Amazon River

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on December 14, 2009 by vjv
    Amazon river flowing in South America is the  largest river in the world by volume with river flow greater than the next 8 larger rivers in the world combined together and it has one-fifth of the total world’s water flow in rivers. Since it has this much popularity, it is also called as “The river sea.”  
    It is the largest river by measures by geographic but Nile holds the record of Longest river in the world in a slight length. The Amazon is responsible for about 20% of the total volume of freshwater entering the oceans worldwide.  It crosses the borders of Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador and so these regions people don’t admit that Nile (6650 km) is the longest river than Amazon (7062 km).  

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Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on December 8, 2009 by vjv
    The only person to be given Bharat Ratna , the very prestigious civilian award in India to non Indians other than Nelson Mandela was Abdul Ghaffar khan. He was a Spiritual and Pashtun political leader from Pakistan. But he was very close to Indians like Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi and so was either in jail or at exile for many years by Pakistan Government. Ghaffar khan had spent 52 years of his life either in prison, house arrest or in exile.  
    Abdul Ghaffar khan was also called as Badshah khan, Bacha khan, Sarhadi Gandhi (Frontier Gandhi)  and King khan.  In 1985, Ghaffar khan was nominated for the Nobel  peace prize and once even offered the presidency of Indian National congress. But he refused to take the post saying “I am a simple soldier and Khudai Khidmatgar, and I only want to serve.” His Khudai Khidmatgar (servants of God) movement worked cohesively with the congress because of his close, spiritual relationship with Mahatma Gandhi.  
    He was against the Indo- Pakistan partition and the last word of him to Gandhi was “You have thrown us to the wolves.” Ghaffar khan was condemned to be anti-muslim and was kept under house arrest for many years starting from 1948. Once he gave a speech condemning his supporters killings at Babrra and told “I had to go to prison many a time in the days of the Britishers. Although we were at loggerheads with them, yet their treatment was to some extent tolerant and polite. But the treatment which was meted out to me in this Islamic state of ours was such that I would not even like to mention it to you.”

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Bharat Ratna

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on December 2, 2009 by vjv
    Bharat ratna meaning Jewel of India or Gem of India, is the highest civilian award for the highest degrees of national service in India. The former president Rajendra Prasad established awarding Bharat Ratna along with other awards like Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. These awards are given to national services which includes artistic, literary and scientific achievements and public service as well.  
    Nelson Mandela and Abdul Ghaffar khan are the two non Indians and Mother Teresa is the naturalized Indian citizen to be awarded Bharat Ratna. 12 posthumous awards including one for Subhash Chandra Bose in 1982 which was withdrawn later telling it was an legal technicality, the only case of an award being withdrawn. And Abul kalam Azad is the only person in the history to have declined the award saying it has not to be awarded for the people who are in the selection committee.  

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Prakash Padukone

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on November 28, 2009 by vjv
    Prakash padukone, the only Indian badminton player who own major International titles like All England Championship, World Championship, commonwealth games, world cup and World Grand Prix. He was awarded Padma sri in the year 1982. 
    Ramesh Padukone, father of Prakash padukone initiated him into the game who was the secretary of Mysore Badminton association. After the badminton career, he is now occupying the chairman of the Badminton association and coached Indian national badminton team for a while.  Prakash comes into the limelight through his daughters Deepika padukonw, a model turned actress who starred in Om Shanti om along with the Bollywood Emperor Shah rukh khan and other girl named Anisha Padukonw whose aim is to become an International golfer.  

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Indian hockey team

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on November 20, 2009 by vjv
    Indian team possess the record of holding many Olympic gold medals among other nations. They won 6 straight gold medals  from 1928 to 1956 and totally they have 8 gold medals in their kitty. Apart from this, they are proud of being the very first non European team to be part of the International Hockey Federation.   
    But the Indian hockey career collapsed in the middle from 1981-2003. With Dhanraj Pillay fighting solely for the country, it regained some level and  through the sponsors from private sectors, they started to gain good strength now.  They won Asia cup in both 2003 and 2007 and Champions league in the year 2001.  
    Some of famous ex-players of Indian hockey team are Dhyan chand, Balbir singh and Dhanraj Pillay.   Now the team seems to be strong with the captain Prabodh Tirkey and defender Dilip tirkey, Baljit singh, Ignace tirkey, Arjun Halappa, Sardara singh, Gurbaz singh, Adrian D’souza, Rajpal singh, Shivendra singh and S.V. Sunil. 

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Iron lady of Manipur

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on November 16, 2009 by vjv
    Irom Sharmila Chanu also know as Menghaobi or the Iron lady of Manipur had been conducting a hunger strike for over 9 years demanding the Indian Government to withdraw the Armed forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from Manipur and other ares of India’s north east.  
    On November 2000, ten innocent people who were waiting for their buses at a bus station were gunned down by a team of Assam rifles in a Malom, a town in Manipur. The incident later called as Malom Massacre was the cruel act of AFSPA and so Sharmila demanded AFSPA to be resolved. She is still continuing her 9 year old hunger strike without any food and water but the police keep on arresting her on the Indian penal code under section 309 and through nasogastric intubation in order to keep her alive.
    She has written 3 letters to President, prime minister and home minister of India and didn’t got a single reply. Her only support came from Shirin Ebadi, a noble laureate and human activist through the statement “If she dies, courts and judiciary are responsible, the military is responsible… If she dies, the executive, the PM and President are responsible for doing nothing… If she dies, each one of you journalists is responsible because you did not do your duty…” 

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Jimmy wales, founder of Wikipedia

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on November 12, 2009 by vjv
    I cant pass a single day without reading some articles in Wikipedia. It has gained a good place in web rankings and the person co-founded the site was Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” wales. He is an American Internet entrepreneur from Alabama started Nupedia, the earlier version of Wikipedia. Wales along with two other partners funded the peer encyclopedia which targeted males.  
    Time magazine has listed him in world’s most influential person  in the year 2006. When interviewed by Slashdot, he gave the Wikipedia’s vision “ Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” 

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TWO FLOWERS ON THE SAME STALK-II

Posted in poems on November 8, 2009 by vjv

In the darkness of night we

Fail to recognize each other

And strike at each other,

When it is morning again, we

Shall know each others as brother,

Then we shall embrace each

Others necks and shed tears.

We shall seek pardon of each other,

And then this our Hindustan

Will smile out of pride:

We are two flowers on the

Same stalk – hindus and muslims.

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Paranormal activity

Posted in HAPPY HOLIDAY on November 8, 2009 by vjv
    A person who is haunted by fearful  demons and evil disturbance has once again proved worth that he/she could make other fear more than others. Oren puli, an Israeli director and writer has given a most profitable film of all times “Paranormal activity” which had made $100 million gross revenue from a mere $15,000 production cost.  
    The film revolves around  a couple who are about to get engaged named Micah and Katie and the whole movie has been shooted within a single house and with a handicam. Katie has some demoic intrusion from age 8 and so wants to get help but Micah wants to track the paranormal activity in the house by himself and buys a camera and place it in their bedroom every night.  
    Handicam captures some unacceptable and violent force made by some invisible thing. Finally Katie listens to the demons and kills Micah and herself in some version of the movie. And in other version, she been shot by the police officer on the way to arrest her since she didn’t drop the knife by which she killed Micah last night.  
    Enjoy watching this fount footage like movie and get fear to sleep at night…. with respective boyfriends and girl friends.  

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TWO FLOWERS ON THE SAME STALK-II

Posted in poems on November 2, 2009 by vjv

We are two flowers on the

Same stalk – hindus and muslims,

The muslim is the apple of her

Eyes, the hindu is her soul.

The same sun and moon swing

In the lap of the same mother- sky,

The same blood flows beneath

The heart, the same I s the

Bond of affection for both!

We are two flowers in the

Same stalk – hindus and muslims.

We breath the air, drink the

Water of the same country

The same flowers and fruits

Blossom in the heart of the same mother

We get final rest in the soil

Of the same country – some of

Us in graves, others in the burning ghat

We call the mother in the

Same language, we sing to the same tune:

We are two flowers in the same stalk – hindus and muslims.

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