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Political Science – Daily Answer Writing Challenge Day – 16

QUESTIONS:07/11/2013  Examine the effect of caste and community in Indian politics. Do you foresee their continued relevance in country;s politics ? (300 Words) “Indian secularism is a myth”. Comment. (300 Words) Discuss whether coalition politics has led to a different pattern of federalism in India. (300 Words) Discuss the structure and functions of the Urban …

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Acceptance Speech by Shri Pranab Mukherjee on his Assumption of office as President of India – Complete Text

Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Shri Hamid Ansari, Smt. Meira Kumar, Shri Justice S.H. Kapadia, Members of Parliament, Your Excellencies, Friends and fellow citizens, I am deeply moved by the high honour you have accorded to me. Such honour exalts the occupant of this office, even as it demands that he rises above personal or partisan interests in the service of the national good. The principal …

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Time Magazine’s Report on Mahatma Gandhi When It Chose Him Man of the Year in 1931

TIME Magazine January 5, 1931   Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence. It was in March that …

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