When Germany and the Soviets attacked Poland in 1939, Galicia was united to the rest of Ukraine. The German-Soviet war in 1941 brought hopes of freedom and even a declaration of independence in western Ukraine. However, the brutal Nazi occupation provoked a resistance movement, first against the...
This is true in all family systems except the defunct matrilineal system of the Nayar castes in Kerala. Within all branches of Hinduism, priests can only be male, though they may be boys. In Islam, the leaders of a prayer group are males. In Zoroastrianism and Roman Catholicism, only men...
and the semi-finished, vandalized, grand shivAlaya of Bhoja lies in ruin on the outskirts of Bhopal, almost as a telling memorial to what became of that Hindu intellectual flowering.
However, it can only provide a mid-term “assessment of the assessor” (the latter, in this case, is the AI FORA project) because the part on modelling and simulation, using all these collected data for scenario analysis and policy recommendations, is still outstanding (see Volume II). Furt...
prevalent in other parts of India too. In Maharashtra, you have the Dashavatara, in Karnataka you have the Yakshagana The Kathak dance of North India and the ktha*ali dance of Kerala also originated as dance dramas and derive their names from the Sanskrit work 'Katha' which means a ...
Nadesar Palace is our favorite place to stay in the holy city of Varanasi, a top cultural destination in India. Read More » June 2, 2007 Just Back: India in Photos Highlights from our most recent tour of India, including the best of Agra and the Taj Mahal, Varanasi, Delhi, Kerala,...
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We take you on a trip through the myriad delicacies of Kerala. The App provides recipes of around 200 traditional food varieties of God’s Own Country. Now you…
of Europe could easily be drawn to the lush landscape of Kerala and Goa and, especially in the former, the air-conditioned “House boats”. Some segments in this series provide even more pictures of such locations. Finally, Indian classical dance routines are unmatched in both their exquisite ...
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