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तुम्हारी ख़ामोशी (Hindi poem)

मैंने एक राज छुपाया है तुमसे तुम्हारी ख़ामोशी मुझसे बात करती है.. तुम्हारी बातें, तुम्हारी हंसी और तुम्हारी बचकानी बदमाशियां जैसे मूंद मूंद सूरज और गिला गिला चाँद मेरी दुनिया के जब ये चाँद-सूरज ढल जाते है सन्नाटे के खाई में तब तुम्हारी ख़ामोशी मुझसे बात करती है.. जब रात ओढ़े आती है अंधियारे की चुनर और ज़माने के सितम डूब जाते है काले आकाश समंदर में दुनिया भर की बातें बंद हो जाती है आँखों के बोजिल बक्से में    तब तुम्हारी ख़ामोशी मुझसे बात करती है.. जब खानाबदोशी थक कर घर का पता मांगती है  परिंदे वीरान कर जाते है सन्नाटे के कुवें को तुम पास नहीं होती और कोई वजूद नहीं मिलता मेरे होने का तब तुम्हारी ख़ामोशी मुझसे बात करती है..        -- गणेश

Last letter written by Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh to his brother.

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Bhagat Singh, apart from being fierce nationalist, was great writer in his limited span of life. He was fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi as far as writing is concerned. His quotes, poems and letters he wrote to different people during different stages of life are well researched. His letters in particular, are not only beautiful piece of writing but also testimony of brilliant, mature and philosophical man he was in such young age!   This is his hand-written letter from jail in urdu to his younger brother Kultar Singh on March 3, 1931. These are words of young man aged just 23 who knew his life was truncated short.. Mortals like us would have crumbled under fear of inevitable death that was silently approaching but then he was no ordinary young man like us, he had purposefully chosen his dark fate when he could have chosen comfort of living long luxurious life. There was clear thought process behind his each action and thankfully for us, he explained most of them thro
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Farthest object in known universe.

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Have you ever wondered what is farthest object in the known universe? It is a galaxy named GN-z11 at distance of 13.4 billion light years away from earth which has been discovered very recently by Hubble telescope. Light from this galaxy took 13.4 billion years to reach earth, meaning it formed after just 400 million years after big bang, making it most distant galaxy ever observed! But hold on! As universe is expanding more than speed of light, right now this galaxy has moved much much farther from us, about whopping 32 billion light years away! That is crazy!! As universe keep expanding, galaxies keep moving away from each other. There will be time when light from some of these objec t will never make it to earth, implying we will never able to see or observe them! In far far distant future (hundreds of billion years from now), there will be situation when light from any galaxy will not reach to any other galaxy in universe! As they would have moved from each other to un