Whereas that Gandhi who was responsible for partition is world famous, there was another Gandhi who faded into oblivion after bringing Junagadh to Bharath.
#SamaldasGandhi was the son of Laxmidas/Kalidas Karamchand Gandhi, elder brother of MK Gandhi, Samaldas was a close
follower of his uncle, Mohandas.
He was initially part of Gujarati evening news paper Janmabhoomi. Due to some differences he left Janmabhoomi and started new news paper named "Vande Mataram".
When the Nawab of Junagadh acceded his state to Pakistan in 1947, Samaldas headed a
government-in-exile, "Aarzi Hukumat" or "Temporary Government" created by citizens of Junagadh with Rajkot as its capital to reflect the wishes of its majority population who wished the state to become part of India instead.
Samaldas was invited by Nawab’s Dewan Sir Shah Nawaz
Bhutto to accept the reins of the state of Pak based Junagadh, but Samaldas deferred to Bharath and asked Patel to send forces for Junagadh and its principalities, Mangrol and Manavadar.
What Patel did was a coup, he neither consulted Mountbatten nor Nehru, overnight troops
occupied Junagadh and with the help of Samaldas, held a pebliscite and Junagadh joined Bharat with 99% + people favouring it.( The above material I got from a book India's Bismarck written on Sardar Patel)
Unfortunately, Samaldas Gandhi remains unknown except for mentions
here & there, in fact, we have only 3 photos of his and what is more disturbing is there is no record about his life or death, yes nobody knows where he died or when he died.
On his Jayanti, let’s remember the sacrifice of #VishnuGaneshPingle, who gave his life for Maa Bharati at the ripe age of 27.
Let me also remind Congress & Communists that, while they were in cohorts with British, here was One of 100s of Savarkarites who happily gave up their
life for a cause – Freedom Of India.
Vishnu Ganesh Pingle was born on 2 January 1888 to a Marathi Brahmin family Talegaon Dhamdhere, near Poona District. The youngest of nine siblings, Pingle grew up in a loving family and at the age of nine was admitted to the primary school
in Talegaon Dabhade. While at school, Pingle came under the influence of the nationalist movement of the time, and actively participated in the movement under V. D. Savarkar and this early involvement in the nationalist movement left a lasting imprint.
In 1910, Vishnu left for
Yesterday happened to be 133rd Jayanti of Hindu Hruday Samrat #KM_Munshi
It’s time to remember his fight to rebuild #SomnathMandir
Munshi, was a political thinker, constitutional lawyer and expert, an institution-builder, and a great patron of Indian culture and civilisation.
Very few remember his contribution towards the rebuilding of the Somnath temple at Prabhas, and the challenges he faced therein.
In 1922, Munshi wrote about the emotional pain that Indians feel about the destruction of the Somnath temple and its ruins
“Desecrated, burnt and
battered, it still stood firm – a monument of our humiliation, and ingratitude. I can scarcely describe the burning shame which I felt on that early morning as I walked on the broken floor of the once-hallowed sabha mandap, littered with broken pillars and scattered stones.
#ಮಯೂರ ಎಂದಾಗ ನೆನಪಿಗೆ ಬರುವುದು, ನಟ ಸಾರ್ವಭೌಮ ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್ ಅವರು, ತೆರೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಂದ ಮಯೂರದ ಮೂಲ ಒಂದು ಕಾದಂಬರಿ. ಆ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಬರೆದವರೇ
ಮಯೂರಕ್ಕೆ ಕಥೆ ಚಿತ್ರಕಥೆ ಬರೆದದ್ದು, ಅವರೇ #ದೇವುಡು.
ದೇವುಡು ನರಸಿಂಹ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಿ ಎಂಬ ಮಹಾನ್ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯ ಪರಿಚಯ ನನಗಾಗಿದ್ದು ಪ್ರೌಢ ಶಾಲೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾಗ.
ಅಂತರ್ ಶಾಲಾ ಮಟ್ಟದ
ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲನೇ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಗೆದ್ದ ನನಗೆ ದಕ್ಕಿದ್ದು ಈ ಮಹನೀಯರ 3 ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳು.
ಭಾರತದ ಮಹಾಪುರುಷರು, ಮಹಾ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ, ಮಹಾ ಕ್ಷತ್ರಿಯ.
ದೇವುಡು ಅವರು 1895 ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ 30 ರಂದು ವೇದ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಪಾರಂಗತ ಕುಟುಂಬದಲ್ಲಿ ಜನಿಸಿದರು. ತಾಯಿ ಸುಬ್ಬಮ್ಮ; ತಂದೆ ಕೃಷ್ಣಶಾಸ್ತ್ರೀ. ದೇವುಡು 5 ವರ್ಷದ ಬಾಲಕರಿದ್ದಾಗ ಇವರ ತಂದೆ ತೀರಿಕೊಂಡರು.
ತಮ್ಮ ೫ನೆಯ ವಯಸ್ಸಿಗಾಗಲೆ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತದ ಅಮರಕೋಶ, ಶಬ್ದ ಮತ್ತು ರಘುವಂಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಲಿತುಕೊಂಡ ದೇವುಡು ಅವರ ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ, ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಿಕ ಹಾಗು ಕಾಲೇಜು ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವೆಲ್ಲ ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೆ ನಡೆಯಿತು. 1917ರಿಂದ 1922ರವರೆಗೆ ಇವರು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಮಹಾರಾಜಾ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಹಾಗು ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಎಮ್.ಎ.ದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ ಮತ್ತು
Hours passed & 100s of drafts wasted, but unable to give a proper introduction because I’m finding shortage of words & mixed emotions filled with anger and despair.
He was the President of #JANSANGH when he was Politically
Assassinated.
He was on his way to campaign for Ram Manohar Lohia and Nehru was the Prime Minister.
Our tragedy is that successive governments denying Bharatiyas from knowing about people whose contribution was ENORMOUS but erased so that there's only ONE FAMILY left to worship
Raghuveera before joining Jansangh was Congress leader and a member of Constituent Assembly & 2 time RS member from Congress & left it when Nehru continued Anti National Policies even after being warned that China was not a "Cultural Brother, Rather Expansionist".
#VIKRAMSARABHAI – The Scientist Who Dreamt Of #Atmanirbharata In Space Research.
On his Punyasmaran Divas, few stories about this great personality.
It was late 1960s, the European Union’s Satellites failed one after another in Austalia’s launch station and they decided to stop
further launches.
To avoid losses they decided to sell unused “Satellite Telemetry and Tracking” devices and placed ad in prominent journals and magazines.
Vikram Sarabhai read this advertisement and called up Arvamudan, a scientist who working at Tumba and called him to Bombay.
In Bombay, Sarabhai met Aravamudan and another scientist H G S Murthy asked them to proceed to Australia.
The 2 scientists went to RBI and asked for Blank DD, the RBI officer got angry & sent these 2 scientists out, the 2 scientists called up Sarabhai, he after listening to them
Know more about Bharat’s Modern Day Aviator forgotten by Left’s Distronics.
Sri Rama Venkata Subba Setty (conveniently contracted to S.V. Setty, and sometimes spelled Setti), was born on December 28, 1879 into a family of meagre resources. After his early education in Mysore.
He graduated from Madras University. Later, at Thomson College of Engineering, Roorkee, he distinguished himself taking first place. He joined the Mysore State service in 1906 as Assistant Engineer. In 1909, he won a scholarship for an electrical engineering diploma from
Faraday House, England, where he later gained practical experience through stints in engineering companies.
Setty was determined not to return to India without learning aeronautics. However, he was financially insecure since the Mysore government refused to extend his