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Arms, not satyagraha drove British out, says Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar

PATNA: Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar on Friday said British rulers left India not because of ‘satyagraha’, but when they saw arms in native people’s hands and realised that they can go to any extent. The governor’s claim at a book release function held in Goa, evoked sharp reactions from the Opposition, saying the BJP has been disrespecting the freedom fighters. …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin honour Periyar's legacy in Vaikom Satyagraha

India Today

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin emphasised the need to continue Periyar’s legacy by fighting caste and gender inequalities during the inauguration of the renovated Thanthai Periyar Memorial and Periyar Library at Vaikom, Kottayam, in Kerala. Addressing the public event held to mark the valedictory function of the centenary celebrations of the Vaikom Satyagraha, a movement that saw the active …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Pinarayi Vijayan advocates for Kerala-Tamil Nadu cooperative model for progress

India Today

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday called for the expansion of Kerala-Tamil Nadu’s cooperative federalism model to other states. Speaking at a public gathering at Vaikom Beach after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin inaugurated the renovated Thanthai Periyar Memorial and Periyar Library, Vijayan hailed the enduring partnership between the two southern states. STRENGTHENING COOPERATION Drawing parallels between the …

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CM Stalin in Kerala for Vaikom centenary today

Deccan Chronicle

Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin arrived in Kerala, ‘the land of vibrant culture, serene beauty, and progressiveness,’ to attend Thursday's centenary celebrations of the Vaikom Satyagraha, when he will be presenting the Vaikom Award to Kannada writer from Mysuru, Devanur Mahadeva. ‘Each time I come here, I am touched by the warm reception and genuine hospitality of our Dravidian …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Tamil Nadu, Kerala chief ministers unite to mark 100 years of Vaikom Satyagraha

India Today

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin reached Kerala to inaugurate the renovated Thanthai Periyar Memorial and Granthasala in Vaikom, Kottayam, alongside Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. I will participate in the hundred years completion of Vaikom protest which seeded these changes.” HISTORY OF VAIKOM SATYAGRAHA The Vaikom Satyagraha was a pivotal non-violent movement in Travancore between 1924 and 1925, which …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

'Satyagraha In Front Of School Gate!' : Supreme Court Criticizes School Staff's Protest While Being Part Of Institution

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Thursday, while hearing a former school employee's plea against dismissal for protesting alleged corruption in the school, orally remarked that employees cannot protest against their employer while remaining part of the institution. However, Justice Oka reiterated, “You are an employee, you must follow discipline.” The counsel submitted that the petitioner was protesting against corruption within the …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

India’s founding document sparked a social revolution

Hindustan Times

The Constitution of India is an embodiment of the aspirations of its citizens. Social movements played a crucial role in shaping the constitutional discourse, laying down the foundations of equality, dignity, social justice, and equal opportunity for any future document to govern a yet-to-be-born republic. The movements, led by Jyotiba Phule and Dr. BR Ambedkar, respectively, in different periods of …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

11,700 books from Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi Library digitised

The Hindu

Close to 11,700 books from the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi Library have been digitised over the last few months, and this has now been distributed to Gandhi Bhavans across the country to reach a larger audience. Speaking after handing over the digitised books to the representatives, on Sunday, August 25, Carl Malamud, founder of Servants of Knowledge, a U.S.-based non-profit …

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7 months ago

Fostering Awareness: Micro Labs Launches Nationwide Campaign to Raise Hypertension Awareness

The Hindu

High blood pressure, a silent killer, threatens India’s public health. To raise public awareness of this issue, Micro Labs is launching “I AM ON SALT SATYAGRAHA,” an initiative to educate people about the connection between high salt intake and hypertension. “While reducing salt intake is crucial, a healthy lifestyle is paramount in preventing and managing hypertension,” says Dr. Ravi R …

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7 months, 1 week ago

When the historic Civil Disobedience Movement rolled out on the east coast

The Hindu

In the summer of 1930, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement to intensify and broaden the freedom struggle. Historian and author Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of both Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji, wrote in his book, Rajaji-A Life, that when the Mahatma decided to break the salt law, Rajaji decided to march with Satyagrahis for about 150 miles from Trichinopoly …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Combatting Silent Killer: Micro Labs' Hypertension Awareness Campaign

Deccan Chronicle

High blood pressure, a silent killer, threatens India's public health. To raise public awareness of this issue, Micro Labs is launching "I AM ON SALT SATYAGRAHA," an initiative to educate people about the connection between high salt intake and hypertension. "While reducing salt intake is crucial, a healthy lifestyle is paramount in preventing and managing hypertension," says Dr. Ravi R …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP Kisan Morcha Stages Satyagraha Against Anti-farmer Policies of Revanth Reddy Govt

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The BJP staged satyagrahas at most of mandal headquarters against the Revanth Reddy government allegedly ignoring farmer issues, and demanded uninterrupted power supply to the farm sector and immediate waiving of crop loans. Farmers who stopped repayment of farm loans after the Congress assured to waive all crop loans were finding it difficult to borrow afresh, the party said. …

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9 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi to lead groundbreaking ceremony for ₹1,200 cr Sabarmati Ashram project

Hindustan Times

AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the ₹1,200 crore Mahatma Gandhi Sabarmati Ashram restoration project on March 12, coinciding with the anniversary of the start of the iconic Dandi March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. The Sabarmati Ashram project includes the restoration of heritage buildings constructed …

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11 months ago

Congress holds 'silent satyagraha' in Rajasthan amid disruptions in Rahul's Nyay Yatra

India TV News

Congress party workers in Rajasthan took to the streets in a 'silent satyagraha' on Tuesday against the BJP and the Assam government over alleged disruption in Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra in the northeastern state. Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Swarnim Chaturvedi said party MLAs and other leaders and public representatives staged a dharna held at the …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Nashik's Kalaram Temple that PM Modi visited has Ambedkar's satyagraha link

India Today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Shree Kalaram Temple in Nashik on Friday brought attention to the site's historical significance, especially in connection with Dr BR Ambedkar's satyagraha. The significance of PM Modi's visit to the Shree Kalaram Temple and its historical significance wasn't lost on people. Prayers at the Kalaram Temple is also significant as Dr Ambedkar started …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

History & realpolitik, from the mouth of the Mahatma

Deccan Chronicle

When an extraordinary man like Mahatma Gandhi claims to be an “ordinary man”, one is tempted to ask: “Is he fooling himself or is he fooling you”? But in the run up to, and in the aftermath of, this momentous movement of civil disobedience that shook the Empire as never before, Gandhi’s principal concerns were his diet ; his deteriorating …

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1 year ago

Caste census necessary to eradicate untouchability and caste discrimination: K. Raju

The Hindu

Congress Working Committee member K. Raju has called for a caste census in India to eradicate social evils like untouchability. Mr. Raju, who is also the national coordinator of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and minorities department of the All India Congress Committee, said the party viewed the census as an “X-ray” for understanding the socio-economic conditions …

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1 year, 2 months ago

How Gandhi used swaraj and satyagraha in India’s quest for freedom: Book Excerpt from ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’ by Dennis Dalton

The Hindu

On Gandhi’s birth anniversary, a look at how he understood the critical role traditional Indian language and symbols played in the national movement. Dennis Dalton’s Indian Ideas of Freedom is an illuminating study of the lens through which freedom was perceived by thinkers such as Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. None of Gandhi’s terms, however, were …

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1 year, 2 months ago

From the Archives: ‘No room for communalism in Congress’, says Mahatma Gandhi

Hindustan Times

The “bhajan” of the evening said that a man’s highest endeavour lay in trying to find God, said Mahatma Gandhi addressing the post-prayer gathering yesterday. These Indians in South Africa were not penniless, they were not hungry but man could not live by bread alone and money was nothing as compared with human rights which were denied them by the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Review of A. Annamalai’s Gandhi The Lawyer: Field trial

The Hindu

Mahatma Gandhi’s life was full of momentous events but not all of them, especially his days as a lawyer, get adequate attention. It is but appropriate that such a book ends with a chapter regarding Gandhi getting disbarred as a lawyer in November 1922 following his sentence and was reinstated to the Inner Temple posthumously more than 60 years later. …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Delhi CM, L-G inaugurate park to commemorate freedom struggle and Satyagraha

The Hindu

: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant-Governor V.K Saxena jointly inaugurated the redeveloped Shaheedi Park on Tuesday. Shaheedi Park, billed as an “important outdoor museum park”, was at the centre of a political slugfest last week after the AAP-ruled MCD replaced the Bhagwa flag in the hands of a statue of Bharat Mata at the park with the Tricolour. I …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Manipur Video Maun Satyagraha Punjab Congress Samajwadi Party Candle March Lucknow Opposition Protest

ABP News

New Delhi: Opposition party workers cutting across political lines took to streets to protest against the Manipur viral video on Sunday. Flagging “negligence” of the National Commission for Women, DMK MP Kanimozhi, as quoted by news agency ANI said, “The Opposition parties, including DMK, want a fair discussion on what is happening and want the Prime Minister to respond. The …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Congress Party Maun Satyagraha Silent Protest Rahul Gandhi Defamation Case Supreme Court

ABP News

The Congress party on Saturday postponed the ‘Maun Satyagraha’ scheduled to take place on Sunday in Delhi, where the party President Mallikarjun Kharge along with several senior leaders was expected to lead the protest against the Gujarat High Court’s order upholding Rahul Gandhi’s conviction and two-year jail term in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark. It will …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Conspiracy by BJP against someone who…’: Pilot on Congress' nationwide silent protest

Hindustan Times

Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday said that the 'maun satyagraha' against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Parliament following his conviction in a defamation case was not about an individual but about the weakening of democracy through misuse of institutions and creating an environment of hatred. Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra, party's State Incharge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, …

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Arms, not satyagraha drove British out, says Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin honour Periyar's legacy in Vaikom Satyagraha

Pinarayi Vijayan advocates for Kerala-Tamil Nadu cooperative model for progress

CM Stalin in Kerala for Vaikom centenary today

Tamil Nadu, Kerala chief ministers unite to mark 100 years of Vaikom Satyagraha

'Satyagraha In Front Of School Gate!' : Supreme Court Criticizes School Staff's Protest While Being Part Of Institution

India’s founding document sparked a social revolution

11,700 books from Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi Library digitised

Fostering Awareness: Micro Labs Launches Nationwide Campaign to Raise Hypertension Awareness

When the historic Civil Disobedience Movement rolled out on the east coast

Combatting Silent Killer: Micro Labs' Hypertension Awareness Campaign

BJP Kisan Morcha Stages Satyagraha Against Anti-farmer Policies of Revanth Reddy Govt

PM Modi to lead groundbreaking ceremony for ₹1,200 cr Sabarmati Ashram project

Congress holds 'silent satyagraha' in Rajasthan amid disruptions in Rahul's Nyay Yatra

Nashik's Kalaram Temple that PM Modi visited has Ambedkar's satyagraha link

History & realpolitik, from the mouth of the Mahatma

Caste census necessary to eradicate untouchability and caste discrimination: K. Raju

How Gandhi used swaraj and satyagraha in India’s quest for freedom: Book Excerpt from ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’ by Dennis Dalton

From the Archives: ‘No room for communalism in Congress’, says Mahatma Gandhi

Review of A. Annamalai’s Gandhi The Lawyer: Field trial

Delhi CM, L-G inaugurate park to commemorate freedom struggle and Satyagraha

Manipur Video Maun Satyagraha Punjab Congress Samajwadi Party Candle March Lucknow Opposition Protest

Congress Party Maun Satyagraha Silent Protest Rahul Gandhi Defamation Case Supreme Court

‘Conspiracy by BJP against someone who…’: Pilot on Congress' nationwide silent protest