Modhera village is situated in Mehsana district of Gujarat. Its finest temple is older than the world-famous Konark temple of Odisha, which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is love that takes centrestage on 14 February, Valentine’s Day. Though the day’s romantic associations have evolved over centuries,
I imagine how I would start if I were in Yuriko’s place. What should be the first sentence of a book for my daughter? It could be like this: “Once there was a country called Soviet Union. Its official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was an experimental state. The USSR existed until 1991, when it collapsed. Yes, for you it was totally the past and already finished story, since you were born in 1992.
A synagogue is the centre of the Jewish religious community: a place of prayer, study, education, social and charitable work as well as a social centre. The word “synagogue” is actually a Greek translation of Beit K’nesset
meaning “place of assembly” (related to the word synod). Religions, throughout social history, have always been one of the most prominent social institutions that plays an important role in regulating a person’s life.
He gets into an airplane on the island of Taipei, and is about to escape, when his plane crashes during attempts to take off. He’s severely burned, and dies soon after. The British imperial government of India, his immediate adversary, gets the news, but is cautious about believing it– after all, it’s perfectly possible to stage your own death, and then reappear at a later, more opportune moment.
And ever since then, a shibboleth is a word that must be pronounced to demonstrate the proper belonging to a community. Without having the proper word at your disposal, you could easily come to a sticky end.
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he sang a song from the 1848 Revolution in Czech by Smetana; and he said of himself that he could sing in twenty-five languages. As an internationalist and a communist, the purpose of his work was to emphasise what was common to the human condition.
The English Library at Nice is the largest in Southern Europe. It has been located at the same place for the last 160 years, inside the neo-Gothic Holy Trinity English Church campus.
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