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=14444 Lives of the downtrodden in the far flung regions of Telangana where backwardness and poverty are visible as stark reality have compelled litterateurs to present realistic portraits in their literary artifacts. Jigiri is the variant of Telugu spoken widely in Telangana is a short novel by Peddinti Ashok Kumar by now an important and renowned fiction writer. Translated into English and titled Friends Forever by P. Jayalakshmi the novel is a study of field reality in the penury stricken area. 19-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14444 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14443 Sumit Sarkar s Kaliyuga Chakri and Bhakti Ramakrishna and His Times based primarily on his Reading of Shri-M s Shri Ramakrishna Kathaamrta is an enjoyable and enlightening read and I recommend it to readers particularly to those who have already read Shri-M s Shri Ramakrishna Kathaamrta or Swami Nikhilaananda s English translation The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna and now particularly wants a hearty dose of supplementary refreshment and entertainment to see a real-life and contemporary demonstration of Shri Ramakrishna s caution against Shukno paanditya Dry Intellect in action 20-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14443 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14442 We have always heard that making people educated is the best way to improve the society to remove all the ill ailments existing from the decades. 20-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14442 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14441 The boundaries of family converging into larger society have all through in our history been rather nebulous. There has always been the custom to keep whatever you possibly could within the family. The claims of one s near and dear ones were always far more important than what was right or wrong in the larger interests of the community or your calling. 19-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14441 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14440 One of these days we ll read the news that Sohrab has been killed by the Taliban. Allah I hope not. He has a large family to take care of back in Sylhet. How I hate these extremists. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14440 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14439 Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary Longitude 790 58 E to 800 11 E Latitude 210 12 N to 210 21 N in the state of Maharashtra in India has great importance from the point of view of bio-diversity conservation and has been becoming a popular destination for wildlife lovers bird watchers and even picnic tourists for the last five years though it is still lesser known comparative to other renowned sanctuaries. The Sanctuary extends over an area of 152.81 sq. km and its height from mean sea level varies from nearly 30 meters to about 560 meters. According to a government estimate about 25000 tourists visit every year. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14439 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14438 . 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14438 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14437 A man never exists in vacuum and while living he has to exist in the already obtainable surroundings. He inherits social economic and religious life the moment he takes birth and this situation becomes a learning school for him from the day he begins crawling and mumbling in apparent innocent selfless smile with light of hope and curiosity in the eyes. As he grows up he begins to speak walk and gradually understands human relations society and the moment he is out of the college he somewhat knows what he is to do in life with the available social economic and political scenario. A simple thesis it is and everyone knows. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14437 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14436 . 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14436 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14435 Set in the serene and picturesque hills of the Nullatani estate of Munnar where flora and fauna co-exist is a complex named Srishti - Creation. As we entered through its gate exclamatory WOWs escaped our lips at the sight of the meticulously planned exuberant garden. The riot of enchanting multi-coloured plants and flowers literally astounds. An initiative of Mrs. Ratna Krishna Kumar Srishti owes its conception growth and stabilisation to her. It carries forward the Tata Group s noble philosophy of making generous returns to society an invaluable legacy passed down by their founder Sir Jamsetji Tata. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14435 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14434 The prospect of a meaningful peace dialogue with Pakistan has become faintly visible after Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister of Pakistan. If India is serious about achieving a breakthrough in the dialogue this time around the moment to undertake some hard contingency planning is now. Whatever the modalities of a future dialogue and however cooperative the Pakistan army might prove to be no real breakthrough in the peace talks can occur without resolving the dispute over Kashmir. It is a real issue that will not disappear even given all the delusions that Indian politicians are habituated to indulging in 17-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14434 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14433 Soldiers live and die for izzat that untranslatable concept that symbolizes at once a sense of pride in one s calling a resolve to uphold professional traditions built over years by human sweat and blood an unflinching determination to vanquish the aggressor and above all to live up to the exhortation of the Gita IV 8 vinashaye cha dushkritam for extermination of the evil deeds of the wicked . And nothing symbolizes all this better than the Bangladesh War in December 1971 under the leadership of Gen. Sam Manekshaw to end the repression and genocide in Eastern Pakistan. 17-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14433 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14432 Adoor Gopolakrishnan is the best known Malayalm film director of International repute. He has won the prominent National Film Award of India sixteen times. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. presented him at a retrospective as the Poet Laureate of Indian Cinema and he has been decorated with the L gion d honneur and the Commandeur de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Adoor played a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded today as one of the finest filmmakers of India. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14432 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14431 . 17-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14431 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14430 . 16-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14430 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14429 . 16-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14429 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14428 Sunil Sharma s latest collection of poems Golden Cacti is a total joy to read. It took me quite a while to finish this book of one hundred pages as I only read a handful of poems each day - I wanted to savour these exquisite morsels to the max. 16-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14428 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14427 I am a Crash Helmet. I would like to narrate the benefits of using me while driving. My duty is to protect the head and thereby the life of a human being. When a rider on a motor vehicle meets with an accident due to sudden application of brakes at a speed of 30 KMPH the tendency is for his body to be thrown up into the air and then for the head to crash on the road surface. 16-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14427 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14426 Main stream writing in our country has not given any importance to the lives and the ways of living of the lowest of the low though our literature sahitya did take interest in the lives of individuals with no dislike negligence or hatred for people born in lower and untouchable castes in spite of the fact that they were not living in affluence or with panditya. The lower unprivileged castes were called untouchables for several hundreds of years and had come to be called Dalits which did not yet make any difference to huge sections of people. Possibly during the last seven or eight decades since leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jyotiba Phule Bhimrao Ambedkar began a crusade to establish equality and justice. Dalit themes ignored and not given any prominence till these leaders took up the noble and necessary cause have been getting attention and importance during the last fifty years. 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14426 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14425 A few days ago the newspapers carried statements of SEBI and private banks head honchos declaim against RBI rate cut in absence of other government handouts. What one wonders was the purpose of private banks if they can operate only with government handouts What happens to their much lauded private status then 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14425 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14424 . 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14424 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14423 . 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14423 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14422 Satis Shroff has translated Nepali literature prose and poems by Nepali writers such as Laxmiprasad Devkota Muna Madan Bhupi Sherchan Banira Giri Kathmandu Bhisma Upreti Krishna Bhakta Shrestha Bal Krishna Sama Ich Hasse Auf der Suche nach Poesie Abhi Subedi Toya Gurung Dorjee Tschering Lepcha Die Ameisenk nigin Der Spinnenmensch Guruprasad Mainali Der Martyrer Krishna Bam Malla Der Pfluger Lekhnach Paudyal Der Himalaya Hridaya Singh Pradhan Die Tr nen von Ujyali Shiva Kumer Rai Der Preis des Fisches Sharad Sharma Woman Nature Toya Gurung Mein Traum Binaya Rawal Phulmayas Dasainfest Abhi Subedi Am Abend mit dem Auto Bimal Nibha Jumla Jiwan Acharya Der Bildhauer Muglin etc. into German a part of which can be read under the title Im Schatten des Himalaya. 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14422 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14421 The Supreme Court SC responding to the government s interference in the CBI s Coalgate investigation has demanded that the government must ensure by next July that structural changes in the administrative machinery enable the CBI to function independently. With all due respect to the SC is it any business of the Judges to direct the executive or the legislature about what the administrative structure ought to be The business of the court is confined to judging whether the law of the land is being observed or not. No more no less. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14421 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14420 I always tried to excel at work though my fate laid my career low and so I became adept at all that I dabbled with. If not instead of becoming a project consultant at best I would have been a frustrated worker or at worst booted out for being sluggish. I realized that in life as in Derby the colt that bolts last need not be the last one at the finish. 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14420 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14419 In 1974 Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf then a 17-year-old fundamentalist rebel working to overthrow the Shah s regime stabbed a policeman in an effort to steal his gun and served a five-year prison sentence. Twenty years later he was casting non-actors for a film called Salaam Cinema when the victim Mirhadi Tayebi showed up for an open audition. Their surprise reunion sparked the inspiration for Makhmalbaf s startlingly original A Moment of Innocence which revisits the incident through a meta-cinematic technique that combines documentary and fiction and then transcends the limitations of both. 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14419 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14418 Jaydeep Sarangi s recently published volume of poetry Silent Days will make a great addition to the libraries of all lovers of fine poetry. His poems have an ethereal and at times enigmatic quality which is difficult to nail down. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14418 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14417 . 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14417 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14416 . 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14416 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14415 Almost all of us watched Jab Tak Hai Jaan ...The message of this movie can be described with Newton s Laws of Motion which almost all of us read in school level physics...Let me explain 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14415 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14414 Sunil Sharma the sensitive poet from the suburb of Mumbai produces remarkable poetry from the everyday realities experienced in an Indian megapolis in a unique way revealing a gentle empathy and sensibility for the contradictions of urban existence in a city where - like other Asian cities - poverty and wealth stare into each other s eyes. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14414 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14413 Never in recent memory has any Pakistani politician spoken as boldly as incoming Prime Minister Mr. Nawaz Sharif. Addressing the national media Mr. Sharif made three unambiguous assertions. 13-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14413 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14412 Turkey s Kurdish problem is as old as the establishment of the secular Republic by Kemal Ataturk. The Kurds have inhabited the east and south east of Turkey much before the Turkish tribes started arriving in from central Asia in 11th century. Even now the percentage of Turkish citizens who came from Turkistan in central Asia would be less than 15 . 13-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14412 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14411 First came to know about Banaful Pen name of the Bengali author Balaichand Mukhopadhyay when I was in school..It was a collection of short stories written by him...That time I could not understand the inner meaning of some of his stories...Giving an example hereby... 13-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14411 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14410 Prakash Karat s paper titled The Role of the English-Educated in Indian Politics has the following comment about Raja Rammohun Roy 22 May 1772- 27 September 1833 Raja Ram Mohan Roy known as the Father of Modern India for his enlightened attitude on matters of social reform defended the British indigo planters. My research shows Mr. Karat has falsified history. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14410 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14409 Vietnam was a nation that I was fascinated with and admired ever since my childhood when the legendary battle of Dien Bin Phu was fought by the Vietnamese people against French colonial rule under the brave leadership of their legendary National Hero and first President Ho Chi Minh. Many people would not know that the Vietnamese nation has the unique distinction in recent history of defeating foreign aggression not only from France but earlier from Japan and later from the United States and China. 12-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14409 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14408 The post-mortem reports of the recently held 5thBRICS summit from March 26th-27th 2013 have already been written and forgotten. On June 6th 2013 India is hosting the next IBSA summit. As early as 2011 this analyst had predicted that China will try to kill IBSA India Brazil South Africa grouping by enlarging the BRIC to BRICS. China cunningly brought in South Africa in the original BRIC grouping in 2011 though it did not belong to this economic dialogue forum. 12-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14408 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14407 Over sixty years of rubbish from the ruling party with its poisonous ideology of Dynasty first country last has rigged the system to ensure their success with such divisions. The flag may stitch us all together but the rulers with a lethal win-at-all-cost weapon has slashed the fabric of the flag into pieces. Even though the nation is broken into several islands of caste and the community is blazing with anger and hurt their divided cries fail to stare down the arrogance of the rich brown Mughals. 12-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14407 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14406 This is the first time in over four decades that I don t have a mother on Mother s Day. Mom s name was Agnes Johnson. She was sixty-four. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14406 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14405 Not many films command as much respect as FW Murnau s silent classic Sunrise. Billed as a Song of Two Humans it s a love story that s more than just a tale of broken hearts and damp hankies. It s also a landmark in the history of cinema that turns melodrama into high art with the story of a hard-up farmer George O Brien whose affair with a city girl Margaret Livingston leads him to the brink of killing his doting wife Janet Gaynor . 18-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14405 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14404 Airtel Friendship anthem Jo tera hai woh mera hai is very popular among the youth of today. The theme song celebrates friendship and the idea of sharing. Children at times refuse to accept this idea of sharing. If your child embarrasses you in front of your guests by refusing to share his toys with his sibling or another child in the house it is time to retrospect your parenting skills. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14404 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14403 We all belong to the universe. However we are neither sure of its size nor its definition. We use the terms such as cosmos world or nature interchangeably to denote universe. But the universe is much more than these words could convey. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14403 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14402 There are parrots and parrots. Some can fit in the palm of your hand. There are some like the South Pacific parrot who can grow taller than three feet. Some are green with yellow heads whereas others are red with blue tail feathers. What endears parrots to humans is their unique ability to imitate different sounds they hear. You enter a room and hear someone greeting you with a loud hello . You turn around to find who it is but see no one. It was just a parrot in a corner that accosted you. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14402 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14401 Debasish Lahiri s first book of poems First Will and Testament is a testimony of the poet s astute mastery of the poetic self with a rich feast of themes and idioms. The poet takes us to a virtual image gallery and a whirlpool of human experiences from abstract to sensuous and historical to artistic loops. He digs out meaning out of dry and flat terrains of life s course. Lahiri is a bilingual academician who hails from a rich literary tradition a splendid member of a multilingual family. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14401 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14400 . 10-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14400 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14399 Indian history is no stranger to wars and the destruction such visitations wreak on an unprepared nation. Many a marauder came devastating the land. Hordes of invaders like Mahmud Ghazni and Timur Lang and Ahmed Shah Abdali plundered the country. However the last full-fledged war we fought in 1971 was different altogether different. It was waged not to conquer but liberate a country. It was a war we can be legitimately proud of a war resulting in total victory after which every Indian could say with pride yes we can and will in the future hit back mercilessly. 10-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14399 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14398 . 10-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14398 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14397 The double standards adopted by the CBI while dealing with two current cases is glaring. Surprisingly it has not attracted any notice among media pundits. 09-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14397 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14396 Relatives are a bother any day more so when they die. Oh how the goddamn sentiment robs one the freedom to abstain from the obsequies he continued having wiped the tears that continued to roll down his cheeks in torrents. That s how I viewed Raju s death getting into my car that sultry afternoon. He paused for a while as if in repentance . 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14396 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14395 Almost 13 years ago.. It was 14th February 2000... Some shops of Kolkata India were decorated with red balloons to celebrate the Valentine s day... That time its celebration was not a big deal unlike today... 09-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14395 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14394 Fragrant Anchors is an engaging record of Rudra Kinshuk s astute mastery of poetic commitment with a rich feast of variegated themes and linguistic intensity. It is a collection of thirty seven poems which invites the reader to sit and read thoroughly with out a break. 09-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14394 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14393 The creative genius of Rabindranath Tagore knew no bounds. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that never before in the history of our country has such a multi-faceted prodigy appeared whose creativity not only pervaded every branch of our literature but went beyond to influence other walks of life. He wrote poetry stories novels plays criticism and articles of great depth with equal felicity. Unfortunately very little of his vast repertoire is available to the non-Bengali readership. Chakraborty and Bhattacharya distinguished intellectuals of our time who have been advocating for a long time the importance of human values in management have rendered yeomen s service to the English readership by providing English translations of discourses and essays from Tagore s Shantiniketan. 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14393 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14392 The Night of the Hunter is a truly compelling haunting and frightening classic masterpiece thriller-fantasy and the only film ever directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton. This imaginatively-chilling experimental sophisticated work was idiosyncratic film noirish avant garde dream-like expressionistic and strange and it was both ignored and misunderstood at the time of its release. 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14392 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14391 Ten steps forward ten steps back forward again nowhere to run to the nails were not in the chair but in the his flesh. This sentence could be a statement summarizing Mridula Garg s novel Anitya. This novel is also subtitled Halfway to Nowhere. Originally written in Hindi in 1970s and translated into English in 2010 this is a powerful piece of writing which impresses the readers for its deliberation and discernment. The novel poignantly describes the pain and anguish in the human condition and reveals tears in the nature of things. It is not a mere political social or revolutionary novel. 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14391 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14390 . 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14390 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14389 . 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14389 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14388 . 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14388 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14387 Our public bodies lack the concern for the citizens convenienc and that they do not have the sense of aesthetics needs no mention 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14387 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14386 Human conduct affects the working of a political system. A political system influences human conduct. There is continuing interaction between the two. A democratic system is intended to ensure self correction through its checks and balances. When a system fails to function because of human misconduct one must ask why its self correcting mechanism is not working. Today there is wide perception that the Indian democratic system has failed to perform. Consider briefly the broad salient facts. 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14386 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14385 . 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14385 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14384 . 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14384 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14383 A detailed decipherment of the Phoenician inscription to help determine its value in understanding 17th Century knowledge of Hebrew if the inscription is a fraud or to help understand transatlantic contact between the Old World and America prior to Columbus if the inscription is genuine . 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14383 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14382 The Congress President who controls the Congress Government presiding over India s destiny and the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Sigh who heads the Congress Government have both failed to provide India with good leadership good governance and have failed in providing adequate security cover to India from external and internal security threats. 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14382 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14381 Life without science is not imaginable. Science has made our life easy and comfortable. Science plays an important role in our daily life. 07-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14381 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14380 When Mr. Arvind Kejriwal announced the formation of his Aam Admi Party AAP I criticized his decision for being premature. My reasoning was that to create a genuine national alternative and not merely a new party additional to the fifty plus already existing there was need first to have a nationwide movement to propagate an agenda and recruit adherents for creating an organizational structure. But Mr. Kejriwal formed and plunged his new party into the forthcoming Delhi assembly elections. How is his party performing up till now 06-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14380 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14379 India throws up surprises all the time. It is an amazing country. It does not have the best medical research facilities in the world. The medical fraternity in fact struggle with the basics in numerous government hospitals that await finance for expansion plans. With exploding populations hospitals in small towns cities and metros are not able to cope up with the pressure of increasing patients and modern complicated illnesses. Drug companies are raking in the moolah but are not ready to invest in research as much as they should. In fact they spend more on marketing keeping short term gains in focus. 06-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14379 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14378 . 06-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14378 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14377 . 06-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14377 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14376 . 05-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14376 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14375 The story line is not complex but surely the narration is. Devi is married to Kunhikuttan whom she calls as per tradition Kunhikuttettan. He belongs to the Kalarippadam family which has a sense of pride as we see later. Kunhikuttan disappears after his wife gets pregnant. She gives birth to a son Raghu who is about seven in the narration. Devi gets a teacher s job with the help of a distant relation and looks after her sister-in-law Shyamala and mother-in-law a decrepit deaf old lady. Shyamala calls her sister-in-law Deviedathi elder sister. 05-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14375 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14374 The Color of Pomegranates Sayat Nova by the late Soviet director Sergei Paradjanov makes an earnest attempt to fuse poetry and film by seriously exploring the poetic potential of the cinema. This deliriously beautiful film is made up of autonomous resonant images that like lines of poetry stay in the mind long after the film has run its course. The Color of Pomegranates seems to resist or even defy explanation. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14374 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14373 The images of the courage and bravery of the army of Bheem was adequately described to Samar and it infused terror in him. With a vast army consisting of thousands of trained soldiers elephants and horses Bheem embarked on a long journey to war. The entire army was divided into battalions each commanded by many feudal lords ministers princes and chief of the army. It appeared the army had covered all the directions. It was a huge army. When it marched towards Rada it appeared as if the earth trembled. There was immense noise drum beatings 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14373 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14372 Mrigank was on a long journey interesting and educative. With friends and helpers he continued to travel towards the Vindhya Mountains. While on this voyage he reached a beautiful place. It was gifted with the beauties of nature and was attractive. It was a forest of unparalleled beauty and charm. It had shaded trees and there they found a huge water lake full of pure clear cool and tasty water. They were exhausted and the natural beauties enticed therefore they halted and took bath in the lake and ate different kinds of fruit. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14372 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14371 When a representative of mankind first observed planet earth from the surface of the moon he would have become conscious of the unity of man who has made his home upon spaceship earth which protects him from extreme heat and cold and harmful radiation from outer space. The gravitational force of planet earth its distance from the sun the composition of its atmosphere the temperature on its land surface the availability of minerals and water near the earth s surface have all been so programmed as to ensure the survival of life on the planet earth. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14371 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14370 I had the chances of visiting other countries during my career and in recent times. Nothing teaches one many things like travel more especially international sojourns. From the patience to wait for long hours to board the flight to the ordeal of conveying our messages to the other country men if they do not speak English. Even in the US the English they speak is something different from what we speak in India. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14370 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14369 The popular folklore has it that on the Prophet-mandated holy pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in one s life time for the believers Baba Budan a revered Muslim holy man from the Chikmagalur hills of Karnataka discovered sometimes in the 16th century for himself and his country the wonders of coffee. He was on a pilgrimage to Mecca and tasted the elixir. Yemen had then strictly forbidden the taking away of coffee seeds to anywhere outside its precincts. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14369 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14368 If not ingrained in concern love is a flippant emotion which is of no avail to the loved ones he began proroguing as a prelude to his recall of his life and times. More than the outer manifestations of love it is one s inner feelings that further the cause of the loved ones. But we tend to take the spendthrift spouse as a personification of love and the prudence of a caring parent as an indication of its absence. Don t we also see families better off for the premature death of their profligate heads Yet wonder how man comes to perceive that without him his family would be vulnerable in the rough and tough of life 09-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14368 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14367 . 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14367 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14366 Like a chameleon the dragon very predictably is changing its colors with regards to its often stated nuclear doctrine of no first use NFU . Since 1964 when China conducted its first nuclear weapon test China has repeatedly and vociferously insisted that it would not be the first nuclear power to use a tactical or strategic nuclear weapon in pursuit of its strategic objectives. This NFU pledge was explicitly and unconditionally included in each of China s defense white papers from the first in 1998 through the seventh one in 2011. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14366 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14365 Today is Smiles Day. Smiles is a great possession of man. It is a merchandise that can t be stolen can t be purchased nor traded by any Bussiness House. Let us be happy and be in smiles to enjoy life. Happy Smiles Day to all. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14365 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14364 I have no second opinion on the fact that Indian public and media enjoy extraordinary freedom. The news casts the print media and a host of new found electronic communications are extensively mis used by every citizen to the hilt. 04-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14364 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14363 Some years ago there was considerable talk about the emergence of a Shining India. What the nation has been reduced to instead is a Whining India. Nothing brings this out more painfully than the current reaction to the death of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan jail custody. There is national outrage. The details attending this tragic event are too fresh in mind to bear repetition. New Delhi s impotence and Islamabad s callous contempt have inflamed public opinion. 03-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14363 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14362 If ever there was an Army Commander who because of his huge popularity could have effected a coup at any time and yet most scrupulously not only refused to do so but laid the foundation of a new functional civil-military equation for which the nation should ever be grateful to him it was India s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. Posterity would indeed judge his role as of epochal importance and that of the political leadership of the time as crassly petty-minded for treating him shabbily after his retirement. 10-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14362 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14361 . 03-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14361 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14360 . 03-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14360 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14359 We are facing again a situation analogous to both 1999 Kargil fiasco as well as 1962 Chinese war against India in regards to the recent Chinese intrusion in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector in the Ladakh district of J K. There were ample warnings about multiple Chinese intrusions into Indian territory across the Line of Actual Control during the last few years. All branches of the PLA army air-force and navy have repeatedly intruded into Indian territory during the last few years. In fact the former Chief of Army retired General VK Singh had amply warned the Government of India about lack of military preparedness on our northern border against a very hostile adversary. 05-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14359 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14358 How the inaction and lackdaiscal attitude of Indian Govt led to the death of an Indian Prisoner in Pakistan. 02-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14358 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14357 . 02-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14357 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14356 Poetry ushers in a whirlpool of fresh ideas and a new zeal for life. It is like rain drops showering from a monsoon cloud. Madhumita Ghosh s second collection of poems Pebbles on the Shore is a timely addition to the world of poetry that is vibrant and continuously over pouring and appealing. Kolkata city poets are essentially urban and they write about their poetic reaction to metro life around them. Anchored in Kolkata Madhumita s poems dazzle with universal appeal that engages sensitive readers. 02-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14356 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14355 . 01-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14355 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14354 An industrialist turned into a poet a renowned world English poet Ramesh T A s journey of becoming a poet is quite interesting. His poetic work has been appreciated by various online platforms. SpeakBindas Author Freelance Editor Shail Raghuvanshi brings out the inner side of him. 02-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14354 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14353 The slush money paid by CIA to Afghanistan President has lead to dismay among many American leaders. It has also affected the credibility of the USA and tarnished its moral image 01-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14353 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14352 . 30-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14352 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14351 The opposition criticism of the Prime Minister s Office PMO and the Law Minister overseeing the CBI report on its investigation into the Coalgate scam being monitored by the Supreme Court is understandable. What is not understandable is the failure of politicians and intellectuals to recognize that such a situation was inherent and inevitable under the prevailing system. It is all very well demanding a change in the government. What about demanding a change in the system 30-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14351 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14350 A journey through the pages of the earth s history sometimes unfolds most interesting things. These pages are not accessible to a layman. One needs to read and decipher the cryptic pages with the help of several tools. Amongst such tools phytoliths are slowly gaining popularity amongst the palaeontologists and paleoclimate experts. Some of interesting and intriguing questions like what our ancestors ate or when they exactly became cultivators are some of the information derived from the study of phytoliths. 30-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14350 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14349 . 30-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14349 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14348 . 30-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14348 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14347 The demand for Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh s resignation is growing and with good reason. The PM s accountability as Minister concerned for the corruption unearthed in the Coalgate scam cannot be ignored. However that does not quite explain the current outcry against him. 29-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14347 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14346 . 29-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14346 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14345 Texts of ayurveda explain the method to extract fresh juice from herbs. This procedure is known as Swarasa kalpana . Swarasa means freshly extracted juice. 29-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14345