Yearly Archives: 2011

POETRY: Free Limits

No one is free, not even a wave, which leads a blissful life, spending the whole to cast a shadow of the eruption of life. Not even a sky, which covers this earth, but what all it bears, for being such a protection, it weeps whenever, its strings are stretched at its ends. And of course not me, who is ...

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OPINION: Jawaharlal Nehru: A Great Visionary of Modern India

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India (1947-64), who established parliamentary government, the initiator of Non Alignment policy in foreign affairs, often referred with the epithet of Panditji, was born on Nov. 14, 1889, in Allahabad. His father, Motilal Nehru, was a barrister and a moderate nationalist leader and congressman. Jawaharlal was educated at home by tutors; most ...

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POETRY: The Realization

“O God!” is what my mouth involuntarily made the formation, When a vexed disaster had hit my intuition! Enigmatic, unexpected, dangerous yet worthwhile, The mysterious incident made the day till the end of my life! Winnowing away from my face the fear, cowardice and follies, It glided me into the world full of prosperities and purities! Amplifying me the fact ...

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OPINION: Maulana Azad: An Eminent Educationist

Maulana Mohiuddin Ahmad Abulkalam Azad was born on 11 November 1888, in Mecca. He was a great scholar, a freedom fighter, a revolutionary journalist, a leader and an advocate of secular and undivided India. He had gained popularity by his journalism in his early age; however he remained away from active politics till the beginning of the twentieth century. But ...

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PSA: Australia India Youth Dialogue Invites Applicants

Australia-India Youth Dialogue (AIYD) are looking for people in the 18-35 years age group who are potential leaders of tomorrow in their respective fields and countries. To apply, visit the AIYD official website here: http://aiyd.org/ About AIYD Australia and India share much in common. Both are members of the Commonwealth, have similar institutions of parliamentary democracy, free and vibrant press ...

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PROSE: The Empty Glass

Chapter 1 Shocked, suffocated and horrified, I woke up, breathing heavily and sweating feverishly. It was the middle of a dark, moon-less night and dry air moved the curtains of the window. I reached for the glass of water, removed the coaster that was covering it, and gulped the water down in one go. It was slowly turning to be ...

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TEDxJMI: The Choices We Make

Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with TEDx organized an event called TEDxJMI on Friday, October 21, 2011 in the Dr. M A Ansari Auditorium.   About TED TED, an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” TED was founded in 1984 as ...

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POETRY: Goodbye

I know no medium, I have never known any medium in my dealings with you between absolute devotion and fiery fights, theres nothing else that I could do it seems so long back when we started out on a journey together since then there has been much change in the weather somehow I believed that our love would be evergreen ...

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Paper by Jamia Professor Included in the Nobel Prize Committee Document, 2011

[Following is an official Jamia press release.] It is a matter of immense pride and honour for Jamia Millia Islamia that one of the research papers by Prof. Mohammad Sami at the Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, written in collaboration with Edmund J Copeland and Shinji Tsujikawa, has been included in the Nobel Prize Committee Document, 2011. The ...

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