रक्षा बंधन: हिन्दू पंचांग के अनुसार प्रमुख त्योहारों में राखी का खास महत्व है। भाई-बहनों का यह त्योहार हर साल हर्षोल्लास के साथ मनाया जाता है। रक्षाबंधन का पर्व श्रावण मास की पूर्णिमा को मनाया जाता है। राखी के दिन बहनें अपने भाई की कलाई पर रक्षासूत्र बांधती हैं और भाई बहनों को उपहार देते हैं और हमेशा उनकी रक्षा …
Read More »My Sister, My Best Friend: Rakhi Special Poem by Gillian McKay
My Sister, My Best Friend: Raksha Bandhan, also Rakshabandhan, or simply Rakhi, is an Indian and Nepalese festival centred around the tying of a thread, bracelet or talisman on the wrist as a form of bond and ritual protection. The festive Hindu and Jain ritual is one principally between brothers and sisters, observed both before and after she gets married …
Read More »To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus: Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian independence activist, poet and politician. A renowned orator and accomplished poet, she is often known by the moniker ‘The Nightingale of India‘. As a prodigious child, Naidu wrote the play “Maher Muneer“, which earned her a scholarship to study abroad. She became the second woman president of the Indian National Congress. She was the first …
Read More »Life of Lord Buddha: English Poem for Students and Children
Life of Lord Buddha – Buddha is not a name, but a title. It is a Sanskrit word that means “a person who is awake.” What a buddha is awake to is the true nature of reality. Simply put, Buddhism teaches that we all live in a fog of illusions created by mistaken perceptions and “impurities” – hate, greed, ignorance. …
Read More »Easter Holiday: Kids Poetry on Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Easter Holiday: Easter is a Christian holiday that celebrates the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the New Testament of the Bible, the event is said to have occurred three days after Jesus was crucified by the Romans and died in roughly A.D. 30. The holiday concludes the “Passion of Christ,” a series of events and holidays that …
Read More »A Good Friday: Short English Poetry on Crucifixion of Jesus
A Good Friday: Christina Georgina Rossetti Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee; Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly; Not so the thief was moved; Not so …
Read More »Good Friday Poem By Alan Allegra: Christ’s arrest, trial & suffering
Good Friday Poem: The Passion of Christ is the story of Jesus Christ’s arrest, trial and suffering. It ends with his execution by crucifixion. The Passion is an episode in a longer story and cannot be properly understood without the story of the Resurrection. The word Passion comes from the Latin word for suffering. The crucifixion of Jesus is accepted by many scholars as …
Read More »रामचन्द्रजी की आरती Shri Ram Chandra Ji Ki Aarti in Hindi
रामचन्द्रजी की आरती – Lord Rama is the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu and had taken birth on earth to put an end to the forces of evil of the age. He is a symbol of chivalry and virtue and in the words of Swami Vivekananda, he is “the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, …
Read More »Ram Navami Poems: Kosalendraya Mahaniya Guna Badhaye
Ram Navami Poems: Rama Navami is one of the most popular festivals in India. It is celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm throughout the country in order to commemorate the birth of Lord Ram. This occasion is considered to be an extremely auspicious and pious occasion by all the Hindus as Lord Ram is considered to be the incarnation of …
Read More »Chinese New Year: Short English Poetry For Kids
Chinese New Year, known in China as the Spring Festival and in Singapore as the Lunar New Year, is a holiday on and around the new moon on the first day of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar. This calendar is based on the changes in the moon and is only sometimes changed to fit the seasons of the …
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