If you’re in Hyderabad, there’s no better place for this than Sharmipet Lake, located around 25 kilometers away from the city. It’s the locals’ favorite getaway place and a lot of them come here for picnics. It’s one of the best birdwatching spots in the...
Introduction A decade has passed since the global economy went into one of the worst economic crises in modern economic history. With the exception of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Global Crude Oil Shock during the 1970s, there has not been any...
Before 1944, India controlled by the British saw the development of nationalist movements such as the civil disobedience movement (Salt Satyagraha) in the 1930s, and the ‘Quit India’ movement of 1942. This resulted with India gaining independence in 1947. Within Britain this was also period...
South Korea is a country in East Asia. It lies in the south of the Korean peninsula. “The country is bordered by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China...
What is your opinion of the Chinese Communist party and the system of reform? The main purposes of the text are about the reformation of China. The text also explains the discontent between China and the West. The West controlled globalism and imposed its rules....
The urban modernization narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centers, but rather on...
We examine three characteristics of Seven Samurai, the magnum opus of Akira Kurosawa, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kurosawa’s works are foundational to a wide variety of film techniques and tropes. While Kurosawa himself considered Ran to be his best film, Seven...
Hagakure Hagakure, also known as the samurai bible, is a book that represents the attitude that goes beyond the modern pragmatism or the love for materialism to the overall spiritual development of individuals. Despite the interpretations that people have had on this book, Hagakure applies...
As one of the few surviving autobiographical writings from early Japan, in Musui’s Story, Katsu Kokichi narrates his life as a late Tokugawa-period samurai. Amid the Tokugawa period, also known as the Edo period, grand wars and conflicts slowly dwindled in number and size. The...
Introduction The years after the Second World War was full of unrest for Vietnam. The Vietnam war which simply started off as what seemed to be civilians trying to gain independence became more of a common ground for the superpowers to express their influences in...
Introduction Singapore provides an array of opportunities to people as the country has developed as an economic giant in recent years. It is a multi-cultural country with people from different ethnic groups and cultures living in this modern city. You can find Chinese, Malays, Indians,...
There was a time when India had a perennial problem plaguing their side — the elusive No. 4 spot. India tried and tested so many batsmen at 2-down in limited-overs cricket that even fans lost track of who was playing at that position. It had...
In China, the Red Panda is a large attraction for tourism. Tourism attracts over 5 billion tourists a year, and a lot of those tourists will visit the zoos during their travels and see the Red Pandas. Saving them will keep people visiting the zoos,...
Many people today have a unique perception of Japan, blurring the line between Asian and Western culture. Much of this odd culture can be credited to a lesser-known editorial titled Datsu-A Ron, which found itself in a newspaper in 1885. The Datsu-A Ron was anonymously...
China wasn’t interested in colonies like Europe was. In colonies like Europe China wasn’t involved. For Ming China, both economic pressure and a totally different cultural perspective – so interwoven I’ll be willing not to help but speak about it all, almost simultaneously – influenced...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasion was one of the first big events for Modern East Asia, the invasion had huge impacts on Japan as well as Korea, but also on China. Political impacts from Hideyoshi’s invasion were a significant impact during the period, when looking at the...
To start with, the Chinese Empire was vast and controlled most of Asia at one point in time. One of the dynasties that ruled the empire was the Ming Family. During the Ming dynasty, villages had their own ordinances. Even though ordinances cannot control all...
What is art? Art can have many purposes: it could be used as propaganda, it could have a specific function, or it could simple be something nice to look at. For these reasons the true purpose and definition of art which is set by the...
The Republic of the Philippines is a lower-middle class archipelago country in Southeast Asia. The Philippines has one of the most rapidly growing economies worldwide, and this can be attributed to many factors that contribute to this country’s overall composition. This essay discusses some of...