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Yediyurappa launches Savarkar Rath Yatra in Karnataka
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Amid the row with the opposition Congress party that has been questioning promotion of Veer Savarkar by the ruling BJP, former chief minister and...
Allahabad HC rejects petition against removal of mosque built on encroached govt. land
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The Allahabad high court has dismissed a writ petition seeking the removal of the Shahi Masjid situated at GT Road in Saidabad, Prayagraj, for...
Versatile genius Adibhatla Narayana Das
Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Das (31 August 1864 – 2 January 1945) was a poet, musician, dancer, linguist and philosopher of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in Ajjada village,...
Memories of forgotten heroes to come alive in Pune’s Chapekar Wada
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Over 15 years after the famed Chapekar Wada was rebuilt at a cost of nearly Rs 50 lakh, the next phase of a museum...
How China preserved Bharat’s cultural brilliance in Far history – Part 2
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In Part-1 of his article Prof. Lokesh Chandra explains how a powerful cultural connection between the two ancient civilisations- Bharat and China-- cemented a...
Assam’s bards of freedom gave a voice to nationalist aspirations
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The 1920s to 1940s was a period when a large number of songs, poems and lyrics were composed in Assam as part of the...
How China preserved Bharat’s cultural brilliance in Far history (Part 1)
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Father, Prof. Raghu Vira, studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 1928. He was impressed by the beauty and...
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day – the Great Calcutta killings
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In the Great Calcutta killings, the Mayor of Calcutta, Syed Mohammed Usman wrote in a pamphlet, “We Muslims have had the crown and have...
The memories of partition-era violence have not just been buried by our eminent historians, left-liberal intellectuals and secular politicians, they have also distorted those...
Haryana to set up memorial of Partition heroes in Kurukshetra
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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced a world-class war memorial to be built by Panchnad Smarak Trust near Pipli town in...