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*Khullam Khulla : A Good Book to read* Rishi Kapoor, veteran actor, was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2018 and went to New York for treatment. After a successful treatment over the one year, he returned to India on 26th September 2019 and on 29th April 2020, he was admitted due to breathing difficulty and died there on 30th April 2020, On 20th February 2017, I have written my views on the autobiography written by him which I am posting again. Rishi Kapoor is not great actor like Amitabh Bacchan or like Rajesh Khana or like Dharmendra but still his autobiography Khullam Khulla is good book to read due time his unconcerned some interesting facts. Really interesting to read. *From Yogesh Gogwekar* Rishi Kapoor, son of Raj Kapoor and father of Today's leading actor Ranbeer Kapoor, still has his own immage. He was definitely a romantic hero of 70s and 80s. He started his career from Mera Nam Joker as junior Raj Kapoor but his lead role was in Bobby. From this his journey ...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar: Surely the game’s secular saint. “I asked my wife to come and look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this fellow is playing much the same I used to play. I cannot explain it in detail but there is similarity. It is compactness, his stroke production. It all seems to gel. That was how I felt.”  These are the words of Sir Donald Bradman about the greatest batsman in the world Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.  He said this in the rare interview at the time of world cup of 1996. This has been agreed by two former cricketers played at the time of Bradman, one is Neil Harvey, a left-handed batsman of Australia and former English Batsman Trevor Bailey. Even Mike Brearley, a former Captain of England, agreed on it. And Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar travelled to Australia as a Chief Guest at the lavish function to celebrate Bradman’s 90 th birthday. It was a great honoured to Sachin Tendulkar. From Yogesh Gogwekar On 15 th November 1989, Sach...

World Book Day 23 rd April-Celebration of Reading Every year on 23 rd April, world is celebrating the World book day. It is a Celebration of authors and publishers but most importantly it is a celebration of reading. Actually, to honour the author Miguel De Cervantes, it was decided to celebrate international book day on 7 th October of every year but later on it changed to 23 rd April which is not only death anniversary of Cervantes but also death anniversary of William Shakespeare. This year on 23 rd April 2020, we have cooped up at home and there is definitely one upside to social distancing. Due to this, there is a lot of restrictions on our freedom; but we are free to celebrate the world book day by reading more and more books and writing our thoughts on the same. Reading of book is one of the best habits of a man because books are known to be the best friend for a reason. From Yogesh Gogwekar Friends, Literature is nothing but foundation of traditi...

Dr. Ambedkar and his Scholarly writings On 14 th April 2020, India is going to celebrate the 129 th birth anniversary of a such man who was a Scholar, Theoretician, Political leader, Economist, world-class lawyer and intellectual writer whose life has been represented a stirring triumph over the barriers of cast. He is nothing but Dr. Bhimrao Ramaji Ambedkar popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar.  At the time of admiring Dr. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi said that he has highest regard for Dr. Ambedkar and he has every right to bitter. A letter written by Mahatma to his English friend, he said that nothing unnatural in Dr. Ambedkar’s hostility to the congress and its supporters. Mahatma  further said that he has not only witnessed the inhuman wrong done to social pariahs of Hinduism; but in spite of all his culture, all honours that he received still to suffer many insults to which untouchables are exposed.  From this one can easily make out the even Mahatma has a...