આપણે સમાચાર તરીકે જમ્મુ-કાશ્મીરની વાતો રોજ સાંભળીએ છીએ, પણ વિગતવાર ઊંડાણપૂર્વકની માહિતીના અભાવે વાત ખાસ સમજાતી નથી. ચાલો, પહેલાં મૂળ વાતો બરાબર સમજીયે. જમ્મ…
ભગવાન ગણપતિનો જન્મ વિનાયક: નાયક (પુરુષ)ના સંબંધ વિના-વગર જન્મેલા તે ગણપતિ જ્યારે શિવ-પાર્વતી ને ગર્ભવતી બનાવવાનો ઇન્કાર કરે છે, ત્યારે પાર્વતિ શરીર ઉપર હ…
સાધારણ રીતે, દીકરીના જન્મના વધરામણા સાથે જ તેના લગ્નના મંગળમય દિવસનું આયોજન મા બાપ શરૂ કરતાં હોય છે. પૈસા બચાવતા થઈને ભાવિ જમાઈ વિષેના દીવાસ્વ્પ્નોમાં રાચવા મ…
ભગવાન શિવ-શંકર-મહાદેવ અને ગણેશ વિષે આપણે ખૂબ જ ભક્તિભાવ ધરાવતા હોઈએ છીએ. એ બન્ને વિષે જાતજાતની માહિતી રાખીએ છે. પણ તેમના કુટુંબના અગત્યના સભ્ય પાર્વતી-મા દુ…
ભારતના ભૂતપૂર્વ વડાપ્રધાન શ્રી. મોરારજી દેસાઈ આપણી વચ્ચે જીવ્યા અને મર્યા. તેમને માટે આપણને સૌને ગર્વ છે. કારણ તેઓ ગુજરાતી હતા. આપણી જેમ અનાવિલ હતા અને ગરીબ …
શિવ – શંકર – ભોલેનાથ તરીકે ભગવાન શંકર નો પરિચય ભોલેનાથ તરીકે અવરનવાર આપવામાં આવે છે, તે અમસ્તો નથી. તેના ભોળપણ ના અસંખ્ય દાખલાઓ તેમના જીવનમાથી જોવા મળે છે,…
થોડા વખત પહેલાં મેં “વૃદ્ધાવસ્થાની સમસ્યાઓ” નામનું ડો. હિતેશકુમાર એન. પટેલ લિખિત સંશોધનાત્મક પુસ્તક વાંચ્યું. એ પુસ્તકમાં લેખકે જીવનના વિવિધ વિભાગો જેવા કે મા…
ભારત-પાકિસ્તાનના સંબંધો એટલી જટિલ સમસ્યા છે, તે વિષયક ૧૮૦ પાનાના પુસ્તકનો સાર કહેવા ખૂબ હોશિયારી માંગે છે. હું પ્રયત્ન કરીશ. આ વાત ત્રણ મુદામાં વહેંચીને સારી ર…
દોસ્તાર - સુખનું સરનામું લેખક: જય વશી પુસ્તક પરિચય - પ્રતિભાવ અને વિવેચન (ડૉ. ભરત દેસાઈ) પુસ્તક પરિચય ( Book Review ) લખતી વખતે લખનારે પોતાનો પરિચય …
Great damage is done to you if you say Yes when actually you want to say No . During a lifetime, we come across incidences in the day to day life where a cri…
Should I at all visit 'the Taj ' the Taj Mahal? Yes, it is a must, because we have the world’s best wonder (The best of seven wonders of the world) …
મગજ ન ગુમાવો, વજન ગુમાવો (Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight) લેખિકા: ઋજુતા દિવેકર (Rujuta Diwekar), અનુવાદ: રેખા ઉદયન પુસ્તક પરિચય: ડો. ભરત…
Parents are important . Because we take birth because of them. They get married (usually)and decide to become parents. They stop anti-pregnancy drugs-contrace…
To my greatest surprise, one fine morning I received a memento with my name inscribed, in the honour of outstanding academic achievements! Turned out that P…
25-Dec-2017 onwards, I had talked with my friend Anilbhai Desai on phone two-three times. Every time, he mentioned the worthiness of seeing Kankaria Carnival …
If you want to be alone to be with nature, it is an ideal spot. But if you enjoy crowds with your group this is an equally important place to visit. 42 km …
Did you know, diabetes is a leading cause of blindness in adults? Inviting residents in and around Bilimora town, to an awareness session on diabetes. …
When a new doctor is learning for the first time or when a senior doctor is learning or not learning a new technique, who suffers? Naturally, a patient. When …
ઢળત્તી ઉમરે તન-મનના માવજત. (૨૦૧૬) લેખક: પ્રો. ગણેશભાઈ કે. પટેલ પુરત્તક પરિચય: ડૉ. ભરતચંદ્ર એમ. દેસાઈ પુરત્તક પરિચય આપનાર પાસે વાચક પુસ્તક કેવું છે, …
India-Pakistan relation’s issue is a very complex subject and to summarise it in a 180-page book needs great skill. This interesting book ‘India Vs Pakistan: W…
One of the recent off-bit topics I’ve read, this one book about ‘Mumbai Mafia’ has been the most interesting, well-researched and well-written. Here is an exc…
Many of us pass years before final decision to visit this nature's feast adored by a human ( 2400 years ago) Kanheri Caves just near Borivali, Mumbai. It …
I recently conducted a social study of the status and condition of old-aged people and the old-age homes in Gujarat. This is a combination of the outcome of t…
Our mind is nothing but a flow of thoughts, just like a river with flowing water. One’s personality is shaped by one’s thoughts. If our thoughts are good, we …
While alive, we feel the life to be full of problems and troubles. We remain stressed around even trivial issues. We keep searching for the problem-solving me…
Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. – Gautama Buddha We all know ‘Anger’ does not do any good to anybody. Almost all …
When you are young and earning reasonably more, spending becomes an inescapable habit. There is no brake that can stop your consumerism from growing bigger wh…
I know the title create some ambiguity around its meaning. Here’s the story: the author was a medical student studying at Surat during 1969-1974. Being an off…
An Adivasi girl Sangita at Nahari Hotel , Pangarbari (near Wilson Hills, Gujarat) teaches us the Indian culture and way of welcoming guests! On 15-Jun-201…
This is a rare story of how a person from Valsad (Gujarat) turned into someone serving Aadivasi (tribal) girls far away from his home in the interiors of the…
It was a Thursday, otherwise a working day at my hospital, but I chose to declare it a holiday because my friend Sanjay Mahant and I asked each other to go f…
In Greece, there is a law about marriages. It forces you to give a detailed advertisement of marriage decision telling about both bride and groom.... one mon…
Your mouth must actively be closed. Or else, bacteria, insects and unwanted calories will be engulfed leading to diseases, obesity and other undesired troubl…
After getting married, the wife changes her name and adds husband's name. Similarly, the husband should also add wife's name to his. And both can drop…
If you want to ignore strict dieting and stress of not getting to eat this and that... Be diet conscious! Let us start afresh... Avoid cakes in any cele…
Think this over. The ratio of the male-female population today is 1000:920, meaning 100:92, or to be simplest 10:9. Meaning thereby if every 9 women marry one …
As far as you are sharing your views, events and a few of your photos, everything is fair enough and natural. If you are too much eager to ask for so many like…
Girls do " Gauri Vrat " to get a good husband. After getting one, they do " Kadava Chouth " and " Vat Savitri Poonam Vrat ". This…
Present day thinking leads to breaking a relation on many occasions. It is undesirable but still natural. Don't get panicked about it; relax and think over…
When you hear or read some intelligent people like Osho, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev or any alike, you start agreeing to whatever they say. Not because you are his…
When you are happy and relaxed, you feel everything is going well. This results in the negligence of four must s for health: Exercise Diet consciousness …
We receive messages in conversations and communications, and a reply or at least some response is expected by the sender. But more often than not, this replyi…
We are social animals. We have friends and relatives. Being socially attached, we need and desire to meet them. So the question is: Where do you meet them now…
Whatever smartness or intelligence one has, to anticipate the probable attitude of the future partner is difficult. So for the continuation of the marriage, ad…
Are credit cards a BOON? – YES. Are credit cards a CURSE? – YES. You may be surprised reading this answer to these questions appearing rather simple. But t…
How does someone's habit bother you? What is your concern about a person's habit? Before discussing about the habits in general and bad habits in p…
A self-destroying compulsion, what really is Comparison ? We mean it as an evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more persons/entities to s…
Air, water and food are must for a life, we know. But, many of us do not know that sleep is the fourth most essential for life giving sound body and mind. Loss…
Generally, the wedding of a daughter is event parents plan from the day of her birth. They start saving money and dream about the son-in-law to be. But all th…
Money. How much is enough? Present time has created an impression that more the money more the happiness. Poverty makes a person inferior in this society, how…
My random thoughts on the demise of a mother. What do I understand while pronouncing “mother”? I do not need to go far away. I just see so many mothers ar…
While being surrounded by strangers struggling with their problems at a public place, say, in a lift, in a waiting room, in a queue at the bank, cinema, or…
We understand, only bacterias, viruses and fungi spread infection and they are contagious. But there are many behavioural factors that lead to their own spread…
Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese philosophy that celebrates-respects "age" and the imperfections created by ageing (usually in inanimate objects like vases, w…