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Ancestors of Shivaji Maharaj Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Bhosle was the founder of Maratha Empire and also the responsible to the downfall or Mughal Empire. Even though he was a great warrior and King, there are lot of controversies behind his origins. Many Historians considered his ancestor is from Rajput Sisodia family whereas some historians claimed that he is from Yadava or Gowli or Baliyappa. The Bhosle family is considered as one of the Kshatriya clans of Marathas hailed from Verul near Dualtabad. It is being said that this family was transferred by Devraj Maharana, a Rajput Warrior to the uplands of Maharashtra. It is said that Devraj Maharana was exhausted with frequency of Muslim Invasions and gave up his kingdom of Chitore and came to Deccan to form new kingdom in the valleys of Krishna and Bhima by changing his name as Bhosawant Bhosle. In Deccan also, he has to fight with Muslim invasion. At last , he contented himself with patelship of Shinganapur. Later on his des...

Andre Beteille : An Anthropologist Fellowship of the British Academy popularly known as FBA is an award granted by British Academy to leading academics towards their contributions in the humanities and social sciences. Andre Beteille is one of them. Andre Beteille is an Indian sociologist and writer and known about his studies in cast system in south India. There are so many books in his names. According the historian Ramchandra Guha, Andre Beteille has considered major issues of Today’s India. He has written on contest between religion and secularism, relationship between caste and class , the links between poverty and inequality, role and  responsibilities of Intellectuals. In 1985 , he worked for backward classes and their position in Indian society . From Yogesh Gogwekar Andre Beteille was born on 30 th September 1934 in the town of Chandannagore which was under French rule. His father was French and mother was Bengali. His mother and grandmother left dee...

Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi written by Katherine Frank Indira Nehru Gandhi was one of the world's most controversial & influential political leaders who played a dominant role in the 20th century & was voted a women of millennium by BBC. Katherine Frank has written the comprehensive biography of Indira Gandhi whose title is, 'Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi". This is a controversial book written after doing well research by drawing unpublished sources. It is a balance portrait of Mrs. Indira Gandhi & great tribute to Indira Gandhi. It is very much informative to those who do the study of post independent period of India. From Yogesh Gogwekar : Indira Gandhi brought up during the era which saw the rise of Indian Nationalism. Her father was great nationalist & first Prime Minister of India. She was not her father's choice to lead India; but her destiny was to play an important political role in Independent India.  During her ten...

Flush a good book : Written by Virgina Wolf It is a common tendency of human beings to read the biographies of eminent personalities . I am also not an exceptional to this; but very recently, I have read the biography of a dog written by Virginia Woolf and name of the book is Flush. It is not a biography of ordinary dog but an eminent cocker spaniel Victorian dog belonging to an eminent Victorian Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning who eventually married with an eminent Poet Robert Browning. From Yogesh Gogweka r Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, feminist & first writer to write in modern style. This book is based on two poems written on Flush by Elizabeth Browning & published correspondence of Elizabeth Browning with her husband, Robert Browning. Book stated that Flush leads restrained but happy life with the poet until she meets Robert Browning. This love life of Poet leaves the forgotten dog heartbroken & Flush tries to do  Mutiny and attemp...

*Jana Gana Mana and Vande Mataram* *Jana Gana* It is always being said that our National Anthem was written & composed to welcome Pancham George. At the time of reading about Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore,  I found the conversation between Gurudev & Pandit Jawahar Nehru where Gurudev told him that at the time of composing Jana Gana Mana, Pancham (fifth) George was not in his mind & it was bigger Vidhata had taken hold of him and Song came into being. Thus, this song was Yugapat Jatiya Sangeet or Bhagwat Sangeet which was combined with Bhakti which is reflected in the song. In original text of Jana Gana Mana,  there was a line Jay jay Jay he Rajeshwar, Bharat Bhagya Vidhata which was thrown out for obvious reasons. *From Yogesh Gogwekar* It was a dream of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to consider this song as a National Anthem & started singing in every meeting of Indian National Army. Ram Singh who was Captain of INA had composed a pr...

Centuries in both innings in a Test match Recently Rohit Sharma, right-hander batsman from Mumbai scored century in both the innings the test matched played at VIZAG against South Africa. It was his fifth century in the test cricket and he was 6 th Indian Player to score the centuries in both the innings of test Match. Before him, Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid , Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane have scored centuries in both the innings of a Test match From Yogesh Gogwekar Test cricket is considered the game of highest standard. It is the form of sport with longest match duration i.e. maximum five days game. This game is played between two teams of 11 players of National Representative. Both the teams have to play four innings, that means, each team has to bat and bowl twice which may last up to the five days. If any player scores 100 or more runs in a single inning , it has been called a century whereas he scores 100 in both the innings of a Test Match ,it has be...

Mahatma Gandhi and Today’s world On 2 nd October 2019, whole world is going to celebrate 150 th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma means great soul, who was an architect of Indian freedom movement. On the 70 th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the great renowned scientist Albert Einstein said,” Generations to come, it may well be, will scare believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth”. Albert Einstein was a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi. A letter written by him to Gandhi, he mentioned, “I am sending you this message with the help of your friend in our home. You have shown the world that victory or success is possible without violence, even with those people who still follow the method of violence. We may hope that influence of your work spreads beyond the borders of your nation and help in establishing an international authority which is respected by all to take decisions and replace war conflicts”. ...