News from HT
Magsaysay winner and inventor of the Jaipur prosthesis (rekno) ‘Jaipur Foot’, an artificial limb used all over the world for the physically challenged, Dr P.K. Sethi died of a cardiac arrest at private hospital on Saturday. He was 80 and is survived by his wife Sulochana, son and three daughters.He was cremated in a local burial ground where a large number of people attended the funeral procession.
Swami Vivekananda in one of his lectures in california
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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. |
The following speech (abridged) was given by Lal Bahadur Shastri at the convocation of the Aligarh Muslim University.
Project Tiranga (Mission Siachen) volunteers went to the Press office (on Friday) to get the Newspapers' to report about our Mission. It had dual purpose: one is to create awareness about Siachen among common people and then to give them a chance to express their feelings by filling up a postcard.Due to closure MSRIT College after semester completion, volunteers planned to move out to other places in order to reach the target of 4000 hand-made postcards to be sent to Siachen soldiers. The plan of action includes visiting a few schools, colleges (pre-university) and shopping malls. We have yet a long way to go before completion, but we are not going to give up.
English Teaching
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
Gol Gumbad situated in Bijapur district of Karnataka is the second largest dome in the world. The Gol Gumbad is second in size only to St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. The Gol Gumbad is 124 feet in diameter. The architecture of Gol Gumbad is unique in the sense that the four minarets themselves are the staircases, leading to the top dome..A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."
"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.
"No", she said. "He's out."
Then we cannot come in", they replied. In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in.
