What is 'Women Empowerment'? With the advent of 'women empowerment' in the Indian sub-continent, women issues are being taken seriously. By 'seriously' I mean that they are seriously talked about and debated upon. They are being accepted and rejected. We must understand that women empowerment doesn't mean 'not to rape a lonely woman on street', it doesn't mean 'letting them have time for themselves', it doesn't mean 'helping them picking up the luggage', it doesn't mean 'not to remark them on their dressing sense', it doesn't mean 'not asking for dowry in marriage'. People who come across this word for the first time often confuse women rights, women protection and gentlemanly behaviour with women empowerment. Before debating upon this topic, one must know the actual meaning of women empowerment. People had been writing books on it, which in turn are being read by other writers only! Then the questi...
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Mr. Ajay Upadhyay Gandhi’s Printing Press There was an event held at Gandhi Peace Foudation, Delhi on November 30, 2015 to mark the 117 th anniversary of Gandhi’s Printing Press (November 29, 1898). The event was a knowledge sharing session and the speaker was Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor. His analysis was based on Isabel Hofmeyr’s book – Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in slow reading. Here is a brief report: Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor, was intrigued by the message of Mahatma Gandhi, when he started his career as a young lawyer in South Africa. His political philosophy was under evolution when out of the blue, he was taken in by an apparently unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi’s printing press is an insight into how this idea of a newspaper, India...
Just a teacher... The college in which I teach is a small pool of knowledge, where wise and intellectuals discuss in one corner and uninterested, yet pretentious ones chatter in another corner. In one teacher, I saw concern for students while another teacher showed indifference; other one seemed to have one or two favourites in each class, another teacher got worried over daily workload and one even was vengeful and knowingly didn't listen to a pursuing student, who apparently misbehaved in class. When I enter class, I see youth, energy, yet boredom. Boredom, because of monotonous class room study. I am a language teacher, but if I ever had a choice then I would teach them to write in innovative ways, like sitting alone in Mcdonald's and giving a descriptive version of each table and things happening on it. I would encourage them to be happy and self-motivated. I would assign them to talk to strangers on road and tell me about one new person they talked to, each day. I nev...
The Legend of Radha ऊँ श्री राधे Today the whole world is mesmerised with the legend of Radha and Krishna. Their eternal, divine and most pure kind of love made many a scholars wonder. Radha and Krishna were the personification of God's love when the Godhead chose to incarnate in male and female forms. Radha remained in Vrindavan while Krishna left for Mathura to achieve the purpose of that life. It is said that Krishna never returned in physical form to see Radha or to know about her. There are other hypothetical versions in which it is said that Radha met him once again after Mahabharata war was over. According to Hindu mythology, Radha and Krishna weren't separate but two manifestations of the same Godhead in male and female forms, they were one despite being away from each other. They enjoyed each other's company on a divine plain irrespective of the physical circumstances, hence, they need not be together in this physical world. Moreover, the motive of their bi...