Bhagat Singh - Lesser known facts

Bhagat Singh a great martyr of Punjab, popularly referred as Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagt Singh, was born on 28 September 1907 at the village of Banga, Lyallpur district (now in Pakistan). Considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He had a spirit of martyrdom since his childhood.

In the leaflet he threw in the Central Assembly on 9 April 1929, he stated that It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled while the ideas survived.

Less known facts about Bhagat Singh

• Bhagat Singh was a great actor in college and took part in several plays. Most notable plays he was praised in were ‘Rana Pratap’, ‘Samrat Chandragupta’ and ‘Bharata-durdasha’.
• At the age of 12, right after the Jalianwala Bagh incident, Bhagat Singh bunked school and went straight to the place of the tragedy. He collected a bottle of mud wet with blood of Indians and worship the bottle every day.
• As a child, Bhagat Singh often talked and wanted to grow guns in the fields, so that he could fight the British.
• At the age of 8, he talked about driving out Britishers from India and not about the games or toys.
• At an early age he was attracted towards socialism and socialist revolutions led by Lenin Soon he started to reading about them.
• Singh said: “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.” This was to be quoted many times over by revolutionaries after Singh’s death.
• The bombs Bhagat Singh and his associates threw in the Central Assembly in Delhi were made from low grade explosives. They were lobbed away from people in the corridors of the building and were meant only to startle and not harm. The British investigation into the incident and forensics report also confirmed this.
• During his stay in prison in 1930, Bhagat Singh coined the word “political prisoner” and demanded he and his comrades be given basic amenities that even British looters and goons in the jail were entitled to.
• He coined the phrase ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ that became the slogan of the India’s armed freedom struggle.
• Singh was hanged an hour ahead of the official time when the death sentence was to be commuted and was secretly cremated on the banks of the river Sutlej by jail authorities. However, thousands of people on hearing the news gathered at the spot and took out a procession with his ashes.

20 Hidden Facts that You Must Know About Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

20 Hidden Facts that You Must Know About Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

“Freedom is not given; it is taken”
Can a Hero who had died, slapping the face of colonialism, ever be forgotten!? The man who was actually ‘one man army’, has been left alone all these years, in search of justice and respect! There was no question regarding the indomitable qualities of Subhas Chandra Bose as a leader and rightfully he created means to earn India’s its Independence. He gave speeches on unity and solidarity which are hair raising and truly inspiring.

One silver lining that came to limelight was the release of 100 declassified files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose last year by PM Narendra Modi which had some striking revelations made about the late leader. Despite many mysterious appearences and dissappearences Bose united the minds of Indians to fight valiantly to attain ‘Poorna Swaraj’. Let’s recapitulate the karma of this wise man who had truly denied the crown of golden designation and sacrificed his life for humanity.

Presenting some hidden/lesser known facts about India’s brave son.
1 )  Netaji was born on 23rd January 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa (now Odisha) to Janakinath Bose, an affluent barrister and Prabhavati Devi. He was 9th of the 14 children.
2 ) Bose is an alumnus of the reputed Scottish Church College under the Calcutta University with a degree in B.A. Philosophy.
3 )  After being matriculated in England, he appeared in ICS (Indian Civil Services Examination) and came 4th, but he did not want to work under an alien and dominating government. Allegedly revolving in frustrations, he, at last, wrote to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose (also a barrister) “Only on the soil of sacrifice and suffering can we raise our national edifice”.
4 )  Bose was appointed twice as the President of INC during consecutive years in 1938 and 1939. He was elected from the Haripura and Tripura sessions. After such bombardment of actions, British Government was totally in shock and due to the same, the only thing left is– Imprisoning the voice!

5 ) That mysterious year of 1941, Netaji escaped from the house arrest and this was the time when he travelled by foot, car and train! From Kolkata, he went to Gomoh, then headed to Peshawar, from there directed to Pakistan and ultimately went to Kabul for his last voyage to Germany, to meet Adolf Hitler.
6 ) November 1941, German radio broadcast sent fearsome waves among British government and Indian hearts. They got to realise that Mr Bose was all along the time working on a master plan for freedom.
7 ) He met German dictator and the orchestrator of the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler on 29 May 1942.

9 ) During the remarkable period of 1921-1941, he was taken into 11 various jails across India due to his protest against slavery. God can count on his passion for freedom and love for humanity!
10 ) “No real change in History has ever been achieved by Discuss”- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The quote itself ignites the spirit of true citizen and lover of freedom. Imagine the magic it had done that time!

11 ) Netaji was total in denial of the fact of ‘path of ahimsa to gain freedom’. Besides of knowing the fact, the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi called him the “patriot of patriots” which is actually an honour by someone for someone who opposed his ideologies.
12 ) During 1920 – 1930 era, Bose had been a radical and younger leader of INC.
13 ) As reported by The Indian Express: Bose proposed to a Czech lady and they were married in January 1942. Emilie Schenkl returned to Vienna from Berlin in September so as to avoid talk.

14 ) With Emilie, Bose had a daughter called Anita Bose Pfaff who was born on on the 29th of November 1942 and currently works as a economist in Germany.
15 ) 17 May 2006, Justice Mukherjee Commission Report stated that “The ashes at Renkoji Temple are not Netaji’s, because he did not die in the plane crash”. The Government of India had rejected the report.
16 ) Netaji’s renegrade nature was quite evident as he openly revolted against Gandhi which was quite evident during 1931 when he opposed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact and the hanging of martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.
17 ) The backbone of Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauj was none other than Netaji. When it was formed under Mohan Singh in the 1942 it was almost finished by the year end, but Netaji the following year influenced and pooled in a huge bnd of ex-prisoners from Southeast Asian countries and strengthened the army to a massive 43,000 in size.
18 ) Through scholarly opinion, it had been notified that Netaji’s death occurred on 18th August 1945, due to his overloaded Japanese plane crash in Taiwan.
19 ) There have been rumours and specualtions of his death as many have voiced that Netaji didn’t die in the plane crash, in fact, he wasn’t even aboard in the plane.

20 ) Rumours have spred like Bose shed his original identity and led the life of a reclusive Sadhu called ‘Gumnami Baba’ or ‘Bhagwanji’ who lived as a renunciant in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. The suspicious saint met his demise on September 16, 1985.

Conclusion
Some truths are better to be covered! Because sometimes, bitter truths are hard to face.
Though late by 72 years, Indian Government has taken a step towards disclosing the hidden facts of Netaji’s death/murder so that people can have a vis-à-vis with the truth. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s leadership qualities were always upfront and dynamic. Despite that, many conspiracy theories and questions remain unsolved/unanswered. Nevertheless, inspiring millions of Indians, Bose was a revolutionary politician who dexterity and oeuvre was and is appreciated by many nations even today. 

Lesser Known facts of Samsung

Interesting facts About Samsung

Hello, People!

 So here in this article to share with you all some very interesting facts about one of the world’s leading companies, SAMSUNG. When we hear the name of Samsung, the first thing that comes to our mind is the mobile phone of Samsung or television but apart from all these things, there are some really great and interesting facts about this multinational company. In this article, I’m going to share with you all some facts about Samsung that you probably didn’t know about. Since a large number of people are using Samsung products all over the world, so to know about some interesting facts about it is very exciting.

1. Samsung’s evolution

The company Samsung was founded on 1st March 1938 by a South Korean businessman Lee Byung-chul. At that time, it was a noodle and groceries selling company. Then they added insurance, retails and securities and in the year 1970, Samsung created its first Black and White Television and in the year 1983 its first Computer. In 2011, Samsung became the largest smartphones manufacturing company. At present, the total revenue of Samsung is around 305 billion USD and it is made up of 80 different businesses.

3. Apple and Samsung

Samsung manufactures a majority of the CPU chips for the iPhones of Apple. The smartphone market share of Apple is around 17% and of Samsung is around 23%in the world. In 2015, Samsung shipped around 325 million units of smartphones while Apple managed to ship around 232 million units. Where Samsung spent around $14 billion USD for research and development purpose, Apple spent roughly around $6 billion USD and Google around $9.8 billion USD.

4.  Samsung and Burj Khalifa

As already stated above that Samsung is made up of around 80 businesses, so this company is also behind the construction of the world’s tallest Skyscraper,  Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It has also constructed some other tall buildings and towers. 

5. Samsung’s other businesses

This multinational company is behind many other projects such as the building of ships, construction of Cranes, making of flying jets, helicopters, tanks etc.. It has also constructed a robotic machine gun and it is behind the development of South Korea’s largest theme park. It is also in the trading and investment businessand also in IT services.

6. Samsung’s Quality Concerns

Samsung gives a lot of importance to its quality and services. Talking about the quality, this giant company manufactures around 90% of their products in their own factories. There is this story that in 1995, the Chairman of the Company Lee Kun Hee was not at all satisfied with the quality of the products so he called around 2000 employees and destructed around 150,000 phones and fax machines in front of all the employees to make them realise that how much the quality is important for the company.

7. Samsung’s business numbers

Samsung has around 370,000 employees all over the world. It accounts for around 17% of the total GDP of South Korea. Its total revenue for the year 2014 was 305 billion USD. In 2012, it spent around 4 billion USD on advertising and around 5 billion USD in marketing. in 2011, its net sale was around 247 billion USD. There are around 145 products of smartphones on Samsung’s website and for Apple, it’s just around 5 phones.

8. Samsung’s interesting numbers

It is said that every minute around 100 televisions of Samsung are being sold around the world. One out of every three phones around the world is said to be of Samsung. There are around 33 R&D centers of Samsung all over the world.  It is the 8th largest company in the world on the Forbes list and 4th in the USA.

9. The Name : SAMSUNG

Samsung is derived from two Korean words, ‘Sam‘ that means ‘Three‘ and ‘Sung‘ that means ‘Stars‘, so it means ‘Three Stars‘ because the Founder of the company wanted to see this company as a big and powerful company just  like a star.

10. Samsung’s Medical Contribution

Samsung donates around 100 million USD every year to its non-profit medical center and it has around 1200 doctors and around 2300 nurses.

Lesser Known facts of Gandhiji

Mahatma Gandhi – 5 fun facts you didn’t know about him

Jan 30 is one of the darkest days in India’s history – on this day in 1948 our Bapu, the father of the nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse who thought that Gandhi favoured Pakistan.Mahatma Gandhi is undoubtedly the most well-known Indian in the world and his teachings of non-violence and civil disobedience have inspired many leaders over the years including Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. Here are some fun facts you didn’t know about the Mahatma:

1.He used to be shy!

It’s hard to believe that the man who brought the world’s largest empire to its knees was shy but Mohandas as a child was so shy that he would run home after school so that he wouldn’t have to talk to anybody!

2.He really angered former British PM Winston Churchill

Former warhorse and arguably Britain’s most popular Prime Minister Winston Churchill just couldn’t stand Gandhi, who didn’t play by his rules. He once said of Gandhi: ‘It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer of the type well-known in the East, now posing as a fakir, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.’

3.He loved walking

During his student days in London, Gandhi saved money by walking to places instead of taking public transport. He says it kept him healthy and disease-free. It also gave him a lot of practice for the upcoming battles when he walked 241 miles from his ashram to the sea at Dandi during the infamous Dandi March.

against any form of discrimination and had a major impact in ending untouchability in our country which was arguably a greater victor than even Independence.

4.Gandhi was the runner-up for the Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Century’ Award

Mahatma Gandhi lost out to Albert Einstein for the award but ultimately Einstein’s contribution to mankind was considered greater than Gandhi’s. Of course, we must remember that this was an award given by a magazine in America, where Einstein was rather celebrated.

5.Never won a Noble Prize

According to most observers, Mahatma Gandhi was going to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 (in fact he was nominated for a total of five times) but then he was assassinated the Nobel Committee didn’t award posthumous prizes. However, many felt that Gandhi’s stature and work deserved the prize.

Less known facts of Jawaharlal Nehru

JawaharLal Nehru was born on 14th November 1889 which is celebrated as Children day because his love for children. He is not Only our First Prime Minister but also a Good Leader.  On Chacha Nehru’s birthday we are focusing Top 10 Unknown facts of Jawaharlal Nehru.

1. Grandfather – Last Kotwal of Delhi

Many Few people knows that Grandfather of Jawaharlal Nehru was last Kotwal of Delhi. His Grandfather Gangadhur Pandit joined as kotwal before 1857 war and later he moved to Agra with family in his last time in year 1861.

2. Wrote Autobiography in Prison

As we know most freedom fighters are habitual of writing during Prison and Nehru also wrote his autobiography in Prison in 1935. The Book written by him titled “Toward Freedom” was Published in year 1936 in USA.

3. Invented Nehru Jacket

The fashion of current Politician for Nehru Jacket was invented by Jawahrlal Nehru which idea was taken from western world. Before Independence most politician only wear white dress but Nehru was first politician who changed the trend. We can see rose buds in his jacket in clicked photographs of him.

3. Nominated for Noble Prize

As we know that He is the First Prime minister of India. You will shock to know that He never got noble Prize for Peace. Like Gandhi he was very popular and he was nominated 11 times for Noble Prize mostly for Peace during 1950-1955 but He never able to got a Single Prize from Nobel.

4. Chain Smoker

He was very fond of smoking. We can see many Pictures of Nehru Smoking Cigarette. His favorite brand was 555 Cigarette. One time he was at visit of Bhopal and he forget to bring cigarettes with him & also didn’t get this brand in Bhopal Market. Then he send a Airjet to bring his brand from Bhopal to Indore. The Plane returned after sending some packets at airport.

5. True Pundit Having Knowledge of India

He had very deep knowledge of India which we can see in his Book “Discovery of India”.He Belongs to a Kashmiri Pundit family having true sense of Pundit. There is a show named “Bharat Ek Khoj” was made on his Book which shows Indian history from prehistoric period to India independence.

6. Relationship with Edwina

Many Few people knows that he fell in love with British girl Edwina Mountbatten. We can see many photographs of Nehru and Edwina together on internet. There are many letters found of Nehru wrote to Edwina which tells relationship between them.

7. Main Cause of Partition of India

Many few people know that main Cause of Partition of India was Nehru. It is said that during India independence Muhammad Ali Jinnah want to became Prime Minister but Nehru refuse to left the seat for prime minister. Due to this Jinnah announced a new country for Muslim if not able to became prime minister and thus Pakistan Born.

8. Connection with Muslim Leaders

He has connections with some powerful Muslim leaders as the Leader of Congress in 1937 was Sheikh Abdullah. From Starting to his political journey most of Muslim Leaders helped him.

9. 1.5 Million People Gather to Watch Nehru Cremation

Nehru died because of a Massive heart attack on 27th May 1964. Around 1.5 million people gathered to watch his cremation. This was second time huge gathering after Gandhi Funeral .