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  We all understand that—education is the key factor in enabling economic growth and prosperity, and enhancing our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to better jobs and thereby an elevated and improved living standard—the ultimate aim of education.  Given the competitive scenario, admission to the top universities and colleges in India is so difficult and competitive that only a few percent of the total aspirants actually qualify. HCL Learning has taken a step towards helping many aspirants to achieve their goals in collaboration with Resonance, Kota. This Live Interactive Learning by Experts from KOTA is poised to revolutionize the test preparation domain. It enables students from all across India to get access to specialized result-oriented coaching for competitive examinations and skill more...

The Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education but like all places used by millions of people; it has some murky corners people would prefer children not to explore. In the physical world society as a whole conspires to protect children, but there are no social or physical constraints to Internet surfing. The Internet Censorship Bill of 1995, also known as the Exon/Coats Communications Decency Act, has been introduced in the U.S. Congress. It would make it a criminal offense to make available to children anything that is indecent, or to send anything indecent with intent to annoy abuse, threaten, or harass. The goal of this bill as written (though not as stated by its proponents) is to try to make all public discourse on the Internet suitable for young children. The issue of whether is it necessary to have censorship on the Internet is being argued all more...

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) was the only child of Kamla and Jawaharlal Nehru. She spent part of her childhood in Allahabad, where the Nehrus had their family residence, and part in Switzerland, where her mother Kamla convalesced from her periodic illnesses. She received her college education at Somerville College, Oxford. A famous photograph from her childhood shows her sitting by the bedside of Mahatma Gandhi, as he recovered from one of his fasts; and though she was not actively involved in the freedom struggle, she came to know the entire Indian political leadership. After India's attainment of independence, and the ascendancy of Jawaharlal Nehru, now a widower, to the office of the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi managed the official residence of her father, and accompanied him on his numerous foreign trips. She had been married in 1942 to Feroze Gandhi, who rose to some eminence as a parliamentarian and politician of more...

Occasion. One day I was travelling by Kalka Mail from Allahabad to Tundra. I started from Allahabad at 3 o'clock in the night. There was a great rush in the train. But somehow I got a seat. The accident. The train started. It had hardly gone two kilometer when we felt a sudden jerk. I fell down upon a man who was sitting on the door. He had just begun to rebuke me when another man also fell down. The next moment a box fell upon a woman and she became unconscious. In only a few moments men and bundles lay in disorder, one upon another. The passengers had their head struck against the windows and of the heavy things. I also was wounded. As soon as I was able to stand up, I realized the whole situation. Tile description. The train had collided against another train. My carriage was more...

Neither from nor towards: at a still point There the dance is But neither arrest nor movement T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets) The poetic insight of Eliot had a glimpse of the transcendental dimension of the ever-transforming universe at a still point, which in essence is akin to the experience of peace in meditation as well. Neither from nor towards but at a still point the mind enters into a state of serene silence by deep power of harmony through a cosmic awareness of the unified field, and elevates itself to a serene and sublime super- consciousness in which the 'heavy and weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened' (William Wordsworth). A spontaneous gliding into that state of being by deliberate suspension of animation is meditation—the seventh step in the eight-fold limbs of yoga as per sayings of the great exponent, Maharshi Patanjali. The Vedanta observed that the whole more...

Introduction. Shivaji was the founder of Maratha Empire in India. He was the first Hindu to establish ii Hindu empire after the Muslim rule. His birth and childhood. Shivaji was born in 1627 at Poona. His father Shahji Bhonsle was a Jagirdar. He was a general in the service of the King of Bijapur. Shivaji lived at' Bijapur- The charge of Shivaji's education fell in the hands of a Brahmin named Dadaji. His mother Jijaji Bai was a very pious lady. Shivaji got best qualities of his character from her nature. He could not learn how to read and write. But he became skilful in all sorts of manly games. When he became young, be was master of riding and arts of war and fighting. Dadaji used to read to him the stories^ of the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Thus the fire of patriotism was kindled in him while he was more...