Kundun is a 1997 film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the Dalai Lama. While it did not put up big numbers at the box office, it did win considerable critical acclaim -- some consider it to be the very best film by either Scorsese or Mathison. The majority of the film was shot in Morocco. Kundun - Plot. Except for brief sequences in China and India, the film is set entirely in Tibet. It begins with the search by Reting ...

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Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng or 藏区 Zàngqū [the two names are used with different connotations; see Names section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 m (16,000 ft), it is often called the 'Roof of the World'. All or most of historic Tibet (depending on definition) is currently a part of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Tibet - ...

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Lajja (Bangla:লজ্জা) is the name of a famous novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. Lajja is a Bengali word which means shame. The word Lajja, connoting the same meaning, is also used in Sanskrit, Hindi, and several other languages of north India. This book named Lajja, originally written in Bangla (Bengali), was first published in the year 1993, and has since been banned in Bangladesh. Lajja - Background. Lajja is a response of Tasli ...

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List of dependent territories - Australia. Ashmore and Cartier Islands: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services Christmas Island: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services Cocos (Keeling) Islands: territory administered from Canberra by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services Coral Sea Islands: territory administered from Canberra by the Department of the Environment, S ...

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List of dependent territories - Denmark. Faroe Islands: part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but not of the European Union; self-governing overseas administrative division since 1948 Greenland: part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but not of the European Union; self-governing overseas administrative division since 1979 List of dependent territories - France. France includes also the overseas departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion, ...

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All democracies (and every other form of government) have certain structural defects, which are related to the nature of democracy. Although all forms of government have defects, supporters of democracy are often reluctant to concede that it is less than perfect, which in turn may hinder its reform. Two prominent defects are related to the territory and membership of the demos itself. Democracy - Immigrants and 'the people'. Many democratic constitutions explicitly state (or imply) that power belongs to, o ...

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The league's culture is a mix of pride in the heritage of northern Italy (particularly with historical references to the anti-imperial Lombard League), distrust of southern Italians and especially of Roman authorities, often bordering on racism, xenophobia, elements of Reaganomics, and independentism, hate for Italy and especially its flag, and claims of a Celtic heritage. The league has been often criticised, in Italy and abroad, for being too similar to a fascist party, having also ...

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The new Georgian anthem was adopted on 23 April 2004, exactly 5 months after the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze (former Soviet Foreign Minister). "Tavisupleba" succeeds the old anthem Dideba zetsit kurtheuls, adopted after Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. The lyrics are by Davit Maghradze (დავით მაღრაძე), music by Zakaria Paliashvili (ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი). The music and lyrics were adapted into an anthem by Ioseb Kechakmadze (იო ...

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Lajja is a response of Taslima Narin to anti-Hindu riots which erupted in parts of Bangladesh, soon after the demolition of Babri Masjid in India on 6th December 1992. The book subtly indicates that communalism was on the rise, the Hindu minority of Bangladesh was not fairly treated, and secularism was under shadow. The novel Lajja has been translated into several languages including French, Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Finish, Icelandic, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, U ...

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Except for brief sequences in China and India, the film is set entirely in Tibet. It begins with the search by Reting Rimpoche (the regent of Tibet) for the 14th Reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Reting, following a vision he has had, discovers the location of a promising candidate: a child born to a poor herding family near the Chinese border. Reting and other lamas administer a test to the child in which he must select from various objects the ones that belonged to the previous Dalai Lama. The child passes the test; he and his family are brought to Lhasa, where he will be installed as D ...

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Critics of democracy as a form of government allege it has inherent disadvantages, both in practice and by its very nature. Some of which may be shared by some or all other forms of government, while others may be unique to democracy. Democracy - Ethnic and religious conflicts. Democracy, and especially liberal democracy, necessarily assumes a sense of shared values in the demos (otherwise political legitimacy will fail). In other words, it assumes that the demos is in fact a unit. For historical reasons, ...

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Little is known of Tibet before the 7th century, though the Tibetan language is generally considered to be a Tibeto-Burman language and related distantly to Chinese. According to a legend in 14th century Mani Bka' 'bum, the Tibetans are descended from the union of a monkey and a rock ogress. The monkey was an incarnation of Avalokiteśvara (Spyan ras gzigs in Tibetan, pronounced Cenrezik), the Buddha of compassion, and the ogress an incarnation of Tara ('Grol ma in Tibetan, pronounced Drolma). Tibet was a strong empire between ...

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List of dependent territories - France. French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion are departments (first-order administrative units) of France, and are therefore not dependencies or areas of special sovereignty, similar to how the island state of Hawaii is a first-order political unit of the United States. The Department of Guadeloupe includes the nearby islands of Marie-Galante, La Desirade, and Iles des Saintes, as well as Saint Barthelemy and the northern three-fifths of Sa ...

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Democracy is often implemented as a form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the real majority (as opposed to a partial or relative majority of the demos/citizens) in a decision-making process, usually elections or referenda, open to all or most citizens. In recent decades 'democracy' was used as a synonym for (western) liberal-democratic systems in nation-states, but the existence of "illiberal democracies" is now recognised. The qualifier 'liberal' in this context refers strictly speaking to constitutional liberal ...

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All these are, as such or as part of a Commonwealth state, in personal union, under the same, British, Monarch. List of dependent territories - Australia. Ashmore and Cartier Islands: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services Christmas Island: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services Cocos (Keeling) Islands: territory administered from Canberra by the Australian Department of Transport and Reg ...

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The term democracy - or more precisely, the original (ancient Greek) version of the word - was coined in ancient Athens in the 5th century BC. Athenian democracy is generally seen as the earliest example of a system corresponding to some of the modern notions of democratic rule. Only a sixth or a quarter of the whole (adult male) population of Athens could vote; but this was a bar of nationality, like the present German franchise, not of economic status: however poor they were, all Athenian citizens ...

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Currently, there are 59 entities on these lists, comprising: 58 dependencies 1 international protectorate in the territory of a sovereign country. The list includes several territories that are not included in the list of non-self-governing territories [1] listed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, a list that also includes Western Sahara, since 1990, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the question of Western Sahara was a question of decolon ...

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The party had its first successes in the late eighties, when Umberto Bossi, elected at the Italian Senate, got his title of Senatur, or senator in some northern Italian local languages, a nickname he kept also when he no longer was a senator. The support for the party skyrocketed in the early nineties because of the huge political corruption scandal known as Tangentopoli and the Mani pulite investigations. The Northern League is a merger of the various regional movements (often named "league"), including the Lombard League ( ...

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In common usage, democracy is often understood to be the same as liberal democracy. The minimal characteristics of democracy (listed above) are not generally considered to make a democracy 'liberal'. In practice, the term now denotes a collection of defining criteria, some of which are unrelated to each other. They are sometimes presented as a list of demands, to be fulfilled during a democratisation process. Note that many liberal democracies ...

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