Hari Om Singh Rawat

21st June 2020 marks the 6th International Day of Yoga. This day was first proposed by Bharat’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during his speech at the UNGA, on 27 September 2014. It was declared unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to celebrate this day as International Day of Yoga. Since ancient times, Sanatana Dharma has imparted an immense wealth of knowledge to the world that benefits human health and society.  Yoga is one such gem which is an amalgamation of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient Bharat.  Bhagwan Shiva is called the Aadi-Yogi who is often portrayed as sitting in a meditation position. Yoga finds mention in Hindu scriptures like Bhagwat Geeta. It is the Yoga-gurus from Bharat who had introduced it to the rest of the world.  The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali were compiled by Sage Patanjali centuries ago. Efforts of great thinke...

Ramprasad Bismil The ‘Kakori train conspiracy’ is a great landmark in the history of the revolutionary movement in Bharat. It was the brave Ramprasad Bismil who planned it and executed it faultlessly along with his fellow revolutionaries. However, he was arrested by the British in connection with the conspiracy and put in police custody. The arrests had kept the British officers busy throughout the night and they had not slept. They all went away. Even the one constable who was on guard was fast asleep. Only one clerk was in the station busy writing. He was a fellow Bharatiya, who knew Ramprasad Bismil well. If Ramprasad had wished, he could have simply walked out, but that clerk would have got into great trouble. Ramprasad called him and told him that he would walk away if the clerk was prepared to face the consequences. However, he fell at Ramprasad’s feet and said that he would be arrested by the British if I did so and that his wife ...

Birsa Munda (1875–1900) was a tribal leader and a folk hero, belonging to the Munda tribe who was behind the Millenarian movement that arose in the tribal belt of modern-day Bihar, and Jharkhand during the British Raj, in the late 19th century making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement. Birsa Munda is named with great respect as one of the freedom fighters in the Indian struggle for independence against British colonialism. His achievements in the freedom struggle became even greater considering he accomplished this before his 25th year. Birsa’s devotion to his people was such that he was almost revered as God by his followers. By the time he was in his 20s, his activities in the tribal areas of Jharkhand state (earlier Bihar) had already begun to worry the British establishment to a considerable extent. He was finally caught by the British on 3 February 1900 when he was only 25 years old. He died soon afterwards in mysterious circumstances on 9 J...

The people of Bharat who are breathing in peace and living in freedom today have become possible only because of the sacrifice of the brave sons and great men of our country, one of them was a great man Banda Singh Bahadur, who kept the culture alive even after suffering many atrocities but we don't remember his history. Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was born on Vikram Samvat 1727, Kartik Shukla 13 in Rajouri area of Poonch district in Kashmir. He was related to the (Minhas) Bhardwaj gotra of Rajputs and his real name was Lakshmanadeva. His father's name was Ramdev Minhas. He was a hunter. Once he was hunting and he saw a deer running. The deer was pregnant. When Lakshman Dev shot the deer with his arrow, she had twins. The two twins died because they had no mother. Madho Das was so upset that he quit hunting forever.  He named himself Madhodas and left home and went on pilgrimage. Learned to practice yoga from many sages and then started living in Kutiya(Small Hut) in Nanded. Mean...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court that the name India is a symbol of British slavery, whereas it is necessary to name Bharat or Hindustan because it will awaken patriotism. Why is it necessary to change the name? After the fall of Communism, the names of innumerable cities, buildings, roads were changed in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and all over Eastern Europe. In Russia, Leningrad has again renamed St. Petersburg, Stalingrad to Volgograd, etc. In the neighbourhood, Ceylon took its name from Sri Lanka and Burma took Myanmar. Great Britain itself had to change its official noun to the United Kingdom. There have been deep cultural and political sentiments behind these names Therefore, it is sad that after independence, the names of many provinces and cities were changed here, but the name of the country remains unchanged. The time has come for those who have given 'Trivandrum' to Thiruvananthapuram, 'Madras' to Tamil Nadu,' Bombay 'to Mumbai,' ...