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Śrāddha. Rituals of Śrāddha in a Hindu family. Śrāddha ( Sanskrit: श्राद्ध ), is a ritual that some Hindus perform to pay homage to their pitṛs (dead ancestors). [ 1] They believe that the ritual would provide peace to the ancestors in their afterlife. It is performed on the death anniversaries of the departed as per the ...
Hindu philosophy. v. t. e. Prashant Tripathi, known as Acharya Prashant, is an Indian philosopher, author and Advaita teacher. [ 2][ 3] He teaches seventeen forms of Gita and sixty forms of Upanishads. [ 4][ 5] He is the founder of a non-profit organization named Prashant Advait Foundation, [ 6] and is an animal rights activist. [ 7]
Indeed, he even quotes from other texts in the canon (whether written before the Gita or after [267]) to indicate the intention of the Gita, “as though they have the same authority as the Gita itself”. [267] And so: “In all, a wide range of texts are used to serve as authorities for understanding the Gītā. Swami Bhaktivedanta not only ...
Jawaharlal Nehru (/ ˈ n eɪ r u / NAY-roo or / ˈ n ɛ r u / NERR-oo, [1] Hindi: [dʒəˌʋaːɦəɾˈlaːl ˈneːɦɾuː] ⓘ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, [2] author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.
Hindi litterateur Hazari Prasad Dwivedi wrote that Tulsidas established a "sovereign rule on the kingdom of Dharma in northern India", which was comparable to the impact of Buddha. [158] Edmour J. Babineau, author of the book Love and God and Social Duty in Ramacaritmanasa , says that if Tulsidas was born in Europe or the Americas, he would be ...
Harivansh Rai Bachchan (né Srivastava; 27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003) was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is best known for his early work Madhushala. [3]
Subhas Chandra Bose (/ ʃ ʊ b ˈ h ɑː s ˈ tʃ ʌ n d r ə ˈ b oʊ s / ⓘ shuub-HAHSS CHUN-drə BOHSS; [12] 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and military failure.
t. e. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal . Long after his early death, his legacy lived on among ...