Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

“Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!” were the fiery words of Tilak, which roused a sleeping nation to action, making Indian people aware of their political plight under a foreign rule.
Tilak tried to breathe life into the moribund nation through four mantras.
(1). Boycott of foreign goods
(2) National Education
(3) Self Government
(4) Swadeshi or self-reliance.

Swami Vivekanand

To the Awakened India : In June 1898 Swamiji went on a Pilgrimage to Kashmir with some of his western disciples. He wrote a letter to the editor of Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India, the English journal published by Advaita Ashrama in Himalayas. He wrote that he had tried to ‘write a letter but it became a poem.

Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar

“Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, popularly known as ‘Doctorji’ was born in Nagpur on Varsha Pratipada day, April 1, 1889. Hedgewar was the fifth of six children of a very poor family in Nagpur. His father was a Hindu priest. When he was 13 both his parents died the same day in one of the epidemics of bubonic plague that periodically swept India.

Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi had great concern for public funds and their utilisation. Once, accompanied by Acharya Kripalani and Acharya Bhansali, Gandhi went to visit the well known temple at Pune on the Parvati hill. When they returned from their visit to the temple, Gandhi requested Kripalani to hire a horse-driven cart and fix up the fare. In the meantime a young college girl came to Gandhi and asked for his autograph.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Ambedkar was born in a cast which was considered as the lowest of the low. People said that it was a sin it they offered him water to drink, and that if he sat in a cart it would become unclean. But this very man framed the Constitution for the country. His entire life was one of struggles. And his personal life was too misirable; he had lost his first wife and sons.. It is no wonder that everyone called him ‘Babasaheb’, out of love and admiration. Bhimram Ambedkar was the lion-hearted man who fought for equality, justice and humanity.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Thousands of Hardliner Muslim self styled warriors(razakars)under the leadership of radical fanatic Kasim Rizvi’s Ittihad al-Muslimin(The Muslim Union) were enjoying proxy rule in the streets of Hyderabad. These Razakars were harassing, looting and killing Hindus in larger cities like Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Bidar. Hindus were beginning to flee to surrounding regions, causing refugee problems in neighboring Madras.

Shri Guruji Golwalker

Shri Guruji was the second all-Bharat Chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was born in 1906. His name was Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar. 1947: Leadership Par Excellence in That Terrible Crisis Ultimately, the Congress leadership gave in to partition; and accordingly, the same was announced on 3rd July, 1947. All of a sudden, the scenario in the country changed drastically.

Jayaprakash Narayan

When Indira Gandhi was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court, Narayan called for Indira to resign, and advocated a program of social transformation which he termed Sampoorna kraanti [Total Revolution]. Instead she proclaimed a national Emergency on the midnight of June 25, 1975, immediately after Narayan had called for the PM’s resignation and had asked the military and the police to disregard unconstitutional and immoral orders; JP, opposition leaders, and dissenting members of her own party (the ‘Young Turks’) were arrested on that day.