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Akshay Bakaya posted a blog postPakistan's First National Anthem by Jagannath Azad, in Hindi (Devanagari) version
Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, quite significantly, commissioned a Hindu to write the new nation's song. Jagan Nath 'Azad', contacted on August 9th, created a national anthem in record time for it to be broadcast on Radio Pakistan, Lahore, on Aug 14th, 1947, the day of Pakistan's birth. But within months of Jinnah's death in 1948, this anthem was discontinued leaving Pakistan without an anthem for years. The need for playing anthems for the visit of the Shah of Iran in 1950 led to the…See More
Akshay Bakaya posted a blog postHome addresses of Members of Parliament India (Anna Hazare Calls For Dharna Outside Homes of MPs)
Anna Hazare this morning reminded all citizens of India that they are the masters and must constantly watch over and direct their servants - notably the member of parliament they sent to the Lok Sabha. Team Anna has called upon people accross India to stage dharnas (sit-ins) outside the homes of their own MP and make him/her directly and personally answerable to his constituency, beginning with his/her public stand on the Jan Lokpal Bill. To ask your MP to explain what specific points of the…See More
KS Raman commented on Akshay Bakaya's blog post "Gandhi's Final Fast", by Dilip Simeon"Sorry, I mistook it. Anyway, thanks a lot, again for sending me the Ahimsa Day lectures. They are wonderful.
KS Raman"
Akshay Bakaya commented on Akshay Bakaya's blog post "Gandhi's Final Fast", by Dilip Simeon"Thanks Raman - the piece isn't mine, but a talk by Dilip Simeon, historian, peace activist and now novelist ("Revolution Highway" Penguin India). My own role was limited to proposing the idea of these Ahimsa Day lectures every Jan…"
KS Raman commented on Akshay Bakaya's blog post "Gandhi's Final Fast", by Dilip Simeon"Dear Akshay, I read your article on Gandhi's last fast only today. It was simply a great analysis of the man and what he stood always for. I always had, or rather have the feeling that there is some mystery, which a criminal investigation…"
Akshay Bakaya posted a blog postSome Jantars* and Mantars for the Anna Hazare movement
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari suddenly labelling the "immensely respected" Anna Hazare as a "maverick" & "RSS agent" is definitely a sign of cold feet. Even in the 1970s, it was this party's (Indira Gandhi's) knee-jerk Emergency rule that revived the dying RSS, jailing activists and making heroes out of spent leaders like Advani & Vajpeyi.As in Tahrir square, a corrupt régime's secret hope (or strategy) would be that participants would commit violence (as too often in Palestine,…See More
Akshay Bakaya posted a blog postNationwide March Against Corruption in India on January 30th, Ahimsa Day
It turns out that "Tees Janvari", January 30th - the day Mahatma Gandhi knowingly embraced death for his highest principle, Ahimsa (non-violence) - does have special significance for people in India. More indeed than October 2nd, the official holiday, which can commemorate little more than one mother's effort of delivering a baby boy, Mohanna, in Porbandar. As his philosopher grandson Ramu Gandhi once reminded me at his usual haunt in Delhi, "there is no merit in getting born, or getting a…See More
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- In regard to the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi I am a / we are an
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- About me / us
- Akshay Bakaya teaches Hindi at INALCO, Paris at the 'Formation continue' dept. - evening classes and Summer Intensive programs. Author of the Assimil Hindi course (for French-speakers), he is preparing the forthcoming Michel Thomas Hindi course with Hodder, London, publishers of 'Teach Yourself Hindi Conversation' etc. by Rupert Snell (now co-Director, Hindi-Urdu Flagship Program, Austin, Texas)
With his students of English at an international school in Paris, he proposed the day of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination be an International Day of Non-Violence. This initiative, relayed by Peace Nobel Shirin Ebadi at the Bombay WSF 2004, then supported by Noam Chomsky, Romila Thapar, K.R. Narayan, etc. finally led Sonia Gandhi and Desmond Tutu to take it up with the UN, which finally (June 15, 2007) adopted 2nd October (date of birth, not assassination) as UN International Day of Non-Violence.
- My / our projects, events, campaigns, research, publications
- To make the International Day of Non-Violence (Ahimsa Day) a day of imaginative world-wide experimentation and education for Ahimsa, a day as significant as Christmas, May Day, Valentines Day, etc. across the world.
- I am / We are member of the following institution(s)
- The World Ahimsa Day Collective
INALCO, Paris
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- akshay.bakaya@gmail.com
Skype ID : akshay.bakaya
- Website address
- http://www.ahimsaonline.org
January 30th Ahimsa Day program in Delhi
The World Ahimsa Day Initiative
The India International Centre
Invite you to
A Panel Discussion & Music Recital
30th January 2009 : 3.30 - 6.45 PM
IIC, 40 Max Mueller Marg
New Delhi - 110003
Reflections on
A FUTURE FOR AHIMSA
Speakers 3.30 - 5.30 PM
Nandita Das, actress, film-maker ('Firaaq', 2008)
Krishna Kumar, educationist, writer, director NCERT
Dilip Simeon, historian, writer, peace activist
Chair, moderator
Father George Gispert-Sauch
Question & Answer Session 5.30-6.00 PM
Music Recital 6.00 - 6.45 PM
Sawani Mudgal sings Nirgun Bhajans:
Kabir, Nanak, Bulleh Shah &
Narsi Mehta's "Vaishnava Jana"
Courtesy SEHER, Delhi
Search at : http://maps.google.com/
Who's who, what's what:
NANDITA DAS (Actress, Film-maker, Activist)
http://www.nanditadasonline.com/
http://www.firaaqthefilm.com/
KRISHNA KUMAR (Writer, educationist, director NCERT India):
Profile: http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/director.htm
A review: http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/08/07/stories/2007080750061500.htm
DILIP SIMEON (Historian, Writer, Peace activist)
An essay: http://www.ahimsaonline.org/features.html
FR. GEORGE GISPERT-SHAUCH (Professor, Theologist)
Profile: http://www.vidyajyoti.in/faculty/gispert.html
SEHER (Founded 1990 by Sanjeev Bhargava)
http://www.seher.in/
SAWANI MUDGAL (Gandharva Choir)
Music: http://www.fesfestival.com/2008/fr/fes.php?id_rub=25&type=6&suite=1&id=17&detail=1
Dance: http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/artistic_productions/2005samwaad.shtml
THE AHIMSA DAY STORY (Paris-Teheran-Bombay-Delhi-New York)
http://www.unmeditation.org/october.cfm (as told by "Intuition")
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060130/asp/frontpage/story_5780871.asp
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/idnv0123/petition.html
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/03/820
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1379
http://www.ahimsaonline.org/downloads/gandhi_lecture.mp3
http://www.indianembassy-tehran.com/newsdetail-7-en.html
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22926&Cr=non&Cr1=violence
PINK (GULABI)
Sampat Devi Pal, Gulabi Gang (will be there) : http://www.gulabigang.org/
"KHADI FOR AHIMSA" project (with Gulabi Gang)
Mayank Mansingh Kaul, Himanshu Verma (will be there)
gang 1 |ga ng| (OE, from "ganga": going, coursing, journeying)
noun
1 an organized group of criminals? (no)
• a group of young people involved in petty crime or violence? (no)
• informal a group of people, esp. young people, who regularly associate together.
• an organized group of people doing manual work : ninety days of hard labor on the road gang.
The India International Centre
Invite you to
A Panel Discussion & Music Recital
30th January 2009 : 3.30 - 6.45 PM
IIC, 40 Max Mueller Marg
New Delhi - 110003
Reflections on
A FUTURE FOR AHIMSA
Speakers 3.30 - 5.30 PM
Nandita Das, actress, film-maker ('Firaaq', 2008)
Krishna Kumar, educationist, writer, director NCERT
Dilip Simeon, historian, writer, peace activist
Chair, moderator
Father George Gispert-Sauch
Question & Answer Session 5.30-6.00 PM
Music Recital 6.00 - 6.45 PM
Sawani Mudgal sings Nirgun Bhajans:
Kabir, Nanak, Bulleh Shah &
Narsi Mehta's "Vaishnava Jana"
Courtesy SEHER, Delhi
Search at : http://maps.google.com/
Who's who, what's what:
NANDITA DAS (Actress, Film-maker, Activist)
http://www.nanditadasonline.com/
http://www.firaaqthefilm.com/
KRISHNA KUMAR (Writer, educationist, director NCERT India):
Profile: http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/director.htm
A review: http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/08/07/stories/2007080750061500.htm
DILIP SIMEON (Historian, Writer, Peace activist)
An essay: http://www.ahimsaonline.org/features.html
FR. GEORGE GISPERT-SHAUCH (Professor, Theologist)
Profile: http://www.vidyajyoti.in/faculty/gispert.html
SEHER (Founded 1990 by Sanjeev Bhargava)
http://www.seher.in/
SAWANI MUDGAL (Gandharva Choir)
Music: http://www.fesfestival.com/2008/fr/fes.php?id_rub=25&type=6&suite=1&id=17&detail=1
Dance: http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/artistic_productions/2005samwaad.shtml
THE AHIMSA DAY STORY (Paris-Teheran-Bombay-Delhi-New York)
http://www.unmeditation.org/october.cfm (as told by "Intuition")
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060130/asp/frontpage/story_5780871.asp
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/idnv0123/petition.html
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/03/820
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1379
http://www.ahimsaonline.org/downloads/gandhi_lecture.mp3
http://www.indianembassy-tehran.com/newsdetail-7-en.html
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22926&Cr=non&Cr1=violence
PINK (GULABI)
Sampat Devi Pal, Gulabi Gang (will be there) : http://www.gulabigang.org/
"KHADI FOR AHIMSA" project (with Gulabi Gang)
Mayank Mansingh Kaul, Himanshu Verma (will be there)
gang 1 |ga ng| (OE, from "ganga": going, coursing, journeying)
noun
1 an organized group of criminals? (no)
• a group of young people involved in petty crime or violence? (no)
• informal a group of people, esp. young people, who regularly associate together.
• an organized group of people doing manual work : ninety days of hard labor on the road gang.
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Pakistan's First National Anthem by Jagannath Azad, in Hindi (Devanagari) version
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:00pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, quite significantly, commissioned a Hindu to write the new nation's song. Jagan Nath 'Azad', contacted on August 9th, created a national anthem in record time for it to be broadcast on Radio Pakistan, Lahore, on Aug 14th, 1947, the day of Pakistan's birth. But within months of Jinnah's death in 1948, this anthem was discontinued leaving Pakistan without an anthem for years. The need for playing anthems for the visit of the Shah of Iran in 1950 led to…
Continue Home addresses of Members of Parliament India (Anna Hazare Calls For Dharna Outside Homes of MPs)
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:00am 1 Comment 1 Like
Anna Hazare this morning reminded all citizens of India that they are the masters and must constantly watch over and direct their servants - notably the member of parliament they sent to the Lok Sabha. Team Anna has called upon people accross India to stage dharnas (sit-ins) outside the homes of their own MP and make him/her directly and personally answerable to his constituency, beginning with his/her public stand on the Jan Lokpal Bill.
To ask your MP to explain what…
Continue Some Jantars* and Mantars for the Anna Hazare movement
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari suddenly labelling the "immensely respected" Anna Hazare as a "maverick" & "RSS agent" is definitely a sign of cold feet. Even in the 1970s, it was this party's (Indira Gandhi's) knee-jerk Emergency rule that revived the dying RSS, jailing activists and making heroes out of spent leaders like Advani & Vajpeyi.
As in Tahrir square, a corrupt régime's secret hope (or strategy) would be that participants would commit violence (as…
Nationwide March Against Corruption in India on January 30th, Ahimsa Day
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 11:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
It turns out that "Tees Janvari", January 30th - the day Mahatma Gandhi knowingly embraced death for his highest principle, Ahimsa (non-violence) - does have special significance for people in India. More indeed than October 2nd, the official holiday, which can commemorate little more than one mother's effort of delivering a baby boy, Mohanna, in Porbandar. As his philosopher grandson Ramu Gandhi once reminded me at his usual haunt in Delhi, "there is no merit in getting born, or getting a…
Continue Towards A Non-Violent Modernity/ अहिंसक आधुनिकता की ओर
Posted on May 28, 2010 at 5:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Purushottam Agrawal's Ahimsa Day Lecture Jan 2010 at IP College, Delhi
Ahinsak Aadhuniktaa Ki…
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