Perceptions by Gokul Rajagopal

Bonjour Quarantine , Boredom & Corona - These are the most hatred word among plenty of us in the recent days. This Quarantine changed the mindset of every common person from  " I want leave !" " I badly need a break !" " I should enjoy my holiday " to " Allow me to do my work from my office " " Reopen schools & colleges shortly " " I want to go out " " I want to eat outside " and lots more. To that extend, Quarantine has created boredom in everyone's day to day life. To kill this boredom, people do plenty of things and try to keep them engaged. This article picks the Top 5 activities that most Indians did during the months of April & May (the Covid-19 quarantine period) . This article also speaks about the Top issues during Quarantine with a note that every coin has two sides. (The article is not intended to promote anything, any product or service or mislead anyone or comment on anyone...

"Ravi de partager avec vous cet article sur la ville de l'aube" Yes, many of you rightly guessed it. Pat on your back and join me to explore the elegant City of Dawn (The Auroville). The Globe - Auroville (The Matri Mandir - click here to view my other articles ) History Mirra Alfassa was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and co-founder of "Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry". She reached India in 1920 and settled in Pondicherry. Mirra Alfassa became a Yogi in the late 1950s. She was constantly having a dream, about a place on earth where no body or no nation could claim it as its sole property. She wanted it for every human and humanity with no distinction. Mirra became Mother for all her followers. She was 90 years old when she started building a Universal Town (Auroville) near Viluppuram district - Tamilnadu. Architect Roger Anger gave life to Mother's dream of building a town for atleast 50000 people. The city was inaugurated and name...

Bonjour In 1870s, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had written a poem for his novel Anandamath . The Novel was published during 1882. It was one of the leading selling Novel during that period in Bengal state. The poem was completely a religious based song that was penned to praise Mother Durga and it had more than 10 verses (stanza). " Vande Mataram " means " I Bow to Thee Mother " In 1896, Rabindra Nath Tagore used the first two verses of that poem in the Bengal Independent movement rally. He was treating the Mother Nation as equal to a Goddess. Thus the meaning of " Vande Mataram " was understood as "I Bow to Thee Motherland" instead of "I Bow to Thee Mother". " Vande Mataram " soon gained an identity among all freedom movements that was taking place in India during that time. It became an important lynchpin in the history of Indian freedom struggle. Most regional language poet's started to translate Vande Mat...

Sila Manidargal - A blog to recognize, identify some of the great legends who remarkably changed the society. "Agriculture and Industry should be complemented to each other and it should be aligned to unrivaled Indian culture" Today in Sila Manidargal, we will see about Dr.Tiruppur Subrahmanya Avinashilingam Chettiar. He was a Lawyer by Profession and later, he joined the Independence Movement. He was a strong follower of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He served as the Education Minister of TamilNadu during 1946 - 1949. During his reign, he brought in many reforms and responsible for the below notable achievements: • He was the reformer who introduced Tamil as the medium of instruction in schools • He was the legend who created encyclopedia for kids in Tamil • He was the one who nationalized Bharathiyar Poems • He was the person who mandatorily included the Thirukkural in Primary and Secondary school syllabus Avinashilingam also established few institutions to serve th...

Sila Manidargal - A blog to recognize, identify some of the great legends who remarkably changed the society. Today in Sila Manidargal, we will see about Mr. Khan Sahib who was a brave and a ferocious warrior . He was born in Panaiyur in a Hindu family. He married a Christian girl and followed Islam. Due to caste based murders in his local area, he escaped to Pondicherry. Later he moved to Tanjore and joined British forces as " Sepoy " (In earlier days, Sepoy was considered as least military force) He swiftly learnt different languages, and military defense. Due to his ability and military intelligence, he was promoted as Commandant of East India Company's Sepoys. He was asked to move to Nellore and work under Mohammed Kamal. A few days later he was asked to work for Chanda Sahib as TAX Collector. In 1750s, Chanda Sahib was the ruler of Madurai and Khan Sahib was appointed as one of the TAX collector of Madurai and Tirunelveli. Khan Sahib and Chanda Sahib both t...

Hello Readers! Vanakkam. Nice to meet you all again, through my blog Perceptions . Through this blog, I share some insights and experiences about Travel, venues and Reviews about services. Today I am planning to share yet another Travel Diary. I hope you will enjoy it. To quickly see my other articles, click here . I'm delighted to share this article regarding my visit to Dzogchen Monastery (One of the active Tibetian settlements in India). I was fortunate enough to visit this place on the birthday of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (8th April). Buddhist Monastery Dzochen Monastery One day, when I was hunting for a new place to visit, I came across the Dzogchen Monastery. The location seemed to be perfect for a one-day trip. I started to surf and gather more information regarding the venue. All these days, I had a thinking that only Northern part of the Nation had Buddhist Monastery. But, I was surprised to find one next to my place. Some of the famous Monasteries in Southern part: Namd...

Sila Manidargal - A blog to recognize, identify some of the great legends who remarkably changed the society. Today in Sila Manidargal, we will see about the person who coined the word "Jai Hind". This South Indian commanded Hitler to ask apology. Who is he? Yes, your guessing is right. It's Mr. Chempakaraman Pillai . His family was of Tamil origin and moved and settled in Thiruvananthapuram. A Botanist from Europe visited India and he got impressed by Chempakaraman's intelligence. He took Chempakaraman along with him to Europe. Later Chempakaraman started the International Pro-India Committee later merged with the Indian Independence Committee in Berlin. His intelligence, brilliant organizational abilities, and courage helped him get appreciation from the German Kaiser. He became the operations head of the German Navy in Indian Ocean. During this period, he destroyed the English war-vessels. For 20 years, he worked for Nazi against British as part of Indian Independ...