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TopicFreedom struggle

Topic: freedom struggle

Hindu College—a revolution started by businessmen, championed by freedom fighters

Nutan Manmohan -
Hindu College was set up to stem the tide of missionary education in India. It proudly aligned itself with the freedom movement.

BJP is obsessed with Nehru, freedom struggle. This keeps Rahul Gandhi in the news forever

Vir Sanghvi -
People who vote for the BJP support it because they admire Narendra Modi. Nobody votes for the BJP because of anything that occurred in the freedom struggle.

Remembering Shaheed Udham Singh, the revolutionary who avenged Jallianwala Bagh

Avishek Jha -
Udham Singh was hanged on 31 July 1940 for killing former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, Michael O’Dwyer, in March of that year.

South African racists to Hindu fanatics, the many times Gandhi faced death before 30 Jan 1948

Urvish Kothari -
Each time Gandhi was attacked, he prayed for the attacker and didn’t press charges – whether in Africa or India.

Madapati Hanumantha Rao, Hyderabad’s first mayor who led the renaissance of Telugu

Yimkumla Longkumer -
The ‘Andhra Pitamaha’ was the first Telugu person to receive the Padma Bhushan. His legacy to 'enlighten' the masses lives on in Hyderabad.

Tarkeshwari Prasad Sinha, fiery freedom fighter from Bihar who rose to top echelons of power

Bismee Taskin -
Sinha’s public life started to take shape during the 1942 Quit India Movement, when she was just 16. She eventually rose to be a Union minister and a four-time MP.

Hindutva founders did little for azadi. Hijacking history in ICHR poster is what BJP can do

Shashi Tharoor -
Excising Nehru from India’s freedom struggle is rationally impossible; omitting him from an ICHR poster is the best they can do.

How secret Congress Radio played ‘Vande Mataram’ with police at door in 1942

Usha Thakkar -
In ‘Congress Radio’, Usha Thakkar writes about the secret radio channel during India’s freedom struggle and the woman who refused to let the police stop ‘Vande Mataram’.

‘Braveheart, fanatic anarchist’ — what Bhagat Singh wrote of Savarkar, and their common cause

Arun Anand -
Bhagat Singh and Veer Savarkar shared respect for each other, rooted in the cause of the freedom struggle. Historical records show how Singh perceived Savarkar.

The underground Congress radio during freedom struggle and 22-yr-old woman behind its voice

Aanchal Malhotra -
In an essay in ‘Our Freedoms’, Aanchal Malhotra writes about Usha Mehta and the Congress Radio set up in 1942 to counter the British-controlled AIR.
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India-US trade talks in final stages, withdrawn NITI Aayog paper shifts focus to GM soybean, corn

Udit Hinduja -
Working paper invited backlash from several farmers’ groups including BKU & BKS who opposed recommendation for import of genetically modified soybean & corn for oil extraction.

Defence

‘1 border, 3 adversaries’: Army Deputy Chief on Op Sindoor, says Pakistan got live inputs from China

Snehesh Alex Philip -
ThePrint’s Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta had written in ‘National Interest’ on 7 June how Op Sindoor was the first battle in India’s two-front war.

National Interest

Kutch was the cue, Sindoor the signal. India needs a 6-month, 2-yr & 5-yr plan for Asim Munir

Shekhar Gupta -
Kutch is our most forgotten war with Pakistan. Learn from it and draw up a plan for the next six months, two years and five years.

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