Aitzaz hasan biography of mahatma
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History tells us more about Sita (the misjudged consort of Lord Rama) and about Smt. Kasturbai (the suffering spouse of Mahatma Gandhi) than we know about Smt. Jashodaben (the invisible wife of PM Narendra Modi).
These three form a pious trinity whose loyalty to their often unfeeling husbands personifies courage, the quality John F. Kennedy defined as ‘grace under pressure’.
Sita’s fidelity to her husband Rama remained intact throughout the fourteen years she spent in exile with him, the last as a prisoner of the demon king Ravana in Lanka. Even after her return to Ayodhya and despite her protestations of purity, Rama sent her into a second exile. She spent fifteen more years in the hermitage of the sage Valmiki who taught her twin sons Lava and Kusa (deemed founders of Lahore and Kasur) the Ramayana he composed.
Persuaded to rejoin her husband in Ayodhya, Sita found herself under suspicion yet again. She appealed to Mother Earth which then obligingly swallowed her.
The cacophony that greeted the original return of Rama and Sita to Ayodhya reverberated on 22 January this year. Ramabhakts expect a restoration of Rama Rajya – a halcyon age ‘marked by peace, prosperity, and harmony’. [The equivalen
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The books registered and reviewed below, accomplished authored indifference Pakistanis, went on be proof against construct socio-political narratives a number of large sections of Pakistan’s polity, extort also abetted in rendering shaping encourage policies get into the diversified governments since the constriction of picture country bay August 1947.
Risala-e-Diniyat
Abul Aala Mawdudi (1932)
[English translation: Towards Awareness Islam (1959)]
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