Think Tank

We have already heard enough about what Chinese are up to courtesy Barack Hussain Obama in his regular addresses to motivate American students. Often, he clubs China with India and labels them as threat to the US and Europe in areas related to science and mathematics. The whole world, to some extent, shares the same [...]

What do you remember when you think about Goa? Most probably it would be its sea beaches. But here is someone who found out some uncomfortable truths about history of the same beautiful place we call Goa.  
Richard Zimler is an award winning author and journalist who also wrote a book titled ‘Guardian of the Dawn’. [...]

Swami Vivekanand on origins of Shiva Lingam 
This is part of the article titled “THE PARIS CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS“.  
The Congress of the History of Religions at Paris was like the Congress of Orientalists which is convened from time to time and at which European scholars, versed in Sanskrit, Pali, Arabic, and other Oriental [...]

Shree Hanuman Chalisa
 
ll Doha ll
Shri Guru Charana Saroj Raj, Nija Mana Mukura Sudhaari l
Baranou Raghubara Bimala Jasu, Jo Daayaku Phala Chaari ll
Buddhi Heena Tanujaanike, Sumeero Pawana Kumaar l
Bal Buddhi Vidhya Dehu Mohi, Harahu Kalesha Vikaar ll
ll Chaupai ll
Jai Hanuman Gyana Gunasagara, Jai Kapeesa Tihu Loka Ujaagara
Rama Doota Atulita Baladhaamaa, Anjanee Putra Pawanasuta Naama
Mahabir Bikram Bajarangee, [...]

As rediffiland blogs got migrated to the new site of rediff blogs, the URLs changed and some features got removed. Here I save a random list of some of the blogs I liked:
 
Ahana
http://blogs.rediff.com/ahanabisht/

asha
http://blogs.rediff.com/dollyashakiran/ 
Amisha
http://blogs.rediff.com/justaminute/ 
HariOm Chawla
http://blogs.rediff.com/hochawla/ 
Noanee Kapadia
http://blogs.rediff.com/noanee/ 
Shreya Tiwari
http://blogs.rediff.com/shreya78/ 
Sarita Singh
http://blogs.rediff.com/randonmusings/ 
vidushi chaudhry
http://blogs.rediff.com/eclectictastes/ 
Renu Ayyar
http://blogs.rediff.com/reins/ 
bhagwant pandey
http://blogs.rediff.com/bhagwantpandey 
Kim Agarwal
http://blogs.rediff.com/rypcg (Lost) 
Jerome
http://blogs.rediff.com/jerome/ 
Aameen Khan
http://blogs.rediff.com/khwab/ 
Nivia Dogra
http://blogs.rediff.com/neavy42/ 
Soloman Williams
http://blogs.rediff.com/soloman/ 
Kshitij
http://blogs.rediff.com/realitystoriesandpoems/ 
Divya
http://blogs.rediff.com/manekchowk/ 
Smita
http://blogs.rediff.com/antakashri/ 
Vaidehi
http://blogs.rediff.com/myspacehere/ 
Mahen Mishra
http://blogs.rediff.com/mahnavi/ 
Ranjit Singh
http://blogs.rediff.com/jit95/ 
Prabha Mishra
http://blogs.rediff.com/prabhamishra/ 
Jasmine J
http://blogs.rediff.com/freshlikeflower/ 
Aditi srivastava
http://blogs.rediff.com/dhawni/ 
Seema n
http://blogs.rediff.com/marvels/ 
iveenia
http://blogs.rediff.com/iveenia/ 
Swati
http://blogs.rediff.com/swatishukla/ 
Sangeet
http://blogs.rediff.com/shradhanjali/ 
Nandita Prabhu
http://blogs.rediff.com/omgamganapathayenamaha/ 
Preethi Nair
http://blogs.rediff.com/mysticpreethi/ 
myna mg
http://blogs.rediff.com/myns/ 
mahesh sowani
http://blogs.rediff.com/maheshsowani/ [...]

 
These are some of my random thoughts on Rahul R. Gandhi’s (Future PM of India, courtesy Nehru dynasty) much publicized recent visit to Mumbai: 
Rahul R. Gandhi’s PR agent should be given the award of the best PR in India. The recent spurt in the North Indians Vs Maharashtrians issue had actually come up when RSS [...]

 
“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.” = Albert Einstein 
“When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I [...]

 
Many management trainees join a company of their choice. How many of them go on to become its director? Subir Raha did that at Indian Oil. And this is one of his humblest achievements in comparison.   
Subir Raha is a legend in the PSUs management now. As the Chairman and MD of ONGC, Mr. Raha wrote [...]

In his autobiography, Gandhi ji tells about a Gujarati stanza which was his guiding principle. Here is its translation:  
Return Good for Evil 
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal;
For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal;
For a simple penny pay thou back with gold;
If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold;
Thus the [...]

 
Gandhi ji’s autobiography “My Experiments with Truth”, presents many circumstances where he was lured by others to convert into other religions. And on each occasion, he came out unscathed. It was because he was such possessed humbleness and humility. This paragraph describes his idea: 
They also took me on one occasion to the Blavatsky Lodge and [...]

These are excerpts taken from Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography “My Experiments with Truth”, abridged version as published by Navjivan Trust.  
This portion comes when he describes his life in South Africa.  
Mr. Baker (whom Mohandas met in South Africa), besides being an attorney, was a staunch lay preacher. He is still alive and now engaged purely in missionary [...]

 
These are excerpts taken from Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography “My Experiments with Truth”, abridged version as published by Navjivan Trust:  
My father had Musalman and Parsi friends, who would talk to him about their own faiths, and he would listen to them always with respect, and often with interest. Being his nurse (Young Mohandas nursed his father [...]