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organize your own 'India event' |
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flag and anthem of India |
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traditional clothing |
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dance and music |
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literature |
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colouring pictures |
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traditional jigsaws |
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other jigsaws |
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ORGANIZE YOUR OWN 'INDIA EVENT' |
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Would you like to organize an ‘India-event’ for a whole day or for just an evening, at your school, your club or company ? We can help you together
with our partner organization Rose vzw. They have already organized several ‘theme days’ with native guest speakers and workshops such as henna painting, Indian clothing, cooking, dances (classical or ‘Bollywood style’), cricket, Indian games, quizes, ... Please contact us for more information.
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FLAG AND ANTHEM OF INDIA |
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listen to the anthem of India, called "Jana Gana Mana" |
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the indian flag in different sizes.The flag is a horizontal tricolour (called Tiranga in Hindi) of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom. In the centre, there is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka Chakra. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's first Vice President, described its significance as follows: "Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work. The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends. The "Ashoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change." source: Wikipedia |
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TRADITIONAL CLOTHING |
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Clothing in India varies widely and is closely related to local culture, religion and climate. Traditional Indian clothing for women are the sari or the salwar kameez and also Ghaghra Cholis (Lehengas). For men, traditional clothes are the Dhoti, Lungi or Kurta. Woman wear a sari, a long sheet of colourful cloth with patterns. This is draped over a simple or fancy blouse. This is worn by young ladies and woman. Little girls wear a pavada. A pavada is a long skirt worn under a blouse. In southern India the men were long, white sheets of cloth called dhoti in English and veshti in Tamil. Over the dhoti, men wear shirts, t-shirts, or anything else. |
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How to wear a sari ?
Here's an illustrated step-by-step guide that teaches you how to wear a Sari - India's national dress for females - one of the most elegant attires a woman can adorn... Two essential parts of attire, that go along with the Sari, need to be chosen carefully to compliment the Sari. These are: A petticoat which is a waist-to-floor garment, tied tightly at the waist by a drawstring. The petticoat color should match the base sari color as closely as possible. No part of the petticoat, of course, is visible outside the Sari, after having worn it. A blouse which needs to be tight-fitting and whose color needs to be chosen keeping the look of the sari in mind, can be short sleeved or sleeveless, with a variety of necklines. The blouse ends just below the bust. Step 1 Start wearing the sari by tucking its plain/upper end into the petticoat, at a position which is a little bit to the right of the navel. Make sure that the lower end of the sari should be touching the floor, and that the whole length of the sari comes on the left-hand side. Now wrap the sari around yourself once, with the sari now coming back in the front, on your right side. Step 2 Make about 5 to 7 pleats of equal width of 5 inches, starting at the tucked-in end. Gather the pleats together, neatly, ensuring that the lower edge of the pleats are even and just off the ground and that the pleats fall straight and evenly. A safety pin may be used to stop the pleats from scattering. Step 3 Neatly tuck the pleats into the petticoat, at the waist, slightly to the left of the navel, in such a manner that they open to your left. Step 4 Drape the remaining fabric around yourself once more left to right, and bring it round your hips to the front, holding the top edge of the sari. Step 5 Slightly raise the remaining portion of the Sari on your back, bringing it up under the right arm and over the left shoulder so that the end of the Sari falls to about the level of your knees. The end portion thus draped, from the left shoulder onwards, is called the Pallav or the Pallu, and can be prevented from slipping off teh shoulder, by fastening it at the shoulder to the blouse with a small safety pin. Success ! |
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DANCE AND MUSIC |
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In the kalimpong region (West Bengal, North India) 80% of the population is of Nepalese origin. They try to sustain their cultural inheritance
by practicing traditional dancing and music. Also in Lotus academy, a school of the Mondo Challenge-project, attention is given to the Nepalese culture, as this photograph shows. Enjoy a traditional Nepalese dance, performed by students of another school in Kalimpong. 
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LITERATURE |
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The White Tiger Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger -the first-person confession of a murderer- is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008. In this debut novel we meet narrator and protagonist Balram Halwai, an intelligent man who was born into poverty. The novel is told in the form of letters from Balram written to the premier of China who is to visit India. When Balram was a young school boy, he was the only one his age who could read and write. He was identified as the “White Tiger”, the rarest creature in the jungle. He was promised a scholarship because of his abilities but he was unable to continue his education, and instead he was forced to take a job as a cleaner to help out his family. Balram eventually rises from poverty and he becomes a driver for a wealthy businessman in Delhi. He also acquires his own fleet of cars and we learn how he was able to rise out of poverty. He tells how in order to change ones caste, one must learn how to listen very closely (eavesdrop), and even be willing to do other deplorable things as well. Aravind Adiga, born in 1974 in Madras, studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities and is a former correspondent for Time magazine in India. Adiga's articles have also appeared in publications such as The Financial Times, Independent and Sunday Times. Published by: Atlantic |
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Holy Cow (an indian adventure) Holy Cow is a hip travel book for the young, and the young at heart, as it bounces through pop-culture references and snappy language with an energy that is hard to resist. It's a fun and engaging read. Those expecting some deep introspection and analysis of the various religions and traditions MacDonald encounters, should know better from the title alone. If anything it is reminiscent of the Bollywood films mentioned throughout: bright and colourful, while changing tack on the head of a pin. Sarah MacDonald lived to regret the day she was told by an Indian beggar that she would return to India for love. No she wouldn't, she thought, as India was a place she had decided she detested after backpacking her way around the country. Over a decade later the 'love of her life' was posted to India for work reasons. She quit her own job as a national radio announcer and followed him to New Delhi. Prophecy fulfilled. It's not hard to think of India as the most 'here and now' culture on the Earth - full of contradictions, endless surprises and enthusiasm for life, the Indian people are a joy to behold. Even if, as MacDonald discovers, it's sometimes hard to take for poor Western people accustomed to our more homogenised culture. Her book is an exercise in confronting the unexpected, and even unexplained, as she experiences such things as being cursed by a naked sadhu (an event that may, or may not, have lead to double pneumonia), and meeting the goddess of healing hugs (which may, or may not, have lead to having her breasts balloon in size). Sarah MacDonald, grew up in Sydney and studied psychology at university. After completing a cadetship at ABC Radio News, she worked as Triple J's political correspondent in Canberra. Sarah then presented the youth network's Arts Show and worked on television productions such as Recovery, Race Around the World and Two Shot. She presented the Morning Show until the end of the 1999 when she left to join her partner Jonathan Harley in India. Click here to visit McDonalds' own website on the Holy Cow. |
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COLOURING PICTURES |
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Especially for our youngest visitors: a series of black and white pictures to colour ... at home or online. Have fun ! (please be patient when opening this page: the pictures are being loaded.) Please feel free to send us your finished pictures. We will then put them on this website !!! Don't forget to mention your name, age and municipality (and country if not Belgium). |
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TRADITIONAL JIGSAWS Each jigsaw exists in 3 different levels of difficulty. So make your choice and follow the instructions. Success ! |
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OTHER JIGSAWS These jigsaws unfortunately don't work in all browsers. Sorry for this inconvenience. |
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