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Kedarnath Singh Biography: Early Life, Poetry, Jnanpith Award, Works and Legacy
Kedarnath Singh biography: born 7 July 1934 in Ballia, the Hindi poet of Akaal Mein Saras and Bagh won the Jnanpith Award…
Business
1991 Economic Reforms: How a Balance of Payments Crisis Ended the Licence Raj
In 1991, with foreign exchange for barely two weeks of imports, India devalued the rupee, scrapped industrial licensing and opened its economy.
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Amritlal Nagar Biography: Early Life, Lucknow, Novels, Awards and Legacy
Amritlal Nagar biography: born 17 August 1916 in Agra, the Hindi novelist chronicled Lucknow in Boond Aur Samudra and Amrit Aur Vish…
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Gopaldas Neeraj Biography: Early Life, Poetry, Film Songs, Awards and Legacy
Gopaldas Neeraj biography: born 4 January 1925 in Etawah, the Hindi poet from Aligarh wrote Karvan Guzar Gaya and some of the…
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Kabir Biography: Early Life, Teachings, Dohas, Varanasi, Maghar and Legacy
Kabir biography: the fifteenth-century weaver-poet of Varanasi rejected caste, ritual and religious division in couplets that are still part of everyday speech…
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Tulsidas Biography: Early Life, Ramcharitmanas, Other Works, Varanasi and Legacy
Tulsidas biography: the sixteenth-century poet-saint of Uttar Pradesh wrote the Ramcharitmanas, the Awadhi retelling of the Ramayana that became the scripture of…
India
Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984: What Happened at the Union Carbide Plant and the Long Fight for Justice
On the night of 2-3 December 1984 poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, killing thousands in the…
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Jaishankar Prasad Biography: Early Life, Chhayavad, Kamayani, Plays and Legacy
Jaishankar Prasad biography: born 30 January 1889 in Varanasi, the author of the epic Kamayani was a founder of the Chhayavad movement…
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Suryakant Tripathi Nirala Biography: Early Life, Free Verse, Poems, Prose and Legacy
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala biography: the rebel of Hindi poetry, born in 1899 to a family from Unnao, introduced free verse and wrote…
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Munshi Premchand Biography: Early Life, Novels, Short Stories, Godaan and Legacy
Munshi Premchand biography: born 31 July 1880 in Lamhi near Varanasi, the author of Godaan and some 300 short stories is the…
Politics
Hari Singh Nalwa Biography: Early Life, Sikh Empire General, Conquests, Battle of Jamrud and Legacy
Hari Singh Nalwa biography: born in 1791 in Gujranwala, the Sikh general carried Ranjit Singh's empire to the Khyber Pass and died…
Politics
Malik Ambar Biography: Early Life, From Slave to Regent, Wars with the Mughals and Legacy
Malik Ambar biography: born in 1548 in Ethiopia and brought to India as a slave, he became regent of Ahmadnagar, held off…