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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
NCERT textbook controversies. The National Council of Educational Research and Training ( NCERT) is an apex resource organisation set up by the Government of India to assist and advise the central and state governments on academic matters related to school education. The model textbooks published by the council for adoption by school systems ...
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