education of the girl child. JRD supported and guided many community initiatives for which Tata Steel is regarded as an international benchmark. He was repeatedly awarded for his initiatives both nationally and internationally. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna Award‚ the highest award to a civilian‚ in 1983. He recognized the responsibilities of a
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Hook/Background Information: Patriots are suffering during the harsh winter at Valley Forge‚ a war campsite. Some Colonial Army members are leaving‚ and others are staying. Soldiers are dying from illnesses‚ and other causes. Quitting Valley Forge will not be close to an option for me‚ I will stay at Valley Forge. Some might say that lots of people have died already‚ but according to the chart of illnesses and deaths (Doc A)‚ only about 50% of the group has passed away. This means that there is
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Life History of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam This‚ he said‚ was alone the path to progress. Later‚ much later‚ I realised‚ that those were the very words he’s lived by all through his life. They are both philosophical and practical‚ quite like the world he grew up in as a boy in the island town of Rameswaran‚ in south India. His father‚ a humble boat owner‚ Jainulabdeen‚ was a devout Muslim and a close friend of the Rameswaran temple priest. Kalam was brought up in a multi-religious‚ tolerant society;
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BOOK REVIEW WINGS OF FIRE (Dr. Abdul kalam and Arun Tiwari) With an idea of A noble Mission ‚ a strong vision to build a strong nation “Wings of fire” is a book full of inspiration and Indianess ‚it is an autobiography of the former president of India Dr. A. P.J. Abdul Kalam (1999) written by combined effort of Dr. Kalam and Arun Tiwari. Born on October 15‚ 1931‚ at Rameshwaram‚ Tamil Nadu‚ India ‚ Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam specialized in aeronautical engineering
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studied bid to avoid the chutzpah of India Shining‚ the Congress has chosen the more prosaic catchphrase of Bharat Nirman. But‚ with due apologies to Shakespeare for paraphrasing‚ does a rose by any other name smell any different? Comparisons are inevitable and the similarities undeniable. If India Shining was a marketing slogan intended to hard-sell the optimism of an economy on the upswing‚ Bharat Nirman is an attempt to restore the feel good factor of the 9% growth story from UPA 1. The BJP hired
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Deendayal Ji spoke about his views on an ideal economic system in his 4th lecture delivered on 25th April 1965. It has been briefly discussed here. Autonomous Institutions In Ancient Bharat: We must have such an economic system that helps in the development of our humane qualities or civilisation‚ and enables us to attain a still higher level of all round perfection. We should have a system which does not overwhelm our humane quality‚ which does not make us slaves of its own grinding wheels.
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Ancient Indians were not known to have a great sense of history. Historians have had to rely a lot on accounts by foreign travellers and foreign sources to reconstruct our history. And all such sources‚ including Megasethenes‚ Fa-hsien and many medieval Arab travellers‚ have uniformly found that Indians were remarkably law abiding and that crime was very rare. Most historians including A.L. Basham and recent writers like Abraham Eraly have treated such rosy accounts with suspicion merely because
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Republic Day Awards‚ 2012 A total of 109 persons‚ including 19 women‚ have been selected for the Padma awards. Five personalities have been given Padma Vibhushan‚ 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shree awards. PADMA VIBHUSHAN: K.G. Subramanyan (painting and sculpture)‚ Late Mario De Miranda (cartoonist)‚ Late (Dr) Bhupen Hazarika (vocal music)‚ Dr Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (orthopaedics)‚ T.V. Rajeswar (civil service)‚ Delhi. PADMA BHUSHAN: Prominent among winners were Shabana Azmi (cinema)‚ Khaled
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2007. He was fondly referred to as “The People’s President” during his term. He has honorary doctorates from over thirty universities and is the recipient of the country’s three highest civilian awards – the Padma Bhushan‚ the Padma Vibhushan and the Bharat Ratna. My thoughts on the book: … “He who knows others is learned‚ but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use.” Another excerpt that looks into life was… “The trouble is that we often merely analyse life
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EK BHARAT- UNITY IN DIVERSITY 1.India is a multi-cultural‚ multi-racial‚ multi-lingual and multi-ethnic society. It is a land of diversity. People of different creeds‚ customs‚ cultures and traditions live here. They have their different festivals‚ manners and lifestyle.Their religions and beliefs are also different. Despite all these‚ there are certain common visit able bonds that link them together. This is a distinct feature of India and it is popularly known as unity in diversity.Basically
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