THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Self

"Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself."

- Audrey Giorgi

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Mysore Dasara

Dasara is the Nadahabba (state-festival) of the state of Karnataka. It is also called as Navaratri (Nava-ratri = nine-nights) and is a 10-day festival with the last day being Vijayadashami, the most auspicious day of Dasara. Dasara usually falls in the month of September or October. According to a legend, Vijayadashami denotes the victory of truth over evil and was the day when the Hindu Goddess Chamundeshwari killed the demon Mahishasura. Mahishasura is the demon from whose name; the name Mysore has been derived. The city of Mysore has a long tradition of celebrating the Dasara festival and the festivities here are an elaborate affair and attract a large audience including foreigners.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Mistakes

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."

- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 – Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."

- Abdul Kalam

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar (Hindi: लता मंगेशकर, born September 28, 1929) لتا منگیشکر is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi movie industry. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in over 980 Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over twenty regional Indian languages, mostly in the Hindi. She is the elder sister of the equally accomplished singer Asha Bhosle and lesser-known singers Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.
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Success

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

TOPIC OF THE DAY

S. R. Ranganathan

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (Tamil: சீகாழி/சீர்காழி ராமாமிருத ரங்கநாதன், ciyali rāmāmiruta raṅkanātaṉ [?]; August 9, 1892, Sirkali, Tamil Nadu - September 27, 1972, Bangalore) was an innovative mathematician and librarian from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system, the Colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science in India.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Risk

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

- George S. Patton

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Manmohan Singh

Dr. Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ),(Hindi: मनमोहन सिंह) (born 26 September 1932) is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is regarded by some as the 'most educated' Indian Prime Minister in history.[1] He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, mainly because of the economic reforms he initiated in 1991 when he was Finance Minister under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao.[2] His permanent residence officially is in Dispur, Assam as he gets elected from there.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Truth

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

- Kahlil Gibran

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert (August 26, 1728 – September 25 1777), was a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

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Self

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."

- Michel de Montaigne

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Autar Singh Paintal

Autar Singh Paintal, an icon of post-war cardio-pulmonary physiology, died on December 21,

2004 in Delhi at age 79 years. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well

as to the Royal Society. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan. He was

elected an honorary member of the American Physiological Society.


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Determination

"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind."

- Chinese Proverb

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Robert Bosch

Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.

Bosch was born in Albeck, a village to the northeast of Ulm in southern Germany. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region. His father, a freemason, was unusually well-educated for someone of his class, and placed special importance on a good education for his children.

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Doubt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

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Wages

“I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages".

- Robert Bosch

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor born September 21, 1980, nicknamed Bebo, is an Indian film actress appearing in Bollywood films. Born into the Kapoor film family, she made her acting debut with Refugee (2000), for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. In 2001, Kapoor received her first commercial success with her second release, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai and later appeared in Karan Johar's melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, which became India's top-grossing film in the overseas market that year and her biggest commercial success to date.

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Respect

"Respect a man, he will do the more."

- James Howell

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande

Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (August 10, 1860 – September 19, 1936) was an Indian classical musician widely acclaimed to have brought in a renaissance in Indian music. He reorganized the Ragas in Hindustani music into the currently used Thaat scale from the previous classifications of Raag (male), Ragini (female) and Putra (children) ragas.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Wisdom

"There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart."

- Charles Dickens

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Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi (Hindi: शबाना आज़मी, born 18 September 1950 in New Delhi, India) is one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress. She is married to Indian poet Javed Akhtar.

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Love

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

- Victor Hugo

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Lalgudi Jayaraman

Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer (Tamil: லால்குடி ஜயராம ஐயர்)(born September 17th, 1930, India) is a legendary violinist performing Carnatic music. In his own lifetime he has gained the title with his spellbinding technique and mastery over the instrument. In the sphere of Carnatic music, Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman is a name that is instantly associated with musical excellence in melody, rhythm, style and technique.

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