Zahir are the actions of an individual as visible in the outer world whereas Batin is the intention of the heart. Both work in a cyclic form complementing each other in purifying the soul. Most often we count upon good intentions and try putting
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In his book, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Viktor Frankl talks about the ‘enforced mental and physical primitiveness’ of the prisoners in the concentration camp. The author talks about three psychological reactions a priso
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We have always been socially and culturally conditioned in placing the givers in the category of higher humans. There’s a proportionate share of the immediate family, relatives, friends, society, community, nation, and environment, in everythin
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A mistake repeated a hundred times eventually doesn’t look to be a mistake, except it surely is. Who decides what a mistake is? The definitions vary with perspectives, but ultimately it’s our consciousness that knows the best, that silent
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Oh, my motherland! we vow to lift you to the highest peak on the land to achieve what you long for craving abundance and prosperity eradicate disgrace of poverty, inhumanity and all that which hurts you may you be strong, may we
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By Manasvi Nahata --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manasvi Nahata is a 13-year-old who started writing three years ago.
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Umeedo Se Bandha Ek Parinda Hai Insaan Kisiko Roti ki bhukh, Kisiko Bada Makaan, Yeh dil ki khwaish aisi k mile isse khula Aasman, Anekta Main Ekta hai, Aisa Mera Desh Mahaan, Jitni bhi badhe isme Aabadi, Hum Sab K Liye Zaroori Hai Azadi.
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Kya sarhode me jina aazadi hai, ya saari hado to todna aazadi hai Kya har baat me apni rai dena aazadi hai, ya har baat pe chup rehna azadi hai Kya apni marzi se jeena aazadi hai, ya bandisho me rehna azaadi hai K
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There’s nook where I feel – Sense of belonging. Yes that’s where I feel ME. I can talk to my soul, Can laugh hilariously, can cry stormily Can be mad, can be bubbling No judgement, No fear, It seems, it opens
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Oh, why are we judged, Why are we clutched by hypocrisy Why do we fall prey to gossip Why do we follow others footprints Why so much of Jealousy, hatred and showoff Why can't we lead a peaceful, happy life? To me these shackles seems like a
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Sometimes in life, things don't go as they should, You think why, what if they could, Some days are warm some days are cold, But when we see them in the future, we see them as, oh why did this matter when it was old? Sometim
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Dr. Chetan Sakhia from Saurashtra completed BAMS in Ayurveda from Ahmadabad Govt. College. His willingness to serve the society made him observe the BPL families and their children’s health closely. It was then when he realized their basic prob
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Having completed M.A and GSET in Economics, Nitin Saindane came to Surat to pursue his career. He worked for a private school and also decided to devote two hours for the slum dwellers because of his association with NSS for two years during college
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Amin Nathani is a businessman as well as a philanthropist. He was inclined towards helping society from a very young age. He graduated from Karnataka University in economics and joined Jan Seva Samaj in 1994, where he took charge of the blood and med
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Dattubhai Marathe retired in 2013 as a primary teacher and felt the need of giving a new direction to his life. He spent two years in drafting his plans and penning down all his life experiences. During this time, he noticed many youngsters and even
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A few months ago, I happened to visit a government school in the Kotambi village near Vadodara Gujarat. The school houses children up to 8th class and has a humble infrastructure. But what struck me the most was the passion with which the children we
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Prit Khandor, born and brought up in Kutch Rapar is well-known as the ‘Youth Express’. Having completed his engineering, he took a job in a corporate and also prepared to get into a government job, but soon decided to answer his inner cal
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Prashant Patil and Yogesh Patil studied together up to the eight class. Prashant had to drop out due to the financial crisis at the age of 14 and started to work as an auto-rickshaw driver for sustenance, while his friend Yogesh Patil continued to st
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Dr. Sanjay Patil originally comes from a small village of Shahada, Maharashtra. He began his career in 1996 in social service and then he moved to Surat. In the beginning, he struggled a lot but still pined for doing something for the society and its
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Pankaj Laxman Bhai Navik is a young man from a small village of Rajpipla. He is the youngest son of the family. His village ‘Jiorpati’ houses around 50 families with very few people who have hardly made it to the school. However, Pankaj c
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Hardworking, good learner, and a man full of energy, Govardhan Jivabhai Navadiya leads by example. He comes from a small village of Bhavnagar. In spite of facing some tough economic conditions, he is determined. He is a science teacher and handles cr
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I happened to talk to the Head Constable Vittalbhai who is serving the police department for 28 years and has been shifted to the traffic police section for over a year now. I have been noticing him for the past one week, struggling to clear the traf
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65-year-old, Sita Thakker, cannot read or write; a widow with five daughters and a son, once a laborer working at different construction sites, Sitaben now runs property business worth millions and has journeyed across Asia and Europe. Born in a
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As I sat to read this morning in my warm comfortable room, I heard the voice of a little child who was calling out loudly to sell something. Curious like always, I ran out to see who he was and what was he up to. Mom told me he comes every day to sel
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This humble man is Jayesh Bhai who lives in the Waghodia area of Vadodara and makes a living by selling salt door to door. Unfortunately, he is physically disabled and can't​ talk well too. Yet his self-esteem inspires him to earn bread fo
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Shantaben, 50, (left), and Ramaben, 60, (right) are two women who are independently making a living for themselves and their families by selling milk. They are proud owners of three buffaloes and a cow. These two ladies have divided their roles of mi
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I rise and fall like dust transcending with wind to the mysterious lands oscillating between the days gone and the hours to come on the swing of time. © Nazneen Kachwala
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She was a kite stuck in the tall branches separated from its guiding string watching the sky with a dream to soar the heights again taken by the winds to die and decay — until she took refuge in prayer. © Nazneen Kachwala
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I now have new colors on my walls that wore the same shade for two-decades-long adorned with the sketch drawn by my brother of a tiny cat with crayons when he was five the lines we marked together to measure our increasing height the poster of
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I place myself on the palanquin of thoughts over the shoulders of solitude each day taking me through the silent woods across the jingling spring emerging from its heart to the faraway grasslands secluded from the hus
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The night longs for more sleep the day is mildly awake the tussle between the two turns my sky black under whose shadow two crows cuddle on the giant peepal straight in the sight on the branches of which runs a fluffy squirrel wit
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It was a dark night, the street was filled with shrill silence, no voice except that of a dog barking somewhere in a nearby lane was heard, and all the lamps of the streetlights were intact except one that was ceaselessly flickering. Vijju was sittin
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