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6 Jan

Early 1948. The armies of the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan were engaged in battle in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. It was a strange war. Many of the combatants on either side knew each other well (1/n)

Less than a year ago, they were comrades in arms. But now they were in battle against each other. One battle was particularly poignant. An Indian Major was leading his troops in battle. His bullet hit his opposite number (2/n)

As the Pakistani Major gave out a cry of anguish, the Indian Major immediately identified the voice. He composed himself, and shouted out "Don't grieve Chhotey! We are soldiers and we did our duty" (3/n)

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5 Jan

It was not a very common scene in the 70s to see saree clad women playing competitive chess. In the era when women were not even allowed to play chess alongside men, the Khadilkar sisters took the world by storm. A thread. (1/n)

Last year, child prodigy Divya Deshmukh became India’s 21st Woman Grand Master (WGM) but the scenes were not the same in the 60s and 70s. The fight against patriarchy started from a literature family in Maharashtra. (2/n)

This is a trailblazing story of three sisters Vasanti, Jayshree and Rohini, born to Neelakant Khadilkar who was the editor of two prominent Marathi dailies. For almost a decade, three Khadilkar sisters dominated the Indian women's chess championship, winning all titles. (3/n)

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4 Jan

As another wave of the Covid pandemic seems impending, the story of a hospital in the state of Telangana. The hospital is commonly known as “Fever Hospital” which was renamed as Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical Diseases after Sir Ronald Ross (1/5)

This hospital has an intriguing history that dates back to the last century. The Fever Hospital was originally located at Errannagutta, a small hillock outside of the city founded by the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad (2/5)

When the 1915 epidemic of cholera hit the city hard, Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan founded this hospital to treat the sick people isolated from the populated parts of the city (3/5)

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3 Jan

#SavitribaiPhule was born #OTD 191 years ago, about 50 miles from Pune (then Poona). Lev Tolstoy had once said "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." It would turn out to be an apt description of Savitribai's life (1/n)

Savitribai was married to Jyotirao, a truly noble man. After their marriage, Jyotirao educated his new bride, till then an illiterate. Later, Savitribai also enrolled in two teachers' program, one of them run by an American missionary Cynthia Farrar (2/n)

Around 1848, Jyotirao & Savitribai opened their own school for girls at Bhide Wada in Pune. By 1851, they had expanded to 3 girls' schools with a combined strength of 150 students. However, success came at a cost (3/n)

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2 Jan

It was days after the end of the 1971 war on the eastern front that signaled the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh from erstwhile East Pakistan/East Bengal. Close to a year of military crackdown had left the land in a mess (1/n)

Although the Bangladesh govt. in exile had flown in from Calcutta after the surrender of West Pakistan forces, temporarily Dhaka had been placed under military administration with Lt. Gen. Sagat Singh as the administrator (2/n)

The newly born country and the people were in desperate need of relief materials. But one big challenge was arranging landing of incoming flights. During the two weeks of the war, the IAF had extensively bombed Tezgaon airport (3/n)

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31 Dec 21

It was August 23, 1965 when the unthinkable happened in Calcutta. The State govt. announced a blanket ban on production of chhena based sweets like rosogolla and sandesh. For the sweet loving Calcuttan, it was a gut punch like no other (1/n)

West Bengal's CM Prafulla Chandra Sen, a veteran Gandhian, came on the local station of AIR and explained the need for this drastic measure. West Bengal's milk production was 3 ounces per capita vs. 17 ounces/capita in Punjab, he said (2/n)

With the Indian currency in a precarious position, importing milk powder was not feasible for the state. Sen stated that milk thus had to go to priority sector first - children and mothers - than for pleasure items (3/n)

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