Kali Puja..

Kali Puja is held on the night of the New Moon in the Bengali month...

October 28, 2019AGA Admin

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Deepawali..

Deepawali or Diwali is the festival of lights: deep signifying "light" and avali "a row" connoting "a row of...

October 28, 2019AGA Admin

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Zionism, music and Identi..

Music played an important role in the spread of Zionism in the late19th and early-20th...

October 21, 2019AGA Admin

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Indian Chinese..

The history of India’s Chinese community is part of a larger global narrative about the...

October 21, 2019AGA Admin

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Euphrates—the cradle of..

Euphrates River, Turkish FıratNehri, Arabic Nahr Al-Furāt, the longest river in southwest Asia, is 1,740 miles (2,800 km)...

October 14, 2019AGA Admin

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Kurdistan..

Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”), Arabic Kurdistān and Persian Kordestān, refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly...

October 14, 2019AGA Admin

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Delectably yours—Jews a..

Today, only about 20 Jewish descendants of the original Baghdadi Jews remain in Kolkata. But there is...

September 30, 2019AGA Admin

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Devi/Mother Goddess in pr..

The perception of Devi or Divine Feminine power as Mother Goddess is an integral part...

September 30, 2019AGA Admin

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“Mahanagar”/The Big C..

Mahanagar, Satyajit Ray’s enduring masterpiece from 1963exposed the hypocrisies of the middle class Bengali society...

September 23, 2019AGA Admin

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“Gett: The Trial of Viv..

The Israeli feature film “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” released in 2014 created a...

September 23, 2019AGA Admin

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Fish and forests of Amazo..

There are few places in the world where the aquatic and arboreal lives share a...

September 16, 2019AGA Admin

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“The Other Mother”..

‘The Other Mother’ by Carol Schaefer is considered a classic in adoption literature. It is...

September 16, 2019AGA Admin

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Glacial Lake Outburst Flo..

A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a release of meltwater from a moraine or...

September 09, 2019AGA Admin

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Climate mapping of East A..

Climate experts have acknowledged that the climate in East Asia—a geopolitical space consisting of the...

September 09, 2019AGA Admin

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Satya-Pir/Satya-Narayan..

The cult of Satya-Pir, one of the popular beliefs and practices that crept into the...

September 02, 2019AGA Admin

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