King Charles III, in 1974, attended the 13-week All Arms Commando Course at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone Devon.
He qualified as a Royal Marine Commando
Though appointed the Colonel in Chief of the Parachute Regiment in 1977.......
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he refused to wear the maroon beret and Para Wings unless he completed the parachute training himself.
In 1978, Charles attended Parachute Course 841a at RAF Prize Norton and earned his maroon beret and Para Wings.
Charles maintains close ties with the Paras
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Savarkar was yoked to the infamous oil mill in the cellular jail. Quite understandably, his revolutionary fervour fizzled out.
Guess who became the foreman incharge of the oil godown where other revolutionaries were routinely yoked and tortured?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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This happened just within a few months of arrival at the Cellular jail. As a foreman he had all the freedom in the cellular jail, including access to the library, where he subsequently became the librarian.
He drew a salary as the foreman.
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Savarkar had been granted the privilege of receiving a few books/magazines from home once in a year
His family was allowed to visit him at Andamans on British govt expense.
Guess when did Savarkar write his first Maafinaama?
In 1911, within six months of reaching Andaman
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"Be it Birsa Munda or Govind Guru, the Congress did not give respect to tribal leaders of the country,"
~~Modi at Netrang, a tribal area of Bharuch district
Birsa Munda fought against British and won the rights for tribals over their lands and forests.
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Govt of Independent India enacted laws granting the rights of the tribals and forest dwelers over their lands and forests.
A century after Birsa Munda fought and dies, Modi's govt changed the law and discarded the first right of adivasis on their lands.
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As per the law, there is no need for private developers to take permission/NOC from tribals and forest dwellers before cutting down of forests
The new rules allow the union government to permit the clearing of a forest before consulting the people living in it
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Therefore if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me, I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that progress.
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As long as we are in jails there cannot be real happiness and joy in hundreds and thousands of homes of His Majesty’s loyal subjects in India, but if we be released the people will instinctively raise a shout of joy and gratitude to the government