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CONTENTS
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Indian Diaspora
Get to Know Punjab
and the Punjab-ans
most famous fine
arts and crafts of
Odisha:
32
Cover Story
Deepika-and-Ranveer-
Singh-wedding
36
Story for Kids
13 easy and fun picnic
games and activity for kids
44
Natural Ways to
Suppress Appetite
Healthy Living
44
Indian Food
Chicken Cutlet
Recipe
52
NRI Profile
Omi-Vaidya

70
Desi News
Train-Accident-
in-Amritsar
74
In Business
WhatsApp’s Indian-Origin
Chief Business Officer
Neeraj Arora Quits after
seven years.
76
In Focus
Will Modi Win
This Election of
2019? 78
Freedom Fighter
Bhagat-Singh
88
LifeStyle
Want to know how to
live happy ALONE?
92
Relationship
Are having affairs before
marriage good?
96
Romance
Is your relationship
making you depressed?

CONTENTS
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112
108
116
124
120
Travelogue
The Divine
Beauty of Nature
is in Darjeeling
Indian History
Kargil- The War that
Showed The Indian
Pride To The World
Technology
People Believe
Personal
Attacks on
Social Media Automobiles
Trump Asks
General
Motors to Stop
Manufacturing
Cars in China
Indian vasthu
10 Vaastu Tips
for More Wealth
Indian Spiritual
Know your fear based on
your zodiac sign

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136
164
166
152
160
Indian Events
Indian-
Americans
Celebrate
Chhath Puja
in the United
States
Fashion
Pushbutton Spring -2018
Special Movie
Zero
Dev
Kavacham
Movie Review
Robot 2.0
Taxiwala
Sarkar
Hollywood Tea News
Ariana Grande
Nick Jonas
Priyanka Chopra
Star Gazing
Yellow Pages

CURRENT AFFAIRS
Telangana Assembly Elections 2018:
Reasons Why It Won’t Be a Cakewalk Win for TRS
India’s youngest state Telangana is going to polls
on December 7 and the approaching assembly
elections will be the first ever, after the state was
separated of Andhra Pradesh on June 2, 2014.
The results would be announced on November 11.
Triumphant in Previous Elections
In previous elections, Telangana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) emerged as the largest party by winning 63
out of 119 seats, which were held in then undivided
Andhra Pradesh in April-May 2014.
The Indian National Congress (INC) was limited to
21 seats and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) with
its then alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), secured 20 seats (five BJP and 15 TDP),
while the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
(AIMIM) secured seven and others eight.
Currently, TRS is making an effort to keep hold of
its power in the state while the Congress is trying
to get back its lost bastion. The BJP is also in the
ballot battle to make its presence felt.
But the question is who will
win the polls?
According to political experts, TRS commands a
lead, but the opposition alliance under Prajakutami
banner is fast closing that gap.
“TRS still have an edge, but the main Opposition
- the Congress-led alliance - is catching up fast,”
political analyst K Nageshwar said in talks with
Moneycontrol.
He shared several conditions that might go against
the ‘pink’ party in this battle of the ballot:
Prajakutami
KCR and his party, TRS, were confident
of the ‘there is no alternative’ or the TINA
factor and were widely believed to be able
to retain Telangana when they dissolved
the assembly in September. However, a
lot has changed on the ground in the past
three months. The surprise emergence
of an alliance between Congress, TDP,
TJS (Telangana Jana Samithi) and
CPI (Communist Party of India) under
‘Prajakutami’ banner was able to tap the
simmering discontent against the TRS
government, among youth and tenant
farmers.
If it makes an impact on the voting conduct

of the Telangana people, winning the election
would not be hands-down for the TRS.
Welfare Schemes
TRS leaders and candidates, along with
conducting massive poll campaign across
the state, are promoting welfare schemes
introduced by the state government, but then,
these schemes might as well be a drawback
for the party.
According to Nageshwar, beneficiaries of the
schemes may perhaps be inclined towards
TRS but non-beneficiaries are very critical of
the government.
Even the beneficiaries can turn up against
the government given the fact that these
schemes increase expectations, which beats
the satisfaction level of beneficiaries. In
such cases, if other parties announce better
schemes, even the existing beneficiaries can
be wooed and may vote in favor of any party
other than the TRS, he said.
Anti-Incumbency
Many TRS Members of Legislative Assembly
(MLAs) are drawing flak in their respective
constituencies for not being within reach and
performing below expectation. Asked the
ground behind it, Nageshwar said the MLAs
are weak as power has been concentrated in
the hands of KCR and his family members.
According to him, KCR could not build a
robust organization in the state.
“He (KCR) believed that the sentiments
made him win in 2014 and he thinks that his
own popularity will make him win this time.
So, the candidates are weak. If the party
wins the polls, it will be KCR’s personal
charisma, but how long will it remain?” he
quips.
Even KCR’s son and state minister KT Rama
Rao agreed that there was anti-incumbency
feeling against some leaders of the party.
He, however, believed that it will not impact
the party’s chances in assembly polls as it
will be “eclipsed” by the image of his father.
“People realize that this is the election where
KCR (as the chief minister is popularly
known as) gets elected as chief minister. For
that to happen, they have to vote for MLAs.
Whatever anti-incumbency or dissatisfaction
that could be against incumbent MLAs, that
will be eclipsed by KCR,” Rao told PTI.

Men’s Hockey World Cup: Indian Hockey Team
Capable of Creating History, Says Coach
The 2018 Men’s Hockey World Cup kicked
off on November 27, which is being held from
28 November to 16 December at the Kalinga
Stadium Bhubaneshwar, India.
The coach, during the inauguration, has
not squandered the chance to manifest his
confidence on the Indian team.
Hockey coach Harendra Singh said: “It’s a team
that can create history”.
He did not agree with a question that team is
inexperienced saying “It’s a team that can create
history. You have to have patience. Selectors
have considered these players good enough to
wear India colors, be proud of it. Every player in
the team understands it.”
Asked how he fancied his team’s chances,
he said “Did anyone think Ireland will reach
women’s WC final and Croatia make it to FIFA
WC final. Every team works on their strategy. It’s
about that particular day.”
He evidently did not like a question on defeat in
the Asian Games saying, “The hard fact is all of
us have forgotten Asian Games defeat and you
should also forget. We learn from history, gain
experience but there is no point recalling
it. We don’t even talk about it now in our
meetings.”
Asked about the format of this world cup,
where there is a long gap between team’s
matches, he replied “to be frank as a coach
I support this format. Hockey is a fast
game, result oriented, highly demanding.
Unfortunately, earlier we used to play the
next match in 24 hours. Whenever it used
to happen, we never got the desired result.
It helps to bring the team into the renewed
mood. You come back with a fresh mind and
legs. You can play at the same intensity, the
margin of error reduces.”
The inauguration ceremony witnessed the
biggest ever drone flying show in India.
The 16 teams were drawn into four groups,
each containing four teams. Each team
plays each other team in its group once. The
first-place team in each group advances to
the quarter-finals, while the second- and
third-placed teams in each group go into the
crossover matches. From there on a single-
elimination tournament will be played.

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1. stone craving:
Stone carving is one of the major
handcrafts of Odisha. The art form
primarily consists of custom carved
works, with the Sun Temple of
Konark and its intricate sculpture
and delicate carvings on the red vivid
sandstone exemplifying the practice
of stone craving.In sculpture and
temple architecture, there exists a
large variety of motifs and styles. The
artisans of Odisha have still retained
the glorious tradition of stone carving
which has created a niche in the
history of art in India. As it is evident
from the innumerable archaeological
monuments, sculptures and temples
The cultural heritage of Odisha is reflected
in its vibrant art forms. Having so many
distinct traditions of painting, architecture,
sculpture, handicrafts, music and
dance,etc Odisha boasts of a long and
rich cultural heritage and tradition. Due to
the regions of many different rulers, the
culture, fine arts and crafts of the state
are underwent many changes, imitations,
assimilations and new creations from time
to time and from generation to generation
Yet, the artistic skill of the Oriya Art &
Crafts Information is unsurpassable in the
world.
Few Arts and crafts of
odisha:
Odisha (Orissa) has an art and craft that are the
significance of a long historical process in which the
spiritual, philosophical and the human dimensions that
have merged to yield the finest effects of a cultured and
civilized life in the human society. This fine art and craft
have made the state a land of rich and diverse in artistic
achievements and value.
crafts of Odisha
The most famous finearts
of
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built centuries ago, the art of carving in
stone has made Odisha reach heights
of excellence perfected through
centuries of disciplined efforts and
generations of artisans.
2. Pattachitra:
Pattachitra is one of the unique fine
arts and crafts that odisha is rich
about. It is one of the traditional art
forms of odisha that that is based
on Hindu mythology. The origin of
pattachitra has been came in focus
from the temple of Jagannath . The
art form of Patachitra involves painting
on a piece of cloth or clay plate
or a tablet. The painting generally
illustrates either tales of Gods and
Goddesses, lilas of Lord Krishna,
images of animals and legends. The
artists are called chitrakars and they
use colors like lamp black, blood red,
red ocher, indigo, yellow and white
to paint the patas. These patachitras
are a must in the shopping lists of the
tourists.
3. Sand Arts:
In Odisha ,a unique type of art form
is developed at Puri and thats make
Odisha unique and different in various
rich in fine arts and crafts.To carve a
sand sculpture , the raw material is
the only clean and fine grained sand
mixed with water . With the help of this
type of sands , an artist can carve a
beautiful and attractive sculpture on
the beach.One can find the mention
of this art in the life story of Balaram
Das, one of the most well known poets
of Odisha. This poet was a prominent
literary figure of the 14th century AD.
The sand art was, therefore, one of the
prevalent art forms of 14th century.
4. Sliver filigree:
The most unique and finest of all
art forms in Odisha is Silver Filigree
Work. This more than 500-year old
art form is practised by local artisans
mainly in Cuttack. Ornaments and
decorative items are two main
categories of this impressive artwork.
The sliver filigree is is also locally
known as tarakasi. The process
consists of drawing silver through a
series of consecutively smaller holes
to produce fine strands of wire. Silver
filigree has also been an important
export item of Odisha (Orissa) from
ancient times and has been a symbol
of the summit of excellence reached
by Orissan craftsmen.
5. Applique works:
Applique work is another form of
art and craft of odisha.This is most
popular in Pipli. This form of art craft
is made on a pieces of cloth that are
artistically stitched on to a larger piece
of fabric to bring a nice and colorful
effect. Saris and wall hangings mostly
display this form of art. It is a complex
form of art where one material is
sewed to the other in order to make
an enthralling decorative pattern. This
form of art works is too popular in
international markets and gained a lot
of popularity. The tiny mirror are stuck
or stitched by thread embroidery to
create a remarkable art work.
6. Bell mental and
brass handicrafts:
An important native art coming

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from the Kansari and Dhokra
caste in Odisha, Ball Metal and
Brass Handicraft is a popular
folk art which produces various
pieces of household items and
decorations items.Dhokra or bell
metal craft is a tribal craft that
combines metallurgical skills with
wax technique to create things
of distinctive beauty, practiced
for over 4,000 years. It is thus a
very old form of craft that is still
practiced in some parts of Odisha.
These tribal crafts people express
their special worldview through
their whimsical creations.
7. Paper Mache:
Most of the arts in Odisha have
worldwide acclamation and Papier
Mache is one of them. The art is
practised in almost every region
of the state and involves the use
of waste cloth, natural fibres, and
papers.to make beautiful art forms
Having so many
distinct traditions of
painting, architecture,
sculpture,
handicrafts, music
and dance,etc Odisha
boasts of a long and
rich cultural heritage
and tradition.
and crafts.paper mache skill
have been creatively practice in
odisha since a very long period of
time.Masks, hand bags, toys are
produced out of specially made
papers in Odisha that are not only
beautiful but strong and durable
as well.
8. Palm leaf
painting:
Palm leaf paintings are very
ancient in Odisha.In Odisha
the Palm Leaf illustrations are
mainly of two types, simple
engravings or illustrations in pure
line on palm leaf and engraving
with colour fillings.In these
engravings, colours are muted
and play a very minor part. Where
colours are at all applied, they are
just painted either to emphasize
the inscriptions, or to fill up blank
space.This art originated when
written communication began.
Messages and manuscripts were
written on the palm leaf to be
disseminated. Gradually the trend
to decorate the text with images
began and that became an art in
itself. It is mostly practiced by the
artists primarily residing in Puri
and Cuttack.
9. Jhoti chita:
A traditional Oriya art which
is presented on the floor and
walls is Jhoti Chita. Extremely
popular in the rural areas, Jhoti
is different from line art and
involves line art using a white
coloured liquid paste of rice or
pithau.The folk art of Odisha
is bound up with its social and

religious activities. In the month
of Margasira, women folk
worship the goddess Lakshmi.
It is the harvest season when
grain is thrashed and stored.
This art work is locally called
Jhoti. This traditional Oriya folk
art is done on the mud walls
of the thatched houses in the
rural areas by the women folk
. The feet of Goddess lakshmi
is rendered in every jhoti work
which remains an integral part
of every festivals, belief and
celebrations.
10. Horn work:
The most popular art among all
the art and craft form of odisha
all is Horn Work. A mystical
artwork of Odisha.Horn Work
showcases an impressive
fashion design. In this art,
Horns of Cows and Buffaloes
are used to produce utility
products like jewelry, ashtray,
and comb.The inception of
this art has been more than a
century ago and its popularity
has only grown year after
year. Many utility as well as
decorative things are made
in this form and mostly the
finished products. The whole
crafts is made of Black and
mostly beautiful and amazing
The surface throws off a dark
somber sheen which catches
the attention of all art-lovers.
Parlakhemundi and Cuttack are
famous for this artwork.
Lacquer work:
Lacquer Work is one of the
famous tribal craft in India
which is practised mainly by
women. The impressive folk
items like bangles, toys, and
necklace are made by using
this technique of art.
v Arts and Crafts of Orissa
also involve some of the
performing arts like,
> Odissi Music
> Odissi Classical Dance
> Animal Mask Dance
> Medha Nacha
> Naga Dance
> Paika Nrutya
> Pala Dance
> Puppet Dance
> Karma Dance
> Samprada Dance
> Chaiti Ghoda Dance
> Changu Nata
> Chhau Dance
> Danda Nata
> Dasakathia Dance
> Ghoomra Dance
Odisha is quite rich in his
variety of fine art and crafts.
This only make difference
in its origin from rest of the
state. It is not only rich in arts
and crafts but also rich in its
culture and tradition of the
state. Trust me just grasp one
visit to odisha and explore the
state with its diversity culture,
traditions, arts and crafts. You
it self will be loving it to go
again and again.

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Shaava Shaava
- Get to Know Punjab
and the Punjab-ans!
History of Punjab
Punjab is a five- river land because
it came from the words ‘Punj’
means five and ‘ab’ means water.
The rivers of Punjab are Sutlej,
Beas, Ravi, Chenab and Jehlum.
After a while the rivers got divided
between India and Pakistan,
Chenab and Jelum are in Pakistan
and Sutlej, Ravi and Baes are
in India. The ancient Punjab lied
between Yamuna and Indus.
Punjab used to be called Sapta
Sindhu earlier because there were
7 rivers in Punjab. The other two
were Sindh and Saraswati they
used to flow in Punjab.
Punjab has always been prone to
danger during wars and this spoilt
the city. On the other hand, Punjab
was saved a lot of times because
of the Himalayas as it is in the east
Punjab. The Himalayas would be
difficult to reach there. Punjab could
benefit from getting fruits and sticks
from himalayas.
The Punjab-ans are known for their lively and
happy go lucky nature, their Chole Batura and Lassi
is mouth-watering, You can’t resist dancing to the
beats of Bhangra!
INDIAN DIASPORA TRADITION

from the holy book Guru
Granth Sahib only,Man-Mohan
Singh is a Sikh Punjabi. The
Non-Sikh Punjabi worship
Gurunanak as well as go to
other Hindu temples,Kalpana
Chawla was a Non-Sikh
Punjabi.
Guru-Granth Sahib was
written by the tenth religious
guru of Sikhism named Guru
Gobind Singh. There are
many editions to this holy
book. The best part of Sikhism
is that every person is treated
equally, they do not believe in
dividing people into religions
and they have beautifully
imparted knowledge on how
Punjab was the gateway of
India, soldiers could only enter
from Punjab as there would be
rivers in the south and there
were no ships back then to be
able to come into India.
Punjab remained under
foreign rulers like Alexander,
Ahmed Shah Abdali and Shah
Jaman.
Their belief and
Religion
The Sikh Punjabi’s worship
their guru named Guru-
Nanak, he was born in 1469
A.D. and follow the teachings
one must believe in God as
one, respecting the other
and living with high moral
standards.Guru Nanak Dev Ji
believed that there is no ritual
or priest needed to reach God.
Gurunanak Dev Ji’s thoughts
are a mixture of hindu and
islamic thoughts. Nanak
Ji was an original Spiritual
thinker and expressed his
thoughts in poems.
Some of his famous
quotes are:
Before becoming a Muslim,
Hindu or a Christian let’s
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God is one, but he has
innumerable forms. He is the
creator of all and he himself
takes the human form
Even Kings and Emperors
with heaps of wealth and vast
dominion cannot compare with
an ant filled with the love of
God.
People in Punjab
Punjabi population dominates
in the city of Punjab and Delhi,
they are fun and warm people
to be with, they welcome their
guests with loads of love and
with all their heart. There are
different sects in Punjabi’s,
Khatri, Jhat, Arora, Kamboh,
Mahton, Chhimba, Mohyal,
Chamar, etc. Every caste is
known for it’s speciality.
Punjabi’s follow their rituals
and ceremonies with utmost
dedication. The Punjabi men
and women are generally
healthy and have a glowing
skin.
Punjabi came into being
from the ancient language
of Sanskrit like other
languages. Punjabi is written
in two different scripts, called
Gurumukhi and Shahmukhi.
The natives of Punjab are not
just the Punjabi’s. There are,
Doabi, Ghebi, Malwai, Pahari,
Shahpuri, Rachnavi, Hindko
etc.
Scrumptious food of
Punjabi’s
Punjabi khana is incomplete
without Makhan. The food is
simply delicious and filling.
Some of the dishes are
Sarson ka Saag and
Makki Ki Roti
This is the best dish to eat in
winter, the saag is made of
mustard greens and spinach
leaves. Makkai ki Roti is eaten
with a lot of butter, it is made
of Maize corn flour. This is a
delicious combination, you
can enjoy it when served hot.
Chole Battura
This is the most commonly
made dish by the Punjabi’s.
it goes absolutely well with
battura. The bland battura with
masaledar Chole and onion
slices as a salad is yum.
Butter Chicken and
Naan
The Punjabi Style Butter
Chicken and Naan is the best
for the one’s who are non-
vegetarians.
Punjabi Lassi
This Lassi is made sweet
or salty depending on what
you like. But it is very filling
because they put fresh made
curd and butter too. It is the
best in summer and you
cannot stop yourself from
gulping it down.
Rajma, Rice and
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Rajma is made like Chole, it
is a prominent dish eaten by
the Punjabi’s. It can be eaten
with Jeera rice or plain rice.
Makkhani Dal is filled with butter
and cream it is yummy when you
are extremely hungry and you
want to hog on something tasty.
Traditional Clothing of
Punjabi’s
The Punjabi attire for men and
women is quite colorful and
attractive to look at. The women
wear Patiala’s and Kameez, the
women have long hair and they
usually use an accessory called
Parandi, these Parandi’s are
made with flamboyant colors
The Sikh men usually wear a
turban and they wear a Kurta
on the upper body and Tehmat
which are baggy and balloon-ish
Pyjamas for their lowers.
Jooti’s is common among the
Punjabi population
dominates in the
city of Punjab and
Delhi, they are fun
and warm people
to be with, they
welcome their
guests with loads
of love and with all
their heart.

men and women and this has
always been their trend.
Main Festival in
Punjab
Lohri is the main festival for
Punjabi’s. The Punjabi’s are
all geared up with the energy
to enjoy it to the fullest by
dancing, eating delicious food
and meeting and greeting.
This is a harvest festival
of rabi crop and it marks
the beginning of sowing
sugarcane as well, it is
celebrated on January 13th
every year. The Punjabi
farmers consider the next
day of Lori as the beginning
of a new financial year. How
Punjabi’s celebrate this is,
they go around a bonfire
throwing rewri and groundnuts
in the fire.
The Punjabi woman hum a
song while they go around the
fire it is “Sunder Mundriye Ho”!
There is a story behind this
line that they sing, it comes
from the name of two girls
named Sundri and Mundri,
these girls were in the shield
of a man named Dulla Bhatti
who finances for their wedding
and gets them married, this
man would indulge in stealing
to save girls in the village of
Punjab from being physically
used.
Art, Music and
Literature in Punjab
Mud work is a form of art in
Punjab where creative artifacts
are made out of waste.
The Punjabi women are into
weaving and embroidery, pidhi,
folk toys, dolls and basketry.
The famous folk dance of
Punjab is Giddha for women
and Bhangra is usually done
together between married
couples.Some of the folk
dances of women are, saami,
jaago and kikli. Some of the
folk dances for men are, luddi,
sial kotti, dankara. Some of
the common folk songs of
men and women are Karthi,
Jindua and Dandass.
Punjabi folk songs are on
subjects like birth, marriage,
funeral, death, love etc. Some
of the famous folk songs are
Suhe ve cheere waleya, kaala
doriya , Lathe di Chadar etc.
Some of the most remarkable
works in the 16th century of
literature is Janam Sakhi ,
Bara Anva and Adi Granth.
Janam Sakhi. The Janam
Sakhi is about the phases of
death after gurunanak, some
highlights of the book are -
there were offerings made
by snakes to gurunanak,
gurunanak performing
miracles at Mecca and Mount
Meru. An interesting fact
in the Janamsakhi’s is that
Gurunanak was asleep with

this face towards the Kaba and
when the Muslims objected him
from doing so and when they tried
to move his feet away the Kaba, all
of kaba and earth moved to remain
in the direction of the guru.
About Golden Temple
It is the most famous temple in
Amritsar, a place for all devotees of
God. It is the holy land for Sikh’s,
it is situated the ad mist a river. All
credits for this temple go to Guru
Ramdas. The reason it is a holy
land is because Lord Ram’s sons
Luv and Kush visited this river to
learn about Ramayan. It is believed
that the water in this river heals
those who are suffering. Guru
Ramdas left a mark there and then
after a while people considered it to
be a holy land and Guru Ramdas
had purchased this land and
intended to make a temple at the
river, he passed away and then his
son Arjun Das accomplished this
task.
It is a beautiful Gurdwara and
a tourist spot it is believed that
people go there to fulfill their
wishes.
The Wedding Culture of
Punjabi’s
Punjabi’s usually have a big fat
wedding, beginning from the
clangour of the baratis to the bidai
ceremony.
Before the wedding they have an
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engagement where the boy and
girls side exchange dry fruits and
sweets and that is a gesture that
the girl and boys families have
agreed for the wedding. Then
they have a small Ardaas, which
is their Puja and this indicates
that they are going to marry soon.
Before they exchange rings, the
boys side goes to the girls home
and they present a Chunari to
her that is loaded with a grand
look and embroidery, they put it
on her head and they apply a dot
of mehendi on her palm. Then
they have the exchange of ring
ceremony which is called the
Mangani. Here the boys side and
girls side relatives and friends
meet and greet the to be bride
and groom and are a part of the
celebration congratulating and
blessing them.
On the wedding day the
bride is dressed with a heavy
lehenga that is red, pink,
orange, green or gold. She
definetely wear a chooda and
has Kalire on her choodha.
On the wedding day they
have rituals like Jago - Songs
are sung by Punjabi ladies
a day before the wedding,
Gana Bandhna - It is a Puja
that happens on the wedding
day in the morning. There is a
thread that is tied around the
wrist of the bride and groom
that is made of beetel nut,
Chhoda Chadana - this is a
ritual done by the maternal
uncle for the bride, he sits for
a Puja where these bangles
are dipped in milk and after
that everyone touches those
bangles and bless the girl by
making her wear them.
In the boys side there are
some rituals like Sarbala,
Sehrabandi and Varna,
Ghoodi Charna. Sarbala is
a ritual to ensure there is a
caretaker with the groom
generally there is a kid grrom
who sits with the groom and
his with him till the wedding.
In Sehrabandi, the groom
dresses up in his wedding
sherwani and churidar and
there is a turban tied on his
head by an elderly person.
Ghodi Charna is the ritual
where the boy sits on a horse
and heads out to the girls
place.
Agwani is then the ritual
when the groom comes in
and is welcomed by the girls
mother with a tikka on his
forehead. Then when the boy
and girl meet it is called Milni.
Then they have the Varmala
ceremony where they
exchange garlands over each
others head.
Punjabi Words
Chak Dey Phattey !
It means come on Keep it
up. However, it is a word
used in Hindi movies.
Kiddaaan!
It is an expression of
asking someone about
how are they doing very
stylishly.
Rab Raakhaan!
It means may God be
with you.
Patola!
It is referred to a fancy
Punjabi girl.
Pind!
It means hometown

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INDIAN DIASPORA CULTURE

Tamang
Ethnic tribes
T
The Tamang or Murmi, are the
indigenous inhabitants of the
Himalayan regions of Nepal and
India, their ancestral land is called
Tamsaling. They are the aborigines
of Yambu, or Kathmandu Valley,
who had self-rule and autonomous
and were systematically displaced
during the expansion period of
Gorkha Kingdom. The traditionally
Buddhist Tamang are the largest
Tibeto-Burman ethnic group within
Nepal.
Tamang are also a significant
minority in Sikkim and
Darjeeling District of West
Bengal of India as permanent
settlers their languages
are fifth most spoken in
Nepal. They were one of the
aborigines who were least
affected by Nepalisation.
Peculiar to Tamang people
have complex marriage
restrictions within the
community.
The religion is considered
by Tamangs as Bon
Lamaism, distinct and
predating Tibetan
Buddhism, and due to
geopolitical focus on Tibet,
Tamangs hold their beliefs
and are largely ignored by
Western scholars. Tamang
have gompas (monasteries)
in every sizeable village.
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special Buddhist god and book
to worship every morning.
The Tamangs retain jhankris
(shamans) in addition to their
Lama clan (Tamang) (priests),
the latter whose surnames
are also Lama. Additionally
there exists the honorific term
Lama, assigned to all Tamang
regardless of kinship clan
(swagen bhai). This is not to be
confused with Lama of Tibet or
the Sherpa Lama surname and
clan. These jhankris perform
certain rites such as trances and
sacrifices to alleviate problems
or assure good fortune.
Tamangs have a system of six
types of societal leaders: Tamba,
Ganba, Bonbo, Labonbo,
Lama and Choho — to keep the
Tamang society continuously
alive and dynamic. They have
their respective and important
roles to play in the development
INDIAN DIASPORA CULTURE
The Tamangs
retain jhankris
(shamans) in
addition to
their Lama clan
(Tamang) (priests),
the latter whose
surnames are also
Lama.

of the society. Their priests or
lamas, have a dominant role
in the community and perform
ceremonies for funerals, etc.
Perhaps the most powerful
person in society, is the
shaman, who exorcises
demons and interacts with the
spirit world.
Flags colourfully printed by
Buddhist mantra, holy words
and clothes are put in different
places in the village. Tamang
have a dance called “ Tamang
Selo “ that is performed with
the Damphoo instrument, also
known as Damphoo Dance,
having a brisk movement
and rhythmic beat peculiar
to Tamangs. Dashain is
also approached with much
enthusiasm by Tamangs.
Most Tamangs are farmers,
engaged in agriculture. Due to
the lack of irrigation at higher
altitudes, their crops are often
limited to corn, millet, wheat,
barley, and potatoes. They
often supplement their farming
income with manual labour.
Due to the discrimination
experienced by the Tamang
people in the past, they have
remained on the whole poorly
educated and the majority
have been limited to working
in farming, mountain trekking,
portering and driving.
They also work in construction
of Tibetan rugs, Thankas
(Tibetan painting), driving,
labour and trekking. As far as
farming is concerned, Tamang
are dependent on rainfall
and do not employ modern
machinery. Tamangs serves
as brave Gurkha soldiers
in British gurkha army,
Singapore police, Indian army
and police and Nepalese army
and police.

Ranveer Singh, Deepika
Post Wedding
Celebrationswith Bollywood Stars
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone wanted their
official union to happen on 14th and 15th of
November of this year. They panned the dates and
also went well with the wedding plan. The beautiful
wedding of a new couple of Bollywood was in Villa
del Balbianello, Lake Como in Italy.
The destination wedding and the
celebrations went on with their
families of two side and their close
friends.
The wedding outfits all were designed
by the well known Indian Designer
Sabya Sachi. The popular designer is
known for the bridal outfits. Deepika
stood out with the traditional colours
on both days their wedding ceremony.
The newly married couple’s images
shook up the internet and televisions.
Their images are were seen
everywhere and no wonder as they
were that lovely. Their smiles and
laughter in images was an eye feast
for both of their fans and admirers.
The Pretty Shade of Deepika as
Bride. If you notice her dupatta which
covered her head, it has a shloka
written “Sada Soubhagyavati Bhava”.
That is a true blessing every bride
needs! The bride made her look for
the day with a vibrant red lehenga
with heavy golden border. Her hands
were filled with full of Indian mehndi
designs. She accessorized following
the Sindhi traditions, wearing chooda
and kalira.
South-Indian Wedding of Deepika and
Ranveer:
Sindhi Wedding of Deepika and
Ranveer:
This a solid competition of the looks
of Deepika herself. As Deepika was
like a different bride with back to back
styles of wedding, we cannot take
our eyes off from both of her shades.
So, we can’t simply describe this
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beauty, which got a lot
to talk about. A couple
of pictures are making
so much of sound!
Just because, we got
to capture every small
element of her bridal
looks.
Post wedding
Celebration with
Bollywood Stars: Fans
couldn’t get enough to
see their loving pair.
Then again the images
of reception made
the sound of social
media and news. The
invitations for reception
went to many of the
Bollywood celebs to join
for wedding celebrations
which were in Mumbai,
on 1st of December.
Sources say over 800
people were to join
Ranveer and Deepika
to make their wedding
even more special. The
expected stars in the
he wedding
outfits
all were
designed by
the well
known
Indian
Designer
Sabya Sachi.
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invitation list were Shah Rukh
Khan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali,
Amitabh Bachchan, Farah
Khan, Rohit Shetty, Karan
Johar, Alia Bhatt, Akshay
Kumar and many more. The
guests including actors,
directors, crew members and
other people associated with
the film industry.
Deep-Veer is setting
couple goals with twinning
appearances. They started to
Italy for wedding celebrations
and they twinned in white
outfits. They appeared in
reception with ivory and
golden outfits, twinning
again. The couple will
continue to stun us
together with their beautiful
appearances.
Deepika was clad in an
Abu Jani and Sandeep
Khosla ensemble with gold
Chinkari work. Styled by
celebrity stylist Shaleena
Nathani, her outfit was
layered with a matching
veil and accessorized
with heavy gold and pearl
jewellery set from Saboo
by AJSK. Opting for a nude
palette with light smokey
eyes, she rounded off her look
with hair styled in a neat updo.
Meanwhile, Ranveer was
seen in an ivory ensemble
from Rohit Bal featuring
intricate embroidery work that
he teamed with a matching
shawl.
The destiny made them
meet each other and their
love made this all possible.
The adorable pair must rock
together and let us wish them
a happy togetherness.

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13Easy and Fun Picnic Games
and Activity for Kids
STORY FOR KIDS
Kids just loves to have fun and go for outing with their
families. The memories they make while they spend with their
family, friends , it just get store in their happy times of their
life. Picnic is not compiled with plenty good food, family,
friends, what matter the most to make the picnic memorable
is the games and fun they have with their near and dear
ones. It is all about the picnic game that gives an additional
brownie point to a picnic as it encourage the physical activity
and keeps the kids engaged and entertain. So in this article
we will focus on some easy and fun games for kids that will
make their day while they go for outing or for ant picnic. For
more games ideas refer to

Easy picnic games
for kids:
1 Truth and dare:
Truth and dare is a super active
game and is great to play with
families, friends to play together.
It is a great game for all age and
especially kids enjoy a lot out of
it.
The number of kids are needed
to split into two teams equally,
with a minimum of 10 players in
total in each team. All you need
for this game is 10 hula hoops,
or one per person. The main
focus of the game is to throw
your hula hoop around one of
your teammates, and who has
volunteered to be judge of the
play truth and dare. Whichever
the team gets hula hoops on their
teammate then the first person
gets the chance to ask the other
team to answer either truth or
dare. Each team member will
need to answer the question
or participate in the dare
activity as per assigned by the
one of the team member.
2 Picnic basket
relay:
This is another fun and
easy entertaining outdoor
picnic games for children. It
encourage the kids to take
part in the setting up and
cleaning up picnic by playing
this form of game.all you need
is two picnic baskets that
are packed with things like
a blanket, dishes, food and
other picnic materials. Divide
your children into two teams.
The objective this game is to
have each player unpack a
picnic basket, and set up the
picnic, tear down the picnic
with repack the picnic basket
as quickly as possible in a
relay fashion way. The thrill
and excitement of game is
after successfully laying out
a picnic which that keep the
kids engaged and cheering
on their teammates.
3 Red light, green
light fun game:
This is another fun kids picnic
game that goes very well with
all age.it can be played in
small as well as large group
of people. The main teaching
point of this game is that it
teaches the value of listening
and rules to be followed
skills.
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STORY FOR KIDS 13 easy and fun picnic games and activity for kids
three to five family trivia cards
as per the participant priorities
for heading out for the picnic.
If a person plays the role of
the traffic light, then noting
that the “red light” indicates
for stop and the “green light”
indicate for go. Whereas the
other participants stand facing
the traffic light should move
according to the traffic light’s
commands and instructions.
The person playing the
traffic light turns around only
when giving the “green light”
command. The other players
who attempt to tag the traffic
light and whoever tags the
traffic light first must correctly
answer the family trivia card
which are been selected by
the traffic light in order to take
over the position.if they don’t
do it then they are out of the
game and the rest members
should continue.
4 Chubby Bunny
Dice:
This is a great game for kids,
but just be take care of certain
things as the chubby bunny
dice are choking hazard. But
if you are playing with adults
then feel free to play. All you
need is two dice and a few
bags of large marshmallows.
The main aim of the game
is to roll a matching set of
dice and If you do not roll a
matching set, you can place
one marshmallow in your

mouth. The individual who ends
up with the more marshmallows
in their mouth loses the game.
The best part of this game is
that losing the tastes is really
good and great.
5 Yard twister:
Kids just love this game. It is
really a easy and fun games
for kids that goes very well
as a outdoor picnic games for
children.what you need to do is
to paint some circles in grass
with different colour and in line
after line may be of 5 to 6 lines
of colour circle.the kids need
to be twisting over the circle. It
is really fun to have this kind of
games.
6 Hula Hoop
Charades:
It is one of the easy picnic
games for kids.An adult or older
child on their team can sub in
them with the hula hooping
aspect of game. This game is
played with small number of
team or person.all you need
for this game is hula hoop for
each team. Split the teams
evenly and give each team a
hula hoop. The person who
decides to go first on each team
will meet with the game master
inorder to get the same charade
clue. The game master will
announce when the game has
started, and who is acting out
the clue must do so while hula
is hooping. If the hula hoop get
drops then you do not get the

point to do so.
7 Glass Half Empty
or full:
This is the best outdoor picnic
games for children. Children
really have fun to have such
kind of game.To make the
game more progressively
and challenging, you can
try of having the blindfolded
teammates to carry the water
with one hand, mouths, and with
just their arms.all you need is
one plastic cup per person and
a few jugs of water to access
a hose. You will also need
one large bucket per team,
the person need to wear one
blindfold per person. Split the
teams up evenly and assign
in two team captains who will
be stationed at the large water
buckets. Give everyone a cup of
water filled about halfway and
a blindfold. The main focus of
the game is for the blindfolded
teammates who will successfully
make their way towards their
team head without spilling any
bit of the water along the way
of emptying their glass into the
team’s large bucket. The Team
captains are encouraged to
shout the helpful instructions
to their teammates as per the
instruction. Whichever team
ends up with the most water will
win the game.
8 Dance off:
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The best way of picnic games
that makes the environment
into fun and entertainment.
This games that goes very
well with children as well as
adults. For this game all you
need is boom box and a child
appropriate dance mix of CD.
Line up the kids to form a giant
circle. As the music plays, the
children have to turns entering
the center of the ring to show
off their best dance moves and
step. the kids with the most
applause per song wins the
game. The Adults and teens
may even want to get in on this
form one. Alternatively, you
can also play dancing musical
chairs. Place your chairs in
a circle, one less chair than
the number of kids playing or
active. Turn the music on so
that the kids have to bust a
move while circling around the
outside of the chairs. When
you turn the music off, each
and every child must race to
occupy a seat. Whoever is left
out without a chair is out of the
game. Remove one chair each
single time when the child is
out. Whoever claims the final
seat at the end will declared
the winner.
9 Frisbee golf:
Children love this game. It
is quite similar to traditional
golf. The main difference is
that there is a plastic basket
that becomes a whole. I the
Frisbee golf combines the
chance to throw things or
object with the competition
involved in getting the Frisbees
into the plastic baskets with
the number of throws. It is
really a easy and fun games
for kids.
10 Don’t drop the
ball:
This games works wounder
for older kids. This game can
be played with a small or a big
group of people or individual.
All you need is one ball per
team.Split the teams up evenly
together. Starting off, each
team will be positioned closely
to one together and will toss
the ball to one by one for one
full minute without stopping
the flow. While The other team
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their opponents a challenge.
This might include jumping
up and down, closing your
eyes, running in place, or
spinning in a circle that still
might trying to catch the ball.
the Teams can get creative
about the challenges they
want the other team to do
while throwing the ball to
each other. If the team
drops the ball at any course
of time, then they are not
received any points. After
every round, the other team
will get the opportunity to
come up with challenges for
their opponents while they
toss the ball to each other.
11 Pass the
water:
This fun kid picnic games.
This game helps the kids
to keep cool off white
competing to be the first
team to transfer or share the
cup of water down a line of
children without spilling any
of it.
12 Brainy Balloon
Toss:
This is a fun kid picnic game
that goes very well with each
age group.it can be played
in beaches, playground,
swimming pool etc wherever
you want you can play with

this game.this game can be
played both with adults and
kids at a time.all you need few
blown up balloon per person, a
timer and some trivia cards as
appropriate for the age group.
Split the teams up evenly in
two equal half, and appoint
one person per team as the
trivia card reader. Each team
will get one minute to answer
their trivia question and they
must keep all of their balloons
up in the air while doing such
activity. Whoever answers the
most questions correctly will
win the game. If any balloons
drop,then the team loses the
rest of their time to answer
questions.
13 Scavenger
Hunt Candy Crush
This is another fin outdoor
picnic games for children
that goes very well with all
ages of children.this game
can be played with small
number of people or person.
all you need a few bags
of large marshmallows,
that may be approx of five
large cups per team and a
prepared scavenger hunt
list. The scavenger hunt can
be made easy or tough that
depending on the ages of the
kids playing the game. Split
the teams up evenly and
set up cups in a line near
each team. The main focus
of the game is to complete
your scavenger hunt before
the other team does and
successfully launch one
marshmallow into each cup
by using only your mouth.
Try out this above easy and
fun games for kids while you
go for any outing or picnic.
Trust me your kids and you
will have your best time and
memories all the way. This
games will refresh you and
will make the day for you
and your child.

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HEALTHY LIVING

NaturalWays to
Suppress Appetite
How many times has it happened to you that you ended up
eating more than you should have? Quiet frequently, isn’t
it? Well, there’s no need to feel heartbroken over the fact
because you are not alone in this reign. While uncontrollable
eating sure does affect your health, there are ways in which
you can suppress appetite in a healthy way without negatively
affecting your well being.

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Drink More Water
Water is considered as an amazing
appetite suppressant because of its
tendency to make you feel full even
before you are done with your food. If
you feel like you are overeating than
what you should actually be eating,
try and switch it up with drinking
more water.
Get Proper Sleep
Studies claim that the lack of sleep tends
to increase one’s hunger by a whopping
24%. Not just that, it also adversely
affects the secretion of several of the
satiety related hormones which is why you
end up feeling hungrier. Bring your sleep
into a routine and ensure that you get a
quality sleep to help suppress appetite
effectively.
Avoid Sugar
Sugars and any form of sweetener
tend to be very easily broken down
in the stomach and gets digested
and absorbed at a much faster
pace which itself is a lot speaking
because it tends to make your
frequency of being hungry more,
which is exactly what makes you
overeat.
Exercise
Exercising has positive effects
on suppressing the excessive
secretion of the hormones, Ghrelin
and Peptide YY in the body which
prevents from inducing short-term
hunger that often times end up
making you overeat.
HEALTHY LIVING Natural Ways to Suppress Appetite

Practice Mindful Eating
When we are not eating mindfully, it
becomes hard for the brain to decipher
how much one has consumed which
is exactly why we often end up eating
more than we intended. Focusing solely
on the food ends up helping us decrease
our hunger and promote eating just as
much as we need.
Drink Coffee
Study shows that drinking coffee
triggers the release of the hormone
Peptide YY which has beneficial
effects in suppressing and regulating
our appetite. It induces a feeling of
fullness in a person which is exactly
what contributes to stopping you
from overeating.
Snack on Almonds
It is not like that just the consumption
of just almonds is effectively going to
act as a natural appetite suppressant
but snacking on this instead of
something unhealthy is definitely
one of the best ways to keep your
hunger, appetite, and weight in
check. Snack on almonds whenever
you feel hungry.
Consume Chia Seeds
It is believed that it is the rich fiber
content in the Chia seeds that
make people feel full for a longer
stretch of time. Chia seeds also
increase one’s satiety and helps
curb the short-term hunger pangs
that often end up contributing to
overeating.

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If you are fond of a delectable curry, in that case, you are going to
love this spicy vegan potato curry.
It is so effortless to prepare and absolutely mouth-watering. This
vegan curry is a smashing aromatic mix of spices.
INDIAN FOOD
Spicy Vegan Potato
Curry Recipe
Preparation time : 10 Min
Cook Time : 20 Mins
Total time: 30 mins

Ingredients
4 potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 yellow onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
4 teaspoons curry powder
4 teaspoons garam masala
1 (1 inch) piece fresh ginger root, peeled and minced
2 teaspoons salt
1 (14.5 ounces) can diced tomatoes
1 (15 ounces) can garbanzo beans (chickpeas), rinsed and drained
1 (15 ounces) can peas, drained
1 (14 ounces) can coconut milk
Directions
Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water.
Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and
simmer until just tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a
minute or two.
In the meantime, heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
Stir in the onion and garlic; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned
translucent about 5 minutes.
Season with cumin, cayenne pepper, curry powder, garam masala, ginger,
and salt; cook for 2 minutes more. Add the tomatoes, garbanzo
beans, peas, and potatoes.
Pour in the coconut milk, and bring to a simmer. Simmer 5 to 10 minutes before
serving.
Serve and enjoy!

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The delicious and crispy chicken cutlet can be a great snack/appetizer
or a starter for parties or weekend meals. They go perfectly well even
with a cup of tea as an evening snack.
INDIAN FOOD
Chicken Cutlet
Recipe
Preparation time : 10 Min
Cook Time : 20 Mins
Total time: 30 mins
Servings: 9 Cutlets
Ingredients
250 to 350 grams chicken
1/2 cup onions finely chopped
1 medium potato boiled and mashed (optional)
1/2 cup boiled peas (optional)
1 green chili slit
11/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
Handful coriander leaves & pudina/mint
11/2 tsp garam masala or all spice powder as required
1/2 cup rice flour or breadcrumbs (use as needed)
1/4 cup chickpea flour or any flour or besan (substitute with egg)
Salt as needed
3 tbsp oil for pan frying (more if shallow frying)

Directions
Boil chicken in a pot until completely cooked. Cool the chicken and mince
it or pulse it in a blender
Add onions, mashed potato (optional), chili, garam masala, ginger garlic paste,
salt, red chili powder, turmeric, and coriander leaves
Mix all together and add flour little by little only as needed. Knead the mixture to
a dough without adding water. Onions release moisture and bind the mixture well.
Making Chicken Cutlet
Make 8 to 9 cutlets or patties. If you have use potato, you will get about 12. Make
a batter using flour and a very little salt or beat an egg with salt.
Dip the cutlet in batter or egg and then immediately in the breadcrumbs. Keep
this aside for 15 minutes. Pat the cutlets well to bind the crumbs well.
Heat a pan with oil. Shallow fry or deep fry or pan fry to suit your liking.
Serve hot chicken cutlets with ketchup or green chutney.

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Vaidya was raised in Joshua Tree in
Yucca Valley, California. He graduated
from the Los Angeles County High
School for the Arts and later attended
the University of California, Santa Cruz
for two years. He next transferred to
the Tisch School of the Arts at New
York University and graduated with
honors.
Vaidya commented on his background
in a recent interview:
I live in Los Angeles, USA. That’s
where I grew up, but every year we
used to come to India. My native place
in India is Goa and I also did visit
Mumbai quite often during my growing
up days. I started acting when I was
about six in Marathi Mandal nataks
and some English plays in the U.S.
I learned more about acting in high
school and that’s when I became really
serious about films as a career. I went
to NYU film school and learned the
ropes of filmmaking, editing, acting,
etc. I learned the technical language
used on the sets. After graduating
in honors from NYU, I went back to
Born in Yucca Valley,
California, United States, on
January 10, 1982, an American
actor Omi Vaidya is best
known for his performance
as Chatur Ramalingam or
“The Silencer” in the 2009
Bollywood film, 3 Idiots.
Vaidya has directed two
short films and worked as
an editor on others. He has
also appeared in a number
of television programs and
commercials.
Early Life
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Los Angeles and began
auditioning for roles in T.V.
serials and films.
Personal Life
He is married to Minal Patel
on August 22, 2009. On
June 24, 2015, Minal gave
birth to their first child, boy.
Career
After college, Vaidya
started to work with an
agent and received small
roles in television programs
and commercials. After
receiving a small role in
Arrested Development, he
was asked to audition for
the role of Sadiq for The
Office by the same casting
director. He portrayed Sadiq
in two episodes: “E-mail
Surveillance” and “Fun
Run.”
He was also seen in the
American T.V. series
“Bones”. But he came into
the limelight after featuring
in the music video of the
super hit Punjabi song
“Kurti” sung by Bohemia.
3 Idiots
Vaidya’s most notable
performance is in a supporting
role in the 2009 Bollywood
film, 3 Idiots as Chatur
Ramalingam (or “The
Silencer”). He received strong
reviews for his performance.
Vaidya auditioned for the role
of Chatur while on a trip to
Mumbai. After passing the first
audition, he was asked during
the second to read dialogue
from Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
Vaidya states that he “just
rattled it off without exactly
understanding the words ...
almost like the speech scene
in [3 Idiots].” After being hired
for the part of Chatur, he was
told not to study Hindi, not to
watch Hindi films, and to gain
weight.
Of his success in the film,
Vaidya credits the atmosphere
of the cast and crew stating
that in Mumbai there is
“a personal touch, unlike
Hollywood. Even if they don’t
pay you by the hour and
there is no extra time, there is
warmth and care. I basically
saw my Bollywood innings as
a challenge. A lot of credit also
goes to Raju and Abhijat Joshi
for the way the character came
across on screen.”
He was also discouraged from
providing interviews before
the release. Vaidya states:
“Before the film released,
I asked director Rajkumar
Hirani if I could give a couple
of interviews. He stopped
me saying nobody knew me
and I should wait till the film
is released. My role was a
surprise they had planned
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later recalled that “When I was
at the premiere of 3 Idiots, no
one recognized me. I was a bit
depressed but when it got over,
it was difficult for me to even
get out of the theater. I have
been enamored by the love and
appreciation I have received from
the audience [...] Today when I
go out on streets, people come
and shake hands with me… It feels
nice.”
Big in Bollywood
Big in Bollywood (2011) is a
documentary film about American
actor Omi Vaidya’s journey from
a struggling Hollywood actor to a
successful Bollywood breakthrough
with 3 Idiots.
Filmography
2005 - Arrested Development;
Role - Rav Nadir
2005-2007 - The Office; Role -
Sadiq
2007 - Rolling; Role - Assar
2008 - Bones; Role - Hamid Hirani
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Life; Role - Vairam
2009 - Kath & Kim; Role - Prakash
- Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight;
Role - Fish
- 3 Idiots; Chatur Ramalingam
a.k.a. “The Silencer”
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2010 - Better Off Ted; Role -
Sales Man
2011 - Big in Bollywood; Role
- Himself
- Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji; Role
- Milind Kelkar
- Desi Boyz; Role - Ajay
2012 - Players; Role - Sunny
Mehra
- Jodi Breakers; Role - Nano
2013 - Rules of Engagement;
Role - Waiter
2014 - Puncture Wounds;
Role - Sirish
2016 - Brown Nation; Role -
Balan Sree Ramakrishnan
2017 - Mirror Game; Role -
Vikram
2018 - Blackmail; Role - Boss
DK
Director
2007 - Out of Time
- The Desert Rose
Editor
2003 - Out of Time
2004 - Delusion
2005 - Bloodshed
2006 - The Gold Bracelet
2007 - Remember the Days
2008 - Blind Ambition

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Lawmakers Introduce Bill
to Protect Work Authorization
of H-1B Spouses
The H-4 Employment Protection Act, a legislation seeking
to stop Trump administration from revoking the work
authorization of spouses of H1-B visa holders, which include
Indians, has been introduced in the United States Congress by
two lawmakers.
The lawmakers said eliminating this
benefit would force many foreign workers
to use their talent to compete against
American businesses.
H-4 visas are given to the spouses of
H-1B foreign workers. The H-1B visa
is a non-immigrant visa through which
many Indians workers are employed in
the U.S. companies. It allows the U.S.
firms to hire foreign workers in specialty
occupations that need theoretical or
technical expertise and is the most
sought-after visa among Indian tech
professionals.
H-4 visas are issued solely to very close
or immediate family members of the
H-1B visa holders.
The move by lawmakers Anna G
Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren to introduce
the legislation come amid resolution
by the Trump administration to revoke
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an Obama-era rule that
lasts work authorization to
the partners of H-1B visa
holders.
Since the rule was
implemented, more than
one lakh workers, chiefly
women from India, have
received employment
authorization, improving the
American competitiveness
and lessening the economic
burden on thousands of H-1B
workers and their families,
the two lawmakers said after
presenting the bill in the
house.
The H-4 Employment
Protection Act prohibits the
Trump administration from
revoking this important
rule, which it is expected to
do by the end of the year,
they said. “Protecting work
authorization for these H-4
visa holders is a matter of
both economic fairness and
family unity,” Eshoo said.
“Eliminating this benefit
would create a painful
choice for many immigrants
to either split up their
families or return to their
home countries and use
their talents to compete
against American
businesses,” Eshoo said.
“These are American
citizens-in-waiting, stuck
in line for their number to
come up,” Congressman
Lofgren said.
“Prohibiting H-1B dependent
spouses from working
is of no benefit to our
country, and if allowed
to move forward, many
of these families that can
contribute so much to
our workforce will simply
move to countries with a
more sensible approach to
immigration. This much-
needed bill will block the
Trump administration from
needlessly harming our
economy and the lives of
skilled immigrant families,”
Lofgren said.

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As India Becomes Richer
More Indians Leaving Country
India has turned to be wealthier and more of its citizens are leaving its
shores. According to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from the United Nations
Department of Economic Affair, an estimated 17 million Indians were living
abroad in 2017, making India the ample source country for international
migrants worldwide, up from seven million in 1990 and
a 143 percent increase.
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should be worried about a rise in “brain
drain”.
The above figures refer to unskilled
migrants traveling on Emigration Check
Required (ECR) passports - passports
issued by the Ministry of Overseas Indian
Affairs to those leaving for employment in
certain countries in Southeast Asia and
Middle. Changes in the government criteria
used to classify workers as unskilled,
leading to more migrants traveling on
non-ECR passports, could be part of the
reason for the declining trend.
“Over the years India has made internal
adjustments to who gets an ECR
passport. A lot of people are entitled to
non-ECR passports and take that route to
migrate instead - this is data which is not
publicly available and therefore cannot
be analyzed,” Seeta Sharma, Technical
Officer (ILO) for EU-India Cooperation and
Dialogue on Migration and Mobility, told
IndiaSpend.
International emigration generally rises
with economic development as more
people acquire the financial means to
travel abroad, and only begins to reduce
when countries reach upper-middle-
income status.
Labor demand driven by constrained local
employment markets is a key motivation
for international migration, with 73 percent
of all migrants globally entering the
workforce in their host country, the ADB
report found.
India’s working age population is currently
growing by 1.3 million each month,
exacerbating a stagnant job market that is
further afflicted by a lack of employment.
Over almost three decades, between
Over the same period, India’s per capita income
increased by 522 percent (from $1,134 to $7,055),
giving more people the means to travel abroad in
hunt of employment opportunities they were not
found at home.
Simultaneously, the number of unskilled migrants
leaving the country has been decreasing: An
estimated 391,000 left India in 2017, almost half
the number in 2011 (637,000), according to a new
report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
However, this does not necessarily mean that
an increasing proportion of India’s emigrants are
likely to be higher skilled or that policymakers

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1990-2017, India witnessed
waves of skilled and unskilled
labor emigration. Indians living
in Qatar increased 82,669
percent - from 2,738 to 2.2
million - over 27 years to 2017,
more than in any other country.
In the two years between 2015-
2017, the Indian population in
Qatar more than tripled.
Oman (688 percent) and the
United Arab Emirates (622
percent) also feature in the
top 10 countries for the largest
increases in Indian residents
between 1990-2017, while
in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,
over seven years to 2017,
Indian populations rose by
110 percent and 78 percent,
respectively.
These figures reflect the
response of Indian workers to
rapidly expanding economies
in the Gulf, buoyed by rising oil
prices. As these oil-rich nations
embarked on large-scale
development projects, workers
from India and other South
Asian countries answered the
call for the growing number of
construction jobs needing to be
filled.
However, recent global
economic lags have slowed
migrant flows from India into
the region. Declining crude
oil terms and the resulting
spending cuts on building
projects and the slowing
economies explain the falling
numbers of Indians preferring
to travel to the region, as jobs
dwindle and wages contract.
While traditional host countries
for Indian migrants, such as
the Gulf states, United States
and the United Kingdom,
remain the countries with the
highest Indian populations,
over the last decade, OECD
countries have seen a
significant increase in the
number of Indians choosing to
settle within their borders.
Netherlands, Norway, and
Sweden, for example, have
seen their Indian populations
grow by 66, 56 and 42
percent, respectively, over
seven years to 2017. They
are cheaper and have better
educational opportunities.”For
example, Germany has the
free education and there’s
the potential to land a job in
the country after university
too, so you’re seeing a shift in
migration,” Sharma said.
Quickly aging populations
across the West will further
create a demand for migrant
labor, as foreign workers fill
employment gaps left by falling
birth rates in many developed
countries. India is well placed
to benefit from this demand.
Half of all countries worldwide
now have fertility rates below
2.1, meaning too few children
are being born to hold their
population size. In the short
term, however, changing
political environments
and increasingly hostile
attitudes to foreign migration
may have an impact on
the acceptability of Indian
migrant workers taking up
these jobs.
The identity and socio-
economic background of
Indian emigrants is changing.
Southern states like Kerala
and Tamil Nadu have been
traditional sources of migrant
workers to the
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Middle East and Southeast Asia,
departing on ECR passports. However,
in recent years, northern Indian and
less economically advanced states have
overtaken their southern counterparts for
the numbers of typically low-skilled male
youth leaving for overseas work.
Uttar Pradesh took the lead for the highest
number of emigrants since 2011, followed
by Bihar and Tamil Nadu, while the
number of migrants from Kerala declined
69 percent over six years, from around
80,000 in 2011 and 2013 to under 25,000 in
2017.
“Migration trends have shifted,” Sharma
said. “For example, if you’re from Kerala,
it may no longer be so lucrative to go to
the Gulf. But for someone sitting in Bihar
earning a third of what a Keralite earns, it
still makes sense.”
However, while these data show the
numbers from each state leaving on ECR
passports, they do not indicate how many
have switched to non-ECR passports.
Kerala may still be seeing sizable numbers
of its population emigrate despite a
decline in 2016 and 2017 in the ECR
category.
Indeed, Kerala received 19 percent of all
remittances (funds sent by an expatriate
to their country of origin) received in
India in 2016-17, closely followed by
Maharashtra (17 percent) and Karnataka (15
percent), according to RBI (Reserve Bank
of India) data.
India received the largest remittances
worldwide in 2017, with approximately
$70 billion landing in the country’s banks
accounts.

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An American visitor to one of the islands in India’s
remote Andaman and Nicobar chain has been killed by a
community of hunter-gatherers who live there isolated
from the outside world.
WORLD NEWS
American Missionary
Killed by Tribe on
Remote Indian Island

The North Sentinel Island,
off-bounds to visitors, is
home to the Sentinelese,
who killed the American,
identified as the 37-year-old
John Allen Chau after he
was illegally ferried there by
fishermen.
“A murder case has been
registered,” one of the
officials told Reuters. Both
officials sought anonymity
as they are not authorized to
speak to the media.
“We are aware of reports
concerning a U.S. citizen in
the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands,” a spokeswoman for
the United States consulate
in India’s southern city of
Chennai said in an email.
“When a U.S. citizen is
missing, we work closely
with local authorities
as they carry out their
search efforts,” she added
but declined to provide
further details over privacy
concerns.
One of the police sources
said Chau, who had made
previous visits to the islands,
had a strong desire to meet
the Sentinelese.
Chau hired a fishing dinghy
and, aided by the fishermen,
reached the vicinity of the
island on November 16,
before transferring to a
canoe, the official said.
His body, which was spotted
the next day by the fishermen
on their coming back has
not yet been retrieved, the
official added, although the
fishermen who took him there
have been arrested.
In a post on John Chau’s
Instagram account, posted
by the man’s family made
several claims about John
Chau’s adventure along with
a demand from them.
The post firstly confirms that
John Chau belonged to a
Christian missionary and
had “nothing but love for
the Sentinelese people.” It
also says that the American
ventured out on his free will
and that his local contacts
need not be persecuted for
his own actions. The family,
through the post, said they
“forgive those reportedly
responsible for his death
and asked for the release of
those “friends” he had in the
Andaman Islands.
Police have roped in field
experts including Indian
anthropologists, and tribal
welfare and forest officers
to help them tackle the
situation.
Sentinelese Tribe
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if you were under the
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among the most underdeveloped
places in our country since this
North Sentinel Island is actually the
most unsocial and outlying region.
The island located in the Andaman
and Nicobar consists of Sentinelese
people, who say no to any contact
with the outside world. The island
is deprived of any scientific or
technological developments, and
people living in the islands are
among the last people to remain
virtually untouched by modern
civilization.
The island is located in the Bay of
Bengal, 50 Kilometer west of Port
Blair. The island is entirely covered
by forest, surrounded by coral reefs.
Inhabited by Sentinelese with an
estimated population between 40
to 300, the island is considered a
sovereign area under the protection
of Indian government. The Indian
government has also maintained
3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometers)
exclusion zone along the island.
To protect their way of life,
foreigners and Indians are banned
from going within 5km of the island.
However, the tribal rights organization urged police
to call off efforts due to the risk of introducing them to
diseases.
A group of anthropologists, journalists and activists
said in a joint statement that continuing with the efforts
to recover Chau’s body could lead to further violence
and “completely unwarranted loss of life”.

U.S. District Judge Bars
Trump Order Denying Asylum
to Illegal Border Crossers
A federal judge has put a
temporary ban to a Trump
administration order denying
the prospect of asylum to
people who enter the United
States illegally.
The United States President
Donald Trump issued the
announcement in October
as a matter of what he called
national security as a U.S.-
bound caravan of Central
American migrants made its
way through Mexico toward the
U.S. border.
The U.S. District Judge Jon
Tigar in San Francisco issued
an impermanent restraining
order against the Trump
announcement, therefore
granting a request from human
rights advocacy groups which
had sued soon after the order
was announced.
The American Civil Liberties
Union says the U.S. law
stipulates that the right to
request asylum must be
granted to anyone entering
the country, irrespective of
whether they do so at an
official port of entry or come in
illegally.
Trump’s administration
has argued that he has the
executive power to curb
immigration in the name of
national security - a power
he raised right after taking
office earlier this year with
a controversial ban on
travelers from several for the
most part Muslim countries.
The concluding version of
the order was upheld by the
U.S. Supreme Court on June
26 after a drawn-out legal
battle.
When the new policy
was proclaimed by the
Department of Homeland
Security on November 8, a
senior administration official
said it would address what
he called the “historically
unparalleled abuse of our
immigration system” along
the border with Mexico.

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WORLD NEWS
Trump Visits
Wrecked California and Blames
Mismanagement for Deathly Wildfire
The United States President
Donald Trump expressed
dejection at the devastation
caused by fires in a California
town, yet persisted in his
contentious assert that
forest mismanagement was
accountable for the calamity,
which has killed about 88 and
left more than 200 listed as
missing.
“This is very sad,” Trump said
after surveying the remains
of Paradise, where virtually
the only people out on
the road were emergency
services workers, encircled
by the twisted remains of a
community burn down by the
flames.
“They’re telling me this is
not as bad as some areas;
some areas are even beyond
this, they’re just charred,” he
added after looking at a street
lined with melted cars, tree
stumps and the foundations of
destroyed houses.
The deathly and most
destructive wildfire in
California’s history, the alleged
Camp Fire, has present
claimed 88 lives.
The blaze has destroyed an
area approximately the size of
Chicago, ruining nearly 10,000
homes and more than 2,500
other buildings.

Senior fire officials recounted
how rapidly the blaze spread,
complicating evacuation efforts, as
Trump studied a huge map spread
across a table showing where fires
continue to burn.
Reviving an earlier controversy,
Trump repeated his claim that
California had mismanaged its
forests and was, for the most part, to
blame for the fires.
“I’m committed to making sure that
we get all of this cleaned out and
protected, (we’ve) got to take care of
the forest, it’s very important,” Trump
said in Paradise.
Brian Rice, president of California
Professional Firefighters, called
Trump’s earlier remarks “ill-
informed”, noting the federal
government had cut spending on forest management.
Asked if he believed climate change had played any
part in the fires, Trump again pointed to the forest
“management factor” and insisted that his “strong
opinion” remained unchanged.
Trump has long been disbelieving of man’s role in
global warming despite rising scientific evidence that
the burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet and
leading to more extreme weather.
The inferno erupted November 8, laying waste to
Paradise in the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada
mountains and sending thousands fleeing.
The Camp Fire and another huge blaze have created
an earnest smoke difficulty across vast areas of the
country’s largest state.

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced that she
would not be contesting the next Lok Sabha elections, due by May
2019. Noting that while the final decision on contesting elections
was with the Bharatiya Janata Party, Swaraj said she had “made
up her mind”, citing her poor health as a being a factor
behind her decision.
Swaraj was first elected to the Lok
Sabha in 1996 and held various
positions in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee
governments of the late 1990s in
addition to briefly serving as chief
minister of Delhi.
Swaraj attracted appreciable media
attention as an effective leader of
opposition in the second UPA (United
Progressive Alliance) government.
Though considered an “acolyte” of
L.K. Advani, Swaraj was given the
position of external affairs minister by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Swaraj had made a mark in the
ministry of external affairs with her
punctual responses to appeals for
help on social media.
In 2016, Swaraj underwent a kidney
transplant and reduced her public
meetings.
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Citing Poor Health, SushmaSwaraj
Says Won’t Contest in 2019

Indian Government Issues
New Guidelines on
School Bag Weight, Homework
In a bid to guard the health and physical development of
children, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
issued a circular asking all states and Union Territories to
formulate guidelines to regulate the teaching of subjects and
the weight of school bags.

Last year, the government
had said that it was in favor
of reducing the weight
of school bags and had
initiated a pilot project in 25
Kendra Vidyalaya schools to
provide access to textbooks
through digital tablets. In
April 2016, CBSE (Central
Board of Secondary
Education) too had issued
a notice to all its affiliated
schools to employ methods
to reduce the weight of
school bags for students.
The HRD Ministry, in its
circular, has asked all
schools that fall under the
department of education to
comply with the government
orders with immediate
effect.
The HRD
Ministry, in
its circular,
has asked all
schools that
fall under the
department of
education to
comply with
the government
orders with
immediate
effect.
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Here are five things to
know about the new
government guidelines:
1. Schools cannot prescribe any other subject
except language and mathematics for Classes
I and II students and language, mathematics,
and EVS for Classes III to V students.
2.The MHRD has instructed that schools
assign no homework to students of Classes I
and II.
3.The weight of school bags for students of
Class I and II should not exceed 1.5 kg. The
maximum weight of school bags for Classes
III to V students is 2-3 kg, for classes VI to
VII students is 4 kg, for classes VIII to IX
students is 4.5 kg, and for class X students is
5 kg.
4.Students should not be asked to bring
additional books and other materials apart
from the prescribed textbooks. Schools
should make sure that students carry only
such textbooks as necessary as per the time-
table.
5.While the National Council of Educational
Research and Training (NCERT) has
recommended only two books (language and
mathematics) for Classes I and II and three
books for classes III to V, it has also made
available all their textbooks for free access
through the web and mobile devices.

74 Arora has been with
WhatsApp since 2011 - well
before the mobile messaging
service’s $19 billion
acquisition by Facebook. A
graduate of the Indian School
of Business (ISB), Arora
played a key role in closing
the acquisition of WhatsApp.
Neeraj Arora is an IIT
Delhi, ISB graduate who
has previously worked with
top internet firms including
Paytm and Google. He has
worked as the Corporate
Development Manager at
Google for three years after
which he had been promoted
to the role of a senior member
of the Corporate Development
Team where he served for a
year. He was one of the Board
of Directors at Vijay Shekhar
Sharma-led PayTm.
Prior to joining WhatsApp,
Arora worked with Google. “It
is hard to believe that it has
been seven years since Jan
(Koum) and Brian (Acton) got
me onboard at WhatsApp,
and it has been one hell of
a ride,” Arora said in a post
on Tuesday. “I am deeply
indebted to Jan and Brian,
who entrusted me to be their
business companion for so
many years,” he added.
In a jolt to Facebook in May,
WhatsApp co-founder and
Chief Executive Officer
Koum decided to recede
amid reports that he had a
difference of opinion with
parent company Facebook
over data privacy, encryption,
and some other issues and
then Arora was rumored to
be the frontrunner to replace
Koum as CEO. Another
WhatsApp co-founder Acton
made his highly-publicized
exit from Facebook in 2017.
“It’s time to move on, but I
can not be more proud of how
WhatsApp continues to touch
people in so many different
ways every day,” Arora
said. “I am confident that
WhatsApp will continue to be
the simple, secure and trusted
communication product for
years to come,” he added.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp
said recently had hired Abhijit
WhatsApp’s
Indian-Origin Chief Business Officer
Neeraj Arora Quits after seven years.
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora has resigned. Neeraj
Arora announced his sexit via a Facebook post after 7-year long
stint with the company. The Indian-origin Chief Business Officer of
WhatsApp Neeraj Arora has announced stepping down, saying he needs
“time off to recharge and spend time with family”.
IN BUSINESS

Bose, the co-founder and chief
executive of Indian mobile payments
firm Ezetap, to be the head of its
operations in India, its biggest
market by users.
Bose’s appointment is the first time
WhatsApp has created a country
head role anywhere in the world, the
company said.
Bose will begin his new role at
WhatsApp in early 2019 and will
report to Idema.Bose’s appointment
comes just two months after parent
Facebook named streaming service
Hotstar’s chief Ajit Mohan as its first
India head.
The two appointments are crucial:
India is the biggest market by users
for both Facebook and WhatsApp
and both firms are trying to get their
social media strategies in place
ahead of India’s general election
next year.

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Will Modi Win This
Election of 2019?
INFOCUS
Electing a leader for the nation is right of every citizen. The
coming elections are making the Nation think over this to elect
the one among them. The manifestos and meeting of politicians
are going high without any breaks and stops. Many surveys
are conducted to analyze the future leaders of the next five
years. The biggest question in every Indian’s mind is who is
going to win this time.

This is extremely common
to think over and over as we
are electing our leader and
our vote is going to make a
difference.
Will may get the analysis from
any survey and just estimate
to ourselves in groups. But
still, we all wait for the results
of elections. Estimations can
go wrong or become true
but they’re not going to stop
until the results of elections
are revealed out officially.
Analysis and surveys have
proved something real
sometimes. So, it is good to
go with the analysis until the
reality comes out.
General Elections of 2019
are due to conduct in India,
in April/May. 17th Lok Sabha
Elections in the states of
Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal
Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim
will be held simultaneously
with the general elections.
In 16th Lok Sabha Elections
2014, BJP won by 51.22%
competing with many other
parties. The number of
members was 273.
Why Narendra
Modi will 2019
Elections?
Modi’s performance may bring
him back in this time elections.
Of course, leaders good work
can only make people elect
them. The big changes and
implementations of Modi
made a good mark in people’s
heart?
The updated GST
gained many critics all over
the nation. Many of them
were against the updated
GST. Modi’s view or plan to
update GST was to eliminate
cascading of taxes on the
production and distribution of
prices of goods and services.
Jan Dhan Yojana: Jan
Dhan Yojana propelled by PM
Modi has prompted in excess
of 30 crore individuals
joining the banking system,
in excess of 18 crores of
the said accounts have
been opened in rustic/semi-
urban zones meaning it has
prevailed in its objective of
profiting the last individual.
It is the biggest financial
inclusion initiative in the
world.
Swacch Bharat: Swacch
Bharat or Clean India which
promoted clean streets and
strive to make India open
defecation free by providing
toilets for every household
is another project which has
been highly successful. Over
six crore toilets were built in
rural areas.
The many other schemes
that were implemented
by Modi in last few years
may call Modi back in this
elections in 2019. Anyways
the nation will be looking
forward to the elections.

About Bhagat Singh
He was born on 28th September 1907 and died on 23rd
March 1931. He was one of the powerful revolutionaries,
which showed his thought process and actions. He was named
as Shaheed Bhagat Singh, his name had a deep meaning.
Shaheed means ‘martyr’.
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Bhagat Singh
A Great Inspiration!
He was born in a village named
Banga, Punjab. He was a part of
a Sikh family, his parents were
Kishan Singh and Vidyavati Kaur. He
completed his schooling from DAV
High School-Punjab and graduated
from National College - Lahore. He
was a Socialist, Nationalist, Anarchist,
and Communist.
Bhagat Singh is a great inspiration
as he gave his selfless-service to the
nation, at the same time left us with
lessons to learn from and adapt to live
a fruitful life. He always emphasized
FREEDOM FIGHTER
making a revolution through ideas
and thoughts. He gave us the vision
to ponder on to develop in life.
While he was in school he met
revolutionary leaders like Lals Lapat
Rai and Ras Bihari Bose in the year
1916. He was very inspired by the
book named Lenin. In the end, after
Bhagat Singh is hung to death with
his friend Sukhdev, the Britishers
shamelessly cut their bodies into
pieces and throw it at a river. Their
cut bodies are noticed by villagers
and then finally their bodies are
cremated respectfully. Bhagat Singh

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FREEDOM FIGHTER
believed in poorna Swaraj .I.e,
total Independence he opposed
dominion independence. He
believed in Hindu and Muslim
being one. He believed that the
Britishers were trapping them in
the divide and rule policy.
Roles of Bhagat
Singh
1.Role in the Non -
Cooperation Movement
The Non-Cooperation
Movement was organized by
Gandhiji after his patience had
been tested and he realized
that the British Government
would not co-operate. He
launched this movement
because of the Jallian
Walabagh Massacre and
the Khilafat issue. Bhagat
Singh played a role here
by helping Gandhiji in this
movement. Gandhiji withdrew
from this movement and
called it off because of which
Bhagat Singh was unhappy
and he joined the Young
Revolutionary Movement.
2.Role in the Young
Revolutionary Movement
This Revolutionary movement
came into being for Indian
Independence after the bad
effects the Jallianwala Bagh
Massacre, Chauri-Chaura
and the Rowlatt Act had on
the country, where the youth
formed groups and revolted
against the British rule.
Bhagat Singh got influenced
to be a part of this movement
by studying about the
anarchism and communism
from the European
Revolutionary movement
and was influenced to be
a Socialist after reading
Fredrick Engels and Karl
Marx ideologies, after this he
became a communist and
socialist and learned that
the political power had to be
taken away by the workers
through reconstructing the
Indian Society. Workers who
slogged all day were not
paid fairly. He wanted to curb
the injustice that happened.
He organised the Bharat
Naujawan Sabha for India’s
independence.He got the title
of Shaheed-e-Azam(King of

Martyrs)
3. Role in the Republic
Hindustan Association
Bhagat Singh was a part of
this movement with few other
leaders in order to establish
the Federated Republic of
Us of India through violence.
They wanted to kill the
political officials and rage
terrorism for the Britishers.
Though it was to instigate
the Britishers to be afraid it
was with a social purpose.
The first initiation the leaders
together took was the Kakori
Train Conspiracy. The idea
behind this incident was to
rob weapons to fight against
the Britishers.
4. Role in Lahore
Conspiracy Case and
Trail
In the Lahore Conspiracy
Case, the political parties
were against the British rule.
In Lahore, Lala Lajpat Rai
was leading the anti-Simon
commission, because of the
Lathi charge he lost his life on
30th October 1928.
His death enraged the
emotions of the members
of the Hindustan Republic
Association and led to
assassinating the British. To
take revenge of Lala Rajpat
Rai’s death, Bhagat Singh
accompanied Raj Guru and
Lajpat Rai to kill Scott. By
mistake, they killed Saunders.
Bhagat Singh hid his identity
from being caught by cutting
his cutting his hair and
shaving his beard and when
he threw a bomb in the Delhi
Assembly he was captured
in the Lahore Conspiracy
Case.
5.Kirti Kisan Party
This was an initiative taken
by Bhagat Singh for the
welfare of the workers,
this political party was
started by Bhai Santokh
Singh, to encourage small
agriculturists, industrialists,
and laborers who were not
paid well to participate in the
revolutionary activity. Bhagat
Singh participated in this
Party by renaming it with the
name Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association and
he contributed his writings to
‘Kirti’ magazine.
6.The Assembly
Conspiracy Trail
Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwar Dutt joined
hands and threw smoke
bombs at the Delhi Legislative
Assembly fearlessly to spread
the message of a long-
lived Revolution! ‘Inqalab
Zindabad’ which was written
on pamphlets to let the
farmers and workers stand
up for their rights and fight
against injustice by forming
trade unions. This paved for a
drastic change in the society.
Singh and Dutt surrendered
after this and Singh was
hanged to death.
Books written by Bhagat
Singh
1.Why I am an Atheist
This book was written by
Bhagat Singh as a response to

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FREEDOM FIGHTER
that we will not make a change
with bloodshed and tears. We
will revolutionize only when we
take steps to change our thought
process
“Merciless criticism and
independent thinking are the two
necessary traits of revolutionary
thinking”
Bhagat Singh has beautifully
explained to us how we can
move towards revolutionary
thinking when we keep our mind
open to accept criticism and
give it a thought on how can that
challenge turn to betterment.
“If yet your blood does not rage,
then it is water that flows in your
veins. For what is the flush of
youth, if it is not of service to the
motherland”
In this quote, Bhagat Singh is
giving a message to all the youth
that we must take steps to do
something for our motherland
and the phase of our youth is
pointless if we do not feel the
pinch to be at the service for our
country.
Bhagat Singh’s life, struggles,
and teachings is a true inspiration
to be strong and to fight for justice
until it is not attained. He is living
in our hearts today through his
actions when he was living.
Inquilab Zindabad!
his friends who thought that he was
filled with pride in him because of
which he turned out to be an atheist.
He agreed that there was some
sort of pride in him but that did not
stop him from believing in God.
He tries to explain to his friends
that a person can stop believing
in God when he considers himself
superior or equal to God, he tries to
explain that he is not God or has no
thoughts to boast about himself as
God. He was naturally an atheist.
2.The Selected works of Bhagat
Singh
In this book, Bhagat Singh speaks
about the fighter who did not
compromise and wanted to put an
end to the exploitation of a man by
man and other nations.
3.The Jail Notebook and other
writings
In this book, Bhagat Singh talks
about various subjects like the poor
laborers, morality, freedom, his fight
for freedom, about his charge on the
light brigade, the immortality of the
soul, birthright, democracy, religion,
rural and urban education etc. He
covers throwing light on varied
topics.
Famous Quotes Of Bhagat Singh
“Bombs and pistols do not make a
revolution. The sword of revolution
is sharpened on the whetting-stone
of ideas”
Bhagat Singh tries to explain to us

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INDIAN YOGA
YogaPosesfor
Treatmentof
THYROID DISORDER

“
Thyroid disorder can really happen to anyone. Thyroid is
a disease that is a medical condition which affects the
thyroid gland. Although it is best to consult a doctor and
discuss the way forward but it has been known that yoga
and meditation can help in relieving a lot of issues and
stress associated to the thyroid. Yoga for thyroid is indeed
the best medicine available.
“

INDIAN YOGA
Halasana
This is an exercise tanker compression
to the neck and thereby stimulating the
abdominal and thyroid glands. It also
comes down the brain and reduces the
stress and fatigue. Dispose resembles to
the Indian plough and hence it is called
Halasana.
Sarvangasana
This asana is the particular position by
the blood flows from the next to the
head region due to the important
for helping in mitigating the thyroid.
Undoubtedly if the person follows a
regular practice of Sarvangasana, they
feel new vigor and strength and remain
happy and healthy with confidence.
Setubandhasana
Stretching out the neck area to quite
an extent activates the thyroid glands.
It helps in calming the anxiety, relaxing
the brain and improving the digestive
system. Not just that, it boosts blood flow
around the gland, further helping in the
treatment.
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Yoga Treatment of Thyroid Disorder

Bhujangasana
It involves lot of compression and stretching
that takes place in regulating the thyroid
glands. It also improves the blood
circulation and the amount of flexibility
of upper and middle back strengthening
the entire shoulders and back toning the
abdomen and expanding chest in reducing
stress along with fatigue.
Matsyasana
It helps in stretching your neck and
hand stimulating the thyroid glands.
This helps in relax in the body and
preventing mood swings mother
leading to depression which happens
in commonly in a lot of cases of the
thyroid.
Sirsasana
It is a poster where balancing the
metabolic activities and functions of
the body is bringing wakefulness and
alertness to it. It assists the venous
flow of blood towards the heart,
strengthening the muscles of the heart.

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