The Sensible Arya

  What was Anandpur Sahib Resolution? The Anandpur Sahib Resolution was  a statement with a list of demands made by the Punjabi Sikh political party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, in 1973 . The demands or the proposal drafted at Anandpur Sahib included following demands : Resolution No. 1-  Moved by Sardar Gurcharan Singh Tohra, president, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. The Shiromani Akali Dal realizes that India is a union and republican geographical entity of different languages, religions and cultures. To safeguard the fundamental rights of the religious and linguistic minorities, to fulfill the demands of the democratic traditions and to pave the way for economic progress, it has become imperative that the Indian constitutional infrastructure should be given a real federal shape by redefining the Central and State relation and rights on the lines of the aforesaid principles and objectives. The concept of total revolution given by Lok Naik Jaya Parkash Narain is a...

  The Tulsa Race Massacre of African Americans During world war 1, the influence of black americans was rising in the wall street. Black neighborhoods such as the famously known Black Wall Street  of Greenwood were prospering financially. White americans were allowing this because they needed Black Americans to fight as a soldier in world war 1 on behalf of them. On 11th november of 1918 , the world war one officially ended and with this the reason for white americans to allow black americans to gain influence also ended. Now the white americans were desperate to snatch away the prosperity which the black americans gained. On May 30, 1921,  Dick Rowland, a young African American shoe shiner, was falsly accused of assaulting a white elevator operator named Sarah Page in the elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The next day the  Tulsa Tribune  printed a story saying that Rowland had tried to rape  Page, with an accompanying editorial stating that a...

  My Lai Massacre : A tale of rapes and cold blooded killings by US Army. My Lai is a small village in Quang Nai Vietnam. US soldiers used to address this region as "Pinkville"  because of the reddish colour(meaning pro communist region) used to indicate the densely populated My Lai area on military maps.  By the time Charlie Company of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, arrived in Vietnam in December 1967. “Pinkville” had earned a reputation as a heavily mined hotbed of Viet Cong activity. In January 1968 Charlie was one of three companies tasked with the destruction of the 48th Battalion, an especially effective Viet Cong unit operating in Quang Ngai province. Throughout February and early March, Charlie Company suffered dozens of casualties due to mines and booby traps, but it failed to engage the 48th Batallion. After the debacle of the broad Tet offensive, the...

Pandit Benimadhab : The Slayer of Muslim Invaders. Benimadhab Ray was a Kulin Barendra Brahman. He  was a resident of Tarash Chalan-Beel in the Rajshahi kingdom of Bengal.  He had a very beautiful wife. Once a Pathan warlord abducted his wife. This angered Benimadhab a lot and he decided to take revenge. He became a Bandit and acquired some followers of different castes, whom he organized into an armed outfit. Benimadhab Ray was related by marriage to the Sanyal's of Satore. The Sanyals and the Kayasthas of Satore had therefore joined his army in large numbers. He set up his base in a desolate island within the Chalan Beel where he also erected the famous Yavanmardini Kali temple. His followers used roam about the countryside and abduct Pathans  on the night of Amavasya and offer narabali of them in front of Maa Yavanmardini Kali. His two principal aides were Jugal Kishore Sanyal and Chandi Prasad Ray. They had unleashed a reign of terror on the Muslim invaders of Bengal....

Raid of Surat by Marathas under the leadership of Shivaji Shivaji demanded tribute from the ruler of Surat, which was rejected by the Mughal Sardar. This angered Shivaj and he decided to attack Surat. The Mughal Sardar was very surprised by the suddenness of the attack and not willing to face the Maratha forces, he hid himself in the fort of Surat. However, there was an attempt of life on Shivaji by the emissary sent by the Mughal sardar. Surat was under attack for nearly three days, in which the Maratha army looted all possible wealth from Mughal and Portuguese trading centers. The Maratha soldiers took away cash, gold, silver, pearls, rubies, diamonds and emeralds from the houses of rich merchants such as Virji  Vora, Haji Zahid Beg, Haji Kasim and others.  The business  of Mohandas Parekh, the deceased broker of the Dutch East India Company, was spared as he was reputed as a  charitable man.Similarly.  Shivaji did not plunder the  houses of the foreign m...

Right To Recall - Citizens' weapon against corruption and bad governance What is Right To Recall? Suppose there is a maid working in your home steals your precious gold ornaments. In this case, will you allow her to work in your home for few more months and steal more of your precious things or will you just throw her away from your house and hire a new one? It's obvious that you will just throw her away from your house and hire a new one.  As per Right To Recall , this should happen in case of politicians and government officials as well. If a politicians or a government official is looting the tax money or resources of the nation them the Public shall have the right to recall that corrupt official or politician. Public shouldn't have to wait for 5 years. Right To Recall will be a weapon of the commoners against corruption. Right to recall is present at local or state level in many developed nations as well.   Some Quotes regarding the Right to Recall in Indian History P...

  When Bhagat Singh was invited by Joseph Stalin A lesser-known event from the annals of the Indian revolutionary movement is the “invitation” that was sent to Bhagat Singh by the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. This invite could not reach Singh, so we can only speculate about what might have happened if it had been received and accepted. There is no doubt that had it all gone as planned, it had the potential to change the course of our freedom struggle. It was Shaukat Usmani  who connected Bhagat Singh and Stalin. He was  one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India established in Tashkent in 1920. Usmani was sent to India by MN Roy to establish contact with the Indian nationalists. He came in contact with the revolutionaries through Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, the famous editor of the Hindi daily, Pratap, which was published from Kanpur in 1920s. Bhagat Singh worked as a sub-editor at Pratap. He even reviewed Usmani’s political-cum-travel memoir, Peshawar to ...