Priyanka Gandhi says, Robert happy doing his business, will not enter politics

Amethi, Uttar Pradesh:  Rahul Gandhi delivered a series of headlines today at a press conference in Varanasi, but brother-in-law Robert Vadara escalated into a twitter trend too today. Mr Vadra told reporters that though “this is Rahul’s time,  Priyanka’s time will come later.” He was responding to questions about whether he anticipates his wife entering politics formally. He then also said that he would be open to joining politics himself, “if that’s what the people want.”


In the evening, his wife said the media had misunderstood Mr Vadra’s response, and that he is a successful businessman who is not interested in changing his occupation.

Along with Rahul and Priyanka, Mr Vadra is in Uttar Pradesh to campaign for the Congress.   An avid biker, he jumped on a motorcycle this morning and led a bike rally on the dirt roads of rural UP.
Mr Vadra accompanies his wife regularly to the Amethi-Rae Bareli-Sultanpur Gandhi pocket-borough during elections, but usually keeps a low profile politically. He arrived in Amethi last night with his daughter Miraya and said he was lending support as a family member to take forward his brother-in-law Rahul Gandhi’s message. “I have come to share and take Rahul’s message to villages and every corner of the state”, he said.

Priyanka has been campaigning in the Amethi and Rae Bareli areas for the last three days. She too has laughed away the intense speculation over when and if she will join politics, underscoring repeatedly that she is here to help her older brother Rahul as he makes a bid to resurrect the Congress’ fortunes in the state. Rahul Gandhi is the sole scriptwriter of the party’s campaign for UP 2012. Polling in these areas will be held on February 15.

Mr Vadra says he will accompany his wife on the campaign trail but “I am not here to give speeches, I am here to work and get the message across to people who can’t be reached.” He nevertheless did address a rally in the Salon assembly segment of Amethi, which is Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency. His daughter accompanied him. So is the Gandhi-Vadra Gen Next being readied?  (In Pics: Robert Vadra, daughter joins campaign)

“I have my daughter here as well so I am showing her. I went to a few villages. I saw the change that has come about in the women folk. I have been here for 15 years and I was really surprised and happy to see the confidence in the women here. The self-help groups have done a great job. Each one is being confident. I want my daughter to see it, I wanted her to see at the grass-root level, how the change has come about,” Mr Vadra said.

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Narayana Murthy on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - indian-enews

“Netaji could have taken us past China” — the TOI quotes Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy. Here’s a bit.

“He was bold, upright and could take on anybody. He could question even Mahatma Gandhi and dared to disagree with him, which he did on the dominion status issue. Netaji knew that areas like population control, industries, agriculture and health were key to the country’s growth and had expressed his views on these. His views were strikingly modern and practical which makes me conclude that India would have done better than China with him in the front seat of the government,” Murthy said.

Criticizing the Centre for not paying “due respect to this great son of India”, Murthy felt it was time to correct the mistake. “I have heard that Delhi doesn’t have a single prominent avenue named after him. This is a shame and I hope our wonderful Prime Minister will soon correct this lacunae,” he added.

Wonderful prime minister, eh? That wonderful prime minister would correct something right after hell freezes over.

That PM belongs to the slave dynasty.

Consider this. New Delhi has major roads named after a ruler who slaughtered Indians wholesale. Aurangzeb. New Delhi will never have a road named after a nationalist.

The unpalatable truth may be that Indians have been in slavery too long and cannot imagine freedom from the tyrants that have ruled the land — and still continue to rule it.

An Italian, Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi, heads the UPA, the ruling coalition in New Delhi. This fact does not seem to bother too many people, does it? This would not have ever happened to a people who had any sense of pride and honor.

Fact is that India has been ruled by foreigners for centuries. If Indians in fact indeed had had pride and honor, centuries of foreign rule would not have happened.

That Antonia Maino has hanger-ons like Dr Singh and the rest of the unmentionable gang of crooks is not surprising at all. The tradition is long and enduring. Foreigners ruled India because of people like them.

India is a long way from freedom. While India’s enemies rule India, the names of India’s enemies will be seen in its capital. The time has not yet come for Netaji Bose’s name to adorn anything in India.

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13/7 Mumbai blasts case cracked, 2 from Bihar arrested: ATS | 13/7 Mumbai blast case solved

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on Monday claimed to have cracked the July 13, 2011 Mumbai blasts case, in which 27 people were killed and over 130 others injured. Two people, Naqee Ahmed and Nadeem Mukhtar, have been arrested and Yasin Bhatkal, who commissioned the blast and two others involved are yet to be arrested.

The police claimed that the financial trail of the blasts has been fully uncovered. "A lot of stress and importance was given to trace the financial trail of these blasts," Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria said.
According to the Maharashtra ATS, 23-year old Naqee Ahmed and 22-year old Nadeem Mukhtar had stolen two scooters used in the blasts. Bhatkal reportedly gave Rs 1.5 lakh for the execution of the terror attack and provided the explosives for the blasts.



Naqi Ahmed Wasi Ahmed Sheikh (22) and Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaq Sheikh (23) were arrested on January 12 but the mastermind of the crime Yasin Bhatkal, a top Indian Mujahideen operative, and the planters of the IEDs used in the blasts are still evading arrest, Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Rakesh Maria told reporters.

Maria said while Naqi came to Mumbai in September 2010, Nadeem, his co-villager, from Bihar's Darbhanga district, was living in Antop Hill area of the city.Naqi, according to Maria, came in touch with Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal alias Imran in 2008.He said Nadeem was called to Delhi by Bhatkal and handed over a cloth packet containing the explosive and detonators used in the blast that was handed over to Naqi.

Naqi, he said, was given Rs 1.5 lakh by Bhatkal as commission for the crime in which at least Rs 10 lakh, received through hawala channels, was used. He said Naqi and Nadeem had stolen two Activa scooters that were used for carrying out the explosions. Two motorcycles also stolen by them and kept for future use have also been recovered from Bihar.Rubbishing media reports that Naqi was innocent and that he was being tortured in police custody, Maria said he was aware of Bhatkal antecedents.

Naqi not only assisted Bhatkal in scouting for an apartment in Habib Building in Byculla but also paid the money for accommodation, the ATS chief said.

"Yasin Bhatkal was the main accused in this case (13/7 Mumbai blast), he started the Darbhanga module," ATS Chief Rakesh Maria told reporters in the press conference in Mumbai.

Maria also said that transfer warrant was being sought from court for 3rd accused, identified as Haroon Rashid, in 13/7 blast case.

"The wanted accused in the case is Yaseen Bhatkal. We will release his sketches soon," he said.

Rakesh Maria also thanked the agencies in different states who extended the willingness to help at every stage of the investigation.

"Our teams visited 18 states and a lead was obtained by the ATS in last week of November," the ATS chief said.

The investigation was being conducted by teams of the Mumbai Police, Maharashtra's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), National Investigation Agency (NIA) and others, with support from the local security agencies in several states.

Three blasts at close intervals, on July 13 last year, shook the country's diamond and gold hubs - Opera House and Zaveri Bazar - and a busy commercial area of Dadar, killing at least 27 people and leaving around 125 injured.

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Jaipur Literature Festival: Oprah Winfrey charms 'chaotic' India | Oprah In India

JAIPUR: Amid raucous cheers from thousands of admirers, television superstar Oprah Winfrey praised the contrast of calm and chaos in India at the annual Jaipur Literature Festival which is fast becoming a global cultural gala.

Considered one of the world's most influential women, Winfrey lived up to her billing as the headline draw at an event boasting literary giants such as Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje and Richard Dawkins, charming the crowds on Sunday morning.

"I came here with an open mind, and it has been expanded... It's the greatest life experience I have ever had," Winfrey said.

"You feel like you're in the centre of something bigger and greater than yourself."

Hundreds of eager visitors jostled against barricades at the back of the main stage area as Winfrey began speaking. Security guards struggled to shut the main entrance gates as angry admirers tried to push their way inside.

“It's like being in a video game. I don't know which way to look, Winfrey told crowds on her arrival in Mumbai. It's a bit chaotic, but there's an underlying calm, a flow, that you all seem to understand. India is a paradox,” she said.

The 57-year-old has caused a media storm in India, with news channels and front pages filled with stories of her touring the city of Mumbai with the Bachchans, Bollywood's first family. On Sunday she drew huge cheers as she appeared on stage in a traditional Indian churidar kameez smock.

“I will take with me a sense of calmness, and a genuine respect... people don't talk religion here, they live it,” said Winfrey.

Her appearance on Sunday was seen as a welcome distraction from the Salman Rushdie furore that has overshadowed the five-day festival, after the author cancelled his planned visit due to reported assassination threats against him.

The talk-show host and interviewer's "Book Club" turned little-known authors into global stars, with 59 of the club's 70 selected books making the USA TODAY Top 10 best-sellers list.

Winfrey told the festival that in 2008, after witnessing the completion of her mission to get then-Senator Barack Obama to the White House, she stuck a picture of a woman riding a camel on her pinboard, that said "Come to India".

"It was important for me to go to slums but not show the worst of the worst, but show that people can live in poverty and still have hope and meaning in their lives," said Winfrey, who also called for Indians to work to eradicate discrimination against widows in society.

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Homai Vyarawalla - The First Lady of Indian Press Photography | Farewell Homai Vyarawalla

India’s first woman press photographer:
India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla, who passed away January 15, 2012 at the age of 98, captured the last days of the British Empire in India. Her work also traces the birth and growth of a new nation. The story of Homai’s life and her professional career spans an entire century of Indian history. This selection of rare photographs tells her life story amid footnotes of an emerging nation, as she saw it.

India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla, who passed away January 15, 2012, captured the last days of the British Empire in India. Her work also traces the birth and growth of a new nation. The story of Homai’s life and her professional career spans an entire century of Indian history. Belonging to the small Parsi community of India, Homai was born in 1913 into a middle-class home in Navsari, Gujarat. Her father was an actor in a traveling Urdu-Parsi theatre company. Homai grew up in Bombay. She was the only girl in her class to complete her matriculation examination.

 Having learned photography from Maneckshaw Vyarawalla, whom she married later, Homai was to spend nearly three decades of her career in Delhi. After a career of 33 years as press photographer, Homai gave it up one day at the age of 57, disillusioned when the Nehruvian dream began to falter. She lived in near-anonymity until 1989. Fiercely independent, she continued to live on her own in Vadodara until she passed away.

The great value of Homai’s work lies in her vast collection of photographs that archive the nation in transition, documenting both the euphoria of Independence as well as disappointment with its undelivered promises. She was the only professional woman photojournalist in India during her time and her survival in a male-dominated field is all the more significant because the profession continues to exclude most women even today. Ironically, Western photojournalists who visited India such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Margaret Bourke-White have received more attention than their Indian contemporaries. In an already invisible history, Homai Vyarawalla’s presence as a woman was even more marginalized. 

   

Prime Minister Nehru with Mrs. Simon, the wife of the British Deputy High Commissioner, on board the first BOAC flight in India. Photos courtesy: Homai Vyarawalla archive, Alkazi Collection of Photography
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While much will hopefully be written in the coming years about Vyarawalla's professional contribution as a pioneering professional — she was India's first woman press photographer who captured the first three decades of a nation in transition — what stays with me are memories of an elderly Homai Vyarawalla who I met when she was 87. Her memory was razor sharp even though it needed a little jogging to set her recounting stories and anecdotes that spanned almost a century of Indian history. She was an untrained but skilled archivist. She meticulously preserved her beautiful monochrome prints and negatives in boxes and hand-made negative jackets stored in Tupperware cases. For years, she struggled to protect them from the humid climate of Vadodara and was palpably relieved when they were finally handed over to the Alkazi Foundation in Delhi on permanent loan.

Everything put to use

Nothing that came Homai's way was discarded easily. Everything was put to good use. Her simple and sparse home had pieces of driftwood that looked like sculpture. Her walking stick, polished with age, was carved out of a piece of wood while her nameplate was made from broken glass bangles. Many who knew her intimately wanted to photocopy her hand-written book of recipes and medical home remedies. She could also cut her own hair and tailor her own clothes. She once sawed an oversized baking tray, repaired my slippers and fixed the plumbing in her water tank. All this and more when she was well into her nineties!

She often said she was like Robinson Crusoe. Her island was her home in Vadodara where she lived independently till the end with her plants and a few personal photographs.

Time spent with Homai in Vadodara had a different quality. We always talked about photography but as the years went by and we became closer, our conversations about the grand events of history melted into smaller more intimate discussions about the everyday. Belonging as she did to a middle class Parsi family, Homai had to struggle for most of her life. She always said that had she not become a photographer, she would have joined any other profession that was available to her. Not working was never an option for her. Her father, an actor in a travelling Urdu-Parsi Theatre troupe had to borrow money to return to India when his company declared bankruptcy in Rangoon. He died soon after and Homai's mother augmented the family income by weaving the parsi kusti (sacred thread). Homai was the only girl in her class in the Gujarati school where she studied.

Thereafter, she received a diploma at St Xavier's College. She studied further at the JJ School of Arts in Bombay where she was introduced to many of the subjects of her early photographs, including the beautiful Rehana Mogul.

Captured official histories

Homai learnt photography from her boyfriend Maneckshaw who she later married. The two would walk the streets of Bombay in the 1930s and early 40s taking photographs. In 1942, they moved to Delhi and as employees of the British Information Services were plunged into the thick of nationalist politics. Homai photographed official histories as they unfolded but she also captured images of leisure as elite Indians and expatriates met at social functions at the gymkhana club in Delhi. She photographed marriage ceremonies, school functions, fancy dress parties and more.

Adventurous

Homai was an adventurous woman. Stranded in Sikkim, she hitched a ride back on an army truck after taking images of a young Dalai Lama crossing the border in 1959. Once she came tumbling down while trying to shoot Mohammad Ali Jinnah, bringing to a halt the proceedings of his last press conference the day before he left for Pakistan in 1947. Homai's fall brought a smile on Jinnah's face.

She had also photographed the meeting of the Congress Working Committee that ratified the decision to Partition the country. Acharya Kripalani, who was chairing the meeting, was not happy to have photographers around so Homai had to keep ducking behind the benches. Her desire to discover new frontiers made her travel to the U.S. and the U.K. at the age of 95 in 2008. When she saw the statue of Gandhi at Tavistock Park, her only comment was that he was not wearing spectacles!

Homai's last birthday brought a stream of visitors to her house. The Parsi Dharamshala sent us a delicious parsi meal and we went shopping for a new television set. In the evening, we cut a cake and, as it got dark, Homai held a lamp in her hand and pretended to cast a spell over us. The next day, I recorded an interview with her. She said this was the first time she had ever celebrated her birthday. Talking about the future she said: “My body may be wrecked and wasting away but my spirit is as young as when I was 40. It resides within this body like a tortoise. When the time comes to go, it will only be leaving this temporary home.” Her only regret was that she had started to fall sick and she hated that. In another interview, she said she would not mind coming back to the same kind of life once again, “because I like this life very much.” She was looking forward to going to New York for an exhibition of her work in a few months. What else would you wish for? I asked. Her reply was simple: “Good friends, peace and quiet and to be able to sit in the sun.”

As the evening ended, I realised to my shock and disappointment that I had accidentally erased the interview. I tried returning to the subject but that moment had passed. By now the sun had set and Homai looked tired. I returned home depressed that I had lost that interview till a friend suggested that perhaps certain moments are not meant to be recorded but treasured in our memories.

As a friend bids farewell to you for now Mrs. Vyarawalla, I wish you a happy birthday once again. I have been privileged to have known you and I hope that wherever you are, you have found peace and that quiet place to sit in the sun.

Doing it myself

At 94, I drive, do my grocery shopping, cook, clean, take care of my plants, give myself a haircut and can even stitch myself a dress! I am a photojournalist and I believe myself to be a good homemaker as well. I don't believe in giving myself big titles.

Pictures as history

I was passionate about photography and journalism, and I did my work honestly. Today, I am happy that the photographs are helping young Indians to take a glimpse of those glorious years when we fought for our independence.

Picture perfect

One of my pictures has captured an intensely private moment between Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijayalakshmi Pandit. Panditji had come to receive Vijayalakshmi, who was then the Indian Ambassador to the USSR, and as she landed at the airport in Delhi, he hugged her spontaneously. It was a beautiful rare moment between a brother and a sister and I was lucky to be there to frame it for eternity.

Life is beautiful, and 'funny'!

Once, a Jamaican woman from America came to meet me. At that time, my car had the number DLD-13. She assumed that it was my name as well! When she made a film on me, it was called Dalda 13. For those who saw the film, my name must have sounded very exotic and strange!

Precious memories

My pictures of Dalai Lama when he first came to India are also very precious. I got my best pictures in the years 1954-56.

On the Patan incident

I am deeply concerned about the security of women. What happened in Patan is deplorable.

Celebrating womanhood

As women, we have immense choices and reasons to celebrate, but we have a responsibility as well. I started my career in 1943. I remember I used to drive on my bicycle, during the midnight in Delhi. I always felt safe, and I never faced an incident of eve teasing. Very fewwomen were journalists then, and most preferred to stay home. It was a choice that they were comfortable with. I feel, whatever you do in life, you have to be content and happy. Gracious and not prone to frivolities. I might sound conservative but a personal sense of morality is important. Celebrating womanhood is not just about glamorous clothes or beauty, it is about a philosophy of life.

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15 GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA | Literary Persons of india - indian-enews

1) "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!"

2)"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."

3)"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

4)"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."


5)" Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."


6)"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."


7)"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."


8)"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."


9)"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."


10)"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."


11) "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."


12) "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."


13) "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."


14) "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."


15) "Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth."

Share Some Good Thought If you Like it Share with your Friends.

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Rajnikanth website really runs without internet This is not joke | Rajnikanth News - indian-enews

KOLKATA: It may sound like another Rajinikanth joke, but a new website dedicated to the superstar runs 'without an internet connection'!

Visitors to www.allaboutrajni.com are greeted with a warning that "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power" and are advised to switch off their internet connection to enter the website.
http://www.desimartini.com/allaboutrajni.htm
Only when the web is disconnected, one is allowed to explore the site.

Netizens can trace the story of the legend from the beginning, read inside scoops from his films and get a glimpse of behind-the-scenes action, while browsing through famous Rajini jokes about impossible feats only he can achieve.

"The unbelievable spectacle of running a website without the internet is a tribute to Rajinikant's larger than life image," claimed Webchutney's creative director Gurbaksh Singh, who developed the site for Desimartini.com.

With a heady mix of foot-tapping music, vibrant splash of colours, quirky quotes and illustrations, and icons in true Rajni style and lingo, the unique website reflects Rajini's signature style.

Singh told PTI that the website is based on a complex algorithm running in the back-end that keeps an eye on the propagation of data packets between two terminals.

Magic kicks in soon as the internet speed is down to zero, which is the basic premise on which the site and the concept has been constructed.

The humour element on the website is accentuated by the error message in typical Rajini style that appears if a visitor attempts to re-connect the internet.

"Aiyyo! That was unexpected. To keep browsing, switch off your internet," reads the message.

"The website has received a phenomenal response and has gone viral with several thousand hits and counting, along with innumerable shares and mentions across the web, especially on popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter," Singh said.

"After a few iterations and testing, we cracked the code required to build the world's first website that runs without the internet - a website that runs offline - which is as awesome and unbelievable as miracles and stunts associated or performed by Rajni himself," he said.

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Dangerous Train Stunt in Mumbai Local Train - indian-enews

Mumbai:  A one-minute video of two youngsters performing a death-defying stunt on the tracks before an approaching train near Khadaki railway station has gone viral in the virtual world.

Here's how they pull it off

One of them lies down on the tracks moments before an express train arrives, and lets the train pass over him. After the train whizzes by, the person emerges unscathed. His friend, who is apparently shooting this whole episode, joins him and then both of them jubilantly wave at the camera.

After watching the crazy video, the railway police are trying to trace the boys who pulled off the stunt early this month.

The police have appealed to local people to share information about the whereabouts of these 'stuntmen' so that necessary action can be taken against them.

After MiD DAY brought this widely circulated video link to the notice of the Government Railway Police (GRP), they beefed up security around Khadaki railway station.

"It is out of sheer luck that the person doing these stunts has emerged alive. This act is suicidal."

"If a person doing such stunts is hit by any precariously dangling object such as hose pipe from the passing train, he will die on the spot," Senior Inspector of GRP Mahendra Rokade said. "I have asked all my officers to keep a close watch near Khadaki railway tracks and if we find any one doing stunts, the person will be booked for attempt to suicide under Section 309 of the IPC."

Worst is not losing life but losing a limhaving an injury that will ruin their life forever!

I have often come across youngsters who try various 'stunts' in trains. Most of them are in the age group 12-18! While they think they appear 'cool' doing so, they don't realise that they only show how stupid they are and more than anything else, their life is at a huge risk. 

I came across this video of a guy performing a super risky stunt which is being shared a lot on Facebook

These stunt boys go with the funda - itna darr darr ke nahin jeeneka. However, they ignore that the nahin jeeneka part of the sentence is the strongest in this scenario.

Also, I have seen commuters just making faces but not asking them to stop. Commuters don't want to hear stuff like 'Uncle, apna kaam kar na', 'Tereko kya karneka hai?', etc. But remember - if you don't say a word and you happen to witness a tragic incident you might regret all your life.

DO NOT TRY / ENCOURAGE STUNTS IN TRAINS. PLEASE STOP THE WRONG-DOERS.

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Most searched Keyword in Google India 2011 | Katrina Kaif Popularity - indian-enews

Like every year, this year too Google Zeitgeist has announced the results of the Most Searched People, Topics, Movies of the year 2011.

The Google Zeitgeist 2011 for India throws up quite a few interesting results. The person topping the list of Most Searched People is none other than Katrina Kaif who believe it or not has even beaten the likes of Anna Hazare who created a nationwide revolution this year. This indeed shows that India is a Bollywood crazy nation.

While Katrina topped the list, her one time beau Salman Khan was not far behind either and came in at No.3 in the list of Most Searched People. Surprisingly, Salman is the only male actor to feature in the list of Top 10 Most Searched People in India. Despite the whole Ra.One frenzy, SRK doesn't make it to the list of Top 10 Most Searched People in India for the year 2011.

Starlet Poonam Pandey, who shot to fame for promising to strip for the Indian cricket team, is ranked at No. 4 ahead of actors like Aishwarya Rai (No. 6), Kareena Kapoor (No. 8) and Priyanka Chopra (No. 10)

The Google Zeitgeist 2011 for Most Searched Movies in India too reveals some interesting stats. Needless to say, its Salman Khan starrer Bodyguard which tops the list followed by Shah Rukh Khan's ambitious venture Ra.One.

Among other films, Delhi Belly makes it to No.4 in the list of Most Searched Movies in India beating the likes of Singham (No.5), Ready (No.6) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (No.10).

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Wikipedia blackout | Why is Wikipedia staging a blackout | what is SOPA?

Why is Wikipedia staging a blackout and what is SOPA? 

• Blackout of English-version site expected from 5am (midnight EST) on Tuesday until the same time on Wednesday

• Founder Jimmy Wales called the move an 'extraordinary action' against the endangerment of free speech.
• Redditt, BoingBoing and Mozilla will also join in the protest, while Google will show its support on its homepage.
• Expected to affect 25million users.

Need to know about the Wikipedia blackout? In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about the a complicated issue. Beginning midnight Wednesday, crowd-sourced knowledge database Wikipedia will go dark and will be offline for 24 hours as a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States. We give you the inside scoop on why the sixth most popular website on the planet has decided to turn itself off for a day and how you can access its pages even though it is offline.


How long will the site be blacked out?
The blackout starts at 12:00 a.m. eastern time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on Wednesday morning and will last until 12:00 a.m. eastern time on Thursday (also 5:00 a.m. GMT).

What exactly is blacked out?
The English-language version of Wikipedia will be offline and replaced with a message related to the anti-piracy legislation going through Congress, SOPA, in the United States. Other language editions of Wikipedia will be unaffected.
Additionally, popular community website Reddit will also be offline, as well as Boing-Boing and several smaller websites.
WordPress is suggesting users black out their own websites, but is not forcing any blackouts.


Whoa, SOPA? What the heck is that?
SOPA, which stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a piece of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The act is designed to target copyright infringers online through a series of harsh penalties.
In the U.S. Senate, a separate companion bill is called the Protect Intellectual Property Act or PIPA...

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Islam / Muslim | History & Beliefs of Islamic Religion | Quran / Koran - indian-enews

Islam / Muslim
History & Beliefs of Islamic Religion.
Quran / Koran, Muhammad (Mohammed) Quotes

There is no god but God; Muhammad is the messenger of God.

Allah has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another.
(Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 1589)

Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. (Final Sermon of Muhammad)

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Introduction to Islamic Religion & Arabic Philosophers

The religion and philosophy of Islam, is based upon the belief that God (Allah) transmitted knowledge to Muhammad (c. 570–632) and other prophets (Adam, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus). The followers of Islamic religion, muslims, believe that this revelation to humanity was written down in the Quran, which is the flawless word of God.
The theology of the Islamic scriptures informs most aspects of muslim life and culture. The Five Pillars of Islam is expressed in the Quran (Koran), which is a practical doctrine that encourages Muslims to pray 5 times a day, fast during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca, declare 'There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his prophet' and pay money to the poor.

Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection.
(Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1376)

The Hadith is a collection of sayings and stories which are commonly related back to the life and sayings of prophet, Mohammed.

With such a strong foundation in revelation and prophets of God, Islamic philosophy benefited in the eighth century a.d. by the translations ofancient Greek philosophy into Arabic. In the ninth century a.d. a school of translators and intellectuals, known as 'The House of Wisdom' was founded in Baghdad. It was here and largely through the translations of these scholars, that the writings of Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists became known to the Arabs, and subsequently to the western world which led to the Renaissance. The influence of the ancient Greek philosophers upon the arabic philosophers / thinkers stimulated them to study and interpret the Quran / Koran from a rational foundation.

I think the history of Islamic religion is really interesting (even though I am not Muslim). I hope you find the following information on Islam / Muslim beliefs, the Quran and Mohammed useful.

Islam / Islamic / Muslim Beliefs

Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allah) revealed his direct word for mankind to Muhammad (c. 570–632) and other prophets, including Adam, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muslims assert that the main written record of revelation to mankind is the Qur'an, which they believe to be flawless, immutable and the final revelation of God. Muslims believe that some parts of the Bible and the Torah may have been misinterpreted or distorted by their followers. With that perspective they view the Qur'an as corrective of Jewish and Christian scriptures.
Muslims hold that it is essentially the same belief as that of all the messengers sent by God to mankind since Adam, with the Qur'an (the one definitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God. Islam sees Judaism and Christianity as derivations of the teachings of certain of these prophets - notably Abraham - and therefore see them as fellow Abrahamic religions, and People of the Book. Islam has two primary branches of belief, based largely on a historical disagreement over the succession of authority after Muhammad's death; these are known as Sunni and Shi'ite.
The basis of Muslim belief is found in the shahadatan ("two statements"): la ilaha illa-llahu; muhammadur-rasulu-llahi — "There is no god but God; Muhammad is the messenger of God." In order to become a Muslim, one needs to recite and believe these statements. All Muslims agree to this, although Sunnis further regard this as one of the five pillars of Islam.
There are six basic beliefs shared by all Muslims:
Belief in God, the one and only one worthy of all worship.
Belief in the Angels.
Belief in the Book (al-Quran / Koran) (sent by God).
Belief in all the Prophets and Messengers (sent by God).
Belief in the Day of Judgment (Qiyamah) and in the Resurrection.
Belief in Fate (Qadar)
The Muslim creed in English:
I believe in God; and in His Angels; and in His Scriptures; and in His Messengers; and in The Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth.
I testify that there is nothing worthy of worship but God; and I testify that Muhammad is His Messenger.

Islam God / Allah

The fundamental concept in Islam is the oneness of God (tawhid). This monotheism is absolute, not relative or pluralistic in any sense of the word. God is described in Sura al-Ikhlas, (chapter 112) as follows: Say "He is God, the one, the Self-Sufficient master. He never begot, nor was begotten. There is none comparable to Him."
In Arabic, God is called Allah, a contraction of al-ilah or "the (only) god". Allah thus translates to "God" in English. The implicit usage of the definite article in Allah linguistically indicates the divine unity. In spite of the different name used for God, Muslims assert that they believe in the same deity as the Judeo-Christian religions. However, Muslims strictly disagree with the Christian theology concerning the unity of God (the doctrine of the Trinity and that Jesus is the eternal Son of God), seeing it as akin to polytheism.

"O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth . The Messiah , Jesus son of Mary , was only a messenger of Allah , and His word which He conveyed unto Mary , and a spirit from Him . So believe in Allah and His messengers , and say not "three" . Cease! ( it is ) better for you! Allah is only One God . Far is it removed from His transcendent majesty that he should have a son . His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth . And Allah is sufficient as its defender." [Chapter 4 : Surah 171]

No Muslim visual images or depictions of God exist because such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry and are thus prohibited. Moreover, many Muslims believe that God is incorporeal, rendering any two or three dimensional depictions impossible. Instead, Muslims describe God by the many divine attributes mentioned in the Qur'an, and also with the 99 names of Allah. All but one Surah (chapter) of the Qur'an begins with the phrase "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful". These are consequently the most important divine attributes in the sense that Muslims repeat them most frequently during their ritual prayers (called salah in Arabic, and in India and Pakistan called "namaz" (a Persian word)).

 The Qur'an (Koran)

The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. It has also been called, in English, the Koran and the Quran. Qur'an is the currently preferred English transliteration of the Arabic original (قرآن); it means “recitation”.
Muslims believe that the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel on numerous occasions between the years 610 and Muhammad's death in 632. In addition to memorizing his revelations, his followers are said to have written them down on parchments, stones, bones, sticks, and leaves.
Muslims believe that the Qur'an available today is the same as that revealed to Prophet Muhammad and by him to his followers, who memorized his words. Scholars accept that the version of the Qur'an used today was first compiled in writing by the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, sometime between 650 and 656. He sent copies of his version to the various provinces of the new Muslim empire, and directed that all variant copies be destroyed. However, some skeptics doubt the recorded oral traditions (hadith) on which the account is based and will say only that the Qur'an must have been compiled before 750.
There are also numerous traditions, and many conflicting academic theories, as to the provenance of the verses later assembled into the Qur'an. (This is covered in greater detail in the article on the Qur'an.) Most Muslims accept the account recorded in several hadith, which state that Abu Bakr, the first caliph, ordered Zayd ibn Thabit to collect and record all the authentic verses of the Qur'an, as preserved in written form or oral tradition. Zayd's written collection, privately treasured by Muhammad's widow Hafsa bint Umar, was used by Uthman and is the basis of today's Qur'an.
Uthman's version organized the revelations, or suras, roughly in order of length, with the longest suras at the start of the Qur'an and the shortest ones at the end. Later scholars have struggled to put the suras in chronological order, and among Muslim commentators at least there is a rough consensus as to which suras were revealed in Mecca and which at Medina. Some suras (eg surat Iqra) were revealed in parts at separate times.
Because the Qur'an was first written [date uncertain] in the Hijazi, Mashq, Ma'il, and Kufic scripts, which write consonants only and do not supply the vowels, and because there were differing oral traditions of recitation, there was some disagreement as to the correct reading of many verses. Eventually scripts were developed that used "points" to indicate vowels. For hundreds of years after Uthman's recension, Muslim scholars argued as to the correct pointing and reading of Uthman's unpointed official text, (the rasm). Eventually, most commentators accepted ten variant readings (qira'at) of the Qur'an as canonical, while agreeing that the differences are minor and do not greatly affect the meaning of the text.
The form of the Qur'an most used today is the Al-Azhar text of 1923, prepared by a committee at the prestigious Cairo university of Al-Azhar.
The Qur'an early became a focus of Muslim devotion and eventually a subject of theological controversy. In the 8th century, the Mu'tazilis claimed that the Qur'an was created in time and was not eternal. Their opponents, of various schools, claimed that the Qur'an was eternal and perfect, existing in heaven before it was revealed to Muhammad. The Mu'tazili position was supported by caliph Al-Ma'mun. The caliph persecuted, tortured, and killed the anti-Mu'tazilis, but their belief eventually triumphed and is held by most Muslims of today. Only reformist or liberal Muslims are apt to take something approaching the Mu'tazili position.
Most Muslims regard the Qur'an with extreme veneration, wrapping it in a clean cloth, keeping it on a high shelf, and washing as for prayers before reading the Qur'an. Old Qur'ans are not destroyed as wastepaper, but deposited in Qur'an graveyards. The Qur'an is regarded as an infallible guide to personal piety and community life, and completely true in its history and science.
From the beginning of the faith, most Muslims believed that the Qur'an was perfect only as revealed in Arabic. Translations were the result of human effort and human fallibility, as well as lacking the inspired poetry believers find in the Qur'an. Translations are therefore only commentaries on the Qur'an, or "translations of its meaning", not the Qur'an itself.

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 ALPHA & OMEGA 
(Revelation, 1:8) The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet used by the early christians to signify the expression of God's absolute perfection, "I Am the first and the last" (Is., xli, 4; xliv, 6).


 ANCHOR
It ranks among the most ancient of Christian symbols found in the catacombs relating to the virtue of hope of salvation and holding secure in faith.

 ANGEL
Latin angelus; Greek aggelos; from the Hebrew for "one going" or "one sent"; messenger.

 ARK OF THE COVENANT 
God ordered Moses to build a golden ark. It would become the holiest of holies. From it, God would sit upon the angel's wings and speak to his servant and command the Isrealites. In the ark Moses placed three things; a vessel containing a gomor of manna which had fed the Isrealites in the desert, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and the rod of Aaron which had blossomed and which had struck a rock to produce water in the desert for the Isrealites. The same rod which also became a serpent devouring the Pharoah's magician's serpent, and parted the Red Sea.

 ARK OF NOAH 
God saw that the earth had become wicked and prepared to destroy it with a great flood. But seeing Noah to be the only righteous man, he ordered Noah to build a ark. The ark would contain Noah and his family and two of every kind of creature. For forty days and forty nights the rains came and and the waters rose covering the earth bringing about complete destruction. Only the ark remained a safe from the forces outside it. In christianity, the ark represents a safe refuge, new life and hope for all living creatures. 


 BANNERS 
The banner is the symbol of victory. When borne by the lamb, it symbolizes Christ's glorious victory over sin & death.

 BELLS 
The bell has many uses in Christian symbolism. Bells call people to prayer and worship and are used to remind us of the things above over the things of this world. They symbolize the joyful sending forth of the Good News and the Word.

 BLESSING
The three extended fingers suggest the Holy Trinity, while the two closed fingers represent the twofold nature of the Son. The blessing is used to express a wish or desire that all good fortune, especially of a spiritual or supernatural kind, may go with the person or thing, as when David says: "Blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee" (Ps. cxxvii, 2). It signifies the sanctification or dedication of a person or thing to some sacred purpose; "Christ took bread and blessed, and broke" (Matt., xxvi, 26).

 BOOK
Symbolizing The Word of God, the Bible and bible ministries.

 BREAD 
Representing a most basic sustenance of life, and the Body of Christ. Christ used bread and wine at the Last Supper before his death on the cross to institute the rite of Holy Eucharist. Jesus proclaimed, "I Am the Bread of Life." (John 6: 55-56) "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him." (John 6: 52-57) "Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. Just as the Father who has life sent me and I have life because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will have life because of me." (John 6: 48-58) "Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die."

 BUTTERFLY 
Symbolizing the Resurrection and the hope of all faithful christians of a new and better life after death.

 CANDLE 
The candle sybolizes life and hope that our prayers as with incense, might rise to heaven and be heard by God. It also represents the presence of God and the light of Christ.

 CIRCLE 
The circle represents eternity and the everlastingness of God Who has no begining and no end. When three circles intertwine, they represent the equality, unity, and co-eternal nature of the three divine persons of the Blessed Trinity.

 CROSS 
The symbol of the crucifixion and the great price Jesus paid for the salvation of all mankind. Symbol of hope, love and sacrifice.

 CROWN 
Representing Christ the King and Messiah, which literally means "the anointed one." The Messiah was prophesized from antiquity to be the king who would come and restore the good fortune of the people of Isreal. (Rev. 14:14) describes the last judgement. "Then I looked, and lo, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head." 

 CRUTCHES 
The crutch being the symbol used to depict miraculous healing and of healing ministries.

 CUP 
The cup or chalice is a sacred vessel and symbol in which is contained the consecrated wine or the Blood of Christ. 

 DOVE 
The dove symbolizes purity, innocence, peace and is used to represent the Holy Spirit. The dove brought back an olive branch to Noah which was a sign to him that the waters had receeded.

 EAGLE 
The highest-soaring creature which makes it's home in the dizzying heights of the mountains. Symbolizing the raising of our minds and hearts to the loftiest thoughts and inspirations of God in heaven. 

 FIOCCHI 
The knots of silk used in christian heraldry to denote the ranking of a bishop of the church. Usually depicted in different colors hanging down under a galero or bishops mitre on either side of a shield. Representing apostolic succession and authority. 


 FIRE 
Fire is seen througout the Old and New Testiments as representing the presence of God. From the burning bush of Moses where the flame did not consume the bush. The angel of God which was seen as a column of flame guiding the Isrealites through the desert and separating the Isrealites camp from Pharoah's soldiers at the edge of the Red Sea. To the tongues of flame which appeared over the heads of the disciples at Pentecost. It is seen as a purifyer, testing the 'metal' of faith and works. Purifying the good and punishing the bad.

 FISH 
Found throughout the catecombs, it was used by the early persecuted christians to secretly symbolize their faith in Jesus Christ. The letters 'IXOYC' are the greek initials of the words for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior. They also spell the greek word for fish.

 GALERO 
The traditional hat of the clergy. The colors signifying rank within the church. Scarlet: Cardinal, Green: Arch Bishop & Bishop, Violet: Protonotary & Prelate, Black: Chaplin, Vicar, or Priest. Usually seen depicted in christian heraldry with knots of fiocchi dangling down from either side of the galero around a shield. 


 GLOBE 
Self-expanatory depiction of all the earth and people in it. A world-wide ministry.

 GRAPES
Grapes have many significant meanings in the bible and in christianity including fruitfullness, gladness, and ripe harvest. Not least of these the symbol of the wine our Lord used at the Last Supper to consecrate into his precious Blood.

 HANDS
Depending upon their attitude, hands can represent healing, blessing, uplifting, praise, or service.

 PIERCED HEART 
A heart piercd by a dagger is the symbol for Mary the sorrowful mother of Jesus. As was prophesized by St. Simeon: (Luke 2:33-35) "Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." 


 JEWELS 
Precious stones and jewels have many references in the bible symbolizing many different things. The "pearl of great price" where a man sold everything he owned to posses it. The pearl symbolizes wisdom and purity. The jewels depicted in Revelation of what the kingdom of God is made of. Jesus taught us, (Matthew 6:19-21) "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

 KEYS
Keys symbolize power and authority. Christ by employing this symbol clearly designed to signify his intention to confer on St. Peter the supreme authority over His Church. In Isaiah 22 we see "the key of the house of David" is conferred upon Eliacim, the son of Helcias, as the symbol of plenary authority in the Kingdom of Juda. The promise of Matthew 16:15-19.

 LAMB
Another ancient symbol representing the 'good shepherd' when seen upon the shoulders of a shepherd. Or as The Lamb of God, Christ Jesus who became the unblemished lamb sacrificed in atonement for the sins of all mankind.

 LAMP 
In the old testament, a lamp was filled with the purest olive oil and would be used to burn perpetually in front of the Tabernacle. It is a sign of honor and adoration, reminding the faithful of the presence of God.

 LIGHTHOUSE 
Guiding ships in the night through perilous waters, the lighthouse has been adopted by christians as a sign that lights a guiding path to Christ.

 LILY 
The white lily symbolizes purity, and innocence and is the traditional flower of Easter. The three petaled lily is also representative of the Blessed Trinity.

 LION 
Power, authority and majesty. We see the lion as representing Christ here (Revelation 5:5) - "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof."

 LYRE 
The harp or lyre is the symbol for music, music ministries and praise of God.

 MITRE 
The mitre is a kind of folding-cap worn by Bishops. It consists of two like parts, each stiffened by a lining and rising to a peak; these are sewn together on the sides, but are united above by a piece of material that can fold together. Two lappets trimmed on the ends with fringe hang down from the back.



 NAILS 
The symbols of the crucifixion of our Lord. Usually depicted as three, which were driven into the hands and feet of Jesus thus attaching him to the cross in a most cruel way. (John 19:17-18)

 ORB 
The symbol on top the scepter, representing Christ's kingship over the whole world.

 PLANTS 
Many varieties of plants and trees are used symbolically throughout the bible. Olive branchusually portrayed as the symbol of peace, restoration and healing. Palm branch: triumph and rejoicing announcing good news. Holly: with it's prickly leaves and red berries recalls the crown of thorns and the blood of Christ. Shamrock: the plant used by St. Patrick to explain to the pagan druids about the Blessed Trinity. Vines symbolize our connectedness to the Body of Christ. He is the vine and we are the branches. Pomegranate: Used by the ancient Hebrews on the robes of their priests, it was one of three fruit species brought back by Moses' spies as evidence of the abundance of the promised land. Adopted by christianity to symbolize the promise of Christ's Resurrection from the dead bursting forth to new and everlasting life.

 RAINBOW 
The rainbow is also represented in ancient text as a 'nimbus' or 'aureole' as a circle or oval of light. Symbolizing holiness, divine promise, hope and the covenant God made with Noah to never destroy the earth again with a flood. 


 RINGS
The two joined rings with the cross symbolize the union of two people joined together by and with Christ in the sacrament of holy matrimony. ROCK
Solid ground. Terra firma. A strong and sure foundation to build upon. Jesus asked his disciples who they thought he was. (Matthew 16:15-19) "But who do you say that I am?"Only Peter, of all the apostles answered him correctly. And so Jesus said to him: "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

 ROSE
The red rose has always been a sign of love. It is referenced in The Song of Solomon, a poem of lovers, "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. It is also seen as the symbol of purity, and the Passion of Christ. 

 SCROLL 
Before we had the 'book' of the Bible, the Word of God was scribed on papyrus or precious vellum scrolls by the apostles which were then shared among the early christian communities.

 SHELL 
Representing the sacrament of Baptism. Especially of Our Lord's Baptism by John the Baptist. 

 SHIP 
Representing the Church of Christ amid the perilous waters. 


 STAFF 
The staff or 'crosier' is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops at their consecration and is the symbol of authority and jurisdiction. It represents the staff of the 'Good Shepherd' who watches over his flock. 


 STAR 
The star of Bethlehem a sign which guided the three Magi to the place of our Savior's birth. 

 STOLE 
A liturgical vestment composed of a strip of material from two to four inches wide and about eighty inches long. The stole, being the badge of the diaconal and priestly orders, is worn only by deacons, priests, and bishops.

 SWORD 
Might, power and the execution of justice. (Hebrews 4: 11-13) "Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick [i.e. living] and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do."


 TABLETS
The two tablets represent the 10 Commandments given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.


 CROWN OF THORNS 
A symbol of the crucifixion of Christ. (Mat 27:29) "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!"

 TORCH 
A burning light shining through the darkness symbolizing Christ and our witnessing for Christ. "Let your light so shine." "I Am the light of the world."


 TRIANGLE
The symbol of the three divine persons of the One True God. In the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." 


 TRUMPETS 
Symbolizing the call to worship, the triumph of the Resurrection and the announcement of the Day of Judgment. Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho to the blasts of the trumpets.

 WATER 
Symbolizing a source of life and sustenance. Baptism and rebirth. Purification and Cleansing. 

 WHEAT 
The symbol of prosperity and fruitfulness, as well as the bread it will become and the hunger it will satisfy.

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