Anna hazare

Anna Hazare was born as Kisan Baburao Hazare on January 15, 1940 in Bhingar, Ahmednagar  district in Maharashtra. This well-known social worker hails from a modest background. His father was an unskilled laborer and they owned 5 acres of cultivable land. Adverse farming conditions pushed their family into the grip of poverty and in 1952 Hazare moved into his ancestral home in Ralegan Siddhi. He was brought up by a childless aunt who financed his education in Mumbai but financial instability pushed him into selling flowers for a living and he had to quit studies after class VII. Soon after he was recruited in the Indian Army and trained as a truck driver and was given a posting in Punjab. His days in the Army were spent in reading books by great philosophers like Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave. Their thoughts inspired him to devote his life to social work. Two near-fatal mishaps in the 1965 war with Pakistan changed his outlook towards life and seeking voluntary retirement from the army he returned to his ancestral village in 1975. Ralegan Siddhi, his ancestral village, was then in the grip of drought and poverty.

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For the betterment of the condition of the village he began to work independently. He used his entire savings for the developmental work of the village. He motivated the villagers into voluntary labor by his Gandhian philosophy. Canals and bunds were built to hold rainwater which solved the water scarcity problem and also increased irrigational possibilities in the village. Solar panels were fitted all over the village to provide electricity, biogas plants met the people’s need for household fuel and wind pumps too were set-up.

Change — He Believed In

The village no longer suffered from water scarcity and it has its own grain bank, milk bank and a school. Poverty no longer existed in the village and Hazare himself has successfully motivated the villagers to give up vices like alcohol. Great emphasis is also laid on education, removal of untouchability and collective marriage and the setting up of the Gram Sabha.

Anna Hazare has truly emerged as the “anna” or elder brother of his village and his stature today is no less than that of a saint. His immense appeal was proved when he was once arrested in connection with a defamation case in 1998. Following mass public protests, he was immediately released. His achievements have won him many awards like the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award,the Krishi Bhushana award, the Padmashree.

Awards

• Padmashree award by government of India in the year 1990
• Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award, by government of India on November 19, 1986 from the hands of Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi.
• Krishi Bhushana award by Maharashtra government in 1989.
• Felicitation by Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation 15 January 1987
• Felicitation by Pune Municipal Corporation.
• On April 15, 2008, Kisan Baburao Hazare received the World Bank’s 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service: “Hazare created a thriving model village in Ralegan Siddhi, in the impoverished Ahmednagar region of Maharashtra state, and championed the right to information and the fight against corruption.”

A P J Abdul Kalam

Bharat Ratna Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007. During his term as The President, he was popularly known as the People's President. Before his term as India's president, he worked as an engineer with DRDO and ISRO and was awarded India's highest civilian honor Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with ISRO and DRDO and his role as a scientific advisor to the Indian government. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology. In India he is highly respected as a Statist and as an Engineer.

Kalam played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. He is a professor at Anna University (Chennai) and adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. Although he is an engineer he has received many honorary doctorate degrees.

With the death of R. Venkataraman on January 27, 2009, Kalam became the only surviving former President of India.

Kalam's father was a devout Muslim, who owned boats which he rented out to local fishermen and was a good friend of Hindu religious leaders and the school teachers at Rameshwaram. APJ Abdul Kalam mentions in his biography that to support his studies, he started his career as a newspaper vendor. This was also told in the book, A Boy and His Dream: Three Stories from the Childhood of Abdul Kalam by Vinita Krishna. The house Kalam was born in can still be found on the Mosque street in Rameshwaram, and his brother's curio shop abuts it. This has become a point-of-call for tourists who seek out the place. Kalam grew up in an intimate relationship with nature, and he says in Wings of Fire that he never could imagine that water could be so powerful a destroying force as that he witnessed when he was thirty three. That was in 1964 when a cyclonic storm swept away the Pamban bridge and a trainload of passengers with it and also Kalam's native village, Dhanushkodi.

Kalam observes strict personal discipline, vegetarianism, teetotalism and celibacy. Kalam is a scholar of Thirukkural; in most of his speeches, he quotes at least one kural. Kalam has written several inspirational books, most notably his autobiography Wings of Fire, aimed at motivating Indian youth. Another of his books, Guiding Souls: Dialogues on the Purpose of Life reveals his spiritual side. He has written poems in Tamil as well. It has been reported that there is considerable demand in South Korea for translated versions of books authored by him.

Dr. Kalam received an honorary doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sri Sri Mahaprasthanam

 

" Humans are my message; Man is my music."

- Sri Sri (Srirangam Srinivasa Rao).

Srirangam Srinivasa Rao or Sri Sri as he is better known,was born in 1910 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He is one of the greatest Telugu poets to have been born and was one of the first to write about contemporary issues affecting the average man of the day. He wrote visionary poems in a style and metre not used before in telugu classical poetry.He moved poetry forward from traditional mythological themes to reflect more contemporary issues.

His major work - `MAHAPRASTHANAM' was an anthology of poetry which began with the poem `Mahaprasthanam'. I would like to share the pleasure we had in reading this poem with all other existing and potential fans of Sri Sri one of his most famous poems: 'Mahaprasthanam'.

Mahaprasthanam Downloading Links :

Part 1,2,3,4 


Part 5,6,7,8 


Part 9,10,11,12 


Part 13,14,15,16 

Leader (2009) - Raana

 

Movie : Leader

Cast : Rana Daggubati, Priya Anandh, Richa Gangopadhyay
Music : Mickey J Meyer
Director : Sekhar Kammula
Producer: M Saravanan, MS Guhan

01.Maa Telugu Thalliki 

Singers : Late Sri Tanguturi Surya Kumari

Lyrics : Sri Sankarambadi Sundaraachari

02.Aunana Kaadana 

Singers : Naresh Iyer, Shweta Pandit

Lyrics : Dr.Veturi Sundararamamurthy

03.Vandemataram 

Singers : Nakash Aziz

Lyrics : Dr.Veturi Sundararamamurthy

04.Rajasekhara 

Singers : Shweta Pandit

Lyrics : Dr.Veturi Sundararamamurthy

05.Hey CM 

Singers : Sunita Sarathy

Lyrics : Dr.Veturi Sundararamamurthy

06.Sreelu Pongina 

Singers : Krishna Chaitanya, Siddharth, Kranthi, Sashi Kiran, Aditya

Lyrics : Sri Rayaprolu Subba Rao gaaru

07.Leader Instrumental 

Singers : Mickey J. Meyer & Shehnai By Balesh

Lyrics : -------

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Varudu (2010) - Allu Arjun

 

Cast: Allu Arjun, Bhanu Sri
Director: Gunasekhar

Music: Manisharma
Lyrics: VeturiLanguage: Telugu
Year: 2010

01.Saare Jahaa

Singers: Benny Dayal

 02.Aidhurojula Pelli

Singers: Jamuna Rani,

 Hemachandra, Malavika

Vijayalakshmi, Sunanda, Ranjith 

03.Kalalu Kaavule 

Singers: Hemachandra, Malavika

04.Thalambraalatho 

Singers: Hemachandra, Malavika

05.Bahusha Vo Chanchalaa 

Singers: Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal

06.Aidhurojula Pelli 

Singers: Hemachandra, Malavika

07.Relaare Relaare 

Singers: Karthik

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Who is the INDIAN...?

An American visited India and went back to America
Where he met his Indian friend who asked him
How did u find my Country
The American said it is a great country
With solid ancient history and immensely rich with natural resources.
The Indian friend then asked.
How did u find Indians??

Indians??Who Indians??
I didn't find or met a single Indian there in India.

What nonsense??
Who else could u met in India then??
The American said..In Kashmir I met a Kashmiri
In Punjab a PanjabiIn Bihar, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala

Bihari, Marathi, Marwadi, Bengali, Tamilian, Malayali

Then I met
A Hindu,
A Muslim,
A Christian,
A Jain,
A Buddhist

And many many many more
But not a single Indian did I meet

Think how serious this joke is..
The day would not be far off when indeed we would
Become a collection of nation states as some
Regional anti-national politicians want...
Fight back -Always say I am Indian
Jai hind

Be like a true Indian.

Alluri Sita Rama Raju

Born: July 4, 1897
Died: May, 1924

Alluri Sita Rama Raju was an Indian freedom fighter from the Mogallu village in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. He was the leader of the ill-fated "Rampa Rebellion" that was fought against the British occupiers from 1922 to 1923. Popularly referred to as 'Raju', he lives on in the hearts of the Telugu people as the Manyam Veerudu ('Hero of the jungles').

The Rampa Rebellion

Sita Rama Raju Alluri A terror to the alien rulers, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju was one of Andhra's early revolutionaries. He successfully led the tribals revolting against the Crown. Mobilising them, he launched an armed rebellion against the British.

He was deeply moved by the plight of the tribals at the hands of the British rulers, who used to infringe on their rights. The Madras Forest Act 1882 was formulated to deprive the tribals of their rights. The Act placed restrictions on the free movement of tribals in the forest areas, prevented "podu" (shifting) cultivation, felling and tapping of trees for firewood and toddy.

The British officers despite their superior weapons were no match to Alluri and his men, who were adept in guerilla tactics and knew the hilly terrain like the back of their palm. They used to attack the police stations and seize the arms and ammunition. Alluri carried a reward of Rs 10,000 on his head.

Born in Mogallu village of West Godavari district on May 15 1898, Alluri had his early education at Rajahmundry and Rama-chandrapuram in East Godavari district. His father died when Alluri was in his elementary school and he grew up in the care of his uncle Rama Chandra Raju, a tahsildar in Narsapur. He shifted to Tuni along with his mother, brother and sister, on the transfer of his uncle. He joined Mrs A.V.N. College in Visakhapatnam on September 20, 1912. He dropped out of the college after having failed in fourth form (Std. IX).

While in Tuni, Alluri used to frequent the agency areas of Visakhapatnam district. Between August and October 1922, he and his men attacked the Chintapalli, Rampa-chodavaram, Rajahmundry and Addateegala and Annavaram police stations and blasted the Chintapalli police station.

He was trapped by the British in the forests of Chintapalli. It is said that he did not offer any resistance to the police as he felt that the British officers were harassing the innocent tribals as a bait to catch him. He was tied to a tree and shot dead with a rifle in Mampa village. After the exit of Alluri, the tribal revolt lost its sheen.
The statue of this "Pride of Telugus" stands majestically at The Park junction in hyderabad. The repressive measures and the unjust policies of the British, coupled with the misdeeds of British contractors who exploited and oppressed the workers of the hill tribes of the Visakhapatnam district, brought Alluri Sita Rama Raju into a tussle with the police who supported the contractors. This eventually culminated in the Rampa Rebellion (or Rampa Pituri; 'pituri' means 'complaints' in Telugu).

Sita Rama Raju carried out his campaign in the East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts of Andhra Pradesh. Inspired by the patriotic zeal of the revolutionaries in Bengal, and the decisions taken by them at a meeting in Chittagong in 1921, Sita Rama Raju raided many police stations in and around Chintapalli, Krishna-devi-peta and Raja-vommangi, carrying off guns and powder, and killing several British army officers, including the ruthless Scott Coward and Hites, near Damanapalli.

Under the leadership of Saunders, the British deployed a company of the Assam Rifles, near Pedagaddapalem, in December 1922. Sita Rama Raju, who had by then gone underground, resurfaced after some four months and continued the fight, strengthened by tribal volunteers, using bows and arrows. He was ably assisted by two brothers, Mallu Dora and Gantam Dora, who were tribal leaders. They were skilful in guerrilla warfare as they were well-versed with the difficult terrain which was covered by thick forests and valleys.

On September 18, 1923, Sita Rama Raju raided the Annavaram police outpost. Subsequently, Mallu Dora was arrested. The Government entrusted the task of containing Sita Rama Raju's activities to one Rutherford, who fired the first salvo when his forces arrested Surya Narayana Raju Pericherla, popularly known as "Aggiraju", a strong follower of Sita Rama Raju.

The campaign lasted nearly one year from December 1922, and petered off by October 1923. Sita Rama Raju surrendered himself, and was shot dead without a trial in May 1924.