An Akbar-Birbal Story : The Cooking of Khichdi* ..
[ A dish made of daal and rice* ] The Birbal Stories are very popular in India. The old and the young like them alike.…
Category: Senior Chatters
The story of an Amputee Indain woman who climbed Everest !
Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player from UP, India lost her leg when some hooligans tried to snatch her gold chain, while she…
…..The dancing PeAcOcK of India: Sudha Chandran
The Macmillan book named ” Knock out challenges ” has included her among the top 10-exteaordinary people who had some physical disability like Hellen Keller,…
Six two liners of the Saint Kabir
Kabīr (c. 1440 – c. 1518) was a mystic and a great saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name…
….. ” That which is gone is gone ! ” A poem by Dr. Bachchan.
Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan has been one of my favorite Hindi poets. I have attempted to translate two stanzas of his immortal poem: Jo Beet…
Dhyan Chand: Magician of Hockey who had 4 hands and 4 sticks !
He (1905 –1979) is globally accepted as the greatest Field hockey player of all time, very well known for his unique goal-scoring skills. In India…
A glimpse of Subhashits from Dev-vani: (The language of Gods)
Question : What are Subhashits ? Ans: A subhashita (Sanskrit: सुभाषित) is a literary genre of Sanskrit epigrammatic poems and their message is an aphorism,…
About the Bollywood film which ran in Mumbai for about 20 years
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (English: The Brave-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride), also known as DDLJ, is a 1995 Indian film of Yash Chopra which…
If wishes were horses and I owned the SC Chat- rooms
Yes,I know though, If wishes were horses, Beggars would ride. (If turnips were bayonets, I would wear one by my side) Supposing if the wishes…
About some interesting words taken from the Indian languages
It is seen that English language is not shy of constantly picking up words from languages all over the globe. That is why it keeps…