Remembering the great martyr Vasudev Balwant Phadke

Decades after Independence – we kept reading about our clement British rulers – not how they looted but how they were kind to us !?! – not of the elite few who fought and sacrificed but our minds were ingrained with concept of ‘freedom gotten without bloodshed’ – that Britishers benevolently handed to us freedom !!  How sad, we forgot our real heroes!

A little more than 20 years after the 1857 ‘first war of Independence’, a fresh series ...