رام چندر گاندھی
رام چندر گاندھی ۱۳؍ جون کو نئی دہلی کے انڈیا انٹر نیشنل سینٹر (IIC) میں انتقال کرگئے، یہ گاندھی جی کے پوتے، راج گوپال آچاریہ کے نواسے اور ہندوستان ٹائمز کے سابق اڈیٹر دیوداس گاندھی کے بیٹے تھے۔
ان کی تعلیم دہلی کے سنٹ اسٹیفن کالج میں ہوئی تھی جہاں وہ فلسفہ کے استاد بھی رہے، یہ ان کا خاص موضوع تھا اور اس میں دہلی یونیورسٹی اور آکسفورڈ دونوں جگہ سے ڈاکٹریٹ کی ڈگری لی تھی، برطانیہ، امریکہ اور شانتی نکیتن میں بھی فلسفہ کے استاد تھے، اس میں کئی کتابیں لکھیں۔
انہیں بابری مسجد سانحہ کا بڑا دکھ تھا، اس پر ’’سیتا کی رسوئی‘‘ کے نام سے جو کتابچہ لکھا تھا، اس میں ثابت کیا ہے کہ جو جگہ مندر کی بتائی جاتی ہے وہاں قبائلی رہتے تھے۔
(ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، اکتوبر ۲۰۰۷ء)
According to traditional-religious-culture the early age marriages are very common custom especially in rural areas. The act of marring girls in early ages is considered to be a good practice in these constituencies; in contrast, the holy Quran has provided some logical guidelines to reject this idea. In the holy Quran “men” are instructed to marry as per their choice, which reveals, it is necessary for a “man” to be adult (Baligh) for marriage. Considering this fact, how it is possible that a man can be permitted to have a non-adult (Nabaligh) life partner? In this regard, marriages between Adult and Non-adult, Non-adult and Non-adult are not permitted because it is against the right of equality. Further, the holy Quran instructs the guardians of the orphans to return them their valuables when reach to the age of Nikah; which reveals that there is a particular standard of age set for Nikah, if it is not so, why the holy Quran has made this bounding for the guardians of the orphans? As per the guidance of the holy Quran, it is clear that Nikah requires both man and women not only to be physically adult/mature but also mentally adult/mature. In this connection, it has been highlighted that Nikah which is a physical contract requires a particular age for man and woman which however cannot be an age of Non-adult.
Saussurea lappa is an endangered medicinal plant was selected for in vitro biochemical assarys. Seeds and apical shoot explants were surface sterilized using different standard protocols. The explants were placed on semi solid MS media (1 mgL-1 2-4 D and 0.5 mgL-1 Kn) for callus induction. The three different concentrations (0.05%, 0.1% and 0.2%) of mercuric chloride (HgCl2) were used separately for surface sterilization for 8 minutes. The 0.2% concentration of HgCl2 showed best sterilization (96%). While, 0.1% used for 1 minute was found best in case of seedling apical shoot sterilization. The apical shoot explants showed better results for multiple shoot proliferation on MS medium containing 1.0 mgL-1 benzyle amino purine (BAP) and showed best results with maximum number of shoots, roots, length of shoot and root per explants. At same concentration the explants produced 90% shoots and produced 93.66% roots. About 80% plants were survived after hardening.Calli were induced from explants (root, shoot and leaf) of micropropagated plant and 3 days old sterilized seedling. It was found that seedling and root explants were more efficient compared to other explants. The highest RGR of callus was noted in seedling explants followed by root explants. The seedling derived callus RGR, relative water content (RWC) and dry weight were measured for three weeks and found that with increase of time duration a little decrease occurred in RGR. The overall results showed that 2 weeks old callus was the best to use. The highest level of proline and total soluble sugar accumulation was observed in the root callus. However, calli and root showed higher concentration of Na and K ions. Non-significant differences were observed in calcium content of all tested samples. Whereas, the content of Mg was found high in roots, petiole and lamina compared to calli. For HPLC analysis, shoot derived callus, seven days old and fifteen days old of root calli were harvested. The ethanolic extracts of calli, cultivated and wild plant roots, petiole and lamina were analysed for costunolide content using high performance liquid chromatography. Costunolide was identified at retention time 14.8 minutes in root derived calli and natural roots, not in calli derived from shoot and cultivated plant lamina and petiole. Wild root collected from Kashmir hills (root c) produced high quantity 1.257 µgmL1 of costunolide followed by fifteen days old (callus b) callus 1.119 µgmL-1 and seven days old callus 1.118 µgmL-1 (callus c) while the quantity from cultivated root (root b, root a) was 1.105 µgmL-1, 1.102 µgmL-1 from Koza gali, Abbottabad and Peshawar respectively.