Untitled (Bull Handler - Haripura Poster)
By Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)
Tempera on paper
Haripura posters celebrate the Indian rural life and culture sharing a vibrant earthy color palette and bold, energetic lines with a vividly modernist graphic quality. A sweeping look at the available images ...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Presidential Address of the 51st Session of the Indian National Congress - Delivered by: Sjt. SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE
at Vithalnagar, Haripura - 1938
Published in Bangalore - 1938
The Indian National Congress met at Haripura during February 19 to 22, 1938, under the presidenc...
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Digital Rare Book:
AZAD HIND Newsletter
Monthly for a Free India
Editor: Pandit K.A.Bhatta
Published by Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, Berlin - 1942
In German and English
Article:
The Lost Legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose
By C.Tiwari
January 23rd, 2014
This article is a brilliant effort examining the life and times of an extraordinary political leader, Subhas Chandra Bose. But more importantly it also tries to throw light on the question of communal harmony within m...
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Article:
The man who drafted the Indian Constitution -
Benegal Narsinga Rau (1887 – 1953).
B.N.Rau prepared the draft Constitution consisting of 243 articles and the Drafting Committee worked over it to expand it to 315 Articles. After the 2473 amendments, the final form of the constitution ...
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Article:
The Constitution-framers India forgot
By Girish Rishi
Granville Austin in 'The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation' identified 21 most important figures in the assembly (from hereon, referred to as the 'framers'). Of these, we are familiar with seven -- Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Ach...
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Article:
A guide to state secrecy surrounding Subhas Chandra Bose
By Anuj Dhar
8th May, 2013
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose secured our freedom but in the last 6 decades our Government seems to have confined him to hidden vaults, where thousands of secret records about him have piled up.
Jana Gana Mana - an explanation by Mr P L Deshpande
In the issue of 3 May 1980 of Maharashtra Times of Mumbai I read a letter by Mr Bal Jere. He states that Ravindranath Tagore definitely composed the famous song Jana Gana Mana to welcome King George V....
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Controversy:
Understanding Jana Gana Mana
By Shumon Sengupta
18 July, 2006
Countercurrents.org
A friend of mine recently forwarded me an email chain that aims at mobilizing support to substitute Jana Gana Mana with Vande Mataram as India’s National Anthem.
And as far as the contrived Jana Gana...
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India – M K Gandhi – father of the Indian nation highly important document dated ‘Asho sudi 4 Vikram Samvat 1982’ (September 23rd 1926 on the Gregorian calendar) being the will of M K Gandhi written at the Satyagrah Ashram Sabarmati Bhadarva in hi...
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In 1946, Mohandas Gandhi sits next to a spinning wheel (Charkha), a device used to make yarn or thread; the now-famous image came to symbolize the notion of Indian self-sufficiency — and thus independence from British rule.
Photographed by Margaret BourkeWhite Collarn a unique, celebrated care...
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Movie:
The Making of the Mahatma
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Written by Fatima Meer
Released in 1996
The Making of the Mahatma (1996) is joint Indian - South African produced film, directed by Shyam Benegal, about the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi during his 21 years in South Africa. Th...
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This notice was pasted after the killing of J. P. Saunders, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Lahore, on December 17 in broad daylight, in front of the SSP’s office in the city. Saunders had ordered his men to hit Lala Lajpat Rai with lathis on October 30, 1928, when the latter was leading a large...
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Article:
'Bhagat Singh used to literally devour books; set a record of sorts'
By M M Juneja
Times of India
"His love for books endured till the very end. Pran Mehta, Bhagat Singh's lawyer was allowed to meet him on March 23, 1931, just a few hours before the hanging. Bhagat Singh was then p...
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