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Dusk has a fascinating name in Hindi. It is called Godhuli [Go is the cow, Dhuli is dust] . In our village, this confluence of day and night is called the Awadhi equivalent of its Hindi name. There is a very interesting phenomenon behind the naming of this time; I remember this phenomenon from when I was a kid. Every year in summer vacations, I would go to my Mama's home. His house is at the edge of the village on the side of a road that connects the village to farming fields and meadows. As the sun descended in the sky and outside became bearable, many kids would gather around the house and play one of the multitudes of games we used to play those days. On many such days, in the middle of our game, we would have to flee because some cattle from the herds returning to the village from meadows would decide to leave their own group and try to join ours or maybe in an attempt to grab a mouthful of some vegetable grown in a nearby farm. After all, herds passed through the roads air wou...

By Ganesh SahSudi CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94020477 There was a great mystery to be solved. At the core was something that once we all believed. Though we wanted it to be true with time, discussions around the topic had faded. Now, a new finding aroused renewed interest in Naag Manis . Naag Mani used to be of great interest to us. Movies, stories, legends, and rumors made us believe in its existence. We had detailed knowledge about manis . Naag mani is wielded by naags (Indian Cobra) , who complete a hundred years of their lives. Such a naag can be identified by a natural Aum symbol on their hood. As the snake nears its hundredth year, the symbol slowly appears. There would be rumors and tales about some naag killed a few days ago or the last month or year had nearly complete Aum formed on its hood. But from the beginning of everything until today, no one has ever seen a dead cobra with total Aum . Cobra gets its mani on a full moon night o...

Five hundred boys and girls stood in the hall waiting for Col. Ram Singh. When the old Colonel came, his formidable presence suppressed all the sounds. The wind slowed down so that rustling leaves wouldn’t dare add noise. As he spoke without a mic, everyone tried to get most of what he was saying. “How many of you want to or can go home? Raise your hands.” Colonel asked. He didn’t see any hands. Then he asked, “How many of you want to stay here?” All wanted. The hall where we gathered. (This photo is of another event) When on the evening of 24 March 2020, the government announced a nationwide lockdown, little did it think about some five hundred odd students in Dakshana Valley in Kadus Village of Pune, not that it was considerate regarding millions of other citizens. This presented a serious problem before the administration of the valley. These students were from all parts of the country, from different districts, and mostly from villages. In a locked-down nation, it was not an easy j...

If you want to crack JEE or NEET you may wonder whether to take coaching or not. But, then coaching comes with a cost and not everyone can afford that. Even online coachings charge a good amount of money and many students cannot afford it. BUT, DO NOT WORRY. Here I will provide you some resources that will help you with the complete course of JEE and NEET subjects free of cost with standard quality even better than many paid courses. These resources will be different from most of the widely available courses in the sense that these will be without any excessive promotion between lectures. Just learning, pure plain and standard. 1. Dakshana E-Learning program for JEE and NEET For: JEE  Main & Advanced, NEET. Separate courses for each. Separate courses for each class from IX-XIII. Why it is good for you: Lots of detailed lectures easy to understand, properly organized under topics. Advance Level content covered for JEE and optimum score can be achieved on the basis of NEET lect...

  Note: This is not an official blog of Dakshana You might have heard of Dakshana you might have not. Here you will get to know about Dakshana Foundation and get answers to many other queries that you may have regarding Dakshana. I am writing it in a way so that it is useful for the students, but others may also read to know more about Dakshana. 1. What is Dakshana and what does it do?     Dakshana is a philanthropic foundation working for poverty alleviation in India.  "Dakshana helps bright and impoverished students predominantly from rural India to prepare for IIT and medical entrance exams". 2. How does Dakshana help in the preparation for these entrance exams?   Dakshana provides world-class coaching to the students at absolutely zero cost . Hostel and mess facilities are also provided free of cost so that students can prepare for their dreams without worrying about finances. 3. To whom does Dakshana provide these things? Every year Dakashana selects stud...

It would not be hard for us to recount anytime in our life atrocities that the coronavirus inflicted on people. Now, with the beginning of the vaccination program battle against covid seems to be in our favor. Gradually people are shredding off fears and the economy has turned revival mode on. This year is going to be like the dawn of a new decade after a dark night. It becomes imperative for us to consider some points that will play a major role in shaping the future. Since the agricultural revolution pandemics had been a bane for humanity. People were so helpless and ignorant that they attributed these misfortunes to some divine cosmic power and regarded them as inevitable events of human society. When we look at the past, we find pandemics costing countries good parts of their population. As science progressed real culprits were found out and thus the ways to deal with them. Thanks to the progress of sciences that life expectancy has more than doubled and people are no more afraid o...