Interesting Facts about India

India is a large country and has rich cultural heritage. It is the birthplace of several tribes, religions and cultures. Here are some interesting facts about India. 1. Origin of the Name ‘India’: The origin of the name ‘India’ is derived from River

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Exogamy and Endogamy

Exogamy and Endogamy The formal rules describing those whom one should or should not marry are what anthropologists describe as rules of exogamy and endogamy. Exogamy: Exogamy refers to the custom of marrying to persons outside of specific community or groups. In other

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Short Paragraph on Importance of Family Relationships

Family relationships refers to the connection (of blood, marriage, adoption, etc.) among various members of a family. Positive Family relationships considered to be the most important factor for the overall development and well-being of a child. Healthy family relationships promotes the transmission of good habits

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Short Essay on Perseverance

Perseverance Perseverance is continued application to a work once begun. It is the one great secret of success in life. There are men who are disheartened by failures. They will find it hard to attain success in the world. Perseverance is the

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Short Paragraph on Cinema

Cinema Cinema is a wonderful invention of modern science. Now it has become a part of human life. Uses: Cinema has many uses such as: It has great education value. We learn many things from cinema. It is most powerful medium of mass

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Brief History of Portuguese in India

Portuguese History in India In 1498 Vaso-da-Gama discovered the sea route to India. This was a great event of history. For, it opened the gate to India’s contact with Europe in the modern age. We have already seen that Alfonso d’ Albuquerque

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Short Paragraph on Brain Drain and Its Causes

Brain Drain: Brain Drain refers to the immigration of scientists, engineers, doctors and other technically qualified persons usually from an underdeveloped and undeveloped country to a more advanced or developed country. Every year thousands of skilled professionals and Indians trained abroad make frantic

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Cap-seller and the Monkeys (Moral Story)

Cap-seller and the Monkeys In a hot summer day a cap-seller was selling caps from door to door. At noon he felt tired, he sat under the shade of a tree to take some rest. Soon he felt asleep with a cap

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Poverty and Child Labour in India

Child Labour is closely linked to poverty. India being a thickly populated country. A large section of people being compelled to live below poverty line. A large numbers of children in India are engaged as laborers to earn some money for their family’s sake.

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Forms, Merits and Demerits of Democracy

Democracy Herodotus, the Greek writer, defined democracy as that form of government in which the supreme power of the state is vested in the hands of the community as a whole. The most modern definition of democracy was given by President Lincoln,

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Direct and Indirect Democracy

Direct and Indirect Democracy Direct Democracy Democracy is said to be direct where all citizens meet to elect the office-bearers of the state and decide the policy of the government. In the big states of today, where the population is very large,

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