Vedas are considered to be the main source of all learning and knowledge in the world. Vedas are not written by any human being, so is Hindu Dharma. Both of them are not created by any individual. The Vedas are articulated by the GOD. Vedas are the synonyms of the learning, science and knowledge. One must understand the Vedangs before studying the Vedas. And if any one goes through the Vedas without studying Vedang, he would commit the blunder and get nothing. He would jump in the web of ignorance and baffled. Vedang are six in number. They are as follows: - Shiksha (Education) Kalp (The procedure for performing religious rituals) Nirukat (Articulation of words, explanation and analysis) Vayakaran (Grammar) Chhand ( Verses) The Joyotish (Astrology) Astrology is the study of planets, zodiac and constellation in galaxy and how they affect the human-beings on the earth. The Indian Astrology has mainly three branches- Sidandta (Astronomy) Samhita (Mundane Astrology) Hora or Jatak (Natal Astrology) Sidandta (Astronomy) is the study of mathematical calculation of the movement of the planets; moon, angles, eclipse etc. and the rest of the two are the application of (Sidandta) astronomy. Our Ancient Rishis (Masters of the Astrology) had done an excellent work and presented eighteen different doctrines before the birth of Christ. Varhamihir the well known astrologer and mathematician of ancient India expressed his views only on five doctrines. Surya (Sun) Sidandta is the most accurate and nearer to the mathematical calculation of the modern world. The second important part of the astrology is mundane astrology which is used for predicting natural phenomena e.g. Rains, Earthquake, Changes in climate, Famines, Political changes, Economic changes, Relation between countries, War and Peace . The books are known as Samhita e.g. Narad Sanhita, Garg Sanhita. The third most important part of this subject is Natal Astrology. It is the most popular branch of the astrology. It studies the affect of the planets and constellation on the native e.g. Education, offspring, Profession, Family, Pleasure, Sorrow, Development, Decline and Health etc. The word “Hora” and “Jatak” comes in the end with title e.g. Jatak-Parijatak, Brihtjatak, and Brihad-Parashar Hora Shastra etc.So they are called Jatak Granth (native). In this branch of astrology, Horoscope of the native is made with the help of the date of birth, place of birth and time of birth and then the prediction is made. The rule [...]
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May 19th, 2008 
krishna With their capacity to accommodate social movements that they bring into the political process, India’s democratic institutions are often praised. We can include demands expressed through civil disobedience and the politics of the street. The Assam movement once seemed to be a stellar success of Indian democracy which started in 1979 and ended in 1985. But in retrospect its failures have become more apparent. The movement, led by the All Assam Students Union and the All Asom Gana Sangram Parishad, saw extraordinary mobilization against illegal immigration and the enfranchisement of non-citizens that, campaigners believed, risked turning the “indigenous” people of Assam into a political minority. The Congress government, headed by Hiteshwar Saikia, resigned and the movement was ended with an agreement between the Indian government and the movement leaders. The Asom Gana Parishad, led by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, in the elections that followed in 1985 was voted to power. Assam’s population largely constitutes with the immigrants for Bangladesh. And it was never in dispute. British officials viewed Assam as one of the subcontinent’s last frontiers to be settled by immigrants. The Partition of 1947 could not stop the flow that began in the 1920s, of land-hungry peasants from East Bengal to sparsely-populated Assam. It intensified when Hindu refugees joined the flow. Identifying a Bangladeshi is not a simple matter because of extensive blurring between citizens and non-citizens. No wonder that the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act (IMDT) passed by Parliament in 1983 gave Bangladeshi nationals, suspected of illegally entering Assam, the protection of a quasi-judicial process There was an unofficial song for The Assam movement’s composed by musician Bhupen Hazarika in 1968, anticipated the movement and warned that “unless the Assamese save themselves, they will become refugees in their own land”. Another version of the song expressed pride that there are “martyrs now who can say that if Assam dies, we too shall die”. This part of the Assamese memory remains silenced in Indian public discourse which has little space for regional realities that don’t fit standard constructions of India’s modern national history.
