"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(on Indian Independence Day, 1947)
The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth of the world's biggest democracy as a national holiday. Schools and people hoist the national flag through out the country and put them up on the rooftops and the buildings. People only go to offices to attend the flag hoisting ceremony. The Prime Minister addresses the Nation after the flag has been unfurled recounting the country's achievements of the year, discussing current major issues and future plans for the progress of the country. Recently, kite-flying has become a tradition on this day and people can be seen flying numerous kites of all colors, sizes and shapes symbolizing the freedom.
ప్రేమంటే చిరుగాలి అలల మీద చిరునవ్వుల గాయం రాత్రి పగలు మరచి నిద్రాహారాలు విడచి దీక్షగా శిక్షగా రాసుకున్న గాథ ****************** నీవు తలచుకుంటే నీ జ్ఞాపకాన్ని నేను నీవు మలచుకుంటే నీ రూపాన్ని నేను నీవు ఆలపించుకుంటే నీ రాగాన్ని నేను నీవు ఆనందిస్తే నీ హాసాన్ని నేను నీవు రాసుకుంటే నీ భావాన్ని నేను నీవు రమ్మంటే నీ దాసుడిని నేను నీవు ఇమ్మంటే నీ ప్రాణాన్ని నేను నీవు మరచిపోతే నీ స్మృతిని నేను ******************** ప్రియా...
నీలిమేఘాల చాటునుంచి శరత్పూర్ణిమల నాటి జాబిలమ్మ కొద్ది కొద్దిగా కనిపిస్తే నీ తొలిచూపు జ్ఞాపకం
నీరెండ పది లేఆకు మీద మంచు బిందువు మెరిస్తే నీ నవ్వు జ్ఞాపకం
అల్లరి తుమ్మెద అలవోకగా పువ్వు పై వాలితే నీ ముద్దు జ్ఞాపకం
సంధ్య కళ పిల్లగాలి హాయిగొలిపితే నీ స్పర్శ జ్ఞాపకం
పాలబుగ్గల పసివాడు అమ్మ ఒడిలో ముద్దు గా ఒదిగితే నీ ప్రేమ జ్ఞాపకం ********************** నేనొక మౌన ముద్రలో ఉన్న అజ్ఞాత వర్తకుడను ఎన్ని మంచు తెరలు తొలగించి వేకువ వెలుగును చూసానో
There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on 22nd July 2009. It isalso when there will be a sun eclipse. It is predicted that this tsunami will be a really bad one.
Countries like Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak particularly), Singapore, Indonesia, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Philippines are going to be badly hit.
Warning: STAY away from beaches in July.
Please pass the word around
I’m not sure, to what extent this info is true. But being cautious is a good thing indeed.
IF YOU WORSHIP YOUR BOLLYWOOD STAR OR YOUR CRICKETING IDOL….. THINK AGAIN… THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT MUCH MORE THAN THEM……. READ FULLY….ESPECIALLY THE LETTER WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE JAWAANS TO HIS FAMILY …. SALUTE THEM FOR ALL THEIR SACRIFICE ….
READ THE LETTER BELOW……………..
WE RECAPTURED OUR LAST HILL FROM PAKISTAN BUT WE LOST OUR MOST VALUABLE, GREAT WARRIORS, BRAVE BROTHERS .TODAY IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER THEM
A SALUTE TO
OF KARGIL WAR
KARGIL'S FIRST HERO
Lt. Saurabh Kalia His UNIFORM as a MEMORY
Capt.Vikram Batra Param Vir Chakra(Posthumous)
Grenedier. Yogendra Singh Param Vir Chakra
RFN .Sanjay Kumar (Param Vir Chakra)
Major Padmapani Acharya, Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous) Of the 2nd Battalion of The RAJPUTANA RIFLES
Lieutenant Balwan Singh, Maha Vir Chakra Of the 18th Battalion of GRENADIERS Regiment
Major M Saravanan, VirChakra, 1 Bihar
Lieutenant Kanad Bhattacharya, Sena Medal (Posthumous) (22 YEARS)
Captain Saju Cherian, Sena Medal 307 Medium Regiment
Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nangrum, Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous) Of the 12th Battalion of JAMMU AND KASHMIR Light Infantry
Captain R Jerry Prem Raj, Vir Chakra (Posthumous) , 158 Medium Regiment
Major Sonam Wangchuk, Maha Vir Chakra Of the LADAKH Scouts
Officers & Jawans from the 2nd Rajputana Rifles pray before going into battle, to get back Tololing Top. Behind the jawan in the foreground (with a 5.56mm INSAS rifle) is Captain Vijayant Thapar. His face is partly hidden and is seen sporting a beard. Lieutenant Thapar laid down his life, in the capture of Tololing Top and was awarded the Vir Chakra posthumously for his valour.
Major Padmapani Acharya, 2nd Rajputana Rifles, leads his men into battle after the successful capture of Tololing Top. The 2 Raj. Rifles' next assignment was to capture the Knoll mountain feature in the Black Rock area, which is in the Drass sub-sector. It was here, that Major Acharya laid down his life in the highest traditions of the Indian Army on 29 June 1999. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, posthumously .
Making the way through narrow valley
The Leh-Batalik road is as notorious as the Srinagar-Kargil road. At its beginning lie staging areas, at its end fierce fighting and often, death. Jawans patrol the rugged slopes near Batalik. For them, there is little time for rest and little time to think, always poised on the edge of action.
Capt.Vijayant Thapar (Robin) He Laid down for OUR BETTER TOMORROW At the age of only 22
His Last Letter to his parents
Moments before the final assault Capt. Vijyant Thapar (Robin) left this letter at the war front base, to be handed over to his family.
AND AFTER THAT
HE CAME BACK HOME WITH TRI COLOR DRAPED
Jawans from the 2nd Rajputana Rifles, remember their 23 comrades who fell in the decisive battle for the Tololing Top. The battalion earned four Maha Vir Chakras, one of India 's highest medals for gallantry, three of them being awarded posthumously.
Captain (Dr.) Rajshree Gupta, Army Medical Corps (AMC), salutes the tricolour-draped coffin of her husband, Major Vivek Gupta of the 2nd Rajputana Rifles, who died fighting the enemies.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor .
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee .
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead
Mother's love is countless and meaningful. Her virtuous of kindness is hardly repaid by any precious things in this world. Her deep parental kindness in bringing us up and the hardships she has gone through will never be repaid as they are priceless. In other words, her love for her child is endless and indescribable!
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; When adversity takes the place of prosperity; When friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; When troubles thicken around us; Still she will cling to us, andendeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
"A mother is one to whom you turn when you are troubled." - Emily Dickinson
Mothers Day Origin
Moms are the best things that ever happened in the world. On May 11th every year, we celebrate 'Mother's Day' as an opportunity to express our love, respect and gratitude to our mothers for all the things she has done for us. Alchemy Webmedia has tried to consolidate the origin, history, legends and stories of this very special day, just for you.
The roots of Mother's Day go back to the ancient festivals dedicated to mother goddess. In the ancient Greek empire, Rhea, the wife of Cronus, and mother of Gods and Goddesses, was worshipped and honored at this time every year in a spring celebration. In Rome too, Cybele, a mother Goddess, was worshipped, as early as 250 BC. It was known as Hilaria, and it lasted for three days, called the Ides of March, that is from March 15 to March 18. In more recent times, during the 1600s, England observed "Mothering Sunday", or the "Mid-Lent-Sunday, on the fourth Sunday in Lent. It was quite identical to the modern-day celebrations.
In England where small chapels of ease served the ordinary needs of the country parishioners, the people went on Mid-Lent Sunday to the 'Mother Church' of the parish, laden with offerings. The historians hypothesize that the Mother Church was substituted for Mother Goddess by the early church, who adopted the ancient Roman ceremonies in honor of Cybele to venerate Mother Mary. And this is why it became customary to visit the church on the day of baptism or on Mother's Day.
The custom began for those working away from homes to return to their homes on Mothering Sunday with small gifts, or, mothering cakes for their mothers. Back home they presented their mothers with a cake and little nosegays of violets and other wild flowers gathered in the hedgerows as they walked along the country lanes. Whole families attended church together and there was a dinner of roast lamb, or veal, at which mother was treated as queen of the feast. Everything was done to make her happy. The custom of Mothering Sunday became more widespread during the 19th century. Any youth engaged in such act of duty was said to go 'amothering'. They day was celebrated with a festive mood appropriate to that day. The prominent dish was called furmety. It was a dish of wheat grains boiled in sweet milk, sugared and spiced.
In the northern part of England and Scotland there had been a custom of having steeped peas fried in butter, with pepper and salt. Pancakes so prepared passed by the name of carlings. It was so popular that from it Carling Sunday became a local name for the day.
The mothering cake also went by the name of Simnel cake. This was a very rich fruit cake, the richer the better. For, the Lenten fast dictated that it must keep until Easter. First boiled in water and then baked, it sometimes had an almond icing. At other times the crust was of flour and water, colored with saffron. The word Simnel comes from the Latin Simila, which means high-grade wheat flour.
The customs of the Mothering Sunday in England started to decline with the changing pattern of the society following the Industrial Revolution.
In the United States, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948) is credited with bringing in the celebration of Mother's day. Anna Jarvis intended to start a Mother's Day as an honoring of mothers. The idea itself was so great that it did not take long to be spread all over. Leaving aside the first observance, the official recognition that followed for the observance came in galore. The governor of West Virginia issued the first Mother's Day proclamation in 1910. Oklahoma celebrated it in that same year. It stirred the same way in as far west as the state of Washington. And by 1911, there was not a state in the Union that did not have its own observances for Mother's Day. Soon it crossed the national boundary, as people in Mexico, Canada, South America, China, Japan and Africa all joined the spree to celebrate a day for mother love.
The immense popularity of the Day led to foundation of Mother's Day International Association on December 12, 1912. Its purpose was to promote and encourage meaningful observances of the event across the world. It was in 1934 Postmaster General James A. Farley announced a stamp to commemorate Mother's Day. The stamp featured the famous painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black". The painting was a portrait of the mother of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, an English artist. It was brought in to the United States as part of an exhibit in the year 1934.
This is Serious!This incident happened recently in North Texas . A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit. She died on Wednesday.
The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the can of coke she drank from, not using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.
Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper part of all soda cans before drinking out of them. The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.
A study at NYCU showed that the tops of allsoda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e).. full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.
May 16th is definitely one of the interesting days in India. It is not less exited than any world cup final in which india is playing. And in Ap i am very much exited to see the results.
