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Chandrasekhar Azad
11 August 2008Chandrashekhar, a fearless revolutionary and a great freedom fighter, was born on July 23, 1906 in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh. He was the son of Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi. He started his education in Bhavra and at the age of 14 he went to Varanasi where he was taught to [...]
Subhas Chandra Bose
8 August 2008Subhas Chandra Bose is one of those great freedom fighters who martyred their lives for India’s independence. He is popularly known as Netaji because he was considered to be a born leader. He was born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa. And was the ninth child of a famous lawyer Janaki Nath Bose [...]
10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3
7 August 2008We have a tradition around these parts of publishing information for the WordPress community surrounding a new major release of WordPress. With WordPress 2.3 to be released on September 24, 2007, I think it’s appropriate to follow the tradition and let you know about the ten things I think you should know about WordPress 2.3. [...]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
5 August 2008Born in a well-cultured Brahim family on July 23, 1856 in Ratangari, Maharashtra, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a multifacet personality. He is considered to be the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’. He was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, mathematics, astronomy and Hinduism. He had imbibed values, cultures and intelligence from his father Gangadhar Ramchandra Tilak [...]
Annie Besant
4 August 2008A great woman, patriot and a true fighter, Annie Besant , was born in London on October 1, 1847. She was the daughter of an Irish businessman, William Press Wood and an Irish woman, Emily Mary Ruche. Annie was given private education and later in 1867 got married to an Anglican clergyman, named Frank Besant. [...]
Sarojini Naidu
3 August 2008Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879, in a house of intellectuals, poets, philosophers and revolutionaries. She was the eldest daughter of Aghornath Chattopadhyaya and Varasundari. Aghornath was a pioneer in education and established Nizam’s College in Hyderabd in 1878 and Varasundari was a Bengali poetess.
Imbibing virtues and cultures from her family, Sarojini was [...]
Indian Freedom Fighters
31 July 2008Indian Freedom Fighters
‘Free India’ was a dream of all Indians under the British rule. Everyone during that rule fought in some way or the other with a common aim of ending British and other colonial authorities in India. After a century of revolutions, struggle, blood shedding, battles and sacrifices, India finally achieved independence on [...]
Madurai Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal
31 July 2008Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal
When Krishna Devaraya was the King of Vijayanagar, he sent one general Nagama Naick to Madurai to control the internal confusion in the Madurai regional politics. Nagama Naick controled the waring groups and restored peace, but declared himself as an independant ruler. This act provoked the King Krishna Devaraya and he sent [...]
Madurai Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple.
30 July 2008Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple :
The enormous temple complex is dedicated to Shiva, known here as Sundareshvara and his consort Parvati or Meenakshi. The original temple was built by Kulasekara Pandya, but the entire credit for making the temple as splendid as it is today goes to the Nayaks. The Nayaks ruled Madurai from the 16th to [...]
WHY DON’T USE PLASTIC BAGS
29 July 2008 WHY I DON’T USE PLASTIC BAGS
Cheap up-front, costly in the end
Not bio-degradable. Plastic is food for no one. It never completely breaks down.
Litter. Even when thrown into the garbage, plastic bags easily blow away. These bags are
unsightly, distracting on highways, and clog storm sewer systems.
Can’t recycle. Plastic can only “down-cycle” – making at most [...]
