by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 9, 2020 | Cultural
As per the reports published, archaeologists in Europe, have found the small containers of children and infants in the graves of children in Iron and Bronze Age burial grounds of Bavaria in Germany. The findings offer the first evidence that they were using these...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 9, 2020 | Cultural
Pongal is the harvest festival of Tamil Nadu and its celebration include a number of social and cultural events. One of these is a sporting event called Jallikattu which involves young men competing against bulls. In it men try to hold onto a bull as it runs through...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 9, 2020 | Cultural
Bhaona is an Assamese traditional form of entertainment. It is the creation of saint-reformer Srimanta Sankardeva, a Vaishnava saint born in 1449 AD in Nagaon district of Assam. He started the neo-Vaishnavite movement. It is a mythology-based theatrical performance...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 9, 2020 | Cultural
The Galo tribe one of the most populous tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and belong to the Tani group inhabiting Assam, Arunachal Pradesh Tibet. They speak Tani and Galo language. Galo is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Western Tani branch. Galo belong to the Donyi Polo...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 18, 2020 | Cultural
As per the news reports in September 2020, an Indian-origin scientist, Nishant Malik, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the US, has presented an analysis to study ancient climate patterns in North India over time, based on data from North India covering the...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
Kamikatsu, a small town that is located in the mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan, embarked on a rigorous zero-waste programme after 2000, after its waste incinerators were shut down due to emission of vast quantities of greenhouse gases and toxins...
