Christmas is one of the most popular festivals in the world. It is celebrated in order to commemorate the birth of Lord Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. Celebrated with immense zeal and fervor in maximum parts of the world, Christmas has now become a global festival. On the occasion of Christmas, people decorate streets, their houses, and shops with …
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Hanukkah Traditions: Jewish Culture & Traditions
Hanukkah, the festival of lights, has a number of traditions and customs associated with it. Some have their source in the past, while others have evolved from the earlier trends. For instance, lighting the Hanukkah Menorah is an age-old Hanukkah tradition, associated with the miraculous burning of the Menorah, during the re-dedication of the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. The Jews …
Read More »Yesudasan Biography, Indian Cartoonist
Yesudasan was born on June 12, 1938 at Mavelikkara, Kerala in South India. His first cartoon appeared in 1955 in a magazine called ‘Asoka’ published from Kottayam. But it was only in 1960, he made an entry into the world of political cartooning, that too through ‘Janayugam’, the mouth-piece of the Communist Party in Kerala. In Janayugam he started a …
Read More »Dr. Rajendra Prasad was no rubberstamp
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, on January 30, 1948, brought Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel, differing on various issues, together. On Nehru’s 60th birthday, 14 November 1948, Patel praised Nehru for leading the nation safely out of the crisis that faced the country during the year and for enhancing India’s image abroad. Nehru responded by describing Patel as a tower …
Read More »Satyadev Prasad Biography For Students
Satyadev Prasad, (born 19 September 1979) is an athlete from India. He competes in archery. Prasad competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men’s individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to the round of 16. The third match was Prasad’s downfall, …
Read More »International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2019
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually, currently in the state of Goa, on the western coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence of the film art; contributing to the …
Read More »Raj Kapoor Biography For Students
Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 – June 2, 1988) was a legendary Indian actor, director, and producer of Bollywood movies. Raj Kapoor began his career as a clapper boy assisting Kidar Sharma. At age eleven, he appeared in films for the first time, in the 1935 film Inquilab. Raj Kapoor’s big break, however, came when he played the hero’s role …
Read More »Top 10 Bollywood Sports Biopics
The past few years have seen quite a few sports biopics in Bollywood, and there are many more in the pipeline. While there is a huge audience that is drawn to such subjects, we spoke to filmmakers who told us that making sports biopics is no mean feat. They also spoke about the challenges that they face in putting such …
Read More »Washington State: US Encyclopedia For Students
Washington State, named in honor of the nation’s first president and popularly known as the Evergreen State because of its extensive forests, is located in the extreme northwestern corner of the continental United States. The Canadian province of British Columbia lies to the north, and the states of Idaho and Oregon form Washington’s eastern and southern borders. Puget Sound and …
Read More »Multifaceted Madan Mohan Malaviya
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, the recipient of this year’s Bharat Ratna, acted as a bridge between the extreme and the moderate views in the Congress HOW does one introduce a person like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya? Perhaps as India‘s first great multi-lingual journalist and newspaper founder or as someone who strove to establish that education in India needed to be …
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