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Israel-Palestine conflict Explained

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The French and the British ended up making contradictory claims to Jews and Arabs during the World War and both sides have clung on to those false promises; That is what the Israel-Palestine conflict is all about. The detailed mess : During the world war, France and Britain were jointly tasked with liberating the Levant (the area we now know as Syria, Jordan, Israel and a few surrounding territories). In 1916, Britain and France concluded the  Sykes–Picot Agreement , which proposed to divide the Middle East between them into spheres of influence, with "Palestine" as an international enclave. In 1917, the British promised the Jews an independent homeland in Israel, in exchange for their assistance against the Ottomans, as per the  The Balfour Declaration  . The area was still under Ottoman rule back then. In 1926, after the war was over and the Ottomans were long gone, the League Of Nations (what we now know as the UN) passed a resolution known as  British Mandat

Amazing Facts About India

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Here are some of the amazing facts that will surely astonish you as it did me. 1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island 2) India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river. 3) Indus Valley Civilization is the world’s oldest civilization. 4) India, hence, is the world’s oldest, most advanced and continuous civilization. 5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception. 6) India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA. 7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined. 8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world’s largest gathering of people. 9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space. 10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today. 11) India has more mosques (300,000

15 Points For a Happy Life

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  Do not take your dental hygiene lightly. You have 32 teeth, ask a dentist and you'll realize each one can cost you more than their weight in gold. And if that's not enough, try taking a trip to a dentist and spending some quality time on that chair! Never debate with religious people. You will never win, and they will stop being nice to you. So enjoy the free lunches and keep your mouth shut. Do not wonder about the “purpose of life”. It is a depressing ditch. Believe me, I have spent a lot of time there. Do not update your social media display pics too often. The identity that you project on social media is always more romantic than your real life. Those hundreds of likes on your display pic may give you a boosted sense of self importance and may feed your need for attention. If you fall in love with your own projection of your facebook life, you know something needs to be changed. Do not make big goals. Make micro goals and make a system to achieve them c

Zaira Wasim Molestation and some Questions

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Zaira Wasim, the overnight Bollywood sensation from  Dangal  and  Secret Superstar . She live-streamed about how she was “molested” by a man on the flight and cried copiously for added effect. Th entirety of Bollywood rallied behind her. “Oh, she is just a child! How cruel!” “Which monster would do this?” “Are women not safe even in aircrafts now?” Even the Maharshtra Commission for Children and Women came out all guns blazing and began issuing statements and shit.Half of them didn’t even see her video and just went by the screenshots of her red, crying face plastered across news channels with the headline “Zaira Wasim molested in a plane”.Within hours the identity of the man was found, his name published, his address known and all of that usual drama.Did anyone care what happened? Did anyone wait to think what the accusation was and why she didn’t say anything right then and there to her “molester” when he molested her but chose to go home and unload over social media to

Some Facts About Indian PM Shri Narendra Modi

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1.  Narendra Modi is India's 15th prime minister. He secured the largest mandate any Indian prime minister has won since 1984 in the country's mammoth general election in April. 2.  Modi is the leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 3.  Modi holds a cult of personality status in India, which is just under 80% Hindu. He is criticised by some minority groups and the left-wing media for his conservative values, with some saying the BJP has bred a culture of intolerance towards minorities. 4.  He was entered into an arranged marriage as a teenager to Jashodaben Chimanlal. When he filed his nomination for prime minister, he was forced to acknowledge the marriage after nearly five decades of claiming to be single. 5.  Modi was born on 17 September 1950 in Vadnagar, Gujarat, making him the country's first prime minister born in independent India. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi makes a rare visit to the UK 6.  Modi was only granted a visa to