Archives September 2012

"History is created with legends as history in its ancient origins grew out of legends. Heroes and heroines of ancient legends are not fleshly-and-blood humans. Tilley belong to mythical time and perform feats far beyond the abilities of ordinary human beings. Many such individuals get endowed with the halo of a hero or a It fringe. Their lives and deeds become the subject of popular legends, son of and stories. In India those who are seen to have sacrificed their lives far the country ^freedom quickly become recipients of the reverence for heroes. Freedom fig/tiers have an automatic pass to enter the J hallowed national pantheon. It then becomes a sacrilege—almost an act of treason to re evaluate such national figures. Rani Lakshmi Bai, the queen of Jhansi is one such individual."  Rani Lakshmi Bai. the fiery Queen of Jhansi, also known as the Rani of was bom on 19th more...

"Nehru was born on November 14, 1S89, the son of a wealthy Brahman lawyer from Kashmir. He went to England at tlie age of and. was educated at the Harrow School and at the University Cambridge. Returning to India in 1912, he practiced law for time and in 1919 joined the Indian rational Congress, the principal   [nationalist organization of India, led by Mohandas K. Ghandhi.   Nehru soon became a leader of the nationalist movement; between   s 1921 and 1945 he was imprisoned nine times by the British administration for his activities for Indian independence. He served as   | President of the Congress party from 1929 to 1931, a position lie subsequently held six times. Although Nehru remained a supporter   of Gandhi until the letter’s death in 1948, lie did not share Ghandhi’s belief passive resistance as a means of driving the British out of India. Instead, he put forth a more...

Great writer, great poet, great novelist, great educationist and an early advocate of Independence for India, Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Two years later he was also awarded the Knighthood by the British Government but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Jalianwala Massacre of Amritsar where British troops killed more than 400 Indian demonstrators. Rabindranath Tagore was bom in Calcutta into a wealthy and prominent Brahman family. His father, Maharishi Debendra nath Tagore. was a religious reformer and scholar. His mother, Sarada Devi, died when Tagore was very young. Tagore's grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself. Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendra nath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj which was a new religious sect of nineteenth century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the more...

Teacher, journalist, writer and librarian, Bipin Chandra Pal L;    started as a supporter of Brahmo Samaj, turned to Vedanta and B;    aided up as an upholder of the Vaislmava philosophy of Sri Cliailanya.A  of undaunted spirit, Bipin Chandra Pal matte no t     compromise in the sphere of politics was a question of conviction and conscience. He revolted against the evils and abuses of the Hindu society at a very early stage of his life. Bipin Chandra Pal was born on November 7,1858 in Sleet in a wealthy Hindu Bipin Chandra family. His father Ramchandra Pal, a village zamindar and a prominent torero the Sleet Bar, was influenced by Hindu rituals and Islamic thought though was a follower of Vaishnavism. The only son of his parents Bipin Chandra Pal took early education from a Maulvi in Sleet town. He had his formal education at Bite Government High School from where he more...

The socio-religious movements started by Brahmo Samaj and till: Prartliana Samaj were inspired by western civilization and nationalism. The awakening of India during 19th century had two facets. It looked for inspiration not merely to the west, but also to the India's glorious past. Swami Dayanand was a great revivalist. He set his reforms against the prevalent orthodoxy of the Hindus, like caste system, practice of child marriage. It was Swami Dayaiiaiid Saraswali, who adored the glorious past of India and given the slogan "Back to tlie Vedas". Swami Dayanand, born on 12th February 1824 in Tankara (Gujrat), was the founder of the Hindu reform organization Arya Samaj, which he established on April 7th 1875, in Bombay. When he was fourteen years he visited the temple of Shiva along with his father. In the night he saw that a mouse crept on the image and took the offerings placed before more...

One day an innocent boy of three was out for a walk with his father and an elderly man. Chatting they walked on and went beyond the village. The elders were walking along the edge of a field. Not hearing the footsteps of the boy, the fattier looked back. The boy was sitting on the ground and seemed to be planting something. The father became curious. "What are you doing? " said he. "Look, father, I shall grow guns all over the field", was the innocent reply of the boy. Both the elders were struck with wonder at the little boy 's words. The boy was Bhagat Singh who later fought like a hero for India's freedom and sacrificed leis life." Bhagat Singh born in a Sikh family of farmers in the village of Banga of Layalpur district of then Punjab on September 27th of 1907. His family too stood more...

"I could then see my reflection in the window and in the retina of my eyes the whole earth and the sky could be seen reflected... So I called all the crew mothers one by one as they nil saw it and everybody said, "Oh.. Wow", Columbia Astronaut Kalpaita Chawla on seeing lire reflection in the Orbiters over/lead window. Born in Kama], India. Kalpana Chawla enjoys flying, hiking, back-packing, and reading. She holds Certificated Flight Instructor's license with airplane and glider ratings, Commercial Pilot's licenses for single-and multi-engine land and seaplanes, Gliders and instrument rating for airplanes. She enjoys flying aerobatics and tail- wheel airplanes. Graduated from Tagore School, Kamal, India, in 1976. Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College. India, 1982. Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas, 1984. Doctorate of Phi loopy in aerospace engineering from University of Colorado. 1988. more...

Prostitution is often called "the oldest profession in the world". One of the first forms is sacred prostitution supposedly practiced among Sumerians. In ancient sources (Herodotus, Thui' ydides) there are many traces of sacred prostitution, starling perhaps willi Babylon where each woman liad to reach once a year the sanctuary of Militta (Aphrodites or Nana/Anahila) and have sex with a for- eigner as a sign of hospitality for a symbolic price. Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically oral sex or sexual intercourse, less often anal sex) for money or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. A person selling sexual favours is a prostitute, is called a sex worker. Most prostitutes are women offering their services to men (known as Johns), but male prostitutes offering their services to male customers also exist and are cal led hustlers or rent boys. Male prostitutes offering services to female more...

"Rape such an offence which causes the victim and his family to suffer for all the life where the victim is totally an innocent party’.  Rape is one of the most heinous crimes committed by a person to control, dominate and force the other to their own will. It is a world-wide phenomenon. Whatever reasons might be behind it—social, religious or in wars, it carries the same crushing shame, anger and emotional trauma. Rape is such a barbaric and inhuman act which makes the whole life of the victim a hell, several instances come to the tight where the victim prefer to commit suicide than to live in this world of rapist. Still worse, she is forcibly threshed out to Koth as for flesh trading where she die many times a day. Those lucky enough to escape from the hell live an unknown low profile life at some distant unknown more...

"Exit polls be banned. Opinion polls be banned, every' political party clamoring, trying to find one or the other excuse, searching one or the other logic , legal, effect ! or political to gel the exit / opinion polls banned." Almost all national and regional political parties are unanimous on the point that the opinion and exit polls must be banned once elections are announced or the result of opinion or exit polls should not be made public till the voting process is over. All the political parties find these polls an obstacle  to free and faire lection and a threat lo healthy democracy. All the political parties met the Election Commission fora ban on the opinion and exit polls in order to have a lair and unbiased polling which is the basic requirement for the functioning of healthy democracy in our country. At a first glance, those opposing exit more...