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He served 14 years as president, wrote 19 plays, inspired a film and a rap song and remained one of his generation’s most seductively nonconformist writers. He rejected the notion, posited by reform-minded Communist leaders like Alexander Dubcek in his own country, and years later by Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, that Communist rule could be made more humane. In his now iconic 1978 essay “ The Power of the Powerless ,” which circulated in underground editions in Czechoslovakia and was smuggled to other Warsaw Pact countries and to the West, Mr. Havel foresaw that the opposition could eventually prevail against the totalitarian state. Source: Czechs’ Dissident Conscience, Turned President - NYTimes.com

Daljit Ami Finding one of his primary school classmates doing menial jobs, Gursharan Singh got the shock of his life at the age of twelve. Tears rolled out of his eyes that Shingara despite having the most beautiful handwriting among classmates had to drop out of school.  Gursharan could not help himself and tears kept on rolling from his eyes throughout life, every time he talked about Shingara. At the age of 82, Gursharan breathed his last on September 27, 2011. He kept his commitment with his childhood friend and fought against all forms of injustice in society. Theatre was his tool to raise loudest possible voice against any kind of exploitation and inequality. The energy he enthused into his performances remained unparallel. How can a person maintain such intensity and energy for such a long time? Dr. Areet, his daughter shares that he could never talk about Shingara without crying  Born on September 16, 1929 in Multan (now Pakistan) Gursharan Singh was one of the mill...