On Popular Request (owing to Delhi GRAP4 & Foggy Disruptions)
SamRiddhi 2025 to be held on 28th of January at
India International Center, New Delhi.

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Do Nominate the Socially Innovative Enterprise(s) Nurtured by Your Institution...

Nomination Link https://forms.gle/TYxHYxiXW3bJQLS4A
Nomination Form PDF for Reference

Ratan Tata Tribute For Social Innovation 2025

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Felicitations at SamRiddhi 2025

at India International Center, New Delhi

Commemorating the Birth Anniversaries of

Ratan Tata

DhiruBhai Ambani

Arun Jaitley

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Identify & Recognize the Family Udyami Parents of your Institution...

The future of a Divya, Bhavya, Samriddh, Viksit AatmNirbhar Bharat would be forged by the Udyamis aka Entrepreneurs of New India, anchored into the CiviliNational Chitti.

Students having Family Businesses back home of any denomination, need to be encouraged to get associated with the Family Businesses back home to enhance their multi-dimensional & multi-faceted learning outcomes.

Do send in the detailed profiles of such students and their family businesses to editor@rethinkindia.in for Rashtra Rishi Dattopant Thengdi Udyamita Samman 2025 on 10th of November, Thengdi Ji’s Janma Jayanti.

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The Wars of Future would be Initiated & Ceased on the Frontiers of Trade and not merely limited to the Territorial ForeFronts...

As has been evident from the recent GeoPolitical Skirmishes…

ReTHINK INDIA Institute invites the nominations of all those Students from
Post-Primary to Post Doctoral Levels who are pro-actively contributing to their Family MSME Cooperative Enterprise leveraging their Multi-Dimensional Institutional Learnings.

Head of the Institutions, may nominate upto 3-5 Such Students, by sending a detailed Recommendation Note <name of the enterprise, level of contribution, demonstrable leveraging of the Institutional Learning to the Enterprise, Institutional Support to that Effect etc> to editor@rethinkindia.in, along with the requisite contact details and other Institutional Affiliations.

The Recommendation Note can also contain as to how the Family MSME Cooperative Enterprise is taking into account the intrinsic principle of #theindicthirdway - The ‘Third Way’ believes that education, ecology, economics, ethics all four must be taken into consideration in an integrated manner for any economic activity.

The concerned enterprise may be of whatever size, may be connected to any sector, may be in whichever state of evolution or struggle; the underlying spirit of Udyamita needs to be exemplified out there.

Felicitations would be made at ManaSarovar (digiTAL commemoration) on World MSME Day, 27th of June 2025.

Along with the nominee Student being felicitated, his/her Family Members alongside the concerned Family Members would be invited to the same.

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83% of India's UPI Payments are cornered by American PhonePe and Google Pay, despite UPI being an NPCI Product !!!

This really calls for a People's Push for adopting Swadeshi Options...which can be duly catalysed by Academic Institutions...

Almost every Swadeshi PSU Bank has a fine FinTech App enabling UPI Transactions...

ORIGIN of INDIA's FIRST SWADESHI BANK with INDIAN CAPITAL

Punjab National Bank of which Lala Lajpat Rai was a Key Founding Father

Punjab under the British especially after annexation in 1849 witnessed a period of rapid development giving rise to a new educated class fired with a desire for freedom from the yoke of slavery.

Amongst the cherished desires of this new class was also an overriding ambition to start a Swadeshi Bank with Indian Capital and management representing all sections of the Indian community.

The idea was first mooted by Rai Mool Raj of Arya Samaj who, as reported by Lala Lajpat Rai, had long cherished the idea that Indians should have a national bank of their own.

He felt keenly "the fact that the Indian Capital was being used to run English banks and companies, the profits accruing from which went entirely to the Britishers whilst Indians had to contend themselves with a small interest on their own capital"

From https://www.pnbindia.in/origin-of-PNB.html

Does your Institution
Bank with #SwaDeshiBanks
Exclusively/PreDominantly?

If Yes, Lala Lajpat Rai Recognition for SWADESHI BANKING 2025 is for You !!!

RBI List of BANKS in INDIA

TO NOMINATE

Hon'ble Kulpati/PradhanAcharya may simply self-certify on Institutional Letterhead with Institutional Seal & Signature that the Institution (from the aforementioned RBI list of BANKS in INDIA) holds its BANK ACCOUNTS only from amidst the SWADESHI BANK CATEGORIES as mentioned below

• SBI and Associates

• Nationalised Banks

• Scheduled State Co-operative Banks

• Non-Scheduled State Co-operative Banks

• Co-operative Banks - Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks

• Co-operative Banks - Non-Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks

• Co-operative Banks - State Cooperative Banks

• Co-operative Banks - District Cooperative Banks

• Regional Rural Banks

listing down the name of the bank(s) along with special Institutional Banking Relationship & Remarks with each one of them along with the Branch Manager's Name & Contact Email & Number

Email this Self-Certification of Swadeshi Banking to editor@rethinkindia.in

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As per the following 2018 Indian Express Reportage

TOP INDIAN PRIVATE BANKS are OWNED by FOREIGNERS

so they don't Qualify to be Categorised Stringently as SWADESHI BANKS

To be Presented to a host of Individuals, Initiatives & Institutions at Samriddhi 2024

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भारतेंदु हरिश्चन्द्र के जन्मदिवस ९ सितम्बर २०२४ के उपलक्ष्य में रीथिंक इंडिया
भारतेंदु हरिश्चन्द्र हिंदी शुद्धि संकल्प २०२४ के लिए विविध शैक्षणिक संस्थानों को आमंत्रित करता है।

यह संकल्प हिंदी दिवस २०२४ को संस्थान की हिंदी शुद्धि समिति द्वारा लिया जा सकता है जिसके अनुरूप संस्थान में हिंदी शुद्धि का एक व्यापक अभियान आहूत किया जाएगा।

हिंदी शुद्धि समिति संस्थान में उपरोक्त विडम्बना के ३ स्तरों के अनुरूप हिंदी की अशुद्धता का एक प्राथमिक मूल्यांकन करेगी और उसके निवारणार्थ अपनी समझ और स्थिति के अनुसार कुछ प्रयोग अग्रेसरित करेगी जिसे हिंदी दिवस से लेकर भारतेंदु हरिश्चन्द्र के स्मृति दिवस ६ जनवरी २०२५ तक अपनाया जाएगा।

यह प्राथमिक मूल्यांकन और प्रयोग संस्थान के प्रबंधन और आचार्य वर्ग के बीच ही किया जाएगा।
प्रबंधन और आचार्य वर्ग एक फार्म के माध्यम से अपनी व्यक्तिगत स्थिति और टीका साझा कर सकते हैं।

इस मूल्यांकन की रपट editor@rethinkindia.in को सम्प्रेषित कर दी जाएगी और प्रयोग की सफलता की एक प्रस्तुति ६ जनवरी को की जाएगी।

प्रस्तुति के आधार पर संस्थानों को भारतेंदु हरिश्चन्द्र हिंदी शुद्धि प्रशस्ति से सम्मानित किया जाएगा।

किसी भी प्रश्न के लिए डाक्टर सुरभि से ९९१००५०५९७ पर सम्पर्क साधा जा सकता है।

हिमालय के आँगन में उसे, प्रथम किरणों का दे उपहार
उषा ने हँस अभिनंदन किया और पहनाया हीरक-हार

जगे हम, लगे जगाने विश्व, लोक में फैला फिर आलोक
व्योम-तम पुँज हुआ तब नष्ट, अखिल संसृति हो उठी अशोक

विमल वाणी ने वीणा ली, कमल कोमल कर में सप्रीत
सप्तस्वर सप्तसिंधु में उठे, छिड़ा तब मधुर साम-संगीत

बचाकर बीज रूप से सृष्टि, नाव पर झेल प्रलय का शीत
अरुण-केतन लेकर निज हाथ, वरुण-पथ पर हम बढ़े अभीत

सुना है वह दधीचि का त्याग, हमारी जातीयता विकास
पुरंदर ने पवि से है लिखा, अस्थि-युग का मेरा इतिहास

सिंधु-सा विस्तृत और अथाह, एक निर्वासित का उत्साह
दे रही अभी दिखाई भग्न, मग्न रत्नाकर में वह राह

धर्म का ले लेकर जो नाम, हुआ करती बलि कर दी बंद
हमीं ने दिया शांति-संदेश, सुखी होते देकर आनंद

विजय केवल लोहे की नहीं, धर्म की रही धरा पर धूम
भिक्षु होकर रहते सम्राट, दया दिखलाते घर-घर घूम

यवन को दिया दया का दान, चीन को मिली धर्म की दृष्टि
मिला था स्वर्ण-भूमि को रत्न, शील की सिंहल को भी सृष्टि

किसी का हमने छीना नहीं, प्रकृति का रहा पालना यहीं
हमारी जन्मभूमि थी यहीं, कहीं से हम आए थे नहीं

जातियों का उत्थान-पतन, आँधियाँ, झड़ी, प्रचंड समीर
खड़े देखा, झेला हँसते, प्रलय में पले हुए हम वीर

चरित थे पूत, भुजा में शक्ति, नम्रता रही सदा संपन्न
हृदय के गौरव में था गर्व, किसी को देख न सके विपन्न

हमारे संचय में था दान, अतिथि थे सदा हमारे देव
वचन में सत्य, हृदय में तेज, प्रतिज्ञा मे रहती थी टेव

वही है रक्त, वही है देश, वही साहस है, वैसा ज्ञान
वही है शांति, वही है शक्ति, वही हम दिव्य आर्य-संतान

जियें तो सदा इसी के लिए, यही अभिमान रहे यह हर्ष
निछावर कर दें हम सर्वस्व, हमारा प्यारा भारतवर्ष

“Satire has now been recognised as a Kshatriya and elevated from the status of a Shudra. It is worth pondering that it has not become a Brahmin, because Brahmins do Kirtan.”

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Today is the punyatithi of Harishankar Parsai, indisputably the greatest satirist of the Hindi language. He was born on August 22, 1924, in village Jamani in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. By the time he died on August 10, 1995, he had revolutionised the art of satire writing in Hindi.

Just as Kumar Gandharva raised bhajan singing to the level of an independent musical form, so did Parsai who firmly established satire as a respectable and distinctive literary genre that had nothing to do with light comedy or mindless humour as it used to be traditionally understood. It speaks volumes about his genius that even after two and a half decades of his death, he remains unsurpassed.

What made Harishankar Parsai and his satire so special?

In one word the answer is worldview. Parsai identified with the deprived and downtrodden because of his progressive worldview and penetrating understanding of social, political and historical processes.

His critical insights into social and political situations and personal psyche enabled him to bring out their inherent irony and his literary talent made it possible for him to pen devastatingly effective satirical writings.

With surgical precision, he exposed the hypocrisy, double standards and corruption of the country’s social and political life.

His satire did not titillate but brought the reader face-to-face with reality without bothering how unsavoury or ugly it was. He was a realist to the core who took upon himself the responsibility of showing the mirror to his fellow countrymen.

Parsai had not even passed his matriculation examination when he lost his mother. His father too contracted an incurable disease. Thus, early in his life Parsai had to take care of his two brothers and two sisters without much financial support to fall back upon. Little wonder that he opted to remain a bachelor.

Against all odds, he did M.A. (Hindi) from the Nagpur University and also got a diploma in teaching. However, he took a courageous decision in 1957 to give up his job and lead his life as an independent writer who survived on his writings.

He wrote regular columns in various newspapers and magazines. One of them was a daily column in Raipur’s Hindi daily “Deshbandhu” and it ran for more than 10 years. Its format was also unique. Readers sent their questions and Parsai gave his answers. Appropriately titled as “Poochho Parsai Se” (Ask Parsai), it was later compiled into a book of the same name and published by Rajkamal Prakashan. It’s a nearly 750-page volume that shows his wit, range and depth of knowledge and heightened social consciousness.

Rajkamal Prakashan has published his other books too and they include “Vikalang Shraddha Ka Daur” (Age of the Handicapped Devotion), “Nithalle Ki Diary” (Diary of a Jobless Man), “Jaane Pahchane Log” (Familiar People), “Vaishnava Ki Phislan” (Slipping of a Vaishnava), “Awara Bheed Ke Khatare” (Dangers of a Lumpen Crowd). He also wrote short stories and novels besides satirical essays and many of them have been published by Vani Prakashan. His short story “Bholaram Ka Jeev” (The Soul of Bholaram) was successfully turned into a play and was widely staged all over the country. His language and style were such that the reader felt as if he or she was being directly addressed by the writer. In the absence of this communicability and directness, his satire could not have enjoyed the kind of unprecedented popularity it had.

Even in the face of serious financial difficulties, Harishankar Parsai founded the journal “Vasudha” that soon made considerable impact on the Hindi literary scene and acquired the reputation of being a fearless, Left-wing publication. Although CPI had supported the Emergency in 1975, Parsai had his own views about the anti-Indira Gandhi movements that preceded it, the experiences of the Emergency, and the events that took place after the Morarji Desai government came to power at the Centre. His critical insight saw through the charade of politicians of all hues. It was the writings of 1974-79, published as “Vikalang Shraddha Ka Daur” that fetched him the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award in 1982.

In a preface to one of his books, Parsai made the critical, rather adversarial, role of satire clear, “Satire has now been recognised as a Kshatriya and elevated from the status of a Shudra. It is worth pondering that it has not become a Brahmin, because Brahmins do Kirtan.” Parsai was nobody’s cheerleader. He never sang bhajans in praise of any deity.