The Upanishads were so called because they were taught to those who sat down beside their teachers (upa=near, ni=down, shad=sit). ... Rama is one of the most commonly adored gods of Hindus and is known as an ideal man and hero of the epic Ramayana. ...
Discarded food materials, human feces expelled from the train can provide ideal environment to rats, rodents and cockroaches. ... Besides the core network of 30 NGOs, thousands of school teachers and several other citizens' groups like RWAs, parents fora, local business associations and youth clubs participate actively in the activities. ...
It was Menon who realised the need to get the Princely States to accede to India before the date of independence and that Mountbatten was the ideal person to facilitate this. ... He worked in a gold mine in Mysore and then as an English teacher. ... In the same note, Menon still considered that the ideal solution would be if the two parties could agree to the Cabinet Mission Plan. ...
Nirmal was a teacher of English literature at Asutosh College in Calcutta where he had made a name for himself as a leftist intellectual and promising writer. ... Kanai had been to Lusibari in 1970, sent by his parents to be rusticated for his audacity, arrogance and misbehavior with teachers. ... A poet at heart, who constantly invoked Rilke's Duino Elegies and sought confirmation of his ideas and thoughts in the lines of the German poet, Nirmal approached retirement from service, feeling like his life was poorly spent because he had never lived up to his revolutionary ideals. ...
