A Musical Bridge Builder
An accomplished Marathi singer-composer the late Sudhir Phadke is regarded as an icon of Marathi film industry and the Marathi light music. Though he passed away on July 29, 2002, he still rules the heart of the people through is immortal songs and music. He has 111 films to his credit as a music director and 21 of which are in Hindi. His singing of Geet Ramayana is still recalled by many. Apart from being an excellent singer and musician, he is also known for his lead role in the liberation of Dadra ..
Mother of Martial Arts
Bharat had a different sporting culture that was rooted in her soil and civilisation. In present day, though we mainly focus on Cricket, or at the most Hockey, when Bharat and Pakistan play against each other, in reality like our food and festivities, we have had a diverse sporting tradition that needs to be understood and revived. While under the NDA Government, Sports Authority of India (SAI) has proposed a mega event to felicitate thousands of folk artist and to organise seminars and workshops ..
#IndigenousPeoplesDay Text, Pretext & Context
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was started by the United Nations to ensure justice to the indigenous peoples of the world who suffered from historic injustices as a result of their colonisation and dispossession of their lands and preventing them from exercising their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests. Surely the indigenous peoples in European countries like the American Continent, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, etc have undergone inhuman ..
The Church Pogrom
Wherever Church entered with the colonial expansionists, it led organised massacres of aboriginals and pushed them away from their safe dwellings A group of Native Americans look at a sailing ship in the bay below them. Credit Corbis, Getty Serra landed in San Diego, California in 1769 on a mission from Spain, to commence construction on the first of 21 Catholic missions in the State. Through his directive, the Spaniards built the missions throughout California, plundering the land ..
Revival of an ‘extinct’ tradition
The story of the revival of RigVed’s Śaṅkhāyana Shakha, an ancient tradition that was believed to be extinct, is the story of honest and untiring efforts. When four years ago three young men discovered that it still survives in a small town in Rajasthan, with only two people alive who know it, they made the revival as their life mission. When we say “Ours is a traditional society”, or “Indian civilisation is a 5000 year old living civilisation”..
Making of Punyakoti
The first Sanskrit animation movie ‘Punyakoti’ to be released later this year stimulates emotions and acquaints the audience with the unique Indian style of animation. The folk song and tale of Punyakoti, the virtuous cow, have been narrated to children of most households in Karnataka for generations. The emotional connect the tale has with the people of the State is tremendous given that it is chronicled more as a story in personal integrity, ethics and compassion, for b..
Sanskaar Deeksha Shivir : Inculcating Dharma in Young Minds
In the eight-day-long Sanskaar Deeksha Shivir, conducted from June 3 to June 10 in SPS International School, Palwal, Upanayan (thread-ceremony) of the kids is done and they are taught daily-rituals like Sandhyopasana, Samidaadhaan, etc., which otherwise are declining in our social lives..
Suthar Tisan: The Mithila way
The cultural collage of Mithila Paintings has transformed one of the dirtiest railway stations of the country, Madhubani, into the second cleanest one. Cultural longings, people's participation and traversing the indigeneity could be the next stepping stone in the nationwide cleanliness drive.
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Gurudev and His Vision for Swadeshi Samaj
On the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Thakur, one of the greatest versatile geniuses Bharat has ever produced, Organiser presents a few excerpts from The Eternal Hindu Rashtra, an article written by RSS Sahsarkaryavah Dr Manmohan Vaidya that gives a glimpse into Thakur's hitherto unknown views of Being Hindu..
