Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, the recipient of this year’s Bharat Ratna, acted as a bridge between the extreme and the moderate views in the Congress HOW does one introduce a person like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya?  Perhaps as India‘s first great multi-lingual journalist and newspaper founder or as someone who strove to establish that education in India needed to be …

Yoga teacher Shamshad Haider is quickly achieving fame on Facebook and social media circles as Pakistan‘s answer to Indian guru Baba Ramdev. Before you assume that he is an outspoked spiritual leader who specializes in opining about various socio-political topics in which his skewed views are neither needed nor wanted, let us tell you that it’s not the case. The …

The 2019 Indian general election was held in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The counting of votes took place on 23 May, and on the same day the results were declared. About 900 million people were eligible to vote and turnout was over 67 per cent – the highest ever …

Kapil Dev — Kapil Dev Nikhanj was India’s finest all rounder in cricket. He was born on 6th January 1959 in Haryana. He was the former captain and new national team coach. When Kapil was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets. He made this record within a period of one year …

Acharya Shiv Muni Ji Maharaj — Acharya Samrat Dr. Shiv Muni Ji Maharaja being now heads and leads the Jain shraman sangh. Detachment, austerity, enlightenment and meditation are the four pillars of his pious life lived in equanimity. His mind is ever in quest of knowledge and engrossed in meditation. There are numerous responsibilities of the shraman sangh which he …

Seventy percent of India‘s population lives in villages, and a vast majority of people solely depend on agriculture. As a result, we find that most Hindu festivals are directly or indirectly linked to agriculture and related activities. Pongal is one such big festival, celebrated every year in mid January – mostly in the south of India and especially in Tamil …

Dulla Bhatti also popularly known as Robin hood is the heroic icon that is associated with the harvest festival of Lohri. The legendary figure of Dulla Bhatti also represents the glorious secular tradition of Lohri bonfire. Even today, children go door to door singing traditional folk songs in praise of Dulla Bhatti, a thief who helped the poor and fought …

मकर संक्रांति से एक दिन पूर्व उत्तर भारत विशेषतः पंजाब में लोहड़ी का त्यौहार मनाया जाता है। किसी न किसी नाम से मकर संक्रांति के दिन या उससे आस-पास भारत के विभिन्न प्रदेशों में कोई न कोई त्यौहार मनाया जाता है। मकर संक्रांति के दिन तमिल हिंदू पोंगल का त्यौहार मनाते हैं। इस प्रकार लगभग पूर्ण भारत में यह विविध …

Name: Rama Tirtha Born: 22 October 1873, Gujranwala District, Pakistan Died: 17 October 1906, New Tehri, Uttarakhand Disciple(s): Puran Singh, Narayan Swami Known for: Preaching Vedanta in the United States Work Areas: Social Reformer, Writer Education: Forman Christian College, Government College University स्वामी रामतीर्थ एक हिन्दू धार्मिक नेता थे, जो अत्यधिक व्यक्तिगत और काव्यात्मक ढंग के व्यावहारिक वेदांत को पढ़ाने के लिए …

बुराई पर अच्छाई की जीत के प्रतीक दशहरे के अवसर पर चार वेदों के ज्ञाता तथा छ: शास्त्रों के ध्याता लंकेश रावण के पुतले बना कर देश के कोने-कोने में दशहरे पर अग्रि भेंट किए जाते हैं परन्तु पंजाब के पायल शहर में दशकों पुराना ‘रावण का बुत‘ स्थापित है जिसकी आज भी पूजा की जाती है। इस दिन दस …