वर्तमान समय में देशभक्ति

अगर किसी से हम यह पूछे कि समय क्या है ? तो उसका उत्तर होगा ढाई बजे हैं, या तीन बजे हैं l या वह उचित समय कि वर्तमान स्थिति को बताएगा जो उस क्षण घड़ी में होगी l लेकिन वास्तव में समय क्या है? तो इसका उत्तर है ” अस्तित्व कि सम्पूर्ण यात्रा में […]

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‘माँ’ की इच्छा के बिना ‘मातृभाषा’ कैसे?

हाय गायज़! (अंग्रेज़ी शब्द हाय व गायज़) आप सोच रहे होंगे कि ये कैसा अभिवादन हुआ। लेकिन ‘नमस्कार’ पढ़ कर आपकी रूचि इस लेख से चली न जाए इसलिए लेखक को ऐसा करना आवश्यक लगा। दरअसल नमस्कार बोलना हमने सीखा ही नही। बचपन में जब माता जी पी.टी.एम. में साथ जाया करती थी तो टीचर […]

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DUSU ELECTIONS : GENDER AND POLITICAL LEVELS

Delhi University Student’s Union is formed after a contest of election where all the mindful and mindless games are played. What they do in the name of campaigning is, litter the streets with pamphlets and throw the same on passers-by, mobilize students on a large scale, create dirt all around, jam the roads with SUVs, […]

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व्यथित आत्माओं का सन्देश

प्यारे भारतीयों, आप ये पत्र पाकर चौंक गए होंगे और शायद सोच रहे होंगे कि ये ‘व्यथित आत्माएं’ हैं कौन? हम उन लोगों की आत्माएं हैं, जिन्होंने फासीवादी और तानाशाह शासकों के अत्याचार सहे हैं, चाहे वे जर्मनी में हिटलर हो, या आपके अपने देश में आपातकाल हो. हाल ही में घटी कुछ घटनाओं ने […]

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CHANGING NOTIONS : THE MORPHICATION OF MODERN INTO WESTERN

Close your eyes and try to picture a 21st century human and now compare it with a Caucasian and an Indian man from 1980’s. Surely there would be striking similarities between your fictional human and the Caucasian. Why? The definition of modern has been changed and only those qualify who can talk in English and walk in […]

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The Speech Unforgotten

Those who dreamt to conquer the world, were all conquered by the ‘sisters and brothers…’ of Vivekananda. All the compartmentalism was withered, the dogmas, sectarianism, fanaticism, bigotry and superiorism was thrashed just by these handful of letters of this monk from India. What the mightiest swords couldn’t achieve was achieved by this all-inclusive approach of […]

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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam : The Old Testament of Globalism

Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger. For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family.   The above shloka from the Maha Upanishad is not merely a cliché but a lived reality of the Indian nation. India, has from time immemorial lived upto this […]

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वसुधवैकुटु बकम: The Old Testament of Globalism

Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger. For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family. (Maha Upanishad, 6; 72) Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (Sanskrit: from “vasudha”, the earth, “iya”, is and “kutumbakam”, family) is a Sanskrit phrase that means that the whole world is one single […]

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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – An Old Testament of Globalism

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam is one of the most powerful phrases in Sanskrit which is the signifier of unity, peace and oneness. The phrase means that the world is one family. We all are familiar with this message in the Indian context that how being different from one and another, there lies an essence of shared essence […]

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