Woman in the Post of Speaker

Meira Kumar was elected unopposed as the first woman speaker of Lok Sabha on 3 June 2009. Meira Kumar was born in Patna to the former Deputy Prime Minister and prominent Dalit leader, Babu Jagjivan Ram and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi. Her educational qualifications include a degree in law and postgraduate degree in English. She is fluent in Hindi, English, Spanish, Bhojpuri and Sanskrit. She was selected as a civil servant (Indian Foreign Service) in 1973. Ms.Kumar entered electoral politics in 1985 and was elected from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh defeating political heavyweights like Ram Vilas Paswan and Mayawati, two powerful Dalit leaders. She has been elected to Parliament five times and has also served as social justice minister. She is the only Dalit speaker elected after G.M.C. Balyogi. Meira Kumar is married to Manjul Kumar, a Supreme Court lawyer and they have three children.

Election Website

The election website I'm following is
http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/

Rain

The nature was silent,

but she broke it...

She hummed the music of love

which is my evertime favourite.

She covered me with cool breeze,

that she brought from the heaven.

She showered me with droplets,

that seems as diamonds.

She drizzled into my heart,

like dew kisses a petal.

She nourished my heart

which was a parched land,

with a fertile layer of memories.

Oh my rain......
You are my angel.....

(A poem by my Friend)

Some Great Thoughts

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do,
Nothing else.
- Gandhiji

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
-BhagavadGita

I do not like to repeat successes,I like to go on to other things.
-Walt Disney

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Little joys,Little sorrows

His clothes are faded

and toys are broken,

But mine is shining 

and it smells new.

His hut is leaking

and water rushes in.

But mine is terraced,

cemented and painted.

I own an A-class luxury coach.

and he owns a punctured  bicycle.

I walk in a spread ed red carpet,

when mud and clay cover his feet.

But i wonder whether

I'm rich or he.

Yes he is rich,

richer than me.

his heart is rich, rich with happiness.

because he has freedom and

I do not..........

SOLITUDE

Nights are always calm......

-everyone said.

But I never felt so....
I always hear a strange drumbeat from some distances.

It disturbs my sleep.

I listen to it eagerly.

while my parents, my siblings 'n' my love

cover themselves with the cool blanket of night

I remained awaken.

I wonder, why they aren't disturbed of that strange, wild drumbeat.

Which nocturnal creature beats those drums.

In the beginning, it frightened me.

It made the solitude which visited me very often more wild.

I kept my windows open and sharpened my ears.

"It may be a poor soul's grief".......... I guessed.

But why only me hearing the 'grief beats'.

I closed my ears so tight.

But those beats pierced in like how 'my love' pierced into my heart.

The beats fastened as time rushes

and it sounds more louder.

I looked around

resting bodies and minds under the cool blanket of night.

Nights are never calm.......

- I said.

But none felt so.....

(A poem by my Friend)

IFFK: MY EXPERIENCE

The 13th IFFK was my first film festival. It was a good experience. The festival gave me the opportunity to see films from different countries and cultures. I saw about 24 films and each one of them was a very different experience .The films I like most are The Photograph, Two legged horse, Postcards from Leningrad and Laila’s birthday.

Presidents

Presidents of India
Dr.Rajendra Prasad(Jan 26, 1950 to May 13, 1962)
Dr.S.Radhakrishnan(May 13, 1962 to May 13, 1967)
Dr.Zakir Husain(May 13, 1967 to May 3, 1969)
V.V.Giri(May 3, 1969 to July 20, 1969)(acting)
Justice Mohammed Hidayatullah(July 20, 1969 to August 24, 1969)(acting)
V.V.Giri(August 24, 1969 to August 24, 1974)
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed(August 24, 1974 to Feb. 11, 1977)
B.D.Jatti(Feb. 12, 1977 to July 25, 1977)(acting)
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy(July 25, 1977 to July 25, 1982)
Giani Zail Singh(July 25, 1982 to July 25, 1987)
R.Venkataraman(July 25, 1987 to July 25, 1992)
Dr.Shanker Dayal Sharma(July 25, 1992 to July 25, 1997)
K. R. Narayanan(July 25, 1997 - July 25, 2002)
A P J Abdul Kalam (July 25, 2002 - July 25, 2007)
Pratibha Patil (July 25, 2007 - till date)