THE SUNITA TIMES 

  
      Hi friends! I am writing my blog because of my exams.Yesterday I was reading the book named
'SUNITA WILLIAMS-A STAR IN SPACE' written by Arvinda Anantharaman it tells the readers about Sunita Williams.Below is the cover page of the book.

    This is a must read book read.

Who is she?

Sunita Pandya Lyn Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indo-Slovenian descent. She formerly held the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.Her father Deepak Pandya was an Indian.He was born at Jhulasan, Mehsana District, Gujarat in India. He was orphaned, but completed his I.S. in 1953 from Gujarat University in India. After obtaining his M.D. degree from Gujarat University in 1957 (and interning in V.S. Hospital in Junagadh till 1958), he went to the United States and did his internship and residency training in Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1964, Pandya joined the Department of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University, as a postdoctoral fellow. Her mother is Bonnie Pandya 

She with her parents.

His husband is Michael Williams.

       

HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON INDIA !

       HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON INDIA !


HI FRIENDS!India is celebrating the festive season of Janamashtami, Muhharam, Teej, Ganesh Chaturthi and many more festivals.Janmashtami will be celebrated this Monday on 3/9/2018.Thistime in our school 'ANAND VIDYA VIHAR' we the girls of classes 7 & 8 who do Bharatnatyam did dance.So do you want to know about Janmashtami. So lets explore about this festival.

Krishna Janmashtami, also known simply as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. It is observed according to Hindu luni-solar calendar, on the eighth day (Ashtami) of the Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight) in the month of Shrawana of the lunar Hindu Calendar and Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight) in the month of Bhadrapad of the lunisolar Hindu Calendar, which overlaps with August and September of the Gregorian calendar.

It is an important festival particularly to the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism. Dance-drama enactments of the life of Krishna according to the Bhagavata Purana (such as Rasa lila or Krishna Lila), devotional singing through the midnight when Krishna is believed to have been born, fasting (upavasa), a night vigil (jagarana), and a festival (mahotsava) on the following day are a part of the Janmashtami celebrations. It is celebrated particularly in Mathura and Brindavan, along with major Vaishnava and non-sectarian communities found in Manipur, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and other regions.

It is believed Shri Krishna lived 5,000 years ago.