Early in 1890 Tolstoy described America as "the country most sympathetic to me," suggesting sustained interest and understanding on both sides. [1] Tolstoy's most direct knowledge of America came from personal letters, occasional visitors, books by Americans, and subscriptions to several periodicals. The constant flow of letters from America often concerned religious and moral topics. Ordinary citizens as well as religious thinkers gave Tolstoy warm support for his new Christianity,…

Nasrin Soutoudeh, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights and women’s rights activist went on a hunger strike for the second time on October 31st to protest her unlawful detention and ill treatment in Iran’s Evin Prison. Nasrin Soutoudeh has been in detention since September 4th and denied visit with her lawyer…

ONCE A RENOUNED REVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM FIGHTER, PANDIT PARMANAND JHANSIWALE WENT TO MEET GANDHIJI IN HIS ASHRAM AT SEWAGRAM, WARDHA. PANDITJI WAS THEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AFTER THIRTY SIX LONG YEARS. HE WAS ARRESTED AT THE TEENAGE IN 1912 AT SINGAPORE PORT WHEN HIS FIREY SPEACH PROVOKEDE 250 ARMY MEN TO REVOLT AGAINST THE BRITISH COLONIAL RULE. PANDITJI AFTER SUFFERING LONGEST TERM IN JAIL, WAS EAGER TO MEET GANDHIJI.

WHEN IN SEWAGRAM, GANDHIJI SUGGESTED PANDITJI…

VINOBAJI ONCE WAS SUMMONED BY PT. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, THE THEN PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA, TO COME TO DELHI AND GUIDE THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN SHAPING THE FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN. NEHRUJI GOT THE IDEA OF FIVE YEAR PLAN FROM FORMER U.S.S.R. IT IS A STORY OF EARLY FIFTIES. A SENIOR MEMBER OF NEHRUJI'S CABINET, SHRI GULJARILAL NANDA WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF PLANNING COMISSION.

VINOBAJI CAME TO DELHI AND HAD SEEN THE PROPOSED PLAN PAPERS. VINOBAJI WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THERE WAS NO…

9th November has been observed as the "World Freedom Day" as pronounced by the U.S since 2003.

It was this day in 1989, the infamous Berlin Wall began to fall and get demolished for the re-unification of East Germany and West Germany. The formal re-union took place on 3rd October of the same year. The former U.S. President George W. Bush started this celebration in 2003 and made this day an official holiday for America.

I could remember vividly…

On His Conviction for Sedition:

I owe it perhaps to the Indian public and to the public in England to placate which this prosecution is mainly taken up that I should explain why from a stanch loyalist and cooperator I have become an…

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