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This great poem was written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and active political leader. Iqbal was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri brahmins but his grandfather Sahaj Ram Sapru, had to embrace Islam (Reference). In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at the Government College, Lahore, was invited by his student …

भारत की आजादी की लड़ाई में यूं तो लाखों-करोड़ों हिंदुस्तानियों ने भाग लिया लेकिन कुछ ऐसे सपूत भी थे जो इस आजादी की लड़ाई के प्रतीक बनकर उभरे। राष्ट्रधर्म की खातिर क्रांति की पहली गोली चलाने वाले को भले ही तोपों से उड़ा दिया गया लेकिन जो चिंगारी उन्होंने लगाई उस आग में तपकर निकले स्वाधीनता सेनानियों ने अपने अहिंसक …

Indian civilization owes its existence to the mighty Ganges originating in Himalaya. Ganga is the daughter of Himalaya. Here is an excerpt from a lovely poem by Makhanlal Chaturvedi, telling how the river transforms the great northern Indian planes as it flows to the ocean. Poet exhorts Himalaya to give Ganga to Saagar in Kanyadaan… शिखर–शिखरियों में मत रोको‚ उसकी …

Here is a little poem that my mother taught us kids. I do not know who wrote this poem, but it has a lot of truth in it! चिड़ियाँ के थे बच्चे चार निकले घर से पंख पसार पूरब से पश्चिम को आए उत्तर से दक्षिण को धाए उत्तर दक्षिण पूरब पश्चिम देख लिया हमने जग सारा अपना घर है …

World is run by people who live a life full of actions. Geeta teaches Karma-yoga to us. The same thought prevails in this poem by Dinkar. It is one of those poems that fill us with enthusiasm and a will to achieve some thing in life. Only Ramdhari Singh Dinkar can exhort like this. A lovely poem indeed. दिनकर जी …

War has an important role in Nation building. A nation that has not experienced war becomes weaker. War ensures peace. This is the perspective on war provided by the well-known poet Kanhaiyalal Sethia. युद्ध नहीं है नाश मात्र ही युद्ध स्वयं निर्माता है, लड़ा न जिस ने युद्ध राष्ट्र वह कच्चा ही रह जाता है, नहीं तिलक के योग्य शीश …

Here is an exhortation from Harivansh Rai Bachchan to leave inaction and to work with full enthusiasm and vigor. A good poem for children to recite. धरा हिला, गगन गुँजा नदी बहा, पवन चला विजय तेरी, विजय तेरीे ज्योति सी जल, जला भुजा–भुजा, फड़क–फड़क रक्त में धड़क–धड़क धनुष उठा, प्रहार कर तू सबसे पहला वार कर अग्नि सी धधक–धधक हिरन …

Here is another excerpt from “” the great Veer-Ras Maha-kavya penned by Shyam Narayan Pandey. Here is a description of a soldier fighting for the Motherland. वीर सिपाही: वीर रस कविता भारत-जननी का मान किया, बलिवेदी पर बलिदान किया अपना पूरा अरमान किया, अपने को भी कुर्बान किया रक्खी गर्दन तलवारों पर थे कूद पड़े अंगारों पर, उर ताने शर-बौछारों पर …

In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population. Many of the world’s countries, including many in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia, have seen a sharp rise in population since the end of the Cold War. The fear is that high population numbers are putting …

Global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.616 billion in 2018. It is expected to keep growing, and estimates have put the total population at 8.6 billion by mid-2030, 9.8 billion by mid-2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. Many nations with rapid …