India was shaped by a special type of anti-imperial, colourful cosmopolitanism, with the participation of actors as vividly different and spectacular as Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose During the celebrations of “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”, we must go back, again and again, to what made India a great and independent nation. We realise that this nation was shaped by …
Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, popularly known as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. He was called "The father of the Indian unrest", conferred with the title of Lokmanya, which means "accepted by the people as a leader".The father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, called him "The Maker of Modern India".The famous quote that made him …
Tilak’s ideas of swaraj and swadeshi helped raise consciousness among Indians about the insults and injustice meted out by the British. On Tilak’s death anniversary, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu tweeted a picture of the social reformer and wrote, “He was one of the prime architects of India’s freedom movement with his slogan- “SWARAJ IS MY BIRTHRIGHT”. लोकमान्य बाल गंगाधर तिलक …
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