Today’s Motto: ‘If we believe we can, we might. If we know we can, we will’

This is Your Day-TODAY:  Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day,  Sep. 27…………

1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

1922 – Scientists at the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory near Washington demonstrated that if a ship passed through a radio wave being broadcast between twostations, that ship could be detected, the essentials of radar.

1925 – Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh was established.

1950 – Mihir Sen became the first Indian to swim across the British Channel.

1950 – The answering machine was invented.

1960 – Europe’s first “moving pavement”, the travelator, opened at Bank Underground station.

1988 – The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship, is founded in Myanmar.

2018 – India’s Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women.

Born….

1873 – Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly.

1932 – Yash Chopra, veteran film director, who made memorable films like  Dhool ka Phool (1958), Dharamputra, Chandni, Darr, DDLJ, Dil to Paagal Hai, Veer Jara and Jab Tak Hai Jaan in 2012 completed  just before his demise. Won 6 National Film and 8 Filmfare awards, BBC Asia  and Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 2001 and Padam Bhushan in 2005.

1953 – Mata Amrotanandamayi, a Hindu spiritual leader and guru who is revered as a saint by her followers. Also called Amma who known for huggimg her devotees with profuse love and blessings.

RIP….

1833 – Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England. Called the Maker of Modernn Bharat through his writings, Paintings of Indian dieties and worships. He opposed Sati Pratha  and caste system.  He knew Bengali, Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin  etc. He co-founded Brahmo Samaj alongwith Guru Ravindranath Tagore, Hindu College in Calcutta and wrote books on Hindu worship etc. after reading Vedas and Shastras in Varanasi.

You may have known….

Female foeticide/infanticide: With many families under the pressure of dowry, women are considered a burden?

Besides, she may be a threat to the family’s honour, by not being pretty or fair enough to be married, or by getting raped by some perverted beasts, that are looming around. Boys, on the contrary, are the torch-bearers of the family, as they carry forward the name and bring dowry. Hence, they prefer female foeticide, which is seen in cities and educated families, too, who choose medical abortion in place of feeding the lady with pregnancy-terminating herbs.

 

They even opt for infanticide by drowning the baby in milk, feeding her salt or oversized sweets, or burying her alive. Hopefully, this menace will die out.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}