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HAPPY MAKAR SANKRANTI

Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan or Maghi or simply Sankranti, is a festival day in the Hindu calendar, dedicated to the deity Surya (sun). It is observed each year in the lunar month of Magha which corresponds with the month of January as per the Gregorian calendar and is a day the people of India andContinue reading “HAPPY MAKAR SANKRANTI”

HAPPY LOHRI 🇮🇳

Lohri is a popular Punjabi winter folk festival celebrated primarily in the Punjab region. The significance and legends about the Lohri festival are many and these link the festival to the Punjab region. It is believed by many that the festival commemorates the passing of the winter solstice. Lohri marks the end of winter, andContinue reading “HAPPY LOHRI 🇮🇳”

PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS ~ NRI DAY 🇮🇳

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day) is a celebratory day observed (starting in 2001) on 9 January by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community towards the development of India. The day commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to Mumbai on 9 January 1915. Established inContinue reading “PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS ~ NRI DAY 🇮🇳”

GOOD GOVERNANCE DAY: REMEMBERING ATAL JI

Good Governance Day (India): 25 December Emergence: 25 December 1924 Demise: 16 August 2018 Good Governance Day is observed in India annually on the twenty-fifth day of December, the birth anniversary of former-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.bGood Governance Day was established in 2014 to honor Prime Minister Vajpayee by fostering awareness among the Indian peopleContinue reading “GOOD GOVERNANCE DAY: REMEMBERING ATAL JI”

VIJAY DIWAS 🇮🇳

Vijay Diwas (India): 16 December Bijoy Dibos (Victory Day) is commemorated every 16th of December in India &, to observe India’s victory over Pakistan in War of 1971 for the liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. The end of the war also resulted in the unilateral and unconditional surrender of the Pakistan Army and subsequent secessionContinue reading “VIJAY DIWAS 🇮🇳”

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature on 10 December 1913 Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the “profoundly sensitive, freshContinue reading “RABINDRANATH TAGORE”

🇮🇳 INDIAN NAVY DAY 🇮🇳

Navy Day : 4th December Navy Day in India is celebrated on 4 December every year to recognize the achievements and role of the Indian Navy to the country. 4 December was chosen as on that day in 1971, during Operation Trident, the Indian Navy sank four Pakistani vessels including PNS Khaibar, killing hundreds ofContinue reading “🇮🇳 INDIAN NAVY DAY 🇮🇳”

CONSTITUTION DAY ~ NATIONAL LAW DAY

Constitution Day (or Samvidhan Divas), also known as National Law Day, is celebrated in India on 26 November every year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India. On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India, and it came into effect on 26 January 1950. The Government ofContinue reading “CONSTITUTION DAY ~ NATIONAL LAW DAY”

NATIONAL PRESS DAY

National Press Day – The 16th of November – is symbolic of a free and responsible press in India. This was the day on which the Press Council of India started functioning as a moral watchdog to ensure that not only did the press maintain the high standards expected from this powerful medium but alsoContinue reading “NATIONAL PRESS DAY”

NATIONAL EDUCATION DAY

National Education Day is an annual observance in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Nooh, the first education minister of independent India, who served from 15 August 1947 until 2 February 1958. National Education Day of India is celebrated on 11 November every year. http://quotes.iloveindia.com/maulana-abul-kalam-azad-14.html The Ministry of Human Resource Development announced onContinue reading “NATIONAL EDUCATION DAY”

BIPIN CHANDRA PAL

Bipin Chandra Pal was a Freedom fighter, Journalist, Politician, Writer, Indian independence movement activist, Orator and Social reformer. Emergence: 7 November 1858 Demise: 20 May 1932 Bipin Chandra Pal, known as ‘Father of Revolutionary Thoughts’ was born on November 7, 1858, at Sylhet district in British ruled India presently in Bangladesh. He was among theContinue reading “BIPIN CHANDRA PAL”

KARVA CHAUTH

Karwa Chauth is a festival celebrated by Hindu women from the Indian Subcontinent on the fourth day after purnima (a full moon) in the month of Kartika. Like many Hindu festivals, Karwa Chauth is based on the lunisolar calendar which accounts for all astronomical positions, especially positions of the moon which is used as aContinue reading “KARVA CHAUTH”