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Halloween Day

If you don’t believe in ghosts at all then never mind. If you do or you are open to the possibility then go ahead. Halloween is a festival celebrated in North America & Western Europe on 31 st of October. It is related to Hallowmas and All Saints’ Day which is a Christian festival of the dead. People of America celebrate Halloween by having costume parties, mostly spooky and kids collect toffees from the neighbourhood. Although it’s a Christian festival it is celebrated as a non-religious festival. It is Festival of the Dead, in short it is believed that the dead comes to earth & visit our realm. But this is not the only festival which talks about the ghosts of the dead visiting our world. All over the world there are different festivals of the dead from different civilizations & different religions. These festivals are celebrated from mid-August to October end. Here are some of such festivals: Bon Festival :  It is Japanese...

Aryan Invasion Myth

The Europeans came with the “Aryan Invasion Theory” when they found out that North Indian languages and its ancestor language ‘Sanskrit’ shares very common vocabulary and grammar with the European languages and its ancestor languages i.e. Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Greek and Latin. They concluded that the North Indian languages, their ancestor Sanskrit, Iranian languages and European languages belong to the same origin, which they named “Indo-European.” As many researchers has said, i n those days the European society was very much Euro-Centric. They didn’t want to accept that their language has been influenced by an Indian language i.e. Sanskrit which is considered mother of Indo-European languages. India was under British rule and they didn’t want to accept that their dark skinned slaves were the one who influence them in the ancient times. Therefore they came with the Aryan Invasion Theory. In that theory the Indo-Aryans, subgroup of Aryan race (Europeans) invaded India which drag...

Memoirs of Jimmy

The the month of April 2013 I went for an interview. I got the job, actually an internship. I was happy and when I returned home I met Jimmy as always. He was excited like always and even this time I played with him for a while till Hak came down from his apartment. Then  later we went home. From the next day, I got busy. I use to leave home in the morning and return back at late night. I never saw Jimmy after that. I thought, he must be somewhere in the housing society. Some days passed, I hadn't seen Jimmy ever since. I asked my Dad if he saw Jimmy as Jimmy use to ask for food everyday. My Dad said, he hasn't seen him and Jimmy didn't came to him for food. This was unusual. Later, one day I really thought where did it go? Then my mother showed me, that Jimmy was still there. Jimmy was near the 14th no. building. That was the last time I saw him. After that he disappeared. One week after my job interview night, me and Hak searched for him everywhere in Mulund East. But we ...

Hinduism: Mythologies, Philosophies and Science

Hinduism is one of the oldest surviving religion of the planet along with Judaism and Zoroastrianism. It was started in somewhat 1500 BC. Basically it believes in "Karma" which means one's deeds affects his outcome. If a person do something good, good things happen with him, if he does something bad, bad things will happen to him. It believes in "Reincarnation"; It believes the body is mortal but the soul is immortal. The soul changes bodies just like a human being changes his clothes everyday. As per a person's Karma he gets his next incarnation. Apart from this basic belief, Hinduism is considered to be a polytheistic religion. There are over 20 millions gods and goddesses in this religion. But Hinduism is very misinterpreted religion. There are three aspects of Hinduism: Mythologies, Philosophies and Science. Hindu Mythology: Mythologies are stories about the gods and goddess, how they came into existence and what happened in the ancient world a...