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Jun 21st 2022
Decades before world champion Viswanathan Anand powered the India's chess story, it was Sultan Khan who gave India its first hero in the sport. #Chess

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โ€œEven if the world that #SultanKhan inhabited seems distant, he should be remembered as the first Asian to break through into the upper echelons of the international chess scene,โ€ wrote #Anand about Sultan Khan in the foreword of Grandmaster Daniel King's biography on #Sultan
#Sultan won the #BritishChessChampionship three times -- in 1929, 1932 and 1934. Interestingly, he could not read, write, speak or understand English. This meant that he was not well-versed with the vast amount of #chess theory that all his opponents knew almost by heart.
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Aug 15th 2020
Freedom Fighters of India were individuals who fought for freedom but there were only a few national leaders who got attention in the freedom movement, so I am trying to cover as many heros who have contributed or sacrificed their lives for us. I salute them๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ™
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Subhas Chandra Bose ๐Ÿ’
He created Azad Hind Fauj, one of the great and powerful forces fighting against the British government. His death is still mysterious.
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Tilka Manjhi ๐Ÿ’
He was the first Adivasi leader to take up arms against the British in 1784, He organized the Adivasis to form an armed group to fight against British.
In 1784 he was caught in Bhagalpur, Bihar. There he was hanged to a Banyan tree.
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Jul 9th 2018
THREAD: It's time to recognise the #UnsungHeroes of the #ThaiCaveRescue - this woman collects and cleans the divers clothes every night, for free. #CaveRescue 1/3
WATCH: This #UnsungHero knows one of the trapped boys - and now gives people free lifts to and from the cave. #Unsungheroes #ThaiCaveRescue #CaveRescue 2/3
WATCH: These #UnsungHeroes cook hundreds of meals every day for the #ThaiCaveRescue workers - for free #UnsungHero #CaveRescue 3/3
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