Swarna

Hi Friends,
So I am back after a Year in Hibernation.

The Good thing that happenned while I was away was that I have now become a father to most beautifull child on earth.

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Inviting to you my Marriage

Inviting to you my Marriage

Hi Friends,
It’s one of the days wherein I am all excited up, as I now I have my marriage card with me; all printed and ready. Thought it would be a good idea to share the same with everyone.
Looks good, isn’t? Do leave your wishes in my Guestbook.

14th Feb is going to be a very lucky and important date for me.
14th Feb, Ruchi, would be with me.
14th Feb is a Valentine’s Day.
14th Feb is my Birthday.

Incidentally, one thing is also common between my marriage and my dad; just like my dad, I am also getting married just a day before my Birthday.

Just like my dad’s marriage, vidai is happening on my Birthday.

Cools Co-incidence isn’t? And we had no idea about this co-incidence till quite some time after the dates were finalized.


Regards,
Sumit Kumar

SATYAMEVA JAYATE' Missing from Govt. Documents

Posted on 07 January, 2007
Several Ministries in the Government of India have stopped using the phrase 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' in the National Emblem on Government Websites/ Documents

Truth is a rock on which the world is built. Satyena tisthate jagath. Falsehood can never be the true source of strength. When falsehood is at the root of a Government, that Government is doomed to failure. Guided or organized or contrived diplomacy can only help a Government or movement if it proceeds upon truth. To make pseudo-secular diplomacy the root-principle is to contravene the laws of both righteous governance and dignified existence.

Indian American Intellectuals Forum, of which Narain Kataria is the President, has recently sent a letter to Dr Abdul Kalam, President of India, inviting his kind attention to the fact that several Ministries in the Government of India have stopped using the phrase 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' in the National Emblem on Government Websites/ Documents. It is a well-known fact that our State Emblem is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka the Great. This was adopted by the Government of India on 26 of January, 1950. The words 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' were inscribed underneath the Wheel of the Law (Dharma Chakra). The Research Wing of Indian American Intellectuals Forum headed by Ramesh Gathoria has identified more than 150 important official documents (I am listing a few below) on which the words 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' have been omitted from the Government seal. It is a serious and sensitive omission. Here are a few sample websites and documents where this calculated lapse or omission of 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' has taken place:

* 'Pravasi Bharatiya' Issue No. 8, Volume 1 of 2006 - Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs

* Embassy of India Paris (http://www.amb-inde.fr/)

* Circulars issued by the office of the President/Vice President and Prime Minister of India

* India Digest - Vol 4, Issue 20 of 15 October, 2006

* Circulars issued by the Department of Atomic Energy and Indian Space Research Centre (ISRO)

* Circulars issued by the Finance Commission, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India

* Circulars issued by the Embassy of India, the Hague (http://www.indianembassy.nl/ )

* Circulars issued by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (http://www.mpa.nic.in/ )

I understand that Gathoria, is planning to visit India shortly in order to contact the appropriate Government officials to discuss this matter for ensuring necessary corrective action. It is a matter of national shame that when the issue was taken to the notice of the Ministry of Culture sometime ago, no action was taken on the ground that 'SATYAMEVA JAYATE' is irrelevant. Perhaps, they only believe in 'Asatyameva Jayate' in thought and action.

It has been truly said that artists treat facts as stimuli for imagination, whereas the scientists use imagination to coordinate facts. I am neither an artist nor a scientist. And yet, the scale and the magnitude of the organized misdeeds of the UPA Government during the last two years have enabled me to acquire the skills of a minor artist and a minor scientist in the world of journalism - a world in which I am an untutored stripling. As an insignificant free lance journalist, I would allow my imagination to run free to describe in imaginary terms the sad plight of the Hindus in majority in India today. Based on my none-too fertile imagination I am presenting below what are all the lurid possibilities in which the UPA Government in New Delhi can ensure the total extinction of 'Sanatana Dharma' in India. Here is the thrilling and gripping imaginary story:

a) The great Periyar - one of the greatest intellectual giants in the history of world civilization, paid his personal tribute to the Tamil Language in these words: 'Tamil is a barbarous language and Tamilians are barbarians'. The UPA Government deriving inspiration from this declaration of Periyar declared 'Sanskrit and Hindi' as barbarous languages and those Hindus who speak or study these languages are barbarians. It was not difficult for them to do so because of the recent declaration of Government that there would be an all-out effort to promote, foster and develop the Urdu language. To this language, UPA Government has also added 'Arabic' 'Persian' and, 'Latin' and has completely done away with Sanskrit and Hindi. The Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, unlike saffronized Communal Rivers like the Jamuna and the Ganga, are secular, cosmopolitan, international and no less holy rivers.

b) Another historic moment is the UPA's declaration of the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Baghavat Gita, all saffronized, communal, obsolete and obscurantist scriptures - as anti-national books proclaiming the message of unprovoked violence disturbing peace all over the earth. This is done taking note of great and noble scriptures like the Koran and the Bible as peace-promoting, love-fostering and humanity-embracing books giving the message of peace and goodwill among men not only in India but throughout the world - more especially in the Middle East.

c) A notification is issued by the Government of India to the effect that the execution of Saddam Hussain was brought about by the subterranean and underground activities of Hindu Fundamentalist Organizations like the RSS, the VHP, Bajrangdal, etc.

d) An ordinance is passed removing the details of destruction of Temples and killing of Hindus by compassionate and peace-loving emperors like Mohammed of Gazni, Mohammed of Gori, Iltutmish, Balban, Allaudin Khilji, Timur, Babar, Aurangazib, Nadir Shah, Ahmed Shah Abdali and several other messengers of peace and compassion from the pages of history in the NCERT and other Text books.

e) Government of India have issued an ordinance to the effect that all Pakistan citizens are qualified for dual citizenship rights on the humane consideration that their mother tongue is Urdu and many of their close relations are living in India.

Let me now move from the world of my Fantasy and perhaps wild imagination to the world of ground level reality. There is no doubt that Hinduism has become a dirty word and all the politicians of India are keen on the Hindus learning to disown their identity. Renascent Hinduism will have to contend with these forces. It will have to overcome the forces of self-denigration and self-alienation. Those who are against India are even more opposed to Hinduism, a name for India at its deepest and most cultural and spiritual. Hinduism embodies India's civilizational dimension and gives it cohesion, integrity, continuity and unity. They know that before they can subvert India, they must subvert Hinduism, that the country's balkanization is not possible without prior fragmentation of the Hindu society. Hence, their tenacious attack on Hinduism, their need to unleash caste politics. The game plan allows the talents of statesmen like Lalu Prasad Yadav’s, Ram Vilas Paswan’s, Arjun Singh’s, V P Singh’s, Antulay’s, Karunanidhi’s, etc. full scope for all their political designs. It also allows the Naxalite’s, Marxists, Macaulayite’s to make their full contribution. It allows Pakistan, petro-dollars, evangelists, liberation theologians and several other unnamed agencies to play a crucial role not always hidden. But let not these and other State-sponsored odds discourage us.

Hinduism has survived in spite of them and it will grow strong in spite of them. Though Hinduism is weak in many ways, yet it is unshakably strong in spiritual knowledge and wisdom� � Indeed a Rock of the Ages.