History Under Your Feet
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History Under Your Feet
Basically on Indian history, the events, the issues, the personalities.
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Veer Chattrasal- The Lion of Bundelkhand
Veer Chattrasal, the lion of Bundelkhand, who carved out an independent kingdom during the Mughal rule, against all odds. A truly great warrior after...
Mewar- Land of the Ranas
To understand Rana Pratap, and his refusal to surrender to Akbar, while all other Rajput rulers did, one needs to understand the history of Mewar, it'...
KS Thimayya
Kodendara Subbayya Thimayya, nicknamed as Timmy,only Indian to command an infantry brigade during World War II, and dealt with the repatriation of POW...
Shyamji Krishna Varma
Shyamji Krishna Varma, mentor to many leading lights of India’s revolutionary movement, ranging from Veer Savarkar to Lala Hardayal to Madame Bhikaji...
Shaheed Bhagat Singh- The Trial and Execution
March 23, 1931- The date on which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged. The podcast takes a look at the trial and the events leading up to th...
Nana Fadnavis
Nana Fadnavis, the Maratha Chanakya, who as Prime Minister of the Maratha confederacy, bought it back to the days of glory after the humiliating rout...
Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
Lal Qile se aaee awaaz,Sehgal Dhillon ShahnawazTeenon ki ho Umar Daraaz.Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon, close associate of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, one of...
Rana Amar Singh
While we know about Rana Pratap, how many know about his son Rana Amar Singh, an equally great warrior like his father who fought 17 battles with the...
Malhar Rao Holkar
Malhar Rao Holkar, founder of the Holkar dynasty, developed Indore into a major city. One of the powerful Maratha leaders who asserted themselves post...
Amarajeevi Potti Sriramulu
If only I have eleven more followers like Sriramulu I will win freedom in a year.Freedom fighter whose fast unto death led to the creation of a separ...
Chattrapathi Sambhaji Maharaj
Mrutyuche aavhaan peluni, toch varasa aamhaala dila l
Shivrayaancha Shambhu chaava, Hindu mhanuni amar jahala ll
(Coming from the same leg...
Biju Patnaik
What does one make of a man who flew a daring sortie into Dutch occupied Indonesia and sneaked away their Prime Minister? Or made equally daring sort...
Lala Hardayal
Lala Hardayal, the man who co founded the Ghadar Party in US, along with Sohan Singh Bhakna. A legend among revolutionaries, one of the key members of...
Veer Surendra Sai
Born on the same date as Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, led a long tribal revolt against the British rule in Sambalpur, harassing them to no end, a hero...
Chandrashekhar Azad
One of the greatest revolutionaries ever of the freedom movement, who shot himself rather than surrender to the British on February 27, 1931 at Alfred...
Veer Savarkar-The Woman in his life
“Behind every successful man is a woman” so goes the common saying. While we are familiar with Veer Savarkar, not many know about the woman in his lif...
Veer Savarkar My Hero
Veer Savarkar has been one of my heroes. One of the most fascinating, multi talented personalities ever. Freedom fighter, nationalist, activist, think...
Rani Rashmoni
Rani Rashmoni, the founder of the Dakshineshwar Temple in Kolkata, a close associate ot Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. One of the most remarkable women...
Dr Raja Ramanna
One of the great scientific achievements of modern India has been Pokhran I on May 18, 1974, when it carried out it’s first ever peaceful nuclear test...
Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin Chandra Pal, one of the members of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio in Congress, others being Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai. A nationalist, writ...
Sam Manekshaw
Sam Manekshaw, aka Sam Bahadur, first Indian army officer to become Field Marshal, who led the Army to it’s greatest moment of triumph in 1971 as Chie...
K.M.Munshi
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, aka K.M.Munshi, freedom fighter, founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, as well as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. A lawyer by pro...
Birsa Munda
Birsa Munda in Jharkhand, the only tribal leader whose portrait hangs in Parliament Central Hall and whose Jayanti is celebrated as Jharkhand Day too.
Lachit Borphukan
Lachit Borphukan, who would rise to become one of the greatest heroes of Assam, and one of the symbols of resistance to the the Mughal rule. When one...
G. N. Ramachandran
One of the biggest advances in the field of molecular biophysics, has been the discovery of the triple hellical structure of collagen, that enabled a...
Komaram Bheem
Komaram Bheem led an intense uprising against both the British and the Nizam rule, in the forests of North Telangana, and gave the slogan of Jal, Jang...
Tatya Tope
Tatya Tope one of the greats of the 1857 Revolt, who waged a long guerilla war against the British even after the Revolt was crushed. A man who had no...
Mahadji Scindia- The Great Maratha
One of the great Maratha rulers, who established the Scindias as a powerful ruling kingdom in Central India, made Gwalior the capital.
Satish Dhawan
Satish Dhawan, the 3rd chairman of ISRO, who shaped it’s organizational structure and put in a fine process in place. The father of experimental fluid...
Shyamji Krishna Verma
Shyamji Krishna Varma, one of the most brilliant minds of the modern era, a selfless patriot, who gave his everything for the nation’s freedom. He was...
Lal Bahadur Shastri
“I am just an ordinary man and not a very bright man.” While we celebrate October 2 as Gandhi Jayanti not many are aware that is the Jayanti of anot...
Bagha Jatin
Jatindranath Mukherjee, also known as Bagha Jatin, after he killed a tiger with his bare hands, one of the greatest revolutionaries ever.
V.O.Chidambaram Pillai
Valiappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai, or more popularly known as V.O.C. He was also called as Kapalottiya Tamizhan( The Tamil Helsman), one of th...
Andhra Kesari-Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu
Andhra Kesari,Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, one of the great freedom fighters from Andhra Pradesh, and also the first Chief Minister of the newly creat...
Madanlal Dhingra
Madan Lal Dhingra, close associate of Veer Savarkar, assasinated Curzon Wylie in London.
Madame Bhikaji Cama
Madame Bhikaji Cama, revolutionary leader, close associate of Veer Savarkar, designed of the early versions of the Indian flag.
Battle of Colachel
August 10, 1741- Battle of Kolachel, when the Dutch were defeated by Marthanda Varma, ruler of Travancore,
Khudiram Bose
Khudiram Bose, one of the youngest martyrs in the struggle for freedom, who sacrified his life for the country at the age of 18 years.
Kakori, 1925
August 9, 1925, the Kakori Conspiracy or the Kakori Train Robbery an important chapter in the revolutionary struggle.
Dr.Yellapragada Subbarow
If one were to compile a history of medicine, in the world, the name of Dr.Subbarow, would be standing right up there along with other greats like Al...