Tag: Independence Day
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From Hatred to Hope: How Gujarat Spread Islamophobia While Bengal’s Umeed Lifted Tricolour with Drones
On Independence Day, a Gujarat school staged a play depicting hijab-wearing girls as terrorists, fuelling Islamophobia. In contrast, Bengal’s Umeed Global School empowered its students to build and fly a 15-kg Army-grade drone to hoist the Tricolour. The two events expose India’s stark choices between prejudice and patriotism.
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Dilip Kumar’s Shaheed inspired me to become an actor: Manoj Kumar
Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar, known as Bharat Kumar in Indian cinema has acted in and made the most patriotic theme movies. The 85-year-old Manoj Kumar talked to journalist Ranjan Das Gupta on the eve of the 75th Independence Day of India. Read the exclusive interview in his own words: As I remember the first day…
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भारत की 75वीं आज़ादी और दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा आंदोलन
कोलकाता: जब पूरे भारत के लोग देश का 75वां स्वतंत्रता दिवस माना रहें होंगे तो वही लाखों किसान जो दुनिया की सबसे बड़े आंदोलन में शामिल हैं वो एक बार फिर सड़कों पे रहकर ही देश की आज़ादी के जशन को माना सकेंगे। केंद्र की नरेंद्र मोदी की सरकार द्वारा पारित तीन कृषि कानूनों के…
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PM Modi’s Independence Day speech: A roadmap to one party- one leader rule
daroniyo Pradhan Mantriji, PM Modi Badhai Ho, Sriman! Your Independence Day speech at Red Fort ramp has endeared you to me more since it provided me a veritable road map to your elevation as Bharat Samrat . It proved your genius again when you dovetailed your ‘courageous’ decisions to revoke articles 370 and 35A of…
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India at 72, Do We Give It all Up? Or Rise Like The Phoenix Again?
Happy Independence Day India, India stands at 72 a little shaken, a little stirred, yet a warrior still perhaps we are the only generation who were brought up in the 80’s and 90’s that saw the transition and rapid strides made by the country in an epoch. From Scooters to flashy mobikes to the automobile…
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Go Green with seed-Tiranga this Independence Day
Mumbai/Kolkata: With Independence Day just round the corner, are you bothered about the National flags made out of plastic being strewn around your city? While this question was looming in our head about the plastic-made National Flags that remain strewn around every locality once the flag hoisting ceremony is over, it took Mumbai-based homemaker Shruti…
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After 36 years, on Independence Day, an Indian prisoner released from Pakistan
Jaipur: What better way to celebrate Independence Day than to celebrate it with your family in your motherland. After spending 36 years in Pakistani prison, 70-year-old Gajanand Sharma has returned to his home and country India. A resident of Jaipur, Gajanand had been arrested and imprisoned in the prison in 1982. Thirty six years later,…
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Republic Day loses touch with Bharat as Indians get rootless in India
he Republic Day on Friday saw the heads of the 10 ASEAN member nations, for the first time, attending the mega celebration which also had India’s achievements in missile technology and enchanting replicas in its cultural diversity on display. The perception gaining ground in the light of over 50 percent Indian households enjoying access to…
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Sparkling Pink City celebrates Independence Day
Jaipur: Jaipur, the state capital of Rajasthan and Pink City of India was looking more beautiful on the night of August 15, the 70th Independence Day of India. Pink City celebrates Independence Day From iconic Albert Hall to picturesque Statue Circle to the Walled City and the SMS Stadium, everything was decorated and lightening. Watch…
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Indian Muslims and Independence Day celebration
Muslims, the largest minority in India are neither less Indian nor less patriot, but most of the times, they have to under go a patriotism test. time, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath asked madarsas to hoist Tricolor and record on video and to have it exhibited before education officials. This move was…