एक आदमी ने भगवान बुद्ध से पुछा : जीवन का मूल्य क्या है? बुद्ध ने उसे एक पत्थर का टुकड़ा दिया और कहा : जा और इस पत्थर के टुकड़े का मूल्य पता करके आ , लेकिन ध्यान रखना इसे बेचना नही है। वह आदमी उस पत्थर के टुकड़े को बाजार मे एक संतरे वाले …
Introduction It was the year 1966 and the day was January 19. Huge masses had gathered outside the Parliament House and were waiting tensely to know as to who would become their new Prime Minister. The tussle for Premiership was between the aged Morarji Desai and the young and charming Indira Gandhi. The time was …
I am a shoe mender. My name is Ram Gulam. I the son of Shyam Singh of village Safipar, District Barabanki. I am 18 years old. I sit near the Lucknow Christian College, mending, old shoes and polishing them. In the night, I sleep in the corner of a road and never care for anything. …
A Rikshaw-puller or a Rikshaw-wala is a normal sight now for every town. He has reached even the villages, A Rikshaw-wala is a driver of a means of transport of vehicle which has three wheels and is generally driven like a cycle. Sometimes back this Rikshaw had only two wheels and man used to pull …
Introduction One should possess a pen of gold dipped in honey and a sheet of silver to write on something about Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the Gentlemen of Indian politics, about whom Jawaharlal Nehru said: “We often make mistakes. Our steps father’ our tongues falter and slip, but Rajen Babu never makes a mistake. His steps …
Introduction Pandit Malaviya was not merely a great man, great as speaker, Parliamentarian, educationist and nationalist, he was also a great tradition of a pure, exclusive and rigid culture to fight foreign domination, a cultural othodox in its social bearings, tolerant of revoultionary views but not of revolutionary action. (which is almost an adequate definition …
Introduction At the holy hour of dawn, six minutes before sunrise on the 12th of January, 1663 somewhere in the obscure street of Calcutta a child was born. He was called Narendra Nath then but was destined to be loved and remembered by the world and through the ages as great Swami Vivekanand. As a …
Introduction One should have a pen of steel dipped in blood to write about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, whose name is one to conjure with India. In the modern India, he is looked upon as a mystery and legend. It should be left for the posterity to decide what he was, what he did and …
Introduction A great scholar, a great social worker and a great fighter for national freedom, Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866 at Kotluck, Ratnagari in the Maharashtra State, nine years after the spark of Indian Nationalism was kindled by the first war of independence of 1857. Possessing remarkable qualities of heard and …
Introduction In the words of Thomas Carlyle, “The history of mankind is the story of great ment who have led it. Men, who by their infinite genious have shaped the destinies of nations and in doing so have achieved undying fame. Lokmanya Tilak belonged to the minority of men who are ageless and who bear …