PHOTOGRAPHS

The board at the Wardha Ashram, Wardha

Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Commerce without morality
Education without character
Pleasure without conscience
Worship without sacrifice.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

The Cellular jail at Andaman

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for hermitage .

-- Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prision

After a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was tried and sentenced to 50-years imprisonment. He was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, then known as Kalapani. He spent more than a decade there suffering the most inhuman cruelties of the British Raj. As a true revolutionary what was most important for him was his revolutionay mission to work for our country’s independence. He never bothered for anything else, including what happened to him and his reputation:

Thou hadst one aim, one business, one desire;
Else wert thou long since number'd with the dead!

-- Matthew Arnold; The Scholar-Gipsy

Chhaht Puja at the Juhu Beach, Mumbai

God is in the East, and God is in the West
In Him we labour, and in Him we rest.

-- Shiva Kant Jha

The 43rd Congress of the International Association of Lawyers

Shiva Kant Jha, Mrs Anju Jha Choudhary, Advocate and Mr John Cary Sims, Professor of Law at McGeorge School of Law , Sacramento, USA

Smt. Veenapani Jha, President of the Draupadi Devi-Gopi Kant Jha Charitable Trust at ‘Veenapani Bhawan’, Laxmipur- Balbhadrapur, Laheriasarai (Bihar)

Smt. Veenapani Jha reading slokas from the Bhagavad-Gita at the Geetai Mandir at Wardha

Taj Mahal

What an immortal worship of human mortality,
When humans lived in comatose sufferings.

-- Sumitranandan Pant (translated by Shiva Kant Jha)

Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.

-- Shakespeare