Tag: India
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Why Indian Truck Drivers Are Carriers Of Economy & HIV/AIDS
An unusual fog seems to wrap around a local tea stall on Delhi-Chandigarh Highway or what is also famously known as the Grand Trunk Road. One of the oldest cross-nation highways that has its end in Afghanistan. As soon as one enters the stall and makes their way to the back of it, a foul…
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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?
Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a…
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Uterus For Money: India’s Medical Scandal Forcing Poor Women To Give Up Wombs
Menstruation is always considered a taboo in India and this problematic issue continues as a large majority of the women population who belong to poor class families, have no educational status and are forced to make choices under constraints that have a long-term irreversible impact on their health and lives. Poor women in India, who…
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The Diva On Roads: India’s Love with Premier Padmini
Fiat 1100- D (Delight) or Pad or Padmini, or Bombay’s Kalli-Peeli is emblematic of Indian enterprises that stood firm on their legs during an era of strict licensing and state control. Almost 4-decades long journey of Padmini from the 1960s made it synonymous with a family luxury car in the yesteryears. Today, well remembered as…
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Suvarnabhumi: Tracing the Impact of Mahabharata on South East Asian Countries
The Mahabharata is the cornerstone of South Asian civilizations. It happened and was recorded in the Indian mainland of the time but has a far-reaching impact. Through this FaultLines article, explore South Asia from the eyes of The Mahabharata.
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Widows of Vrindavan: Banished by Tradition, Abandoned by Families
The Mahabharata is one of the two highest revered epics from Ancient India that forms the lifelines of billions of India who see it as source of spiritual fulfillment. Mahabharat chronicles the unimaginable powers of Lord Krishna and his love towards the beloved. The Great Battle did take place in Kurukshetra but to trace Krishna’s…
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Strangling Bulbul: The harrowing experience of Kashmir’s half-widows
Decked by thick forests, a land of lakes holds so many stories that one can barely go through all of them in one life. A place so beautiful in the world yet having wounds so deep that a single cut can bleed out the entire body.
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How This Government School is Helping Students Learn As They Play
Dhoom Manikpur Village Primary and Upper-Primary School in Dadri, Greater Noida has become a role model for other schools on many fronts. It is the only school in its neighborhood to have student-friendly facilities which give equal opportunities to all students including specially-abled students. Just over a year ago, an active busy road passed through…
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How This Government School is Reshaping Its Education System
Located in Dadri, Greater Noida, Primary School Chithera is reshaping its education system in the most innovative way. The school has been able to do so with the help of the SRF Foundation, who are implementing the CSR initiative of Indigo Airlines’ to improve the condition of schools all over India. The condition of the…
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Understanding Ronald Reagan’s Reaganomics
Reaganomics is President Ronald Reagan’s conservative economic policy that dealt with the 1981- 82 U.S recession and stagflation. Stagflation is the stagnant nature of the economy within double-digit inflation. Reagan differed from his predecessors President Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon on how the government should be involved in the economy of the country. Ronald…
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