In 2005, when JNU considered action against students with black flags protesting Manmohan Singh's campus visit, the PM quoted Voltaire on the importance of freedom of speech & defended the students saying 'protests were students’ democratic rights”. This is true self-confidence.

नारायण मेघाजी लोखंडे ✊🏾

रविवारच्या सुट्टीसाठी यशस्वी लढा देणारा मोठा माणूस...❤️

The Election Commission's CVigil app, which lets ordinary voters flag MCC violations, did not work throughout the first 6 phases of the general elections.

But it has now started working now – days before the elections end. Election Commission of India

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

हृदयविकाराचा झटका आलेल्या माणसाला घेऊन जाणारी अँब्युलन्स थांबवून PR करत आहेत... Unbelievable...

After a decade of PM Modi’s govt, the Railways carry fewer passengers, are losing money but are costlier, especially for poorer passengers, packed into proportionately fewer seats in trains run at largely the same speed as before. Aniket Aga reports article-14.com/post/costlier-…

Like clockwork

1. Read and write more.
2. Don't hesitate to admit when you're wrong.
3. Be comfortable changing your opinion.
4. Find a mentor.
5. Stay teachable.
6. Make mistakes and learn.
7. Don't get offended easily.
8. Ask questions.
9. Spend time with nature.
10. Stay humble.

One is never isolated, never lonely when one is in the company of a good book. A good book always connects us to not only the characters & story, but also the author who wrote it, the world, & ultimately ourselves.
(art by Lida Ziruffo)

“Tere Jaane se toh kuchh badala nahi,
Raat bhi aayi chand bhi tha, magar neend nahi.”

— Gulzar

60 years since Jawaharlal Nehru died. A legacy so monumental that people work hard everyday to discredit him and malign his image.

Was he perfect? Not at all.

But he shaped many many dreams of a modern, progressive India that honours democracy and scientific temper.

Today in 1964 we had lost Nehru ji . An undisputed hero across all the sections of society except some Muslim n Hindu bigots . He was not only the architect of modern India but the mentor of the Afroasian nations who were inspired by him to break the shackles of colonial era .

नेहरू पंतप्रधान होण्याअगोदर जवळपास तीन दशकं स्वातंत्र्यलढ्यात होते. गांधीनंतर सगळ्यात लोकप्रिय नेता नेहरू होते. नेहरू पंतप्रधान झाले तेव्हा लोक अक्षरशः त्यांच्या प्रेमात होते. नेहरू एखादी पाॅलिसी बनवायचे तेव्हा फीडबॅकसाठी ब्युरोक्रॅट्सकडे पाठवायचे. ते ब्युरोक्रॅट्सही एकदम चांगली,

फाळणी झाल्यानंतर दिल्लीच्या रस्त्यांवर धार्मिक तेढ निर्माण होऊन लोक मिळेल ते हत्यार घेऊन फिरत होते. देशभरात ठिकठिकाणी दंगे चालू झाले होते. दंग्याची खबर मिळताच नेहरू आपल्या गाडीतून दंगे चालू होते त्या ठिकाणी पोहोचले. हातात खंजीर, लाठीकाठी असणाऱ्यांच्यात घुसले. एका दंगेखोराच्या

Allow yourself to be touched by those moments of unexpected joy. Embrace them for they are part of what make life worth the living.
(art by Jane Newland)

जवाहरलाल नेहरू यांच्या 60व्या स्मृतिदिनानिमित्ताने
साधना साप्ताहिकाच्या अर्काइव्हवरील 12 लेखांची पुनर्भेट..

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थांबले आहेत तुझे सर्व श्वास,
आणि भंगले आहेत तुझे सर्व भास.
तथापि, सुरु राहणार आहेत तुझ्या ध्यासांची वाटचाल
मी जवाहरलाल ! मी जवाहरलाल !
- बाबा आमटे