कहते है प्रेम कहानियाँ वहीं अमर होती है जो अधूरी रह जाती है लेकिन इतिहास में एक ऐसी प्रेम कहानी भी है जो पूरी होने के बाद भी उतनी ही खूबसूरत और लोकप्रिय है। यह प्रेम कहानी है शाहजहां और मुमताज़ की।

एक था राजा, एक थी रानी, रानी मर गई पर खत्म नहीं हुई कहानी

यूँ तो भारत के हर प्रधानमंत्री का नाम स्वर्ण अक्षरों में लिखा होता है लेकिन एक प्रधानमंत्री ऐसा भी हैं जिनका नाम किताबों के पन्नों से अधिक लोगों के दिलों पर लिखा हुआ है। प्रधानमंत्री होते हुए जिन्होंने कभी कोई घोटाला, कोई धोखाधड़ी, कोई षड्यंत्र नहीं किया। शास्त्री जी जैसे प्रधानमंत्री को खोना, किसी करोड़पति के दिवालिया होने जैसा था।

बस इतना याद रहे की एक प्रधानमंत्री ऐसा भी था

Apart from being a Nobel Laureate in Literature and a renowned artist, Rabindranath Tagore, along with many Literature lovers of that time in Bengal, is strongly associated with using planchettes and having steady communication with the dead.

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Samosa and Chai seem like a culinary combination that has become the default of Sunday morning breakfast and office breaks in India. From metropolitan cities to rural villages, Samosa as a snack is a fan favourite everywhere.

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अरुणाचल प्रदेश को  'उगते सूरज की भूमि' के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। क्या आप जानते हैं कि अरुणाचल प्रदेश भारत का पूर्ण राज्य कब बना?  इसके पीछे क्या इतिहास है? इस लेख मेंं इसके भौगोलिक सीमाओं, भाषा और इतिहास की विस्तृत चर्चा होगी।


अरुणाचल प्रदेश स्थापना दिवस

From their rise and fall, the world has seen a complete transformation of cities. A cultural, economic, commercial and educational hub, the city of Chennai was previously a centre of colonial administration and was founded in the first half of the 17th Century.

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Ambition and anxieties, of a minority, a leader who claimed to be a messiah and a politician willing to use the iron fist. Punjab sat on a powder keg and the destruction was soon to follow

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India said NO to discrimination. The cruel practise of Untouchability was one of the scars in the Indian democracy that the Untouchability Act finally abolished. But is the law enough to change the caste-system mindset in the country?

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The sixth, and longest-ruling, Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r.1659-1707), widely regarded for his orthodox policies, austerity and bigotry, passed away today, in 1707

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Well, India does not have a shortage of Yogis and preachers - far from it. One amongst that rank, the topic for discussion today, is Nirmala Srivastava, born on the 21st of March, 1923. She was born in Madhya Pradesh, to a scholar/ linguist father and a mathematician mother.

She hailed from the prominent Salve family, and with her connections, she was also involved with the Quit India Movement and Gandhi’s Ashram. This was before she became involved in what she would be best known for - spreading and preaching of Yoga. However, she would remain an active contributor to nationalism in India, forming the Youth Society for Films to inculcate national, social and moral values in young people.

> She claimed that she was born ‘self-realized’ and then, in 1970, she witnessed the rising of the primordial Kundalini, spiritual energy located at the base of the spine, like a coiled-up serpent. After this rising, she claimed to have realised the immense self-potential of humans and formed the path of Sahaja Yoga.

This organisation and practice was devoted to aiding people in finding out their spirit, claimed that people are beyond the body and mind - hence, in spirit, and focused on meditation as the only way to grow. Anyhow, she warned against ‘false gurus’ and started spreading her campaign of Sahaja Yoga around the world. She toured Europe in 1980, and Australia and North America in 1981, even touring the Eastern European regions under Soviet influence in 1989.

Publishing books, giving public lectures, performing pujas, interviews, tv, radio and newspaper appearances, she consolidated her meditation methods of Sahaja Yoga and founded its centre in Mumbai in 1996. Her message, however lofty it may be, has been received by millions still, who derive some or the other benefit from this practice of dedicated meditation.

Nirmala Srivastava - a yogi par excellence; Source: Public Domain

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Nirmala Srivastava, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, an organisation dedicated to spiritual meditation as being key to realise one's potential and worth beyond the body and mind, was born today in 1923.

Chaitanya Rawat

Meditation and the art of realising the spirit

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