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Children, the liberties we enjoy in Independent Bharat have not come to us on a platter. A lot of sacrifices were made by our countrymen to achieve this.

Wed 19 May 2021 20.00 EDT There was a time before when the Ganges was “swollen with dead bodies”. In 1918, when the great flu pandemic swept through India and killed an estimated 18 million people, the water of this river – upon which so many lives depended – was filled with the stench of death. And so it is again. India’s official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic may be just over a quarter of a million, but experts believe the real figure to be up to five times higher, and the bodies that have begun washing up in India’s holiest river have become haunting representations ...

Remembering Chandra Shekhar Azad: 10 interesting facts about India's freedom fighter February 27 marks the 90th death anniversary of one of the iconic Indian revolutionary freedom fighters Chandra Shekhar Azad. File Photo Updated: Feb 27, 2021, 12:42 PM IST Today February 27, 2021, marks the 90th death anniversary of one of the iconic Indian revolutionary freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad. Azad was killed on this day in 1931 in Alfred Park, Allahabad after an associate betrayed him. For quite some time, he held the well-armed police that circled him at bay, si...

Feb 27, 2021, 08:54 AM IST New Delhi: February 27, 2021, marks the 90th death anniversary of the Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad. Azad was killed on this day in 1931 in Alfred Park, Allahabad after an associate betrayed him. For quite some time, he held the well-armed police that circled him at bay, single-handedly with a small pistol and a few cartridges. However, left with just one bullet, he shot himself in the head and lived up to his resolve that he would never be arrested and dragged to the gallows to be hanged. Below are some facts on the freedom fighter who sacrificed his li...

‘What is Your Name?’ ‘Azad!’ Remembering Chandrashekhar Azad(1906–1931) The revolutionary freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad is usually remembered only by the famous photograph in which he is twirling his moustache bare-chested, and wearing a janeu ritual thread, a symbol of masculine nationalism. Deeper research into his life and political career reveals not only the truth behind this photograph but the progressive political ideas of Azad, who led the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, a revolutionary socialist organisation founded by Bhagat Singh and others in Septembe...