(This article is by Swami Shantatmanand ji on Swami Vivekanand’s birth anniversary.) Swami Vivekananda is generally known for his sterling qualities as a monk. His spiritual luminosity did not in any way curb his love for his motherland. Mahatma Gandhi paid a visit to Belur Math in 1921 and wrote in the visitor’s book, “I […]
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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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Evening Colleges were and are a novel idea as they stretch the limited resources and infrastructure for optimum utilisation. The first such college was established in 1958 as Dyal Singh Evening College. The positives of having an evening college were manifold (discussed later in the article). Now, it is all set to be converted into […]
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We Indians have enjoyed notable success internationally in terms of per capita income, but our performance at home does not necessarily match our progress abroad. I believe the achievements that we have made overseas—particularly in the United States of America—highlight the stark divide between the country’s potential and its actual performance. In this article, I […]
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She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. […]
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A number of such two-sided contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in […]
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Far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, […]
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Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of […]
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Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of […]
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Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of […]
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The title might deceive one into thinking that this article is a eulogy to Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or some other world conquering ruler. But no, this article is about someone who all though never directly ruled a square inch of land, ruled and has been ruling for the past 175 years, the collective […]
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