2020

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Guru Nanak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik - full-moon day i.e. October–November. Nanak is said to have travelled far and wide across Asia teaching people…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! J.R.D. Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was Indian aviator, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his wife Suzanne Brière. His mother was the first woman in India to drive a car…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Nani Palkhivala (16.1. 1920 to 11.12.2002) is known as the "the conscience-keeper of the nation". He became famous because of Kesavananda Bharati case. When a Special Bench of 13 Judges of Supreme Court was constituted to reconsider the correctness of the dictum of law laid down regarding the basic structure in Kesavananda…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Anandamayi Ma (née Nirmala Sundari; 30 April 1896 – 27 August 1982) was a Bengali Saint, described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society) as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced. This name was given to her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe her perpetual state…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was a philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, Cambridge, England. After returning to India he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the Princely state of Baroda…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! 'His Masters Voice' (HMV) had once published a pamphlet giving the history of gramophone record. Gramophone was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in the 19th century. Edison, who had invented many other gadgets like electric light and the motion picture camera, had become a legend even in his own time. When he…

I was preparing to speak at a conference and I decided to bring an orange on stage with me as a prop for my lecture. I opened a conversation with a bright young fellow of about twelve who was sitting in the front row. “If I were to squeeze this orange as hard as I…

Dear Friends, Sanjay Thakrar, CEO at Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said: A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy - He does not buy the car & does not take car loan - Does not buy car insurance - Does not buy Fuel - Does not send his car…

Dear Friends, Corona pandemic is a biggest blessing in disguise for the entire humanity. It is an opportunity for all of us to go back to our ancient wisdom and start “Living in tune with Nature”. VK NARDEP is advocating this type of paradigm shift since its inspection in the year 1986. I am reproducing a…