Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken," 1916
and so the story goes....Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award for national service. The order was established by Dr Rajendra Prasad, President of India, on January 2, 1954. Today, there are 41 Bharat Ratna winners in India, the last being Bhimsen Joshi. And yet, there are noticeable absentees. Mahatma Gandhi, the most conspicuous but since he was already elevated to the ‘father of the nation’, his posthumous soul automatically opted out of the race.
But there was no Sardar Patel either, the iron man of India until 1991, despite the fact that the provision to award the Bharat Ratna posthumously was enacted way back in 1955. This provision was probably made to confer the award on Sardar Patel. But Nehru’s profound ideological and personal differences with Patel came in the way.
As long as I live,
I pray never to beg for the love
Of those who proclaim to love me
And never to let those whom I love
Suffer to earn my love
For, as it is a privilege,
I know love ceases
When it has become an obligation
Yoga, according to Ashraf F. Nizami's book "Namaz, the Yoga of Islam" (published by D.B. Taraporevala, Mumbai 1977), is not a religion.No I am not thinking about Islam and its teachings. I am thinking about 'Hinduism'. Somewhere along the line we have forgotten the fact that Hinduism is not a religion(link defining religion). What is even more worrying is we as Hindus do not realize this fact.
THE eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also make pretty good peepholes into the brain.
The technique works very much like ultrasound, but bounces light off the tissue instead of sound waves. One beam of light is fired at the tissue and another at a reference mirror. When the reflected beams have travelled an identical distance, interference will make their combined beam brighter than if the distances are different. So by reflecting one beam off of different layers of tissue, and moving the reference mirror until the combined reflected beam is brightest, the technique can measure the depths of each section of tissue and build up a detailed image of its structure. It has proved particularly useful in ophthalmology because the semi-transparent nature of retinal tissue makes it possible for OCT to penetrate to greater depths - up to several millimetres. When applied to the OND it can give information about both the shape and thickness of retinal nerve fibres, allowing even subtle changes to be tracked.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
Author: Abraham Lincoln