Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted citizens on Saturday and paid tribute to freedom fighters on India’s Independence Day. In a post on X, he said their courage and sacrifice ended colonial rule…
The Hindu has called for a National Museum of India’s Freedom Movement ahead of the country’s 80th Independence Day. The proposed institution would document the struggle through letters, photographs, prison records, artefacts,…
President Droupadi Murmu has given assent to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, granting the full six-stanza version of Vande Mataram the same legal protection as the national…
Singer Usha Uthup, 79, says she is strongly attached to the idea of India even though much has changed. Born in the year of Independence, she said the feeling of secularism has…
Mahatma Gandhi's final fast in January 1948 at Birla House in New Delhi forced the Indian government to release Rs 55 crore to Pakistan. The sum was Pakistan's share of the sterling…
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A new book by Ajay Kamalakaran, *Colombo: Port of Call*, stitches together travelogues of famous visitors to colonial Ceylon. Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anton Chekhov, and Mahatma Gandhi all feature. Twain…
Union Minister L. Murugan on Sunday paid tribute to those who took part in the Quit India Movement, calling their courage and sacrifice an eternal inspiration. In a social media post, the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered those who participated in the historic Quit India Movement, saying their courage will always remain an inspiration for every Indian. In a post on X,…
The Quit India Movement became a mass uprising after Congress leaders were arrested on August 9, 1942. Gandhi had urged Indians to “Do or Die” after the failure of the Cripps Mission,…
