Rangaraj pandey biography of mahatma
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‘If You Know About DMK And Its Allies You Can Get Through Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Group I Exams’
Questions asked in Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) Group 1 examination on 3 January have left educational and media experts bewildered with most of questions pertaining to only the Dravidian movement.
According to popular television anchor-turned-media observer Rangaraj Panday, if candidates who took the examination knew about the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its alliance partners, they could be sure of getting through.
The multiple-choice questions are mostly one-sided, trying to celebrate and propagate Dravidian principles. In fact, if any candidate had gone through the history of Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), DMK and those aligned to them, they could easily score above marks of the total at stake.
About lakh candidates wrote the TNPSC Group I exam for 69 vacancies across centres with at least 90, of those who had got admit card for the examination failing to turn up.
The examinations were held to fill the posts of deputy collectors, deputy superintendent of police, assistant commissioners (commercial taxes), and deputy registrar of cooperative societies, besides a solitary vacancy for district officer (fire and rescue services).
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The world is celebrating the th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2nd. An icon who epitomised “think local act global” (yes you read the twist on words correctly), Mahatma Gandhi is also one of the rare leaders from India in whose name over countries are expected to release commemorative stamps.
Gandhi had it in him to inspire even individuals who had never met him and he left an indelible impression with them, inspiring them to read and research about the values he dearly held onto and espoused. Very few have the special capacity to do this. Be it Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela or Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi never met any of these stalwarts, but he touched their lives by an exchange of powerful thoughts via letters.
Take, for instance, Gandhi’s equation with Leo Tolstoy, the Russian philosopher and writer. When Gandhi first landed in South Africa, he took to reading some literature by Tolstoy. In his ‘An Autobiography’, Gandhi writes how Tolstoy taught him the value of universal love. After Gandhi read Tolstoy’s ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’, he had this to say of the book: “It left an abiding impression on me. Before the independent thinking, profound morality, and the truthfulness of this book, I also made an intensive study of Tolstoy’s books. The ‘Go