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.

#TheAyodhyaMovement
#TheForgottenHeroes

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.

Why we never learn about these legends?

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

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

'Kousalya Supraja Rama Poorva Sandhya Pravarthate...'

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?

Thread.... 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).

Why Blame Aurangzeb and Bhaktiyar Khilji, this is the question in my mind since afternoon.

Like all other Hoysala Devasthana, Bucheshwara Mandir at Koravangala, Hassan has a story to tell in every sculpture.

It's our Durgati, that there's nobody to notice it.

1





The Mandir I visited today dates back to 1173CE and is considered to be the flag-bearer of Hoysala architecture.

This Mandir is dedicated to Eshwara & Surya Bhagawan.

2

Who became our Defence Minister when we became Independent?

The First DM of India was a Sikh and he was REMOVED as he went against Nehru and joined hands with Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel in Liberation of Hyderabad.

#SardarBaldevSingh was born on 11 July 1902 in Punjab. His father was Sir Indra Singh, a reputed industrialist who had factories at Jamshedpur and present day Bangladesh.
Though born Ultra Rich, Baldev Singh had other aspirations..
He envisioned Independent India and Uplifting Jat’s.

By 1930s he joined Shiromani Akali Dal and

“Hindus have lost everything and I can’t see Hindus getting annihilated or become stateless”.
Had it not been for #ShyamaPrasadMookerjee, there would have been no West Bengal today.

#Jayanti.

Before reading further, let us keep this in mind, that Gandhi endorsed the claim for a united and independent Bengal on 12 May 1947.

It is regrettable that most Bengali Hindus themselves don’t know this because the post-independence generations have only been taught a white-washed version of history in schools and colleges.

“Bharat is in need of Bomb and Bomb Alone”.

If asked, what was the role of #SwamiVivekananda in Bharatiya Svatantrya Sangram, many of us will scratch our heads as we know nothing about him except that he gave a speech in Chicago.

While most of us see Swami Vivekananda as a Sanyasi who spread Sanatana Dharma to the world, very few know his contribution for freedom struggle.

The Clarion Call, “Rise, Awake & Stop Not Till The Goal Is Reached” was to kick out British from Bharat.

UNFORTUNATELY Ramakrishna Matt, Swami Vivekananda websites have fallen

As the Indian delegate on the UNHRC in 1947–48, she was responsible for changing the language of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from "all men are born free and equal" to "all human beings are born free and equal", highlighting the need for gender equality. Her name was Hansa Jivraj Mehta, she was born in a Nagar Brahmin family on 3 July 1897. She was daughter of Manubhai Mehta, Dewan of Baroda State.

After independence, she was among the 15 women who were part of the constituent assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution.

Justice BR Gavai asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta "whether heavens would fall" if Setalvad is granted bail for a few days.

The 3 learned Milaards who came to court on a Saturday are
Justice AS Bopanna ,
Justice BR Gavai and
Justice Dipankar Datta. These 3, stayed the Gujarat High Court order denying bail to Setalvad.

The Court further directed that Setalvad's appeal against the High Court order be placed before the CJI Chandrachud for hearing at length.

Hours before SC descision,
In its 127-page ruling, Gujarat HC

Why should we worship Chatrapathi Shivaji, he was a Maratha and a king who expanded his territory.

Often, we come across Federal & Linguistic ideologists who doesn’t believe in Rashtra or for that matter, Bharat as a country.

The answer for them in this thread ….

#SWARAJYA, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhara Tilak, made the word ‘Swarajya’ reverberate throughout India with his slogan: ‘Swarajya is my birth right’.
But who used it first?
It was economist Dadabhai Naoroji who, borrowing the word from Shivaji, brought it into the freedom movement.

For Tilak,

#Legend

He came to Mumbai in the mid-1950s to try his luck, but failed his first screen test. He however managed to land a stable job with the ESI and indulged his hobby of acting by becoming part of an amateur natak mandali or stage group.

His group often performed at the Prithvi Theatre in plays written by Satyadev Dubey. He eventually became well known as a stage actor & won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979.

This theatre recognition soon led to work in television advertisements and eventually to films at the relatively late age of 40.

Neither Ahimsa, nor their propagandists got us freedom, it was the sacrifice of countless unheard revolutionaries who never let the spirit of freedom struggle die and ensured that there will be always another batch to continue the fight till Bharath attains independence. #OnThisDay

On 22 June 1897, the Diamond Jubilee of the coronation of Queen Victoria, Rand and his military escort Lt. Ayerst were shot while returning from the celebrations at Government House. Both died, Ayerst on the spot and Rand of his wounds on 3 July.

#PeekIntoThePast

On this day in 1991,
#PVNarasimhaRao was sworn in as the Ninth Prime Minister of India.
PVNR inherited India which was on verge of economic, social and territorial disaster.
We were on verge on bankruptcy as we had to pledge gold to pay for oil. We were a hugely divided society with mandal leading to caste clashes.
Punjab was on verge of disintegration with Khalistan terr0r.
Kashmir was in clutch of jih@dis
Tamilnadu was under the influence of LTTE.
Under these situations, He Brought In The Reforms ...

The aftermath of the 1921 Moplah Terror had come to Doctorji as a shock.

Indian Muslims had proved themselves Muslims first and Indians only secondarily so that when the Khilafat was given up in Turkey, they withdrew from the allied movement for national independence. The whole atmosphere was charged with Muslim fanaticism. ‘Allah ho akbar’ and not ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ was heard everywhere. Soon there were Muslim riots in Bannu, Kohat, Multan, Nagpur, Kanpur and elsewhere.

ಚಿತ್ರ: ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ
ಸಂಗೀತ: ರಾಜನ್ ನಾಗೇಂದ್ರ
ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ:ಚಿ.ಉದಯಶಂಕರ್
ಗಾಯಕರು: ಎಸ್ ಪಿ ಬಾಲಸುಬ್ರಮಣ್ಯಂ

ಆಕಾಶದಿಂದ ಧರೆಗಿಳಿದ ರಂಭೆ, ಆಕಾಶದಿಂದ ಧರೆಗಿಳಿದ ರಂಭೆ,
ಇವಳೇ ಇವಳೇ ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,ಇವಳೇ ಇವಳೇ ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,
ಚೆಲುವಾದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,

ಬಂಗಾರದಿಂದ ಬೊಂಬೆಯನು ಮಾಡಿದ
ಚಂದಿರನ ಕಾಂತಿಯ ತನುವಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿದ, ತಾವರೆಯ ಅಂದ ಕಣ್ಣಲ್ಲಿ ತಂದ
ಈ ಸಂಜೆ ಕೆಂಪನು ಕೆನ್ನೆಯಲಿ ತುಂಬಿದ,
ಆ ದೇವರೇ ಕಾಣಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿದಾ,ನನ್ನಾ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾಡಿದ...ಆಹಾ........

ಆಕಾಶದಿಂದ ಧರೆಗಿಳಿದ ರಂಭೆ, ಆಕಾಶದಿಂದ ಧರೆಗಿಳಿದ ರಂಭೆ,
ಇವಳೇ ಇವಳೇ ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,ಇವಳೇ ಇವಳೇ ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,
ಚೆಲುವಾದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,ಚಂದನದ ಗೂಂಬೆ,

ನಡೆವಾಗ ನಿನ್ನಾ, ಮೈ ಮಾಟವೇನು,

ಚಿತ್ರ: ನ್ಯಾಯವೇ ದೇವರು
ಗಾಯಕರು: ಪಿ.ಬಿ. ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ್
ರಚನೆ: ಚಿ.ಉದಯಶಂಕರ್
ಸಂಗೀತ: ರಾಜನ್ ನಾಗೇಂದ್ರ

ಆಕಾಶವೇ ಬೀಳಲಿ ಮೇಲೆ ನಾನೆಂದು ನಿನ್ನವನು
ಭೂಮಿಯೇ ಬಾಯ್ ಬಿಡಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲೇ ನಾನಿನ್ನ ಕೈ ಬಿಡೆನು
ನೀನಿರುವುದೇ ನನಗಾಗಿ ಈ ಜೀವ ನಿನಗಾಗಿ
ನೀನಿರುವುದೇ ನನಗಾಗಿ ಈ ಜೀವ ನಿನಗಾಗಿ ಆಕಾಶವೇ ಬೀಳಲಿ ಮೇಲೆ ನಾನೆಂದು ನಿನ್ನವನು ಹೆದರಿಕೆಯ ನೋಟವೇಕೆ ಒಡನಾಡಿ ನಾನಿರುವೆ
ಹೊಸ ಬಾಳಿನ ಹಾದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ ನಾ ಬರುವೆ
ಕಲ್ಲಿರಲಿ ಮುಳ್ಳೇ ಇರಲಿ ನಾ ಮೊದಲು ಮುನ್ನಡೆವೆ
ನೀನಡಿಯ ಇಡುವೆಡೆಯೇ ಒಲವಿನ ಹೂಹಾಸುವೆ
ಈ ಮಾತಿಗೆ ಮನವೇ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಈ ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ದೇವರೇ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ
ಇನ್ನಾದರೂ ನನ್ನ ನಂಬಿ ನಗೆಯ ಚೆಲ್ಲು ಚೆಲುವೆ

ಆಕಾಶವೇ ಬೀಳಲಿ ಮೇಲೆ ನಾನೆಂದು ನಿನ್ನವನು

J!hadis kill you on the spot, but Communists?
They kill you slowly and enjoy watching it.

How many of you know that, in 1942, when Sheikh Abdullah was a nobody,
it was @cpimspeak which provided all kinds of support to oust Maharaja Hari Singh?

Do you know why they did it? For 2 simple reasons

1 Since Germany attacked Russia & Russia allied with British, they had to follow what Comrades at Russia asked them to do.

2 The Communists were loosing their presence in Bharat as most Hindus were following Gandhi.
In order to gain Muslim Support, they

Unable to bear the humiliation meted out by Jyoti Basu government, the World’s 2nd Doctor to create a Test Tube Baby killed himself on this day.

This is the tragic history of the Pioneer of IVF in India, the creator of India's first and world's second child using IVF, Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay.
#Punyasmaran.

The son of a Doctor, Subhash was born on 16 Jan 1931 at Hazaribagh.
Subhash earned his medical degree and his 1st Ph.D. at Calcutta University and his second Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1967 in 'Reproductive Endocrinology'.

Motherless at 4, marriage at 14, mother at 23, widow at 25, defender of Jhansi at 29, battlefield warrior against British forces at 30, veeramarana at 30!

On June 18, 1858, Jhansi Rani, "most dangerous rebel leader" in British occupied India , was killed at the Gwalior fort. Even if the Indians forget, Gwalior fort will never be forgotten by the British. This is because it is a fort that has witnessed the fiercest struggle against British colonialism. The last battle of Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bhai, was fought at this fort in Gwalior.