How language shapes gender

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Rashid Faridi
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Indians from 1967 talk about the future

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Rashid Faridi
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The world has made more progress on climate change than you might think – or might have predicted a decade ago

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Rashid Faridi

Geography Directions

By Myles Allen, University of Oxford

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

It must be painful for Boris Johnson to be a footnote, especially a footnote in French, but at the end of a very long two weeks, there were always only two outcomes possible at the UN climate summit in Glasgow. A Copenhagen-style meltdown, putting the implementation of the Paris Agreement on hold for years. Or a footnote.

A meltdown was never in anyone’s interest, so we have ended up with a footnote. A long footnote, an important footnote, but a footnote nonetheless. The Glasgow Climate Pact saw rules clarified (sort of), more finance, especially for adaptation (but still not enough), greater clarity on long-term goals and the treatment of climate-related loss and damage, and some (still inadequate) progress on short-term commitments.

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Indian Cities:Some General Characteristics

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Rashid Faridi

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English: View of Dal Lake and the city of Srin... English: View of Dal Lake and the city of Srinagar from Shankaracharya Hill (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Although it is true that it is very difficult to see generality in towns because towns in India and in the world are system in themselves some similarities can be seen in the cities . Besides that in general the towns are so unique individually that even categorizing two cities in one single category poses many problems. Nevertheless a pattern emerges in organization and there are some similarity in characteristics of India towns. A modest attempt has been done here to list some of their characteristics.

          Strong Agricultural Base

 In a great majority of cases towns have still very strong agricultural elements within them. The smaller ones are indeed little more than large market villages with the same very local administrative function added; perhaps two or three central streets inadequately paved and lighted give the…

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