Category: Personalities
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak : The Father of Indian Unrest !!
“Swaraj humaara janmsiddh adhikar hai” (Self-rule is our birth right) roared Tilak, the Lion of India, which inspired millions of Indians. His book Geeta-Rahasya, a classic treatise on Geeta in Marathi was written by him in prison at Mandalay in Burma. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, on 23rd of July 1856 was…
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Sachinnn… Sachin! What a Player!!
Like any other kid, Cricket was my favorite game in my childhood. It was around the 1987 Reliance World Cup, I started following Cricket Seriously. The victory over Pakistan in the Benson & Hedges Cup, 1985 and the whole team celebrating driving an Audi on the ground, was the only other moment I remember that…
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The Golden Words of Dr. Ambedkar
In last century, India witnessed many political thought leaders, namely Shri Aurbindo, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Each one of them was far superior thought leader than Mohandas K. Gandhi. But it is disputable. What is not disputable, that Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar whose 125th birth anniversary we are celebrating today (14 April), was…
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Uncle Pai – The Master Storyteller
If I say that the majority of us Indian children since the late 1960s have learned the majority of our religion, mythology and history from the comic book called the Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Illustrated Stories), it won’t be an overstatement. The creator of these hugely popular comics, a master storyteller, Uncle Pai, was an…
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Forgotten Liberators: Masterda Surya Sen
Surya Sen, also known as Masterda, was a prominent revolutionary and was the chief architect of the anti-British freedom movement in Chittagong, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). On January 12, 1934, the British officials entered the cell of their captured revolutionary and brutally tortured him by breaking all his teeth, limbs, and joints with a hammer. The torture…
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Albert Ekka – Galantry personified !!
Not many people know him but he was a brave gallantry personified soldier of Mother India. This Adivasi hero single-handedly changed the course of the Indo-Pak battle in Gangasagar in 1971. Lance Naik Albert Ekka was born in Gumla, Bihar (now Jharkhand) on 27th December 1942. Albert Ekka was the son of Julius and Mariam Ekka. Born and brought…
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राष्ट्र-कवि रामधारी सिंह ‘दिनकर’ …. मृत्युंजय !!
बिहार के बेगूसराय जिले का एक साधारण सा सिमरिया गाँव, कविता की दुनिया के नक्शे में असाधारण महत्व रखता है. क्यूँकि इसी मिट्टी से ओज़ की कविता के एक सूर्य का जन्म हुआ था, जिसका नाम था, रामधारी सिंह दिनकर. दिनकर जब कविता की धरती पर आए तो भावों के परिंदे जाग उठे. भाषा ने नयी…
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Birsa Munda-The first tribal martyr
In modern India, there was born a hero who was desperate to fight against the British Raj and his leadership qualities were so intensive that attracted people without a second thought. Let’s meet one of the greatest heroes of Modern India. Early Life: Schooling, Christianity, and first Revolt Birsa was born at Bamba in a…
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Manmohan Singh: The Bahadur Shah Zafar of Congress !!
The Congress was founded by Indian and British members claiming that it had the objective of obtaining a greater share in government for educated Indians and to create a platform for civic and political dialogue of educated Indians with the British Raj. Obviously the Congress party was created in its core DNA as a political…
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose : The Greatest Indian Freedom Fighter !!
Subhash Chandra Bose was one of India’s greatest freedom fighter. He was the founder of the Indian National Army, popularly known as ‘Azad Hind Fauj’. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had visited London during the pre-independence period to discuss the future of India, with the members of the Labor party. His sudden disappearance from Taiwan, led…
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