25th August 2016
Eminent physicist Albert Einstein was born in the year 1879. Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace, was born in 1869 and Adolf Hitler, the epitome of terror, in 1889. Hence the expression that Einstein was born between peace and terror.
22nd April 2016
Before the beginning of the Dandi March on 12 March 1930, Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Gandhiji and Ba to millions of her children, applied the benedictory tilak on Gandhiji’s forehead, garlanded him with khadi and handed him the stick. Tilak, khadi and the stick were respectively the symbols of devotion, simplicity and strength.
28th March 2016
In 1932 Los Angeles Olympics there were three teams, India, Japan and the USA, in men’s hockey. India won the gold by defeating Japan and USA respectively by 11–1 and 24–1. When it came to raising funds for sending the team to Los Angeles, a journalist representing the Indian Hockey Federation approached Mahatma Gandhi to issue an appeal to the masses. Gandhiji’s only reply was, ‘What is hockey?’
16th March 2016
During the Quit India Movement, a parallel government was established in Tamluk, West Bengal, called the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar, an independent government. The Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar was really active since it set up Police Stations, Military Departments, Courts and even a system for revenue collection. The Government functioned from December 17, 1942 to August 8, 1944. It was dissolved on the explicit directions of Mahatma Gandhi. The chief protagonists were Satish Samanta, Sushil Dhara and Ajoy Mukherjee. The Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar commemorative stamp depicts Ajoy Mukherjee (who became the Chief Minister of West Bengal thrice) a march to observe Quit India Movement on the 29th September, 1942 and the famous martyr, Matangini Hazra who laid down her life during the march.
14th March 2016
Both were born on 2nd October, i.e. 2/10. ‘2’ may represent the binary system. The numbers involved there are ‘1’ and ’0’, which constitute ‘10’. Moreover, ‘10’ is the binary representation of ‘2’.
16th February 2016
23rd January is the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 30th January is Martyr’s Day, 1st May is the World Labourer’s Day, 2nd October is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and 25th December is Christmas. In every year (not a leap year), they will fall on the same day as the difference between any two of them is always a multiple of ‘7’, the number of days in a week. It is easy to see that between the given five days these are progressively 7, 91, 154 and 84.
