Pingali Venkayya, an Indian freedom fighter who the nation remembers proudly for reasons more than his struggle for our independence. It was his design on which India’s national flag was based upon. Have we ever wondered who designed our Tricolour?…
Komaram Bheem (కొమురం భీమ్ )alternatively Kumram Bheem, was a rebel leader in British India from the Gond trbies, who in association with other Gond leaders and communist revolutionaries led a protracted low intensity rebellion against the feudal Nizamate of Hyderabad and the…
The Marudhu Pandiyar brothers (Periya Marudhu and Chinna Marudhu) ruled Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu towards the end of the 18th century. The Marudhu brothers were the first to issue a proclamation of independence from the colonial British rule from Trichy Thiruvarangam…
Bhai Mati Das (ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ) is one of the great martyrs in Sikh history. He along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das and Bhai Dyal Das, all disciples of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur, were executed along with…
Alluri Sitarama Raju (4 July 1897 or 1898 – 7 May 1924) was an Indian revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement. After the passing of the 1882 Madras Forest Act, its restrictions on the free movement of tribal people…
On 3 January 1760, freedom fighter and martyr Veerapandiya Kattabomman was born in Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu. He was a Vatuka (northerner), a loose term for a group of Telugu-speaking castes which includes families who claim to have moved south to settle…
A saint in her own right. A guiding force and nurturer to all her brothers. She is highly respected by the Warkari community because she consistently worked for the upliftment of the downtrodden, as she knew what it felt like…
When Rani Abbakka was crowned the queen of Ullal, she decided she would completely stop paying the Portuguese the tribute that all the local rulers paid them. In 1555, a Portuguese envoy was sent to Rani Abbakka to remind her…
Onake Obavva was a brave woman in the kingdom of Chitradurga in Karnataka, who single handed fought with the army of Hyder Ali. She just used a pestle called as Onake in Kannada and fought with the army. Her husband,…
Pasumpon Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga ThevarIndian Freedom fighter and Politician In 1920, Muthuramalinga Thevar made his fight opposing the implementation of the Criminal Inheritance Act in Madurai, Tirunelveli and Ramanathapuram. Thevar won for the first time in the election of Mudukulathur constituency…
