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MY BARAK VALLEY

INTRODUCTION The Barak Valley is located in the southern region of the Indian state of Assam. The main city of the valley is Silchar. The region is named after the Barak river. The Barak valley mainly consists of three administrative districts of Assam - namely Cachar, Karimganj, and Hailakandi. HISTORY The region was originally part of the Tripura kingdom. In 1562 Chilarai annexed the Cachar region to the Koch kingdom and it became a part of the Koch kingdom administered by his half-brother Kamalnarayan.After the death of Nara Narayan, the region became independent and was ruled by the descendants of Kamalnarayan. In the 17th-century, the last Koch ruler's daughter married the king of the Kachari kingdom, and the rule of Khaspur passed into the hands of the Kachari rulers, who eventually moved their capital from Maibang to Khaspur. The Kachari kingdom was annexed to British-India in 1832. The headquarters of the district was Silchar. The British Companies established a very large...

CHILD MARRIAGE

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INTRODUCTION Child marriage is a marriage or similar union, formal or informal, between a child under a certain age- typically age eighteen - and an adult or another child.The vast majority of child marriages are between a girl and a man, and are rooted in gender equality. Although the age of maturity(legal adulthood) and marriageable age are usually designated at age 18, both vary across countries and therefore the marriageable age may be older or younger in a given country. HISTORY Before the industrial revolution, in many parts of the world, including India,China and Eastern Europe women tended to marry immediately after reaching puberty, in their mid-teens. Societies where most of the population lived in small agricultural communities were characterized by these marriage practices well into the 19th century. Men tended to marry later in societies where a married couple was expected to establish a household of their own. That usually meant that men remained unmarried unt...

Durga Pooja

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Durga Pooja or Navratri is a Hindu festival celebration of the Mother Goddess and the victory of the warrior Goddess Durga over the demon Mahisasura. The festival represents female power as ‘Shakti’ in the Universe. It is a festival of Good over Evil. Durga Pooja is one of the greatest festivals of India. Durga pooja, also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsava. It is particularly popular and traditionally celebrated in the Indian states of Bengal, Assam, Odisha, Tripura, the country of Bangladesh, the disapora from this region, and in the Mithilanchal regions of Bihar and Nepal. In addition to being a festival for the Hindus, it is also time for a reunion of family and friends, and a ceremony of cultural values and customs. As per as Hindu scriptures, the festival marks the victory of goddess Durga in her battle against the shape-shifting asura, Mahishasura. Thus, the festival epitomizes the victory of good over evil, through it is also in part a harvest festival celebrating ...

The Social Dilemma

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"The Social Dilemma" points out that many social networks exploit human weakness by designing with something called positive intermittent reinforcement in mind. In the modern world 21st century we humans are living in a both physically and virtually growing world, where data is the most value asset to mankind, those who have control over the data and stats can arguably manipulate the mankind. Social media which is both a boon as well as curse, palys a critical role in this new world of data and information. In a nutshell we can say that we are being mentally hacked by the stakeholders of this social media world, that is artificial intelligence which is not even a living being. We arguably say that we are being controlled by the machines and they are manipulating our mindset. For example, you login to a particular social platform and search any required content, then the algorithm of the AI is designed in such a way that it will mould your search bar in such a way ...