PTI, Friday May 06, 2011 (Los Angeles) Singer Katy Perry saya she is gravitating towards meditation because of husband Russell Brand, who is into Hinduism. Brand, who married Perry in India last year, even sought the blessing of a Hindu guru before the wedding. Perry, who had a strict Christian upbringing, says she is very… [Read more…]
April 29, 2011
Dr. Vijaya Rajiva After winning the Nobel Prize for Economics (1998) Amartya Sen took a fateful turn at freelance writing about Indian history, politics, religion, culture and what not. In 2005 he produced a book ‘The Argumentative Indian’ which sought to contain Hindu India by a well known technique, that of appropriating the merits of… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
KOLKATA: As news of the death of Sathya Sai Babaspread on Sunday, the city plunged into mourning. Special prayers were organised by devotees and vibhuti was distributed among people. Bhajans played in Sai Baba temples and hundreds held prayer sessions at home, burning incense sticks and candles. Some even equated the spiritual leader’s departure with the death and… [Read more…]
January 7, 2011
Tagore’s political thought was complex. He opposed imperialism and supported Indian nationalists. His views have their first poetic release in Manast, mostly composed in his twenties. Evidence produced during the Hindu-German Conspiracy trial and later accounts affirm his awareness of the Ghadarite conspiracy, and stated that he sought the support of Japanese Prime Minister Terauchi… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
Introduction In the history of struggle for Indian independence, V.D. Savarkar’s place is unique. He had a firm belief that only a strong, armed revolt by Indians would liberate India from British. An extraordinary Hindu scholar (he is one who coined Indian words for telephone, photography, the parliament, among others), a recklessly brave revolutionary (tried… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
India Vision 2020 was initially a documanet prepared by TIFAC under the chairmanship of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul kalam and a team of 500 experts. Dr.Kalam further gave shape to this concept through his seminal work along with Dr.Y.S.Rajan – “ India 2020 : Vision for the new millennium “. Dr.Kalam in one of his speeches elaborates the… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
“It is essential that we think about ‘Our National Identity’ without which there is no meaning of ‘Independance”. “The basic cause of the problems facing Bharat is the neglect of Its ‘National Identity”. “Opportunism has shaken the confidence of People in Poltics”. “Opportunists with no principles rein in politics of our country” “We had taken… [Read more…]
August 13, 2010
When ever I have spoken to friends about Kautilya (K) or his master piece Arthashastra (A), they looked at me sheepishly, as if saying, why I wanted to talk about that smarty, teacher of unethical practices and advocate of the theory that the end justifies the means. Both K (known as Chanakya(C)) and his masterpiece… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
By Asim Kumar Mitra (Organiser weekly) Remembered on his 150th birth anniversary on August 2 ONLY three months junior to Rabindra Nath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray was born on August 2, 1861 in the village Raruli-Katipara in Khulna (now in Bangladesh) and died on June 16, 1944. Remarkably enough, Mahatma Gandhi was a few… [Read more…]
August 8, 2010
The year was 1907. The freedom movement in India was gathering momentum. Its leader was detained by the police. The poet Rabindranath Tagore paid him a visit and wrote the now famous lines: “Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee! O friend, my country’s friend, O Voice incarnate, free, Of India’s soul….The fiery messenger that with… [Read more…]
May 6, 2011
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