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Vaisakhi Festival is celebrated as the Sikh New Year and the founding of the Khalsa Panth. History of Vaisakhi traces its origin from the Vaisakhi Day cel-ebrations of 1699 organized by the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh to form Khalsa - Brotherhood of Saint Soldiers to fight against tyranny and oppression.

Story of Vaisakhi

The story of Vaisakhi Festival began with the martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru who was publicly beheaded by the Aurungzeb, the Mughal ruler. Aurungzeb wanted to spread Islam in India and Guru Tegh Baha-dur stood up for the rights of Hindus and Sikhs and the Mughals therefore saw him as a threat.

After the death of Guru Teg Bahadur, his son, Guru Gobind Singh became the next Guru of the Sikhs. Guru Gobind Singh wished to instill courage and strength to sacrifice among his fellow men. To fulfil his dream, Guru Gobind Singh called on the historic Vaisakhi Day

congregation of Sikhs at Kes-hgarh Sahib near Anandpur on March 30, 1699.

When thousands of people assembled for Guru’s blessing, Guru Gobind Singh came out of the tent carry-ing an unsheathed sword. He gave a powerful speech to infuse courage amongst fellowmen. At the end of the speech he said that every great deed was preceded by equally great sacrifice and demanded that anyone prepared to give his life come forward. On the Guru’s third call, a young man offered himself. The Guru took the man inside a tent and reap-peared alone with a bloodied sword. Guru Gobind Singh asked for another volunteer. This was repeated another four times until a total of five Sikhs had gone into the tent with the Guru. Everyone present was worried and though that Guru Gobind Singh has killed five Sikhs. At this point Guru presented all the five men before the people. Every one present was surprised to see all five men alive and wearing turbans and saffron-coloured garments.

These five men were called Panj Piaras or ‘Beloved Five’ by the Guru. The Guru blessed them with a Pahul ceremony. In an iron ves-sel, the Guru stirred with a sword called Khanda Sahib, the batasha that his wife, Mata Sundari Ji had put into water. The congregation recited verses from scriptures as the Guru performed the sacred ceremony. The water was now considered the sacred nectar of immortal-ity called amrit. It was first given to the five volunteers, then drunk by the guru and later distributed amongst the crowd. With this ceremony, all those present, irrespective of caste or creed, became members of the Khalsa Pan-tha (the Order of the Pure Ones).

The Guru regarded the Panj Piaras as the first members of the Khalsa and the embodiment of the Guru himself. With the constitu-tion of the Panj Pyare the high and low castes were amalgamated into one as among the original Panj Pyare, there was one Khatri, shopkeeper; one Jat, farmer; one Chhimba, calico printer;

one Ghumar, water-carrier; and one Nai, a barber. The Guru gave the surname of Singh (Lion) to every Sikh and also took the name for himself. From Guru Gobind Rai he became Guru Gobind Singh. This was seen as a great step in national integra-tion because society at that time was divided on the basis of religion, caste and social status.

Guru Gobind Singh also bestowed on Khalsa, the unique Sikh identity. He di-rected Sikhs to wear five K’s: Kesh or long hair, Kangha or comb, Kripan or dagger, Kachha or shorts and a Kara or bracelet. Guru Gobind Singh also discontinued the tradition of Gurus and asked all Sikhs to accept Guru Granth Sahib as their eternal guide. He urged them to come to him with their hair and beard unshorn to get baptized by the sword.

Significance of Vaisakhi

Vibrant Festival of Vaisakhi is considered to be an extremely important festival in India for number of reasons. Apart from being important for the farmers as


a harvest festival, the festival is of prime importance in Sikhism as a foundation day of Khalsa Panth. Besides, auspicious Vaisakhi day is of importance for astrological reasons too !!

Astrological Significance of Vaisakhi

The festival of Vaisakhi falls on April 13 every year and April 14 once in every 36 years. Change in date is because of the fact that date of Vaisakhi is reckoned according to the solar calendar. Astrologi-cally, the date of Vaisakhi is significant as marks sun’s entry into Mesh Rashi. For this very reason, many people also know Vaisakhi as Mesha Sankranti. The auspicious date of Vaisakhi is celebrated all over India under different names and rituals. It is celebrated as ‘Rongali Bihu’ in Assam, ‘Naba Barsha’ in Bengal, ‘Puthandu’ in Tamil Nadu, ‘Pooram Vishu’ in Kerala and ‘Vaishakha’ in the state of Bihar.

Significance of Vaisakhi for Farmers

For the ag-riculturally rich state of Punjab and Haryana, Vaisakhi marks the time for harvest of Rabi (winter) crops and is therefore

extremely significant for the farmers. Vaisakhi Festi-val is also celebrated as a Thanksgiving Day festival in these states. After waking up early and dressing themselves in new clothes, farmers visit temples and gurdwaras to express gratitude to God for the good harvest and seek blessing for ensuing agriculture sea-son. Farmers also celebrate Vaisakhi by performing energetic bhangra and gidda dance and participating in Vaisakhi Fairs.

Significance of Vaisakhi in Other Reli-gions

The day of Vaisakhi is of significance for the Hindus as it was on this day in 1875 that Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj - a reformed sect of Hindus who are devoted to the Vedas for spiritual guidance and have discarded idol worship. Besides, Vaisakhi day is of relevance for the Buddhists as Gautama Buddha attained enlighten-ment and Nirvana on this auspicious day.


Vaisakhi in 1699launched a road to

revolutionTHE ANNUAL VAISAKHI car-

nival of the Sikhs, which is being celebrated in Surrey & Vancou-ver this month, is not just about parades and free food. The harvest festival that has been commem-orated across India for centuries has a special significance in Sikh history.

The real message behind a new revolution—started on Vai-sakhi by the tenth master of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh—often

gets eclipsed by controversies and enthusiasm generated by the festiv-ities.

Guru Gobind Singh, who was the last of the 10 Gurus of the Sikhs, laid the foundation of the Khalsa in 1699 at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab, India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The birth of the Khalsa, an army of the pure, not only gave Sikhs a distinct identity, but also challenged the age-old caste discrimination practised in

orthodox Hindu society.

It was divided into four caste groups: Brahmins (priests), Kshatri-yas (rulers), Vaishyas (food growers) and Shudras (menial workers).

In 1699, Guru Gobind Singh asked for the heads of brave Sikh men to raise an army to fight against oppressive Islamist invad-ers, who were persecuting Hin-dus. Due to a lack of unity among castes, Hindus were virtually


helpless in defending themselves against this repression.

One by one, five brave men came forward to offer their heads to Guru Gobind Singh in response to his request. They succeeded in their test. At least three belonged to the so-called lowest castes not allowed in Hindu temples to per-form even menial jobs.

They were then baptized by Guru Gobind Singh and given a new surname of Singh (lion). Guru Gobind Singh himself had been known as Gobind Rai before this. His new identity came only after he was baptized by these men, who came to be known as Punj Piaras (five beloved ones).

Since this time, a baptized Sikh is supposed to sport what are known as the five Ks: Kesh (long hair), Kangha (comb), Kirpan (sword), Kachehra (breeches), and Karah (iron wristlet). The common surname of Singh symbolized elimi-nation of casteism.

In fact, casteism had been challenged in the Sikh religion since the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikhism who died in 1539. It’s a separate matter that all the Gurus belonged to the Ksha-triyas caste.

The practice of langar (com-munity kitchen) allowed everyone to dine together. The four gates of the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, greet people from all four caste groups of India in open defiance of casteism.

Hymns of “Untouchable” saints, who were denounced by Hindu priests, were included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs. Guru Gobind Singh

asked Sikhs to follow Guru Granth Sahib as their guiding light after his death. Since then, devout Sikhs have considered Guru Granth Sahib as their living Guru.

The birth of the Khalsa was not only a challenge to ruthless Islamist rulers but also to Hindu or-thodoxy. Guru Gobind Singh fought battles with Islamic rulers and with Hindu kings. The latter group opposed his reliance on an army comprised of people belonging to “low-caste” groups.

He also had allies among Muslims. His struggle was not therefore just against Islam or pure-ly for the defence of the Hindus, but against all state oppression.

Though all the Sikh Gurus op-posed casteism, the Sikh commu-nity has been divided along caste lines. The Dalits, or “Untouch-ables”, who were Sikhs, have been treated unfairly in Punjab.

Sikh priests and the lead-ership put more emphasis on a separate Sikh identity; fundamen-talist groups use Vaisakhi festival to stress the need for a Sikh home-land.

The issue of caste-based dis-crimination, therefore, still remains unaddressed. This subject is often ignored by organizers of the Vai-sakhi parades, even in a multicul-tural Canadian society.

Due to the arrogance of the Sikh leadership, many Dalits are turning to sects led by living Gurus, who are locked in a tussle with Sikh fundamentalists. This has partly contributed to the problem of Sikh militancy in Punjab.

The Sikh leadership should openly discuss these challeng-

es and highlight the progressive aspect of Vaisakhi. This would help end ongoing social injustice both within and outside the South Asian community.

The revolutionary mission of Guru Gobind Singh can only be achieved by eliminating casteism instead of indulging only in ritual-ism and crowding the streets. Guru Gobind Singh tried to achieve his mission practically instead of rely-ing on any spiritual power.

He lost his father at the age of nine—Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded by Islamist rulers in Delhi when he came to the help of the Hindus, who were being forced to embrace Islam.

In addition, Guru Gobind Singh lost his four sons in the war against oppression. Two died in the battlefield, while two were execut-ed. His mother, Mata Gujri, died of shock after receiving news of their execution. Guru Gobind Singh himself succumbed to his injuries following an assassination attempt.

It is not surprising that Guru Gobind Singh’s ideology impressed Bhagat Singh, a towering leftist revolutionary and freedom fighter of India who was hanged for killing a British police officer in 1931.

In one of his essays, Bhagat Singh, who died as an atheist, described Dalits as the “backbone” of Guru Gobind Singh. Karl Marx also briefly mentioned Guru Gobind Singh’s military power in his notes on Indian history.

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Karan Goyal was really not that much differ-ent from any new immigrants when he ar-rived in Vancouver from India in 2004. Like many others, he went back to school im-mediately to get a local education in hope that this would jump start his career. Even with a diploma in business administration; however, that jump start Karan was hoping for never came. He had to do all sorts of odd jobs, at a pizza place, at a grocery store - you name it, to make ends meet. After all, with a young family to support, limited resources, and visually no social network, options weren’t exactly aplenty for him. After struggling for a while, he went with the obvious - driving a taxi for a living. That was 2006.

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How did this all happen? How did you make that switch from driving a taxi to being a finan-cial services advisor? What did you have to go through and was it hard for you to transition?

Changes do not happen over-night. One has to really work hard to make anything happen at all. I believe strongly that if hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. Honestly, it was not easy at first to convince people they could trust me with their finances. The only thing I could rely on, which later on became my ultimate strength, was my product knowledge and the ability to always empower my clients to make their own well-in-formed decisions.

How did you find your clients and gain their trust? Selling insurance isn’t exactly a piece of cake. Yet from what I heard, you seemed to be a natural at it.

I always remembered that respect is earned, honesty is appreciated and trust is gained. Once these

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You were recently honoured with a Volunteer Appreciate Award from Vedic Hindu Cultur-al Society of British Columbia. Can you tell me more about that? What kind of volunteer work have you done?

I am a big believer in volunteer


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I heard you recently held a health related seminar at the Surrey Mandir in collabora-tion with the Heart and Stroke foundation. That sounds like an interesting idea. How did that go?

Yes. This seminar was the first of its kind to be held at the Mandir. I’ve always been trying really hard to promote a healthy life style in our community. We are known for our hard work and resilience. But issues like health and physical well-being are often secondary in our mentality, especially amongst the new immigrants. My goal is to change that status quo and

educate the community to be more conscious about their lifestyle and health. Being able to work with the Heart and Stroke foundation was incredible. So many people attending the event enjoyed the healthy eating and living tips. After every seminar like this, people would always come to me to discuss life and health insurance with me. I ended up being one of the top health insurance pro-ducers within the DFSIN net-work and receiving an award for that. I guess sometimes passion can be rewarding.

What kind of a role did your family (your wife and daughter) play in the pur-suit of your new career? Was there a lot of pressure?

My wife has been nothing but supportive. She has taken on so much family responsibility to allow me to focus on work. She is the true love of my life and I am so lucky to have her. My daughter, on the other hand, has always been so curious about everything I do. She doesn’t care about my work schedule. She just wants to be there to play with her dad. I really don’t mind at all. In fact, I quite enjoy the naughty little tricks she plays, even if they only take my mind off of work for a few min-utes.

Did you find the years do-ing odd jobs and driving a taxi helpful in what you later achieved?

Work is work and no job is ever odd. I always felt proud of what I was doing. I learned a lot from

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under late Indira Gandhi. He was a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the army. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhu-shan.

He shrugged off intellectual trappings and promoted jokes in a way that no other writer had ever done before him, or since. He ruled the literary pages with his satirical take on contemporary issues but attracted controversy over what

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Kingdom and the embas-sy in Ireland in 1948-50. Khushwant Singh started his writing career with Yojana, the planning com-mission’s journal which he founded and edited.

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like “Train to Pakistan”, “I Shall Not Hear the Night-ingale”, “A History of the Sikhs”, “The Company of Women” and “Delhi”, and has written over 30 novels, many short sto-ries, essays and countless commentaries. Ironi-cally, Khushwant Singh, whose scholarly treatise A

History of the Sikhs won him international acclaim, was an atheist who also wrote Agnostic Khush-want: There is no God, published in 2012, in which he argued for either re-orienting religion or scrapping it—something completely unpalatable to believers. In 2002, the au-thor candidly wrote about his life, family history and his relationship with politicians in the autobi-ography “Truth, Love and a Little Malice”.

At 95, he wrote The Sunset Club, a novel about three friends in their 80s who spend the evenings in Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens talking about love, lust,

sex and scandal towards the end of their lives. At 98, he published Khush-wantnama: The Lessons of My Life, ruminating on a life lived fully and the lessons it taught him.

The renowned jour-nalist’s son, Rahul, said the author had stopped writing a few weeks back, but he was reading papers every morning. “He had his favourite malt whisky, his first meal of the day. He was alert mentally till the very end.” Rahul said.

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God could not be every-where so he created parents. Especially the mother because she not only bears the child in her womb for 9 months but then goes through the battle of life and death to deliver this new life. She looks at this angel’s face and in her overwhelming giving nature forgets the pain she had been through. She nurtures this child who feels blessed in her arms and safe with her. She breast feeds and makes this child feel the warmth of an ocean of unconditional love that she has for her baby. She is the first teacher of the baby and some religions say that under her feet is the heaven, thus raising her to the po-sition where she sits next to The Lord! Father’s role is that of a provider and protector.

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ends up doing everything thing that otherwise two people would have done. These children are still lucky as there are some who lose both their parents.

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There is unfortunately no “user’s manual” on how to raise a child, it is Mother Nature that plays a huge part in this matter. Important thing is that the par-ents play their role to their 100 percent and children play theirs to their 100 percent.

Important is “gratitude” which gets lost somewhere in the fast paced life. We forget the pain that

our parents went through when they brought us up. How many of us have ever turned back and said “thanks” to them for taking care of us? Or thanked God for giving us parents? It is very important that we do so now before it’s too late. We usually realise their value once they are gone or away for some reason.

Believe me when I say it’s a blessing in disguise to have par-ents and even bigger blessing to find parental love in our in laws. Love is very important in our life and for us humans it’s part of our basic needs. Think about life where there is no hatred, no jeal-ousy, no complaints, no feelings of revenge, no anger, no blame and abundance of forgiveness!

Very easily you will brush this comment away by saying it’s not possible, or it’s more to do with changing other people around you. Well as they say charity begins at home and so how about being selfish here? How about nominating one day in a week, or a month or a year or a life time where we decide today I shall not be angry, hurt anyone, be jealous, blame anyone or think wrong about others. Just for today I will only give love and blessings, share other people’s pain, give donation or help others everything that is good and positive and nothing negative! After doing it analyze your feelings that you have at the end of that day comparatively to those when you had anger, com-plaints, frustrations and other unhappy experiences.

Remember the more expec-tations we have the more frustra-tions we face when these expec-tations are not met! Parents have expectations from their children and children from their parents and they feel it’s their right!

Unfortunately this is what is leading to majority of problems within parents and children and the best solution is “gratitude” feel grateful for having parents and stop taking them for granted thank them once in a while and tell them you love them, believe it or not many issues will get resolved just with this little act of kindness and love!

Parents must constantly do their task of being parents and selflessly raise their children without expectations because it’s God who gave this opportunity to the parents to do HIS task! Just the way we do our job at work properly and then expect rewards same way let’s do our job properly as parents and children and leave the rest to The Lord to decide! Remember Lord Krishna in Bhag-wad Gita said that we must do our “Karma” and leave the result to the Almighty Lord himself!

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Bollywood actor Amir Khan stays away from politics. Amir is busy hosting a TV show ‘Sa-tyamev Jayate’ . Amir said to jour-nalists at Indian women’s press corps (IWPC), “I don’t belong to the field of politics. Why does one enter politics, to contribute to the society..,,I can contribute to the society from where I am. This is why I would not join politics”.

Amitabh Bachan joined politics in 1984, supporting Rajiv Gandhi who was a family friend. He stood for elections in Allahabad and beat H.N Bahuguna, the former CM of UP by a re-cord margin. Unfortunately things turned against him af-ter his name appeared in the bofors scandal. He left active

politics then although he is still supporting Samajwadi party which is being run by his friend Amar Singh.

Jaya Bachan followed her husband and entered into politics but unlike him there was little limelight that was thrown on her. She got elected into Rajya Sabha


and represented Samajwadi party. Jaya supports other members more over Amar Singh but there are not many reports on any scuf-fles between Amar Singh and Jaya over this.

Hema Malini joined politics with her husband Dharmindra in 2004 and became a part of BJP. She did campaign for her friends like Vinod Khanna and is in fact leading a very

active political life. She was elected as General Secretary of BJP in 2010.

Jayaprada entered into politics with the introduction of N.T. Rama Rao, in south India. She was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in 1996. She also joined the Samajwadi Party and contested the elections under the party banner in 2004. However, she was expelled from the SP as she was suspected of anti- party activities.

When Shatrughan Sinha ran for elections for the first time, he was running against another celebrity, Shekhar Su-man. Bihar elected Sinha as their representative. In the 13th Lok Sabha, he held the portfolios of Department of Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Shipping. The for-mer cabinet minister is now an active member of the Bhartiya Janata Party.

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Indian politics has become an interesting battlefield where many battles have been fought since time immemorial but over the time things have taken many turns from Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru and other freedom fighters who dedicated their lives to the country to 2014 Elections where we can see Rahul Gandhi on one side trying to hold on to the legacy and Narinder Modi on the other hand fighting for power with Kejriwal in the middle holding his broom symbolizing his mission to clean up the political mess and corruption in the country.

Looking back from where we stand today if we see how Indian politics has evolved we can definitely say there has been a complete revolution. Jawahar Lal Nehru became the first Prime Minister in 1947; he drove India towards modern age of technological advancements and innovations. Moreover, he greatly

acknowledged democratic value and equality for all, regardless of caste, color or creed. He brought forward radical changes in domestic, international, eco-nomic, agricultural and social policies. He established numerous basic and heavy industries, which he believed were fundamental for Indian economy to take a step forward towards development and modernization.

Nehru advocated for a mixed economy where government controlled public sector co-existed peacefully with the private sector. He was a passionate supporter of education and believed that educating the young India was imperative for the country’s future growth and es-tablished numerous institutions of higher learning, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Management and the National Institutes

of Technology. He even included free and compulsory primary education to all children in his five-year plan. He laid the stepping stone for the foundation of the National Defence Academy India and the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AEC). Despite being a follower of peace and non-violence, he realized the importance of defence and tried to equip the country with the best modern equipment’s and de-fence methods to safeguard the freedom of the nation. He initiated the non-aligned movement (NAM) professing neutrality. He strongly supported the inclusion of People’s Republic of China in the United Nations to establish warm and friendly relations with the neighbouring country. It was during his tenure that the Portu-guese left Goa and the region became a part of India.

Upon Nehru’s death in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri became the new prime

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minister, and Indira took on the role of Minister of Information and Broadcasting. But Shastri’s leadership was short-lived; just two years later he abruptly died and Indira Gandhi was appointed by Con-gress Party leaders to be prime minister. Within a few years she gained enormous popularity for introducing successful programs that transformed India into a country self-sufficient in food grains—an achievement known as the Green Revo-lution.

In 1971, she led to the creation of Bangladesh; brought about a radical change in the country’s economic, polit-ical, international and national policies. She oversaw the implementation of over three Five-year plans - two of which were successful in meeting the targeted growth. One of her crucial economic decisions included the nationalization of fourteen major commercial banks. She then nationalized the coal, steel, copper, refining, cotton textiles, and insurance industries. The main aim of this move was to protect employment and secure the interest of the organized labor. As for the private sector industries, she brought them under strict regulatory control. She even nationalized the oil companies after the 1971 war against Pakistan when India faced oil crises. She changed the course of the nation - from an import dependent country, India could now manage a decent portion of its demands from domestic production. She mainly targeted at growth with stability and progressive achieve-ment of self-reliance. She also brought social reforms by introducing clauses in the Indian Constitution related to wages - equal pay for equal work to both men and women.

After Indira the next significant Prime Minister we can talk about is her son Rajiv Gandhi. He began to put an end to the License Raj, government quotas, tariffs and permit regulations on eco-nomic activity, modernized the tele-communications industry, the education system, expanded science and technology initiatives and improved relations with the

United States. He lead in a significantly different direction from Indira Gandhi`s socialism. He improved bilateral relations with the United States which was long affected by Indira`s socialism and close friendship with the USSR and expanded economic and scientific cooperation. He increased government support for science and technology and associated industries, and reduced import quotas, taxes and tariffs on technology-based industries, especially computers, airlines, defense and telecommunications. He introduced measures allowing businesses and individuals to purchase capital, con-sumer goods and import without red-tape and bureaucratic restrictions. In 1986, Rajiv announced a national education policy to modernize and expand higher education programs across India. In the year 1986 Rajiv Gandhi founded the Jawa-har Navodaya Vidyalaya System.

V.P. Singh became the seventh Prime Minister of India on December 2, 1989 and served till November 10, 1990. On the recommendation of the Mandal Commission, Singh passed a fixed quota reservation for all jobs in public sector for people falling under the historically disadvantaged “Other Backward classes” (abbreviated as OBC). However, this re-sulted in strong objection from non-OBC youth in urban areas of North India.

After VP Singh the next important role was played by P.V. Narasimha Rao. He was the first person outside the Neh-ru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Min-ister for five continuous years, the first to hail from southern India and also the first from the state of Andhra Pradesh. Since Rao had not contested the general elec-tions, he then participated in a by-elec-tion in Nandyal to join the parliament. Rao won from Nandyal with a victory margin of a record 5 lakh (500,000) votes and his win was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. His cabinet included Sharad Pawar, himself a strong contender for the Prime Minister’s post, as Defence Minister. He also broke a convention by appointing a non-political economist and

future prime minister, Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister.

Narasimha Rao changed the name of the Congress Party from Con-gress (Indira) to Bhartiya Rashtriya Con-gress (Indian National Congress), a sym-bolic but significant departure from one person owning up the party and to bring it back to its historic roots. Several com-mentators argue that while Rao should be rightly blamed for his failure to protect the Babri Masjid, at the same time, he should be given credit for initiating the process of economic reforms in India. His role in appointing Manmohan Singh as his finance minister and giving him the freedom to unveil the economic reforms package to bail the Indian economy out of an unprecedented crisis cannot be forgotten. Rao initiated many economic reforms that transformed India.

The next important Prime Minister in Indian Politics was Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In spite of the intense interna-tional criticism and the steady decline in foreign investment and trade, the nuclear tests in India were popular domestically. Effectively the international sanctions failed completely in swaying India’s decision to weaponize their nuclear ca-pability, something that was planned for and anticipated by the Vajpayee adminis-tration. He initiated a new peace process aimed towards permanently resolving the Kashmir dispute and other conflicts with Pakistan. His handling of the Kargil crisis is believed to have played a big part in garnering the votes.

He introduced many domestic economic and infrastructural reforms, including encouraging the private sector and foreign investments, reducing gov-ernmental waste, encouraging research and development and privatization of some government owned corporations. Vajpayee’s pet projects were the National Highway Development Project and Prad-han Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

Vajpayee’s administration earned


the ire of many trade unions and govern-ment workers for its aggressive campaign to privatise government owned corpora-tions. Vajpayee promoted pro-business, free market reforms to reinvigorate India’s economic transformation and expansion that were started by the former PM Narasimha Rao but stalled after 1996 due to unstable governments and the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Increased competitiveness, extra funding and sup-port for the information technology sector and high-tech industries, improvements in infrastructure, deregulation of trade, investments and corporate laws —- all increased foreign capital investment and set in motion an economic expansion.

In 2001, the Vajpayee govern-ment launched the famous Sarva Shik-sha Abhiyan, which aimed at improving the quality of education in primary and secondary schools. In late 2002 and 2003 the government pushed economic reforms, and the country’s GDP growth accelerated at record levels, exceeding 6–7%. Increasing foreign investment, modernisation of public and industrial in-frastructure, the creation of jobs, a rising high-tech and IT industry and urban mod-ernisation and expansion improved the nation’s international image. Good crop harvests and strong industrial expansion also helped the economy.

The government reformed the tax system, increased the pace of reforms and pro-business initiatives, major irrigation and housing schemes and so on. The political energies of the BJP shifted to the rising urban middle-class and young people, who were positive and enthusiastic about the major economic expansion and future of the country. He faced stiff opposition from other equally strong originations within Sangh Parivar such as the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. However, he continued with his aggressive economic reform policy.

Manmohan Singh’s was sworn in 2004 as the Indian Prime Minister. His

government has continued the Golden Quadrilateral and the highway modern-ization program that was initiated by Vajpayee’s government. Singh has also been working on reforming the banking and financial sectors, as well as public sector companies. The Finance ministry has been working towards relieving farm-ers of their debt and has been working towards pro-industry policies. In 2005, Singh’s government introduced the value added tax, replacing sales tax. In 2007 and early 2008, the global problem of inflation impacted India. Singh’s gov-ernment made many economic reforms; improved the health and education sector within the Nation.

Singh is known to be a pro-US leader and has contributed substan-tially in cementing the ties between the two countries. Singh has continued the pragmatic foreign policy that was started by P.V. Narasimha Rao and continued by Bharatiya Janata Party’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Singh has continued the peace process with Pakistan initiated by his predecessor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Singh’s government has also been improving foreign relations espe-cially expanding ties with Israel. Since 2003, the two countries have made significant investments in each other and Israel now rivals Russia to become India’s defence partner. Though there have been a few diplomatic glitches between India and Russia, especially over the delay and price hike of several Russian weapons to be delivered to India, relations between the two remain strong with India and Russia signing various agreements to increase defence, nuclear energy and space cooperation.

2014 Elections have Rahul Gand-hi on one side Narinder Modi on the other and Kejriwal in the middle. Rahul’s recent efforts as a lawmaker have centered on anti-corruption legislations and those that provide definitive rights to specific segments of society. The draft of six leg-islations on which Gandhi has been laying

thrust are the Judicial Standards and Ac-countability Bill; the Whistle Blowers Pro-tection Bill; the Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances Bill; the Prevention of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public Interna-tional Organizations Bill; the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill and the Public Procurement Bill.

Kejriwal established the AAP in November 2012 as he believed that elec-toral politics was the next logical step in the fight against corruption. This caused a rift between him and Hazare. The party name reflects the phrase Aam Aadmi, or “common man”, whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent. He became the fifth most mentioned Indian politician on social media channels in the run-up to the Delhi legislative assembly election of 2013.

AAP formed a minority govern-ment in the hung assembly, (claiming sup-port for the action gauged from opinion polls) with outside support from the eight Indian National Congress MLAs, one Janta Dal MLA and one independent MLA. Kejri-wal was sworn in as the second-youngest chief minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013, after Chaudhary Brahm Prakash who became chief minister at the age of 34. He was in charge of Delhi’s Home Min-istry, Power, Planning, Finance, Vigilance ministries. He resolved the problem of water and power to a great extent.

Narendra Modi is contesting the election from two constituencies: the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency and the Vadodara constituency. His candidacy is supported by spiritual leaders Ramdev and Morari Bapu, and by economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, who are apparently fascinated by Modi’s knowledge of economics. Indian Politics is looking forward to the next step in its revolution very eagerly. What is your view? Who do you think should be the next Prime Minister?


Ruby Bains: Vaisakhi is cer-tainly a great reminder to follow the true path to embark on Spiritual Journey and to em-brace One creed and obliterate differences of

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Davinder Benipal: It is the most festive and spiri-tual day for our family, as it marks the day the Sikhs received their in-signia and in honour of that we celebrate it with

the world. Waheguru Ji Ka Khal-sa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh. Happy Vaisakh

Amritjit Singh Saran: On this auspicious day I wish happiness and peace for everyone. I wish you a great Vaisakhi! Have lot of fun and may you all prosper now and through-

out the year. Nanak Naam Chardhi Kala Tere Bhane Sarbat Da Bhala.

Dr. Pargat Bhurji: Khalse de 315 saajna diwas di sare manukhta nu lakh lakh wadhayi hovey. Hirdey vich pyar hovey ghar vich anand atey sansar vich mitarta.

Pramod Sharma Rana: Wish you all Happy Vai-sakhi. May Mata Rani guide you towards peace and prosperity. Have a fulfilling Vaisakhi.

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Hardeep Gill: Celebrate the joyous occasion of Vai-sakhi with fun. Wishing you and your family a fun filled Vaisakhi and a prosperous year ahead. May Waheguru Ji show

us all the path of truth and compas-sion. Happy Baisakhi!

Monika Verma: Vaisakhi is the occasion to celebrate brotherhood and com-passion. May you have a good time with your loved ones. Be kind and love all. Happy Vaisakhi.

Manjinder Bharaj: I wish you a very Happy Vai-sakhi. May Waheguruji accept your good deeds, bring all the years full of love and contentment.

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Puneet Agarwal: Vaisakhi is a reminder to all of us to reflect on the personal and community develop-ment and revive the spir-it. Vaisakhi is a time to reconnect with the roots,

so children learn about our culture and religion. Happy Vaisakhi!!

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Satish Kumar born in Phillaur village of India in 1952. He belonged to a business family and did his Law degree from Kurukshetra University. A man with a warm generous heart with compassion and love decided to come to Canada to explore opportu-nities and make a difference in 1983.

Like many new immigrants he also struggled in the beginning did all kinds of odd jobs which even included fruit picking. He started his career as an insurance agent in 1983 and then there was no look-ing back. He gives credit to his honest and hard working approach 100 percent credit for his success.

Like there are many stars in the sky but some shine more than others so did this young entrepreneur. He is humble and in reality a gem of a person. He believes in giving and is actively involved in charity and giving to the poor and needy to the best of his ability. His sense of social responsibility is incredible and worth praising.

This humble insurance agent later opened another business as Satish Accounting, then ventured into building properties got involved in property development and con-struction business.

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In 2014 twelve cities are sched-uled to host matches: Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manuas, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janei-ro, where the final will be played at the rebuilt Estádio Mário Filho, better known as the Maracanã. It was at that stadium where the only previous World Cup held in Brazil concluded in 1950. All four previous World Cups in South America – Uruguay in 1930, Brazil in 1950, Chile in 1962 and Argentina in 1978 – have been won by teams from that continent.

Final tournament: The allocation for other confederations is: Asian Football Confederation (AFC) 4.5, Confederation of African Football (CAF) 5.0, Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) 3.5, South American Football Confed-eration (CONMEBOL) 4.5, Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) 0.5, and one slot for the hosts Brazil. The teams will be drawn into eight groups of four with the top two going into the knockout phase.

Following the news that the Bar-

celona goalkeeper has been removed from this summertime’s attraction, Goal is looking forward to other high-profile players who risk sitting out Victor Valdes’ name has been included to the escalating list of ce-lebrities expected to be excluded from this summer’s World Cup in Brazil because of injury.

The goalkeeper tore his anterior cruciate ligament in an innocuous incident during Barcelona’s routine 3-0 victory over Celta Vigo, not only ending his season, but his con-tribution in the Spain troop as they looked forward to defend their title. An excessive number of well-known names can share in Valdes’ pain. Roma confirmed every Dutch football admirer’s worst worries when mid-fielder Kevin Strootman was removed from the World Cup having torn the frontal cruciate muscle in his left knee because of an injury astoundingly just like the one suffered by Valdes.

Strootman, who underwent the problem during Roma’s Serie is not anticipated to coming back to the football ground till 2015. England has already lost the services of Arsenal

winger Theo Walcott. The fleet-footed wide man also ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament during an FA Cup clash with Tottenham in January, and will not be going to South America. His club team-mate Jack Wilshere broke his foot playing for England against Denmark and might not return to first team action until the second weekend of May, thus also placing doubts over his partaking in Brazil. Falcao is one more big name who has yielded to knee problems during this season. Colombian superstar Radamel Falcao seems unlikely to be fit in time for the World Cup after tearing his ACL during Monaco’s Coupe de France encounter against Chasselay at the end of January. Although For-ward’s rehabilitation is going on better than expected, he does face a huge challenge to be in a position of being ready by June.

Germany trio Holger Badstuber, Ilkay Gundogan and Sami Khedira have also been stricken by injury worries. Bayern defender Badstuber has been out with a cruciate ligament injury since November 2012 and it is still unclear as to when he will be able to return. Dortmund star Gundogan


has made just one Bunde-sliga appearance this season due to a back complaint and his comeback is also clouded by uncertainty. There is better news for Khedira who claims he will be back in Real Madrid training within weeks after rupturing knee ligaments in November, although he still needs to confirm his form and fitness.

In Italy, Fiorentina for-ward Giuseppe Rossi’s par-ticipation in Brazil seemed doubtful when he suffered a knee injury against Livorno in January. However the 26-year-old is expected to return to training in April, giving him the chance to

prove his fitness in the final weeks of the season.

Meanwhile, Portugal will have to make do with-out teenage starlet Bruma. The Galatasaray livewire also suffered an ACL injury in January and will be out for a minimum of six more months.

Finally, Japan captain Makoto Hasebe underwent surgery at the end of last month after injuring his right knee again. It is not yet known when the Nurn-berg player will be ready to return to action, but it is expected to go right down to the wire.


HistoryAndres Iniesta sprints across to the

Spanish support in the corner of Soccer City. His team-mates, substitutes and coaches flood over to embrace him. Be-fore he is bombarded by his colleagues, he tears off his jersey in haste to reveal a heartfelt message.

‘Dani Jarque. Siempre con no-sotros’, translated simply as ‘Dani Jarque. Always with us’. An emotional goal, an emotional tribute, and the cul-mination of an astonishing journey for the most successful international team of the modern era.

Spain, after years of being charac-terised by fantastic players but never fantastic teams, were favourites to tri-umph in South Africa at the 2010 World Cup. The generation of Raul had been unceremoniously brought to an end by the late Luis Aragones in 2006, a bold move vindicated by victory at Euro 2008. The World Cup was expected to authenticate the brilliance of this team.

After suffering a stunning loss to Switzerland in the opening match, they overcame every challenge with distinc-

tion. In the knockout stages, Portugal, Paraguay, and Germany all fell. Only the Netherlands remained.

The final itself was physical, and the intimidating behaviour of the Dutch represented a deliberate ruse to interrupt the slick Spanish passing game. Nigel De Jong and Mark van Bommel pum-melled through Xavi, Xabi Alonso and Iniesta with impunity. Punishment for their actions wasn’t forthcoming.

Still, chances for victory came and went. David Villa was denied by a heroic Johnny Heitinga block. Sergio Ramos inexplicably headed over from eight yards out. And, as the match entered extra-time, Cesc Fabregas could only find the legs of Maarten Stekelen-burg. Arjen Robben had missed a guilt-edged opportunity for the Oranje. It was tense, and increasingly unclear whether Spain would realise their destiny.

The match stretched deep into extra-time, so deep that teams usually settle for penalty kicks. Not this time. With four minutes remaining, Fabregas pounced on mis-control from Rafael van der Vaart to send Iniesta clear. The ball spun in the air off the end of his foot, and bounced once. It hung for

an age, then returned to a height from which Iniesta could strike. Van der Vaart slid in front, attempting to deny him. Iniesta’s half-volley is true, and careers into the net past Stekelenburg.

The joy on his face is intense, the sensation of success overwhelming. Starting again from the abyss, and then overcoming the distressing death of Dani Jarque. The defender had suffered a cardiac arrest 10 months previous. Tragedy enveloped the entire squad, but Iniesta in particular. They had been international colleagues at Under 17, 19, and 21 levels; friends. And in that moment, when Spain finally joined football’s elite nations, Iniesta remem-bered that friendship, and celebrated it in front of the watching world.

Speaking after the match, he said, “When the game finished a lot of the difficult moments flashed in front of me. But football sometimes gives back. Every situation has its moment and with this one I felt enormous happiness.”

Scoring the winning goal in a World Cup final is special. But to do so with the humbleness and honour of Iniesta makes his effort all the more memorable.


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He is a man of few words but great caliber. He has established a great empire of a booming business named The Rite Style Manufacturing Ltd. A millionaire who lives a very down to Earth life feels it’s hard work that has lead to his success and has great plans to continue doing it for all his life. In his view a man like him dies within a few days of his stopping to work. He has a passion which is rare to find.

He has the latest technology

that he is proud of because that top of the line Italian machinery and equipment has enabled him to minimize waste and optimize production. He is having the best possible software, hardware and manufacturing machines. His assembly line is very simple, clear, easy to understand and leads to perfection.

He is proud of the work that he does and has a message for the coming up new generation immigrants that “Hard Work in the key to success” no one can stop you from excelling if you have the “will” finding a “way” will not be hard! He is an example to all immigrants who feel that life is hard in Canada. Never leave hope as it may be late but if one is consis-tent with one’s

efforts and hard work to succeed there is no way one can ever fail.

He is a gen-erous man and does a lot of charity too. He holds eye camps and contrib-utes other chari-table activities. He is very kind and helpful business-man. He contrib-utes to the society in all possible ways that he can. He is a great employer too and works hard on his people, looks at

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People like him are rare to find who live each moment of their life to its full and cherish it as if it was their last! He wishes everybody a very Happy and pros-perous Vaisakhi!


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India is one of the the first and the supreme cultures in the world. Probably no other culture in the world that is as varied and unique as India. It is a vast country with a variety of geographical features and climatic conditions. India is home of an ancient civilization of Indus Valley as well as four major world religions, Hindu-ism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.

Indian culture is a compos-ite mixture of varying styles and influences. In the matter of cuisine, for instance, the North and the South are totally different. Festivals in India are characterized by color, gaiety, enthusiasm, prayers and rituals.

In the realm of music, there are varieties of folk, popular, pop, and classical music. The classi-cal tradition of music in India includes the Carnatic and the Hindustani music.

While the national languag-es are Hindi and English, there are about 22 official languages and nearly 400 living languages spoken in various parts of the country. Most of the languages of India belong to two families, Aryan and Dravidian.

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We humans are very forgetful and surprisingly have forgotten many basic facts of life. First act of life is breathe in and last is breathe out and during our life time we breathe all day everyday and yet never think about the importance of breath. According to Hindu mythology we have counted breaths and once we have taken all our breaths that we were granted by the divine we die. In olden days people practiced pranayama and yoga regularly and generated a lot of posi-tive energy in their body. They also practiced holding their breath for long periods of time and hence lived a much longer and healthier life than what we do now. God has given us body mind and soul, in this body is a temple and the soul is the God and the mind is a priest. The way we keep our temples, neat and clean with a lot of devotion, dedication and love. We need to treat our body mind and soul the same way.

Think about it for a second, would you offer fast food to The Lord? Meat? Alcohol? If course not then why would you offer that to the divine in your body? Today

we have very little time for ourselves and whenever we need to steal more time we steal it out of our meal time. This has made our life more and more mechanical leading us to more health problems, more stress, depression and other discomforts. We then complaint that we don’t get peace in life and then blame it on the fast pace of time or in circumstances. We forget our own contribu-tion to the situation.

We do not wish to take responsi-bility of our actions and we turn a blind eye when someone shows us the mirror. What has gone wrong? How can it be fixed? Answer is simple “introspect” stop and think about what is the aim of your life? What are you doing to achieve it? Whatever you are doing is it leading to your mental satisfaction besides monetary gains? Meditation, yoga or any type of physical exercise, and the three “s”( Sewa, Satsang and Simran) approach can help. Sewa means service, helping oth-ers, donations, serving the poor and needy. Satsang is to be together with like minded people and sing in the praise of The Lord!

Simran is to chant his name think about God all the time with every breath if possible breath in and out his name! Live in gratitude, HE has given us a lot to be grateful for, For once let’s stop asking for what more we want from him or go to his door with complaint, let’s just for once whole heartedly offer grat-itude for all that we have already received and see how it feels. God is Love and in Love we can find God.

Think about the unconditional love of Meera and Radha for Lord Krishna! We might have an excuse that they were divine and that they were different well so are we. He makes us all the same it’s our choice what we do with this precious gift of life! With the remaining breaths in our life now what is your plan? Invest them or spend them choice is always there it’s upto us which path we choose! Wishing you a very happy Vaisakhi! May The Lord show us all the right path!

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Today we have very little time for ourselves and whenever we need to steal more time we steal it out of our meal time.


This is my attempt to give all Hindi cinema fans a brief look into Bollywood’s Kal Aaj Aur Kal (past, present and future) in my STYLE. I tend to use lot of relevant movie names in my writing.

First of all let me make my PEHCHAAN. I am EK, DIL SE RAN-GEELA HINDUSTANI, BAMBAI KA BABU who left APNA DESH to make BASERA in PARDES LEKIN BEES SAAL BAAD, PHIR BHI DIL HAI HINDUSTANI.

The name Bollywood was coined as a portmanteau derived from Bombay and Hollywood, the American counterpart city. Though Bollywood is not a physical city like Hollywood, it refers to the Indian Film Industry.

Thank God they did this when it was called Bom-bay; other-wise it would

have been called MULLYWOOD (Mumbai + Hollywood).

Though the Khans (Aamir, Sal-man and Shah Rukh) are still dominat-ing the 100plus crore club with movies like Chennai Express, Dhoom3 and Jai Ho, the year 2014 in my opinion, belong to the younger lot like GUN-DAY Arjun Kapoor & Ranveer Singh. In addition, BESHARAM Ranbir Kapoor, along with his co-star Deepika Padukone ruled the box-office and the hearts of moviegoers in 2013 in YEH JAWANI HAI DEEWANI. Deepika also gave 2 more 100plus crore movies last year, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Goli-yon Ki Rassleela RAM-LEELA and Rohit Shetty’s Chennai Express with Shah Rukh Khan.

Farhan Akhtar (writer-direc-tor-actor-singer), son of film actress and an award-winning screenwriter Honey Irani (Aaina, Lamhe, Kya Kehna, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, Armaan) showed his dedication and talent and won the very well deserved best actor award in Rakeysh Omprakash Meh-ra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He is truly a multitalented artist just like his father, Javed Akhtar. Javed sahab started his career writing scripts in early 70’s with Salim Khan (Salman-Arbaaz and Sohail’s father). Salim-Javed wrote stories, screenplays and dialogs for many superhits that played a huge role in Amitabh Bachchan’s stardom in the 70’s. These include Zanjeer, Sholay, Majboor, Dostana, Kaala Patthar, Shaan, Trishul and Don, to name a few. Javed sahab gained similar success as a lyricist just like his father Jan Nisar Akhtar. I guess it runs in the family.

Another versatile actor-cum-singer-CUM-DONOR, NAUTANKI SAALA, Ayushman Khurana showed

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great potential last year. I absolutely loved his performance in his debut film VICKY DONOR, directed by Soorjit Sirkar, who later directed another off-beat thriller MADRAS CAFÉ, released in 2013. Both of Soorjit’s directorial ventures were produced by John Abra-ham. I am hoping for a HATTRICK from this successful union. Speaking of a hat-trick, Ayushman’s 3rd release, BEWAKOOFIAN hasn’t been as well received as expected, but his chem-istry with co-stars Rishi Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor has been admired by many. He is also working in Dum Laga Ke Haisha by Maneesh Sharma, another hat-trick director of Band Baja Baraat, Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl and Shuddh Desi Romance. I wish Ayush-man great success in 2014, as he has been selected to play a Marathi scientist in a period biopic, BOMBAY FAIRYTALE. Let’s see how much fight this title has to face for using the name Bombay in a SATTA, the right-wing Hindu nationalist party Shiv-Sena who made such a well-known name, BOM-BAY changed to Mumbai in 1995.

The newly crowned QUEEN of 2014 is Kangana Ranaut, who is getting her dues with some great projects. Though I never liked RAJJO’s (Kan-

gana’s) WOH LAMHE in the past, I had NO PROBLEM appreciating her LIFE IN METRO and walk on the ramp in FASHION by Madhur Bhandarkar. His movie failed to make Kareena Kapoor Khan a better HEROINE though. Kangana also gave a KNOCK OUT performance in TANU WEDS MANU, which unfor-tunately didn’t do as well. Her recent role in Rakesh Roshan’s mega block-buster KRRISH 3 and it’s stunningly picturized song “dil tu hi bataa” song with the hunk Hrithik Roshan gave her much needed notice. You will soon see

her causing DARD to MARD in REVOLVER RANI, a film directed by Sai Kabir Shrivastav and produced by Raju Chadha.

Another Student Of The Year

(SOTY) is Alia, a promising young actor from the Bhatt dynasty. She is step-sister to Pooja Bhatt and daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Rajdaan, the actress from the art cinema. You will also see Alia in 2 STATES releas-ing in April 2014 with Arjun Kapoor (Ishaqzaade, Aurangzeb and Gunday). Alia’s career looks quite promising on the Bollywood HIGHWAY (made by Imtiaz Ali).

Var-un Dhawan is also in the

RACE of becoming a HERO NO.1. He has what Govinda had in the 90’s: good comic timing, physique, danc-ing ability and backing of the comedy masala director No.1 David Dhawan, who made Govinda a star with mov-ies like Hero No.1, Coolie No.1 and others. Unlike most star sons, Varun’s debut movie SOTY was not produced or directed by his father David. He was LUCKY to be launched by Karan Johar’s DHARMA PRODUCTIONS. You will see Varun with Ileana D’Cruz (BARFI and PHATA POSTER NIKLA

HERO) and Nargis Fakhri (Rock-star and Madras Cafe) in MAIN TERA HERO, which is directed by none other than David Dhawan under BALAJI banner and slated to release in early April.

There are also other prom-ising actors who made their mark in last couple of years, and have great potential if given the right script and directors. This includes Sushant Singh Rajput (TV series Pavitra Rishta), who debuted in a wonderful movie called KAI PO CHE with Rajkummar Yadav/Rao. His potential was immedi-


ately noticed and was followed up by another hit. We saw Sushant in Shuddh Desi Romance with Pariniti Chopra, and Rajkummar Rao in Shahid as well as Queen with Kangana Ranaut.

Now let’s talk about Aashiqui too (2). It was a runaway success of 2013 that swept a lot of awards. The Bhatt touch repeated history by showcasing some new talents and jump-start-ed the careers of many not-so-well-known artists in Bollywood just like Aas-hiqui did in the 90’s. Actors Mushtaq Khan and Deep-ak Tijori; music director Nadeem Shravan; lyricist Sameer (son of Anjaan); singers Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Puadhwal were all around, just like Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, as well as music di-rectors Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly and Mithoon Sharma, but became famous and more sought-after names after the success of their Aas-hiqui’s. The superhit title song, “tum hi ho” sung by Arijit Singh, who was also one of top six contestants in a reali-ty-singing series, Fame Gurukul in 2005. The latter will do to Arriji Singh what the original did to the career of Kumar Sanu. The original also intro-duced two unconventional looking actors, Rahul Roy (winner of Bigg Boss season 1) and Anu Agarwal. Both of them did not do as well and disap-peared after appearing in some average films. One fun fact is that Rahul ROY’s voice was dubbed by ADITYA Pancho-

li in Aashiqui. Here is another fun fact related to this trivia. Rahul ROY with ADITYA Pancholi’s voice in Aashiqui, and the lead actor in Aashiqui 2 was

ADITYA ROY Kapoor. What a coincidence.

We also saw the return of Madhuri Dixit-Nene in an item song in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, as well as a main lead in Vishal Bhardwaj’s bold sequel DEDH-ISHQIYA with great Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Huma Qureshi (Luv Shuv Tey Chick-en Khurana, Gangs of

Wasseypur and D-Day). Madhuri’s ri-val from the 90’s, Juhi Chawla who also reintroduced herself in a negative role and appeared with her for the first time in Gulaab Gang. It had a great start at the box-office but got overshadowed by the QUEEN.

Movies slated for 2014 release:

Main Tera Hero: April 2014

2 States: April 2014

Revolver Rani: April 2014

Humshakals by Sajid Khan with Saif Ali Khan

Bang Bang directed by Sid-dharth Raj Anand. The film features Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif in lead roles.

Desi Magic, directed by Mehul Atha. It is a romantic comedy movie starring Ameesha Patel, Zayed Khan and Randhir Kapoor in the lead roles.

The Villain is an upcoming action romance film directed by Mohit Suri (Aashiqui). It features Sidharth Malhotra (SOTY), Riteish Deshmukh, Shraddha Kapoor (Aashiqui) and Amrita Puri.

Gabbar is an upcoming Hindi action drama film, directed by Krish and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhan-sali and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. It features Akshay Kumar and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles.

Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is an upcoming Bollywood action thriller film written and direct-ed by A.R. Murugadoss, and produced by Vipul Shah.

P.K. (also spelled Peekay) is an upcoming 2014 Hindi satiric film (why ital-ics?) directed by Rajkumar Hi-rani. The film is slated to release on 25 Decem-

ber 2014 with Aamir and Anushka Sharma. Year-end seems to be lucky for Aamir as 3 Idiots and Dhoom 3 were both released in December.

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We live in a world where we are bombarded with millions of bits of data coming at us through various channels whether it is the television, radio, or the internet. All these sources tell us how to dress, eat, and behave gripping us in the outer world that we perceive through our senses. Despite advancements in the field of technology, science, medicine, and education our planet is in a greater state of chaos and disen-chantment than it has ever been before. Wars, poverty, natural calamities, and diseases such as cancer are wreaking havoc in our modern world.

The world is in a complete imbalance when it comes to the natural harmony on the planet and the material kingdom. This is because humanity has lost its connection with the spiritual basis of life.

For centuries our Vedic tradition of knowledge has been the source of spiritual knowledge and practices like meditation, yoga, yagya, etc. for all of mankind. While there has been a resur-gence of interest in these practices in recent years, a lot of these practices and their practitioners are not authentic. At the same time, the tradition of training authentic Vedic experts – Vedic Pandits – has been in steady decline, and it is

becoming more and more difficult even for our mandirs to obtain properly trained Pandits.

We should all be concerned about this trend, as it does not bode well for the preservation of our spiritual, cultural and religious heritage for future gener-ations.

The good news is that there are a number of organizations trying to reverse this, and they deserve our support.

In this article I wanted to high-light one such organization that is lead-ing the way in training Vedic Pandits in their ancient role as peace-keepers for society – Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation.

Founded by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1980’s, this orga-nization has trained over 50,000 Vedic Pandits, many of whom are employed in temples and mandirs throughout India and the world.

The uniqueness of Maharishi’s organization is that its training fully develops the consciousness of the

Pandit by establishing the awareness of the Pandit in Atma – the spiritual basis of life. This is achieved through daily practice of Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, Maharishi’s revival of the practice of the Patanjali’s Yog Sutras.

This is a critical aspect of the Pandits training, because then when they perform yagya or anusthan from the level of Atma, where sound and its material form are one, the yagya is enormously powerful and fulfills its purpose.

As we know from our tradition, Yagya is a time-honored practice for the prevention of problems and the promotion of success and good for-tune. Yagya involves the application of specific, prescribed sounds from the Vedas, and through recitation on a fine level of awareness by trained Vedic Pandits can achieve a specific effect:

How Vedic Knowledge Can Creat a Better World

PRESERVING OUR VEDIC HERITAGE


for example, to eliminate obstacles, avert impending dangers, or promote health, financial success—even world peace.

Maharishi also revived the tradition of large groups of Pandits performing Yog and Yagya daily to restore harmony and dharma in society, something that was upheld by some of India’s ancient Rajas.

For example, Vedic scripture refers to both Shri Ram and Yudhisthira as maintaining thousands of Vedic Pandits in daily per-formance of Yagya for the welfare of society. In modern times, this has been all but forgotten by our leaders.

However, in recent years science has been inves-tigating whether it is possi-ble for such Vedic experts to produce this effect in society. More than 20 experiments involving large groups of people practicing Mahari-shi’s Transcendental Med-itation and Sidhi program together has shown positive results. During periods when a large enough group is together, there are signif-icant decreases in societal problems such as crime, armed conflict and negative economic trends.

Furthermore, between 1987 and 1990 Mahari-shi assembled a group of 8,000 Vedic Pandits who performed Yog and Yagya daily. It was during this peri-od that the world witnessed a remarkable transformation - the end of the cold war, fall of the Berlin wall, and con-flicts subsiding throughout the world.

All of this points to a way to maintain greater peace and restore balance in our world, that only our tradition can offer.

Such organizations as the Brahmananda Sarswati Foundation need our support to push forward the goals of preserving our Vedic heritage and training and employing more Vedic Pan-dits in chanting, yagya, and

meditation in order to bring about a change in global consciousness and mitigate violence, terrorism, and crime. These scientifically verified practices, based on ancient Vedic knowledge, can do so much to solve so-cieties problems and restore balance between the spiritual and material in our world.

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There are five main acts – 1774 Quebec Act, 1791 Act (Upper Canada and Lower Canada separation), 1867 British North America Act, 1969 Official Language Act and 1982 Cana-dian Carter of Rights and Freedoms.

There are hundreds of other things about Geography, History, political system and people of Canada the test takers are supposed to learn properly before writing their Canadian Citizenship Test in order to become Canadian Citizen. More-over, they are expected to have good command over English or French.

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