http://www.boloji.com Boloji is the world's biggest Articles Database. en-us Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:01 GMT http://www.boloji.com/specials/rss.xml Indian Solutions ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12086 Poet Grace has breathed his last in Dinanath Cancer Hospital Pune on Monday morning March 29 2012 .He had been taking treatment of two cancers throat and liver for last one and a half year. With Grace s demise the whole of Marathi Literary world moved with deep sorrows of bereavement. Hundreds of thousands eyes moistened over his sudden death. Grace was seventy-five old by the time of death and is survived by two daughters a son and his most prized literary works. 02-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12086 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12036 Sachin Tendulkar India s leading batsman scored his 100th ton at Mirpur stadium in Bangladesh on Mar 16 2012 in Asia cup match against Bangladesh. It was his record 100th century in a long scintillating career. 17-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12036 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12011 Rahul Dravid has retired from test cricket after an illustrious career spanning over 16 years on March 09 2012. He has scored 36 centuries and amassed 13 288 runs with an excellent avarage of 52.31. He will be missed by millions. 09-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12011 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11982 Sri Ramana Maharshi 1879-1950 is a great spiritual teacher. He realized the Self in his seventeenth year. Self-Realization happened to him naturally on its own unaided by external instructions or guidance. A near-death experience took place in him one day and a profound transformation took place in him. He is completely and irreversibly transformed and became a Realized Self and has been so for life. 05-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11982 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11938 This is the time that more and more people especially students turn to his writings his dialogues discussions and all. The life today is full of self centered activities which finally bring misery. I can see J. Krishnamurti standing very close to me holding cup of bliss for all in his hands. 23-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11938 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11828 Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated on Jan 30 1948 by Nathuram Godse. He is dead however his philosophy his wisdom and teachings shall remain ever alive. On this day let us pay our homage to this great soul. 30-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11828 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11808 Subash Bose better known as Netaji was born in Cuttack Orissa on Jan 23 1897. A great freedom fighter and an associate of Gandhi he was jailed many times and was exiled too. He was Congress President in 1938 and was elected the next year too. He escaped from the jail and wished to fight for freedom from outside. He founded Azad Hind Fauz Indian National Army attacked British India from the easten border and hoisted Indian National Flag. However with the fall of Japan he could not sustain the fight and died mysteriously perhaps in 1945 though it has never been proved. He was a great patriot. 24-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11808 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11615 The first astronomer to make systematic use of a telescope was Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 who ushered in a new era in the history of astronomy. Born in Pisa Italy he was the son of Vincenzo Galilei a mathmetician. As a student of physics in his teens he wrote a treatise titled Specific Gravity of Solid Bodies . At the age of 24 he became a professor of methematics at Pisa. Here he postulated the theory that objects of different weight fall at the same speed. He proved it through a now famous demonstration from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa from where he dropped a metal ball and a wooden ball at the same time. Both hit the ground simultaneously. 12-Nov-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11615 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11565 Mahashweta Devi is an extraordinary woman who has written worked and fought for the marginalized tirelessly for the past six decades. She is a strange mix of an activist and a writer who has carried both duties fiercely all her life. Away from the spot light she keeps working for the welfare and betterment of those whom the media and the mainstream conveniently keep forgetting. Her writing is disturbing because it shows the reader her or his own true face. 26-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11565 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11523 By reading autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler one only highlights the glaring contrast between the two books as well as the two personalities. Gandhi was the personification of kindness and humanity. Hitler was a living monster. Gandhi achieved the exemplary feat of freeing this sub-continent from the mighty British Empire through peaceful means while Hitler became the cause of killing more than fifty lacks innocent men women and children. 09-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11523 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11286 I was transported suddenly to Cat Steven s Katmandu with the zeitgeist of those days make love not war hippies smoking charas peace signs everywhere Europeans wandering in the streets of Katmandu in pairs at peace and tranquillity with the world. 03-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11286 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11119 Among the famous men who shaped the destiny of the Indian struggle for freedom Chittaranjan Das ranks as one of the most outstanding and prominent patriots who sacrificed his all for the country s cause. His countrymen hailed him as a Deshbandhu Friend of the Country 19-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11119 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11101 Guru Arjan Dev was born in 1563 at Goindval and was the youngest of the sons of Guru Ram Das and Bibi Bhani the daughter of Guru Amar Das. Before his death Guru Ramdas nominated his son Har Gobind who became Guru Arjan Dev as the next Guru. Thus Guru Arjan Dev became the 5th Sikh Guru on 1 September 1581 in the footsteps of his father Guru Ram Das. Guru Arjan Dev was the founder-builder of the golden temple at Amritsar. 16-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11101 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10773 This essay deals with the life of the messiah of the downtrodden with reference to his political role as a nationalist who relentlessly fought against caste prejudices against the Dalits. In order to highlight his role as the architect of a Socialist Secular Republic of India this essay dwells on those issues which remained critical for Ambedkar during his participation in the nationalist movement and give him an inevitable place in the Indian Nationalist History 01-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10773 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10469 Human beings are humans and will remain humans - notwithstanding their love of a social life and their acquired sense of sharing sympathy and pity they will remain essentially a bundle of selfish emotions seeking to satisfy natural instincts. There is a natural and essential contradiction between the demands of innate senses and those of acquired behavior because the former want to reserve the entire pleasure-giving space for itself while the latter demand equitable distribution of that space among the entire humanity. All human beings strive to create necessary balance between the two contradictory demands but not many succeed satisfactorily. Those who are sensitive to and watchful of their surroundings and are compassionate by nature are more likely to strike a reasonable balance between the two types of demands. Such persons keep on learning from the events which they encounter and evolving their persona. Gandhi was such an ever-learning and ever-evolving personality. 27-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10469 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10466 The saga of Dr. Binayak Sen continues. Now imprisoned for life on unconfirmed charges Binayak joins the rank of many political prisoners who remain incarcerated behind bars without any proven record of unlawful activities. What amazes me more is the massive following that Binayak has now and that includes Nobel Laureates educationists and politicians of all hues from across the globe. A few days back I heard about the total shutdown of all businesses and government institutions in the province of Chhattisgarh for a single day in support of the good doctor. 25-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10466 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10452 Today though all music lovers and performers feel like losing their father Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is still smong us all in the form of his music Ragas he created his infinite memories and infinite impacts which his music made in infinite hearts. 25-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10452 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10451 Subhash Chandra Bose Desh Prem Dibas 24-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10451 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10418 Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is achieved - Vivekananda 12-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10418 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10322 Whether it s religious or seasonal events funerals or initiation-rites the men s choir is always there taking part in all walks of life. In this way we get to know our strengths and weaknesses and help each other with sound advice and action. As we say in Germany I really feel Sauwohl in Kappel which means I feel great. I can t imagine a better integration in the German mainstream. 13-Dec-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10322 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9655 Almost entire informed world believes that Mahatma Gandhi was the tallest amongst tall human beings of the past century - and at the time of his death Albert Einstein had spontaneously remarked that Coming generations would hardly be able to believe that such a man with flesh and blood had ever tread this earth. 01-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9655 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7997 . 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7997 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7697 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1820-1891 born Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyaya was a Bengali polymath Sanskrit pundit educator social reformer writer and philanthropist. He was one of the greatest intellectuals and activists of the 19th century and one of the pillars of the Bengal Renaissance. He was born on 26th September 1820 to a Kulin Brahmin family at Birsingha in the Midnapore District of Pre-Independence Undivided Bengal now in West Bengal India . He spent his childhood in extreme poverty. But this did not deter him from his chosen path of achieving his life s goals. 18-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7697 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7426 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7426 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6738 . 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6738 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6737 . 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6737 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6736 . 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6736 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6728 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6728 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=968 Imagine a man bed-ridden due to sickness and yet writing fine pieces of prose and poetry. That is exactly what Tagore did in the last few months of his life. His pen remained active till the very end. Four new volumes were published in his last days which included three of poems entitled Navajatak The New-born Sanai The Flute and Rogasajyay From Sick-bed and one of prose entitled Chhelebela Boyhood Days . 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=968 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=965 Whenever the name Vivekananda is mentioned most of us have a mental picture of a Swami sitting in meditation with his eyes closed in ochre robes and turban. Alternatively we have also seen the picture of a man with stern penetrating eyes with his arms folded across his chest on our walls. It has been more than a hundred years since his death but Indians have great admiration for him as he was the first Indian to represent Hinduism in the west. He was a contemporary of Gandhi but the two were polar opposites. While Gandhi shunned everything western as untruth and bad Vivekananda thought he could rejuvenate and uplift the poor in India with the help of the west. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=965 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=963 The realization that with spiritual practice one can transcend the limitations of body-mind complex - the ego - and regain the memory of one s true divine nature made a great impact on the mind of Swami Vivekananda. He renounced the transient worldly pleasures based on the five senses and started to lead a life of a monk that later on paved the way for a new monasticism in modern India. For him now the mission of his life was to broadcast this message of Sri Ramakrishna to the East and the West - everywhere. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=963 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=961 A great social and religious reformer he founded the Arya Samaj in 1875. Swami Dayananda Sarasvati s life and mission constitute a glorious chapter in the national movement for the reformation of Hinduism in the second half of the 19th century. Swami Dayananda was born in a Brahmin family in 1824 at Tankara in Gujarat. He came from a well-to-do family and his father instructed him in Sanskrit and Shaivism from the age of five. Historically it is important to note that Dayananda revolted against Idol worship even at the age of 14. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=961 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=960 The lack of a critical reading of Shivaji has plagued the Indian scene since for centuries. Right from Aurangzeb s court historians to the British then the nationalist dalit and recently subaltern and Marxist have painted Shivaji in contrasting colors. At their hands he has easily been molded into beliefs he never stood for ideals which he never represented clothed of such character that he never possessed. The result is a too obvious uneasy equivocal figure for any unbiased reader of Indian History. The attempt of this short essay is to set to rest some of these glaring contradictions in Shivaji s assessment by ideologically differing historians. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=960 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=958 Sham Lal the veteran journalist and literary critic who passed away in New Delhi on 23 February 2007 at the age of 95 indeed belonged to the classical age of classic Indian journalism. Sham Lal was born in 1912 in Ferozepur in the undivided Punjab and did his MA in English in 1933. His distinguished career as a journalist spanned over 6 decades. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=958 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=956 His handlebar moustache and his ramrod stiff gait gave Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw a commanding presence on the battlefield but to the troops that served under him he was their beloved Sam Bahadur a soldier s general who put their well- being before his own. Manekshaw 94 will be best remembered for the decisive campaign he crafted during the 1971 India-Pakistan war that saw the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation after the surrender of over 90 000 Pakistani troops in what was then the eastern wing of the country. 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=956 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=955 According to me Sri Ramakrishna is the greatest scientist in the field of spirituality. One may call him a sage or a mystic of modern age a Man of God God- incarnate etc. according to one s liking and everyone would be correct in his her own way of understanding him. This is because he encompasses every aspect of religion and mysticism in his life and teachings. Every soul can take something from this perennial fountain of spirituality and nourish his her heart with purity holiness and selflessness. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=955 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=953 Dayananda Saraswati the iconic founder of the Vedic socio-religious organization the Arya Samaj was born at Tankari in 1824 in the state of Kathiawar in modern day Gujarat in a Brahmin family of moderate means. He was neither a prodigy nor exuded traits of the personality he would metamorphose in the distant future and the rebel in him which would against all odds break through the shackles of his conservative religious background remained dormant in the initial phase of his life. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=953 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=951 Most people remember Raja Ram Mohan Roy as the man who fought to abolish Sati the practice of a wife immolating herself on her husband s funeral pyre and also founded the Brahmo Samaj. But his contribution was a great deal more than that. 22-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=951 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=945 If one individual is to be singled out for representing the values and traditions of India from the ancient times to the modern age it cannot be any one other than Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 .He was the one person who incorporated the wisdom of the past reflected in the spiritual and intellectual attainments of the Vedas and the Upanishads. Yet he was never so immersed in India s seemingly other-worldly heritage underlined in the philosophical concept of the world being an illusion maya as to negate rationalism. To use a clich he combined the best of both worlds. 22-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=945 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=941 Prof Swaminathan lived a full life of creative endeavour and fulfillment not only in terms of years but also in its multifarious facets. Starting his long career as a student and teacher of literature for nearly three decades he entered the world of journalism for a few years as political commentator and journalist and crowned it all with his historically celebrated term as Chief Editor of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi CWMG . 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=941 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=940 No one can dispute the fact that Professor Govind Sadashiv Ghurye is the founding father of Sociology in India. Even in the last decade of his life when he was over eighty years old he continued to make his intellectual presence felt as an incisive social thinker highly innovative and equally at ease with Vedic India and contemporary India. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=940 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=938 . 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=938 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=936 . 09-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=936 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=934 . 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=934 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=933 . 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=933 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=931 . 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=931 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=930 He was one of the strangest celebrities ever. But history will remember Michael Jackson as a black man who managed to break through every racial and artistic barrier to become a global pop icon a true musical genius. A winner of 13 Grammy awards he etched a place for himself in the hearts and minds of people as the King of Pop with his signature song and dance moves unusual wardrobe feminine voice - and also as Wacko Jacko for the weirdest controversies 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=930 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=927 In his formative years Aurobindo surmised that the oppression of Indian thought by the ruling British had deleterious effects on it. He thus became a revolutionary in Calcutta working against the British rulers. Four years before Gandhi started political revolution in India Sri Aurobindo had spent time in Alipore jail in the year 1910 charged with sedition and conspiracy. In the prison Sri Aurobindo experienced the strength of his inner consciousness and emerged as a spiritual Yogi. His Ashram in Pondicherry has survived until today under the guidance of the spiritual Mother. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=927 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=922 . 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=922 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=920 Madame Cama was born in 1861 to a well-to-do Parsi family in Bombay. One of Madame Cama s first great opportunities for doing public work was during Bombay s great plague in 1897. Without concern for her own life Madame Cama tirelessly nursed the ill back to health and then like any good missionary converted those she helped to her cause of Indian independence. Unfortunately in that process Madame Cama herself fell sick. In response her friends and family sent her to Europe in 1902 to enable her to recover her heath. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=920 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=917 Madan Lal Dhingra was perhaps the first Indian freedom fighter to be executed on British soil. He died in London on Aug 17 1909. It is strange that no one in the Indian government has paid any attention to the need to commemorate the event. 08-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=917 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=915 In 1973-74 I had the good fortune of reading the autobiography of Mohammedali Currim Chagla 1900-1981 titled Roses in December which is one of the truly great autobiographies written by eminent Indians. Born in 1900 in Bombay he became an eminent lawyer. He was appointed as Professor of law to Government Law College Bombay in 1927. He worked for Mohammed Ali Jinnah as his secretary and the Muslim League before it became a separatist party. In 1928 the Congress asked Motilal Nehru to write a draft Constitution for India as a riposte to the Simon Commission Report. The Nehru Report spoke in terms of a secular India a vision that was rejected by Jinnah. A disillusioned Chagla then left Jinnah for good. 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=915 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=914 In an 18th century English village school all the students learnt the three R s by heart but one among them was a bit queer and unusual. He was fond of drawing. It was not a part of the school curriculum. And what he used to draw were neither human figures nor those of animals nor of flowers or fruits or trees nor of any other object of common observation. He loved to draw maps. As a little boy he was familiar with his native village and his first handiwork was therefore the map of that village. Nobody could imagine that one day that village mapmaker boy would grow up to become the first mapmaker of a vast empire which his countrymen were going to establish in a foreign land. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=914 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=912 Mary Lutyens s wonderful book covers the first thirty-eight years of Krishnamurti s life. The book as the author s Foreword says was written at Krishnamurti s own suggestion and with help from the master himself. Describing the book Mary Lutyens says It is a very personal account recording his strange upbringing and the many phases he went through in growing to maturity his difficulties doubts unhappiness personal relationships and spiritual awakening which was followed by years of intense physical suffering. 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=912 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=909 Dr. Parthasarathy has been decorated with the title of Padma Shri by the President of India on the eve of this year s Republic Day on 26 January 2010. As an outstanding novelist he has written several novels in TAMIL that have been translated into several Indian and world languages. He has carved a special niche for himself in Tamil literature - his characters mostly urban intellectuals speak very openly and analyze deeply what others say. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=909 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=906 As a great pioneer in the world of Indian photo-journalism Homai Vyarawalla came out with great photographs starting from 1938 for over a period of 35 years till 1973. The lasting beauty of her photographs - whether utilitarian or inspirational - can be summed up in one brilliant phrase of the great American poet Robert Frost Art should strip life to form. Viewed in this light Homai Vyarawalla was a great creator of photographic art in India. Though the creative world of her works of art sprang from life yet at the same time it represented a unique world of its own serenely detached from the surrounding cauldron of clutter clatter and confusion. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=906 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=904 On 27 December 2007 Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was martyred in the garrison city of Rawalpindi where her father another great and popular leader of Pakistan was hanged some thirty years ago by a mean vindictive and a heartless military dictator. It is needless to underscore that like many other Pakistanis I was totally devastated at this tragic end of a great leader. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=904 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=903 . 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=903 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=901 Anil Kumble is currently the highest wicket-taker for India in both One Day International and Test matches having taken over 500 Test wickets and 300 ODI wickets. He is one of only two bowlers ever to have taken all 10 wickets in a test innings. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=901 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=897 Greatness of a great person can be measured by the relation between what one professes and what is the truth what one professes and how much of it one applies to oneself and what effect one s words and deeds have on the society at large. In order to enhance human wisdom it is imperative that we keep on assessing the greatness of the great men of the past- not with intent to idolize glamorize or demean them but to unravel the hidden truths if any and to gauge the long term effects of that person s deeds on society. This historical wisdom shows the path of progress to the new generations and gives them opportunity to choose their ideals. 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=897 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=895 Bhagat Singh was a true patriot a nationalist par excellence. He was not today s version of the extremist who kills innocent people in the name of God or a political cause. The care he took in making sure no lives were lost when he exploded a bomb in the British parliament bears testimony to this. 23-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=895 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=891 Dadu Dayal 1544-1603 was a great saint from Gujarat who spent the best part of his spiritual life in Rajasthan. Consequently he has thousands of devotees both in Gujarat and Rajasthan who worship him with great reverence and devotion. Dadu means brother and Dayal means the compassionate one . 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=891 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=888 To me much more than his music Bismillah Khan will always represent this - the most appropriate metaphor to define India s diversity and culture - where else will you find residents of the most holy Hindu city waking up to the musical notes of a devout Muslim 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=888