Mumbai Floods Heavy Rains Create Water-Logging & Traffic Jam, Roads Turn Into Rivers

Mumbai Floods Heavy Rains Create Water-Logging & Traffic Jam, Roads Turn Into Rivers

                   



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Rajan, The World's last and only Ocean Swimming Elephant in Andaman Islands INDIA

The last swimming elephant in the Andaman Islands, IndiaSwimming Elephant in the Andaman Islands, India

Swimming elephants like 60-year-old Rajan used to be a regular sight in the Andaman Islands, south of India, but this five ton Asian elephant is now the last of his kind.

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Replaced by motorised boats, Rajan no longer needs to swim miles between islands to work for his keeper, known as a 'mahout'. Rajan 

still swims for ten minutes twice a day, completing about 500 yards before heading back to shore.In his retirement Rajan can now enjoy swimming purely for pleasure.
                    

Rajan, the world's last and only ocean swimming elephant, is edging a step closer to a well-earned retirement.
Celebrated the world over, the three-ton bull elephant has almost reached the £37,000 target his owners need to pay back the loan they took out to buy his freedom.

That was three years ago, and in the years since, Rajan, 61, has entertained and stunned photographers all willing to pay for the
privilege of spending time with the world's last swimming elephant.

                 
Rajan and his dedicated mahout, 59-year-old Nazrool, are looking forward to quiet days walking in the jungle on Havelock Island, or
swimming in the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean.
'When swimming with Rajan you are almost certain he is aware he is being photographed,' said Jody MacDonald, who spent over a week with Rajan on Havelock Island, which is part of the Andaman and Nicobar Island chain.

'He never swims unless he wants to, so it is a pleasure to be in the water with him at the same time.
                 
'There is a fee to witness this, but this is because his owners at Barefoot India literally rescued him from being sent back to the
Indian mainland to work in 2008 by taking out a loan to buy him.
'To help repay that, photographers who want to witness the incredible spectacle of an ocean swimming elephant have had to pay.'

Miss MacDonald continued: 'I spent two separate times in the water with Rajan.
'He is like a dog paddling when he swims and I do think he is swimming for the cameras.
'His mahout swims along side him and never loses track of him. They are almost inseparable.'
                                                      
Rajan used to be employed logging trees on Havelock Island and had to push logs out to sea for them to be loaded on to boats.
'When swimming with Rajan you are almost certain he is aware he is being photographed,' said Jody MacDonald, who spent over a week with Rajan on Havelock Island

Celebrated the world over, the long in the three-ton bull elephant has almost reached the £37,000 target his owners need to pay back
the loan they took out to buy his freedom
                           
'You would think an elephant would not like the salt in their eyes from the sea, but Rajan is ok with that after all his life swimming
in the sea,' Miss MacDonald added.
'He uses his trunk as a snorkel. I never felt that I was in danger with him.

'It was a privilege to swim in the sea with him and to spend days with him on the beach front and in the jungle.'

Chanakya Life Story With Chanakya Niti

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The background: 

Indian civilization was already a few thousand years old. Had already seen a few great wars and 
written most of the great scriptures, produced great thinkers in diverse streams of knowledge such 
as socio-politics, religion and science. New organized religions had already started taking roots in 
the culture of Indian race. Old beliefs had already started becoming dogmas. And people were 
having their first brush with the western conquests... 
The 320 years before the Christian era or thereabouts, the fabric of Indian race had disintegrated a 
little. The first democracy in the present day central India, to save which lord Krishna had devoted 
first half of his life, had already eroded. The great kingdoms of northwestern India such as Kuru-
Panchal, or southwestern Soparak and Sthaneshwer had either vanished dwindled in importance. 
Small or midsized kingdoms were being ruled by shortsighted, greedy and pompous tyrants, who 
were absolutely oblivious to the threat the western invaders posed. They were engaged in there past 
time, greed, jealousy, promiscuity, superstition or egotism. 
The first sovereign of known Indian history was groomed in this era. CHANDRAGUPT MAURYA 
was coroneted on the throne of Magadha, one of, arguably the only, big kingdom in or about 329 
BC. He and his grandson SAMRAT ASHOK brought the land under their regime bigger than the 
modern-day India. 
The legend has it that this revolution started by a Brahmin named CHANAKYA. Chanakya was the 
son of revolutionary leader of Magadha saint CHANAKA of KUTAL clan. He had escaped to 
Takshashila, the epicenter of Indian academics from the time immortal. He had studied at the 
Takshashila University, befriended the future king of the region, later started teaching in the same 
university, and rose up to the post of chancellor: all the while waiting for the chance: for the right 
time to start a revolution. And the revolution that would yield long term results this time. 
Some time during middle of the 4th century before Christian era there were few revolutionary 
groups struggling to liberate Magadha from the reign of an outsider, the clan of Bindusaar and 
Ajatshatru of Ang region. The most prominent of them were Katyayanacharya Rakshash and 
Shaktaar. Shaktaar had become successful and established the short-lived kingdom of 
SHISHUNAAG, a northeastern dynasty that would become greatest dynasty for nearly three 
centuries in the first part of the Middle ages and the strongest defender of Hinduism; but that would 
be in the future. 

Shishunaag was an outsider too and the group of Rakshash kept on struggling. The regime changed 
within few years. Shishunaag was decapitated. The power was usurped by MAHAPADMA NANDA, the founder of Nanda dynasty. He ruled fairly under the guidance and control of 
Rakshash for few years but his sons became uncontrollable. The eldest Nanda was 
HIRANYAGUPTA who came to throne after his father’s demise. His eight brothers took up all the 
important positions in the administration and security. Hiranyagupta was called DHANANANDA 
by his subjects because of his insatiable greed. 
Mahapadma Nanda had begotten a son by his strategic marriage to the princess of nomads called 
Moor clan. This son was the youngest and most despised by all nine elder brothers. Probably 
because Mahapadma Nanda’s relation with Moor clan had made these nomads uncontrollable. 
Daughter of Moor was never considered as a legitimate queen of Nandas and alluded as the MURA 
DAASI (house cleaner Mura). Her son, the tenth of Nandas was called DAASISUT and MAURYA 
instead of Nanda. He was the great Samraat Chandragupt Maurya. 
It is believed that Mahapadma Nanda kept Chandragupt with the Moors when he was a child for he 
feared for Chandragupt’s life. This is where Chanakya had first seen Chandragupt and had become 
impressed the intelligence and leadership quality of this child. However, another story is more 
plausible considering the age of Chanakya at the time of Chandragupt’s conquest. This story is 
narrated in the play written By Mihir Bhuta titled CHANAKYA which states that Chandragupta 
was an ex-student of Taxila University where Chanakya had seen his potential as a warrior and an 
administrator. 
This play is the dramatized version of pre Christian ear history of India. A small glimpse of the first 
rays of the rising sun of Indian nation and nationality. This story is of and about the final step in the 
long journey of the Aryan clan from nomadic barbarians to the proud nationals of Indian 
subcontinent. 
Alexander the great came to northwestern front of India in year 320 BC. Most of the Indian rulers 
either surrendered or perished fighting Alexander. Chanakya was heading the Takshashila 
university at the time but had established a secrete organization to keep close watch on the world 
politics. He knew the threat Alexander posed to Indian subcontinent. He had realized that the 
fragmented Indian strength was not capable of fighting the Greeks. He had the vision to bring India 
under sovereignty of a benevolent king, collect the fragmented fragile populace of Indian 
subcontinent, and convert it in to a formidable force. The story is structured so that it begins with 
Chanakya’s dream and ends with its fulfillment. 
The high points of the story are as follows. 

Chanakya advises the King of Purushpoor that he should send prostitutes and spies on special 
commission to infiltrate the Greek army and thus ignite a revolt so that Alexander would have to 
return to Greece. Thus he foils Alexandrian conquest which otherwise would have subjugated India 
for a long time. The History of India would have been different than. 
Chanakya knows that the Greek would come back in a few years to annex this land. he formulates a 
secrete plan to amalgamate most of the major kingdoms of the subcontinent within that period and 
make this united Bharatvarsh a formidable force before the Greeks return. As part of his grand plan 
he sends few of his disciples to the mountain kingdom of Himavat, present day's Nepal to become 
priests there. He him self travels to Magadh, the eastern most kingdom. On rout he studies the 
political scenario of the land. 

He gets to know in Magadh that Dhananand has pronounced death sentence for his youngest step 
brother Chandragupta. Chanakya manages to siphon Chandragupta away with the aid of his 
disciples. This is where he takes his famous oath to destroy the evil ways of Dhananand and his 
entire clan. 

He along with Chandragupta and his disciples take refuge with the nomads called Riksh. He 
encourages Chandragupta to make warriors out of these hunters and with that army Chandragupta 
conquers two neighboring kingdoms of Kashi and Kosal. 
Now is the time for Chandragupta to enter into treaties as a king, with Major kingdoms to fight 
against Magadh. As per the traditions of those days no legitimate king would enter into any kind of 
treaty with a rebel unless that person is coroneted by the main priest of an important religious center 
such as Minakshi, Somnath, Jaggannath or Pashupatinath. But Chanakya had envisaged this 
problem and worked out the solution. This was the reason he had sent his disciples to Nepal to 
become priests in the temple of Pashupatinath. The king of Himavat named Parvatak has no other 
recourse but to expect Chandragupta as a legit king. Once Parvatak enters in the treaty with 
Chandragupta seven other feudatories follow. Though Parvatak has his own secrete agenda but 
Chanakya knows about that. 
Chanakya suddenly dissolves the nomad army under the pretext that Aryan army would not like 
fight along side the nomads. Unknown to Himavat Chanakya has asked his nomad army to go and 
settle down in and around the mountain kingdom and await instructions. 
Chandragupta defeats his step brother with the help of his allies and the master strategist Chanakya. 
The chief minister Rakshash rebels and Chanakya knows that Chandragupta would not be able to 
keep his kingdom unless Rakshash is on his side. Rakshash can not be allowed to rebel nor he can 
be killed. Rakshash's heart has to be changed. 
on top of this, immediately after the victory over Magadh and before Chandragupta's army gets any 
chance to recuperate, Parvatak declares war against Chandragupta. Rakshash is on his side too. But 
unknown to Parvatak, Chanakya had been ready for this eventuality long back. Chandragupta's 
Nomad army starts raiding Himavat. Parvatak realizes that he will have to lift the siege and go back 
to Himavat. Chanakya's invitation for fresh treaty comes as good news so that he will be able to win 
his war here in Magadh and still go back to Himavat. Little does he know that Chanakya is going to 
kill him. 
As a last stroke of genius Chanakya converts Rakshash, the rebel chief minister of Dhananand for a 
formidable foe in to a great friend and the chief minister of Magadh under Chandragupta too. 

Characters: 

Chanakya’s intelligence is considered the greatest after more than two thousand years. That is due 
to his success in carving out a unified nation and bringing prosperity to India single handedly. And 
the success of his revolution had arguably the longest life of all Indian revolutions. Chanakya was 
scholar of practically all the traditional disciplines of knowledge; but his heart was in politics and 
economics. He firmly believed that mono-centric rule and correct economical growth only would be 
able to bring happiness to the much-exploited masses of this war torn land. His work was similar to 
that of lord Krishna, though at war was between Aryan and non-Aryan in the time of Krishna. 
Chanakya’s cunning was in his ability to see farther in time than anybody could see. He designed 
his future moves well in advance and went further by taking actions that would bare advantageous 
fruits when the time was ripe for making those moves. He probably had a great insight in to the 
human psychology and could accurately predict the behaviors of people. 


Chanakya had cool fortitude and unhurried confidence. Although the chronology of events suggests 
that he had been able to make Chandragupt the sovereign within short span of five years after 
Alexander left Indian soil, his demeanor seldom showed any kind of anxiety. 
He was ruthless when need arose. His kindness was a force rather then a weakness. He believed that 
the end justified the means. He him self lived a ascetic and stern life and pursued his goal, at first 
making Chandragupt the king and later completing his treaty on economics, with no thought for 
personal comfort or happiness. 

 His character shows the trait of so many great leaders that the combination of all these make him 
the foremost among them. He had the purity of Rama, foresight of Krishna, comprehension of 
Pluto, politics of Aristotle, ruthlessness of Mao, kindness of Nelson Mandela, selflessness of 
Gandhi, passion of Pushyamitra, magnanimity of King Arthur, wit and charisma of Churchill and so 
on and so forth. Chanakya was truly the hero of all heroes. 

Katyayana Rakshash was the most influential individual in the Magadha empire; for two reasons 

1) Rakshash had devoted his life for the uplifting of Magadha subjects. He had struggled to 
overthrow Pramadshatru and then fought against Shaktaar to overthrow Shishunaag. Thus, he had 
saved Magadhee people from being ruled by outsiders and established the rule of a Magadhee king 
Mahapadma Nanda. 2) He was the greatest scholar in the two most important and new 
disciplines of knowledge viz. Architecture and Metals. His SHULBHASUTRAS were the authority 
on these sciences for a very long time. Magadha had the reserves of newly found and most useful 
metal called iron, and Rakshash was among few who knew everything about this metal. 
Katyayana was popular as Rakshash because he was as feared as revered by the Magadhee. He had 
fierce intelligence and determined disposition. He never laughed. His sense of justice did not know 
pardon. People believed that his body grew with his temper, which was probably not the fact but 
was the truth in essence. He never feared speaking his mind. He was hard to his core and his rock 
solid seriousness never melted. These were the reasons for Chanakya’s decision to retain Rakshash 
as the chief minister of Chandragupt. Rakshash had only two shortcomings, his unyielding ego and 
his unwavering devotion to the Nanda clan. However, Chanakya’s purity of intention ultimately 
won him over. 

Chandragupt was most unfit to be the king of even a small kingdom, leave aside the great empire. 

He was a great warrior but too emotional to fulfill the demands of being the emperor. Had it not 
been for Chanakya he would rather have lived and died for his love for Sumoha. In the later part of 
his life he accepted Jainism and renounced the world. He died as a Jain monk near SRAVAN 
BELGOLA. 

Sumoha was younger sister of Ambhi who had fallen in love with Chandragupt while Chandragupt 

was studying at Takshashila. They had planed to get married and live happily ever after, but the fate 
had different design for her. Hiranyagupta asked for her hand in marriage, just to annoy 
Chandragupt. Ambhi could not afford to displease such a powerful king as the Magadha monarch. 
Sumoha’s dream of marrying her beloved was shattered. She had become a bitter woman. Her only 
desire was to kill her husband and marry Chandragupt. Chanakya loved this younger sister of his 
old friend Ambhi like his own sister, but decided to sacrifice her for the benefit of the entire 
Aryavart. This how Sumoha’s life ended. 

Katika was the representative of non-Aryan aboriginal nomads whom Chanakya had trained in the 

ways of Aryans and employed in the war against Magadha. Katika was the classical poison-maid or 
‘VISHAKANYA’ whose resentment towards the oppressors was her poison and her knowledge 
about snakes helped her poison the enemies. 

Parvatak was the greedy king of probably present day Nepal whom Chanakya had fooled into 

helping Chandragupt in war against Hiranyagupta and ultimately killed. 

Puru popularly known as Porus was more of a wrestler and less of a king. He is immortalized in 

history for his meeting with Alexander as a captive. Alexander had asked him how he would like to 
be treated and he had proudly answered that he should be treated as a king would treat another king. 
The hidden reason behind this incident, if it were true, must have been that Puru had, as per the 
advice of Chanakya, created such unrest in the already tired army of Alexander that Alexander had 
to go back to Greece without entering Indian subcontinent any further. 

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