Chithravathi Magazine

  This celebration was instituted in recognition of the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, a landmark achievement in India’s space programme under the leadership of the Indian Space Research Organisation Today, August 23, 2024, marks a historic milestone for India as the nation celebrates its first-ever National Space Day, a day dedicated to honouring the country’s remarkable achievements in space exploration. This celebration was instituted in recognition of the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, a testament to India’s space programme under the leadership of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which not only showcased India’s technological competence but also cemented its position as a global space power. On this day, India commemorates the moment when Chandrayaan-3 made a historic soft landing on the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023 - an achievement that made India the first country to reach this uncharted lunar region. National Space Day reflects the spirit of innov...

Today, on August 7, we commemorate the death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate, a multi-talented genius and founder of Santiniketan, whose contributions to literature, music, and art continue to resonate across generations.  Tagore in London Born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, British India, Tagore was not just a poet and writer but a philosopher, educator, and social reformer. He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a religious and social movement that sought to reform Hinduism. Tagore’s diverse and extensive body of work earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first non-European to receive this prestigious honour. While conferring the award, the committee said he was selected for it “because of his profoundly sensitive fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, apart of the literature of the West.” Tagore’s literary jou...