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WARLI PAINTING

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                                                         WARLI PAINTING                                                                                           Warli art is a beautiful folk art of Maharashtra, traditionally created by the tribal womens. Tribals are the Warli and Malkhar koli tribes found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in Western India. This art was first explored in the early seventies & from then it was named as “Warli art”.    Tribal people express themselves in vivid styles through paintings which they execute on the walls of their house. This was the only means of transmitting...

Triple Talaq issue

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                                      " TRIPLE TALAQ"                        India's Supreme Court on Tuesday  banned "triple talaq" , or instant divorce, practised by some in the Muslim community, saying it is "unconstitutional". Triple talaq is the practice under which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by simply uttering "talaq" three times. It is prevalent among India's Muslim community majority of whom follow the Hanafi Islamic school of law. This mode of divorce is not universal among Muslims across the world, as many other Islamic schools of thought prefer the divorce process to be deferred, in many cases over a period of three months. The government has cited the example of many predominantly Muslim countries, including Pakistan, that have banned triple talaq. It has generated debate around the rights of Muslim...

Tribal Community

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                                          MADIA GOND                        Madia Gonds  or  Madia  or  Maria  are one of the  endogamous  Gond tribes living in  Chandrapur District  and  Gadchiroli District  of  Maharashtra  State, and  Bastar  division  of  Chhattisgad  State India.   They have been granted the status of a Primitive tribal group  by the Government of India under its  affirmative action  or  reservation  programme. The Madia Gonds are strongly affected by  Naxa l  activities. The Madia Gond use the self designation Madia, and call the area where they live Madia Desh. They speak the Madia dialect of Gondi. The shifting agriculture of madia is known as jhoom.   ...

Cinema review

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                             PINK MOVIE REVIEW           Pink  is a movie directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhary. The mega star Amitabh Bachhan have acted as a retired lawyer Deepak Sehgal in this film.Tapsee Pannu as Meenal, Kriti Kulhari as Falak Ali,Andrea and Angad Bedi as Rajeev.It tells a story that after being molested, Minal along with her friends tries to file an FIR against a politician's nephew Rajeev. When the subsequent case gets rigged, Deepak helps them to fight the case. In this film Amitabh gives a very POWERFUL MESSAGE which is unmissable. Pink is about the mindset which looks at independent women capable of making the same choices as independent men, as 'loose' or 'characterless.                Basically Pink is a courtroom drama which puts the collective identity of single working women in India and the presumptions ...