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 The culture of India is one of the oldest and unique. In India, there is amazing cultural diversity throughout the country. There is hardly any culture in the world that is as varied and unique as India. Being a highly spiritual country, festivals are at the heart of people who lives in India. The numerous and varied festivals that are held throughout the year offer a unique way of seeing Indian culture at its best.
This time our reporter is covering two celebrations at RITS. Diwali, it’s known as the "Festival of Lights" for all the fireworks, small clay lamps, and candles that are lit during the celebrations. Christmas, This festival celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ and conveys his message of love, tolerance and brotherhood. Even though we belong to different cultures but we celebrate and enjoy together celebrating different festivals. RITS is small example of India where people from different community are working together and celebrating festivals. This edition is all about celebrations at RITS.
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 Bird that barks
The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the 20th Century.
An Egyptian man named his newborn daughter "Facebook."
Gamal Ibrahim chose this name for his child in honor of the social network's role in the recent Egyptian revolution that toppled the Hosni Mubarak regime. The revolt against lon gtime president Hosni Mubarak began on January 25th and was largely fueled by young people organizing themselves on Facebook and other social websites. "Facebook Ibrahim" does have a nice ring to it. At least it's not "MySpace Ibrahim". Mark Zuckerberg should be honored.
In fact, many credit a Facebook page for starting the movement in the first place. Before the massive protests, an Egyptian marketing executive for Google named Wael Ghonim started a Facebook page called "We are all Khaled Said" in memory of a critic of the government who was beaten to death by police in June. This Facebook page quickly became a central hub and organizing tool for Egyptian protests.
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Yoga and Meditation
Yoga realizes that if your body energy is in proper balance and flow your physical body and mental body will be in perfect health. Feeling like complete human being in body, mind and spirit, is true health to experience this sense of wholeness, it’s important that one’s energy, functions on a certain level of intensity for every physical or  psychological situation you undergo, there is an energy basis.
Few method of the yoga meditation:
Sit in a comfortable posture with an erect spine, preferable in specific yoga posture such as the padmasana or the lotus posture.
Energize the breath through prayanama.
Hold visualization for few minutes to clear the sensory field and focus the mind internally. This may relate to peaceful colors, geometric designs (yantra), natural images or that of a deity or guru.
Repeat an affirmation or prayer to increase positive thought power.
Repeat a mantra such as OM to still the mind. Ideally one should repeat a mantra at least 108 times before the meditation.
Silently observe the mind and let it empty itself out.
Depending on one’s natural temperament, it would help to try and establish contact with either God or higher consciousness through the natural movement of the heart.
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Christmas Celebrations
The festival of Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ and conveys his message of love, tolerance and brotherhood. It's a celebration of humanity and mankind. It is celebrated as a universal festival throughout the nation.
Christmas at RITS is celebrated each year .This time we celebrated Christmas on 23rd of December 2011.The theme of Christmas decoration and celebration was red, white, golden and green color. Ritians wore Red and white attires for celebrations and decorated the whole premises with red and white balloons, wall hangings, ribbons and snow fall. A big Christmas tree was decorated with Christmas Gifts, Balls, Bells, Balloons, Santa clause and snow all over the tree which completed the look.
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In the evening everyone gathered in Cafeteria and celebrated Christmas by cutting plum cake and singing Christmas Rhymes.
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
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Diwali Celebrations
Deepawali the festival of light .At RITS it is regarded as one of the most
 important and glamorous festival among all of the festivals celebrated. It is celebrated to mark the victory of good over evil and light over darkness. The festival creates a magical and radiant effect in the atmosphere. Everybody is in a joy and festive mood. The festival symbolizes victory of light over darkness. That's why it's called the festival of lights.
The Laxmi ji’s Arti still reverberates in my mind when I think about Deepawali celebrations. Deepawali was celebrated on 25th October, 2011 at RITS. Premises were decorated with lights, Diya’s, Lanterns, colorful papers. “Rangoli” which is an identity to any auspicious celebration marked the beginning of this colorful festival .We decorated whole of the premises with beautiful, vibrant Rangoli designs. 
In the evening celebrations started with lightning of Diya followed by Shri Ganesh and Mata Laxmi ji’s Poojan and Arti so as to bring in wealth and prosperity. Tika was applied to everyone after the pooja and sweets were distributed to all. Delicious and mouthwatering food savored not only great but also colorful and bright as Deepawali.
Rose Club organized few games like “Tambola”, “Ring IT” for making the occasion livelier. |
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 Dream
I have a friend named Monty who owns a horse ranch in Delhi. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, I want to tell you why I let Jack use my horse. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.
That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after class.'
The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?'
The teacher said, "This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it." Then the teacher added, "If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade."
The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, "Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you." Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.
He stated, "You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream."
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leaving, he said, "Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours."
Moral of the story:
Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
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The "Self-Regarding" and "Other-Regarding" Aspects of the Human Spirit
