The similar toy train to Darjeeling experience had provided inspiration to one other great person of foreign origin who had made India her home. She had also taken the same train for regaining health. It was Swami Vivekananda’s German disciple Sister Nivedita. She had too made her resolves to serve the poor and sick while […]
By the time Gonxha became 12 years old. Her mind was made up to follow in the foot steps of Florence Nightingale and St. Francis alias Cisco of Asissi. Her life’s mission would be the selfless service and the care of sick and the poorest. And unwittingly she had chosen the place of her work.
Even before Gonxha entered teens, a resolve to serve the poor and sick of a far off country called India began to germinate in her mind.The seeds of its was sown in young Agnes ‘Gonxha’ by the letters from Yugoslav Jesuit missionaries working in India at Kursiong and Darjeeling missions. Their letters used to be
In the early part of the 20th century, there lived a family in the city of Skopaze of Albania. The head of the family Nicholas was a reasonable prosperous building contractor cum grocer of the city. He had built many houses and buildings in the city. A theatre built by him still stands intact there.
He had spent lot of money to get justice and also his lost respect. But nothing went in his favour. It is rightly said that bad times come together. Rammohan was also having bad period. He was suffering from financial crisis as well as weak health. Now his health was deteriorating.His face had faded completely.
There were various superstitions, which were proving to be hindrance in the progress of a person. Rammohan had completely discarded such customs. At that time Oceans were considered Brahmins according to the religious books. So many people started worshipping the oceans, but when somebody went overseas, he was considered a sinner. One hundred and fifty
Once Rammohan went to France but he was not given the permission to enter France. From there he came to England but felt severely ill. He was hospitalised. In hospital, he felt that India would shine among all the Asian countries. He had written a letter to the French foreign minister which was as follows:‘‘Respected
Rammohan believed that ‘freedom is every body’s basic right. The person would only be satisfied who is free. If some one tries to snatch away some one freedom, then he commits a severe crime. This would be a daring crime in the eyes of the Creator who has sent that person on earth. The followers
Brahmo Samaj played a very important role in transforming the Indian society.When Brahmo Samaj was established at that time trafficking of girls took place. Some people even brutally killed the girls. Brahmo Samaj had started a strong revolution against these kinds of social evils. Because of these efforts, it was able to bring an end
Seeing Rammohan’s efforts of making the people aware, missionaries desired of limiting Rammohan from doing so. To punish him, the missionaries closed the doors of the ‘Mission Press’ for him forever. Before this, they had also criticised his books in one way or the other. When he was writing articles about the evils of the
In his book, Rammohan had compiled all the moral and spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ. In that book there was no mention of any soot of a miracle.Rammohan had said that Jesus Christ had no divine powers. This furied the Christians and they began to criticise him, because they also believed in following the rituals
Rammohan was very much sure that he would succeed in modernising India. This success was only a dream for him for now. To make this dream come true, he strongly accepted the criticisms.History has it that all the social reformists had to face the criticisms of their opponents. Then also they did not lose hope.
Rammohan wanted India to lead towards the path of development. For this it was necessary to gather supporters. By this, he wanted to make people aware of his views. He wanted to transform the society through education. Those days, there were Sanskrit schools for the education of the Hindus. There education was imparted by keeping
In 1823 Rammohan demanded freedom of press from the High Court. These days, only the responsible people of the British rule had the freedom of press. Rammohan had the desire of strengthening the constitutional government by fulfilling this demand.His main aim was to get the newspapers delivered to the hands of the backward classes, so
Many social reform movements were taking place to eliminate all the superstitions prevailing in the Indian society because of this many organisations were set up. One of these was Brahmo Samaj, which was started in 1818 by Rammohan. Brahmo Samaj had a firm belief in the Vedas and the Upanishads. The disciples of this Samaj