In 1856, when there was no major centre of learning in North India and when education in the region was mostly imparted by religious priests, the Kapurthala Royal family, under the patronage of the British, established the oldest centre of learning in the North — Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia Co
Purmandal-Utterbehni restoration to wait more Sanjeev K Sharma PURMANDAL, Feb 27: The restoration of Purmandal-Utterbehni pilgrimage places to their pristine glory will take more time as the Detailed Appraisal Report (DAR) containing proposal under Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD) sent to the Union Government more than two years back in this regard is gathering dust there for lacking proper parameters required as per norms of Union Tourism Ministry. Reliable sources informed that during his J&K visit on […]
Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Feb 23: Contrary to tall claims of the Central Government for all support to development of Jammu region, the much needed project for pilgrimage rejuvenation and tourist infrastructure at Purmandal and Utterbehni in Samba district is awaiting approval for the last more than one year.
Because of unprecedented delay in approval of the project notwithstanding the fact that Detailed project Report of the same was forwarded to the Government after insistence of none other than Union Minister of State for Tourism during his visit to these two religious places, lack of infrastructure facilities continues to discourage people in visiting these historic pilgrimage centres on the bank of holy Devika river.
‘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 September 1928.
Unlike Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari was born in a very poor family of workers (people who sell their labour power for wages). His father Sitaram Tiwari was a gardener, and his mother Jagrani Devi a homemaker. They had migrated from the district of Unnao in central UP to Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh where the boy who would become Azad was born on July 23, 1906.