THE ORPHAN AND THE DESTRESSED
(Tagore)

The orphan and the distressed
have heard your name God
They have come to thy door
let them not return in emptiness
Let the eyes of those crying
in hopelssenss be moped up
O let the mind trembling in fear
be blessed with fearlessness
So many hearts are there tattered
in bereavement weeping day and night
In whom would those drowned in vice
take refuge
Alas, where is the way! bless them God
with your appearance..

MADE IN INDIA

Made in India a brand and an incredible one.
Alisha Chinai sang Made in India....A beautiful tribute.
India imprints its own endorsement on Indian shores. Made in India, an exclusive design of course not made for traitors There may be maids in monster like butox's willing to do dish wash for any one but certainly not the real tri colour holders. True tri colour holders are neither fanatics nor elites but true citizens of India and they understand what is east and what is west and what this world is made out of. God gives brain to think and not supplement money. God does not call you and tell... you take so much cash as a gift. If you believe God gives money then you will have to believe god has given money to underworld goons, robbers and traitors and even beggars. How foolish a belief?. God exactly gives brain to use wisely and earn money in a proper and correct manner. If you make money out of deceit it is your choice not God's. There are people like renowned singer MS Subbalakshmi, for her money was only an instrument to help the needy, not to sting. A lot of good humans use money for the welfare of society and there are people who always feel concern for the poor and needy even when they are unable to direct service them. It is not money but attitude towards money matters. My maid's son bought a car recently and that shows how recession hit India in comparison to the maids in the US where Presidents and CEO's are sacked overnight without prior notices.

Made in India is a unique brand and drunken north wind does not need to label it on a furnace with offers of charity. India got one Intelligent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to handle recession and god has gifted him with brains and thankfully not with money. He is a great econoist too. As a true educated Indian he understands what is good for India.

MEDIUMS

World's concern on terror is admirable. Who invented this weapon; the most intelligent US brains. Instead of attacking directly use a medium and that medium is termed as terror. Traitors are readily available all over the world for such missions and it is easy for power holds to conduct such missions. When traitors are from country it is easy for terrorist to attack nation. The first Mumbai terror attack was aided by official traitors of nation; they allowed load full of explosives for a price. How powerful are the nations who install sting cameras in our Prime Minister's office and tap information from our defence source. Answer is simple, traitors intrude and definitely for a price. When a newspaper boy's and cook's foreign educated son can be easily brainwashed to do a mission against India why to blame uneducated terrorists from poor Islamic countries. Even the educated ones are brainwashed in no time by powerful nations it is no way difficult to transform the minds of innocent youngsters and unfortunately they turn as terrorists. When people are ready to do anything for money and circulate their support for the people who introduced terror why to sit and condemn terror through pages. First correct yourself instead of acting like Chandrahas of Ravan with many faces to victims of circumstances or to a woman. Instead of gathering 1.1 billion population to hate someone collect at least one rupee from 1.1 Billion. Easily you can accumulate 1.1 billion and instead of writing frontline substandard editorials go and distribute it to the farmers who commit suicide in India. Powerful and rich nations should mind their state of affairs instead of attacking and intruding into the line of controls of other countries. If you sell terror you are bound to get attacked and if you take bribe from terrorists like the police officials did it in Mumbai just to become richer you only nurture terror. Integrity of India will not get affected by traitors of any class.

Everyone agrees with a fact that education is the greatest wealth. But for a section of people, greatest asset in this world is money and power. Education set aside standards but for a few it is to learn how to use it effectively to demean others. Sachin and Ricky Ponting play cricket but look at their standards one famous for good cricket and the other infamous for Australian high end standard of sledging. I don't think Sachin should learn any thing from Ricky in terms of cricket or character.

Vivekananda says "use agreeable and wholesome language towards even the greatest enemy. " People who speak of Buddha and greatest of great things hide in masks and conduct the most heinous crimes. It is like a rapist goes to certify the integrity of a woman and for sure he first rapes her integrity if such a thing happens. And if he is rich and powerful even he knows how to get out of a criminal deed. World is ruled by such people and to fight with them is not an easy task. How efficiently they scheme up. I don't think people with integrity need any certification from these kind of biased groups.

What Vivekananda says "give me a genuine human; I do not want masses of converts".The Gerua robe is not for enjoyment. It is the banner of heroic work.Not for the kind of work, a printing unit with adequate care supplements to substantiate a few inflated egos. You scheme there, you manipulate there arrogantly and when you are into that why reprimand retaliations. What you give; you get back... Great lessons of life..... Marked and printed for all human beings...

QUOTES OF VIVEKANADA

This Earth is higher than all the heavens, this is the greatest school in the universe

The less help from men the more from Lord

Be brave, be brave, man dies but once my disciples must not be cowards

Those who love God need not fear any jugglery.

A few thousand graduates do not make a nation, a few rich men do not make a nation.

You must not depend on any foreign help. Nature like individuals must help themselves. This is real patriotism. If a nation cannot do that its time has not yet come. It must wait


THOUGHT OF THE DAY

This world will be an honest place to live if all scoundrels, thieves, pretenders, stingers and hackers decide to be honest enough to accept that they are criminals and shed off their masks.

Swathi Thirunal as a Patron of Arts

Swathi Thirunal’s reputation as a patron of cultural activities attracted several musicians, dancers and writers from all parts of India to his court . Eraimman Thampi, whom we refer to as the court poet, was also a great musical composer. Many of the songs of Thampi have become immensely popular on account of their pleasing melody as well as their sweet language.

Among the musical celebrities who adorned his court were four brothers Vadivelu, .Sivanandam, Chinnaiah and Ponniah, all experts and exponents in several branches of music and dance. Vadivelu was one of the best musicians and dancers of his time. He had marvelous skill in playing the violin, and the Maharajan was pleased to present him with an instrument made of ivory. But some people in recent times attribute some of the musical works of Maharaja to these brothers. Noted Veena maestro Balachander was the man who pioneered this theory. This is absolutely baseless, Maharaja’s manuscript copies are found, and all his compositions contain the stamp of devotion to Sree Padmanabha.
Among the experts in instrumental music in SwathiThirunal’s court was Ananthapadmanabha Goaswami, popularly known as Meruswami. Meruswami was a celebrity in the court of the Tanjore Raja, and he was a great exponent of Harikatha and Hindustani Music. The Maharaja sanctioned a handsome pension for him and permission for the free use of a palanquin.
The Maharaja’s appreciation of the Hindustani music was responsible for organizing a troupe of Hindustani artistes in the palace. There were in that troupe, three dancers and a Hindustani musical exponent, Allaudin from Mysore. Another musician from the North as Syed Sulaiman, a Pathan, whose special ability was in playing Swarabath, a musical instrument.
Sarangi players also received his encouragement . Chintamony of Tanjore was a great exponent of this. The Maharaja’s love for music was not confined to pure music, but it also comprehended the closely allied art, dance. He had great interest in Bharathanattyam and Mohiniyattam.
Bharathanattyam attracted the special attention of the Maharaja even from his childhood. Great exponents of that art like Nagaratnam of Srirangam, Pichu Bhagavather from Tanjore were invited to Thiruvananthapuaram for performances and they were generously rewarded. Vadivelu, whom we mentioned earlier, was the master of Bharathanattyam troupe and he is popularly known as Nattuvan Vadivelu – Nattuvan means dancer. Under the benign patronage and encouragement of the Maharaja, Bharathanattayam won immense popularity among the people of Travancore.
Several dancers came from Tanjore in those days and settled down in Trivandrum getting due encouragement from the palace. Vadivelu, Meruswami and others about whom mention has been made, were the important musicians attached to the court of the Maharaja. But there were a host of minor figures who also enjoyed the patronage of Maharaja. The palace records of the times furnish eloquent proof of the rewards and presents awarded by the Maharaja to musicians and experts in instruments. Among them may be mentioned, Anantharaman and Mukundaraman of mysore, Sivarama Sastrikal of Kalahasti, Lakshmana Das of Gwalior, Vellabarayar of Tanjore, Halavati an expert of Mohiniyattam fromTanjore and Parameshwara Bhagavathar of Palakkad.
There were several gifted musicians in Travancore who were contemporaries of the Maharaja. The foremost among them was, no doubt, Govinda Marar, who has won fame as Shadkala Govinda Marar. He is regarded as the greatest musician born in Kerala, who was able to win the approbation of his great contemporary Sri Thyagaraja, the celebrated musician and composer of South India.
But there were several other musicians who were attached to the court of the Maharaja. It reveals a remarkable fact that in those days, there were a large number of eminent musicians in Kerala, noted for their special skills, both in vocal as well as instrumental music. The ancient musical tradition of Kerala continues almost unbroken. Sangitaratnakaram Sri Rama Sastrigal, Kavirajan Avanavanjcherry Krishnan Bhagavathar and others, deserve special mention.
The Maharaja had in his court, eminent poets like Kilimanur Vidwan Koyi Thampuran and Eraimman Thampi and great scholars like Simhadri sastri of Mysore, and Krishnappa Sastri of Hydrabad, Vasudeve Acharin of Kumbhakonam and Krishna Sastri of Tanjore. There were also great astrologers like sankaranantha, a native of North Malabar, who won great fame as an adviser of Ranjit Singh, Lion of Punjab, and finally became as judge of the High Court of Travancore and a courtier of the Maharaja. There were likewise, equestrians, magicians, gymnasts, sculptors, physicians and painters. Dasini, a painter from Tanjore, was employed by the Maharaja for painting mural pictures in the Sree Padmanabha Swami Temple.
Notwithstanding this universality of his interest, his preference for music and literature was only too well known. From certain stories handed down by oral tradition, it appears that even poets had a grouse against the preference shown by the Maharaja, but the attendants repeatedly told him that the Maharaja was engaged with musicians. One poet even composed a verse expressing his feeling of disappointments and asking when poets like himself could have the privilege of an audience with the Maharaja.
The story need to be taken as a reflection on the attitude of the Maharaja towards literature, for he was himself a great scholar in several languages- Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Persian, English, besides Malayalam, and a good poet. It is also noteworthy that two of his greatest courtiers, Vidwan Koyi Thampuran of Kilimanoor and Eraimman Thampi were great literary jewels. Koyi Thampuran is well known as the author of a beautiful Kathkali work 'RAVANA VIJAYAM', and Eraimman Thampi one of the best poets of Malayalam. However, it may not be wrong to say what Swathi Thirunal showed an excessive fondness for music, and that was responsible for creating a feeling of jealousy in the minds of other artistes
The patronage given by the Maharaja to music and the encouragement given to the musicians and artistes deserve the highest praise. The Maharaja’s achievements are gratefully remembered, and his example will ever serve to inspire the world in the promotion of learning and fine arts. His, memory will forever be cherished as one of the greatest patrons of music and art in South India.

Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is one of the most inspiring personalities of India, who did a lot to make India a better place to live in. within a short span of time, he achieved a lot and went a long way in serving humans. He was the principal disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Well, in this article, we will provide you with the Swami Vivekananda biography that will give you valuable insight into the life history of Vivekananda.It is Swami Vivekananda who can be attributed the credit for laying the foundation for the establishment of Ramakrishna mission and math that are actively involved in carrying out philanthropic works.

The national day that is celebrated on the 12th of January every year is dedicated to Swami Vivekananda, as it is on this day that this impressive personality was born. His influence led to the introduction of Vedanta philosophy in America and England.His efforts were acknowledged even by the noted Indian leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose. Subhash Chandra Bose called him "the maker of modern India". According to Gandhiji, it was the influence of Swami Vivekananda that his love for his country increased thousand fold. He deserves a major credit for giving the nation a modern vision. His influence led to the introduction of Vedanta philosophy in America and England. Read on to know the complete story of Swami Vivekanand.

LifeBefore turning into a monastic, Vivekananda was called by the name Narendranath Dutta. He was born as the son of Viswanath Dutta & Bhuvaneswari Devi on the January 12, 1863 in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, West Bengal. This precocious child started meditating at a very early age. Even as a child, he was an all rounder. He was outstanding at studies, games and other extra curricular activities. In the year 1879, he joined the Presidency College for pursuing higher studies. After one year, he learnt philosophy from the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. It was in this college that he got to know about Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar. Ramakrishna MissionThe Rama Krishna mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa on the 1st of May in the year 1897. The Vivekananda Ramakrishna mission is actively involved in the missionary as well as altruistic works such as disaster relief.

The disciples that are serving the mission consist of both monastic and householder. Its headquarters are based near Kolkata, India. More… PhilosophySwami Vivekananda was a great social reformer and a very inspiring personality. He was the pride of India. He made an immense contribution to purify the souls of people. He always said that God dwells inside every heart. He was of the opinion that, a person who cannot see God in poor and unhealthy people, but claims to see God in the idol, is not a true worshipper.

Vivekananda Works He compiled a number of books on the four Yogas, namely Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga. His best literary works include the letters written by him, which have a lot of spiritual value. He maintained a very simple style of writing, so that the laymen, for whom the message is meant, are able to understand his each and every word. He was not just actively involved in writing, but also was a great singer and composed several songs.

On July 4, 1902, at a young age of 39, this great man headed his way for heaven