Faith, priest and contradiction

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Ayodhya is an ancient city of India, birthplace of Lord Rama as per Hindu belief and setting of the epic Ramayana. It is situated adjacent to Faizabad city at south end in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Hanumangarhi is a temple of Lord Hanuman in Ayodhya. More than 70 steps lead to the main Hanuman temple which is one of the most popular temples of Lord Hanuman in North India.

press report in news papers

PTI/July 21, 2013

5th August 2013, Monday, Ayodhya:  

It was a pleasant morning of August, ....usually the monsoon time in the plains of India.... 

Early morning downpour has brought pleasant cool breezes, but the temple alleys (crowded with sweet shops all around, as sweets are purchased by the devotees for the offering in the temple) now are the worst place to move bare footed (as required from the devotees) because mud, sleet, dirt has made a dark, awful, slippery pitch on the ground. I was moving up all through those high steps of the temple, with strong childhood memories of this sacred 'Hindu' temple.

press report in news paper

Hindustan/July 22, 2013

But the sanctity of this place has been corroded  deep in our heart by the recent report of the News Papers, which says that firing broke out between two rival groups of priests, involved in dispute over properties and wealth being collected by temple from devotees, resulting in death of one person and injuring two !!
Our travel sometime brings strong, ugly, painful contradiction of our lives, and shaking our beliefs from our own basic formed in the earlier time of the innocent childhood......  

"Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see, but microscopes are prudent in an emergencies," a meaningful reminder by the EmilyDickinson.

Nobel Peace Prize 2013

For the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans have inhabited this planet.

Our civilization ancestry goes to some thousand years only..

Humans gained all knowledge and development in last some 100 years or so..

And these last few 100 years have witnessed the bloody wars we have fought among our own kind.

Perhaps that is self indicative of our nature..that we humans need peace efforts more than anything.

Now our own creations..man made chemicals..altered genes, are going to cost much more.
Perhaps the civilization to which we have grown in last some hundred years is at stake..

Perhaps we already have done so, many a time in our past years of in habitation on earth through all those 200,000 years..

Who knows..
What does it matter..
We keep on forgetting..

Our Diary Undated..

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".

 Commenting on the award, the committee panel said: "The conventions and the work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law. Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons."

 

OPCW - Facts

Established: 1997
Headquarters: The Hague, Netherlands
Membership: 189 states

It is the 25th time a Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to an organization.

The OPCW's Ahmet Uzumcu said the prize would spur the organisation's efforts

"A Great Incentive!"

Director-General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet Üzümcü, comments on his organization receiving the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

Arms Control and Disarmament

Several Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded for work within the field of arms control and disarmament.

The 2013 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2005 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1997 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1995 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1985 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1982 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1974 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1962 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1959 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1934 Nobel Peace PrizeThe 1933 Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel's Will and the Peace Prize

Alfred Nobel left no explanation as to why the Peace Prize was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees.

 Did you know ? 94 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2013. 2 Peace Prizes have been divided between three persons. 15 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far. 62 is the average age of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates the year they were awarded the prize. 1 Peace Prize Laureate, Le Duc Tho, has declined the Nobel Peace Prize. 3 Peace Prize Laureates have been under arrest at the time of the award: German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky, Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

11th October is observed as international day of girl child....
Women in turn have played greater role for the purpose of peace on our blue planet....the only home of earthlings !!

15 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far.

 

Leymah Gbowee

2011

Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2011

Liberia

 

Wangari Muta Maathai

2004

Kenya

Shirin Ebadi

2003

Iran

Jody Williams

1997

USA

Rigoberta Menchu

1992

Guatemala

 

Aung San Suu Kyi

1991

Burma

Alva Myrdal

1982

Sweden

Mother Teresa

1979

India/Macedonia

Mairead Corrigan

1976

Ireland

Betty Williams

1976

UK

Emily Green Balch

1946

USA

Jane Addams

1931

USA

Bertha von Suttner

1905

Austria-Hungary

thankfully shared from: 
http://www.nobelprize.org/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10370215/Nobel-Peace-Prize-winners-from-1901-2013.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/10371735/Nobel-Peace-Prize-2013-as-it-happened.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24490925
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-2013-goes-to-syria-chemical-weapons-watchdog-8873601.html

Hey Ram: O God

Barrister 'Gandhi' if ever comes to India of today, perhaps he would immediately be sent to jail for using word 'Harijan' (name of his 'News Paper', through which he tried to speak to the masses, in favor of downtrodden in society then), which is a punishable act by a constitutional amendment enforced on 28th May 1991.

What an irony !!
'Gandhi' struggled all through his life to eliminate the man made differences and prejudices in human society..

and we are still stuck deep-knee in words which mean and create differences !!

a satirical cartoon, credit: Hindustan Times