" This type of marriage is viewed as the most preferred due to giving the youth time to enjoy their adulthood. ... In an arranged married, a potential bride and groom are chosen by parents, matchmakers, religious leaders or community leaders to guide a daughter or son through the procedure of finding the right marital partner. ... Since they decide on the partner for their daughter or son. ... Dowry was a type of barter system; some parents would sell their daughter's off for money and also to get rid of them. ... Her mother was basically selling her daughter off to men who Ashima ha...

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In fact, when I think of the word 'liberal', Rabindranath Tagore's stirring words instantly come to mind: "Where the mind is without fear and the Head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let my country awake" Tagore made a sincere entreaty to Indians more than a century ago, albeit one that has fallen on deaf ears, time and again. ... Our daughters have the liberty to read and write. ... Middle-class families no longer limit or discourage ...

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Arranged Marriages : should the parents decide Some people believe in love at first sight, while others believe it takes time to love someone. ... It takes time, patience, and trust to love that person and positively is sure it will last. ... The parents by word of mouth from a friend or relative would hear of someone's son or daughter. Than they would go and approach the family if they were of a good respectable background and ask if they are willing to marry off their son or daughter with theirs. ... When you are in an arranged marriage it takes time to really get to know someone to...

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My daughter as received several mailings asking her would she like to increase her male members size and offering her Viagra the cant even get the gender correct they are sending this mail to. ... Its good to see at last the governments are trying to do something about this problem and not before time I might add. ... Its still not enough and they need to move faster this problem is growing, even today I received 12 emails from unknown sources and it all takes time to sort out. Time is money therefore they are stealing my time. ... [Another article by Mr J Gourley of news.com says: Time to...

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WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. ... Roy does not spend time thinking or worrying about the future. ... I'm not like that you know, partially because there's a little of me who looks at it in geological time. ... The action of the book focuses on a visit to India from the twins' Uncle Chacko's ex-wife and daughter. The daughter tragically dies during that visit. ...

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With the passage of time she gets married and enters into life of marriage. ... That was a large family and that kind of family structure was a common sight at that time. ... And for the first time we find a political smell in the novel as the husband says: "this is a dependent country," (45). ... Hearing the decision from her husband, she becomes furious for the first time with her husband whom she adores and loves most. ... When her child tries to convince her for the last time to cross the borderline, she replies: "Same country, same type of people, same type of language. ...

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Hard work was part of my life, but still she is smiling all the time I've seen her. ... She always advices me and her daughter that "Don't feel helpless in life and try to live your life in a way that people who are related to you can remember you with pride and respect." ...

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So much was happening in the boarder areas but the attempts of the missionaries to enter the country failed time and again. ... Nepal has been called a mono centric society for a long time where there has been no religious competition and has a history of being closed Hindu state, but is now facing a growing Christian community from 0% in 1951 to 0.168 in 1991, 0.45 in 2001 and 1.42 in 2011.2 A report published by The Centre for the Study of Global Christianity, entitled Gordon Conwell Seminary Report, reports that the Nepal has the highest percentage of annual growth of Christianity (10%) amo...

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Woman could not become monks or hold positions in the church because they were viewed as "Daughters of Eve" inherently sinful and objects of sexual temptation. ... Some churches could hold thousands of people at a time. ... During this time, iconoclasts came about (those who favored the destruction of icons) and destroyed many of the religious images. ... Muslim scholars came about a lunar calendar to know what time it was during the day. ...

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Physical abuse includes but is not limited to the following: • Punishing a child excessively • Smacking, punching, beating, shaking, kicking, biting, burning, shoving, choking, throwing, stabbing, grabbing • Hitting a child (with a hand, stick, strap, or other object) • Leaving a child in an uncomfortable and/or undignified posture for an extended period of time or in a poor environment • Forcing a child to work in poor working conditions, or in work that is inappropriate for a child's age, over a long period of time • Gang violence • Harmful initiation ...

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Birth He was born on Sunday, 25th December 1876, seven days after integration of the Victorian reign of England in India. According to the school register of Karachi where he was admitted for early education, he was born on the 20th October 1875, on Newneham Road, in Wazir Mansion in Karachi. Jinn...

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