Sanatan Archive

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, also known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar, Vinayak Savarkar, or simply Veer Savarkar in Marathi, was a freedom fighter and an Indian independence leader and politician who coined the Hindu nationalist ideology of Hindutva. The date of birth of Savarkar is May 28, 1883, and died on February 26, 1966. He was a prominent figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.

Kanaklata Barua was not your regular teenager. She was made of much sterner stuff. So when Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to ‘do or die.’ the motto of the Quit India Movement he launched in 1942, Kanaklata went all in – and made the ultimate sacrifice.

He was a boat boy from Odisha. A patriot to the core. He was a witness to oppression by the British and hated them. When British police asked him to ferry them to the other side of the Brahmani River, he flatly refused.

Tarabai Bhosale was the daughter-in-law of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram Bhosale.

"Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye": Divine vegetarian Crocodile Babiya who guarded Sri Anantapuram Lake Temple in Kasaragod of Kerala for the last 70+ years passed away

Babiya, the divine crocodile who lived in Kerala’s Ananthpuram Ananthapamanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala’s Kasargod, has died. Over 75 years old, the crocodile passed away last night.

Kullu (Himachal Pradesh) [India]: Around 8,000 women, attired in traditional outfits, took part in the International Kullu Dussehra Festival and performed folk dance, at Rath Maidan in Kullu on Friday.

Rishikesh Desai | The Hindu Online | Belagavi | Oct 1, 2022: Vaidehi Solapurkar got up before sunrise and got dressed to go for a run. The dress, however, is not the running gear with a loose-fitting T-shirt and track pants. It is a white chudidar, a saffron shawl, and a turban.

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes": 'Encyclopedia in Sanskrit ' to be World’s Biggest Dictionary with over 10 million refs collected from 1500 Sanskrit books including Vedas, Darshana, Polity, Maths, and more

Language is the cradle on which civilization grows. Without language, people would not interact on friendly terms, leading to an increase in violent conflicts. Any country wishing to protect its civilizational ethos must begin by doing so with its language. That is why creating a dictionary of Sanskrit holds significant importance for India.

Known for its large and varied biodiversity including majestic tigers, more than 250 species of birds, 37 species of mammals, 80 species of butterflies and a large number of reptiles, the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve located in Madhya Pradesh’s Umaria district has revealed yet another type of treasure trove — ancient and historic caves, temples, Buddhist structures, maths, sculptures, coins, water bodies and mural inscriptions in old scripts like Brahmi and Nagari.

In 1857, Indian soldiers rose up against their British commanders. They were joined by native rulers and thousands of ordinary people in a struggle that threatened to destroy British colonial power on the Indian subcontinent. The reasons behind the rebellion stretch back to the origins of British involvement in Indian affairs.