As I am writing this, Year 2008 is easing in with a beautiful display of fireworks all around me… from the garden's of quite a few neighbors. public parks and night clubs. This is a wealthy nation and almost every other house have a party on New Year's eve either in their own house or in a hired hall or pre booked club; if not they gather in local parks or city squares where some sort of band invariably creates the party magic. Cultural programmed is arranged by city volunteers and people gather around in laugh and merriment and dance the night away. A free firework display is also arranged by the city council. They all wait till midnight and then at the stroke of the 12 New Year is greeted with a bubbling glasses of champagne and hugs and kisses. Scotland's Hegemony (New Year Celebration with haggis and guitar is famous for its atmosphere all over the world) To celebrate New Year With this joy and gusto has almost become a habit of the west; All the city squares become full of music and merriment and celebrating teen agers ... young and old also gather around to have an open party. Surrounding streets become an overflow of half-drunk laughing and singing people. Biggest party of this kind is thrown on London's Trafalgar Square, where thousands of people gather and with the stroke of midnight at the big Ben , whole sky around the central Thames lit up with the fountains of light and crackers... ear deafening cheers of Happy New Year. Flowing champagne in Bars & clubs and casinos all around the nation creates an unrivalled atmosphere of merriment and joy. Whatever is the way of Celebration in this worry torn world happiness is always welcome because it kindles the ray of hope . I hope with this departure of the old , we all are ready to welcome the new and year 2008 will be lot easier and happier than 2007. Lekhni will like to wish all its reader with this new issue a very happy, healthy and successful New Year!
The Sun · Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Ceres · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto these are the ten planets of our solar system. ( ceres is a recent addition to the list ) But the comets are among the most brilliant, and most rare objects in the night sky. These soaring beacons with their beautiful tails come from the outer realms of the Solar System.
Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. The famous Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, depicts an apparition of Comet Halley.
As of 1995, 878 comets have been cataloged and their orbits at least roughly calculated. Of these 184 are periodic comets (orbital periods less than 200 years); some of the remainder are no doubt periodic as well, but their orbits have not been determined with sufficient accuracy to tell for sure.
Comets are sometimes called dirty snowballs or "icy mudballs". They are a mixture of ices (both water and frozen gases) and dust that for some reason didn't get incorporated into planets when the solar system was formed. This makes them very interesting as samples of the early history of the solar system.
When they are near the Sun and active, comets have several distinct parts: nucleus: relatively solid and stable, mostly ice and gas with a small amount of dust and other solids; coma: dense cloud of water, carbon dioxide and other neutral gases sublimed from the nucleus; hydrogen cloud: huge (millions of km in diameter) but very sparse envelope of neutral hydrogen; dust tail: up to 10 million km long composed of smoke-sized dust particles driven off the nucleus by escaping gases; this is the most prominent part of a comet to the unaided eye; ion tail: as much as several hundred million km long composed of plasma and laced with rays and streamers caused by interactions with the solar wind.
Comets are invisible except when they are near the Sun. Most comets have highly eccentric orbits which take them far beyond the orbit of Pluto; these are seen once and then disappear for millennia. Only the short- and intermediate-period comets (like Comet Halley), stay within the orbit of Pluto for a significant fraction of their orbits.
After 500 or so passes near the Sun off most of a comet's ice and gas is lost leaving a rocky object very much like an asteroid in appearance. (Perhaps half of the near-Earth asteroids may be "dead" comets.) A comet whose orbit takes it near the Sun is also likely to either impact one of the planets or the Sun or to be ejected out of the solar system by a close encounter (esp. with Jupiter).
By far the most famous comet is Comet Halley but SL 9 was a "big hit" for a week in the summer of 1994.
Meteor shower sometimes occur when the Earth passes thru the orbit of a comet. Some occur with great regularity: the Perseid meteor shower occurs every year between August 9 and 13 when the Earth passes thru the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Comet Halley is the source of the Orionid shower in October.
Many comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers. Since comets are brightest when near the Sun, they are usually visible only at sunrise or sunset. Charts showing the positions in the sky of some comets can be created with a planetarium program
What are these comets Dirty Ice Balls, Time Capsules, or Harbingers of Doom? A Cosmic Snowball, small comets hitting Earth? (maybe not)
Open IssuesWhat happens to comets after they have lost their volatile materials? What mechanism(s) perturb comets from their origin in the Oort cloud into orbits that take them into the inner solar system? Was it a comet or something else that caused the Tunguska fireball over central Siberia in 1908? Was it a comet or an asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan (and probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs)? The Stardust mission will return samples of a comet for study in earthly labs.
· Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of nowhere in the sky and gradually vanish out of sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes, or even interpreted as attacks by heavenly beings against terrestrial inhabitants. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, it is known that their appearances have been noticed by humans for millennia. Some authorities interpret references to "falling stars" in Gilgamesh, the Book of Revelation and the Book of Enoch as references to comets, or possibly bolides.
· In the first book of his Meteorology, Aristotle propounded the view of comets that would hold sway in Western thought for nearly two thousand years. He rejected the ideas of several earlier philosophers that comets were planets, or at least a phenomenon related to the planets, on the grounds that while the planets confined their motion to the circle of the Zodiac, comets could appear in any part of the sky. Instead, he described comets as a phenomenon of the upper atmosphere, where hot, dry exhalations gathered and occasionally burst into flame. Aristotle held this mechanism responsible for not only comets, but also meteors, the aurora borealis, and even the Milky Way.
· A few later classical philosophers did dispute this view of comets. Seneca the Younger, in his Natural Questions, observed that comets moved regularly through the sky and were undisturbed by the wind, behavior more typical of celestial than atmospheric phenomena. While he conceded that the other planets do not appear outside the Zodiac, he saw no reason that a planet-like object could not move through any part of the sky, humanity's knowledge of celestial things being very limited. However, the Aristotelian viewpoint proved more influential, and it was not until the 16th century that it was demonstrated that comets must exist outside the earth's atmosphere.
· One very famous old recording of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the Bayeux Tapestry, which records the Norman conquest of England in AD 1066.
· In 1577, a bright comet was visible for several months. The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe used measurements of the comet's position taken by himself and other, geographically separated, observers to determine that the comet had no measurable parallax. Within the precision of the measurements, this implied the comet must be at least four times more distant from the earth than the moon.
Isaac Newton described comets as compact, solid, fixed, and durable bodies: in other words, a kind of planet, which move in very oblique orbits, every way, with the greatest freedom, persevering in their motions even against the course and direction of the planets; and their tail as a very thin, slender vapour, emitted by the head, or nucleus of the comet, ignited or heated by the sun. Comets also seemed to Newton absolutely requisite for the conservation of the water and moisture of the planets; from their condensed vapours and exhalations all that moisture which is spent on vegetations and putrefactions, and turned into dry earth, might be resupplied and recruited; for all vegetables were thought to increase wholly from fluids, and turn by putrefaction into earth. Hence the quantity of dry earth must continually increase, and the moisture of the globe decrease, and at last be quite evaporated, if it have not a continual supply. Newton suspected that the spirit which makes the finest, subtilest, and best part of our air, and which is absolutely requisite for the life and being of all things, came principally from the comets.
Another use which he conjectured comets might be designed to serve, is that of recruiting the sun with fresh fuel, and repairing the consumption of his light by the streams continually sent forth in every direction from that luminary — “ From his huge vapouring train perhaps to shake Reviving moisture on the numerous orbs, Thro' which his long ellipsis winds; perhaps To lend new fuel to declining suns, To light up worlds, and feed th' ethereal fire." ”
— James Thomson , "The Seasons" (1730; 1748)
While hundreds of tiny comets pass through the inner solar system every year, very few are noticed by the general public. About every decade or so, a comet will become bright enough to be noticed by a casual observer — such comets are often designated Great Comets. In times past, bright comets often inspired panic and hysteria in the general population, being thought of as bad omens. More recently, during the passage of Halley's Comet in 1910, the Earth passed through the comet's tail, and erroneous newspaper reports inspired a fear that cyanogen in the tail might poison millions, while the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 triggered the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult. To most people, however, a great comet is simply a beautiful spectacle.
Predicting whether a comet will become a great comet is notoriously difficult, as many factors may cause a comet's brightness to depart drastically from predictions. Broadly speaking, if a comet has a large and active nucleus, will pass close to the Sun, and is not obscured by the Sun as seen from the Earth when at its brightest, it will have a chance of becoming a great comet. However, Comet Kohoutek in 1973 fulfilled all the criteria and was expected to become spectacular, but failed to do so. Comet West, which appeared three years later, had much lower expectations (perhaps because scientists were much warier of glowing predictions after the Kohoutek fiasco), but became an extremely impressive comet.
The late 20th century saw a lengthy gap without the appearance of any great comets, followed by the arrival of two in quick succession — Comet Hyakutake in 1996, followed by Hale-Bopp, which reached maximum brightness in 1997 having been discovered two years earlier. The first great comet of the 21st century was Comet McNaught, which became visible to naked eye observers in January 2007. It was the brightest in over 40 years. We saw the last comet with its Geminid showers pass through our orbit on 14 December 2007.
Often than not truth is more brilliant than any fiction; after all it is the true inspiration of all the fiction ; it reflects the Society we live in...experiences which mould our lives. Here are two stories bound to touch every reader.
Dove
She was only eight, doing her homework in the garden, happily & humming. Suddenly something fell from the sky right in front of her eyes, just missing her. She nearly jumped in horror, it was a wounded pigeon; twitching in pain right in front of her eyes. it just scaped the claws of some preying bird. Moved by the sight she ran to the wounded bird. Washed and cleaned it and then put some of her own healing ointment all over it which mother used to put over her own grazed knees to make her feel better. She also gave it some fresh water and millet and made it comfortable all wrapped in a wooly scarf and sitting cosily in a little basket near her own bed. She was waking up almost every hour to check if the bird was o.k.
In few days bird was hopping all over her room and within a week it flew out in the open. Girl was happy for it. She will miss it but it can live its normal life now and do whar birds do. With a heavy heart she came back from school that day, knowing well that no bird will greet her any more. But how wrong she was. As soon as she opened the door of the room; to her utter surprise bird was back comfortably sitting in it's basket. It became a routine then. As soon as the girl would go, the bird will fly out also and as soon as the little girl will comr back, the bird will be back as well. for month it was like this only, day after day. Everybody in the family was fed up (except the little girl) of the unsightly mess created by bird's innumerable droppings. As soon as the little girl went to the school, they bolted the windows and door, so the bird couldn't enter her room and leave mess for them to clean. But the Bird came back as usual on it's regular time and waited and waited outside the room in the hope that somebody will let her in. She refused to fly away. When the girl came back that evening and opened her window, to her utter shock and sadness there was no bird except few blood stains and broken feathers.
-shail Agrawal
Fascinating than fiction, scene took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg and London .. A White woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a black man. Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess. 'Madam, what is the matter,' the hostess asked. 'You obviously do not see it then?' she responded. 'You placed me next to a black man. I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat.' 'Be calm please,' the hostess replied. 'Almost all the places on this Flight is taken.I will go to see if another place is available.' The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later. 'Madam, Just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the economy class. I spoke to the captain and he informed me that there is a seat in the business class. All the same, we still have one place in the first class.' Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued: 'It is not Usual for our company to permit someone from the economy class to sit in the first class. However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting.' She turned to the black guy, and said, 'Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in first class.' At that moment, the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.
DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad(2007)
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at! Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.
Got 10 minutes for your country?
If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,
The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.' YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son.
Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand.
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?
Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr. Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of ? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F. Kennedy 's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....
'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA
AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA
WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'
The world currently boasts a bumper crop of woman leaders, Including,
Pratibha Patil-India
First ever female president of India.
Gloria Macapagal-Arryo,The Phylippines
" GMA", as some know her, is the nation's second women president, after Maria Coarazon Aquino.
Michelle Bachelet- Chile
Michelle Bachellet (First left) With Cristina Kerchner Of Argentina in the middle & other digniteres
Santiego-born Bachelet won last year's election to become the first female president in chilean history.
Helen Clark-New Zealand
In her third term as prime minister, Clark is New Zealand's second female premier, after Jenny Shipley.
Louisa Diogo-Mozambique
The First woman to become prime minister of the African republic, hasbeen in power for nearly four years.
Tarja Halonen-Finland
A popular Finnish figure, the pioneering female president was elected for a second term last year.
Angela Merkel-Germany
Modern Germany's First woman leader, and its youngest chancellor since the second world war.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf- Liberia
Not only Liberia's first elected woman president, but also Africa's first elected female head of state.
Cristina Kirchner-Argentina
Queen Cristina as many Argentinian refer her to, is the new president of Argentina. The first lady has been voted into her husband's shoes.
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21June 1953-27 Dec. 2007
"I don't fear death... I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me"
Pakistan's self exiled leader of the opposition Benazeer Bhutto has been shot dead in barely two months of her return to the motherland. A Howard and Oxford educated Benazeer was disltked by the hardliners and extremists of the country.
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Talking about leading ladies, Amitabh Bachchan's mother Teji Bachchan passed awayay on Friday the 21 December. She was 93.
She had been ailing for over a year, and was admitted at Lilavati hospital in Bandra, a western suburb of Mumbai. In November, she was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital after her condition became serious.
Amitabh was very close to his mother and she was a pillar of support for the Bachchan family. One of the first things Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai did after they got married was visit her at the hospital.
Teji Bachchan was an important part of the Big B's professional life as well. For instance, in the original script of Coolie, Amitabh's character was supposed to die. But she requested director Manmohan Desai to change the ending.
The second wife of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Teji was an amatuer actor as well as a singer. Harivansh Rai, himself a renowned Hindi poet, died in 2003 at the age of 96.
Born as Teji Suri to Punjabi parents, she married Bachchan in 1941 after the death of his first wife. She was also close to the Nehru-Gandhi family while the Bachchan family was living in Delhi in the late 1950s.
Teji's illness had resulted in the Bachchan family curtailing celebrations at their Juhu residence for the past few years on occasions like Holi and Diwali.
All major family events were usually conducted after seeking her blessings.
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अरुणा सितेश
31 Oct 1945- 17 Nov. 2007
Education M. A. English Literature from Prayag University in 1965 with gold medal, Ph.D. from Prayag University in 1970 Profession Firstly Lecturer, Then Reader and presently Principal in Indraprastha College, Delhi Books Authored Chand Bhi Akela Hai, Vahi Sapney, Koi Ek Adhoorapan, Lakshmanrekha, Chhalang Translation American Writers, Modern Stories, 60 Contemporary Poetesses, Masterpieces of Indian Literature, English translation of plays by Mohan Rakesh & Vishnu Prabhakar. Awards Akhil Bhartiya Sahitya Parishad, Delhi Govt., Mahadevi Verma Award by Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Brahmi Sundari Alankaran Award etc.
2007 ने जिन्हें हमसे छीना उन सभी दिवगंत आत्माओं को लेखनी की भावभीनी श्रद्धांजली !
To wrap up 2007 on a lighter note and laugh off all the worrie & troubles, I will like to share this greeting e. mail of good will from Mr.Tejendra Sharma, received literally hours ago, Dear Friends!!!
May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastro-enterologist, your urologist, your proctologist, your podiatrist, your psychiatrist, your plumber and the I.R.S.
May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs and your stocks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest not rise.
May New Year's Eve find you seated around the table, together with your beloved family and cherished friends. May you find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper, and the pleasure much more fulfilling than anything else you might ordinarily do that night.
May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes, and tell the world about your virtues.
May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner, may the commercials on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching, and may your check book and your budget balance - and include generous amounts for charity.
May you remember to say "I love you" at least once a day to your spouse, your child, your parent, your siblings; but not to your secretary, your nurse, your masseuse, your hairdresser or your tennis instructor.
And may we live in a world at peace and with the awareness of God's love in every sunset, every flower's unfolding petals, every baby's smile, every lover's kiss, and every wonderful, astonishing, miraculous beat of our heart.
As I am writing this, Year 2008 is easing in with a beautiful display of fireworks all around me… from the garden's of quite a few neighbors. public parks and night clubs. This is a wealthy nation and almost every other house have a party on New Year's eve either in their own house or in a hired hall or pre booked club; if not they gather in local parks or city squares where some sort of band invariably creates the party magic. Cultural programmed is arranged by city volunteers and people gather around in laugh and merriment and dance the night away. A free firework display is also arranged by the city council. They all wait till midnight and then at the stroke of the 12 New Year is greeted with a bubbling glasses of champagne and hugs and kisses. Scotland's Hegemony (New Year Celebration with haggis and guitar is famous for its atmosphere all over the world) To celebrate New Year With this joy and gusto has almost become a habit of the west; All the city squares become full of music and merriment and celebrating teen agers ... young and old also gather around to have an open party. Surrounding streets become an overflow of half-drunk laughing and singing people. Biggest party of this kind is thrown on London's Trafalgar Square, where thousands of people gather and with the stroke of midnight at the big Ben , whole sky around the central Thames lit up with the fountains of light and crackers... ear deafening cheers of Happy New Year. Flowing champagne in Bars & clubs and casinos all around the nation creates an unrivalled atmosphere of merriment and joy. Whatever is the way of Celebration in this worry torn world happiness is always welcome because it kindles the ray of hope . I hope with this departure of the old , we all are ready to welcome the new and year 2008 will be lot easier and happier than 2007. Lekhni will like to wish all its reader with this new issue a very happy, healthy and successful New Year! 
What is life if, full of care,
Sea Fever
World's Leading Ladies
Gloria Macapagal-Arryo,The Phylippines
Michelle Bachelet- Chile 
21June 1953-27 Dec. 2007
Talking about leading ladies, Amitabh Bachchan's mother Teji Bachchan passed awayay on Friday the 21 December. She was 93. 
अरुणा सितेश
