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2021 is the birth centenary year of the noted Gandhian thinker Dharampal(1). Dharampal is well known for having conducted extensive archival research in Britain and India, and for having published several books later on. His extensive efforts led to a revisiting of conventional views of society, polity, science & technology, and culture, especially at the heyday of British colonial rule in India.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other personnel died on Wednesday after the Indian Air Force chopper they were travelling in crashed near Coonor in Tamil Nadu earlier today.

Kanyādāna’ is on the news this wedding season for strange – though not totally unexpected – reasons both in India and globally. Part of it was sparked by an ad from Manyavar – makers of “Indian ethnic wear” — which seemed to try to raise awareness that a daughter was not an object to be ‘given away’[1].

Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian Revolution. It gave birth to the first Communist State in history, the Soviet Union.

Mother Teresa received 120 prestigious awards and honors during her lifetime, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work helping the poor in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She became known as “the saint of the gutters” as a result of her charity work, before being officially canonized by Pope Francis in September 2016.

A number of songs are being uploaded on YouTube and other music and social media platforms that are calling for the genocide of Hindus, Kafirs and beheading of those who commit “blasphemy”. Not only songs but videos of large crowds calling for beheading have been circulating for years. Satyaagrah looked for some songs and tried to understand the message they were conveying. The songs that often have catchy background music have been seen lakhs of times.

75 years ago a bomb blast occurred in the central hall of national assembly New Delhi on 8th April 1929, the echo of that bomb blast, still vibrates in the ears of many Indian who have a dream for "revolution" and those are active in political and historical circle in India. According to the text of statement of Bhagat Singh and Battu Keshwar Dutt, which was given on June 6, 1929 in the bomb-trial court "revolution" means the ultimate establishment of an order of society in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the b...

Jag Mohan, Bhagat Singh’s nephew and an eminent writer, states that it is wrong just to celebrate the birth-centenary of Bhagat Singh alone. Mother Vidyadevi, his grandmother and Bhagat Singh’s mother, always maintained that no picture could be complete by including her son only, as Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru lived and sacrificed themselves for their nation together. She always kept Rajguru’s Sholapuri shoes and Sukhdev’s kulla along with the personal belongings of her son.

The revolt of 1857 was the first major armed insurrection launched by the Indians against the British Raj. It was the time when the draconian policies along with the oppressive laws of the British government were exploiting the lives of Indians.