Stop Polluting, Start Collaborating: Environmental Thoughts in Bishop Fulton J Sheen

The United Nations declared the year 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity and the year 2011 as the Year of Forest. Life on Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological species. Our negligence of the environment and deep rooted egotism provoke us to act as autocratic despots. Instead of having mutual encouragement […]

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“The Master and His Apprentice:” Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter

Distinguished writers are often voracious readers. Reading multifarious works helps them to get acquainted with diverse writing flairs and to set up ideas for plotting stories. Acquiring diversity in writing assists also in escaping repetition and in developing imagination. Thus the writer grasps new writing strategies and techniques among a wide variety of topics and […]

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Financial Inclusion – A Hundred Small Steps

Ensuring easy access to financial system to every individual is recognized as a critical element to broaden the base of economic growth of the nation. Hence financial inclusion has been conceived as the most important among ‘a hundred small steps’ to achieve the goal of inclusive growth. Committee on Financial Sector Reforms 2009 has devised […]

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Towards an Urban Renaissance: Urban Planning & Development in India

India is a country where history has been written for more than 5000 years. It is still alive with traditional values brought down through generations from ancient, medieval, precolonial, colonial, modern and independent times. The history of urban settlement dates back to about 3000 BC and it has left an impressive heritage of achievements, cultural […]

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The Quest for Self-actualisation in Manju Kapur’s novel, “Difficult Daughter

Indian society is a patriarchal one. Women under the patriarchal pressure and control were subjected to much more brunt and social ostracism. They are discriminated and biased due to their sex. Many of the women writers of the twentieth century have started to represent through their works, the quest for the individuality of the female […]

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