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Fun facts about India~ {Let's learn something new!}

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  Hello everyone! It's my pleasure to write for all of you after a very long timeess... Big Announcement... We are starting a new series from today and that is.. Let's  learn something new! So in today's blog we will be learning about a few fun facts about our country, India... 1}Varanasi is the most ancient surviving city in the world The holy city of Varanasi also known also Kashi is considered as one of the oldest city of the whole world. It is also believed that this place was once home to Shiva and Shakti. It is also considered as the pilgrimage place for Hindus, and lots of hindus come here to spend their last days here. 2} There's a floating post office in India India not only has the largest network of postal services in the world. India also has a very unique post office which floats on the water, it is situated at Dal Lake, Srinagar. 3} Shampoo originated in India The word shampoo is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Champu' which means to massage. Ear...

6 August 1945- The blast day..{Journey Through The Past-2}

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  Hello everyone!!  I welcome you all back.. And firstly, Happy Choti Diwali and Dhanteras to all of you... Today we will talk about something which all of us have heard of.. Something which made it's own place in history.. Yes, I am talking about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blast.. What really happened was extremely miserable and the adverse effect is still seen in the people residing there, whose ancestors might have experienced that attack... Some are born with life threatening diseases like cancer, while others with some or the other physical or neurological problems.. So now let's have a glance over what really happend on that day- 6 August, 1945 .. On 6th August 1945 , an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by US air forces . This was the first time a nuclear weapon had ever been used; the fireball created by the bomb destroyed 13 square kilometres of the city, and those dead as a result numbered up to 180,000 . Three days later , a second atomic bomb w...

09/11/2001- A day to remember...{Journey through the past-1}

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  Hello everyone , I welcome you all back on this blog, from today I will be starting a series of post called "Journey through the past " here we will know more about some dark past events, so without wasting any more time, let's begin.. What if I say that an aeroplane was flying and suddenly crashed to a building , most of you will not believe me at first, but what if I say that something like this already happened in the past?? I know most of you must be knowing about this unique date~ 09.11.2001, one fine morning in New York, everything was going smoothly and happily, but something happend which made this date a remarkable one, one accident took lives of thousands and thousands of people, yes I am taking about the famous 9/11 attack.. So today we are going to know about,  i 》What happened to the W.T.C? ii》What type of attack was 9/11? iii》Flight 93... iv》What happened to the Twin Tower? v》 How many people died? So let's begin.. 9/11 attack is a very famous attac...

Auspicious Nine Nights apiece Mata....

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 Hello everyone, welcome back once again this is Snigdhaa and today we are going to talk about something very special... Well... I think you all guessed it, yeah, I am talking about the Navratri.. We all are aware that, because of this situation which is prevailing currently we all are unable to enjoy this festival and are bound to stay at home... But it's ok, this time we are going to stay home but going to learn or recall about this auspicious festival... So, come on in.... In this modern world we all enjoy the festivals, but most of us are forgetting something, yes the story behind these festivals ... So let's know the story behind Navratri.. The story goes like this.. Legend has it that the demon king Mahishasura was granted immortality by Lord Brahma, the condition  were that he could only be defeated by a woman. Mahishasura attacked all the three spheres, namely, Trilok , which includes Earth, Heaven and Hell, and nobody could defeat him. Then Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu...

Teacher's Day- An Auspicious Occasion...

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  गुरु ब्रह्मा, गुरु विष्णु, गुरु देवो महेश्वरा,  गुरु साक्षात् परमं ब्रह्मा, तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नम:|| Hello everyone, I am back again and this time I am writing about a very special day.. I am sure that with the above shloka you would have know about the topic on which I am writing...   Correct, it's none other that                          Teacher's  Day... Teacher's Day is celebrated every year in India on 5th of September , to make the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna.. He was born on this date in the year of 1888. Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna was a philosopher, academic and also a statesman who served as the first vice president and second president of India... He was born in Thiruttani and died on 17 April, 1975 at Chennai... Well India is blessed with a lot of teachers who have contributed immensely.. From the time of Mahabharat till now we have come across the works of man...

Ganesh Chaturthi- A hope positivity...

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 Hello Everyone!! I am back once again... And day before yesterday was Ganesh Chaturthi , so firstly I would like to wish you all a belated Ganesh Chaturthi... So without any further discussion let's begin with today's topic..  We already know that a very hard situation is prevailing right now throughout the world, and  i n these  times of pandemic , this  festival  that marks the arrival of Lord  Ganesha  is a ray  of  hope ,  positivity  and prosperity... So let's  know  more about this  pious festival.... Let's know about it's origin. ..  Indian freedom fighter Lokmanya Tilak praised the celebration of Sarvajanik Ganesh Utsav in his newspaper, Kesari, and dedicated his efforts to launch the annual domestic festival into a large, well-organised public event. Let us know how this festival is celebrated... When the rituals begin, the priest chants mantras to invoke life into the idol. Since this festiva...

Greatest Pandemics...

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  Hello everyone , I am back once again, and this time I am back with the list of, the world's greatest pandemic crises ... I know that the time that we are going through is also counted as one of the greatest pandemics... So now without much discussion, let's quickly begin with our list.... 1. The Black Death... The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later , it killed with reckless abandon. The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years. As for how to stop the disease, people still had no scientific understanding of contagion, says Mockaitis, but they knew that it had something to do with proximity. That’s why forward-thinking officials in Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa decided to keep newly arrived sailors in isolation until they could prove they weren’t sick. 2. Smallpox           Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persist...