Louis Brandeis
18 Nov 2009 1 Comment
in Quotations Tags: BAPS, India
“No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.”
– Louis Brandeis
About Louis Brandeis
American judge Louis Brandeis was the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, and one of the most influential Justices in the history of the Court. He was born in Kentucky in 1856 to Czech-born parents. He graduated from high school at age 14 and later became head of his class at Harvard Law School. As a Justice, many of his decisions created greater protections for individual rights of privacy and free speech. He died in 1941. Brandeis University was named in his honor.
A Tryst with Destiny
09 Sep 2009 Leave a Comment
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Jawaharlal Nehru
This speech was delivered to the Constituent Assembly of India in New Delhi on August 14 1947
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/may/01/greatspeeches
The Indian Diaspora
31 Aug 2009 1 Comment
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I’m currently reading ‘Leaving India’ by Minal Hajratwala, interesting facts about The Indian Diaspora… My great great grandfather arrived in Trinidad from India in 1896, and now my brother over 100 years later is living in India.
1900
Estimated size of the Indian Diaspora: 373,609
Countries with more than 10,000 people of Indian origin: 6
1. British Guiana
2. Trinidad and Tobago
3. Mauritius
4. Natal
5. Jamaica
6. Fiji
1945
Estimated size of the Indian Diaspora: 1,157,728
Countries with more than 10,000 people of Indian origin: 10
1. Mauritius
2. South Africa
3. Trinidad and Tobago
4. British Guiana
5. Fiji
6. Kenya
7. Tanganyika
8. Uganda
9. Jamaica
10. Zanzibar
1984
Estimated size of the Indian Diaspora: 4,599,063
Countries with more than 10,000 people of Indian origin: 33
1. South Africa
2. England and Wales
3. Guyana
4. Trinidad and Tobago
5. USA
6. Fiji
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Canada
9. Singapore
10. Surinam
11. Saudi Arabia
12. Oman
13. Netherlands
14. Yemen
15. Kenya
16. Kuwait
17. Tanganyika
18. Qatar
19. Bahrain
20. Muscat
21. Iraq
22. Zambia
23. Mozambique
24. Iran
25. Indonesia
26. Thailand
27. Australia
28. Nigeria
29. Germany
30. Hong Kong
31. Jordan
32. New Zealand
33. Libya
2001
Estimated size of the Indian Diaspora: 11,510,644
Countries with more than 10,000 people of Indian origin: 47
1. USA
2. Saudi Arabia
3. England and Wales
4. South Africa
5. Canada
6. Mauritius
7. Trinidad and Tobago
8. Guyana
9. Fiji
10. Oman
11. Singapore
12. Kuwait
13. Reunion
14. Netherlands
15. Australia
16. Surinam
17. Qatar
18. Bahrain
19. Kenya
20. Yemen
21. United Arab Emirates
22. Tanganyika
23. Thailand
24. Italy
25. Portugal
26. France
27. Jamaica
28. Indonesia
29. New Zealand
30. Hong Kong
31. Israel
32. Guadeloupe
33. Philippines
34. Germany
35. Madagascar
36. Spain
37. Nigeria
38. Mozambique
39. Zimbabwe
40. Russia
41. Switzerland
42. Zambia
43. Libya
44. Uganda
45. Austria
46. Lebanon
47. Sweden
Mystic India
20 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
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Mystic India rediscovers India, a land of many mysteries and fascinations, the one land that all desire to see. Home of the Himalayas, the tallest mountains, India is our world’s largest and oldest democracy, and contains an amazing wealth of wisdom, culture and spirituality. And within this earliest civilization known to mankind, lie hidden mystical secrets. It lies hidden in India’s silent spirituality, making her a mystic land of meditation, contemplation and enlightenment.
