some points about success

YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS DEPENDS MORE ON YOUR ATTITUDE THAN ON YOUR APTITUDE.

SUCCESS IS NEVER FINAL, FAILURE IS NEVER FATAL. IT’S THE COURAGE THAT COUNTS.

LUCK MEANS LABOUR UNDER CURRENT KNOWLEDGE.

ACTION KNOWLEDGE AND WILL ARE BASIC ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.

USE GROUP EFFORT AND AVOID EGO.

TEN ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS:

1)      MAKE AN AIM.

2)      DEFINE THE LIMITS OF YOUR AIM.

3)      FACE THE CHALLENGES.

4)      YOUR PERCEPTION SHOULD BE OPTIMISTIC.

5)      DO THE WORK IMMEDIATELY.

6)      BROADER YOUR LEVEL OF THINKING.

7)      USE THE TECHNIQUES.

8)      STUDY TO ATTAIN KNOWLEDGE.

9)      DO NOT POSTPONE THE WORK OR GIVE ANY EXCUSES FOR WORK.

10)   DO NOT DEPEND ON OTHERS, DO AND FINISH YOUR WORK IN YOUR OWN.

FEW MORE THOUGHTS:

1)      INCREASE YOUR CONFIDENCE.

2)      SELF ANALYSIS

3)      TO ACHIVE SUCCESS IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE POSITIVITY IN YOUR MIND.

4)      WORK

5)      DESIRE

6)      IMAGINATION

7)      STRONG DETERMINATION.

8)      BE POSITIVE.

9)      LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE.

10)   ALWAYS LEARN SOMETHING.

11)   BROADER YOUR THNIKING.

12)   TAKE DECISIONS QUICKLY.

13)   EYES ON YOUR AIM

14)   YOU SHOULD HAVE DREAMS.

15)   CHANGES

16)   SELF DICIPLINE.

17)   COMPANY OF GOOD PEOPLE.

18)   EXCUSES ARE THE DISEASE OF FAILURE.

19)   HELP PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY SELFISHNESS.

20)   SOUL IS THE PART OF GOD.

famous personalities of Uttaranchal

Gaura Pant ‘Shivani’

Filed in : Art, Literature, Writer

Gaura Pant (Shivani) holds a prominent place amongst the women writers of Uttarakhand. She was born on 17th October, 1923 in Rajkot, Gujarat to a Kumouni family. After her early education in Almora she was sent to Allahabad for higher education, and then she went to Shantiniketan where she had the fortune of academic enrichment under the tutelage of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Right from her childhood she had a flair for writing. Embedded in the folk culture of Kumaon she conveyed the yearning if common man and woman in and their inter-relationship in her writings. In 1935, Shivani’s first story was published in the Hindi Children’s magazine ‘Natkhat’, at age twelve. She wrote 30 novels, 13 short story collections and 8 volumes of memoir. Among her well known works are Vish Kanya, Kainza, Chaudah Phere and Bhairavi.
In recognition of her contribution to Hindi literature she was given several awards and honours including Bhartendu Harishchandra Samman (1979); Padmashri (1981); Mahadevi Verma Samman (1994); Subramannyam Samman (1995) and Hindi Sewa Nidhi Rashtriya Puruskar (1997). She died in March 2003 in Lucknow.

Girish Tiwari ‘Girda’

Filed in : Art, Culture, Poet, Social Activist, Writer

Born in 1945 in village Jyoli, in the district of Almora, Girish Tiwari, popularly known as ‘Girda’ was a poet and playwright of the people. Passionately devoted to the culture of Uttarakhand he has shown his creativity in various genres. During the movement for creation of Uttarakhand he carried his message to the masses though his lyrics.
He wrote the plays Nagare Khamosh Hain and Dhanush Yagya and directed many Plays. After working for several years in the Song and Drama Division of the government of India, Nainital, he took voluntary retirement in 1996 and devoted himself to creative writing. Among his published works Kavita ke Ankhar, Shikharaon ke Swar and Rang Dari dio Alwelin have become very popular.

Manasvi Mamgai

Filed in : Celebrity, Fashion

Manasvi Mamgai is the winner of Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010. She is a Garhwali origin and spent her childhood years in Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state. She was born in Delhi and brought up in Chandigarh. Since childhood she was good at studies and extra-curricular activities like theatre, dancing, acting, etc. She did her schooling from Hansraj Public School and Carmel convent in Chandigarh.
She moved back to Delhi after finishing School in 2006. Manasvi Mamgai then signed up with Elite Model Management India and won the competition in the same year. She also debuted as a model at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week and walked the ramp for famous designers like Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra, Ranna Gill, Lecoanet Hemant, etc. She has also done commercial with Fair & lovely.
She won Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010 and now she is all set to compete in Miss World 2010. She won five subtitles in the pageant namely, miss catwalk, girl with a golden heart, best skin, beauty with a purpose and natural beauty. She holds the maximum number of subtitles anyone won in the pageant history. She is also the winner of Miss Tourism International 2008. Manasvi is one of the strongest contender for the Miss World 2010 crown.

Narendra Singh Negi

Filed in : Art, music

Narendra Singh Negi, the voice of Uttarakhand is an eminent singer. He was born on 12 August 1949 in Pauri. By 1970s he established himself as a lyricist and singer of Garhwali folk songs. His common themes were the every day life of the common people, their struggle for existence, their sorrows and triumphs, the themes which resonate in every heart. His distinctive voice and prolific career made him a household name amongst Garhwalis both in India and abroad.
He has composed and sung more than 200 folk song and has given state presentations at various functions. Besides bringing out more than 38 audio and video recordings of his songs, he has given music direction in several Garhwali films. One of his albums of folk songs Thando Re Thando has become very popular. Among his well known collections of songs are Kuchkandi, Ganyun ki Ganga Syanyun ka Samodar and Muthi Boti ki Rakh. He has also sung sad elegies to Tehri town, recently inundated by the Tehri dam, as well as fiery protest songs during the Uttarakhand separate state movement. He became a controversial figure when he released a satirical song (Nauchai Naraina) on former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari.

Harish Rawat

Filed in : Politician

Harish Rawat was born on 27 March 1949 in village Mohanari of Almora district. He grew up in a politically charged atmosphere when nationalistic feelings were predominant among the people. He was particularly drawn towards the Congress Party which had contributed most to the freedom of the country. After qualifying the LL.B. examination from the Lucknow University he started his legal practice as an advocate. He joined the Indian Youth Congress and became its youngest chief in 1973. From 1973 to 1980, he worked tirelessly to energize the youth congress in his native district of Almora and the state of Uttar Pradesh. In 1980 he contested parliamentary election from Almora-Pithoragarh constituency on a Congress ticket and won the seat. From 1980-1986 he was also General Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress.
Harish Rawat has held prominent positions in the Congress party and the government. From 1992-1997 he was the national Vice President of the Congress Sewa Dal. From 1985-2005, Rawat remained the Vice-President of the National Confederation of Central Government Employees Association, president of the different Employees Unions, and working President and National President of the NCCGEA. After the formation of the state of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat became the President of the State Congress. Under his inspiring and dynamic leadership the won the 2002 elections by a majority of seats and formed the government. He was subsequently elected to the Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand. Until 2007 he was the President of Uttarakhand Congress Committee.
Harish Rawat contested the elections held for the Lok Sabha on 14 May 2009, from the Haridwar constituency and won the seat by a huge margin, defeating his closest rival by 1,27,542 votes, which goes on to show his popularity amongst the people. He joined the Union cabinet as a Minister of State for Labor and Employment.

Radha Behn (Radha Bhatt)

Filed in : Social Activist

Born on 16 October 1934 in village Dhuraka, Almora, Radha Behn has made exemplary contribution in the fields of women’s education and employment. She quit formal education after her intermediate in 1951, and joined Sarla Behn at her Laxmi Ashram in Kausani, to undertake social work. From 1957 to 1961 she was active in Bhoodan Yatra and toured various regions of Uttarakhand. She took active part in movements against mining, alcoholism and deforestation. For her contributions to social empowerment she was honored with Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1992. She has authored several books and articles.

Indramani Badoni

Filed in : Politician, Social Activist

Indramani Badoni was born on 24th December, 1924 in village Akhori in Tehri. He is popularly known as ‘Gandhi of Uttarakhand’ for leading a historical movement for the creation of Uttarakhand state. The movement remained thoroughly non-violent in spite of provocation from several quarters. His name has become synonymous with the Uttarakhand movement that was launched to demand the separate hill state, and indeed it was with his long struggle and vigorous leadership that the hill state could eventually become a reality. The explorer’s soul in his body took him to the unknown places in the central Himalayas or Uttarakhand. It was he who discovered the Khatling glacier, the source of river Bhilangana.
Since his student life Indramani Badoni was active in socio-political movements. In 1962 he was elected the Chief of Jakholi Block and in 1969 he got elected to U.P. state assembly from Devprayag constituency. He was also deputy chairman of the Hill Development Council. Convinced that the proper development of the hills could be ensured only in a new hill state he lent his voice to the long-standing demand for Uttarakhand. On 2nd August, 1994, he started an indefinite fast unto death at Pauri, headquarters of Garhwal division, to press for the demand of a separate state. Through his Madho Singh Bhandari folk ballet, Badoni had also tried to make the masses understand how important it was to make sacrifices for the people and their welfare. On August 7, 1994, he was forcibly sent to the Meerut jail and later shifted to the AIIMS in New Delhi for treatment, where he was forcibly discharged. “The people of Uttarakhand must not feel defeated and keep on the flag of their cause flying high till they achieve their goal,” he had said in his last message to the people whom he loved the most.
His arrest enraged the people and the movement gained momentum resulting in the creation of Uttarakhand on 9 November 2000. Alas, Indramani Badoni could not see the new state as he died on 18 August 1999.

D.D. Sharma

Filed in : Academician, Intellect

D.D. Sharma was born on October 23, 1924 at Bhimtal in Kumaon region. He passed his M.A. from Agra University and did his Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the Banaras Hindu University and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Punjab University followed by D.Litt. from the same university. Prof. Sharma is renowned linguist and holds diplomas in French, German and Persian. Besides this, he has mastery over Nepali and several Indian languages. He is the author of 43 books, 150 research papers and over 100 articles which have been recognized over the entire world. He has received several national, international and institutional awards which include the International Man of the Millennium Award (2000) from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.
In all, he has received 10 awards. His most important and voluminous work is on the subject Socio-Cultural History of Uttarakhand, in Hindi which runs into nine volumes, five of which are already out. His most recent published work is Himalaya Ke Khas (2006).

Jagannath Sharma

Filed in : Freedom Fighter, Politician, Social Activist

Jagannath Sharma was born on 10th, February 1924 in Mussoorie. He was a well known parliamentarian, legal luminary, academic and social worker. After his early education in Mussoorie and Dehradun he entered Allahabad University in 1943 and passed with distinction his M.A. and LL.B. examinations. While still a student he came in contact with the leaders of freedom movement, was inspired by their ethics, and led the students in the 1942 Quit India movement. He remained committed to the nationalistic cause. As a popular leader he has distinguished himself as a powerful orator.
As the General Secretary of Samyukta Garhwal Sammelan, a body of prominent Garhwalis, formed in 1949, he mobilized support for unification of the hill districts of Garhwal and later raised demand for the separate hill state, which was, indeed the beginning of the Uttarakhand movement. In 1953 he was elected to the Mussoorie Municipal Board and was Chairman of the Board from 1957 to 1964.
During this period he was instrumental in setting up and nurturing several institutions in the town, such as the Municipal Post Graduate College, the National Academy of Administration and defense Institute of Work Study. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of Garhwal University from 1980 to 1983. He has an unparalleled grasp of the Constitutional Law which he has taught for many years. He was elected member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, from the graduates’ constituency of Garhwal-Kumaon, and served in this capacity from 1966 to 1972 and then from 1972 to 1977. He was a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and represented the Garhwal constituency from 1977 to 1979. During his interventions in the Lok Sabha debates he raised the issue of constructing a railway line from Rishikesh to Karnaprayag that was earlier proposed during the British Raj.
Jagannath Sharma has visited several counties on parliamentary delegations and provided significant inputs from his visits abroad. He has been associated with several educational institutional institutions and philanthropic organizations. He has received several honors and awards for his contribution to social work and political and academic leadership.

Sheila Irene Pant

Filed in : Academician, Intellect

Sheila Irene Pant (Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan) was born in year 1905 in Almora, Uttarakhand (then United Provinces of Agra and Oudh). She obtained a first class Masters degree with honors in economics from the University of Lucknow in 1929. Begum Ra’ana began her career as a teacher in the Gokhale Memorial School and was later appointed as Professor of Economics in the Indraprstha Girl College, Delhi.
In April 1933, she was married to Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. She then played a prominent role in the social and political life of Pakistan. After the reorganization of Muslim League, Begum Ra’ana devoted herself to the task of creating political consciousness amongst the Muslim women. Her struggle for emancipation continued till the creation of Pakistan for Muslims of India in 1947.
Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in 1951. Begum R’ana continued her services for the social and economic uplift of women of Pakistan till her death in 1990. Begum Ra’ana served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the Netherlands in the 1950s and as ambassador to Italy in the 1960s. She was the first woman Governor of Sindh province in the mid-1970s and the first Muslim woman delegate to the UN who also won the United Nations Human Rights Award.