Restored

This  week  I  received   2   financial set backs.

My  laptop had  to  be  fixed, its  keypad

stopped  functioning and  I    was offline   for  3  days.

At  10  PM  tonight  I got it   back  from 

the  repair  shop.

Last  night  my  doggie  Sheeba   chewed  up  my

hearing  aid.

Now  Sheeba  is  a  very  sweet dog  and   she

has  never  committed  a destructive  act-

{except  when  she  was  a   puppy).

But  last  night  after her  dinner,

( she     not  hungry or  anything)

the  four  footed  lady  grabbed  my  hearing  aid  off 

a   table  I   had put  it on

and  chewed  it  to  bits.

While  I  was   hunting  for  it  all  over  the  house.

It  was  too  late   when  I   discovered  it  between  her  paws.

My   hearing  aid  is  a  necessity,  I  can 't   do  without  it.

So  this  morning I  bought   another  one.

It  is  very  expensive  and  I  was  not  happy

as  you  can  imagine.

But  its   something I  can 't   do  without.

I  couldn 't  say  anything  to  Sheeba either,

a playful  animal.

But  when I  was  down  in  the  dumps  I  opened the  Bible,

and  read  a  lot  of  promises   found  in  there.

James  1;2 -4

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,^[whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Bible

What   a comfort!

This  is  a  photo  of   the  moon  I  took  last  Sunday.

 

Mario Balottelli da bad boy a salvatore della patria.

 

Mario Balotelli il calciatore fischiato da tutte le tifoserie italiane, è dovuto andare in Inghilterra per trovare un pò di serenità, ma anche lì è stato contestato. Nella partita molto difficile fra Italia e Germania ha segnato due bellissimi goal e tutti lo hanno acclamato come il salvatore della patria, certo che noi italiani abbiamo la memoria corta, prima dispreziamo le persone e poi se queste fanno delle belle cose ci diventano subito supersimpatiche, a me è sempre stato invece simpatico, però tantissimi tifosi che adesso lo esaltano prima lo fischiavano, però super Mario il suo dovere lo ha fatto eccome.

Celebrity Katy Perry and Russell Brand 14-month Lovely marriage

Celebrity Katy Perry Beautiful Hot Pics

This is very important news for everybody specially, for celebrity Katy Perry fans. You read this celebrity gossip to know her.

Katy Perry has hinted that ex Russell Brand was 'threatened' by her successful career during their 14-month marriage.

Russell, 37, was keen for Katy to settle down and cut back on her commitments as a pop star, suggests the singer.

'I thought when I find that person that's going to be my life partner, I won't ever have to choose,' Katy, 27, explained at the premiere of her new film Katy Perry: Part Of Me at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

'They won't be threatened or have weird motives.

'Then I started to realise, that's not true.'

Russell announced that he and Katy were splitting in December 2011 and the couple signed their divorce papers in February.

 

 

Luca Zingaretti e Luisa Ranieri sposi.

Finalmente anche per Luca Zingaretti e Luisa Ranieri è arrivato il fatidico momento del “si”, si sono sposati nel Castello di Donnafugata in provincia di Ragusa in Sicilia, con rito civile, con pochi vip, e moltissimi parenti una cerimonia molto intima, alla quale ha partecipato anche la loro figlioletta molto carina ed elegante, nonostante il caldo. Il Commissario Montalbano ha scelto un posto bellissimo della sua Sicilia un posto che incanta, il viaggio di nozze lo faranno là perchè lui dovrà iniziare a girare gli episodi nuovi di Montalbano, allora faranno tutto in famiglia.

Anthony Manfredonia: Barbara De Rossi era gelosa ed ossessiva.

Anthony Manfredonia ex di Barbara De Rossi, racconta la sua versione dei fatti ad un noto settimanale, dice che lui è stato sempre uno spirito libero, che ama vivere la vita alla sua maniera, mentre la De Rossi tendeva un pò a tappargli le ali, sia con le osservazioni sul suo comportamento, sia con la gelosia, intanto era anche molto insicura per via degli anni che li separano, e voleva apparire ai suoi occhi sempre bellissima ed in forma. Lui dal canto suo dice di avere rinunciato a tante cose, come uscire la sera, vedere amici ed amiche, scambiarsi anche dei saluti affettuosi con delle conoscenti, Barbara non accettava tutto questo, finchè dopo un litigio violento lui ha fatto la valigia e se ne è andato via di casa, dove conviveva con la De Rossi, e a quanto sembra convive già con una nuova donna, Silvie Lubamba, e pizzicato dai fotografi, sembra che il nuovo amore vadi a gonfie vele, peccato che Barbara De Rossi, secondo me abbia incontrato un uomo che non la meritava, però doveva aprire gli occhi prima, di questi tipi il mondo è pieno.

 

Time to Smile

This  is  a  hillarious  ad. In  the  end   he  says ;What   to  see  is  what  you  get.

First birthday in heaven

Today  is  my  mother 's  first  birthday  in  heaven. I want  to  share  a  childhood  favourite in  her  memory.  A  song  I  sang  from  a little  paperback  booklet  I  had.It  talks  about  the  hope  and  confidence  we  have  as  Christians.

Lory Del Santo critica la nuova fidanzata del suo ex.

Lory Del Santo fidanzata fino a poco tempo fa con Rocco Pierantoni, dopo che i due sono stati fidanzati per molto tempo, si sono lasciati lei dice per la gelosia di lui, in un”intervista ha criticato la nuova fidanzata di lui Claudia Boldi, nipote di Massimo Boldi, che lei giudica bruttina e perciò esente dalla gelosia di lui, dice che può stare tranquillo perchè tanto non se la prende nessuno, e lui con la sua pigrizia potrà dormire sogni tranquilli e vivere come ha vissuto con lei. Fra i due ci sono molti anni di differenza come lo sono tanti fra Barbara De Rossi e Anthony Manfredonia, tutti questi ragazzi sembra che tendino a fidanzarsi con donne più grandi di loro e poi quando sono conosciuti per essere stati gli ex di…, le lasciano, io dico opportunismo e falsità, una volta queste persone si chiamavano con un nome specifico ora non più ma il significato è sempre lo stesso.

Fabio Fazio presenterà il prossimo Festival di Sanremo.

La Rai in questi giorni ha presentato i programmi per la prossima stagione televisiva, insieme a tutti i presentatori dei programmi Rai, Mara Venier, Milly Carlucci, Lino Banfi, Magalli, Fiorello e Fabio Fazio che presenterà il festival di Sanremo 2013. Dopo l”era Morandi che ha portato belle canzoni ma non bellissime, dopo che Belen ha cercato di candidarsi, inutilmente, i vertici Rai hanno preferito Fabio Fazio che lo ha presentato anche un”altra volta, in maniera non eclatante ma piacevole, vedremo cosa farà di nuovo.

A Voice for the Disabled People of India

Aamir  Khan  is  a  popular  Bollywood  actor. He has made  several  films on  social  issues. These  days  he  is  hosting  a  TV  programme called Satyamev Jayate in  which   he  takes up  various  social  evils and  mal practises  rampant  in  our  society,issues like the  killing  of  the  the  female  child, brides  being  killed  for  dowry, violence against   women and  child  abuse. He  has also  given  a  voice  to  millions  of   disabled  people  in India. today   Today,  he  was  invited  to  the  upper  house  of  the  Parliament  to  talk  about  medical   mal practises. He wrote  the  following  article   for  a  leading  Indian  newspaper.

One  simple  step  to  increase  our GDP
by  Aamir Khan

In America, 12 per cent of the population is counted as disabled, the corresponding percentage in England is 18 and in Germany, nine. In India, government statistics claim it is two per cent. Javed Abidi of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People has a very poignant question with regard to the above numbers: what is so amazing about the Indian environment or climate or gene pool that we have only a tenth or a fifth of the number of persons with disabilities when compared to other countries? Or is it that something is wrong with our counting?

Until the year 2000 — 53 years after Independence — the Census did not record a single disabled person in India! In other words, in the minds of the people making policy, taking decisions and allocating funds, the disabled did not exist. And if they did not exist, obviously we did not do much for them. So in the first 53 years of Independence, while we were building the infrastructure of our country, we did little or nothing to include them in our thoughts and actions. Therefore, the bulk of our infrastructure is not disabled-friendly, leaving them further marginalised, and disabling them further.

How we behave with the disabled among us tells us what kind of a people we are.

Ketan Kothari, another expert, explains how, by and large, we have two kinds of reactions to disabled people: one, that they must have done something wrong in their previous birth and therefore deserve what they got; two, let us use them as a ticket to heaven — make a donation to an organisation working for the disabled, or give money to a disabled person asking for alms, and score some brownie points with God. If this is how many of us behave towards the disabled, it is a sorry picture that we paint of ourselves.

Time to change, guys.

So where and how should this change begin? Education.

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme and the Right to Education Act say that every child in India is guaranteed an education. Despite that, most regular schools in India deny admission to children with disabilities. They cite lack of infrastructure and trained special educators. They are probably right. But what stops so many schools across India from becoming inclusive and disabled-friendly? Who is putting a gun to their heads, not allowing them to do this? I'm afraid it is our own lack of thought, application of mind, and maybe of heart. Let's change that. If we start today, each school (if it really wants to) can become a truly integrated school within a period of two, or at most three, years. Let each school make this its target.

Currently, an alarmingly low percentage of children with disabilities are educated. Without the foundation of a strong education, no child can reach his or her potential in life. By denying children with disabilities admission in regular schools, we are denying them their right to education and, therefore, their right to make their lives productive.We are also denying other children the right to intermingle with, learn from, and grow up with friends with disabilities, and vice versa. With education for our persons with disabilities, we can prepare them to be productive, look after themselves, and their families.

The government says two per cent of our population is disabled. Various experts and NGOs say it is six per cent. I think it is safe to assume that the number is somewhere between six and 10 per cent — let's say eight. Now eight per cent of 1.2 billion is 96 million. That is more than the population of England (51 million), France (65 million) and Germany (80 million). As Mr. Abidi puts it, what we as society need to decide is, do we want 96 million of our population to be uneducated, unemployed, unproductive and left with no choice but to be a weight that the rest of us carry? Or do we want them to be educated, employed, productive, able to look after themselves and their families, contributing to the growth and wealth of our nation? If we want the latter then we simply cannot achieve that without including them in our mainstream education system.

That's the bottom line.

(Scource The  Hindu)

Mario Balottelli finalmente ha segnato.

Mario Balottelli il calciatore più amato ma anche il più criticato e il più ricercato dal gossip, per le sue avventure amorose con tante belle ragazze, finalmente nell”incontro degli Europei fra l”Ialia e l”Irlanda, incontro di calcio fra i più difficili della nazionale italiana che le ha consentito  di arrivare ai quarti di finale, ha segnato un goal spettacolare è entrato in area di rigore contrastato si è girato ed ha segnato un goal spettacolare, cioè quello che dovrebbe fare meglio e che invece ultimamente un pò lascia a desiderare, restando però uno dei calciatori più forti e fantasiosi, anche se i tifosi non sempre sono stati gentili con lui, fischiandolo ed indirizzandogli dei cori razzisti, comunque ha fatto un bellissimo goal, speriamo possa continuare così.

It is not our responsibility to judge others or to set ourselves as the standard of holiness and devotion. The duty pressed on us is to live in the light of the truth and thereby make Christ known to others.
 Frederick  L. Kosin

Carlo Conti finalmente si è sposato.

Carlo Conti il celebre presentatore della televisione italiana e scapolo d”oro all”età di 51 anni finalmente si è sposato, la fortunata è Francesca Vaccaro una costumista televisiva, che aveva lasciato quando ha incontrato Roberta Morise con la quale è stato fidanzato per cinque anni. Alla fine anche lui ha capitolato sposandosi in una chiesa piccolina in provincia di Cecina ed arrivando a bordo di una cinquecento nera, fra gli invitati molti vips fra i quali Pieraccioni con la compagna e la figlioletta, Antonella Clerici ed Eddy Martens, Marco Masini e la moglie e tanti altri, forse faranno un” altra grande festa a Roma nei prossimi giorni, invitando altri amici, non contenti di quella che si è svolta sabato pomeriggio, beh! dopo tanti anni di fidanzamento e di lascia e prendi  una megafesta ci voleva.

Barbara De Rossi ha lasciato Anthony Manfredonia.

Barbara De Rossi che appena qualche mese fa dichiarava di volere avere un figlio dal suo amore Anthony Manfredonia molto più giovane di lei, in questi giorni ad un settimanale ha dichiarato di averlo lasciato perchè nella sua mente ha amato un altro uomo che non esisteva nella realtà. Lui è un attore, scrittore, musicista alle prime armi, lei un”attrice molto quotata, fra le più brave, lei ha fatto conoscere a lui un mondo che lui non conosceva e lo ha introdotto in diversi salotti letterari alla ricerca della sua occasione, adesso lei dice di essersi svegliata da un sogno , e che la persona che ha amato fino adesso non era quella che voleva, chissà cosa intende la bella attrice e quale è stato il vero motivo della loro separazione, eppure fino a poco tempo fa i due sembravano inseparabili, il motivo nessuno lo sa della loro rottura, ma chissà se lei ritornerà su i suoi passi.

Nicole Minetti ballava nuda davanti a Berlusconi.

Nicole Minetti secondo la testimonianaza di una ragazza che ha partecipato alle feste che si svolgevano nelle residenze di Berlusconi, alle quali partecipavano anche Emilio Fede e Lele Mora che reclutava le ragazze, si travestiva da suora o da infermiera sexy e più di una volta ballava la lap dance rimanendo come mamma l”ha fatta e cercava anche di sedurre sia Berlusconi e sia Fede. Ma anche le altre ragazze si davano molto da fare per cercare di attirare le attenzione dei due e di poter essere le prescelte con le quali si sarebbero intrattenuti in camera da letto, insomma tutte ambivano ad andare a letto con il sovrano, sembra dietro una bella ricompensa in denaro e con la promessa di partecipare a qualche trasmissione televisiva, questo è quanto hanno testimoniato alcune ragazze che sono parte lesa nel processo che vede coinvolti Fede, Berlusconi, Mora e la Minetti, per la bella Nicole ancora tanta pubblicità dicono che forse anche lei girerà un film porno, ma non credo ha già tanta pubblicità così e di certo non le occorre dell”altra.

Togetherness

I  found  this  image  on Facebook  and  want  to  share  it   here.The  smile on  each face tells  how   happy  they  are  to  be  together. Lack  of  their  own  space  or  comfort does  not  bother them.

I  love  the  baby  sleeping  in  the  dresser drawer.

What  do  you  like   about  this  painting?

What  title  would  you  give  it?

Antonio Cassano e le sue cassanate.

Antonio Cassano ha fatto una delle sue cassanate in conferenza stampa pressato dalle domande di giornalisti che volutamente hanno cercato di metterlo in imbarazzo sulla domanda se in Nazionale c”era qualche gay come ha affermato Cecchi Paone, ha detto ”spero di no” poi sono fatti loro, dicendo però una parola riferita agli omosessuali più volgare ma di uso comune, però in seguito si è scusato ed ha detto che lui non è omofobo, comunque secondo me è una polemica un pò fuori luogo, perchè comunque Cassano è stato provocato con una domanda che lo voleva mettere da subito in imbarazzo, poi se fatta a lui che non è certo uno che quando parla sa usare le parole adatte, allora penso che sia stata una provocazione da parte del giornalista che l”ha fatta, comunque gay o non gay quello che conta è saper fare il proprio mestiere e sapere portare avanti gli ideali dello sport, poi le chiacchiere stanno a zero, non sono favorevole al fatto che i calciatori siano degli idoli viziati e che oltre a saper giocare con un pallone dovrebbero  andare anche a scuola di dizione o almeno di tatto.

Courageous Christianity

In his book, Courageous Christianity, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote about living for Christ in a hostile society. "Why do I preach the Gospel when people do not want to hear and I face many hardships and discomforts in doing so?" he asked. "I will tell you why. Take this world of ours. We have already had two world wars, and look at the present international situation. What is the matter with this world? What is the matter with men and women? Is there nothing that can put things right? I say that only one thing can even touch the problems of the human race--it is this Gospel."

(quoted  by  Dr  David  Jeremiah  in  his   devotional  magazine  Turning  Point)

Yesterday ,  two  sisters ,  (young  girls)   came  to  see  us  requesting  prayer  for   their  father   who  is  a  heart  patient.

Please  pray  with   us   for   the healing of  Shuba  and Vibha 's  Dad.  Also   pray  that this  family  may fully  surrender  themselves  to  Jesus.

Madonna regina di Roma.

Madonna ieri sera ha incantato il suo pubblico allo Stadio Olimpico di Roma, e arrivata con un”ora e un quarto di ritardo però insieme ai suoi ballerini si è fatta subito perdonare, in perfetta forma fisica ha cantato e ballato come sempre o forse anche meglio di prima, ha fatto capire al mondo che la vera regina della musica pop mondiale è lei, e non Lady Gaga o Jennifer Lopez che cercano solo d”imitarla nella trasgressione e nelle provocazioni, lei a cinquantatre anni è ancora sulla cresta dell”onda, piace ad un pubblico trasversale dalle ragazzine alle madri, a Roma non è stata tanto provocatoria come nel concerto di Tel Aviv, ha cercato di moderarsi, dopo anche le critiche degli ebrei ortodossi, comunque la vera regina è ancora lei e per farla scendere dal suo trono ci vorranno  ancora tante  Lady Gaga.

Barbara Berlusconi sexy al Consiglio di Amministrazione del Milan.

Barbara Berlusconi ha da un pò di tempo cambiato look, è diventata più sexy e molto più intraprendente, i capelli li ha tinti di un rosso mogano con riflessi molto forti, adesso indossa più abiti adeguati anche al ruolo che ha nel Consiglio di Amministrazione del Milan, e proprio andando ad una riunione del Consiglio di Amministrazione della sua squadra è stata fotografata con questo look più aggressivo, senza Pato e con un cipiglio molto serio ed impegnato, chissà se il prossimo anno Pato rimarrà o andrà a giocare all”estero?  Con una protettrice così sarà molto difficile!

No lofty claims

1 Corinthians 2:3  “And I was with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.”

 This is how the great preacher, the Apostle Paul described himself.
  No lofty claims, no history of all the degrees he had, and all the schools he attended.
 We don’t see this type of promotional campaign these days.

Denise  Jeter

Sunday Blessings -Evening Meeting

I  want  to  share  some  pictures  from  our  evening  Gospel  meeting.

Today  we  started  using our  new JBL  sound  system. This  professional  system  is  very  expensive  and  was  ordered  from Delhi. It  rocks.

People  coming  forward  for   prayer.

Rev. Prof. Dr. Herbert praying for  healing  and  deliverance.

Assistant  Pastor Brijesh.

A  mom with  her  6  month  old  son.

Jesus is  the  reason  they  found  happiness.

Today  after  morning  service  my  sister Sonia

(visiting  from  Lucknow) served  lunch  to  60  people.

Everyone  enjoyed  rice , egg  curry and  paneer curry (paneer  is  similar  to  ricotta cheese) and  rotis (flat  bread).

It  was  a great  labour  of love  cooking  in the  115*  heat.  Sonia  had  5 people help her.

Sonia  has  a  serving  heart. She    served Christ   through  feeding   people. Everyone  blessed  her  in  return.

A  newly  married   couple  served soda  pop  and  sweets after  church.

It  was  a  great day.

"We  love  because  H e loved  us   first. "

1 John 4;9 (BIBLE)

The Building of Modern India

I  would  like  to  share  an  email  I  received  from  philosopher,  writer  an d international  speaker Vishal Mangalwadi

How Protestantism Built Modern India
Vishal Mangalwadi


June 8, 2012

Dear Friends

It is a year since The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization was published. During these 12 months I have travelled around the world presenting the thesis of the book, which already has over 200 reviews on the internet. It is being accepted as a text book in many universities and educational institutions.

Today, with a Day of Prayer at British L’Abri, in Greatham, I begin a season of retreat, waiting upon the Lord for the next phase of my ministry. Andrew Fellows, the head of International L’Abri, is personally supervising my retreat, for which I am very thankful.

Last month, in India, I was humbled to discover that a businessman had flown from Mumbai to Delhi three times to personally hand over the above book to key national leaders. Because of the enthusiasm of people like him, a special edition is now being considered for India. Please pray that it may open the doors for a nationally televised discussion of the thesis that the Bible created modern India.

While in India, I wrote a short essay, “The Suppressed History of Hindi.” It’s abridged version has been published, in Hindi and English, in the June edition of FORWARD Press. The full version has been posted on www.RevelationMovement.com


Protestant missions blessed India (among other ways) by turning our dialects into literary languages. They followed a God who had given a text to illiterate slaves – to oral learners. That made it possible for His word (“It is written”) to become the solid foundation for truth-based freedom. The oppressive kingdom of Satan could be opposed because God had revealed the truth.


I am sending the following extract to you because, sadly, evangelical missions are now pushing our literate cultures back towards “Orality.” This is being done in the hope of speeding up the Second Coming.

Protestantism built history’s greatest nations because it took seriously God’s promise, “I will make thee a great nation.” As my book and this article document, Protestant missions fulfilled God’s promise by cultivating the languages of the people, from German and English to Bengali, Urdu and Hindi.

In contrast, many evangelical missions are losing interest in languages and literature because they are not serious about nation-building. They don’t seem to think that God is interested in “healing” or “blessing” nations. They assume that the nations are about to be burnt up along with the planet itself. They believe that the New Jerusalem is being built beyond the blues and that that it will descend like a gigantic UFO. Then there will be no nations in darkness that will need to walk by its light (Revelation 21) or will need the leaves that are for the healing of the nations (Rev 22). In due time, I will discuss these faulty eschatological ideas and their impact on missionary strategy.

For now, it is enough to say that the contemporary loss of Christian interest in language and literature is a consequence of the Post-Christian loss of interest in “true Truth.” As Francis Schaeffer pointed out in 1960s & 70s, without Logos (The Word, Sense, or Reason)the secular worldview has no option but to usher in the “Age of Non-Reason.” It has to replace Truth with myth. It has to turn “witnesses” of Truth into “story-tellers.”

Neither the following extract nor the full essay discuss Protestantism’s decline into contemporary Evangelicalism, which is undermining the West’s great Christian heritage and marginalizing the Gospel from what it used to be – a powerful culture-shaping force. The purpose of the extract is to encourage you to read the entire essay and, thereby, increase your appreciation of the power of the now eclipsed Protestant Biblical worldview.

Protestantism and the Birth of Modern Hindi

Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) became the father of Modern Hindi Literature, because he understood Lord Macaulay, better than Hindu intellectuals of today, who condemn the Macaulay Minute (1835) without having read it. Bhartendu grasped Maculay’s Protestant view that a mother-tongue is far more important a tool of nation-building than a sacred but dead language, such as Sanskrit. He agreed with the Vernacularists[i] in his time that dozens of dialects collectively called “Hindi” could to be enriched by ideas adopted from more developed languages such as English and French. Therefore, he was transmitting the Christian view on nation-building to his fellow countrymen when he said,

Nij Bhasha Unnati Ahe, sab unnati ko mul.
Bin nij bhsha-gyan ke, mitat na hiy ko sul. Vividh kala shikha amit, gyan anek prakar
Sab ddesan se le karhu, bhasha mahi prachar

Progress is made in one’s mother tongue, the foundation of all progress.

Without the knowledge of the mother tongue, there is no cure for heart’s pain. Many arts and education, infinite knowledge of various kinds,
Should be taken from all countries, but propagated in one’s mother tongue.

Sadly, until Bhartendu’s time, caste prejudice and cultural arrogance had prevented Hindu religio-intellectual aristocracy from developing the language of the people that we now call “Hindi.” It was the painstaking toil of the Christian movement that gave us what has become our unofficial “national language.” Protestant Christianity, with help from some Roman Catholics and many enlightened Hindus created Hindi because it was committed to moving the “Backwards” forward.

The Older Meaning of “Hindi”

During Bharatendu’s time, the term “Hindi” was a generic name given by Muslims to dozens of languages.

….Hindu sages did not lack linguistic abilities. They had already done a superb job in refining Sanskrit and its grammar. Their problem was that their religious worldview prevented them from sharing Sanskrit. The secret of their cultural power over fellow Hindus lay in keeping the common people ignorant of the language of the gods. The secrecy or monopoly of “knowledge,” turned Sanskrit, an otherwise scientific language, into a vehicle of religio-magical mumbo-jumbo.

Nor did Muslim Maulanas lack talent. Their difficulty was that their theology and religion also prevented them from developing the dialects of the downtrodden. Islam was as interested in converting Hindus as was Christianity, yet Islam did not develop our dialects because Islam’s culture values submission, more than intellectual freedom, to pursue truth.

It is estimated that a relatively weaker European country such as Spain publishes more books in a year than the whole of the Arabic world has published in a thousand years. The West’s vibrant literary tradition emerged because the Bible said that the Lord Jesus brought grace and truth (John 1: 17). The first two of the Ten Commandments required Jews and Christians to refrain from making myths and idols but seek and believe only what is true. Those Commandments became the seed which produced a passion for truth, enabling Christian culture to cultivate languages, libraries, schools, universities, and research labs, as it developed technology and modern science. This intellectual tradition made the West powerful.

Christ’s Spirit

Why did the West empower our languages and share its secret of power so liberally and sacrificially? The Bible said that the Lord Jesus came from heaven to save this world, enslaved by sin and suffering. His incarnation inspired Christian scholars and saints to also dedicate their lives – leaving the comforts of home, to go to the remotest parts of the world, live with Stone Age tribes and develop their mother-tongue. They gave to the marginalized of the world the opportunity to acquire the secrets of intellectual power – including the power of truth – generated in more developed parts of the world.

The Macaulay Minute, so hated by our bigoted elite, asked the East India Company to prepare a class of Indians, who would learn English, in order that India might acquire access to European sciences, arts, laws, governance, organization, values, and management. Understanding the nobility of this mission, writers and poets such as Bhartendu tried to make Hindi capable of receiving Western knowledge.


The Birth of Modern Hind

…. In 1875,when Bhartendu was 25-years old, Rev. S. W. Kellogg published A Grammar of the Hindi Language: In Which are treated The High Hindi, Braj, And the Eastern Hindi of the Ramayan of Tulsi Das, and the Colloquial Dialects of Rajputana, Kumaon, Avadh, Rewa, Bhojpur, Magadha, Maithila, Etc. It was Kellogg’s labor that made it possible for “Hindi” to become one language – the Lingua Franca of “North India.” . . .

The “High Hindi” or Khari Boli was the dialect spoken in and around Delhi. Premsagar, was its standard text. The suffix “high” was transported from “High” German, the language created by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, through his translation of the Bible and Hymn-book. Luther’s literary effort enabled the German speaking masses to free themselves from a bondage to Latin and an unscrupulous religious hierarchy thatkept Europeans in the darkness of ignorance. By translating the Bible into German, Luther gave his people, the Bible’s liberating message in their own heart-language. This transformed their dialect into a language of learning and governing. Luther’s literary work became the linguistic foundation that made it possible for Germany to become a great power. Following his example, missionary grammarians-translators empowered Indian languages so that the Bible and other history-changing books could be made available to us. . . .

… Without Kellogg’s effort at integrating different Hindi dialects into one Grammar, Bharatendu would not have had a Hindi language capable of uniting North India emotionally and intellectually through one mother-tongue.

Why Did Christianity Develop Hindi?

Did western traders, diplomats, civil servants, judges, military officers and missionaries develop Indian languages in order to just “convert” Hindus, as is claimed by our elites?

All these Christian linguists, whether missionaries or not, wanted Hindus to be delivered from Brahminical idols, myths, superstitions, and social evils such as the caste system. These myths and evils have corrupted Indian character and enslaved our minds. Indeed, to convert means to turn from sin and falsehood and seek truth and righteousness. But how, you might ask? Well, language is the software that enables us to think, learn, and communicate. Remarkably, the Bible says that when we come to God, we must take with us offering of words – words of repentance for our sin as well as praise for God’s goodness: “Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: ‘Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips [i.e. praise].’” (Hosea 14:2)


The Hindu-Buddhist traditions have emphasized meditation and silence. In contrast, Christianity has been interested in language because the God of the Bible has revealed Himself as a person who communicates. The Bible also makes clear that He made us in His image so that we may know and love him – and, love includes communication. Words are important because they express our hearts: and our hearts need to seek truth, including truth about our own moral corruption and our need of redemption and spiritual rebirth.

The sixteenth century Protestant Reformation, started by Martin Luther, used the Bible to free much of Europe from the religious tyranny of a corrupt church and more importantly from sin’s tyrannical control over individual sinners. Likewise, the makers of modern Hindi followed European reformers in using the Bible to free the Indian mind from the tyranny of sin and corrupt Brahminical socio-religious order.

Contrary to what the suppressors of India’s history tell us, missionaries empowered our mother-tongue because they wanted us to think. They wanted us to study Brahmanical Scriptures along with secular and sacred literature that had turned England into a mighty nation. Unlike our corrupt elites, who are obsessed with power, Christian reformers were concerned about helping us grow into a freedom with justice and morality. Reverend Kellogg explained his reason for preparing his grammar for missionaries as well as for magistrates. He wrote, "Still it is very desirable that the magistrate in his court should be able to understand the rustic witness ... Without the aid of a third, and not always disinterested party." (Kellogg, A Grammar of the Hindi Language, Second Edition, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trunbner, and Co., 1893, p xvi). A poor peasant is unlikely to get justice if he can speak to his British or South Indian or North-East Indian judge only through a translator. After all, what if the translator misinterprets witnesses because of bribes, caste-connections, or simple misunderstanding.


[i] William Carey (1761-1834), the pioneer of the British and Protestant Missionary movement, who became the Father of Modern India had championed the development of the vernaculars. His work raised the question: which classical language is best suited to enrich the vernaculars. The Orientalists answered: Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. The Anglicists, led by Macaulay’s brother-in-law Charles Trevelyan, argued for English. Lord Macaulay, who lived with his sister and brother-in-law, ruled in favor of English as best equipped to enrich our mother tongues.

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