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#32 JRD Tata - The Man of Contributions for India!

The Tata surname is said to have been derived from the Gujarati word ' tamta ' or ' teekha ' which means spicy or very angry and in fact most of the people who have held the highest positions in the Tata family have been known for their temper. Jamsetji Tata There is a famous anecdote about Jamsetji Tata , the founder of the Tata family and JRD Tata's uncle, that once he took an English friend to a hotel in Mumbai for dinner, the porter standing at the hotel door said, 'We welcome your friend but we can't let you inside the hotel because this hotel is only for Europeans.' The same evening Jamsetji decided that he would build a hotel that would be the pride of India and where tourists from all over the world would come, thus in 1903 the Taj Mahal Hotel emerged in front of the Bombay harbour. Jeh Jeh JRD Tata's father RD Tata who was Jamsetji Tata's cousin and JRD was called 'Jeh' by his close people. JRD's mother was French, so Fren...
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#31 Silence gives Strength to a Weak Mind!

  Have you ever wondered, why do we avoid people who talk more? It means that we do not want to listen to what so-and-so says. Certainly, it is the inability of the hearers, which is blamed on the speaker. Otherwise, have you ever heard that the speaker is tired of speaking and the listener is saying that dear, speak more. What happens is that the listener gets tired first. And the speaker? Not even later. This is not a new thing. People have been eager to listen for centuries. Vedic man prays, ‘ शृण्वाम   शरद :  शतम। ’ Vedanti is sitting in silence, waiting by closing his eyes and closing his ears to listen to Nadbrahm. And the major achievements in this direction has been achieved by those poets, who here kept listening to the silent silence of the universe, even the request of the beloved in silent voices. And today someone narrates hundred things to us, someone says something after listening to us and we are not heard anywhere. Still we request, speak Lord, when will ...

#30 The Real Story of an Elegant but Inconspicuous Spymaster of India : RN Kao

Try to read this as an article being narrated in the form of an interesting story. You will get known to the personality being discussed in this article in the coming lines. So, the story begins. In 1996, the 25th anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh was being celebrated all over India. In a meeting, a Bangladeshi journalist saw a tall, smart and attractive man in the back seat of the hall, he came to him and said "Sir, you should have been there on the stage among everyone, because of you 1971 was possible." The charming and shy man replied "No, I did nothing, the people sitting on the stage deserve all the praise." Being recognized, the man was so upset that he quietly got up and left the hall.  The name of this man was Rameshwar Nath Kao  : The father of India's intelligence   agency RAW or R&W (Research and Analysis Wing). Kao sahab : A man of utmost grace Kao was a fiercely private man and was rarely seen in public. He never allowed himself to be phot...

#29 The Valorous and Chauvinist Son of India : Chandrashekhar Azad!

The matter is of the year 1925, Shatindernath Bakshi, Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri were in the second class compartment of the passenger train, they were entrusted with the task of pulling the chain at a certain place and getting the train parked, the remaining seven people Ramprasad Bismil, Keshav Chakraborty, Murarilal Makundilal, Banwari Lal, Manmathnath Gupt and Chandrashekhar Azad were in the third class compartment of the same train, some of them were assigned the task of apprehending the guard and the driver, while the rest were tasked with guarding both sides of the vehicle and looting the treasure.  By the time the car chain was pulled, it was dark, the guard and driver were laid on their stomachs and the safe was thrown down from the train. The safe was knocked down from the train, the safe was quite heavy and strong, it began to be broken with hammers and chisels, even the thick chest was forced to open its mouth by Ashfaqullah's hammer, forcing the treasure inside....

#28 Adi Shankaracharya : The Intellectual Giant of India.

Hey Infinities, in this article you'll be diving into the life journey of an intellectual giant, a genius of linguistics, and above all, a spiritual light and the pride of India : Adi Shankaracharya, whose statue was recently unveiled at Kedarnath in Uttarakhand on Friday, 5 November, 2021. So, the intellectual journey starts... The prodigal child and an extraordinary scholar, a devotee of Lord Shiva with almost superhuman capabilities was born on 11th May 788 AD, at Kaladi near Kochi, Kerala. The level of wisdom and knowledge he showed at a very early age made him a shining light for humanity. At the age of two, he could fluently speak and write Sanskrit. At the age of four, he could recite all the Vedas, and at the age of twelve, he took sanyas and left his home. Even at such a young age, he gathered disciples and started walking throughout the country to re-establish the spiritual sciences. He was responsible for reviving Hinduism in India to a great extent when Buddhism was gai...

#27 The Story of Emboldened Mission to Capture Adolf Eichmann!

Hey Infinities, this article is about one of the thriller secret operation of capturing Adolf Eichmann and it is totally written in a cliffhanger way, so that you don't get bored. So, let's dive in this! Perhaps besides Hitler, Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann had the passion to kill the Jews of Europe, as in no one else! Many years after the end of the Second World War, during his stay in Argentina, Eichmann said in an interview given to a Dutch man 'William Sesan' -  "To tell you the truth, if we had killed all the 1,30,00,000 Jews living in Europe my work would have been done, since this had not happened, I would have held myself responsible for the troubles of my future generations. Yes, we were not able to complete this work because we were few in number, but we did as much as we could!" Adolf Eichmann ‘Rafi Eitan’ was made the commander of this mission, by the end of April 1960, a team of 4 Mossad spies had entered Argentina from different directions. W...