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A brief summary of the caste system and my views on it and how it relates to our society today.

The Indian government's avowed efforts to reverse the effects of caste tribalism have in fact augmented it. G. Stolyarov II explains why.

The caste system in India is a social class structure which has led to great social injustices through class discrimination.

The Indian social structure is entwined with the religious beliefs of the Indian people. The caste system of India reinforced the idea of reincarnation. This idea helped to bring stability to India society and subservience to the outnumbered ruling castes...

The caste system originated in ancient India among Hindus, and was initially based on the division of labor. One theory of the origins of Casteism postulates that it developed in a small village by the Sindhu River.

The reason for India's squalid sanitary conditions is not entirely economic, it is also cultural. Left over from the traditional caste system, there still remains communities so low in the Hindu social order that they are born into the role of sweepers and scavengers.

The pulp novel, The Electric Church, takes place in a unified world that rules with a tyrannical police force and an uber-rich upper caste.

Collectivism is not only a primary motivation for oppression and persecution; it also precludes friendship among people despite their individual compatibility. Caste-based prejudices in India provide an optimal illustration of this tendency.

Hispanic California and California under the United States had very different ways in treating the racial and caste differences that made up the state's population from its early inception to 1900.

With the discovery of the "New World" by Europeans came oppression of native peoples from Alaska to the tip of South America. The Mayans were no exception, and in 1847 they staged an uprising against the repressive system which had overtaken them.

Some of the best people in India are today being sacrificed to collectivist ideas such as caste. Modern India is plagued today by a system of reservations and affirmative action, a system which stifles the brightest and most productive Indians from all backgrounds.

One of the most powerful World of Warcraft classes is, without a doubt, the Warlock class. Find out all about the awesome forces that can be unleashed through this class including a new pet that is available in the Burning Crusade expansion.

The set is an extremely welcome addition to US DVD shelves and will hopefully lead to further exploration of the ignored movie archives of Cuba.

New laws now make it near impossible to find and keep any job. The government has gone so far as to deny basic constitutional rights. The horrendous crimes committed by others, has every town making restrictive zones.

As Professor Josh Stenger writes in his essay "'AMERICAN' IDLES: Spinning, Disappointment and Desire in Purdy's Paradise Lost," there is indeed something "slippery and insubstantial about [Jedediah Purdy's] style of writing" (Stenger 5).

Big Brother is popular reality show beamed in UK.

Reconstruction aroused violent controversy over the constitutional powers of the federal government to intervene in a state's affairs, over whether the victors should try to change the South fundamentally, and over the status of the black ex slaves, or freedmen.

The Fountain House standards are based on Fountain House in New York. This program started out as an alternative to state mental hospitals. It is a mental health reform. However, it has become like a religion. Disabled people need to be treated as first class citizens.

There are some allegations that there are alien beings currently residing on Earth, scattered in underground top-secret installations throughout the US. This report is about one site and an extremely disturbing event that took place over twenty years ago.

As a very successful pro se litigant, the author has come to realize that a knowledgeable individual in the internet age can successfully and effectively represent themselves in court, much to the consternation of the Brahim-like attorney class.

Starlet Scarlett Johansson has joined international agency Oxfam's commitment to end poverty after a ten-day tour with the organization through India and Sri Lanka.

Did you know the 27 million people are held in the worst form of Slavery ever known to man. Some of them make our clothes, rugs, and develop the sugar in our food. Many of these slaves live and work in the US right in front of us.

Strange simialarities between zombies and Communists.

Many people confuse religion and ideology. The reason may be due to globalization's allowing the two to intermingle and produce extremist terrorists.

You will improve the quality of your relationships if you learn the art of agreeableness. Being agreeable does not mean you will always agree with another's opinions. It does mean you employ tact to disagree in an agreeable manner.

It seems impossible for a work of written literature to imitate a style of music. It seems especially impossible for that imitated style of music to be jazz. Ishmael Reed was able to do the impossible: he used the style of jazz music to write his works of literature.

It aint pretty but it's all we've got. Here's how to survive the dreaded airplane "blue room".

The discourse regarding European colonization and the sentiments surrounding it by scholars such as Frank Furedi have helped to distinguish the thought processes of someone coming from an imperial nation versus a former colony.

Discusses a few of the key points of arguments surrounding Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

Jose Gaspar, a legend on the west coast of Florida, deserves more than a passing mention; his life was quite a tale. Too bad that the tales are total fiction!

What has made these two civilizations remain in tact for thousands of years? Hopefully this question can be answered here.

Author Interview

Eastern religions--Hinduism and Buddhism

Where does our existence lie? Do we even know what we're talking about? Are we being selfish? Why all this discrimination that causes plights?

The affect of anti-Judaism sentiment on Sephardic Jews.

To those that believe in any dynamic of a human race, I know game when it is in my face, And I know pimping when it is put in place. Do You?

A semiotic exploration of Lunchables as a commodity intertwined with our consumerist cculture and the development of class divisions in society.

The British film industry like all industries is a product of its own culture. The unique style and mannerisms of the British always and sometimes unknowingly seep into each and every film.

Friedman's newest book, which has enjoyed rave reviews and instant bestseller status, is nothing more than a thinly-veiled treatise on the virtues of pro-capitalist Rand-ism. This review exposes the fact that this book is no more than a bible for tech-savvy neo-cons.

The first in a series of Editorial/Opinion articles entitled "Common Sense" ... common sense by a common person for the common people.

Retrospective of Dirty Dancing on its twentieth anniversary.

Konidela Siva Shankar Vara Prasad is famously known as Chiranjeevi in the Telugu film Industry, which produces the highest number of films every year in South India. In this fictional interview session, he interviewed me. I consider him my brother.

This paper conducts an analysis of Underworld in regards to Feminism.

Mr. Stolyarov suggests the formation of a fourth branch of government, a Protectorate branch whose sole power will consist of the ability to veto interventionist measures by the other branches.

President Bush exercises his veto power for the second time

Mr. Stolyarov defends the idea of a meritocracy and shows how a free market can bring about a society where men are rewarded based on personal merit. He also discusses the alterations to government needed to bring this about.

Why are Goth students singled out?

Sati i.e. self-immolation by a widow would normally be looked upon as a negative aspect of culture.But women in the ancient days committed it by themselfs and half of them by social pressures.Now it became a Crime.

I still look at my mom and dad, wondering how they could manage to live under a roof for so many years. How do couples manage to share their lives together lifelong? The question floats on air, unanswered. Seems nobody knows the answer. There's something! Well, what is it?

Don't throw away those old containers. It is quite possible you could use them to create a unique flower show in your yard. Here are some ideas on how to use recycled items for flowerpots.

Half-Life and Halo are two deep, and engaging first person shooter games for two different systems. Both are incredibly popular, and both are often compared.

Some of the world's most unusual funerals

Is it logically reasonable for a black person to expect to be treated equally and included into a society that has gone through great lengths to constantly exclude them?

Two religions that formed in India are Buddhism and Hinduism. Both religions affect the daily lives of the people who follow them. Beliefs such as moksha and the four noble truths impacted on these lives.

What is this immensity of this real estate we call India? Is it one nation, one monolithic entity or a conglomeration of tribes?

G. Stolyarov II explains, via an analysis of George Orwell's 1984, why a collectivist Big Brother mentality inherently stifles human advancement and halts amelioration of living conditions.

Comparing and contrasting the two religions and explaining a little about both.

The slave class called kauwa. Description of the modus operandi of the modern recruitment of captives

A thesis on the novel "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

This is an analysis of "The Wealth of Nations" and the "Communist Manifesto".

An examination of similarities between the two religious figure heads that may actually prove Jesus was in fact a Buddhist or at the very least influenced by Buddhism.

An Interview with one of the Producers from The Namesake: "I've run guns for Shahrukh Kahn and shipped tigers for Karan Johar," Anadil says with the ironical nonchalance of a person fully aware they have a good story...

In some of the most bizarre current news there is a report that teachers sprinkled cow urine on their students.

Finding a spouse in India may seem complicated with unnecessary rules, but it has been working for generations and is unlikely to change drastically anytime soon.

Prior to going to India as a cultural researcher, I had a pretty major misunderstanding of the topic of arranged marriages and in fact had a fairly negative attitude regarding arranged marriages. My attitude changed as my understanding increased.

What can we do?

Are we widening the gap of social inequality with assisted reproduction?

Sparta, in a quest to breed a race of super soldiers, had its own "final solution" that dwarfed even the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

album review of Kanye West's sophmore album.

Even though cultural and educational resources exist in American society to move people into higher-level positions, some people born into poverty do not easily understand nor are sometimes even able to afford these programs.

Of all the great writers in the world, how many are female? Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee. Often these "female writers" were discredited-their work was thought as trite, or even that it was really done by a man.

Much of history consists of domination and control by an individual or group over others. Basic tools consist of systems of punishment and reward . While effective in the short term, is it the best way to run society?

Most experts believe that the Newars were the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, high in the mountains of Nepal, a country north of India, but their origins are shrouded in mystery.

Jainism has always been a minority in India, yet they are the most peaceful and loving of the Indian religions and indeed, world religions. Jainism's greatest belief is nonviolence toward every living thing, including the individual himself.

The American Desi Underground captures the secrets of what goes on behind close doors at Desi Conventions in the US.

The history of India and the effects of British colonialism

This is a summary and review of three books targeted at women and sharing the characteristic of being light and easy and good for summer, beach reading.

A re-review of the film Water, screened in the 30th International Film Festival, Toronto, and the endless controversies ensued after the screening, revealing the hypocrisies of the "Worldwide Indian Diaspora".

tribal women in santal tribe dance and sing in an occasion.......

There are far too many accomplishments in the life of Mohandas Gandhi to be covered in a single essay, for he was and still is one of the most idolized people in history.

In the article, "African Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights", author Sean Dennis Cashman explains in detail how hard it was for the African-American race to gain a place in society without being referred to as inferior people to the whites.

A comparison of Jesus as portrayed in The Bible and Krishna as portrayed in The Bhagavad Gita.

Comparison and Contrast of Eastern Religions such as Daoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism.

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is an ironic tale of condemnation. Amongst the delectation that characters express over the subjects of adultery, greed, spite, envy, and deception brews an underlying inclemency.

The history of the horse in England is inseparable from the history of the English people. Horses influenced the way England's early inhabitants worked, traveled, and fought. Many human factors influenced the bloodlines, size, and speed of the animals.

Social stratification is the "division of society into two or more categories of people ranked high to low relative to one another." Stratification is present in almost every type of culture except in egalitarian societies.

Ronald Regan once said, "We fought the War on Poverty and poverty won." An in-depth look at why.

Montgomery Bell State Park in Dickson County, Tennessee is filled with natural beauty, from bubbling streams to majestic oak and red bud trees stretching towards the sky. Most people wouldn't expect to find the remains of a colonial industrial empire.

Creating a catchy website is crucial for Internet success. To make a strong presence you need a strong designer. Here is a breakdown of why, how and what to look for when it comes to web designers.

In order to make the "Murder on the Orient Express" challenging to solve, Agatha Christie exploits character stereotypes & stereotypes of the mystery genre, by first crafting them in the context of the novel, then contricting the established stereotypes.

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. Archer describes the influence of the stories of Krishna in art and poetry. In the Mahabharata, Krishna is portrayed as an incarnation of Vishnu and the hero of the epic.

In Harold Pinter's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, visceral director Elia Kazan poured his own psyche in. Cerebral spaces of DeNiro's Stahr grasp Kazan's Mise en scène as ample dais for culminated personal themes.

A discussion of Surrealist politics and its relation to other modern political movements, including fascism and communism.