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Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [1] [2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry fruits.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ( pronunciation ⓘ ), Marathi pronunciation: [ʋinaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ]; 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian politician, activist and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. [2] [3] [4] He was a leading figure in the Hindu ...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [pron 1] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Bharat Ratna (1999) (posthumously) Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava ( listen ⓘ; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), also known as JP and Lok Nayak ( Hindi for " People's leader "), was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is mainly remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister ...
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS (/ ˈ r ɑː m ə n /; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength.
Yun Jin (Chinese: 云堇; pinyin: Yún Jǐn) is a fictional character in the action role-playing game Genshin Impact developed by miHoYo.The character was officially released in the 2.4 update titled Fleeting Colors in Flight, which was released on January 5, 2022.
Sree Narayana Guru ( IPA: [nɑːrɑːjɐɳɐ guˈru]) (20 August 1856 – 20 September 1928) [1] was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He led a reform movement against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality. [2]