Writing website of Vinayak Lohani
Vinayak Lohani, the Founder of Parivaar
In 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' there comes an episode in early 1880s, when Sri Ramakrishna asked his young disciple Rakhal (who he considered his spiritual son, and who later became Swami …
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As the new capital of Madhya Pradesh was announced in 1956, there followed soon the development of a new township with its well planned roads, parks and government residential quarters that posed a …
I have always had a considerable admiration for at least a few distinguished Englishmen who came to this country, particularly in early period of colonialism, because of the sheer magnitude of their …
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Somewhere under the canopy of the Central Indian Forests - The Baigas The Baigas belong to the category of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) - amongst the three marked as such in …
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Amritlal Vegad – Soaking in Narmada’s sublimity In 2018 a man passed away in Jabalpur. Though reasonably well-known in the refined literary circles of Hindi and Gujarati readers, he has been …
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I have been reading about the sociological dynamic and literature of the Blacks in America in the period following the Abolition in 1860s, and many of its features, directions and debates have gripped …
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