Do you know the founder of this brand & company was a Freedom Fighter, Acclaimed Journalist & Earliest Propagator for Separate Andhra Pradesh From Madras Constituency?
Completing his graduation from Madras Christian College, Pantulu travelled for Kolkata to work in Apothecary Business (Pharmacist), later he moved to Bombay to work in an office, unsatisfied, Pantulu in the year 1893 got patent for Pain Balm &
started #Amrutanjan_Limited.
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He recognized the need for a Telugu language journal to campaign effectively for the freedom struggle and founded a weekly #AndhraPatrika in 1909 in Bombay.
In 1914, he moved the journal to Madras and reformatted it as a daily newspaper.
Besides being a journalist,
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Nageswara Rao was also a publisher of Telugu literature. In 1926, he launched a publishing house known as the Andhra Grandha Mala. This institution published as many as 20 books besides reproducing many Telugu classics as well as modern writings.
For accessibility of common
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man, Pantulugaru kept all his journals at low price & his dedication for education helped set up 120 libraries at Andhra by 1920...
Pantulugaru also referred as #Deshoddaraka for voicing separate Andhra state in his publications.
Nageshwara Rao Pantulu by 1920s started
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involving in Congress & between 1924-34, he was the president of @INC_Andhra & he was imprisoned by British for participating in Salt Satyagraha.
At Prison, Pantulugaru wrote exposition for Bhagavad-Gita where in he argued that Gita belonged to entire humanity as a Yoga for
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spiritual enlightenment & prosperity of entire world.
Kasinadhuni Nageshwara Rao Pantulu reached Vaikunatm on 11/04/1938 after decades of service to humanity & Maa Bharati.
Among her failures, the least talked about was also her worst. Until all official records related to the Simla Agreement signed on July 2, 1972 are made public, we will never know what led Indira Gandhi to conclude such a disadvantageous peace with Pak following the 1971 war.
The Simla Agreement & the subsequent Delhi Agreement, gave Pakistan everything it wanted: the territory it lost to India in the war and the safe return of all its soldiers without one of them being held responsible for the genocidal campaign unleashed in what is now Bangladesh.
The Simla Agreement reads more like a communiqué than a peace agreement with a country that had waged war on India. Nothing in the Agreement pinned Pakistan down to future good behaviour.
If ever there was an inflection point in India’s relations with Pakistan,
The #openmagazine came with the headline
“The Villain Nobody Knows” and the byline, “The Indian Civil Service officer who helped the Hindu Mahasabha lay claim to the Babri Masjid”.
The villain was an ICS officer of Kerala Cadre #KKKNair
who played an unforgettable role in reinstating the fundamental right to worship of Hindus in the Rama Janmabhumi before Bharat became a constitutional republic.
KK Nair or Kandangalathil Karunakaran Nair is a name deeply engraved in the history of the Ayodhya movement.
KKN was born on September 11, 1907, at Kuttanad, a small village in Alappuzha.
After completing his education in Kerala, he went to England for higher studies and won ICS at the age of 21. He joined as a civil servant in Uttar Pradesh in 1945 and became Deputy Commissioner-cum-
This lawyer turned historian proved that Indian republics, based on the principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the oldest and most powerful of the ancient world.
#KashiPrasadJayaswal
(27 November 1881 – 4 August 1937) was an Indian historian and lawyer.
His famous book “Hindu polity” became the most inspirable book for the Indian historian during the British Period because in this book, he countered that ideology of western historians in which it was
propagated that India had learned about political institutions and ideas from the west and there were anarchical states that existed in Ancient India
Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) & History of India, 150 A.D. to 350 A.D. (1933) are classics of ancient Indian literature
All you have to do is read your own history. If you have any human decency about you, you should die with shame.
Sardar Udham Singh commented in Court defending himself.
On this day, 31st July, 1940, Sardar Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville jail, London.
A small tribute for an icon in Bharatiya Svatantrya Sangram.
Udham Singh was born as Sher Singh on 26 December 1899 at Punjab.
If it was the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which provided the turning point of his life which led him to avenge the dead, it was Bhagat Singh
who provided him with the inspiration to pursue the path of revolutionary struggle.
In 1924, Udham Singh became involved with Ghadar Party, subsequently Udham travelled to Africa, the United States and Europe, organising Bharatiyas overseas towards overthrowing colonial rule.
How the Venkateshwara Suprabhatam, the early-morning anthem of many Hindu households, across continents, turned to be the largest selling non-film recording in India's musical history?
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The first verse in the Venkateswara Suprabhatam is taken from the Bala Kanda of Valmiki’s Ramayana, and the rest was written by the Sanskrit and Tamil scholar-poet Prathivadhi Bhayankaram Annangaracharya.
(the yesteryear singer PB Srinivas belonged to this lineage).
In 1963, an unsung employee of HMV (His Master's Voice) thought to record the Suprabhatam and put it out in the market as a commercial offering, the company approached MS.
In 1958, All India Radio on the occasion of Vaikunta Ekadasi had MS Subbulakshmi render the verses