Amazing springs of the world !

On the occasion of World Environment Day, My Indian Dream organized a nationwide poster-making contest for school children. We had received a good response from all over India. There were entries from almost all the regions and states. It was very difficult for the judges to arrive at the winners. But finally, after a lot of thinking and consideration, Bhavya Pahwa of  DAV Public School Amritsar, Punjab was chosen as the final winner. Bhavya Pahwa depicted the current initiatives of the government very successfully in her poster. Be it the Mars mission of ISRO, Pradhanmantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, Make in India, Beti Bachao or Smart Cities, Bhavya Pahwa portrayed everything very artistically in his “Modi-fied” vision of future India.

Like its counterpart white magic, the origins of black magic can be traced to the primitive, ritualistic worship of spirits as outlined in Robert M. Place's 2009 book, Magic and Alchemy. Unlike white magic, in which Place sees parallels with primitive shamanistic efforts to achieve closeness with spiritual beings, the rituals that developed into modern "black magic" were designed to invoke those same spirits to produce beneficial outcomes for the practitioner. Place also provides a broad modern definition of both black and white magic, preferring instead to refer to them as "high magic" (white) and "low magic" (black) based primarily on intentions of the practitioner employing them. He acknowledges, though, that this broader definition (of "high" and "low") suffers from prejudices because good-intention ed folk magic may be considered "low" while ceremonial magic involving expensive or exclusive components may be ...