All posts by Karandeep Singh Khurana
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This Day in History – April 24
1929 – The cultural icon of Kannada, Rajkumar, or Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju, was born. He was a renowned actor and playback singer in the Kannada...
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This Day in History – April 23
1938 – The Nightingale of the South, Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki or better known as S. Janaki was born. Having sung more than 20,000 songs in...
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This Day in History – April 22
1901 – Padma Bhushan Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal or B. C. Sanyal was born. A pioneer in Indian art, his paintings like Cow herd, The flying...
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This Day in History – April 21
1913 – The first full-length Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, directed by the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’, Dadasaheb Phalke, premiered at the Olympia Theatre, Grant...
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This Day in History – April 20
1914 – One of the greatest Oriya writers, Gopinath Mohanty was born. He has several awards to his credit like Soviet Land Nehru Award (1970),...
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This Day in History – April 19
1955 – Edward James Corbett or better known as ‘Jim’ Corbett, famous hunter especially of man-eating tigers, passed away. Corbett was respected by people in...
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This Day in History – April 18
1858 – Bharat Ratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, popularly known as Maharishi Karve, was born. A social reformer, Karve always strived for women education and widow...
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This Day in History – April 17
1756 – Kongu chieftain Dheeran Chinnamalai was born. One of the main leaders in the Polygar Wars, Chinnamalai was in revolt against the British East...
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This Day in History – April 16
1848 – The man known to revive the Telugu culture, Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu, was born. Considered as prophet of Modern Andhra, Veeresalingham was a noted...
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This Day in History – April 15
1922 – Renowned Poet and Lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri was born. Starting his career as a bus conductor, he went on to become a bollywood lyricist....