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The Origin of Dowry System – British Policies convert Gifts to Bride into an instrument of oppression against women

Angry Brides - angrybrides.in - An Anti-Dowry Game

The modern definition of the Dowry System in India is as follows.  Dowry is a payment of cash or valuable gifts from the bride’s family to the bridegroom upon marriage. This menace of Dowry has become a social menace in modern India leading to the oppression on women, physical violence on the bride,...

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Oldest Living (Continuously Inhabited) City of the World

This is an attempt to  find the world’s oldest living city taking into consideration the Astronomical dating of Ramayana. Here we are not talking...

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Mapping Earth or Trapping Minds? Story of Mercator Projection

General Knowledge Fact: India is the 7th largest country in the world in terms of Geographical area Fact: Greenland is 13th largest country in the world...

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Sugar – A Sweet Indian Gift to the World

The most popular sweetener in the world – Sugar – was invented in India. Prior to the introduction of Sugar from India, the most popular sweetener...

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Save the Planet? No Thanks! says Mother Earth

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future -Marya...

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I Promise to pay the bearer

Take any currency note and have a look at it. You will find wordings similar to this. “I promise to pay the bearer a sum of….” So what...

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Women’s Day Special

One in every two people on this planet is a woman. Happy Women’s Day to all No, this blog post is not yet another discussion about feminism or...

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The Sacred Secrets of Ganga

I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers - Krishna in Bhagavadgita In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: The Ganges,...

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Christmas – The Birth Date of Jesus Christ

The charisma of Christ has been misused by the Roman Catholic Church to forward its propaganda of converting the entire world into Christianity. One of...

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Takshashila – World’s Oldest University

More than 2700 years back a huge university existed in that ancient India where over 10,500 students from all across the world came for higher studies. This...