The nation celebrates the 150th Birth Anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi. Almost every tableau in the 2019 Republic day parade had the effigy of Mohandas Gandhi in order to pay tributes to this soul, who in his tangential form, guided the Indian independence struggle and in its subtle form continues to guide the conscience of […]
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The legal correspondents of almost every leading journal of India had to ink-up their styluses and fix-up their mikes earlier this January, so as to create a controversial news out of a recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium. On 11th January, Hon’ble Mr Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjiv Khanna were recommended to […]
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A common man seeks justice either from the chambers of courts or from the sanctums of temples. Both these places position themselves as the seats of the Lords; one in black robes following the contemporary laws aka Yug Dharma and the other emancipating the eternal law aka Sanatana Dharma. Rare are the moments when we […]
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The Young disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa ; consecrated souls like a spectra of pearls in a necklace held together by the thread of their master’s teachings, and with the illustrious life of their leader Narendranath who described them the glories of Monastic life, were all committed to their expedition towards the light. The ground […]
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The journey from “Dharma” to the “self”, precisely this is the journey of life, which starts by conforming to the righteousness and ends by reaching the ‘self’. So is the journey of a 700 verse long poem, composed amidst the intense-est of the battlefield, none other than the lord himself. The first word of the […]
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Don’t teach the medical students about HIV, although it’s a reality but a taboo, and don’t teach the students of History about Nazism or Taimur-Genghis; they may turn into one of such maniac. Don’t teach the students of Psychiatry about depression, they themselves may be a victim of the same. Lastly, don’t even think of […]
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When a flame is about to wither, it flickers to its fullest, it tries to absorb all the oil that is left in the diya and eventually breaths its last. The flame is all red, similar to the colour of the setting sun, but this flame could never rise again since the cotton base on […]
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About a century and a quarter ago, a three-word prelude, followed by a three-minute long thunder-sound of applause marked as the knock of Bharatiya presence amidst the appropriators of the Industrial revolution, in that part of the globe which was drowned in materialism. It was the registration of a neo-renaissance, thereby transcending the human civilization […]
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The battle of convocation at GGS Indraprastha University has arrived a daunting co-ordinate. Suiting up in the black gown and flying high the mortarboard cap, the moment a student joins an University this happens to be a dream ‘perfect-happy’ ending to the unforeseeable college life. While a couple of their batchmates are able to live […]
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“For the next 50 years, this alone shall be our keynote — this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds” – Swami Vivekananda, February 14, 1897, Madras A student with a conviction and faith in idealism, the only bird’s eye this Arjuna could glance at was […]
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Two personalities, born 34 years apart, on the same land of revolutionaries, both having an English education, and proved their mettle thereto, being conferred with silken-convocation gowns of western philosophies. Hailing from families where they had all, material and spiritual, yet in order to know to understand to imbibe the spirit of Bharata, renounced the […]
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रविवार का दिन, इम्तिहान समाप्त हो चुके थे तो शाम में कुछ करने को ज्यादा था नहीं। आश्रम से आ चुके थे और सूर्य भी ढलने को आ रहा था, काफी समय हो चला था तो सोचा आज चर्च होकर आया जाए। वस्त्र बदलने की ज़रूरत थी नहीं, कुर्ता सही ही मालूम पड़ता था, अब […]
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