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Lone Wolf Ratnakar

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Sep 14

There has been an attempt to whitewash the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan as an essentially benign ruler, who was misled by Qasim Rizvi on the Razakars.

That has been perpetuated by an entire cabal of Indian English writers, praising the Nizam, and downplaying the Razakars, even claiming it was not a Hindu Muslim issue.

Osman Ali Khan, became the Nizam in 1911 and the first thing he did was getting the Hindu dewan Kishan Prasad resign. Urdu was the primary medium of education when hardly 10% of the state spoke it, the majority languages Telugu, Kannada and Marathi were completely suppressed.

And this led most Hindus to drop out of schools, leaving Hyderabad State with one of the lowest literacy rates compared to Presidencies like Madras, Bombay or other princely states like Travancore, Mysore.

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Lone Wolf Ratnakar

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Sep 9

You would have seen this iconic scene from Bahubali many times.

The inspiration for this scene was this art work by Vaddadi Papaiah Gaaru, which he drew after the 1977 Diviseeema cyclone that wrecked Andhra Pradesh, showing a mother saving the baby from drowning.

We know Papaiah Gaaru for his Chandamama covers, especially this one of Satyabhama killing Narakasura or Mahishasura Mardini. But this is one of his not so well known works.

While Papaiah Gaaru worked with many other Telugu magazines also, it's his work at Chandamama that would be the most remembered to date.

Especially these of Satyabhama killing Narakasura, Mahishasura Mardini or Narsimha killing Hiranyakashipu. He bought the Puranas alive with his art.

And he could show the divine couples as beautifully, be it Vishnu-Mahalakshmi, Krishna-Rukmini, Venkateswara- Padmavathi, Shiva-Parvathi, he makes you feel the love.

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Lone Wolf Ratnakar

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Sep 5

While we celebrate #TeachersDay today in honor of S.Radhakrishnan, it is also the Jayanti of Valiappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai, or more popularly known as V.O.C.

He was also called as Kapalottiya Tamizhan( The Tamil Helsman), one of the foremost freedom fighters of Tamil Nadu. Started an indigenous shipping service to counter the British.

Ottapidaram is a small town in Tuticorin district, famous for it’s Amman temple, and the fort of the legendary Tamil warrior Veera Pandya Kattabomman just 3 km away at Panchalankurichi. It was here on September 5, 1872 that V.O.Chidambaram Pillai was born to Olaganerohathan Pillai and Paramayee Annal.

He grew up learning about Shiva from his grandmother, and the Ramayana from his grandfather. Another teacher of his Subramanya Pillai, taught him on the Mahabharat. Like any other child of his age, he loved playing games in the outdoor like goli, kabbadi, silambattam and was equally good at chess.

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Lone Wolf Ratnakar

@sadaashree

Sep 4

While we know about Swami Vivekananda, how many know that his younger brother Bhupendranath Datta, was an equally great freedom fighter and revolutionary.

Today is the Jayanti of a hero, who was as great as his more illustrious elder brother.

He was a close associate of Aurobindo during the revolutionary movement, editor of the Jugantar patrika, that motivated many youth in Bengal to lay down their lives for the cause of freedom, was part of the Indo-German conspiracy, would later become a noted anthropologist and sociologist.

He was born on September 4, 1880 in Kolkata, the youngest of three brothers after Narendranath Datta and Mahendranath Datta, to a lawyer Vishwanath Datta and his devout wife Bhuvaneshwari.

After their father Vishwanath Datta’s untimely death in 1884, the family’s fortunes crumbled. The ancestral home, once filled with books, music, and spirited debate, became a site of betrayal.

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@sadaashree

Aug 29

As part of the Ganapati Navaratris, I will be posting about one famous Ganesha Temple in Telugu land every day, till Anant Chaturdashi.

Today I will be looking at the Lakshmi Ganapati Temple in Biccavolu, gem of sculptural and spiritual heritage nestled in East Godavari district on the Chennai-Howrah railway line, whose temples are a living testament to the grandeur of the Eastern Chalukya dynasty.

These temples were built around 849-892 by the 3rd Eastern Chalukya ruler, Gunaga Vijayaditya III, of which the Golingeswara Temple, Chandrashekhara Temple and Rajarajeswara Temple are very famous.

Above all the village is famous for the 11 feet monolithic Ganesha sculpture that attracts devotees from all over.

One of the most prominent temples is the Golingeswara Swamy Temple here dedicated to Shiva. As per Sthala Purana, the Shiva Linga here was originally covered by a mound.

The cow of a farmer here used to come and give milk daily. When the cow was not giving milk properly, the farmer followed it after it went to graze. He then saw the cow giving milk at that spot, and told it to others in the village.

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Lone Wolf Ratnakar

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Aug 26

Chittorgarh falls to Allaudin Khilji on this date in 1303, leading to the Jauhar of Rani Padmini. This post is however about the man, who would bring back the lost glory of Mewar.

Rana Hammir Singh aka Veer Hammir, the first Rana of Mewar and founder of the Sisodia dynasty, a hero whose story needs to be known more.

Rana Hammir in a way began the next phase of Rajput rule of Mewar with Chittorgarh as the capital that started in 1326 and ended in 1568, when Rana Udai Singh II, had to flee after Akbar occupied the fort.

Hammir’s ancestor was Laksha Singh, a very distant clan relative of Rawal Ratan Singh, who fought during the siege of Chittorgarh by Allauddin Khilji in 1303. Whent it was inevitable, that Chittorgarh would fall, Laksha decided that one of his 9 sons would live to fight for another day.

But who would it be?

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