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“I am just an ordinary man and not a very bright man.”While we celebrate October 2 as #GandhiJayanti not many are aware that is the Jayanti of another great
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Today is the Jayanti of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, one of the icons of the Bengali renaissance. His actual surname was Bandopadhyaya, but he used his title Vidyasagar when he became
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Today is Jayanti of Shri #MokshagundamVisvesvaraya in whose honor #EngineersDay is celebrated. One of the builders of modern India, an engineering genius, and one of the greatest Indians of modern
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#TodayInHistory 21 Sikhs face off a huge Afghan army at the epic Battle of Saragarhi in 1897, that would go down as one of the great last man stands in
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#TodayInHistory The 1965 India Pakistan War, begins when Indian forces cross the border, as a response to Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam. As part of my series on the War, today
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Today is Jayanti of V.O.Chidambaram Pillai, also known as Kapalottiya Tamizhan( The Tamil Helsman), one of the foremost freedom fighters of Tamil Nadu. And the first Indian to start a
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#TodayInHistory Pakistan launches Operation Grand Slam in 1965, to seize the vital Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, which in a way would begin the '65 War. However this attempt
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On the 15th of August, taking a look at the life of a freedom fighter Krantiveera Sangoli Rayanna, whose Jayanti it is today. Not so well known outside of Karnataka,
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Today is Jayanti of Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space program, regarded as one of the greatest scientists of modern India. And who also made a signficant contribution
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#TodayInHistory Hiroshima is devastated by the atomic bomb Little Man in 1945. 140,000 killed, the plight of those who survived was even worse, many suffering from the radioactive fallout. This
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Today is the Jayanti of Prafulla Chandra Ray, aka P.C.Ray. The father of modern Indian Chemistry, the first Indian to set up a pharma company, and a pioneer of modern
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Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.Death anniversary of #BalGangadharTilak the man who inspired a whole generation of revolutionaries.It is impossible for me to capture Tilak's life in
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