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Ganesh (Ganapati) - Elephant headed son of Shiva and Parvati, having rat as vehicle.
Ganga - sacred river representing Hindu Goddess.
ganga aarti - river worship ceremony
ganj - market
ganja - dried flowering tips of marijuana plant
gaon - village
garh - fort
Garuda - half man-bird vehicle of Vishnu
ghazal - Urdu song derived from poetry; sad love theme
gufa - cave
gurdwara - Sikh place of worship
Guru Granth sahib - Sikh holy book

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haj - Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca
Hanuman - Monkey god, follower of Rama
haveli - traditional ornately decorated Rajasthani residence
hookah - water pipe used for smoking ganja or strong tobacco
iftar - breaking of Ramdaan fast at sunset
imam - Muslim religious leader
Indra - God of rain, thunder, lightning and war
jali - carved marble lattice screen
jauhar - ritual mass suicide by immolation, traditionally performed by Rajput women at times of military defeat to avoid being dishonoured by their captors.
jawan - soldier
jhula - bridge
jihad - holy war

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kabaddi - traditional game (similar to tag)
Kali - terrible black Hindu goddess dripping with blood and wearing a necklace of skulls
Kalki - 10 th incarnation of Vishnu expected to appear at the end of Kaliyug
Kama - Hindu god of love
kapali - sacred bowl made from a human skull
Krishna - Vishnu's 8th incarnation
Lakshmi - Vishnu's consort, goddess of wealth
lama - Tibetan Buddhist priest
lingam - phallic symbol, symbol of Shiva
Losar - Tibetan New year
lungi - loose coloured garment worn by men

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madrasa - Islamic seminary
mahal - palace
maharaja - great king
mandi - market
mandir - temple
mani stone - stone carved with the Tibetan-Buddhist mantra 'Om mani padme hum'
mani walls - wall with mani stones found mainly in Ladakh, Kashmir
marg - road
mehndi - ornate henna designs on woman's hands (and often feet)
mela - fair or festival
Mughal - Muslim dynasty of subcontinental emperors from Babur to Aurangzeb

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namaste - traditional Hindu greeting
namaz - Muslim prayers
Narasimha - man-lion incarnation of Vishnu
Nataraja - Shiva as the cosmic dancer. Shiva's cosmic victory dance is called tandava
pashmina - fine quality woollen shawl from Kashmir
pir - Muslim holy man
punka - cloth fan, swung by pulling a cord
purdah - a Muslim custom to keep women in seclusion
Qwwali - Urdu devotional singing
rann - desert
Saraswati - wife of Brahma, goddess of learning; sits on a white swan holding a veena (a stringed instrument)
Shikara - gondola like boat found in Dal lake, Kashmir

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thangka - Tibetan cloth painting
tonga - two wheeled horse/pony carriage
Trimurti - the Hindu triad of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
Urs - death anniversary of a Muslim saint
Vedas - Hindu sacred text of hymns in Sanskrit in four books - Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda.
Vishnu - part of Trimurti with 10 incarnations - Matsya (fish), tortoise (Kurma), wild boar (Varaha), Narasimha, Vamana, Parasurama, Rama, Krishna, Buddha and the expected avatar of Kalki.
wav - step-well, commonly found in Gujarat
zakat - tax in the form of a charitable donation by Muslims
zenana - area in an upper-class home where women are secluded (in Rajasthani palaces)

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CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION
Satarkata Bhavan , A-Block
GPO Complex , INA
New Delhi - 110 023

A public servant working in any organisation, to which the executive control of the Government of India comes under CVC. CVC works in accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. You can rertport about the corruption in Central goverment employees and taking of bribe to [email protected]

For more details visit http://cvc.nic.in

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Believe it or not - Wonderful facts for one and all

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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Anti Corruption Bureau

If you have any complaints about corrupted State government officials in India, you can file a report with ACB to trap these corrupted persons.

In Maharashtra, contact : Anti Corruption Bureau

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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."