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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

18 Feb

जब आप इतिहास से नहीं सीखते, तो इतिहास खुद को दोहराता है। दूसरे विश्वयुद्ध के शुरू होने के समय भारत में जो नौसेना थी, वो मामूली सी थी। सैन्य विद्रोह न हो सकें इसके लिए अंग्रेजों ने वर्षों से अफवाहें फैलाई थीं। बड़े पोत बनाने पर प्रतिबन्ध लगाए इस समय तक सौ वर्ष के लगभग बीत चुके थे।

जब द्वित्तीय विश्वयुद्ध के लिए सैनिकों की जरुरत पड़ी तो जान देने वाले सैनिक कहाँ से आते? जाहिर है वो भारत जैसे देशों से लिए गए, जो फिरंगी हुक्मरानों की गुलामी करने के लिए मजबूर थे। रॉयल ब्रिटिश नेवी का भारतीय हिस्सा अपने 1939 के आकार से बढ़कर 1945 में करीब दस गुना हो चुका था।

इस नौसेना में 1942 से 1945 के दौर में सीपीआई के नेताओं ने भर्तियाँ करवाने के लिए बड़े स्तर पर अभियान चलाये। उपनिवेशवादियों की सेना में भारतीय क्यों भर्ती करना चाहते थे? संभवतः इसलिए क्योंकि स्टालिन के हिटलर से मनमुटाव होने के बाद के दौर में नाजियों के खिलाफ होना जरूरी था!

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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

17 Feb

अगर आपने एक बार में ये तस्वीर नहीं पहचानी हो तो आपको सोचना चाहिए कि ऐसा कैसे हुआ होगा? इनके नाम से जाने-माने पत्रकारिता की पढ़ाई के संस्थान आईआईएमसी का हॉस्टल है। फिर भी किसी लेखक-पत्रकार को रानी गाइदिन्ल्यू का जिक्र करते क्यों नहीं सुना?

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करीब सत्रह वर्ष की उम्र में उनके सर पर फिरंगियों ने 500 रुपये का इनाम रखा था। इसके अलावा जिस गाँव से पकड़ी जाती, उनका लगान दस साल तक माफ़ होने की घोषणा भी थी। फिर भी उन्हें पकड़ने के लिए असम राइफल्स की तीसरी और चौथी, दो बटालियनों को उतारना पड़ा था।
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प्रकृति पूजक हेराका (शुद्धिकरण) आन्दोलन से वो तेरह वर्ष की उम्र में जुड़ी थीं और अपने भाई जदोनांग को फांसी पर चढ़ा दिए जाने के बाद रानी गाइदिन्ल्यू ने आन्दोलन का नेतृत्व संभाल लिया। वो कोई रानी भी नहीं थी। उनके गिरफ्तार होने के कई साल बाद, 1932 में नेहरु उनसे मिले थे।

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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

17 Feb

Once we pass the matriculation exams, it's only by chance that we pick up history books to read. Often our knowledge of history as adults is only the knowledge given to us by our school books and teachers. What if someone chooses to manipulate it at that point!

Today it's a well-known fact that #Indian #history has not been written by #Indians. At best, they were brown sahibs instead of the white ones who choose what we would learn about our history & what we won't. Every few months some strange manipulation of history comes to light!

How about those #NCERT books? What would you say about the most trusted books that are often used by students preparing for #UPSC? Well, you know the answer, even if you choose not to state the fact in public. They are biased, aren't they?

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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

26 Dec 20

Are you #WritingABook?

You think you need to improve your style of writing? There are a lot of books which can help you with that. Ever tried reading and learning from them? Let's take a look at what help is available in this thread.

There's "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker (amzn.to/3hkT4eb) which tells you why we all need a sense of style. It uses research in linguistics and cognitive science to help the author in enabling the spread of ideas and gaining the reader's trust.

Another one is "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott (amzn.to/3aEMKgh) which has been offering authors some practical advice on the craft of writing in a humourous style for about three decades.

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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

26 Dec 20

Writing a #BookReview?

It's too hard they say! Why so? That's because even voracious readers insist that they can't write more than one-two lines about a book. Is that bad? Actually, it's not, because summarizing a 200 pages book in 1 sentence should be called an achievement!

But then the question arises how do we write a longer #BookReview? Let's first see how we can make it a paragraph long. Maybe approaching the problem in steps would make it easier to solve. So we move toward adding one more line to your review first.

Have you noticed that many readers love the touch and feel of a book and even when they read a soft copy or on Kindle, they miss that touch, smell & feel of paper? Well, that's the first thing you CAN talk about. Consider a few examples.

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Anand Kumar

@anandydr

25 Dec 20

Only Christianity was at that time an exception. I developed a sort of dislike for it. And for a reason. In those days Christian missionaries used to stand in a corner near the high school and hold forth, pouring abuse on Hindus and their gods. I could not endure this.

I must have stood there to hear them once only, but that was enough to dissuade me from repeating the experiment. About the same time, I heard of a well known Hindu having been converted to Christianity.

It was the talk of the town that, when he was baptized, he had to eat beef and drink liquor, that he also had to change his clothes, and that thenceforth he began to go about in European costume including a hat.

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