Normal And Abnormal

Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi inaugurated the BAPS (Bochasawasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) Hindu Temple in Abu Dhabi on 14 February 2014. This is the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. PM Sri Modi alongwith Mahant Swami Maharaj conducted the first grant arti. The largest Hindu temple in USA built by BAPS is located 90 km south of Time Square in New Jersey is in 183 acre land. The ISKCON temple in Lucay - le - Male in France. The Hindu temple in Genova, Italy  Murugan Temple, Roermond, Netherlands. Sri Varadarajan Selvavnagar temple in Den Helder, the oldest Ganesh temple in Netherlands. Largest Ganesh temple opened in Berlin, Germany in 2023. The above are some of the many Hindu temples in England  It is estimated that there are over two million Hindu temples outside India across the world. Many of these temples are situ...

(People sleeping on roadside during extreme winter nights in New Delhi. Image courtesy, Times of India) Time and again we Indians hear loud proclamations by our rulers about our achievements. Of course, the people are proud of it too. It is high time that we should see whether these achievements are reaching uniformly to all Indians. For instance if we take our pci/ppp it may look to be presentable to the world, though remains at low ranking. But things get worse if we remove the earnings of just thousand richest ones from the whole 1.5 billion population. Our street beggers, patients heaped in the hospital verandas, those sleeping in the way side during extreme winter etc tell us a much different story. While the haves are moving at a pace of 1,2,4,8,16,32 rates the have nots are stagnated at 1,1.5,1,1.5,1,1.5 rates. Should we not look at the lower strata of the society too? However, fortunately for some and unfortunately for many, we Indians are well prepared to suffer an...

Draupadi Murmu is the shining star as the 15th President of India. She was born on 20th June 1958 (aged 67 years) Draupadi Murmu was in Santali tribal family in a remote village called Uparbeda in the Mayurbhanj district in Odisha. She worked as a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department of Odisha government from 1979 to 1983. She served two terms às the Member of the Legislative Assembly (2000 - 2009) During this period she held ministerial position with independent charge. She also served as the Governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021, being the longest serving Governor for that state. Draupadi Murmu became the 15th President of India on 25th July 2022.  Her father Biranchi Narayan Tuda was a farmer. Her father and grandfather were traditional heads of the Gram Panchayat. During a period of 6 years between 2009 - 2015 Draupadi Murmu lost her husband, two sons, mother and a brother. She married to Shyam Charan Murmu, a banker, in ...

We all pray God irrespective of our religious faith. Some may get return and some others not. Most of us pray for money, comfort or success. Our prayers should not be confined to words. It must be by action. See prayer always like an action and reaction. For instance you may find a hungry one asking money for food. You have three options with you. Give the one some money or provide a cup of tea and few biscuits or take the one to a hotel and offer the person lavish food. This action of yours determines how the Supreme One respond to your prayer. If you keep this principle in mind when someone approaches you for money, food, cloth or any other form of  help, see it is a mere query from the Great One to you, "Hai, dear! What do you want from me?". Give the answer by your action. Then there will be instant reaction. Just believe that every person coming to you for helping is a blessing of God. If you strictly adhere to this, your life will be brightened soon! K V Geo...

The estimated population of the world as of 2025 is about 8.3 billion people. All that we are enjoying today are the outcome of the hardwork of countless number of people. Even every grain of rice coming to our plates are the result of many thousands of people. When we get sick we take medicine and get healed. There may be the efforts of generations behind every tablet or every drop of medicine that comfort us. Each one of us are highly indebted to many people lived here or living here. Are we thankful to those humans? Do we ever think about them? Now, coming back to us. We are in this world, may be, for a few decades. If we look at our story, have we got anything in our mind that is worth to mention that we have done for our fellow beings. When we pass away from here, how many around us and how long will remember us. Have we ever fed a hungry stranger with enough food? Have we ever sent sufficient food to a poor family of your area? Have we ever asked a tired poor one whet...

India is said to be the largest democracy in the world. The word 'largest' stands in terms of population. There are 167 countries that follow the path of democracy. India ranks 108th on Electoral Democracy Index 2023. In fact democracy in India is strictly confined to voting in elections at various levels. Earlier it was manual casting of votes and now it is by using electronic voting machines. The following countries only use EVM for national elections. Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, DR of Congo, Estonia, India, Philippines, UAE and Venezuela. USA use manual casting of votes they use some electronic scan tabulator system for counting of votes. However, despite all so called convenience, as per available information, countries like UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand etc are not using EVMs for national elections. These countries may have their own reasons for rejecting Electronic Voting. EVM was first used in India in the By-elect...