Now the question arises what factors lay the foundations for a particular culture and what factors mould it give its distinct aroma. ... For example even when adopting the British and Indian culture the practice of rejoicing over alcohol had to be kept aside in Pakistani culture die to Islamic beliefs. ... I feel that culture cannot be globalised and that any allegation to the contrary is merely an attempt to legitimise the domination by one culture over the others, a domination that is due, moreover, not to its fundamental cultural value but to extra-cultural factors, whether technol...

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The idea of getting killed over night from an animal or dying from starvation was not a tentative option, so people decided to stay together and work with each other so that they would be able to survive. ... Answers about why does it rain or where do we go after we die, represent some of the hundreds of reasons people started to believe that they were not alone and there was someone else that was not only watching over them. ... Some of the deepest questions that religion tries to answer are who are we, where do we go from here, and is this the right way that I should live my life. ... For in...

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This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Here the...

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