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UPSC Mains Special: How and why Gandhi acquires centre stage in UPSC Mains exam
October 08, 2024 10:27 am
Gandhi Jayanti Special: Apart from traditional questions, Gandhi's famous quotes, comparisons with other contemporary leaders have been some of the other interesting themes that UPSC has covered in recent years. Let's analyse his presence in the UPSC Mains exams on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti 2024.
Ram Madhav writes: The necessity of a secular UCC
August 17, 2024 10:13 am
From Red Fort, PM Modi shone a light on unfinished agenda of Constitution
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar writes: All that freedom has given us
August 17, 2024 4:40 pm
The road ahead will not be easy, and we find that new shackles bind us, yet there is hope that things will get better
100 years ago, when a train robbery shook the Empire
August 11, 2024 10:22 pm
The ramifications from the trial in the Kakori train robbery case were felt much after Independence. Two of the defence lawyers went on to be UP chief minister while the prosecution lawyers had judicial and political careers
P Chidambaram writes: Democracy deficit
August 11, 2024 10:10 am
Begum Sheikh Hasina was first elected in 1996. She was re-elected in 2008, 2014, 2019 and 2024. The Opposition parties boycotted the last election. The 2024 election’s ‘freeness and fairness’ have been seriously doubted by well-informed persons and governments. India decided that being politically correct was the better part of principles
Hidden Stories: How a Pune-based lithograph press founded in 1878 became a flagbearer of Indian nationalism
August 06, 2023 11:28 am
The press started as an endeavour to complement texts in books and magazines with imagery and soon transformed into a powerful tool to inspire unity and resistance against British colonial rule.
Why does Goa celebrate Liberation Day on December 19?
December 20, 2022 6:53 am
The last of the European colonial powers were made to leave India on this day in 1961 after 'Operation Vijay' against Portuguese forces in Goa was carried out. Here's the history.
Remembering the 1925 Kakori Train Action and its young revolutionary leaders
December 19, 2022 7:56 am
Prominent revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement were hanged on December 17 (Rajendranath Lahiri) and December 19 (Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh) in 1927, two years after the Kakori Train Robbery.
Explained: The revolutionaries whom Modi mentioned in his Independence Day speech
August 16, 2022 6:30 am
The Prime Minister took several names, including women, tribal, and spiritual leaders, and those who fought for India's freedom both within and outside the mainstream national movement.
Remembering the forgotten heroes from India's freedom struggle
August 21, 2021 9:27 pm
For a deepening of democracy in the country, we need to embrace subaltern narratives of participation in India’s freedom struggle as part of the mainstream.
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