Saturday, May 17, 2008

Indian Struggle for freedom

Indian Independent Movement

At the time of Independence - Rare Video

Rare india fotos

Ooty 1905

Ooty 1905
Power Plant 1917

Power Plant 1917
Train+at+1895

Train at 1895
VT Station Mumbai 1894

VT Station Mumbai in 1894
Karachi Theatre in 1917

Karachi Theatre in 1917
Lahore in 1864

Lahore in 1864
Multi complex Departmental Store 1883

Multi complex Departmental Store 1883
Mumbai in 1894

Mumbai 1894
Mylapore chennai 1939

Mylapore chennai 1939
Andaman+1917

Andaman 1917
Chennai Market (Kothaval Chawadi) 1939

Chennai Market 1939
Ford+1917

Ford 1917
Hoogly Calcutta 1915

Hoogly Calcutta 1915
Karachi in 1917

Karachi in 1917
Ambulance at Chennai 1940

Ambulance at Chennai 1940
Bank of Madras 1935

Bank+of Madras 1935
Car Showroom Chennai 1913

Car Showroom Chennai 1913
Chennai Library 1913 (college studensama)

Chennai Library 1913 college studensama
Chennai Marina Beech 1913

Chennai+Marina+beech++1913

Friday, May 9, 2008

Gandhi's "Seven Blunders of the World"

Gandhi's "Seven Blunders of the World" That Lead to Violence

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination. In his final years, the elder Gandhi kept his grandson close at hand and set aside an hour every day to be alone with the boy.


Blunders of the World
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Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Knowledge without character

Commerce without morality

Science without humanity

Worship without sacrifice

Politics without principle
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Rights without responsibilities [Arun Gandhi]


This list grew from Gandhi's search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence. Preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself or one's society from reaching a point of violence.

QUOTES ON INDIA

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"

Albert Einstein

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"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!"

French scholar Romaine Rolland
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"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"


"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."

Mark Twain

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"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

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"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"

Swami Vivekananda, Great Indian Philosopher

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"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India"

Max Mueller
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"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."

Will Durant
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"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing"

Apollonius Tyanaeus