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Naya Daur begins with two of the Gandhian thoughts about man and machine.

We are all leaves of a majestic tree whose trunk can not be shaken off its roots which are deep down in the bowels of the earth. In this there is no room for machinery that would displace human labour and concentrate power in a few hands. Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

Dead machinery must not be pitted against the millions of living machines represented by the villagers scattered in the Seven hundred thousand villages of India. Machinery to be well used has to help and ease human effort.

Gandhi’s more thoughts about man and machine

Many may recall that wonderful short film of DD where following poem is recited in the background and a hand sketches a curved line in the form of a human face on the canvas and as …

Hari Ananta Hari Katha Ananta

and that is so true about India also. India that is Bharat : That is Hindustan, That is this and that and what not.

What is in the world, that all can be found in India. India exists in contradictions because everything survives here. Entirely opposite faiths, facts and things easily grow here and entirely different thoughts and happenings exist at same time in this part of the world.

Here one can find all possible things available anywhere in the world. Every kind of person will be found in India. A person could be born in India but his habits can match with a person born and brought up far away in other parts of world.

Even if there is a trial to count people having sight only in one eye then they will end up in millions, same will happen to number of people who …

Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Raju Hirani(RH), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here.

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[Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview so to read the exact sayings of Raju Hirani, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi at all]
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AB: How could you preserve your dream of directing the films? Advertising work was fetching you good money. Did this not distract you from your dream of filmmaking?

RH: I had not come from Nagpur with a thought that I would make documentaries or would do Ad films. I think nobody comes thinking this sort of things. I did not know about Ad films …

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“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
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“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
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- Pt. Nehru

The emotion of sadness of people of India which they had got from the death of Pt Nehru has been described very well in a 1967 hindi film Naunihaal.

Can’t recall the full story of the film, seen on DD long ago. All I can recall is the story of a child, facing many difficulties in life and he has …