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Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great social reformer. He modernized Indian society in many ways. His reforms have been discussed below: Abolition of Sati: Raja Ram Mohan Roy raised his voice against the Sati system. In the funeral pyre of the deceased husband, his wife was mercilessly thrown if she did not enter into the flame voluntarily. She was termed as Sati. The Brahmins and other higher castes in the society encouraged it. Ram Mohan protested it vehemently. Even he went to England to give witness before the Privy Council against this cruel practice where the orthodox Indians had appealed hot to repeal his system. His efforts bore fruits and this practice was stopped by an Act passed in 1829 during Lord William Bentinck. Thus, along prevailing ugly practice of the Hindus was uprooted. Voice against idolatry: Ram Mohan raised his voice against idolatry. In his book Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin’ he championed the cause of Monotheism. He criticized idol-worship by the Hindus...

Stress and Tension in Life... A lecturer was giving a lecture to his student on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, “How heavy do you think this glass of water is?” The students’ answers ranged from 20g to 500gm. It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier. What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again. We have to put down the burden periodically so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on. So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it back home...

A monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He takes his boat out to the middle of the lake, moors it there, closes his eyes and begins his meditation. After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels the bump of another boat colliding with his own. With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising, and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who dared disturb his meditation. But when he opens his eyes, he sees it’s an empty boat that had probably got untethered and floated to the middle of the lake. At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization, and understands that the anger is within him; it merely needs the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him. From then on, whenever he comes across someone who irritates him or provokes him to anger, he reminds himself, “The other person is merely an empty boat. The anger is within me.” Some useful timeless tips 1. Throw out nonessential numbers...

Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and is reinstituting the "highest level" of economic sanction against it. The European Union has reaffirmed its commitment to the deal that it says is working. Merkel Macron and May are telephoning each other. Oil prices are experiencing turbulence. Benjamin Netanyahu is celebrating. Iran, of course, is hurting and fuming. And many puzzled analysts are asking again - just why was this necessary? What has Trump announced? Nothing Trump can surprise us. And this, though a big development., is not surprising at all. ·         US President says he will withdraw the US from an Obama era nuclear agreement with Iran. Calling it "decaying and rotten". He said the deal was "an embarrassment" to him "as a citizen". ·    This puts him against his friends across the Atlantic who were desperately hoping, praying and talking to save the deal. Going ...

Microsoft has announced the launch of an AI-based accessibility initiative to build better technology for people with disabilities. The company's CEO, Satya Nadella kicked off Microsoft's annual conference for software developers where he mentioned about the new "AI for Accessibility" initiative Microsoft's President Brad Smith said that in an effort to empower people to enjoy their independence and employment, the company will look to accelerate the development of AI tools. The accessibility need could be related to vision or deafness or something like autism or dyslexia. Microsoft has already experimented with tools such as "Seeing AI" free smartphone app that uses computer vision and narration to navigate people who are blind or have low vision. The company's translation tool helps deaf users with real-time captioning of conversations Microsoft Annual Conference The conference which held at Seattle, which is close ...