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A man devoted to digging out the glory of India and showing it to the world on film, the founder of Krishnaswamy Associates boasts an oeuvre whose scope and depth can educate as well as boggle the inquisitive mind.
In 1931, K. Subramaniam, albeit trained professionally as a lawyer, took to the immensely powerful medium cinema to experiment with and used it as a tool to spread social awareness.
Seva Sadanam, a picture produced by him as soon he entered the field, was to be the vehicle to carry the message about the state of women and their dismal position in society. Based on a novel by Munshi Premchand, it highlighted the plight of a young girl married to an gentleman old enough to be her father. Scenes and dialogues unprecedented in this medium were posited in the film, and it propelled Subramaniam into the arena as a champion of social causes. When the freedom movement started by Gandhiji gained momentum, Subramaniam jumped into the fray and released his much
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New Delhi: The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today called upon the people to follow the path shown by Sri Parameswaranji and strive to build a stronger, happier and prosperous India.
Delivering the first P. Parameswaran Memorial Lecture oganised by BharatheeyaVicharKendram in Thiruvananthapuram today, the Vice President emphasized the need for an India that is free from social evils like casteism and corruption and takes pride in its rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Paying rich tribute to Sri Parameswaranji, Shri Naidu called him a Tapasvi and humanist par excellence and said that his life inspires us to keep the nation above everything.
By Arijit Ray Among the many sayings of Swami Vivekananda that have got entwined in the collective imagination of the world, one particular phrase has huge significance, ‘conviction in the power of goodness’. To Swamiji,.
Swami Rangathananda remembered on his 112th birth anniversary
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Tue, Dec 15 2020 23:21 IST |
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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 15 : On the 112th birth anniversary of Swami Ranganathananda, former national general secretary of the BJP, Ram Madhav, who is presently the founder director of India Foundation, a right wing think-tank, said that the former was a self evasive saint who stood for dharma and its eternal values.
He said this while delivering the key note address in a webinar titled Remembering Swami Rangathananda on his birthday , which was organised by the Centre for Policy and Development Studies, a think-tank.