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Informative session about the important personality. Govind Shripad Talwalkar was a distinguished journalist, legendary editor of Maharashtra Times, historian, scholar, intellectual with liberal views, social reformer and author of 32 books. He received the Lokmanya Tilak Award from the Government of Maharashtra, India and also the B. D. Goenka Award, Durga Ratan Award, Agarkar Award & Bhalerao Award for excellence in journalism and Ramshastri award for social justice. He received Maharashtra Government Award for his book - Navroji te Nehru; and N.C. Kelkar Award and Sahitya Paishad Award for his four volume book - Soviet Samrajyacha Uday ani Asta; and Damani Award for his book - Badalta Europe.
List of important events from history on 22th July . This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
स्वातंत्र्याच्या पहाटेपुर्वि :
1.फाळ्णीचा अंधकार : इंग्लंडचे पंतप्रधान क्लेमंट अॅटली यांनी ३ जून, १९४७ रोजी 'हाऊस ऑफ कॉमन्स'मध्ये अखंड हिंदुस्थानचं भारत व पाकिस्तान या दोन स्वसत्ताक वसाहतींमध्ये (डोमिनियन्समध्ये) विभाजन करण्याच्या योजनेची अधिकृत घोषणा केली. याच दिवशी भारताचे तत्कालीन व्हाइसरॉय लुई माऊंटबॅटन यांनी ऑल इंडिया रेडिओवरून फाळणीची ही योजना जाहीर केली. 'माऊंटबॅटन प्लॅन' म्हणून सुप्रसिद्ध असलेल्या या योजनेनुसारच हस्तांतराची प्रक्रिया पूर्ण होऊन १४-१५ ऑगस्ट, १९४७ रोजी पाकिस्तान व भारत हे दोन स्वसत्ताक देश अस्तित्वात आले. परंतु हे दोन देश स्वतंत्र होण्यापूर्वी अखंड पंजाब व बंगाल या प्रांतांचं विभाजन करून त्यांतील हिंदू, मुस्लीम, शीख जनतेची परस्पर अदलाबदल घडवून आणण्याचा भीषण प्रकार या योजनेत अनुस्यूत होता. या स्थलांतराच्या प्रक्रियेत या दोन प्रांतांसह ठिकठिकाणी हिंसेचे आगडोंब उसळले. त्या आगडोंबाच्या काळ्याकुट्ट धुराने अवघ्या भारतीय उपखंडाचं आभाळ झाकोळून गेलं. दृष्टिपथात आलेल्या स्वातंत्र्याच्या उत्साहावर फाळणीच्या झाकोळाचं सावट पसरलं.
Informative session about the important personality. Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of India from 2007 to 2012. A member of the Indian National Congress, Patil is the only woman to have held the office. She had previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007. Patil had held various Cabinet portfolios during her period in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and she had also held official positions while in both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. In addition, she had been for some years the president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and also held office as Director of the National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks and Credit Societies and as a Member of the Governing Council of the National Co-operative Union of India.
Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Dhere wrote over 100 scholarly books, including some edited or translated works of others, on Marathi folk literature and culture, reconstruction of cultural history of places, religious sects in Maharashtra, and biographies of marathi saints. He also composed several poems and musical plays. Dhere lost almost all of his collection of old books in 1961 when the Panshet Dam broke flooding the city of Pune.
List of important events from history on 21th July . This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
स्वातंत्र्याची सुवर्ण पहाट :
1. स्वातंत्र्याच्या पूर्वतयारीला चालना देणारा ब्रिटिश राजवटीचा संधिकाल
Informative session about the important personality. Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. A member of the Argead dynasty, he was born in Pella—a city in Ancient Greece—in 356 BC. He succeeded his father King Philip II to the throne at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Northeastern Africa. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's most successful military commanders.
Gregor Johann Mendel was a meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
List of important events from history on 20th July . This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
भारताचा प्रदीर्घ स्वातंत्र्यलढा यशस्वी होऊन १५ ऑगस्ट १९४७ रोजी भारत स्वतंत्र झाला. अनेकविध समस्यांचं ओझं घेऊन आणि मोठी स्वप्नं उराशी बाळगून आपल्या नव स्वतंत्र देशाने वाटचाल सुरू केली. पुढील ६५ वर्षांच्या प्रवासात अशा अनेक महत्त्वपूर्ण घटना-घडामोडी घडून गेल्या ज्यामुळे देशाची वाटचाल नियत झाली वा ज्यातून विविध क्षेत्रांतील वळणं दिसून आली. अशा घटनांचा मागोवा या ग्रंथात घेतला आहे. स्वातंत्र्यानंतर सुरुवातीच्या काळात मूलभूत स्वरूपाच्या कोणत्या गोष्टी घडून आल्या? पुढील काळात राजकारण-समाजकारण कसं बदलत गेलं? अर्थ-उद्योग ते विज्ञान आदी क्षेत्रात कसे बदल संभवत गेले? कितपत विकास साध्य झाला आणि कशा बाबतीत अधोगती संभवली? आपल्या वाटचालीच्या दृष्टीने कोणत्या आंतरराष्ट्रीय घटना अनुकूल वा प्रतिकूल ठरल्या? चित्रकला, नाट्यक्षेत्र ते चित्रपटमाध्यम यातून बदलत्या परिस्थितीचं प्रतिबिंब किती परिणामकारकतेने प्रतीत झालं? क्रीडाविश्वात काय बदल घडले? अशा प्रश्नांची उत्तर देणाऱ्या व जनजीवन घडवणाऱ्या विविध क्षेत्रांतील घटना आणि त्याचप्रमाणे जनजीवन विस्कळीत करणाऱ्या मोठ्या नैसर्गिक आपत्ती-दुर्घटना आदींचाही वेध या ग्रंथातून घेतला आहे.गतकाळातील घटनांचा जास्तीतजास्त तटस्थतेने मागोवा घेण्याचा आम्ही यत्न केला आहे. त्यामागे केवळ स्मृतींना उजाळा द्यावा इतका मर्यादित उद्देश नाही. ज्यांनी हा काळ पाहिला आहे, त्यांना या गतघटनांचं नव्याने आकलन व्हावं ही अपेक्षा आहे. त्याचप्रमाणे उगवत्या पिढीला गतकाळाचं नेमकं भान यावं व समकालीन घटनांचा अन्वयार्थ लागावा, हे अभिप्रेत आहे. एकंदरीत, आपल्या भोवतालाचं समग्र भान देऊ पाहणारा असा हा महद्ग्रंथ असा घडला भारत !
Informative session about the important personality. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch.
Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British East India Company. In 1984, the Indian government issued a postage stamp to remember him. His life and actions have also been portrayed in several cinematic productions.
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