Paramita rana biography of mahatma gandhi
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Paramita Ghosh has been working as a journalist for over 20 years and writes socio-political and culture features. She works in the Weekend section as a senior assistant editor and has reported from Vienna, Jaffna and Singapore.
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A Frank Friendship
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‘I am not able to leave Bengal and Bengal will not let me go.’
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s first visit to Bengal was on 4 July when he disembarked in Calcutta while on a visit from South Africa. His gods visit to Calcutta commenced shortly before 15 August , the day India gained independence.
A Frank Friendship presents a meticulous compilation of newspaper reports, letters, excerpts from contemporary accounts and Gandhi’s own writings, and extensive annotations that bring to light many known and unknown characters and events of the time. It also contains illuminating accounts of Gandhi’s interactions with the greats of Bengal, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das and Sarat Chandra and Subhash Chandra Bose, which reveal their extraordinary personalities. Through this all, we see Gandhi continuously evolve as a politician and a strategist in th
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Bodhisattva
Any person who is on the path towards Buddhahood but has not yet attained it
This article is about Buddhism. For the film, see Bodhisattva (film). For the song by Steely Dan, see Countdown to Ecstasy.
| Bodhisattva | |
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A relief depicting Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva in Plaosan temple, 9th century Central Java, Indonesia. | |
| Sanskrit | बोधिसत्त्व (bodhisattva) |
| Pāli | बोधिसत्त (bodhisatta) |
| Burmese | ဗောဓိသတ် (bɔ́dḭθaʔ) |
| Chinese | 菩薩/菩提薩埵, (pinyin: púsà/pútísàduǒ), (Jyutping: pou4 saat3/pou4 tai4 saat3 do3), (Wade–Giles: p'u2-sa4) |
| Japanese | 菩薩/菩提薩埵 (romaji: bosatsu/bodaisatta) |
| Khmer | ពោធិសត្វ (UNGEGN: poŭthĭsât) |
| Korean | 보살, 菩薩 / 보리살타, 菩提薩埵 (RR: bosal / borisalta) |
| Sinhala | බෝධි සත්ත්ව (bodhisatva) |
| Tagalog | Bodisatta ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜑᜒᜐᜆ |
| Thai | โพธิสัตว์ (phothisat) |
| Tibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ (jang chup sem pa) |
| Vietnamese | Bồ Tát 菩薩/Bồ-đề-tát-đóa 菩提薩埵 |
| Venerated by | Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna, Navayāna |
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