Naga Panchami

This day is dedicated for snakes. Naga Panchami falls on the 5^th day of the waxing moon in the month of Shravan (July-August). This is the time when serpents invariably come out of their holes that get filled with rain water. The snakes seek shelter in gardens and in houses. India has variety of snakes and thousands of people die every by snake bites. Incidently the festival falls during rainy season.

People belived that this is the day when Lord Krishna over powered the Serpent Kaliya and saved the people from drinking the poisonous water. In another version it is said that after creating earth, Lord Vishnu rested on the thousand headed Shesh Nag Anantha on this day. It is an age old religious belief that serpents are loved and blessed by Lord Siva. He always wears them around his neck. So Snakes are dear to the Gods.

In south India people make images of the snakes as part of their snake worship. The Vedic and yoga concepts say that snakes resemble the cord of a human being. There are snake temples in our country with idols of snake gods. Snakes are worshipped and fed with milk and turmeric powder on this day. In these temples cobras are also reared and live snakes are worshipped on Nag Panchami day. This dimension of Nag Panchami festival is vast and diverse.

Special prayers and poojas instill a great awareness among the people to be cautious against poisonous snakes. At the same time it reminds all not to killsnakes as they are the friends of farmers.

Cabinet of India

President : Pranav Mukherjee

Vice president : Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Prime Minister : Narendra Modi

1) Narendra Modi : 

•     Prime Minister Of India.
•     Ministry of Planning
•     Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

2) Rajnath Singh :

•     Minister of Home Affairs

3) Arun Jaitley :

•     Ministry of Finance, Corporate Affairs
•     Ministry of Defense

4) Sushma Swaraj :

•     Minister of External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

5) Ananth Kumar :

•     Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

6) Sadanand Gowda :

•     Minister of Railways

7) Nitin Gadkari :

•     Minister of Road Transport an Highways
•     Minister of Shipping
•     Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj
•     Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

8) M Venkaiah Naidu :

•     Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
•     Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 

9) Ravi Shankar Prasad :

•     Minister of Communications and Information Technology
•     Ministry of Law and Justice

10) Smriti Irani :

•     Minister of Human Resource Development

11) Ram Vilas Paswan :

•     Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

12) Najma A. heptulla :

•     Minster of Minority Affairs

13) Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati :

•     Minister of Civil Aviation

14) Anant Geete :

•     Minister of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises

15) Harsh Vardhan :

•     Minister of Health and Family Welfare

16) Maneka Gandhi :

•     Ministry of Women and Child Development

17) Uma Bharati :

•     Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

18) Radha Mohan Singh :

•     Minister of Agriculture.

19) Thaawar Chand Gehlot :

•     Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

20) Narendra Singh Tomar : 

•     Minister of Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

famous temples of India:

In India, the majority of people have faith in God. India is a very religious and spiritual country.  

Minakshi Temple (Madurai):

As per the size and area concern, Minakshi Mandir is the largest temple. Temple has 14 gopure (entrances). Sculpture and painting is awesome. This temple was built in the sixteenth century.

Golden Temple (Amritsar):
golden temple is sanctuary for Sikh Religion. From the country and land of world thousands of devotees are visit the temple. More than 50 thousands of devotees have food at this place. On holiday, this figure reaches a million. Without considering any caste and religion all get food at this place.

Sai Baba (Shirdi):
"Sabka Malik ek hai" is messege from Sai Baba. 'Shraddha','Saburi','Purity','Compassion' and 'Complete Surrender to the preceptor' are teachings from Sai Baba. Shraddha means faith with love, it is sanskrit word. Saburi means patience and perseverance. Devotees Hindu and Muslim religions come here.

Vaishno Devi (Katara):
The temple is at the height of 5200 feet in Jammu and Kashmir. Large number of devotees are visit this temple. Helicopter facility is available here to go to the temple.

Tirumala Tenkateswara Temple (Balaji):
Hundreds of millions of devotees across the country faith on Balaji. It is known as the country's richest shrine. Serenity to the devotees is the characteristics of the temple. A large number of devotees makes charity here. 

C N R Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramchandra Rao was born on 30^th June, 1934 to Hanumantha Nagesa and Nagamma in Bangalore. After his B.Sc from Mysore University, he got a master’s degree from Benaras Hindu University in 1953. He earned his PhD from Purdue University where he worked under Noble Laureate H.C. Brown on solid state chemistry. He studied the structure and phenomena in solids at microscopic level using sophisticated tools of spectroscopy in his own lab at the university.  Totally new types of solids with entirely new properties useful for the industries could be created because of his researches.

In 1958, he joined the University of California at Berkeley as a research chemist. He started his career back in India as a lecturer at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 1959. He served as a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur from 1963-76 and as head of chemistry department from 1964-68. He was back at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1976-84 as the chairman of solid state and structural Chemistry unit and materials research laboratory. From then onwards, he has been the Director of the institute of science. He was visiting professor at Purdue University in 1967-68, at Oxford University in 1974-75, and at Cambridge University in 1983.

Professor Rao’s prolific researches in solid state and Materials Chemistry places him as one of the topmost figures on the subject. His works on transition metal oxides have shown an unusual promise in room temperature superconductivity and magneto resistance, he published three books namely ‘chemical and Structural aspects of high temperature Superconductors’ in 1988, Bismuth and Thalium Cuprate Superconductors’ in 1989 and Chemistry of High Temperature Superconductors’ in 1991.

Rao received honorary doctorates from many Universities. Some of them are- Purdue University in 1982, Bordeaux University in 1983, and Wroclaw University in 1989.

He received Padma Vibhushan Award from president of India in 1985.

Even at the age of seventy two, he is working on nano-materials.

Prof. Rao says: “thought our generation might not see the fruits of Nanotechnology, I have been pursuing this. I want India to be in the forefront of nano-sciences.”

swami vivekananda's thought 5

I, for one,

thoroughly

believe that no power 

in the universe can withhold 

from anyone anything 

they really deserve