So, while I find the dogged determination of tuk tuk drivers, shopkeepers, and roadside vendors irritating, I bite my tongue and decline their incessant invitations as politely and respectfully as possible, remembering that they are doing their best to survive a very difficult situation, out of t...
he term “manage” is derived from the Italian word maneggiare, meaning “to handle,” which itself comes from the Latin word manus, meaning “hand.” The modern concept of management has its roots in the French word mesnagement, which emerged in the 17th or 18th century. The effective ...
A Brahmin is born into his caste, a Brahmin woman is born his daughter. "Brahmin woman" is a derived identity. The second irony is that in today's Tamil Nadu, Brahminism has been stripped of virtually all its traditional material and political claims to power-the religious su...
One aspect that needs to be kept in mind, though, about “Spring Thunder,” Phase I, while looking at India after Naxalbari, can be stated thus: In the failure of armed struggle and mass mobilization to come together, in the inability of the developing class consciousness and evolving ...
Earlier excavations at this site about 30 years ago yielded two pottery inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi from the same era. Additionally, a pottery inscription was found in 1995 at Berenike, a Roman settlement of the Red Sea coast of Egypt. These discoveries proved material evidence to corroborate ...
a genome-wide scan of selection comparing Roma, their local host population, and a Northwestern Indian population, to identify the selective pressures faced by the Roma mainly after they settled in Europe. We identify under recent selection several pathways implicated in immune responses, among them...
Note: The Companyweb site will be inaccessible while the command is running. It is best to run the command after business hours. The amount of time the command takes to run will vary on the size of the database and the speed of the machine. On a reference machine with...
While many would say that corruption is something that is unavoidable in politics, the pressing concern here is that there is a high probability there are none good men, capable men, men of justice, men of principals and God fearing men in the BN & UMNO! We are talking...
Indian laws require the identity of a rape victim to be protected. She has been given the moniker “Abhaya,” meaning without fear, and her case has become the latest to fuel surging anger in India overendemic violence against women.
Cellulose is a key component of plant cell walls that is made up of glucose molecules, while hemicellulose provides support and contains various sugar monomers. Lignin adds rigidity and resistance to degradation in plant cell walls. Figure 1. The structure of the core organic components in ...