Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Fifth President of India: A Champion of Labor Rights and National Unity
The journey of Dr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed from a lawyer and activist to a prominent politician and eventually the fifth President of India
The journey of Dr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed from a lawyer and activist to a prominent politician and eventually the fifth President of India
On the 4th of May 1799, the British army assembled around the fort of Seringapatnam, capital of the Kingdom of Mysore. The British army was supported by Nizam and Maratha infantry. The French intelligence, an ally of Tipu gave him a tip of ‘an eminent British attack’, they advised Tipu Sultan to escape the capital and live to fight for another day, Tipu replied, ‘Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep’.
Doctor Zakir Hussain, who was the President of India (1967-1969), was born on […]
आप अजनबी हैं, नही तो ऐसा सवाल नही करते, ये सब झूठी कहानियाँ हैं, ये कहानियाँ भड़काने के लिए फैलाई जाती हैं, नफ़रत तो पहले से भी कम नही, ये बात बिलकुल सही है कि अंग्रेज़ बच्चों और औरतों का ख़ून बहाया गया है लेकिन किसी की आबरु पर हमला नही किया गया, ये हमारी तहज़ीब और रस्म व रिवाज के ख़िलाफ़ है, हिंदुस्तान से लेकर लंदन तक की अख़बारों में जो ये ख़बरें हैं; ये सब बे बुनियाद हैं!
Syed Hasan Imam totally dedicated himself to the Indian freedom movement, after resigning from his job as Justice in the High Court.
Md Umar Ashraf आजके रोज़ ही 1919 को जालियांवाला बाग़ में क़त्ल ए […]
9 अप्रैल 1919 को आयोजित रामनवमी की शोभायात्रा का आयोजन एक मुस्लिम डॉ. […]
Hafeez Kidwai साल तो यही था 19 ही मगर 1919 और तारीख भी […]
हफ़ीज़ किदवई कुछ तारीख़ें सिर्फ़ तारीख़ भर नही होती बल्कि पूरे एक ज़माने […]
Professor Abdul Bari’s tomb bedsheeted in layers of dust, very much like his accomplishment: unsung, ignored ,awaiting a long pending ballad.
क़ाज़ी ज़ुल्फ़ीक़ार अली बिहार के जहानाबाद ज़िला के क़ाज़ी दौलतपुर के रहने […]
Colonel Mehaboob Ahmad, who declared ‘ I have only one birth. If I […]
Helpless Sufi King was punished on false cases of being a ‘leader of the international conspiracy to topple the British Empire’. In following few couplets Iqbal beautifully captured the state of an ‘old age’ in his poem ‘Abul Al Alama’ari’ – Bal-e-Jibril 163; reflects the grim last days of the last Mughal King.
शहीद भगत सिंह ने सेंट्रल जेल, लाहौर से कई ख़त लिखे जिसमे से […]
Shubhneet Kaushik फरवरी 1922 में महात्मा गांधी ने गुजराती पत्रिका ‘नवजीवन’ में एक […]
Shubhneet Kaushik “मैला आँचल” के अप्रतिम रचनाकार रेणु को याद करते हुए […]
Md Umar Ashraf सभी को याद होगा कि 16 दिसंबर, 2012 को जब […]
Shubhneet Kaushik “खुली छत पर एक व्यक्ति चटाई पर उघारे बदन पालथी लगाए […]
शाह आलम आज़ादी की तारीख कही जाने वाली 15 अगस्त, 1947 को […]
Shubhneet Kaushik बनारस में बांसफाटक स्थित कारमाइकल लाइब्रेरी उत्तर भारत की सबसे पुरानी […]
In the areas where war is waged or which the Japanese occupy or where they infiltrate, the foreigner’s civil rule will weaken or come to an end. In these areas we must establish a Swaraj Government. In the name of this Government we must appeal to retreating units of the Indian Army to stay behind and become the people’s army.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
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CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.