My another thought for the day as flashed on the f.b. on Jan.2,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh
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Good deeds are always cherished and well rewarded.

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( Picture of Goddess Saraswati)

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Bishwa Nath Singh :
It is thought of mine for the day that I would like to share with all of you to emulate in your life to make it successful.Let us pay our humble obeisance's to the lotus feet of Goddess Saraswati who is the Goddess of learning & wisdom and seek Her bliss for well-being of all living-being of this universe!

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Jan.2,2011

None can replace mother as flashed while paying obituary to the mother of Nitish Kumar as flashed on the f.b. on Jan.3,2010.

Bishwa Nath Singh:


How bad one feels & mental agony he/she undergoes when his /her mother passes away is beyond any descriptive note! As I have myself suffered about six months ago, when I had lost my most loving mother whom I often miss her., Yesterday ,when the country was in festive mood in celebrating New Year’s Day, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar State of India had lost his mother who was ill & going under treatment..I can well understand as what mental agony, Nitish Kumar must be facing at the moment in spite of his many pressing engagements.

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Bishwa Nath Singh :
Let us condole passing away of the most loving mother of Nitish Kumar who was known for her passion, kindness, generosity, and wisdom besides being a very religious minded elderly lady.Let us condole her passing away and convey our heartfelt condolences to Nitish Kumar & his family members and pray to God to grant eternal peace to the departed soul in heavenly abode!


.Sudhir Jha :
This is indeed traumatic and needs enough strength to keep a balance...thanks to Nitish ji's mental strength and ability to cope up with such situations on a balanced note !May God give enough courage to Nitish ji for bearing this loss, and grant eternal peace to her mother's departed soul in the heavenly abode!

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Jan.2,2010

A floral tribute to Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak as paid & flashed by me on the f.b. on Jan.3,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh:


Can we recollect as who was that great leader of India who had said "Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!" that is still being remembered and cherished by over many billion of People, who is widely remembered in our country India as an Indian Nationalist, ,Social Reformer, a great teacher and freedom fighter who was the fi...rst popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement whom the British Colonial Authorities derogatorily called him as "Father of the Indian unrest". and later on had honor to be conferred with the honorary title of Lokmanya, ( means accepted by the people as their leader) and widely cherished as the first strongest advocates of "Swaraj" (self-rule) in Indian consciousness in pre-independence era.?Well, he was none else than Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Let us pay our humble obeisances to his lotus feet and pay our respectfulhomage to that great man who is still adored by most of us!

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Bishwa Nath Singh :
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a worthy son of our motherland was born July 22, 1856 in his father’s house in balaji Lane (Madhlee Aalee) in Chikhalgaon, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family. His father was a famous school... teacher and a Sanskrit scholar. His father had died when he was sixteen years old. He was one of the earliest architect of the edifice of nationalist movement in India. He wasuniversally recognized as the Father of Indian Unrest. He was one of the prime architects of modern India and heralded Asian nationalism. His philosophy could not survive after his death as India came under sway of Mahatma Gandhi. He. had received formal and collage education mainly in Poona. He had done Graduation in Arts. in first class and it was during this time he was highly influenced by western Thinkers like Hegel, Kant, Spencer, Mill and Bentham. The studies made him realize the state in which his motherland existed under British Rule. He was the first intellectual leader to understand the importance of mass support and subsequently became the first mass leader of India. He had several round of discussions with Shankaracharya of Sankeshwar and asserted that like Swami Vivekananda, the modern Shankaracharya must be educated on modern lines..After graduation he spurned the Government service and devoted his time in national awakening. He joined fellow activists like Agarkar, Chiplunkar and Namjoshi to set up New English School. He joined the Indian National Congress, which acquired a new dimension because of his stature. He opposed the 'Age of Consent Bill' strongly. It was at this time he emerged as a strong-voiced politician. In 1896, Bombay was hit by a deadly Plague. He who had edited the newspapers, 'Kesari' and 'Marattha', highlighted suffeing of people and had hit back strongly at the administrative system charging them of taking inadequate measures and ignoring responsibilities. The British lawmakers didn't find it amusing and he was jailed for 18 months. In1907, he formed a radicalist faction inside the Congress and started the Home-Rule League along with an Irish lady, Ms. Annie Besant He realized that the constitutional agitation in itself was futile against the British and that, moreover, India was ill prepared for an armed revolt. It was construed that he was helpful to revolutionaries such as Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh and Chaphekar, he did not venture into it himself. Instead, he martialled the extremist wing of Indian National Congress. His movement was based on the principles of Swadeshi (Indigenous), Boycott and Education. It was he who, through his own example, gave prestige to imprisonment in freedom struggle. It is a tragedy that his work is not given the recognition due to it. Tilak is often misinterpreted. Perhaps it is so because of his style of operation which raised bitter controversies and still more bitter opponenents even outside the beurocracy. Violent arguements characterized his relationship with social reformists such as Agarkar, Ranade and moderates like Ferozshah Mehta. Many blame him for opposing the Age of Consent Bill which raised the age limit for marriage of girls to twelve from ten. But is fact that at the same time he had signed a counter-proposal where in one of the clauses was that the girls (boys) should not be married until they are in between sixteen to twenty yearsold. He educated all of his daughters and did not marry them till they were over 16. There are instances when he privately paid for the education of women.. Though, he was a staunch conservatist towards social reforms, he was a pioneer to foresee that mass support was needed to make his motherland free from imperialistic clutches. In order to bring the Maratha people together on the same platform, he started the celebration of Shivaji Festival. In 1908 he aimed at militant mass movement and expressed his views on Swarajya at the Calcutta session Indian National Congress. In the same year he was arrested for conspiring against the Queen when he raised his voice against the partition of Bengal. He was jailed for  six years. When the 'Indian Reforms Act' was introduced in 1919, he rejected it describing it as inadequate, disappointing and unsatisfactory. He was a champion of the downtrodden people, he was given the sobriquet "Lokmanya". He also authored books such as 'Geeta Rahasya" and "Arctic Home of Vedas". He launched the Congress Democratic Party in 1920 but before he could take up the action, he suddenly died on August 1,1920 leaving behind millions of mourners. It is said that the British made an extraordinary request that his brain be handed over to them so that it could be studied, preserved and exhibited.Though, it was not complied with. but certainly, it proves beyond doubt that he was a great man of towering personality & strling character with full of passion & wisdom.Let us pay our respectful homage & floral tribute to that great man who will be remembered for long not only in our country but in abroad too!
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Suraj Pundir :
what a great man you are!

Ajay Tiwari :
Very great personality , sat sat naman.

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January 03,2011.

His Holiness Satya Shri Sai's blessings as flashed on the f.b. on Jan.2,2011.

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Ohm Sai Namoh!

Bishwa Nath and Bishwa Nath's family have just received Sai Baba's Blessings

Shirdi Sai Baba Says:

''Unless egoism and greed is dropped, avarice got rid of, and the mind made desireless, self-realisation is not possible.''

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Jan.2,2011

My New Year's Greetings to all as flashed on the f.b. on Jan.02,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh


Let me wish very happy New Year to you , all members of your family & friends and hope, that all of you will have fabulous time on the eve of New Year with firm resolution to strive hard to promote ‘Global Peace and Universal Brotherhood” in the year to follow !



Bishwa Nath gave a happy new year & merry Christmas to  friends.

beautiful cakes

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Gift: happy new year & merry Christmas

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Jan.2,2011.
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Jan.2,2011.

Mu thought for the day as envisaged & flashed by me on the f.b. on January 02,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh:


Let us pray to our creator who has been so good to us that is difficult to describe and carry out His ordeals very truthfully to attain a grand success in our life!

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(Photo of Lord Krishna)

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Bishwa Nath Singh :
It's my thought for the day that I would like to share with all of you on the eve of New Year.Let us join to pay or respectful obeisance to the lotus feet of Lord Krishna and seek His bliss for welfare of all of us and wish all of you once again a very happy & prosperous New Year!

Sunita Saini :
I agree with this truth.

Manjula Rishi :
Adharam madhuram, nayanam madhuram.........Jai Shri Krishna


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January 02,2011.

A respectful homage to Gopal Krishna Gokhle as flashed on the f.b. on January 01,2011.

Bishwa Nath Singh:


How many of us remember one of the greatest leader of Pre-independent era who the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India who was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, He promoted not only or even primarily independence from the British Empire but also social reform. To achieve his goals, he had followed two overarching principles: avoidance of violence and reform within existing government institutions. That great leader was none else than Gopal Krishna Gokhle.Let us have glimpse of his life in brief!

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( Photo of Gopal Krishna Gokhle,founder of the Servants of India Society in Pre-independence era)


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 Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born in a village Kothluk, in Maharashtra, on May 9, 1866,.He was brought up in the house of his maternal grandfather. Kothluck village was not too far from Tamhanmala, the native town of his father, Krishna R...ao, who was a farmer by occupation .Later on,his father worked as a clerk due to the poor soil of the region. His mother, Valubai, also known as Satyabhama, was a very pious & simple woman who instilled in her children the values of religion, devotion to one's family, and caring for one's fellow man. His elder brother and sister-in-law, had helped Gokhale to managed his education at Rajaram High School in Kothapur. Due to his respect for his brother and recognition of the compassion with which he was treated, Gokhale learned the value of self-sacrifice to avoid asking for more material support. At times he went without meals and studied by the light of street lamps to save his elder brother as much money as possible. A hardworking student, he moved on to college and graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay in 1884 at the age of 18, earning a scholarship of Rs.twenty per month in his final year. His education influenced Gokhale's life in many ways. Primarily, his understanding of the English language allowed him to express himself without hesitation and with utmost clarity. Also, his appreciation and knowledge of history instilled in him a respect for liberty, democracy, and the parliamentary system. Soon after his graduation, he accepted a teaching job as an Assistant Master in the New English School in Pune. Among many achievements which testify to his talent and passion for teaching, perhaps the greatest of them all was a compilation, a book of arithmetic in collaboration with a colleague, N. J. Bapat, which became a widely used and widely translated textbook across the country. Gokhale moved on to become a founding member of Fergusson College in Pune in 1885, with colleagues in the highly honored Deccan Education Society. He pledged twenty years of his life to this college, as a teacher and board member. So apt was he at teaching subjects of any variety, that he was known as the "Professor to Order." The year 1886 had seen the entry of Gopal Krishna Gokhale into public life. At the age of twenty, he had delivered a public address concerning "India under the British Rule" and was applauded for his expression and command of the English language.He became a member of the Indian National Congress in 1889, as a protégé of social reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade. Along with other contemporary leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Dadabhai Naoroji, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Annie Besant, Gokhale fought for decades to obtain greater political representation and power over public affairs for common Indians. He was moderate in his views and attitudes, and sought to petition the British authorities by cultivating a process of dialogue and discussion which would yield greater British respect for Indian rights. Gokhale had visited Irelandand had arranged for an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, to serve as President of the Indian National Congress in 1894. The following year, Gokhale became the Congress’s joint secretary along with Tilak. In many ways, Tilak and Gokhale’s early careers paralleled – both were Chitpavan Brahmin (though unlike Gokhale, Tilak was wealthy), both attended Elphinstone College, both became mathematics professors, and both were important members of the Deccan Education Society. When both became active in the Congress, however, the divergence of their views concerning how best to improve the lives of Indians became increasingly apparent Gokhale moved on later on to managing public affairs. While contributing articles to the English weekly Mahratta, he was seduced by the idea of using education as a means to awaken patriotism among the people of India. Just as this idea was enveloping Gokhale was promoted to Secretary of the Deccan Education Society. Once in the limelight, there was no looking back. After being given charge of the Bombay Provincial Conference in 1893, he was elected to the Senate of the Bombay University. In time, Gokhale came to devote all his spare time to the causes of the common man: famine, plague relief measures, local self- government, land reform, and communal harmony. As a member of the Pune Municipality, twice elected its President, he continued to strive to solve the problems of the poor, and those who came to him with grievances concerning water supply, drainage, etc. were pleased with the practical manner in which he dealt with the problem. He had also published a daily newspaper entitled Jnanaprakash, which allowed him to voice his reformist views on politics and society.In 1905, he founded the Servants of India Society, which trained people to be selfless workers so they could work for the common good of the people. So strong was the desire to make a difference, that these kindred spirits vowed a simple life of dedication to these causes. Among the many things the organization did, there were the commendable services of helping victims of floods and famines, and taking the time to educate women in society, so that they too may have a voice. Many people influenced Gokhale and gave him the strength and discipline to bring his ideas to the realm of reality, but none more than Mahadev Govind Ranade, to whom he was apprenticed in 1887. Ranade trained him for 15 years in all spheres of public life, and taught him sincerity, devotion to public service and tolerance. These qualities, which Ranade helped instill in Gokhale, are those qualities which helped make Gokhale the man he is known today. He had visited England and voiced his concerns relating to the unfair treatment of the Indian people by the British government. In one span of forty nine days, he spoke in front of forty seven different audiences, captivating every one of them. Before long, he was touted as the most effective pleader for India's cause. While, he pleaded for gradual reform to ultimately attain Swaraj, or self-government, in India, some of his contemporaries, comprising a radical element, wished to use force as a means of persuasion. He maintained his moderate political views and worked out some reforms for the betterment of India. He was instrumental in the formation of the Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909, which eventually became law. Unfortunately, the Reforms Act became law in 1909 and it was disappointing to see that the people were not given a proper democratic system despite best efforts. The communal harmony he had longed for was shattered when he realized that the Muslim community was steadfast in considering itself as a separate unit. On the bright side, however, his efforts were not in vain. We Indians now had access to seats of the highest authority within the Government, and their voices were more audible in matters of public interest. The years of hard work and devotion of Gopal Krishna Gokhale , a great freedom fighter who did much for the country of India, but sadly also took their toll on the health of this great leader. Excessive exertion and the resulting exhaustion only aggravated his diabetes and cardiac asthma. He had died on February 19, 1915. Pointing his finger toward heaven and then folding his hands respectfully, He was a great Scholar besides being a man of vision & courage. Let us pay our humble obeisance’s to his lotus feet & seek His bliss for well-being of all living-being of this Universe!
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.Poonam Matia :
salute to a gr8 freedom fighter............thanx sir for sharing such details with us


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Alicia Pagdanganan :
I do not know him... But I salute him for being a good leader....



.Bishwa Nath Singh:
‎@Alicia! Only with that notion, I felt like focusing him so that people can recapitulate their memories.

Manjula Rishi :
I do remember reading about him in school and college and did and still do have a great deal respect for him. After reading your artical it reminded me of this great man. Thank you.

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