"Media is the fourth pillar of Democracy" “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent‚ and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses” - Malcolm X Today‚ media is considered the fourth pillar of the state all over the world; first and foremost British Member of Parliament Lord Macaulay had given this status to the media. In any republican government system‚ there must be three administrative
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Short essay on the Quit India Movement In August 1942‚ Gandhiji launched the Quit India Movement (“Bharat Chhodo Andolan”). A resolution was passed on 8 August 1942 in Bombay by the All India Congress Committee‚ declaring its demand for an immediate end of British rule. The Congress decided to organize a mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale. Gandhiji’s slogan of ‘Do or Die’ (‘Karo ya Maro’) inspired the nation. Every man‚ women and child began dreaming of a free India
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birthright. For example‚ the right to life and liberty (Business Dictionary‚ N.D.); Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s encompasses equality through nonviolent social change‚ known as civil rights; Mahatma Ghandi which included the practiced principle of Satyagraha-resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil
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Dr.B.R Ambedkar-A Social Reformer Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956)‚ popularly also known as Babasaheb‚ was an Indian jurist‚ political leader‚ philosopher‚ anthropologist‚inspiring economist‚ teacher‚ editor‚ prolific writer‚historian‚ orator‚ revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination
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He was the leader to Satyagraha which means "The Persistence of Truth" and it is a philosophy that focuses on nonviolent resistance as a means of achieving social and political reform. He organized Nonviolent and peaceful protests with peasants‚ farmers‚ and workers in the central
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------------------------------------------------- ANNA HAZARE Born | Kisan Hazare 15 June 1937 (age 74) Bhingar‚ Bombay Province‚British India | Nationality | Indian | Other names | Kisan Baburao Hazare | Known for | Indian anti-corruption movement‚ Watershed development programmes‚Right to Information | Influenced by | Mahatma Gandhi‚ Swami Vivekananda | Political movement | Indian anti-corruption movement‚ Peace movement | Religion | Hinduism | Spouse | Never Married | Parents
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Interpreting Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is not rejection of the liberative contribution of modernity. Rather his effort can be interpreted as an attempt to integrate these positive elements with a liberating re-interpretation of tradition. With his critique from within the tradition‚ Gandhi becomes the great synthesizer of contraries within and across traditions. GANDHI’s Hind Swaraj (HS) is surely a foundational text for any understanding of the man and his mission. In dialogue
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League‚ and proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims should a United British India become independent. In 1920‚ however‚ Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of Satyagraha‚ or non-violent resistance‚ advocated by the influential leader‚ Mohandas Gandhi. 2. By 1940‚ Jinnah had come to believe that Indian Muslims should have their own state. In that year‚ the Muslim League‚ led by Jinnah‚ passed the Lahore Resolution
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Swadeshi Movement emanated from the partition of bengal‚ 1905 and continued up to 1908. It was the most successful of the pre-Gandhian movements. Initially the partition plan was opposed through an intensive use of conventional ’moderate’ methods of press campaigns‚ numerous meetings and petitions‚ and big conferences at the calcutta town hall in March 1904 and January 1905. The evident and total failure of such techniques led to a search for new forms - boycott of British goods‚ rakhi bandhan and
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Cellular Jail From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |Cellular Jail | |[pic] | |Cellular Jail‚ Andaman | |General information | |Type |Prison for political prisoners (Indian freedom | |
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