Society & Culture

Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy is hailed as the 19th-century hero who led the first mass rebellion in Andhra Pradesh against the British. Descendant of a dispossessed...

Sangolli Rayanna's martyrdom stories continue to inspire crores of Kannadigas with every child given examples of his bravery against the British. The giant banyan...

Mahadaji Shinde (1730 – 1794) was a Maratha general and Raja of Ujjain (later Gwalior). He was also the architect of the Maratha revival...

Maniram Dutta Barua, commonly known as Maniram Dewan, was one of the first Assamese to establish Tea Industry in Assam and was initially a...

The people of Bundelkhand have also made a major contribution to the freedom struggle of the country. Chhatarpur district's Charan Paduka area had witnessed a...

Bharat needs to come out of the "silos" of the "Lutyens Zone", reverse its penchant for adopting the "soft option" on a plethora of...

As one reaches Uyari village of Khandaghosh community block under West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district, he is bound to be gripped by the essence...

A commemorative postage stamp in honour of freedom fighter Ondiveeran who had fought against the British would soon be released here. The Centre has approved...

The department of Sanskrit in Allahabad University (AU) is introducing a new course in Hindu astrology and rituals with the aim of conserving the...

The famous Bharatiya Sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, in 1971, asked his long-time friend George Harrison, the former guitarist for the famous band Beatles,...