That’s the basic problem: we identify ‘our’ heroes in the past, and identify our present and future with lessons we apparently draw from them. That’s religious hermeneutics, at best: it’s bad history, and even worse politics.
These events had a lasting effect on Pandit Vidyasagar. On the one hand, even though he was not a qualified physician, his erudition helped him immerse himself in serious studies and research on homeopathy.
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be of very different origins, and the Baghdadi Jews and Syrian Christians bear the same name as Muslims from the area which is now Syria and Iraq; I had a colleague with my surname from Romania, which of course was once a part of the Ottoman Empire, and I have never been anywhere near Syria or Iraq
Not long ago there were only a handful of noteworthy female names like P.T. Usha, Anju Bobby George, Karnam Malleswari, Rani Rampal who would come to one’s mind. But in the recent past many more names have been added to the illustrious list of Indian women achievers like Sania Mirza, Anjum Chopra, Saina Nehwal, Jhulan Goswami, Sakshi Malik, Mithali Raj, Mary Kom, PV Sindhu, Mirabai Chanu, Manu Bhaker to name just a few
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at the sum of 20 talents of silver which is about 620 kilograms of silver, he laughed at them for being ignorant of who it was that they had captured and his worth.
Born in rural Andhra Pradesh, Pingali enrolled into the British Army and went to South Africa to fight in Second Boer War. That is where he first saw Mahatma Gandhi and was drawn to his doctrines and philosophies of ‘ahimsa’ and ‘swaraj’. He later joined the Congress Party and actively participated in the party’s sessions and demonstrations.
Sir James George Frazer notes that in time, the Churches in Egypt and Asia Minor began to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 6 January. The practice went on until somewhere towards the end of the 3rd century or the beginning of the 4th century, when the Western Church fixed 25 December as the official day to celebrate the birthday of Jesus.
The story of my friend is the story of every Indian and perhaps most people across the world. Our society, religion and culture have depersonalised, eclipsed, obliterated, and reduced the mother to a nobody.
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