News Archive

A Small True Story in Hyderabad

2007-04-07T20:17:00.000-07:00

It was a sports stadium.
Eight Children were standing on the track to participate in the running event.
* Ready!
* Steady!
* Bang!!!

With the sound of Toy pistol, all eight girls started running.
Hardly have they covered ten to fifteen steps, one of the smaller girlsslippedand fell down, due to bruises and pain she started crying.

When other seven girls heard this sound, stopped running, stood for awhile and turned back, they all ran back to the place where the girlfell down.

One among them bent, picked and kissed the girl gently and enquired'Nowpain must have reduced'.All seven girls lifted the fallen girl,pacifiedher,two of them held the girl firmly and they all seven joined handstogether and walked together and reached the winning post.

Officials were shocked.

Clapping of thousands of spectators filled the stadium.

Many eyes we re filled with tears and perhaps it had reached the GOD
even!
YES. This happened in Hyderabad, recently !

The sport was conducted by! National Institute of Mental Health.All these special girls had come to participate in this event and theyare spastic children.

Yes, they were mentally retarded.What did they teach this world?Teamwork? Humanity? Equality among all? . . . . . . . . ????

Received from HARI L™ AWAITING SIVAJI...........

2002: Iran Earthquake

2007-03-21T07:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday June 23, 2002, Changooreh Village, Ghazvin Province, Iran

Surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of that morning's earthquake, a young boy clings on to his dead father's pants as he squats by the freshly dug grave where his father is about to be burried। That morning a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Ghazvin Province of Iran 300 miles from the capital Tehran. Dozens of villages were completely destroyed killing hundreds and devastating the lives of thousands of Iranians. Approximately one hundred villagers died in this one village.

The Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc

2007-03-20T06:11:00.000-07:00

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

More Info: http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/vietnam/figure/003-htQuangduc.htm

Strange!!! Nirmala Devi

2007-03-16T00:29:00.000-07:00

The lady in the picture calls herself Mataji Nirmala Devi, self-proclaimed spiritual leader who is looked upon as GOD by her followers. Till here there is no problem. But why on the earth will you have to place a national flag at your feet? India is a secular,democratic country. The national flag has nothing to do with her spirituality business. Hence it is a sheer disrespect of national flag which is a severe offence according to Indian Law. Now the question is, Will goverment take any step ahead or will we all have to bear with it as goverment choose to ignore the incident in fear of any communal-political-regional tension?

Nirmala Devi, with all due respect to her spitituality 'business' and her followers who look up to her as GOD, is disrespecting the Indian Flag. DO NOT MISS THE OLD MAN BESIDE HER. He is her husbad(We guess also a shareholder in the religion business she is running). Her husband is an ex-IAS officer and chief of SCI.

I do urge and plead with all Indians who deeply love their country to forward the photos to as many people as possible so that it does catch the eye of someone higher up in the Indian Govt who can really take some action against this cult.

Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)

2007-03-14T03:29:00.000-07:00

Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made।
Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition। Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India।
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Facts about Inida and Indians

2007-03-14T03:16:00.000-07:00

India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
India is the world's largest democracy.
Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.
The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called Sudarshana was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.