Who could ever think that an eternal love leading to the saga of infinite bondage can evolve out of a desert like land and would blossom to be the reason to gift our world a poem-in-marble, The Taj! No image of The Taj, neither on canvass nor on celluloid, can adequately express its conceptual imaginary… Continue reading A poem-in-marble, The Taj!
The First Lady’s Trip to India!
Jacqueline Kennedy took a goodwill tour of India in 1962. While the media gave widespread coverage on her fashion style, she functioned as an informal diplomat and developed her interest in arts and architecture, returning to India in later years to co-produce a book on Indian artwork. Accompanied by her sister Lee Radziwill, and as guest of John Kenneth… Continue reading The First Lady’s Trip to India!
The first flight of the Wright Flyer!
On December 17, 1903, at 10:30 AM at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this airplane arose for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and flew a distance of 120 feet. Orville Wright piloted the historic flight while his brother, Wilbur, observed. The brothers… Continue reading The first flight of the Wright Flyer!
Views in India!
George Francis White (1808–1898) was a colonel in the British Army who served in the British Raj. He was also an amateur artist and while stationed in India produced a book of engravings and sketches called, Views in India, Chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence!
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was born on 14 April 1891 in Mhow Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh. He completed his primary schooling in Satara, Maharashtra and completed his secondary education from Elphinstone High School in Bombay. His education was achieved in the face of significant discrimination, for he belonged to the Scheduled Caste (then considered as… Continue reading Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence!
Incredıble !ndia
Photographs of India, taken by Lala Deen Dayal (1844 – 1905) in the 1880s, from the Curzon Collection. Lord Curzon served as Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905. These photographs are from an album documenting places proposed to be visited by Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Curzon, during their viceregal tour of autumn 1902.
I Have a Dream!
August 28, 1963 — I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a… Continue reading I Have a Dream!
If you can dream it, you can do it!
Enzo Ferrari was known for his passion, wisdom and attention to detail, Ferrari started his career as a driver in 1919. His competitive debut was in the Parma-Poggio di Berceto hill climb race in which he finished fourth in the three-litre category at the wheel of a 2.3-litre 4-cylinder CMN 15/20. In 1920, after a… Continue reading If you can dream it, you can do it!
Auroville – The City of Universal Culture
Auroville, sometimes referred to as “The City of Dawn” is conceived for 50,000 inhabitants from around the world. At the centre stands the Matrimandir, the “soul of the city”, a place for individual silent concentration, in an oval shaped Peace Area surrounded by a lake. Radiating out beyond the lake are four Zones – the… Continue reading Auroville – The City of Universal Culture
Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future!
Aravind Ghose, born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872. He passed from this life in Pondicherry, on 5th December,1950. Wholly educated in England along with his two brothers, he was given an entirely Western education by their Anglophile father. After primary schooling at a convent in Darjeeling, they were taken to England to live with… Continue reading Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future!