कहते है प्रेम कहानियाँ वहीं अमर होती है जो अधूरी रह जाती है लेकिन इतिहास में एक ऐसी प्रेम कहानी भी है जो पूरी होने के बाद भी उतनी ही खूबसूरत और लोकप्रिय है। यह प्रेम कहानी है शाहजहां और मुमताज़ की।

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बॉलीवुड के एवरग्रीन अभिनेता देवानंद का केवल नाम ही नहीं बल्कि जीवन भी भगवान श्री कृष्ण जैसा ही था। उनकी कहानी में भी उनका विवाह तो किसी और के साथ हुआ लेकिन आज तक उन्हें याद उनकी प्रेम कहानी के लिए किया जाता है। जिनके पीछे हज़ारों लड़किया पागल थी और जिनका हर रूप लोगों को बेहद पसंद था।

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मुरझाए पेड़ की जड़ों पर प्रहार और यह गिर जाएगा", बाजीराव बल्लाल का यही मूल मंत्र था। उनकी तलवार ने मराठों के इतिहास को आकार दिया। वह इतिहास के उन चुनिंदा योद्धाओं में से है जिन्होंने कभी हार का सामना नहीं किया। बाजीराव मस्तानी उन्हीं के जीवन पर आधारित फिल्म है।

बाजीराव की रफ्तार ही बाजीराव की पहचान थी

RG Torne, also known as Dadasaheb, known for recording and directing the first film in the form of a play in 1912, as well as the first film distribution company in India, passed away on this day 1960.

The Pioneer of Film-Plays

For every Buddhist follower across the world, India remains the most important centre of pilgrimage. The birth of Buddhism took place in the subcontinent, and the Buddha attained both Nirvana (enlightenment) and Mahaparinirvana (death) here, as well. It should not be surprising, therefore, that Vesak, or Buddha Jayanti, or Buddha Purnima is one of the most important annual festivals of India. 

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The month-long wait where one remembers all the events that lead to Good Friday and eventually the grand feast of Easter. This is the story behind Jesus’s sacrifice for mankind, his last offering. 

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A budget carries a lot of responsibilities. The demands of the first budget of India were very different from the demands that are required by the Indian budget today. Ever wondered what problems did the first budget of independent India addressed to? 

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The architect of the universe who represents life and fertility protecting us all is none other than Adi Shakti. Time and again, we see her in different avatars to bless us with the gift of abundance. This Navratri let us learn more about the numerous manifestations of Goddess Parvati.

Invoking Knowledge & Wisdom

It had been a hundred years of foreign oppression. The water went far above the heads when the Enfield Rifle was introduced! A fire was burning in all and it brought a storm along when soldiers from Meerut picked their guns. The thirst for freedom had arisen!

Khilqat Khuda ki, Mulk Badshah ka, Hukm Company ka!

There seems to be a cruel irony to this world - for as much as it gives, it takes away too. And, such a twisted fate, was one of Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian female practitioner of Western medicine. Born in Kalyan, Bombay, she married very early - at the age of 9, to someone who was about 20 years older than her.

He supported her education, but at the same time, as she gave birth at 14 to a baby who lived only 10 days, her resolve became clear. The child had died as no proper medical care could be provided to him, and she would take to the cause of medicine herself if she had to - for her departed child.

Encouraged to study medicine, she would use her husband’s contacts, like Royal Wilder, an American missionary, to inquire about medical opportunities in the United States. Publishing the correspondence, Wilder would open up the gates to study when Theodicia Carpenter, a resident of Roselle, New Jersey, would offer Anandibai to stay at her home and study medicine in the United States.

Accepting the offer, even though being ill, Anandibai went on to the US in 1883 - after her efforts would be heavily critiqued by contemporary society, for it was unusual for a woman to go out and study in that time. She gave rousing speeches against such critique, gaining fame and donations to be able to go to America.

She would be admitted into the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, at the age of 19. Even as her health worsened more and more due to the harsh climate, and contracting Tuberculosis, she strove to complete her MD, with the thesis - “Obstetrics among the Aryan Hindoos” - fitting, for she had lost a child. This she received on the 11th of March, 1886. When she graduated, Queen Victoria herself sent a congratulatory message, upon being the First Indian Woman with a medical degree.

While she got a physician in-charge job at Kolhapur’s Albert Edward Hospital, she would die of tuberculosis at just the age of 22, in 1887. Her death was mourned all over India, as a warrior of medicine succumbed to their worst enemy, disease.

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Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman to graduate with a Western medical degree, received her graduation today in 1886. Her thesis on Obsterics was inspired by her own loss of a newborn child at age 14. 

Chaitanya Rawat

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