Shaheed Bhagat Singh Quotes

Pic: Shaheed Bhagat Singh at 11 years of age

"I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me" - P.43 of Shaheed Bhagat Singh's Jail notebook


"The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life" - from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p.124


"Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy" - As quoted in The Sikh Review, Vol. 55 (2007), p. 173


"I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hindrance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future" - Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1986), P.65


"If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free" - As quoted in Awakening Indians to India (2008), p.82


"Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat
I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail" - Jail Note Book of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1929)


"One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase" - Letter published in The Tribune (25 December 1929)


"Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary" - Why I am an atheist? (1930)


"By "Revolution", we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars" - As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology (1981) by Shiri Ram Bakshi







 

Bhagat Singh in Lahore College photo







 bhagt singh, sukhdev and rajdev.







Front page of the Tribune (25 March 1931) published from Lahore, reporting the execution of Bhagat singh




Bhagat Singh's Death Warrant




News of Execution







Gallows at Central Jail Lahore where Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and Many Other Revolutionaries were hanged.

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Amazing innovations from Indian school children

Amazing innovations from Indian school children - we present some of the innovations -- from Class 1 to Class 12 std students -- and their innovators from different parts of the country - all student-innovators are a part of IGNITE 2010 contest.

IGNITE is a national competition to harness the creative and innovative spirit of school children.

In pic: T Chris Ananth from Class 1, Bell Matric Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

Young Ananth's idea is to have a vacuum cleaner like small device in a shoe that could suck in dust when a person walks.

The base of the shoe would also have a small dust bag in which this dust may be collected.

Masha Nazeem
Class 12
Vidhya Vikas Girls High Sec School
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu


Masha's device helps people specially women, old and children to lift and move heavy objects from one place to other.


This transportable device has a wooden base that can be raised through a jack like mechanism to lift weight.


This device can be hand or foot operated.






Aditya Parashar
Class 7
Tagore Vidya Mandir
Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh


The idea is to incorporate a microphone in the side view mirror in a car to pick up the horn frequencies of vehicles following the car.


Sometimes, when the door windows are up and music is playing, it becomes difficult to hear the horn. The microphone gets activated when the window glasses are up, and sends signal to a vibratory pad on the steering, which will alert the driver about another vehicle following.


He has many other ideas as well like a remote that takes energy from TV light or any other natural/artificial source of light, and a luggage carrier on the top of automobiles with a rotatory base so that one needs just to rotate the carrier to pick up any luggage on any side.






Archana Konwar
Class 8
Butacore High School
Dhemaji, Assam


Archana's idea is to have a crutch with shock absorbers for the comfort of the user and also a bell to alert other commuters and a light to be used during the night.






Ashok Aasrani
Class 12
Shubham Sen Sec School
Jaipur, Rajasthan


Ashok has designed many simple and low cost exercising devices that help accident victims in rehabilitation.


These are also very useful for people with limb disorders. Some of his machines have already been installed in physiotherapy centres where the feedback has been very positive.






Ashuni Patel
Class 10
Navrachna School
Vadodara, Gujarat


Sai Sri Ram
Class 9
Don Bosco Public School
Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh


Who has not faced the problem of misplacing an object or forgetting where it has been kept. Ashuni and Sai Ram's device makes it easy to locate them.


This device can be attached with any item that people generally tend to misplace/forget about.


It is fitted with transmitters/receiver, LED and a sound device. When its remote is pressed, sound is emitted from the device tagged to an item/article and the user can trace its location.






Divyam Gupta
Class 10
Delhi Public School
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh


In order to prevent people from using mobile phones while driving, Divyam suggests placing touch sensors on the gear lever and the steering.


This means that both the hands need to be either on the steering or on the steering and the gear lever. If anytime, the driver's hand is not on either steering or gear lever (for more than designated seconds), the system will infer that either s/he is using a mobile phone or not carefully handling the steering.


Based on this, the system may react, which can be preprogrammed.


This reaction, as per the programming, may be slowing down the vehicle and bringing it to a halt after some delay, moving to side by giving indicator or simply giving an alert alarm to the driver.






Hetal Vaishnav
Class 12
Late Shri SG Dholakiya Memorial High School
Rajkot, Gujarat


By appropriate heat treatment of multilayer film plastic packaging waste, Hetal has converted it into a composite plastic material.


This material can then further be used for making various articles and sheets with the help of extrusion, injection or compression moulding.


Hetal got this material tested at different laboratories and has also filed a patent for the same as well.






Kaushik Boruah
Class 9
Vivekanand Kendra Vidyalaya
Golaghat, Assam


The process developed by Kaushik helps to obtain continuous silk filaments from the cut or pierced muga cocoons.


Traditionally, the cut/pierced cocoons are used to make gicha yarn in the villages. Using this process, 50 per cent of silk from these cocoons can be recovered; rest can be used to make gicha yarn.






Manibhushan Prasad
Class 12
Sindri College
Dhanbad, Jharkhand


Manibhushan suggests each vehicle to have signal (may be IR, infra red) emitters and corresponding sensors.


When the driver presses horn, signals are transmitted (instead of sound), which are picked up by the car in front and a beep alert is there in its dashboard along with a light signal.






Mayank Walia
Class 12
Police DAV School
Jallandhar, Punjab


Mayank's idea is to develop a gadget that can be worn on a hand and which can be moved over text or Braille.


It uses sensors that scan text and Braille and convert it into audio signals for the blind /visually challenged.






Parth Vaidya
Class 12
Vidya Vijay Bal Mandir
Indore, Madhya Pradesh


Parth has developed a system to process waste water so that it can be used for different purposes like irrigation, construction, washing or producing manure.


Indore Municipal Corporation has in principle agreed to install the system in new residential colonies.


GlaxoSmithKline has also implemented the same in their premises.






Rahul K Singh
Class 12
DAV Kapil Dev School
Ranchi, Jharkhand


Rahul's idea is to have a pen that recharges a small battery while one writes.


The pressure on the tip of the pen while writing is being used to charge a small battery.






Rashmi Maruvada
Class 5
Patha Bhavan High School
Kolkata, West Bengal


Rashmi's idea is to have a tricycle, which will have an inbuilt navigation system with an audio announcement system to inform the rider about the places/landmarks enroute.


Such a tricycle would make it easy for a visually impaired person to travel.




Riya Kothari, Nimran Kang, Kaamya Sharma and Mehr S Mehta
Class 6
Vasant Valley School
New Delhi
The idea is to have a bicycle with two brooms attached to the back wheel. The brooms rotate as one pedals and the brushes sweep away the dust making the drive way clean.


The cycle may optionally include an extra dustbin attached to the front to collect large scraps and pieces of garbage.






Shruti Tyagi
Class 11
Police DAV School
Jallandhar, Punjab


Shruti visualises a wall-mounted electronic calendar, which has an in-built organiser and reminder facility so that one can never miss any event or an engagement.


She has a number of other ideas as well including a push button type stand in two wheelers for the ease of women and old people and voice actuated switch for television and other appliances.






Varsha Singh
Class 8
Apeejay School
Jalandhar, Punjab


Working on a project, Varsha has found out that the said plant can be used as a termite and tick repellent.


Earlier reports mention the use of this plant mainly as a fish poison.





Vishan Popat
Class 10
Navrachna School
Vadodara, Gujarat

Pineapple peeling is a very tedious and cumbersome job, which has been made easy by this device.

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Rabindarnath Tagore

As an activist, thinker, poet and rural reconstructionist, Rabindarnath Tagore continues to be relevant! Displayed here are some rare snaps of Tagore!


In pic: Tagore felicitating Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi at the mango grove in Santiniketan, 1940.




Speaking at Berlin University. Tagore spoke to packed halls during his first visit to war-ravaged Germany in 1921.




Tagore with Helen Keller, when he visited New York in 1930.




Flanked by Sir Maurice Gwyer (right) and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan after a special convocation held by Oxford University at Santiniketan on August 7, 1940, to confer on Tagore the degree of D.Litt.






Tagore with niece Indira Devi in Valmiki Pratibha, 1881.


At twenty he wrote his first drama-opera: Valmiki Pratibha (The Genius of Valmiki).


Composed in 1881, the opera was first performed at the Jorasanko Thakur Bari on 26 February 1881. Tagore himself played the role of Valmiki. It was staged in front of some eminent literary personalities of contemporary Bengal like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Gooroodas Banerjee and Haraprasad Shastri.


Tagore wrote in his reminiscence, Jibansmriti, “[In Valmiki-Pratibha] I played Valmiki and my niece Pratibha played Saraswati – this history remains in the naming of Valmiki-Pratibha.





Rabindranath Tagore and Mukul Chandra Dey with Kiyo-san and another Japanese lady at Tomitaro Hara's 'Sankeien' - Yokohama, Japan, August 1, 1916.


Mukul Chandra Dey was a student of Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. He is considered as a pioneer of drypoint-etching in India. He was the first Indian artist to travel abroad for the purpose of studying printmaking as an art. While in Japan in 1916, Mukul Dey studied under Yokoyama Taikan and Kanzan Shimomura at Tokyo and Yokohama. At Yokohama Rabindranath Tagore and Mukul Dey lived as guests of Japanese silk-merchant Tomitaro Hara at his famous residential complex Sankeien, enjoying a rare opportunity to study classical Chinese and Nihonga style Japanese paintings. Especially the masterpieces of Sesshu Toyo.





Rabindranath Tagore at his painting desk, Government School of Art, Calcutta, 1932




Rabindranath Tagore with Brahmacharyashrama boys – Santiniketan 1903.

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Inspiring Indians

Nine Indian-origin people feature in Forbes 2011 list of under-30 achievers - Forbes lists them as "Tomorrow's Brightest Stars" who are "reinventing the world". 


Following are the nine Indians in Forbes' '30 under 30' list, 2011 -


In pic: Manvir Nijhar, Co-Head Of European Equity Derivatives Sales at Citigroup.


This 28-year-old London School of Economics graduate left BNP Paribas after a four-year stint to give "Citi's derivatives business a jolt."





Kunal Shah, a 29-year-old Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.


He is the youngest managing director the global financial giant has ever seen, Shah was promoted at 27 and is the "Cambridge math grad turned rock star emerging markets trader."




This 27-year-old Maneet Ahuja is a producer at CNBC and a hedge fund expert who has been on Wall Street since she was 17.






This 24-year-old Nikhil Arora, co-Founder of 'Back To The Roots' sells 'grow-your-own-mushroom' kits using 1 million lbs of recycled coffee grounds.


Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, are the Co-Founders of Back To The Roots.

Param Jaggi, 17, Inventor, Austin College - 

Award-winning high schooler who created algae-filled device that fits over a car's tailpipe and turns carbon dioxide into oxygen. He received a sustainability award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for his anti-pollution invention.

Making a mark in the field of science is 29-year-old Raj Krishnan, Chief Executive of Biological Dynamics who is developing blood tests that use electric fields to detect key signals that a patient has cancer from the blood.

At 27, Sidhant Gupta, a graduate student at the University of Washington, is developing new sensors and software for the home that conserve electricity, heat and gas.





Vikas Mohindra, Financial Advisor at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch - This 25-year-old broker gathered $ 38 million in three years from scratch, including a $ 5 million retirement savings plan.





This 23-year-old Vivek Nair, Chief Executive of Damascus Fortune, who is developing a technology that transforms industrial carbon emissions into carbon nanotubes.

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