किसान-कवि, लेखक और निर्भीक पत्रकार पंडित माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी राजद्रोह में जेल गए, CM पद ठुकराया और सम्मान लौटाया शायद ही कोई ऐसा व्यक्ति हो, जिसने स्कूली शिक्षा के दौरान या फिर साहित्य-अध्ययन के दौरान ‘पुष्प की अभिलाषा’ कविता न पढ़ी हो. चाह नहीं मैं सुरबाला के, गहनों में गूंथा जाऊं, चाह नहीं प्रेमी-माला में बिंध, प्यारी को ललचाऊं चाह नहीं सम्राटों के शव पर, हे हरि डाला जाऊं चाह नहीं देवों के सिर पर, चढूं भाग्य पर इठलाऊं मुझे तोड़…
Raghupati Sahay – better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri – was born on 28 August 1896 and he died on 3 March 1982. He is known to have fought to save the idea of secular India, most of his life. He is counted amongst the most influential poets who laid the foundation for the modern Urdu ghazal. He established himself among peers including famous Urdu poets like Allama Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi, Josh Malihabadi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,…
Amrita Pritam is one of the best known Punjabi authors and poets was a writer, a mystic, a poet, a rebel and a human being par excellence. She wrote about love, hope, separation, feminism, partition and struggles of women . She could be a synonym for ‘Freedom’. She lived life on her own terms but without being a confrontationist. She was honoured with some of the highest awards in the country including the Sahitya Akademi, Bharatiya Jnanpith, and Padma Vibhushan.…
Army Day, in India, is celebrated on 15 January every year, in recognition of Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa’s (then a Lieutenant General) taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India, on 15 January 1949. Celebrations are in the form of parades and other military shows in the national capital New Delhi as well as in all headquarters On 16 January 2021, India celebrated its 73rd Indian…
Colonel Narendra Kumar, PVSM, KC, AVSM, FRGS (8 December 1933 – 31 December 2020) Indian soldier & mountaineer. Ace mountaineer Colonel (Rt.) Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar led the first Indian team to climb Nanda Devi and helped India secure the Siachen Glacier. This was one among the many exploits in an illustrious and impactful career in adventure spanning more than six decades. Lt. Col Narendra Kumar was the fourth principal of the prestigious Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) in Darjeeling, later Principal of the…