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Apr 15, 2020 · In Shivaji Park: Dadar 28: History, Places, People, Shanta Gokhale, author, cultural critic and longtime resident of the area, brings together key events and individuals to create a matchless portrait of the neighbourhood. Through her conversations with friends and neighbours, she relives the thrill and novelty of moving from congested chawls to flats that ensured privacy in the 1930s; the politically charged decades of the 1950s and ’60s; the illustrious people who have contributed to the ...
Nov 7, 2015 · Titled Shivaji Kon Hota? in the original Marathi, Who was Shivaji? is based on a popular speech delivered by one of Maharashtra’s foremost Communist leaders, the late Govind Pansare, in Kolhapur – an important centre of Maharashtra’s anti-Brahman movement, on 11 May 1987. In his speech, Pansare attempted to put forward a rational understanding of both the facts and the myths around Shivaji’s persona and regime from a contemporary, secular and progressive standpoint.
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Apr 11, 2020 · Jyotiba Phule was born on April 11, 1827. He along with his wife, Savitribai Phule are known as the Pioneers of Women’s Education in India.
Jun 10, 2020 · Savarkar’s followers justify his apologies by calling it “shrewdness”, and comparing him with the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Fact is, after he was released from Andaman, Savarkar remained totally loyal to the British , got a hefty pension of Rs. 60 a month from them, in short he gave no evidence of “shrewdness” except in weakening the freedom struggle.
Dec 9, 2020 · ‘The boys must be hiding in a park near a hi-fi building,’ a chacha says. ‘Even the grass there is softer than our charpais.’ ‘Homework,’ I mouth to Papa so that he’ll stop interrogating me. He lets me go. Inside our house, I stand in front of the kitchen shelf where Ma has put the Parachute tub.
Jun 28, 2018 · Now, Maharashtra has a popular Varkari religion movement; this movement traditionally prays to saints, not gods. We can also call this a “saint tradition”. Before Shivaji, there were a lot of saints that people prayed to. Such traditions were borne out of differences with the hierarchical caste system; they opposed it.
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Nov 2, 2019 · Manu S Pillai is the author of the award-winning The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore, Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji, and most recently The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History.
Jan 28, 2020 · One 1973 afternoon at Curzon Park, opposite the Governor’s House in Kolkata, Badal Sircar and his group, Shatabdi, exposed Kolkatans to an unconventional theatrical dimension. “Free theatre. No tickets, no government grants, no industrial sponsors and wealthy patrons,” he underscored.
