Category: ICN BLOGS

By: Vijay Kumar Verma (Editor-ICN Group) SHIMLA: The state government has started inviting and welcoming tourists from all over the country to visit Srinagar, long referred as the paradise on earth.The separatists don’t have anything to do with tourists and they are not harmed, I am told by a local friend, and the state government too is giving assurance of safety. For many like me who had been waiting on the wings for mist of militancy to settle, it was a welcome step at the right time to head for…

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By: Dr.Mohammad Aleem (Chief News Editor-ICN Group)  NEW DELHI: Benjamin was at heart a good writer, so he was a good observer of human feelings and sentiments also. He writes in the same chapter of the book while observing his men on the battlefield in these words: “This gave me occasion to observe, that, when men are employed, they are best contentented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day’s work, they spent the evening jollily; but…

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By: Dr.Mohammad Aleem (Chief News Editor-ICN GROUP) NEW DELHI :A question arises so simply here, that why should we read, and know about a man and his works, who have died some two centuries back, and lived not on this land, but many oceans far away? But, I do believe, that, some men and women have always a great power to attract and allure us with their treasure trove of wisdom and knowledge, from where, we can get a lot of precious pearls to make our crooked path more straight…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group) Mahatma Ghandhi, Netaji Subhash Chander Bose, Dr Homi Jahangir Bhabha, Swami Vivekanand, Bhagat Singh and many of those who laid their lives for the nation are examples of living in the memory of everyone. Since times immemorial we humans have been nursing a desire to become immoral.  History is replete with stories of kings and rishis indulging in endless tapasya and  worshipping Gods to  seek blessings for being Immortal. Not being afraid of death was considered to be a position superior to the…

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By:Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN GROUP) Now chemically speaking what is this character made of. Certain ingredients the admixture of which determine or form the character of an individual? As the mixing of colours brings out an altogether different colour?  As the inputs of spices in certain degrees determines it’s taste? As the mixing of chemicals can produce explosive results? True, the characters are the outcome of such genetic admixtures God only plants in the ethral body. Only HE knows the end result the plant will produce at what particular…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma ( Editor-ICN Group)  part-1 Spiritually speaking we are all made of five elements viz earth, fire, water, air and sky. These are the five ingredients of which we are born and to these elements alone we shall return. Now there are characteristics;  physical and behavioural. The physical characteristics are drawn from the genetic admixture of parental components but the behavioural characters are formed of past karmas. As the parental characters include those of past generations similarly behavioural characters are drawn from not one but many a past…

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