Harela Subject : History Section: Art and Culture Villagers across Uttarakhand celebrated Harela, a festival of greenery, peace, prosperity and environmental conservation Harela means ‘day of green’ and is celebrated in the month of Shravan (the fifth month of the Hindu lunar calendar) to worship Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. People across Uttarakhand, […]
Fourteen years after split and Jamiat factions likely to merge Subject: History Section: Modern India Context: first step towards reconciliation came after the rival camp extended him an invitation to attend its general body meeting in Deoband on May 28 The Deoband School The orthodox section among the Muslim ulema organised the Deoband […]
Gandhi memorial museum puts out special magazine issue on Savarkar Subject :History Section :Personality The June issue of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti’s (GSDS) Hindi language magazine, Antim Jan, features Savarkar on the cover Who was Veer Savarkar? Birth: Born on 28th May, 1883 in Bhagur, a village near Nashik in Maharashtra. Related […]
Goencho Saib- Goa’s patron saint Subject: History GoenchoSaib- Goa’s patron saint Velingkar has sparked a debate, claiming that Goa’s patron saint — or as they say in Konkani ‘GoenchoSaib’ — should be the mythical sage Parshuram and not the 16th-century Spanish priest St Francis Xavier. St Francis Xavier Francis Xavier was a Navarrese […]
Aryan and Dravidian are geographical terms: TN Guv Subject: History Section: Art and Culture The geographic regions, north and south of the Vindhya range known as ‘PanchAryas’ and ‘PanchDravidas’ respectively were mischievously distorted to create racial divide among people to weaken the country’s unity, the Governor said. The term Dravidar or Dravidian represented […]
Govt revives poetry banned during British rule Subject :History Section: Freedom struggle A section of the Amrit Mahotsav website, called Swatantra Swar, showcases some of these poems written before 1947, in languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Some of the popular poems showcased “Rashtriya […]
A short history of the demand for ‘Dravida Nadu’, its evolution Subject: History Section: Modern Context: DMK MP A Raja recently brought back into focus ‘Dravida Nadu’ or the idea of a separate Tamil Nadu, in the presence of CM MK Stalin The demand for Dravida Nadu The early 20th century agitations against […]