A Clothes-line from Cities to the Country
0Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
Someone once asked Hellen Keller: “How do you account for your remarkable accomplishments in life? How do you explain the […]
In olden times, in our country, nay, in China, Egypt, Greece and amongst all ancient nations there was in practice […]
Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at […]
This is what a group of children had to say when asked what they thought was LOVE… “When someone loves […]
(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made on August 14th 1947 in New Delhi while introducing the pledge […]
“Doorstep” is the story of how a small individual initiative has blossomed into a mini movement. Begun in Mumbai in […]
In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-second Session of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai, Savarkar criticizes Gandhi’s […]
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to […]
The future of mankind depends on the education it gives to itself. And the kind of education that it develops […]
In just seven years, with a modest one-time investment, BAIF, Dharwad (Karnataka) has lifted 10,000 people to good lives. It […]
(The following speech was made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the eve of taking a pledge on the night of 14-15 […]
Amongst the hundreds of unsung heroes of the freedom struggle was Ajit Singh from Punjab, better known as Bhagat Singh’s […]
The spirit of education is inherent in the word `education’ itself. Education is that which brings out the best in […]
A man sat in a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold […]
One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the […]
A complete psychic and spiritual education is a life-long process, and yet, in so far as they truly give meaning […]
(Radha Kumud Mukherji, the noted historian and politician, avers in his speech that Samskrit literature is not all religion and […]
Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars […]
The revolution of the 16th Century, which is usually termed the Reformation, contributed to the most far-reaching and profound awakening […]
Aspiration A yearning for Thee An infant awareness aspiring Responding timely To a blind faith old A heavy handed silence […]
Every evening between 4 and 8 o’clock, Kamalam, Kannan and their little son surrender their house to 150 children who […]
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was a Lieutenant Commander Butch O’Hare. He was a fighter pilot […]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was sentenced to six years imprisonment for seditious writing in 1908 and was sent to Mandalay jail […]
Anuradha Goburdhun Bakhshi says she is paying back a debt to India. But that is strange accounting. She hardly owes […]
Our religions have proclaimed from the very beginning that each human individual is to be regarded as a spark of […]
In the following speech made at the Indian Science News Association, Calcutta, on 21st August, 1938, Subhas Chandra Bose elaborates […]
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air, Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play. – Spencer Such a day was […]
(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave the following reason for his departure: ‘I began to suspect […]