Illustrated by a simple image file made from observations and predictions by BBC, Gartner, The Hindu and others. As recent as 2011.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Moment of disappointment and despair
Disappointed by "what has happened to Splendour" after 11+ years of successful and fulfilling life time it had.
- "Of the Splendid, I am the Splendour" -- Gita X:36
It's been a very disheartening and disappointing moment for me and my family when we came to know that one of my best hailed and respected magazine "Splendour - by The Alpha Foundation, Hyderabad" announced it's September-onwards discontinuing news and returned the extra amount of Rs. 607/- which is part of the early payment made for 3 yrs (I believe). This reminded me of a typical saying about great beings -- "Great people(and organizations) live and die alike".
I still remember those days, in which it can be subscribed freely within India and US (except a nominal postal charges) for about as much as an year, and later continued for some small price if found good. Even today, you wont believe it that it costs only Rs. 20/- per copy.
I first saw this monthly journal in our B.Tech college library. Later on, we started to subscribe for it. It is a very simple looking but dynamic, multi-religious monthly digest with a whole lot of spiritual and value filled content. Each edition has a good cover picture drawn by some Indian Artist like those of the Chatrapati Sivaji, Samartha Ramdas, Jesus etc. Apart from these, the other side of the cover, and the two sides of the back cover also had some majestic paintings of someone or the other except for the back cover which only have Krishna's picture either of or about His childhood, eating butter(venna), playing with fellow gopabalas or gopikas (raasalila), or those with Mother Yasoda or some asura-samharam.
I first saw this monthly journal in our B.Tech college library. Later on, we started to subscribe for it. It is a very simple looking but dynamic, multi-religious monthly digest with a whole lot of spiritual and value filled content. Each edition has a good cover picture drawn by some Indian Artist like those of the Chatrapati Sivaji, Samartha Ramdas, Jesus etc. Apart from these, the other side of the cover, and the two sides of the back cover also had some majestic paintings of someone or the other except for the back cover which only have Krishna's picture either of or about His childhood, eating butter(venna), playing with fellow gopabalas or gopikas (raasalila), or those with Mother Yasoda or some asura-samharam.
This started off with a prayer to Goddess Saraswathi and a small one or two page content dedicated for improvising on the Sanskrit literature. The articles follow there on. They are very timely and apt for any Indian festival. Almost every page has a quote from the Gita, Quran, Bible, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharshi, Adi Sankara, Aurabindo, Mother, Chanakya or some western philosopher.
People should encourage such journals as they are the true value we all can give to the next generations - not money or fame! Values alone can make the next generations more human and sensitive. Hoping that this journal would come back to life sometime. Till then will keep clicking and looking for www.splendourindia.org.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
What a metallic voice this lady got!?
Somehow, I missed her voice... .. . Now I want her music albums..
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