Ram Chander & Sons : Story of the Oldest Toy Shop in India
India’s oldest toy haven at Connaught Place, RAM CHANDER & SONS, since 1890. Meet Mr. Satish Sundra, keeper of timeless wonders, where every child’s dream comes to life.
India’s oldest toy haven at Connaught Place, RAM CHANDER & SONS, since 1890. Meet Mr. Satish Sundra, keeper of timeless wonders, where every child’s dream comes to life.
Ajmer is a City in a northern Indian state, wrapped in green hills. […]
Syeda Muhammadi Begum was the first woman in the Indian sub-continent to be the editor of a weekly magazine, โTehzeeb-e-Niswaanโ.
The trust organized a special premier of โGomti ke Kinareโ, the last movie of Meena Kumari, and raised Rupees 50,000 through it. For the other Rupees 50,000 several film personalities promised to donate, which they never did.
(Following is an excerpt from the autobiography of Shaukat Kaifi, wife of Kaifi […]
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, OโShaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.
Why do we celebrate the Republic Day of India on 26 January?
Zafaruddin Bihari: A scholar and Former Principal of Madrasa Shamsul Hoda
Syed Mohammad Moin ul Haq, a name that resonated with brilliance and intellect, emerged from the humble town of Asthawan, Nalanda district in 1881.
The photograph shows Mirza Ilahi Bakhsh, or Shahzada Muhammad Hideyat Afza, in 1862. This man was from the Royal house of Mughals who had helped the British in 1857 and played an instrumental role in the surrender of Bahadur Shah Zafar at Humayunโs Tomb. For his โservicesโ, the British recognized him as the Chief Representative of the Royal Mughal Family in 1858. Mirza was also granted jagirs at Meerut and Delhi with a pension of Rupees 22,830 P.A.
The report was prepared by Reuters and shows that Indian Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs living in Europe did not accept the partition in 1948