Interesting Facts about IndiaIndia never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combi
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Hinglish, a blending of the words "Hindi" and "English", means to combine both types of words in one sentence. This is more commonly seen in urban and semi-urban centers of the Hindi-speaking states of India, but is slowly spreading into rural and remote areas of these states via television, mobile phones and word of mouth, slowly achieving vernacular status. Many speakers do not realize that they are incorporating English words into Hindi sentences or Hindi words into English sentences. David C
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Indian English or English in IndiaImagine you are an American corresponding with an Indian company. One day, you receive a mail that uses lines such as- “You will be intimated shortly” and ends with a polite note saying “We sincerely hope that you will do the needful at your earliest possible convenience”. Duh! Well, there is no need to panic. This is not some uneducated idiot talking to you. You are just getting a taste of colloquial English, a legacy left behind by the British who controlled I
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Influences: British and AmericanThe form of English that Indians and all the other people of the subcontinent are taught in schools is essentially British English. A socially-superior accent is deemed to be that of Received Pronunciation. However, even during the time of the British Raj, before the partition of Pakistan and Bangladesh, Indian English had established itself as an audibly distinct dialect of the language with its own quirks and specific phrases. Indian spellings typically follow B
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Indian English comprises several dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in the Indian Subcontinent. These dialects evolved during and after the period when Britain exercised colonial rule over India. English is the one of the official languages of India, with about ninety million speakers, according to the 1991 Census of India, but fewer than a quarter of a million people call it their first language.[1] With the exception of some families who communicate primarily in English, as well
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"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-aliveness, and third, common sense. "
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By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of HertfordshireWhy do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.Hundreds of extraor
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In 1943 Abraham Maslow, wrote an influential paper that set out five fundamental human needs and their hierarchical nature. A key aspect of the model is the hierarchical nature of the needs.Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is most often displayed as a pyramid, with lowest levels of the pyramid made up of the most basic needs and more complex needs are at the top of the pyramid. Needs at the bottom of the pyramid are basic physical requirements including the need for food, water, sleep and warmth. Onc
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A Prayer for Today:My Lord! Open up for me my heart.And ease for me my task.And untie the knot of my tongue.That they may understand my speech.qur'an - 20:25-28 - prayer of mosesRead more…
Maine sapno ko dur hote Dekha Hai....Jo mila nahi ushe Khote Dekha Hai....Log kehte hai Fhul Humesha Hanste Hai...Lekin maine fhulo ko akle me Rota Dekha haiसुबह मै नहीं...घर मेरे से...एक लाश निकलती है,,,,,,जो चलती है किसी को दूढने.........सफ़र हो जाता है ख़तम,, चाहत हो जिसकी वो चीज़ नहीं मिलाती है...........हाल है मेरा ना जाने केसा नहीं जनता...........बस एक कम्बख़त दिल को चैन नहीं कही मिलता है.................फन्ना हो जाने का मन करता है मेरा मौत तेरे दामन में..........मगर जिन्दगी कहती है दो पल
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Some of the most calming moments in the day are when the sun rises and sets over the landscape. The photographers have a special knack for immortalizing these magical occasions. Take a look at these eye-catching photographs and you too might be inspired to start capturing your own special dawn or dusk moments.
Hi everybody,This will be a writing exercise. I will write to you about how I spent my summer and then I would like you to tell me what you did this summer? Of course, my summer was spent in the northern hemisphere; if you are in South America, Australia or lots of other places, it would not be summer. But, for now, let's write about vacation (or a break from work or school).For the last couple of months, I have been staying at a small lake in mid-Michigan, USA. Michigan is surrounded by several
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Ramadan is the holiest month on the lunar Islamic calendar. Throughout the Muslim world, traditional daily fasting begins at sunrise or Fajr, and ends at sundown or Maghrib, when foods prepared especially for the month of Ramadan are eagerly devoured!This year (2009), Ramadan starts on Saturday, August 22st and continues for 30 days.Because of the Ramadan I'd like to invite you to this link. You can find the Holy Quran in Arabic as well as English words. You can also listen. I hope you like it.
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Double-vision, muscle cramps, headaches, dizziness and sleepiness are already rearing its ugly head at me. I must admit that I am not as young as I used to be. A few years back, I would have just said that this is just another night at the office looking forward to the break of dawn, signalling me to go home so that I could snuggle in my warm bed until the sandman visits.As time passes, the demand of work piles up like quicksand burying me under tons of assignments and deadlines. But I have to g
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Today, all developments and progresses in the cultural, industrial, and defence arenas are based on scientific researches. The world's big powers on the assumption of tightening their control over others as well as prolonging their survival spend astronomical amounts on scientific researches in the military field. They think the more lethal weapons of mass destruction they manufacture the more their ill-defined interests would be secured. However, Iran, which is an Islamic Republic in the true s
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God, the mortal world and the best of God's creation, that is, mankind, have always shaped the quintessential issues of the human thought. God is One and Only and the Almighty Creator of all things and beings. It is important to note that the core of the words of Gnostics has always been Divine Names and Attributes, and in fact Gnostics consider reaching God as the ultimate goal of the mystic journey.In addition to the Gnostics, for the philosophers, poets, the literati, and other scientific gro
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