When taken to the police station for hurling a bomb at Judge Kingsford’s carriage,Khudiram Bose wilfully surrendered, and fearlessly shouted “Bandemataram.”
Keshto Mukherjee started his cinematic journey with Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik in 1952 but neither lived to see the success as the film was released more than two decades later.
The former Marathi journalist came to be associated with Sena in 1980s, and was once close to Raj Thackeray. Owing to his meteoric rise, he made many enemies, even within the party.
Mehdi Hassan blurred the lines between folk, classical, and popular music to weave his brand of music. Ab Ke Hum Bichhde, Ranjish Hi Sahi are testimony to it.
Reducing Agarkar to a binary is to erase an important part of modern Marathi society. Without him, the fight for women's liberation would be incomplete.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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