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Vinayagar Sathurthi

1 September 2008

Vinayagar or Ganesha Sathurthi is widely celebrated by Hindus everywhere. The festival will lasts for 10 days. The main sweet-dish for this function is modakas(kuzhukattai), also known as modagams in South India. A modaka is a sort of dumpling made from rice flour with a stuffing of coconut, jaggery (brown sugar) and some other ingredients. [...]

September

1 September 2008

September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days.
In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month
of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when there was a calendar reform from the month of the Ides of [...]

Khudiram Bose

27 August 2008

 Khudiram Bose was born on December 3, 1889 in the village Medinipur of Bengal. He was the son of Trailokyanath Basu and Lakshmipriya Devi. He was one among the youngest revolutionaries of India’s freedom struggle.
Khudiram had always lived a virtuous and generous life. Since childhood he was fond of the sacred words of Vande [...]

Sucheta Kriplani

25 August 2008

Sucheta Kriplani, a great freedom fighter, was born in June 1908 in Ambala. She took her education from Indraprastha College and Stephen College in Delhi. Soon after her studies she started her career as a lecturer in Banaras Hindu University.
Sucheta was greatly inspired by the works of Mahatma Gandhi and in 1946 she joined the [...]

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

24 August 2008

Dr. Rajendra Prasad , first President of independent India, was born on December 3, 1884 in Ziradevi village in Bihar’s Siwan district .
He was the youngest son of Mahadev Sahay and Kamleshwari Devi. As per their custom, he was put under a Maulavi to learn Persian at the age of 5. Later on, he also [...]

Lala Lajpat Rai

24 August 2008

Lala Lajpat Rai, popularly known as Punjab Kesari or Lion of Punjab, was born on January 28, 1865 in Jagraon in Ludhiana. He was the eldest son of Munshi Kishan Azad and Gulab Devi who inculcated strong moral values in him. He studied law from Government College in Lahore and thereafter started his legal practice [...]

Indira Gandhi

14 August 2008

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 in Allahabad and was the loving grand-daughter of Motilal Nehru. She completed her early education from Pune University and was further sent to Shantiniketan formed by Rabindranath Tagore. She then went to Oxford University for further studies.
After completing her education she returned to India in 1941 and [...]

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 August 2008

Born on November 14, 1889 in Allahabad, Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. The only son of Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani was a patriot, a freedom fighter and the most highly respected personality. He completed his early education in a boarding school in England. For higher studies he went to Cambridge [...]

Bhagat Singh

12 August 2008

Bhagat Singh , a symbol of heroism, was born in a Sikh family in Layalpur, Punjab on September 27, 1907. He was a national hero who gave a new wave to the revolutionary movement in India. His only goal in life was the destruction of British Empire.
Bhagat started his education in DAV School in Lahore [...]

Rani Lakshmibai

11 August 2008

Rani Lakshmibai was one of the leading warriors of India’s freedom struggle who laid an outstanding influence on the succeeding women freedom fighters. She was a symbol of bravery, patriotism, self respect, perseverance, generosity and resistance to British rule. She fought till her last breath for the welfare of women in the country and [...]

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