Jawahar Lal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889. He died on 27 May 1964. He was an Indian statesman who was the first (and to date the longest-serving) prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement, Nehru was elected by the Congress Party to assume office as independent India’s …

Do you remember me, dear folk, along the busy street? I used to pull the milkman’s float with eager, willing feet. Perhaps you wondered where I’d gone, so here’s my story true, And gather round to listen, to the tale I’ll tell to you.At last I grew too old to work. They found for me a home. A place where …

Born: 11 November 1888, Saudi Arabia Died: 22 February 1958, Delhi Full name: Maulana Sayyid Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad Education: Al-Azhar University (1905–1907) Awards: Bharat Ratna Maulana Abul Kalam Azad — Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad, was an Indian Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement, who lived from 11 November 1888 …

The campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is India’s largest cleanliness drive to date with 3 million government employees, school students, and college students from all parts of India participating in 4,041 statutory cities, towns and associated rural areas. Modi has called the campaign “Satyagrah se Swachhagrah” in …

Birth name: Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna Born: 6 July 1930 Sankaraguptam, East Godavari District, Madras Presidency, British India (now part of Andhra Pradesh, India) Died: 22 November 2016 (aged 86) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Genres: Carnatic Music Occupation: Musician Instruments: Viola, Mridangam, Kanjira Years Active: 1938–2016 Dr. Balamurali Krishna — The celebrated Carnatic Musical Genius ‘Padmashri’ Dr. Balamurali Krishna is a renowned singer, …

आज स्वतंत्रता दिवस लोगों के लिये सिर्फ होलीडे से ज्यादा और कुछ नहीं रह गया है। लोग घरो में बैठकर अपनी छुट्टी एंज्वाय करते हैं या अपने परिवार के साथ घुमने निकल पड़ते हैं लेकिन सरहद पर बैठे जवान आजादी के इतने साल बाद आज भी देश की रक्षा की खातिर अपनी जान दाव पर लगाते हैं। इन देशप्रेमियों और …

दे दी हमें आज़ादी (Miraculously given us freedom) or Sabarmati ke Sant is an Indian song written by Kavi Pradeep. It is a patriotic song dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his non-violence nature. This a film soundtrack of Bollywood film Jagriti (1954). This song was sang by Asha Bhosle. साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल: कवि प्रदीप दे दी …

Here is an old classic poem by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who also wrote the evergreen poem – Jhansi Ki Rani. Her writing career unfortunately came to an early end as she died at the age of 42, in a road accident. That happened before the country attained freedom. That explains the last stanza of this poem where she says that …

Albert Einstein said about him, “Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood”. What a phenomenon our Father of the nation was! He took on an empire about which it was said that the “sun never sets on it”, and lead a whole subcontinent to freedom. That too while …

Born: 21 March 1923 Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India Died: 23 February 2011 Genoa, Italy Known for: Sahaja Yoga Website: www.sahajayoga.org Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi — Nirmala Srivastava (March 21, 1923 – February 23, 2011), more widely known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was the founder of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement. To her devotees she declared that she was …