The father of Modern Indian Renaissance As India grapples increasingly with changing social and religious circumstances, Raja Rammohan Roy’s work in women’s emancipation, modernizing education, and seeking changes to religious orthodoxy finds new relevance in this time. He was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one …
Raje Umaji Naik Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had the quality of appreciating human beings and of their qualities. While establishing Swarajya, he got the help of such people and society to a great extent to protect Swaraj. The brave, mighty, honest, and fighting Ramoshi community has been famous since mythological times. After …
It was a time when the evils of the caste system cast a nasty shadow over Kerala. The ‘avarnas,’ as the low castes were called, lived on the fringes of a society that found their very shadow also polluting. It was at such a time that Narayana was born. As a child, he shocked …
The specialty of learned people in India is that they consider it their duty to make that knowledge readily available to everyone, not keeping their original wealth of knowledge limited to themselves. And after many years, society considers such great persons as sants. One such Sant was born in Maharashtra, whom people know by …
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely …