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British Ambassador of Sixteenth century in India

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William Hawkins (1575 -1613)  (also known as Brian Hawksworth a fiction novel character) He was the captain of merchant ship. He was not a former ambassador. He knew Turkish language, he was the first Englishman to reach the court of Jahangir. He delivered gifts from the new East India Company and the letter from  King James proposing direct trade.  He was tall and had short beard and unkempt hairs.  These trading ships sailed around the cape of Good hope, up the eastern coast of Africa, and then through the Arabian sea to the northwest coast of India. William Hawkins's ship reached to the port of Surat, India. Port of Surat was not in control of Portuguese. English commodity was wool and Indian commodities were pepper and spice. Pepper was available also in Java and Sumatra but they did not want the English wool.  And it was not profitable to buy pepper and spice for gold. In India, Mughals were buying wool from Portuguese So East India company made

Failure of reservation system in India

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Now  days our prime minister is coming on TV advertisements so many times in a day to ask for leaving Gas subsidy to tax payers. But not a single time Mr. Modi has asked any reserved class employee’ son to fight for government job competition under general category. Now many of lower class candidates have got government job and their financial status is too strong than why still their children has the benefit of reservation in government jobs.   It is very clear that no politician will ever finish this ineffective and partial reservation system. This is the reason why no politician will ever request any SC, ST to leave his reservation right when he has become financially stable. I request YOUTH to change this system of reservation in JOBS which is based on caste. This is the time to give reservation to poor only, that too in schools, Colleges, not in jobs. The job should be given to only capable candidate. Due to offering job to reserved category, thos

How to become simple and beautiful

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You like beauty, but there is a problem in your instrument of measuring beauty. You have mixed the show off with beauty. You have started preferring unnatural resources so you are getting away from beauty now. Wrong instruments of beauty You have forgotten that a new born child is beautiful by birth, but slowly and gradually he grows and gets way from nature.  His simplicity is lost and then ugliness covers his body. Later on to hide to hide this ugliness he becomes more ugly. To save yourself from this ugliness you must remain simple. A great poet Walt Whitman wrote a poem after seeing the animals in the forest. He writes, I am feeling jealous after seeing the simplicity of these animals. They are simple, equal and full of music. No excessive.   Actually animals and birds are natural and simple. They do not have any feeling of beauty. They are beautiful. Just opposite of birds and animals, you are unnatural and uncomfortable. The race of comparison from ot