17th January - A Day in the life of India

Learn about the importance of 17th January in the history of India. Major historical events on this day, Famous Birthdays on 17th January and death anniversaries on this day.

Famous Birthdays on 17th January

1945 – Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer
1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962)
1917 – M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987)
1888 – Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963)

Death Anniversary on 17th January

2016 – Sudhindra Thirtha, Indian religious leader (b. 1926)
2016 – V. Rama Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Sikkim (b. 1935)
2014 – Suchitra Sen, Indian film actress (b. 1931)
2014 – Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (b. 1962)
2014 – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915)
2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician and CM of West Bengal for 23 years (b. 1914)
1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903)
1930 – Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. (b. 1873)

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New Year Festival in Kerala - Vishu

Vishu is a new year festival celebrated in the state of Kerala, India. This day is celebrated with much ceremonial splendour among all family members, relatives, and friends and is marked by feasting and burning of firecrackers. While in the Malayalam Calendar, the New Year starts on the first day of Chingam. However, people in the Malabar area consider Vishu as the astrological New Year.
Vishu is celebrated with much fanfare and vigour in all parts of Kerala. The most important event in Vishu is the Vishukkani. Vishukkani means sighting the most auspicious thing at dawn on the Vishu day for being lucky throughout the year. Another famous ritual on Vishu is the Vishukkaineetam. Vishukkaineetam means gifting money to children, servants and tenants by elders of the family. Vishu is also a day of feasting. The foods consist of equal proportions of salty, sweet, sour and bitter items. Feast items include Veppampoorasam (a bitter preparation of neem) and Mampazhapachadi (a sour mango soup).Fe…

Know about Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi Jayanti and International Day of Non-Violence

'Gandhi Jayanti' is celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary of Gandhiji (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, 'Bapu' or the 'Father of the Nation' in India. Gandhiji is a symbol of peace, non-violence and humanity. He was the protagonist of Peace.

If you land up on this page to know all the recent updates happening in the name of Mahatma Gandhi, this is certainly the best place, as we keep tracking each and every detail of any happenings around the world on Mahatma Gandhi. But if by any chance you land up here for some Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, you can check this link.

Timeline of Mahatma Gandhi (Memories & special mentions of Mahatma Gandhi)↓↓↓

15th June 2007 - The United Nations has also declared October 2 as the International Day of Non-Violence. According to the UN General Assembly resolution of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day of Non Violence is an occasion to "disseminate …

2nd November - A Day in the life of India

Today 2nd November is an important day for India, one of the biggest festival "Chhath Puja" will be celebrated mostly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. On 2nd November many personalities have their Birthdays like "King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan", Esha Deol, Politician Arun Shourie, Bengali author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay etc.

Let's learn about the importance of 2nd November in the history of India, major events happened on 2nd November, Birthdays of Indian personalities and deaths if any.

Today is also "International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists".

2nd November in the history of India
2019 - The Ministry of Home Affairs released a new political map of Union Territory Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Birthdays on 2nd November1995 - Nivetha Thomas is an Indian film actress who appears in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil language films. She is best known for Ninnu Kori and Gentleman. Thomas made her debut with the 2008 Malayalam film Veruthe Oru Bharya…

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is a saying in Hindi "Lakhon Mein Ek" (Which loosely translates to "One among Millions" in English), but for legends like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who is an inspiration to almost entire population of earth, this Hindi colloquial proverb should change to "Arbon Mein Ek" ("One among Billions").

To start with, let me share my favourite Quote of Mahatma Gandhi, although some say Gandhi never said this, but this quote is attributed to him only.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world.""Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.""An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.""Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.""When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There h…

Grand finale finalist Femina Miss India 2016 Zoya Mirza

Born in an orthodox Muslim family, Indore girl Zoya Mirza aka Zeba Baig has earned a place in the grand finale of Femina Miss India 2016 contest. She is hopeful that a blend of luck and hard work would see her through.

The tenacious girl has reached the top-21 by competing among 15,000 girls from 18 cities of the country. Meet Zoya Mirza, the 'conservative Muslim' girl who could become the next Miss India

Born in a conservative Muslim family, Zoya did her schooling from St Raphael’s Girls’ Higher Secondary School and then did her graduation in media studies from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya's School of Journalism.

Zoya, a good looking and intelligent girl wanted to try out for the Miss India contest but was told by her mother that it was 'Un-Islamic'.
Still, tenacious Zoya kept persuading her parents and continued grooming herself. She pursued an acting course and also worked as a television anchor for various news channels in Indore for a year. Seeing her unrelent…

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