Narayan is one of India's greatest writers. ... Narayan writes his fiction in English, Though he was raised in India and still resides in Mysore, the city of his birth. Because India was once a colony of Great Britain, the English language continues to play an important role in India's culture. ...
One such case is that of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, who "was so fixated by the dream of owning atomic bombs that he allegedly offered to pay India the equivalent of its national debt- nearly $18 billion for the technology." But India refused to sell Qaddafi its technology. ... With recent conflicts between Iraq and the U.S. & Britain, and also India and Pakistan, the threat of unleashing the power of such a weapon has increased greatly. In the past decades, India and Pakistan have come close on three occasions to starting a nuclear war. ... Surprisingly enough, starting cultures for...
As the cultures were revised by economy, stronger economies imposed their cultural practices to the weak ones. ... In a process of unequal cultural encounter, 'foreign' populations have been compelled to be the subjects and subalterns of Western empire, while, no less significantly, the West has come to face with the 'alien' and exotic culture of its 'Other'. ... The current century has seen a magnitude of rise and fall of political power and economical, political, social and structural changes, which without doubt have influenced any society's culture that w...
In 1880 (lasting until 1915) reached its high peak of European control of Africa, parts of Asia, and India, along with US involvement in Latin America. ... Because miscommunication will always occur, there will always be differences in ideas, cultures, and beliefs, hatred, and greed in this world. ...
The Romans, the Mongols, the British and the Spanish empires and many more have all made us who we are today; from one empire another one was given birth to, but also as the culture, language, and food and even combat transformed and developed. ... The world has developed and changed in languages and also cultures. ... Tobacco was also found from India, the addictive thing that is in cigarettes. ...
China's 1911 revolution was somewhat different from those in other countries in that the factors leading up to it were not mainly short term but rather were part of China's long-term culture. ... China has also pressured its close ally, Pakistan, to ease tensions with India. ...
