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NATIONAL ANTHEM
RAJYAGEET
PLEDGE
PREAMBLE
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TODAY'S THOUGHT/IDEA
You will never be happy if you are always worried about what others think about you.
इतर लोक तुमच्याबद्दल काय विचार करतात याची तुम्हाला नेहमी काळजी वाटत असेल तर तुम्ही कधीही आनंदी होणार नाही.
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IMPORTANCE OF THE DAY
August 20th is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.
SPECIAL EVENTS
⚜️ Democracy Day
⚜️ Goodwill (Sadbhavana) Day
⚜️ World Mosquito Day
2008 : Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics.
1920 : World's first commercial radio station 8MK (now WWJ) opens in Detroit, Michigan.
1914 : World War I - German forces capture the city of Brussels.
1897 : Sir Ronald Ross discovers (in India) the fever bacterium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his research on malaria at Almora.
1828 : Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Sabha in Kolkata with the help of three friends Maharaja Dwarkanath Tagore (Thakur), Kalinath Roy and Mathuranath Malik. This meeting was later called 'Brahmo Samaj'.
1666 : Shivajiraj crossed 'Narveer Ghati' by showing false documents to enter Deccan.
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BIRTH
1946 : N. R. Narayan Murthy – Co-Founder of 'Infosys'.
1944 : Rajiv Gandhi - 6th Prime Minister of India, Bharat Ratna posthumously. (Died : 21 May 1991)
1941 : Slobodan Milosevic - President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. (Died : March 11, 2006)
1833 : Benjamin Harrison - 33rd President of the United States.
(Died : 13 March 1901)
1779 : Jacob Berselius - Swedish chemist.
(Died : 7 August 1848)
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DEATH
2013 : Founder of Superstition Eradication Committee, great socialist thinker and editor of Sadhana Weekly Dr. Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in Pune.
2013 : Jayant Salgaonkar - Jyotirbhaskar, writer and entrepreneur. (Born: 1 February 1929)
2001 : Madhukar Ramrao and M. R. Yardi Orientalist, Union Finance Secretary, Chairman of Pune Center of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
2000 : Pranlal Mehta - Filmmaker. (Kinara, Kitab, Bejuban, Marte Dum Tak, Police Public)
1997 : Pragji Dossa - Gujarati playwright and writer, Nehru Award and Sahitya Akademi Award winner. (Born: 7 October 1907)
1985 : Akali Dal President Harchand Singh Longowal was shot dead in a Gurudwara in Sherpur. (Born: 2 January 1932)
1984 : Raghuveer Bhopale alias 'Magician Raghuveer' is a magician of international fame. He has written the books 'Phirta Jadugar' and 'Mee Sawhela Russi'. (Born: 24 May 1924)
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
◆ Who designed the National Flag of India?
Answer : The flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya.
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STORY TELLING
THE ELEPHANT AND HER FRIENDS
Once upon a time, a lone elephant made her way into a strange forest. It was new to her, and she was looking to make friends. She approached a monkey and said, “Hello, monkey! Would you like to be my friend?” The monkey said, “You are too big to swing like me, so I can’t be your friend.” The elephant then went to a rabbit and asked the same question. The rabbit said, “You are too big to fit in my burrow, so I can’t be your friend.” The elephant also went to the frog in the pond and asked the same question. The frog replied, “You are too heavy to jump as high as me, so I can’t be your friend.”
The elephant was really sad because she couldn’t make friends. Then, one day, she saw all the animals running deeper into the forest, and she asked a bear what the fuss was about. The bear said, “The lion is on the loose – they are running from him to save themselves.” The elephant went up to the lion and said, “Please don’t hurt these innocent people.
Please leave them alone.” The lion scoffed and asked the elephant to move aside. Then, the elephant got angry and pushed the lion with all her might, injuring him. All the other animals came out slowly and started to rejoice about the lion’s defeat. They went to the elephant and said to her, “You are just the right size to be our friend!”
Moral : A person’s size does not determine their worth.
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SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
DR. NARENDRA DABHOLKAR
(Great Socialist Thinker)
[1 November 1945 - 20 August 2013]
Narendra Dabholkar is a well-known social activist and writer from Maharashtra who was gunned down on August 20, 2013, during his morning walk in Pune. It is obvious that he was killed because of his incessant efforts at fighting inhuman superstitious practices and spreading a scientific temper among people. His murder was the first in a series of similar killings of three more rationalists and secular activists/ thinkers Govind Pansare on February 20, 2015; Prof. M.M. Kalburgi, on August 30 the same year and Gauri Lankesh on September 5, 2017. Ironically, it looks like Karnataka is repaying its debt to Dabholkar, for it was his efforts at bringing an Anti-Superstition Bill in Maharashtra that paved for a similar move by the Karnataka government.
Bill against black magic :
After much dilly dallying, the Karnataka government finally managed to pass a much watered down version of the draft Bill called Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill in November 2017, two months after Lankesh was killed.
Fighting inhuman and superstitious practices became Dabholkars lifes mission. He formed the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (The Committee for the Eradication of Superstition, ANiS in short) and established its units at the taluka level to spread awareness among people.
The book under review is to be seen as an extension of his activism. The essays in the volume (originally in Marathi and lucidly translated into English by Suman Oak) are meant to educate ordinary citizens about the importance of developing a scientific spirit and a rational outlook.
The book has two parts. Part One, The Case for Reason, is about various theoretical aspects of the Anti-Superstition movement and has nine essays dealing with the history and philosophy of science and how a scientific approach should be applied to understand human affairs.
The second part is about ANiS and its activities. It gives an account of various campaigns against specific superstitious practices and irrational beliefs covering a wide range of issues from phoney godmen and their divine claims to belief in astrology andvasthu.
The concepts discussed and developed in the first part are elaborated and examined in the second part, in relation to specific instances exposed by ANiS. Written perhaps for different occasions, there are some repetitions, but a common concern runs throughout the book, linking theory and practice.
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SILENCE
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