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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V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He was the only Indian in Mountbatten's inner team. Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted. It was Menon who realised the need to get the ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate