Vallabhbhai Patel (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950) was a major political and social leader of India and its struggle for independence, and is credited for achieving the political integration of India. In India and across the world, he is known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, where Sardar stands for Chief in many languages of India. When the British finally left, they left behind India, Pakistan, and over 562… Continue reading The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit & united power!
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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish!
Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years,… Continue reading Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish!
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water!
Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May, 1861 in Calcutta. Tagore began to write verse at an early age. After completing studies in England in the late 1870s, he returned to India where he published several books of poetry starting in the 1880s. In 1901, Tagore founded an experimental school in Shantiniketan where he sought… Continue reading You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water!
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love!
At the age of twelve, the Catholic Albanian girl Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu heard a call. God demanded that she devote her life to Him. She entered a nunnery, received an education, and was sent to Calcutta in India to be a teacher. Her new name was Teresa. In India she received a second call from God:… Continue reading Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love!
Give every day a chance to become the most beautiful day in your life!
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel.” Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an… Continue reading Give every day a chance to become the most beautiful day in your life!
Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle-if there are no risks to be taken!
Subhas Chandra Bose, also called Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian freedom movement, and remains one of the most revered leaders of the Indian freedom struggle, a representative of the most aggressive line with British colonialism. This led him to part ways with Gandhi and Nehru and join Germany and… Continue reading Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle-if there are no risks to be taken!
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!
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence!
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 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 ‘untouchables’).… Continue reading Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence!
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!
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!