Difference between Hotel and Restaurant

Restaurant is a place where meals are prepared and served to customers. It is a place of business where people can choose a meal to be prepared and served to them at a table, and for which they pay, usually after eating. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services.

What is the difference between a hotel and restaurant?

Hotel is defined by various dictionaries as a place that provides accommodation besides providing meal services. It is in general a place for lodging and food requirements of travelers and tourists. A hotel may or may not have a restaurant though it is common for hotels to provide meals through room service.

A restaurant is simply a place to have food outside your home. It is smaller in size than a hotel as it does not have accommodation facilities. The one and only feature of a restaurant is the kind of food and/or beverages it serves to its customers.

‘Zoot Suit

‘Zoot Suit,’ a classic play about discrimination, finds renewed purpose

It's the story of a real-life murder trial and the so-called Zoot Suit Riots, set amid rampant discrimination in 1940s Los Angeles. A play called "Zoot Suit" was a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s and ‘80s, launching the careers of many Chicano actors. Now it's in revival at the theater where it all began. Jeffrey Brown reports talks to writer and director Luis Valdez.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le99Z0KVbro

‘Zoot Suit,’ a classic play about discrimination, finds renewed purpose

Diwali Song

Happy Diwali, everyone! It’s time to light up your house, dish up some sweets and spread all kinds of goodies around. Here is a song that tells you all about this sparkling festival.

from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXazdZPlcA

Exile by R Parthasarathy

Exile by R Parthasarathy, a video made by Zaheer Abdul Ghafoor.Y.A for the students of The New College, Chennai-14

from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GkX7iGxTHk

English Grammar Non Finite Verbs

A non-finite verb is any of several verb forms that are not finite verbs; they cannot perform action as the root of an independent clause. Most non-finite verbs found in English are infinitives, participles and gerunds (They sometimes are called “verbals”, but that term has traditionally applied only to participles and gerunds).

Noun Clause

This animation teaches the learner to define, identify a noun clause in given sentences. It also teaches the learner how to use noun clause as subject of a verb, as object of a verb, as object of a participle, as object of an infinitive, as object of a preposition, as complement of a verb of incomplete predication, as adjective complement, in apposition to a noun or pronoun. And the leaner can also learn to identify noun clause as subject of a verb, as object of a verb, as object of a participle, as object of an infinitive, as object of a preposition, as a complement of a verb of incomplete predication, as an adjective complement, in apposition to a noun or pronoun in given sentences.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cslLNfoESGw

Glossary Gandhi

Adivasi: original inhabitants, indigenous people

Ahimsa:  nonviolence

Anna:  one sixteenth of Indian rupee

Ashram:  spiritual community

Bania:  third highest class in Hindu social hierarchy, Gandhi’s caste.

Bapu:  father

Bhajan:  devotional song or hymn

Bhangi Bustee: weeper colony

Baisakhi : A festival marking the beginning of a solar year.

Bhoodan:  Gift of land, associated with Vinoba’s Bhoodan movement

Bustee: colony

Brahmacharya: celibacy

Charkha: spinning-wheel

Chipko: to cling or hug,

Crore: a sum of 10,000,000

Dalits: the oppressed, ‖ formerly called the untouchables, ‖ or harijans‖ as Gandhi called them, scheduled castes, under the Indian constitution.

Darshan: to see, to pay homage

Dharma: duty, ethics, moral law

Dharana: sit-ins, a sit-down strike.

Diwan: prime-minister

Dhoti: cloth covering waist down to ankles

Durbar: royal court

Hartal: cessation of all economic activities

Harijans: children of God, a term Gandhi used for the untouchables

Jain: follower of Jainism, a sixth century BCE religion in India

Katha: story

Khadi: home-spun cloth, made famous by Gandhi

Khudai Khidmatgars: Servants of God, the nonviolent soldiers of Islam

Lathi: stave, steel-clubbed stick

Mahatma: the great soul, the title Tagore gave to Gandhi

Mandir: sacred space, a temple

Mantra: sacred formula

Metta: amity, friendship

Moksha: salvation, final goal in Hinduism

Mullah: religious leader in Islamic traditions

nai taleem: new education, holistic model aimed at the development of mind, body and spirit.

Panchayat: village council, a form of local self government in the villages

Pandal: a temporary or permanent structure made for an event

Patidars: land-owning farmers

Pranami: a syncretistic sect of Hinduism that venerates the Quran

Prarthana: prayer

Poorna swaraj: complete freedom, freedom for all

Pugri: turban

Raj: British rule in India, literal meaning is rule.

Ryot: tenant-farmer

Sabha: organization

Samadhi: memorial

Sarvodaya: welfare of all, awakening of all

Satyagraha: insistence on truth, firmness in a true cause

Satyagrahi: one who observes satyagraha

Shanti sena: peace brigade

Shramadana: gift of service or physical labour

Sthitha-prajana: the one who maintains equanimity

Swaraj: self-rule, self-government, freedom

Swadeshi: pertaining to one’s own country

Tilak: auspicious mark or symbol of devotion marked on forehead

Tinkathia: an exploitative system in which fifteen percent of the land rented by ryot had to be planted with indigo for the landlord

Vaishnava: Belonging to the sect which worships Vishnu, a Hindu God