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 22:36 | 3/Oct/2008
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REMEMBER GANDHI FOR THINGS SMALLERRajshekhar PantLet me share one of my recent experiences with you. It is all about my losing temper over a trivial issue. Probably I was a little upset because of certain problems; probably, I at that moment of time was a bit more receptive, more sensitive -the fact of the matter was that I lost my cool. And as you... more...
 22:38 | 14/Aug/2008
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MICHAEL, MOOLI AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL Rajshekhar PantOn the top of a hillock that rising from the shore-line of a small lake, bears the smudges and scars of prosperity and development in the guise of a lots of illegal and a few legal constructions allover the slope –there is a heritage educational institution and I have been working here for over a d... more...
 20:03 | 14/Mar/2008
NEED WE GO FOR A SOUL SEARCHINGRajshekhar PantAccepting it seldom in totality we Indians have a tendency to divide the world -as we see and feel it- into two halves. The mundane world as it is before us and the world which beyond these apparent confines is within us. As against the expression ‘mundane’ we may call it ‘empirical’ world. Dissatisfied... more...
 16:07 | 7/Mar/2008
OF THE FORGOTTEN DHRUPAD EXPONENTRajshekhar Pant “Despite spending a huge sum from the taxpayers pocket in maintaining a large entourage of bureaucrats along with several handpicked experts of art and culture our government and officials may have forgotten Pt Chandrashekhar Pant, yet among those in hills who love classical music he continues living... more...
 21:20 | 4/Mar/2008
  THE COMPANION OF ABANDONED COWSRajshekhar Pant Crisscrossed by an inexplicable despondency that descends on the hilly terrains as the shadows lengthen, it is a typical hill-house in the far off village of Kulsari in Chamoli distt of Uttarakhand Himalayas.  Over thirty cattle, mainly cows and bulls, most of them physically impaired and infirm, are... more...
 15:22 | 2/Mar/2008
OF CHORGALIA, O. HENRY AND A RIVER ABUSED Rajshekhar PantWoven round a small village with the name Lakeland -“situated on a low spur of Cumberland range of mountains on a little tributary of the Clinch river” –there is a rather lesser talked about story of O Henry ‘The Church With An Overshot Wheel’. It is the story of a “contended village of two d... more...
 23:53 | 18/Sep/2007
FIGHTING THE POLYTHENE MENACERajshekhar PantUnder the aegis of Dream Shapers, an organization committed to personality development, students of a college in Nainital courteously stopped the tourists’ vehicles entering the lake town from three different points. The idea was to have an assessment of the garbage being brought to Nainital by the visito... more...
 23:40 | 18/Sep/2007
BATTLING TO SAVE BHOJPATRARajshekhar PantBhojpatra or Himalayan Silver Birch, known to the botanists as (Bitula utilis) is on the verge of extinction at Gangotri region. Harshwanti Bisht, an environmentalist who has launched ‘Save Bhojpatra Campaign’ reveals that even Bhojbasa- a place 14 km away from Gangotri on the way to Gaumukh (altitude 3890m.... more...
 23:33 | 24/Aug/2007
On Teachers Day
THE MAN OF LETTERSBy: Rajshekhar PantBorn sometime in the year 1883 in the family of an ordinary farmer in Mehragaon, in the vicinity of Bhimtal (Distt Nainital) he was armed just with a vernacular certificate, though  laved in twenty six languages besides herbal sciences and agronomy. His ardent desire of seeing his then a slave country fully eman... more...
 23:20 | 22/Aug/2007
LUCKNOW - A CITY OF DREAMS Khwab tha joo kutch bhi dekha,Jo suna afsana thaRajshekhar PantAs the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb lay dying in 1707, a Persian nobleman from Naishapur arrived in India. This nobleman by the name Sa-a-dat Khan was to found the Nawabi dynasty of Oudh. He was a scion of a Shia family whose fortunes were in decline. 'Nawab' thou... more...
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 Dr.Anil Verma | 16:32 | 2/Oct/2008
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GANDHI
कभी साथ नहीं बैठ पाया गांधी का परिवारमो ;हनदास करमचंद गांधी ...  more...
 RAGHUPAT | 11:38 | 24/Sep/2008
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Ladki apne Bf se:merabachha,mera ladla,mera sonu-monu,mujhse shaadi kaoge?bolo baby??Ladka:tum mujhe propose kar rahi ho ya adopt????!!Wife: Ji apkomujhme kya acha lagta hai meri samajhdari ya meri beauty..Husband: Mujhe to ye tumhari Majak karne ki aadat bahut achi lagti hai..once there was anaccident where the car driver hit the parrot.Theparrot ...  more...
 amalendu upa... | 13:47 | 26/Sep/2008
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kaifee ka Aazamgarh hee kyon hai aatank ...
The article written by me on the Azamgarh and terrorism was published www.khabarexpress.com and www.newswing.com . you may visit theese sites to view the original articles. कैफी का आजमगढ ही क्यों है आतंक &#...  more...
 Krishna Prasad | 13:42 | 27/Jul/2008
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Food Wastage
FOOD SHORTAGE Preface: I heard in BBC Radio one day morning that Somalia is suffering with acute food shortage.  There was an interview with an unknown woman of Somalia village that she used to take maize powder and some times she used to take Animal Feed in order to subside the hunger.   This is a horrific situation. Also, she told that when she e...  more...
 shivraj dhumal | 09:50 | 18/Jan/2008
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WHO DRIVES YOU?
Have you ever started your day waking up late and then thinking that 'today's day is going to be unlucky'. Then going throughout the day and coming home back and then remember all that happened on the entire day. You might have noticed that the day happened to be just as you thought it to be.I would like you to follow this experiment. I would like ...  more...
 Writing Village | 12:14 | 12/Sep/2008
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The Fallen Hero
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children,the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:"When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection....  more...
 avi hr | 19:10 | 14/Feb/2008
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JOBS OPENING
JOBS OPENINGS    -  BANGLORE, PUNE, AHMEDABAD  Job Title: Sales Development Manager FOR HDFC STANDARD LIF INSURANCE COMPANY LTD  Job Description : · Identify potential Financial Consultants (Insurance Agents) based on agreed profiles and ensure recruitment in accordance with the business plan.  · Initially, for the first three months to achieve tar...  more...
 DrHarmeet Singh | 09:35 | 1/Oct/2008
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Fishy Thoughts
Two men are out ice fishing at their favourite fishing hole,just fishing quietly and drinking beer. Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish,  Bob says, 'I think I'm gonna divorce my wife. She hasn't spoken to me in over 2 months.'Earl continues slowly sipping his beer, then thoughtfully says, 'You better think it over, Bob.  Women like that ar...  more...
 Ramesh Singh | 12:13 | 1/Jan/2008
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NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
Welcome 2008..another year passed by and if you look back u recall the 1st of Jan'07, that too was a new year ...you made resolutions that u remembered till the very first month of year and as the time went by your commitment to your resolution weakened ... and then it vanished from your memory bank. yet another day has arrived to make resolutions ...  more...
 Mainak Mazumder | 12:55 | 10/Aug/2008
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Lord Krishna is ready for us; Meet your ...
Religion is for those who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there. – Bonnie Raltt"I would believe in a God who could dance", said German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. During his time, God was generally portrayed as a frozen perfection, remote, static, and wholly unsociable. No wonder he was disillusioned b...  more...