Puchhkad Riddle (Pocchey Laal Puchhkad)- 1
August 28, 2006We started our new series of Puchhkad Riddle (Pocchey Laal Puchhkad) on our Hindi blog, but to reach large target audience we have taught English to our Puchhkad uncle and he now has agreed to ask questions in English as well for rest of our Indian friends who are not very comfortable in reading Hindi.
Puchhkad uncle will ask questions based on general awareness about India, some facts and figures and also to test, how much you know about your own country. Uncle will come back the next day with detailed answer in case you are not able to solve one.
Today’s questions: Below there is a map, different countries are coloured with different colours based on specific parameter. Question is to find out “What is that parameter which distinguishes India with the rest of Asian countries. 
Hint: We are sure that you have not gone through any similar map in your geography class when you were naughty school going kid.
Puchhkad Riddle (Pocchey Laal Puchhkad)-3
August 28, 2006Puchhkad uncle is back with another riddle this time. Before he fires the question, we appreciate every visitor on our Hindi blog, who are enthusiastic about solving the riddle. That motivates us to work in more focused and better direction.
Today’s question; picture shown below is of an Indian who devoted his life for betterment of education, Industrial revolution, working towards removal of poverty, financial independence, India’s political advancement, and providing Indians with better employment opportunities. Guess who is he??
Hint: For your help, we provide you with a small hint – He is related to field of Science and his Birthday falls in the month of August.
Vandematram
August 27, 2006Vandemataram – 1876 September 7, a young man sitting in his home in Kanthalpura composed the patriotic song Vandemataram. The song was written in highly sanskritized form of Bengali language and was part of his book Anandamatha. It seemed that Goddess Saraswati herself helped Bankim Chandra to write the song. The song touched the heart of millions at that time. It became the national cry for freedom from them.
It still infuses and touches our soul inside when it is sung. Watch again for passions to run high.
Watch and listen again.
Translation in English
Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight,
Green fields waving Mother of might,
Mother free.
Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee I call Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath
Though art love divine, the awe
In our hearts that conquers death.
Thine the strength that nervs the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.
Every image made divine
In our temples is but thine.
Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother lend thine ear,
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleems,
Dark of hue O candid-fair
In thy soul, with jewelled hair
And thy glorious smile divine,
Loveliest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!
