Dec 9, 2021
I am inclined to think that politically the country was still dead. It is significant that his heroes—Keshav Chandra and Iswar Chandra —though they were men of the highest moral stature, were by no means anti-Government or anti-British
A bit of History - An Indian Pilgrim (Netaji's Life and writings)
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.
Dec 9, 2021
The earliest recollection I have of myself is that I used to feel like a thoroughly insignificant being. My parents awed me to a degree. My father usually had a cloak of reserve round him and kept his children at a distance.
Birth, Parentage and Early Environment - An Indian Pilgrim (Netaji's Life and writings)
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.
Dec 9, 2021
The office has a new centre to train 1 Cr small businesses and 250,000 creators in the next three years
Meta's Facebook launches its First Standalone Asian Office at CyberHub in Gurugram
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.
Dec 9, 2021
Clensta is a personal care and home care D2C ecommerce brand that focuses on a recurrent customer base
Clensta, a D2C Home Care Startup Raises Series A Funding
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.
Dec 9, 2021
Netaji was regarded as having a more sensitive, sympathetic and nuanced understanding of the problems of Assam than other national leaders like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Nehru
Northeast is not the Part of Pakistan because of 'Netaji': Subhas Bose and the ‘special’ case of Assam
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....
Dec 9, 2021
William Wilberforce was confident of the effects of reason and of the superiority of the principles of Christianity to make men good and happy
Maligning of India by British Raj since the 1800s
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.
Dec 8, 2021
India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat dies in helicopter crash: All you need to know
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.
Dec 8, 2021
It is truly Kāma which acts through its agents. It reminds both the figurative donor and the figurative recipient that some things are never truly given nor truly received. The ritual enactment of the ‘giving’ serves a higher purpose, namely, that of dharma
‘Kanyādāna’ in an Age of lunacy and trending social media campaigns: To Give or Not to Give
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].
Dec 8, 2021
The Revolution, and its political ideology communism, had such great impact on world history that it affected all six inhabited continents. Communism is still an influencing factor in the politics of many countries in the 21st century
Can Communism and Democracy Coexist - 100 Years of Russian Revolution
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.