Birth Name : Lokamanya Keshv Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Date of birth : 23/07/1856
Place of birth : Chikhali, Ratnagiri district, British India
Category : Freedom Fighters
thecsrjournal (satire) (press release) (blog) | My journey to the interiors of Maharashtrathecsrjournal (satire) (press release) (blog)It was always an important hotspot during India's freedom struggle including the first and second uprising against the British empire, with the likes of Veer Savarkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the great social reformer Jyotirao Phule hailing from here. |
The forgotten million: on Indian soldiers in World War IThe HinduEven Mahatma Gandhi was open to Indians enlisting and learning to defend themselves using arms, as were leaders such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak. However, with the enormous death toll by the end of WWI, the painful lessons were absorbed and the pressure ... |
No room for liberal doubtThe Indian ExpressHistorically, one needs to distinguish pure conservatives — who believed in sanatan dharma, like Madan Mohan Malaviya or Swami Karpatriji, from traditionalists who defended ancient practices in the terms of identity politics, like Bal Gangadhar Tilak ... |
Lala Lajpat Rai: A freedom fighter and proud son of the soilThePrintSoon, he joined ranks with Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh from Bengal, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak from Maharashtra to call for 'Purna Swaraj'. In 1907, his involvement in the freedom struggle got him a six-month stint in a prison at Mandalay. In ... |
THE WEEK | Colossal obsessions of an oriental kindTHE WEEKHaving bagged Patel, they may now try Rajaji, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gobind Ballabh Pant, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Narasimha Rao or, who knows, even Sanjay Gandhi. After all, Sanjay was the first true-blue rightist in the post-1969 Congress, and his wife ... |
The New Indian Express | Of Statues and Bridges, Giants and DwarfsThe New Indian ExpressFrom Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore to Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Baba Saheb Ambedkar, not every patriotic Indian had 'fought the British and gone to Jail'. There are many freedom fighters whose memory is alive only ... |
Business Standard | Works combining Indian motifs with renaissance art on view in DelhiBusiness Standard"Krishna is recognised globally as Indian. Indian people connect to him very well," he said. Another painting on freedom activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak shows a confident Tilak during his trial in 1908 in a sedition case. The exhibition is open for public ... |
All India Radio | PM, Congress Pay Tribute To Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Chandra Shekhar AzadNDTV"I bow to Lokmanya Tilak on his jayanti. He ignited the spark of patriotism among countless Indians. He successfully mobilised people from all sections of society and deepened the connect between our citizens and India's glorious past. Lokmanya Tilak ...PM pays tributes to freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak & Chandra Sekhar Azad |
Bipin Chandra Pal: As much a revolutionary in politics, as in his private lifeThePrintBipin Chandra Pal, born on 7 November 1858 at Poil village in the Sylhet district of present-day Bangladesh, is today most famous as one-third of the famous radical trio of Lal-Bal-Pal — also comprising Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak ... |
The Statesman | Chittaranjan Das versus Rabindranath TagoreThe StatesmanDas, like Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920) was aware of the major contradictions in society but instead of devising a mechanism to tackle them, he believed in the politics of postponement without realizing that postponement would widen the ... |