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Honorable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi addresses at the inauguration the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’
Present on the stage, Governor of Gujarat Shri Acharya Dev Vrat ji, Chief Minister Shri Vijay Rupani ji, my colleague in the Union Council of Ministers, Shri Prahlad Patel ji, my fellow Parliamentarian in the Lok Sabha, Shri C.R. Patil ji, the newly elected Mayor …
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The history of India’s tricolor flag
This month, India celebrates 73 years of independence. The tricolor flag – perhaps the most tangible and potent symbol of freedom from colonial servitude – is, particularly, on full display. In 2017, a rally organised in Delhi was held under a 2,200-foot-long tricolor. At …
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What Swaraj meant to Gandhi?
The twentieth century has been characterised as a century of widespread democratic upsurge. The first half of the century witnessed the overthrow of colonialism in Asia and Africa because of the liberation struggles. The Indian freedom movement led by Mahatma Gandhi which used nonviolent direct …
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Quit India
WITH THE OUTBREAK of the war in 1939, Gandhi was dragged back into the political arena. He had loyally supported the Empire in the First World War. In the Boer War, even though his moral sympathies were with the Boers who were fighting for their …
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British Government Must Apologize for Jallianwala Baugh Massacre
In 2019, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby visited the site of a brutal massacre, Jallianwala Baugh, which happened in 1919 under British colonial rule in India and offered his personal apologies. He expressed his “deep sense of grief” for a “terrible atrocity.” The …
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Natives beaten down by police in India salt bed raid
By WEBB MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent DHARASANA, India, Wednesday, May 21, 1930 (UP) – Prayers said as white-clad volunteers knelt in the moonlight and an impassioned speech by the poetess-leader, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, opened the mass attack of 2,500 independence demonstrators today on the …
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The road to India’s partition
As citizens of India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of their independence on August 15, they will also remember 1947 as the momentous year of their simultaneous birth. That year, the British quit their “jewel in the crown” and partitioned colonial India on the basis …
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Rik Mehta, the first Indian-American to win GOP primary for Senate from New Jersey Rik Mehta, an ex-US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official, beaten his closest rival Hirsh Singh, also an Indian-American, in the Republican, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), primaries …
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