ACK-004 Rabindranath Tagore

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Presenting now is the best known Indian Poet. The only one so far to recieve a noble prize for literature. The man is simply amazing in all respect. Not many people possess so many artistic qualities of such high standards. We owe our national anthem to him.


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Rabindranath Tagore played a significant role in bringing about a new awakening in India in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His life and creative work provided the then Indian society with a purpose, direction and a programme. The impact of his personality transcended his native Bengal and came to be felt not only in other parts of India but also abroad.

Tagore was a genius with a many-sided personality. He was a poet, novelist, dramatist, musician, short-story writer, teacher, painter, educationist, philosopher and humanist. Shri Khanolkar, his biographer, describes his life as 'a long dream of colour and music, of beauty and heavenly genius, such as this world has never known before'.

Perhaps no other contemporary Indian had such diverse interests as Tagore had. He was a seeker. He wanted to understand himself; and that he could only do by expressing himself. As the experiences and emotions differed, the media also varied. That is how we have Tagore the poet, Tagore the composer, Tagore the painter and so on.

Although a staunch nationalist, Tagore was a champion of internationalism, touring various countries and pleading for 'one world'.

He has the unique distinction of being the only poet to have two of his songs - Jana Gana Mana and Amar Sonar Bangla - adopted as the national anthem of two countries, India and Bangladesh respectively. Shanti-Niketan stands to this day as a living monument to the Gurudev. He composed over 4,000 songs. His compositions have come to be known as Rabindra Sangeet.

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ACK-003:Hitopadesha

3rd ACK in the series is presented hereby.'Hitopadesha' or 'sermons for welfare' is a collection of wise tales narrated using animals as symbols,'Jatak Kathayein','Panchtantra' and 'Hitopdesha' were among my favorites during childhood and i was fascinated by reading the stories in which animals were central characters,my little mind was able to grasp very quickly the moral given through these stories.
Choosing the medium of animals for delivering the moral of story to children is indeed a very impressive and successful idea.Our indigenous literature and books are full of wisdom but we are reluctant to read and harness from them.
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Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render counsel on ethical worldly-wise conduct. The characters are living beings including humans and animals in the wild. The latter too are endowed with the reason and emotions of human beings. Thereby they come to represent types of human nature and behavior and one can draw morals from the stories.
In this collection, a tiger finds a gold bangle with which he allures a traveler to cross the river; stuck in mire, the greedy man falls easy prey to the tiger.In another story, a jackal feigns friendship with a deer who despite warnings from a wise crow joins the jackal and meets with a tragedy. An old blind vulture is offered shelter by birds in the hollow of a tree.He protects their fledglings. A cat pleads for living with them and the vulture agrees. The cat finishes the fledglings one by one and goes away. The birds suspecting the vulture kill him. Moral: Do not give shelter to the unknown. This collection is treasure house of such stories.

[Introduction:courtesy TPH]

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ACK-002 Chandra Shekhar Azad

We are really thankful to you for the grand support you have given us. We hope this continues for a long long run. I'm also thankful to my colleuge, TPH for the nice design and the great first post.

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Chandra Shekhar Azad was a great revolutionary who lived and died for the motherland. When Ramprasad Bismil, the leader of Uttar Pradesh revolutionaries was caught and hanged by the British for his role in the Kakori conspiracy, Azad assumed the leadership.Azad eluded the British for ten years. Together with his band of dedicated young men he fought to liberate India from the foreign rulers. The activities of Azad and his associates contributed in no small measure to the awakening of the Indian masses —a task which the national leaders of the day were trying to achieve through peaceful means.Azad had a strong physique, plenty of common sense and patriotic zeal. The British described him as a terrorist. But he considered himself a freedom fighter. Though the national leaders of the time did not approve of his cult of violence they had great affection and regard for Azad. No less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru helped him with money. When Azad died a martyr's death, Smt. Kamala Nehru took a leading part in getting his body released from police custody and made arrangements for the funeral.Today, there stands a statue of this great revolutionary at Alfred Park in Allahabad where he fought his last battle and died.

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