A White Tiger

Between the 6th and 4th century BCE, a man named Siddhārtha Gautama began to turn heads in Eastern India with his profound spiritual wisdom.  He was given the name “Buddha”, which literally means “The enlightened one”, and to this day we still receive tremendous insight from his teachings. Interestingly, Buddha never actually wrote any of his teachings down.  Similar to Jesus and Socrates, his method of teaching was verbal and communicative.  Oral traditions kept the wisdom of the Buddha alive until 400 years after his death when the first transcript of his teachings first emerged. His awakening occurred when he realized that you didn’t have to starve yourself and mortify your body, as was commonly practiced in India at that time to enhance spiritual clarity and wisdom.  When a young girl offered him some milk and rice pudding as an action of compassion, he realized that there was more to The Way than what he had been taught. He then ...

23 March. We remember it as " Shaheed diwas" . Some great freedom fighters sacrifice their lives for their nation so that its coming generation do not have to bear the hardships of slavery, so that its peoples can again write their own destiny. What bewilders me the most is how can someone be so much dedicated for his service to others that they don't even fear their own death. How can someone be so much enthusiast to do something for his people that they don't even care about family pleasures . Who says that they don't have choices. They have a choice to lead a happy and peaceful life with their family, their loved ones , but its a surprise what they chose to live in. A life where there is pain, a life of sacrifice, a life of truth. Generations ahead will be inspired to know that such people once lived on this earth who rose up from own selfish reasons for something great for truth and showed us the path to freedom.

"Out of school children comprise the workers and non workers. In our view they together signify a measure of deprivation among children and can be considered as a potential labour pool always being at the risk of entering the labour force" - NCEUS, 2007 India is sadly the home to the largest number of child labourers in the world. The census found an increase in the number of child labourers from 11.28 million in 1991 to 12.59 million in 2001. M.V. Foundation in Andhra Pradesh found nearly 400,000 children, mostly girls between seven and 14 years of age, toiling for 14-16 hours a day in cottonseed production across the country of which 90% are employed in Andhra Pradesh. 40% of the labour in a precious stone cutting sector is children. NGOs have discovered the use of child labourers in mining industry in Bellary District in Karnataka in spite of a harsh ban on the same. In urban areas there is a high employment of children in the zari and embroidery indus...

Where The Mind Is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. -One of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore

Irom Chanu Sharmila also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the state of Manipur. On 2 November 2000, she began a hunger strike which is still ongoing. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker". On International Women’s Day, 2014 she was voted the top woman icon of India by MSN Poll.                                   On 2 November 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur , ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop. The incident, known as the "Malom Massacre", is thought to be allegedly committed by the Assam Rifles .                              Sharmila, who was 28 at the time, ...

 Life after death, at least for a little while, is for real, a British scientist have confirmed.   It is currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating — and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once that has happened. But scientists in the new study said they heard compelling evidence that patients experienced real events for up to three minutes after this had happened - and could recall them accurately once they had been resuscitated. Recollections in relation to death, so-called out-of-body experiences (OBEs) or near-death experiences (NDEs), are an often spoken about phenomenon which have frequently been considered hallucinatory or illusory in nature - however, objective studies on these experiences have been limited. In 2008, a large-scale study involving 2060 patients from 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria was launched. The AWARE (Awareness during Resuscitation) study, sponso...

Its quiet interesting to know the mystery behind the life cycle of a Butterfly. A adult Butterfly lays eggs, it is interesting to know that some butterfly lay one egg at a time. A caterpillar soon comes out of the egg , soon converting to pupa. The pupa is one of the coolest stages of a butterfly's life. The caterpillar form themselves into a pupa, also known as chrysalis. Within the chrysalis the old body parts of the caterpillar undergoes a remarkable transformation. When the transformation is completed comes out a Beautiful Butterfly spreading its wings. The adult butterfly counts not months or years but moments , and yet has time enough. I think we all humans are like a butterfly, we start out as a child , then after some times of hardship we morph into a beautiful butterflies that are loved by everyone.