The Power Within

Karva Chauth is an annual one-day festival celebrated by married women. Married women keep a strict fast from sunrise to moonrise and do not take even a drop of water for the safety, longevity and prosperity of their husbands. The festival falls on the fourth day after the full moon in the month of Kartik (Hindi Lunisolar Calendar).   Karva is another word for diya (small earthen oil-lamp) and chauth means 'fourth' in Hindi. The festival also coincides with the wheat-sowing time (i.e. the beginning of the Rabi crop cycle). Big earthen pots in which wheat is stored are also sometimes called karvas , so the fast may also have begun as a prayer for a good harvest in this predominantly wheat-eating region. Women awake to eat and drink (Soot feni or Sargi) just before sunrise. It is traditional for the sargi or feni and Karva to be sent or given to the woman by her mother-in-law. If the mother-in-law lives with the woman, the pre-dawn meal is prepared by the mother-in-law. Th...

   A lateral engineer, Ramesh, joined an MNC through a vender, as a contractor. He was happy that he got a job with better payment. He wanted to continue his job and set a goal to be permanent with the company. He was performing with full of his capacity. Seemingly, everything was going good for him. He booked a bike and paying EMI for that. The education of his younger brother was on his shoulder. His family was not much financial strong; hence his job was very crucial for him. One day in the office, one work was assigned to him by his manger to create a report and send back to him. Actually, that was the manager`s task and responsibility to create and send to the higher management. But, he assigned to him and dictated “not to send the report directly to the higher management, it should go through me”. It was Friday, and on the same day, as instructed, he sent the report to the manager. But manager had left for the day and forgot to forward it to the intended managemen...

According to a legend in Vishnu Puran, Swayambhu Manu had two sons- Priyavrata and Utaanpaad. Utaanpaad had two wives- Suruchi and Suniti. Suruchi had a son- Uttam while Suniti had also a son- Dhruv. King Utaanpaad loved Suruchi more than he loved Suniti.One day the king was sitting on the throne. Prince Uttam was playing in his lap. Meanwhile Dhruv also arrived there and insisted to play in the lap of his father. At his insistence, queen Suruchi ridiculed that as he was not born to her he had no right to the king’s love, "so your insistence is useless. Though you are also a son of this king but this throne belongs to my son. Don’t you know that you have been born to Suniti."        Getting angry over his stepmother’s ridicules, Dhruv went to his mother. Suniti consoled her son and enquired about the reason for his anger. Dhruv narrated the whole thing to his mother. Suniti too got perplexed and said: "O son! Suniti speaks the truth but you don’t worr...

काली , दुर्गा और पार्वती ये तीनो ही शक्ति के   विभिन्न   रूप है। शक्ति   भगवान शिव   की   अर्धागिनिं है।   माँ   दुर्गा   की   पूजा   हर   साल   फसल   कटने   से   पहले   की   जाती   है।दुर्गा   का   आह्वाहन   महिषासुर नामक   एक   राक्षस   का   वध   करने   के   लिए   किया   गया   था।   महिषासुर , ब्रह्मा   से    वरदान   पाने   के   लिए   घोर   तपस्या करता है। तपस्या से प्रसन्न होकर ब्रह्मा महिषासुर को वरदान देते है कि  -  किसी भी पुरुष के हाथो उसकी पराजय नहीं होंगी ।  यह वरदान पाकर महिषासुर बहुत खुश   होता   कि   उसको तीनो लोको में कोई परास्त   नहीं कर   सकता   । अपने   इस   वरदान   का   लाभ   उठाकर   तीनो   लोको   में   अपना   अत्याच...