Sharma was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment, in 1942. He served in Burma during the Arakan Campaign of World War II, for which he was mentioned in despatches. Fighting in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948, Somnath Sharma was martyred in action on 3 November 1947 while repulsing Pakistani infiltrators near Srinagar Airport. For his gallantry and sacrifice during the Battle of […]
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Maniram Dewan was an Assamese nobleman and a freedom fighter in British India. He was one of the first people to establish tea gardens in Assam. He was a statesman of the Sepoy revolution of 1857. He is considered one of the most outstanding personalities of the 19th century in Assam. The original name of
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Koyapalli Kelappan was an educationist, journalist, independent activist and a politician. During the course of the Indian Freedom Struggle, he led the Indian National Congress in the state of Kerala. Due to his close association with Mahatma Gandhi, the people of Kerala came to know of Gandhian ideals essentially through his person. Hence, he came
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Shivappa Nayaka is a notable and famous ruler in Nayaka Dynasty in Southern part of India. He belongs to Keladi Nayaka Kingdom Rule of Shivappa Nayaka Shivappa Nayaka ruled the entire part of Karnataka from 1645 to 1660. He was popularly known as Keladi Shivappa Nayaka, was a notable ruler of the Keladi Nayaka Kingdom. Keladi Nayakas
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In prison, she was tortured every single day. Neera had shared some of her life stories with an Urdu writer “Farhan Taj”. Farhan Taj had written heartwarming stories of Neera in his novel. One of the heartwarming parts of her stories, She told: After the trial, I was sent to Andaman for lifetime imprisonment (Kala Pani).
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Neera Arya was a veteran of the Indian National Army (INA). She was a soldier in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian Army. She was the daughter of distinguished & eminent businessman Seth Chhajumal. She had been a patriot since her childhood towards her nation. Britishers were ruling India at that time. She participated in many of the freedom
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India believes in the idea of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (World in one family) that is why many religions coexist and people live in unity and always stand by each other. This is why today the name of many roads and schools in the capital of Warsaw in Poland are named after Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji.
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Kodi Ramamurthy Naidu (1882–1942), also known as Prof. Rammurty and Ram Murti Naidu, was an Indian bodybuilder who earned enormous respect for India in the field of wrestling. Originally hailing from town Veeraghattam in Srikakulam District Andhra Pradesh. Early life Rammurthy joined a fitness centre in Vizianagaram and learnt kusthi, a type of wrestling. His uncle Kodi Narayana Swamy, sent
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Kittur Rani Chennamma, the Queen of Kittur, was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824, against the implementation of the Doctrine of Lapse. She was born in 1778, 56 years before the 1857 revolt led by Rani Lakshmi Bai, thus becoming the one of the first women freedom
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From the beginning to new beginnings… JRD Tata pioneered civil aviation in the subcontinent in 1932 when he launched Tata Airlines. But that was only one of many path-breaking achievements of JRD, who guided the destiny of the Tata group for more than half a century. The Indian government is likely to hand over Air
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