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Bharat's Independence
‘We will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset’: Jaishankar declares
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"We will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset," Bharat's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said, proclaiming Bharat's new agenda and laying out its...
Unsung heroes of South India
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As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of our Independence, it is time we remember some of the unsung heroes from South India. Historians of...
Remembering freedom fighter V O Chidambaram Pillai on his birth anniversary
The year 1915, Mahatma Gandhi was visiting Chennai, he was already popular thanks to his exploits in South Africa. One man from Tirunelveli was...
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...
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...
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...
75 years after Bharat’s independence, a lost generation recovers its Hindu Dharma
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In 2004 I was dispatched to Bharat to cover the aftermath of the devastating tsunami, and afterward, I took the opportunity to spend time...
Narasimha Reddy, the chief who led Andhra’s now-forgotten first mass rebellion against the British in 1846
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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...
Bundelkhand’s ‘Jallianwala Bagh’ led to the martyrdom of 21 freedom fighters
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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...
The British editor who got deported for exposing the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
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Benjamin Guy Horniman was one plucky British journalist who scorned the Empire's Raj over Bharat and with great courage exposed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre...