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The aftermath of the 1921 Moplah Terror had come to Doctorji as a shock.

Indian Muslims had proved themselves Muslims first and Indians only secondarily so that when the Khilafat was given up in Turkey, they withdrew from the allied movement for national independence. Image
The whole atmosphere was charged with Muslim fanaticism. ‘Allah ho akbar’ and not ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ was heard everywhere. Soon there were Muslim riots in Bannu, Kohat, Multan, Nagpur, Kanpur and elsewhere.
‘These are not Hindu-Muslim riots,’ he would say. ‘These are Muslim riots because in every single case it is they who start them and go on the offensive.’
These riots culminated in the Moplah atrocity, completed with arson, loot, murder, rape and forced conversion.
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Unable to bear the humiliation meted out by Jyoti Basu government, the World’s 2nd Doctor to create a Test Tube Baby killed himself on this day.

This is the tragic history of the Pioneer of IVF in India, the creator of India's first and world's second child using IVF, Image
Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay.
#Punyasmaran.

The son of a Doctor, Subhash was born on 16 Jan 1931 at Hazaribagh.
Subhash earned his medical degree and his 1st Ph.D. at Calcutta University and his second Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1967 in 'Reproductive Endocrinology'. Image
Dr Mukherjee’s story is that of a genius. He pioneered in vitro fertilization (IVF) in India with the aid of some general apparatus and a refrigerator in his Kolkata apartment.
He had been drawn to innovative gynaecological surgery from his early days as a medical student.
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Motherless at 4, marriage at 14, mother at 23, widow at 25, defender of Jhansi at 29, battlefield warrior against British forces at 30, veeramarana at 30!

On June 18, 1858, Jhansi Rani, "most dangerous rebel leader" in British occupied India , was killed at the Gwalior fort. ImageImageImage
Even if the Indians forget, Gwalior fort will never be forgotten by the British. This is because it is a fort that has witnessed the fiercest struggle against British colonialism. The last battle of Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bhai, was fought at this fort in Gwalior.
British army led by Hugh Rose attacked Jhansi in March 1858, and laid siege upon the fort. Lakshmi Bai escaped and was tracked to Banda, where Rose’s forces reported that “… though the fellows did their utmost, she got away She is a wonderful woman, very brave and determined.
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It was around 20-22 years back, I stumbled upon a book #TheMenWhoKilledGandhi.

Being a huge admirer of God Sent Godse, I was eager to know what was inside.

And thus I got exposed to the writings of #ManoharMalgonkar.

#Punyasmaran Image
I’m pretty sure, most of you have never heard his name, AND YOU WILL KNOW WHY, by the time you finish reading this thread.

The Men Who Killed Gandhi’ is a painstaking journey that began in 1960 as an assignment from Life International, and it came out as a story in its Image
February 1968 issue.

But, by then, Malgonkar had realized that his story and the research behind it warranted a book, much more than just a magazine article. So, he sat down to enlarge the story with inputs from several sources, of which the Kapur Commission’s report
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Nurtured By Biju Patnaik, Destroyed By Jyoti Basu.

He Conquered all the Ocean's of the world, Padma Bhushan Recepient and a successful businessman, but couldn't withstand the waves of political vendetta by Jyoti Basu.

The gut wrenching story of #MihirSen. ImageImage
The man who swam into world record books by conquering the English Channel and Palk Straits, said this
“I had undertaken this perilous swim not to gain fame or trophies but to prove once again to the world that Indians are no longer afraid”.

#MihirSen, after his World Record
famously said, “I wanted to prove to the world that Indians are not afraid.”

In 1967, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.

Do you people know, how our
heroes gets treated in our country?

My opinion is, it depends on where you are, what you do, and whether you support the Image
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Indira Gandhi said in Parliament and I quote

"We have lost in #GuruGolwalkar, a famous personality who was not an MP, but held the respected position in nation by the force of his personality".

Remembering ShriGuruji on his Punya Smaran.

I'm listing few moments of history ImageImage
which is not revealed by Dynasty & their affiliates.

“The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is moving ahead rapidly towards building a highly significant all-India organisation… A new dimension to their growth is their efforts to gain entry in the villages.
M.S. Golwalkar laid a lot of stress on this aspect in the winter camp of Wardha,” reads a CID report dated 30 December 1943.

“We can see the recent well spread out tour of the present chief of the Sangh, M.S. Golwalkar as an example of such efforts. In the last month of April,
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These Communists doesn't have their own identity, they always hijack other's and claim it as if it belongs to them.

Take for example AITUC.

AITUC was established by Narayan Malhar Joshi, a Brahmin and Gokhale follower.

#NarayanMalharJoshi (5 June 1879 – 30 May 1955) ImageImage
co-founded the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920 along with Lala Lajpat Rai.

In 1911, Joshi established an organization called the Social Service League. The League conducted training programmes for volunteers, whose services were later utilized for relief work among
people suffering from famines, epidemics, floods & other disasters, and also for welfare programmes among the poor and the destitute.

He was president of Bombay Textile Labor Union, during his tenure N M Joshi established an organization called the Sahakari Manoranjan Mandal.
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"Jai Hind",which was adopted as slogan of the Indian National Army in the 1940s and
after India's independence, it emerged as a national slogan.

The Slogan JaiHind was first given in 1907 by the freedom fighter Champakaraman Pillai.

Pillai was born on 15th September 1891 ImageImageImage
into a Tamil family in Thiruvanantapuram.

Champakaraman Pillai was the Foreign Affairs Minister, in the cabinet of Raja Mahendra Verma, which happened to be the First Provisional Government of Bharat - In - Exile at Kabul in the year 1915.

When Pillai met Bose in Vienna in
1933, he inspired the latter to adopt the slogan Jai Hind.

In 1931, Pillai married Lakshmi Bai of Manipur, whom he had met in Berlin. Unfortunately they had a short life together, as Pillai soon fell ill.

Champakaraman Pillai passed away in Berlin on 28 May 1934.
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"The Case That Shook British Empire"

Two heroes emerged after Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

1 is Now Celebrated Sardar Udham Singh
2 is Conveniently Erased
#SankaranNair.

Thread 🧵 on the 1st and the only Malayali Congress President who took the fight against British in ImageImage
Queens backyard.

Immediately after Jallianwalabagh, Sir C. Sankaran Nair writes in his autobiography: “Almost every day I was receiving complaints, personal and by letters, of the most harrowing description of the massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh at Amritsar and the martial law Image
administration & I found that Lord Chelmsford [the Viceroy] approved of what was being done in Punjab. That, to me, was shocking.”

The effects of his resignation were immediate. Censorship of the press was immediately abolished and martial law in Punjab was terminated.
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Only Ambedkar, Nobody Else?

It was 1897, a Brahmin lawyer from Kudumul, a village near Mangalore established #Depressed_Classes_Mission in Mangalore for providing education, better housing, drinking water and empowering the backward classes socially by guarding them against
exploitation by upper classes.

#Kudumul_Rangarao was born on 29 June 1859 and passed away on this day in 1928.
For his selfless service, he got the name
Rangarao completed his primary education in Kasaragod, before losing his father when he was 16. Moving to Mangalore in
search of a job, he began working as a teacher for a monthly salary of ₹8. Completing his matriculation amid financial difficulties through a correspondence course, he cleared the pleadership examination, that certified him argue for a client in courts. Following this, he began
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In a sense, he was #TheBharataRatna

He was supposed to become a Father at Church but turned as an enemy number one for both Indira & D-I-L Antonio Maino.

#GeorgeFernandes & the brutal days of Emergency & beyond.

#Punyasmaran.

One will wonder what happened to that journalism
of BBC after reading this?

On the night of June 25-26 1975, as leading politicians were being arrested, a telephone operator, who overheard some telephone conversations about the arrests, tipped off George Fernandes, who was holidaying with his wife Leila Kabir and infant son
in Gopalpur on Sea in Odisha.

Chandrashekhar was arrested from Rivoli theatre in Connaught Place, where he was watching a late night movie with BP Koirala. The sympathetic police officer took Chandrashekhar to a nearby phone booth, and told him: "I am delaying recording your
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#UNHEARD

He asked the PM if two different Nehrus reside in him—the idealist of 1926, who was moved to tears by the plight of the British working class or the PM of 1960, unmoved by the tearful appeals of his own employees.

Story of an Unsung MP, Barrister Nath Pai (1922-1971) ImageImageImage
whose research-backed speeches shook Nehru.

Pai may not be a name read too often in history books, but in parts of Maharashtra, especially the Konkan region comprising Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, his loss is still mourned by people. He is widely hailed as the man who championed
the cause of the Konkan railway, who toiled to ensure facilities such as roads and post-offices in the remote areas of the region, and who brought attention to his Lok Sabha constituency with his dazzling debates and arguments inside Parliament.

Born on September 25, 1922 at
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They had such vengeance that when he got captured, the British broke his teeth with hammer, pulled out all his nails, they broke his limbs & joints, and on 12th January 1934, British hanged #MasterDaSuryaSen and later threw it in the sea.

#SuryaSen,
One Master with 65 Students
who literally shook up the British, With a raid on their Trading NervePoint, even to this day
#ChittagongArmoryRaid is considered as one of the most daring act of Bharatiya Revolutionary in the history of Bharat's Independence.

Suryasen was born on 22/03/1894 near Chittagong.
Until his Graduation, Surya is
Relatively unknown.
It was in 1916, he got himself involved in Freedom Activities while pursuing BA at Behrampore College.

He joined #AnusheelanSamithi and than #JugantarParty before joining #Congress.

In 1918, he became District President of
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The self-styled social justice intellectuals and parties do not want an India without castes, they want castes without Dharma. This may be profitable to some in the short run but it is suicidal for all in the long run. –
#RamSwarup.

Ram Swarup (12 Oct 1920 - 26 Dec 1998) ImageImageImageImage
was a Sankhya philosopher, yogi & Guru of historian Sita Ram Goel. Together they established the #VoiceOfIndia in New Delhi, to give Hindu intellectuals a voice when the mainstream media refused to give them any time or space.
To know what kind of Intellectual Giant he was,
I’m rewriting what he wrote to The Indian Express, on 13 September 1996. Please do read.
Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism. In its present form, casteism is a construct of colonial period, a product of imperial policies and
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#SardarVallabhaiPatel
#Punyasmaran

In the month of Oct 1950, China Invaded Tibet and on Nov 7th , 38 Days Before His Death, The Deputy P M Sardar Patel wrote to P M Nehru

Let's Read What Made Patel Write To Nehru, Later Will Read What Was Written In It.
Few Months Before The
Attack On Tibet, #GirijaShankarBajpai, the secretary-general of the MEA and Commonwealth relations warned Sardar Patel about K M Panikker, the ambassador to China & Nehru’s blue eyed boy.

On July 15, 1950, Assam Gov
informed Delhi that, according to the information received by
the local intelligence, Chinese troops, “in unknown strength, had been moving towards Tibet from three directions.” Not only was Panikkar unable to get any confirmation, but he virtually justified
Beijing’s military action by writing: “In view of frustration in regard to
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I’m pretty sure, most of you have never heard his name, AND YOU WILL KNOW WHY, by the time you finish reading this thread.
#ManoharMalgonkar.
#Punyasmaran
I remember that day, around 20 years back, my father, a big fan of Gandhi Nehru and a closet Communist brought few old books
(He read everything & I'm like him) & in that bundle there was #TheMenWhoKilledGandhi.
Being a huge admirer of God Sent Godse, I was eager to know what was inside.
And thus I got exposed to the writings of Manohar Malgonkar.
The Men Who Killed Gandhi’ is a painstaking journey
that began in 1960 as an assignment from Life International, and it came out as a story in its February 1968 issue. But, by then, Malgonkar had realized that his story and the research behind it warranted a book, much more than just a magazine article. So, he sat down to enlarge
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#MihirSen

“I had undertaken this perilous swim not to gain fame or trophies but to prove once again to the world that Indians are no longer afraid”, said the man who swam into world record books by conquering the English Channel and Palk Straits”.

And then Jyoti Basu happened
Nurtured By Biju Patnaik, Destroyed By Jyoti Basu,
the gut wrenching story of Mihir Sen.

Sen was the first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958, and also set a world record by swimming in oceans in five continents in 1966. He had famously said, “I wanted to prove
to the world that Indians are not afraid.” In 1967, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.

The story of Mihir Sen, is both an inspirational and cautionary tale of how one hero was eventually let down by the very people he sought to champion.

Born prematurely on 16 November 1930
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#TarakanathDas – Story of another unrecognized freedom fighter.
Taraknath was born on 15/06/1884 at Bengal.
When he was 16, he wrote an essay about Patriotism in a competition and the judge "Barrister P.Mitter" was highly impressed with the quality..
He ensured Taraknath join ImageImage
#AnushilanSamithi for which he was one of the founder.
Similar to celebrating Shivaji Festival at Maharashtra, Taraknath started to celebrate festival of #RajaSitaramRay, a Hindu King who dared the British for years.
In the year 1906, during festival celebrations, #BhaghaJatin
#Taraknath #ShirishchandraSen #Satyendrasen met and came to an understanding which was kept as a secret for decades.
What they discussed in 1906 was finally relieved by Taraknth himself in 1952 when he came back to Bharat & attended a rally in honour of Bhagha Jatin.
Along with
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He asserted—perhaps only poetically—that trees could grieve, suffer poverty, steal, assist others, form friendships, and sacrifice themselves for their children
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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic Science.
"There will soon rise a Temple of Learning where the
teacher cut off from worldly distractions would go on with his ceaseless pursuit after truth, and dying, hand on his work to his disciples".
Nothing would seem laborious in his inquiry; never is he to lose sight of his quest, never is he to let it go obscured by any
terrestrial temptation. For he is the Sanyasin spirit, and India is the only country where so far from there being a conflict between science and religion, knowledge is regarded as religion itself.
In a 1916 address at Benares Hindu University, Bose called attention to the
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Veergatha of Kanhoji Angre – The Undisputed and Undefeated Sea Hawk.

Remembering #KanhojiAngre, the Admiral of Maratha Navy who remained undefeated till his last breath.

In the 1700s, one man antagonized the European powers, and insisted on the Maratha Empire’s rights to "SAMUDRATLA SHIVAJI" Kanhoji Angre
taxation and sovereignty over Maharashtra’s coast. He was Kanhoji Angre, the head of the Maratha navy.
The first important naval figure in modern Bharat, Angre managed to maintain an unquestionable hold over a heavily disputed stretch of coastline throughout the early decades
of the 18th century. At its peak in 1729, Angre’s Maratha fleet held a mere 80 ships, many of them little more than overgrown fishing boats engineered by the local kolis (fisher folk) who populated his domain. Yet with the combination of that modest fleet and an unsurpassed
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Bharata Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
His Legacy Is Known To Many, So, With A Brief Introduction, I Will Take You To His 1920 Biography #ReconstructingIndia.

Sir M V has left a legacy in such a way that, almost every Bharatiya today is enjoying something which he
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initiated.

If You Start Counting The Contributions Of 1 Single Person For A Country, Then Sir MV Will Be #DhruvaNakshatra.
From Establishing Banks To Building Dams To Initiating Huge Industries Like HAL, NAL, MSIL, VSIL, HMT, ITI.
From Shivanasamudra to Linganamakki.
From
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Sanskrit Parishat to Kannada Parishat to Engineering Colleges to Polytechnic’s.
The Credit for the Initiative For Higher Education Institutes Like IITs belongs to this Great Man.
#ReConstructingIndia Written By The Earliest Recepient of Bharata Ratna.
His Eagerness To See
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