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Hall of Fame / Freedom Fighters

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Date Of Birth : Oct 2, 1869
Date of Death : Jan 30, 1948
Place of Birth : Gujarat

"The man taught the world the way of Non-Violence not only professing but proving it via practicing it"

Bhagat Singh

Date Of Birth : Sep 27, 1907
Date of Death : Mar 23, 1931
Place of Birth : Jalandhar

"At just 23 he was an idol of Determination and Perseverance to upturn the british raaj. Fondly known as Shere-e-Punjab"

Chandrasekhar Azad

Date Of Birth : Jul 23, 1906
Date of Death : Feb 27, 1931
Place of Birth : India

"Single handedly he fought a contingent of 50 British soldiers finishing off the battle before sacrificing himself"

Lala Lajpat Rai

Date Of Birth : Jan 28,1865
Date of Death : Nov 17, 1928
Place of Birth : Moga district

"At a age when people babysit grandchildren , he fought the britishers and died of baton strike"

Jawaharlal Nehru

Date Of Birth : Nov 14, 1889
Date of Death : May 27, 1964
Place of Birth : Uttar Pradesh

"The man who christened his birthday as children's day to be fondly known as Chacha Nehru"

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Date Of Birth : Oct 31, 1875
Date of Death : Dec 15, 1950
Place of Birth : Gujarat

"Known as the Iron-Man of India for his boldness and stoned decisions against the Britishers"

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Date Of Birth : Jul 23, 1856
Date of Death : 1920
Place of Birth : Maharashtra

The man who propounded “Swaraj is my Birthright and I should get it"

Rani Lakshmi Bai

Date Of Birth : Nov 19, 1828
Date of Death : June 17, 1858
Place of Birth : Varanasi

"The maiden who fought the mighty britishers single handedly at a tender age of 22 years commanding an army"

Mangal Pandey

Date Of Birth : July 19, 1827
Date of Death : April 8,1857
Place of Birth : Maharashtra

"Literally speaking he was the sower of the Revolt of 1857 which sparkled the way to our freedom 90 years later in 1947"

B.R Ambedkar

Date Of Birth : Apr 14, 1893
Date of Death : Dec 6, 1956
Place of Birth : Madhya Pradesh

"The man who changed the path of the customary Rigid Indian Caste system laying out his opinion even in front of the Britishers"

Subhas Chandra Bose

Date Of Birth : Jan 23, 1897
Date of Death : Aug 18, 1945
Place of Birth : Orissa

This intellectual brain not only devoted his sweat for India freedom but also his blood truly proclaiming “ You give me blood and I will give you Freedom”.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Date Of Birth : May 9, 1866
Date of Death : 1915
Place of Birth : Maharashtra

"The founder of the Servant's Society in India in pre-independence era"

Vinoba Bhave

Date Of Birth : Sep 11, 1895
Date of Death : Nov 15, 1982
Place of Birth : Maharashtra

The one who devoted himself for the total upliftment of the peasants and the downtrodden in pre-independence era by coining the “ Bhoodan Movement ”.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Date Of Birth : Nov 11, 1888
Date of Death : Feb 22, 1958
Place of Birth : Unknown

"One of the greatest souls who left his footprints justifying the Hindu-Muslim unity and fought to fail the intentions of britishers “ Divide & Rule “ policy"

Topic of the Day

On the eve of 62 years of Independence what is exactly haunting India and pulling it back from being the No1 economy in the World? Is it politics , poverty , overpopulation or illiteracy or is it something else? What is your say?

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Snowhite
14-Aug-09 04:15 PM -- India is developed in terms of Satellite Launching capabilities but not in terms of Manned Commercial Space Flights.India is not developed as Female literacy is approx 58% as of now Its politicians are not well educated M.Tech, IITians, M.B.As with vision required These blind mice politicians need to be phased out gradually From 16 IITs we need to quadruple upto 64 IITs in India Considering its population density & to acheive self reliance Better National & Regional Intelligence capabilities development required Strengthening of Press & Media required Defence & Public-Private Joint ventures within the country required Joint ventures between DRDO & ISRO would be like people's dream come true. Seat in UN also required. Nuclear Power Production in India which has a glorious past related to non-first usage tendencies etc... unlike U.S.A / Japan required Defence is excellent in India

Alok
14-Aug-09 04:12 PM -- Where is the long-term strategic plan to create millions of jobs every year? What measures are we taking to tackle the omnipresent demon of corruption? What are our chances of getting MPs/ministers with no criminal record? What is our plan to achieve decentralised, uniform industrial development spread across the country? How are we going to control the ticking bomb of population? What are we doing to prevent female infanticide? What are the measures taken to achieve 100 percent literacy? What is the road map for providing potable tap water to the masses? When will we have world-class infrastructure? When will we have interruption-free electricity? When will any political party fulfil the promises made in their manifesto?

Latika
14-Aug-09 04:06 PM -- I wouldn't say that. I mean I wouldn't come to any conclusion too soon... India was progressing at a very fast rate for last ten years in spite of reservation, corruption & politicians & conservative outlook. I can just say that this might be one of those stagnation periods where nothing happens. We just have to wait and watch.

Tarun Mundhra
14-Aug-09 04:06 PM -- It was progressing very well and would have been amongst the top nations of the world but now with these new senas coming up and attacking the women,freedom of rights is now slowly been taken away from women,this is a great hurdle in the path of progress and prosperity. Its not just one incident but quite a few liking burning newly born baby girls in some village of India. Wherefore progress.

Sumit
14-Aug-09 04:04 PM -- I dont think so,Indian man always let the woman on his feet since the ancient times.so the reason for incident is CONTROLLING WOMEN,nothing else. As you can see indians,where these damn hooglians attack,the woman is present there.They just want woman to be sati. You agree or disagree,that would not bother this booming india...Someday we will see the indian taliban in our developed india,so the story ends from where it starts.Just wait n watch politicians. And this is not my verdict.this is the verdict of all indian newspapers What you think so?..

Aneeta
14-Aug-09 04:01 PM -- We went wrong in finding the proper order of things.we have a 100 million plus literate labour force, and we need jobs for them. So first we need foreign manufactures to start their production from here.But this needs power, I mean electricity,not muscle power or voter power ,so we should have started with a lot of power plants ;of course there were Enron and Cogentrix, but they never took off. Why? Because we insisted that our SEB & should be the intermediary between Enron and the consumers,SEB with all their "transmission losses" of 22%free electricity to farmers,huts and politicians,and inefficiency. Compare the transmission losses of BSES, the private company which supplies uninterrupted and stable power to Bombay city. Transmission losses of BSES is very low compared to that of SEBs. Highly efficient and cost effective.It would be wonderful, if we have a similar set up all over India.

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Independence Day

'On the Auspicious Eve of 62 years of Indian Independence'

We are celebrating our independence of 62 years,India, the world's largest democracy is cherishing the moments of bondages from which we are heaven free.

Though the path we trailed was rough and the freedom which we command is all because of the great souls who laid their blood for our lives.

India is charging ahead despite that Indian Democracy is facing mammoth'ical challenges but genuinely Mother India is living up to her dreams to retain its golden glory.