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There was a good and bad side both to life under the British Empire in India. From a historical point of view a very good portrayal of this time is well illustrated by the life of my Great Grand Father, Baba Shib Dayal Bedi. His life would actually exhibit the rise of Indians who actually were successful in the period of the British Raj after the first war of independence in 1857. He was born in a small village in United Punjab in 1874. His father’s name was Baba Ulaas Rai Bedi. They were descended from the linage of Baba Laxmi Chand, Baba Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s youngest son. They held land holdings in the Village of Pousi which had been present since the time of Emperor Akbar some 250 years before. They lived in an ancient walled house, with extended family. My Great Grand Father who was very good in Farsi and Indian history finished his schoolings. At the age of 16 his father and mother passed away from illness which the local Hakim and Ved could not remedy. We have long believed this w...

The one thing I have always been scared about… okay, maybe ‘scared’ is too mild a word… let’s say ‘terrified’ about is   drugs . I grew up watching movies that showed youngsters getting addicted to it and how it is essentially bad at the end. This heavily influenced my overall attitude towards the very idea of any kind of intoxicants or mind-altering substances. And then in my early twenties, I realized that there are a lot of people who do drugs and still live a normal life. I was confused. Not that I considered trying it out myself… but I wondered if it was all a farce after all. Then I saw some photographs in a tabloid that made my eyes go wide in shock. What these substances do to our bodies is beyond comprehension. Look at the before and after drug usage/abuse pictures of celebrities if you want to see what I mean… Amy Winehouse Macaulay Culkin Lindsay Lohan Matthew Perry Whitney Houston And here are some non-famous faces… sans...

THE HOLODOMOR (UKRAINE) Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. (Wikipedia) Passers-by and the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, 1932 (Wikipedia) Children struggle to dig through the frozen earth for potatoes, Udachny, Ukraine. 1933 (Wikimedia commons) The Holodomor, also known as the Terror-Famine, Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, or the Ukranian Genocide of 1932–33, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor, a compound of the Ukranian words “holod” (hunger) and “mor”(plague), millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukranians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in Ukraine’s history. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine and 15 other countries as a genocide of the Ukranian people carr...

    OnePlus Nord full specification and users review one plus nord in hand image. 6.44" 1080x2400 pixels 48MP 2160p 6-12GB RAM Snapdragon 765G processor 4115mAh battery Li-Po build quality of battery 0 to 100% in 1hour 10minute Varients 6GB RAM, 64   GB ROM 8GB RAM, 128 GB ROM 12GB RAM, 256 GB ROM NETWORK Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 3G bands HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 4G bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 66 - Europe   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46 - India 5G bands 1, 3, 7, 28, 78 - Europe   78 - India Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (CA) Cat18 1200/150 Mbps. 5G OnePlus Nord launch date is 2020, July 21. Released 2020, August 04 BODY Dimensions : 158.3 x 73.3 x 8.2 mm (6.23 x 2.89 x 0.32 in) Weight 184 g (6...