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By Padmini Rout
When I was a kid, random adults would sometimes ask me if I knew Sultan Khan I would say yes, despite it being just a name I had heard growing up but knew nothing beyond. So, when the book about Sultan Khan by Daniel King came out recently, I was curious to read it, and to my luck a friend gifted it to me on my birthday.
Sultan Khan, like me, learnt the game of chess at the age of 9 from his father. Like him, one of the first persons whom I played chess against (Satya uncle) would ask me do you want to play with the Indian rules or Western, and I would say Western (having absolutely no idea what the Indian rules were, as back then it seemed obsolete and unimportant to me to learn it).
Remembering Wounded Knee: âI know our fight was worth itâ
Ponca elder Dwain Camp: âWe elders must pass on knowledge gained and time is not on our sideâ
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From left to right, attorney Bill Kunsler, Carter Camp and Dwain Camp (Courtesy image)
Ponca elder Dwain Camp: âWe elders must pass on knowledge gained and time is not on our sideâ
Dwain Camp Ponca elder
Wounded Knee, South Dakota was the site in 1890 of a massacre killing nearly 300 Native women and children by the United States military forces. Not a battle as it has often been called but a well-documented mass murder of unarmed civilians.
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Who?
February 6 is the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan also popularly known as Frontier Gandhi and Badshah Khan. He was a prominent Indian freedom fighter, a die-hard opponent of the two-nation theory and the idea of Pakistan. He was totally committed to Gandhi s idea of non-violence, enjoyed the same stature in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), also known as Frontier, as Gandhi had in India.
He opposed with full conviction the inclusion of NWFP in Pakistan but failed. After formation of Pakistan he, his followers and family faced terrible repression at the hands of the consecutive Pakistan governments including the one led by Jinnah and Islam-o-fascists. One of his brothers was assassinated, his supporters butchered by the Islamist fascists, he spent more than a decade in Pakistani jails and was forced to go into exile in Afghanistan. He was declared to be an agent of Hindu India. ML government led by Jinnah di
Believe it- Indians Won World War2!
Consider this –
A number of Indian Soldiers who participated in the Second World War-A Staggering 25 lakh.
Aggregating much more than1.5 times the strength of the existing Indian troops, they made the largest volunteer army of any country in the world! This information hits one like a revelation since it was never a part of history lessons in our schools and even today it is not being brought to the fore either through academics or through any other channels.
More scandalous is the realization that the second world war was actually won by Indians for the Allied Forces! The most pivotal and decisive victory in WWII came when the Japanese army was stopped from advancing towards India via Burma. If Indian soldiers fighting under Union Jack had not disrupted Japanese advance, they would have easily run over the Indian subcontinent and established a link with the German Army deployed in Iran. Winners of WWII would have been different then!