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This letter deals with the views of Bhagat Singh on the question of love and sacrifice in the life of a revolutionary. It was written on April 5, 1929 in Sita Ram Bazar House, Delhi. The letter was taken to Lahore by Shri Shiv Verma and handed over to Sukhdev it was recovered from him at the time of his arrest on April 13 and was produced as one of the exhbits in Lahore Conspiracy Case.

My father was born on the 28th May, 1860 and my mother in 1869. After passing the Matriculation (then called Entrance) Examination from the Albert School, Calcutta, he studied for some time at the St. Xavier’s College and the General Assembly’s Institution (now called Scottish Church College). He then went to Cuttack and graduated from the Ravenshaw College.

My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hat- khola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child of my parents.

Facebook Parent Meta has unveiled its first standalone office in Asia in Gurugram yesterday. Along with the standalone office, Facebook India vice president and managing director Ajit Mohan announced a new centre to train 1 Cr small businesses and 250,000 creators in the next three years.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) personal and home care products startup Clensta has raised INR 20 Cr (~$2.6 Mn) in Series A funding from Hem Securities Limited, Venture Catalysts and Inflection Point Ventures. Existing investor N+1 Capital also participated in the round. 

It all started in 1937 when the country had a tryst with the General Elections. The elections in Assam saw the Congress gaining the majority. However they still had some task cut out for that final sip between the cup and the lips. For consequent to the partition of Bengal in 1905, administratively Assam was merged with Sylhet, which was earlier with Bengal. But then Sylhet (Surma Valley) wing of the Congress still owed their allegiance to the Bengal Congress. Thus both the divisions of Congress in Assam ie the Assam Congress and the Sylhet Congress didn’t see eye to eye on several matters....

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].