Namaste
As defined by Mahatma Gandhi: In India when people meet and part they often say, Namaste' which means: "I honor the place within you where the entire Universe resides; I honor the place within you of love, of light, of truth, of peace; I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us."
Mother Theresa Quotes:
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
History Timeline
2500 - 1500 BC - Mohenjo-daro and Harrapa flourisehd in the Indus Valley.
1500 BC - The first wave of Aryan immigration into India began.
326 BC - Alexander the Great invaded India.
322 - 182 BC - Mauryan dynasty, the first historical dynasty.
1510 - Portuguese capture Goa.
1526 - 1857 - Mughal rule in India.
1757 - Battle of Plassey
1857 - First War of Independence
1858 - India comes under direct rule of the British crown.
1885 - Indian National Congress founded
1905 - First partition of Bengal
1906 - Formation of Muslim League
1919 - The massacre at Jalianwallabagh
1942 - 43 - Quit India movement
Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal During Protest. July 08, 1942
1947 - India gains freedom, and Jawaharlal Nehru is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of independent India.
1947 - 48 - Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition.
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
1950 - India becomes a Republic. Dr Rajendra Prasad is the first President.
1952 - First general elections; Congress government comes to power.
1956 - The states are reorganized on a linguistic basis.
1962 - War with China and India loses.
1965 - War with Pakistan; ceasefire declared.
1966 - Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
1971 - Third war with Pakistan. Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union.
1972 - Shimla agreement signed between India and Pakistan.
1974 - India's first atomic device exploded at Pokhran in Rajasthan.
1975 - Indira Gandhi declared state of emergency.
1979 - Mother Theresa won The Nobel Peace Prize
Pope John Paul II and Mother Theresa. October 16, 1978
1984 - Operation Blue Star. Indira Gandhi assassinated; Son Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister.
1987 - India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Goa becomes the 5th state of India.
1990 - Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka.
1991 - V.P Singh's government falls. Rajiv Gandhi assassinated. Congress government return to power with P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister.
1999 - Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahoe peace declaration. Intense fight in Kargil.
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तिलचट्टा (cockroach) सिर कटने ( beheading ) के बाद भी कई सप्ताह ( weeks)
तक जिंदा ( live) रह सकता है। दरअसल ( in fact) यह सिर कटने की
वजह से नहीं, भूख ( hunger ) से मरता है।
(Tilchatta sir katney ke bad bhee kai saptaah tak zindaa rah saktaa hai.
Darasal yah sir kataney kee vajah se nahin, bhookh se martaa hai.
After decapitation (beheading) , cockroach can live for several weeks.
In fact,it dies of hunger, and not due to cutting of the head.
This and that about India
Have a beautiful saturday
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