exists, running for 2 hours and 20 minutes, and a German version at 1 hour and 44 minutes. Released: 1968 Directed ...
Iwonder how many of you remember that old Hindi film ‘Anand’ in which superstar Rajesh Khanna played Anand, who is dying but loves people so much that he wants to touch the life of every single person that he meets. He stops strangers on the street, involves himself in their dilemmas ...
It also contains other national festivals such as the Republic Day and Independence Day. Unity amongst people is demonstrated by the fact that irrespective of the religion they belong to, they tend to take part in all the festivals. For example, the Hindus whole-heartedly take part in Eid ...
President Obama makes a toast in honor of India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. If you watch the you tube video here, it appears he actually said “Prime Minister Mohammad Singh”. He welcomed all in hindi, “aapka suagut hai.” Continue Reading » ...