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Born 11th May 788 AD, at Kaladi near Kochi, Kerala. Took Samadhi at the age of 33, at Kedar
tirth.
Father: Shivguru, Mother: Aryamba.
He is associated with Maya Theory, Advaita Vedanata (Non-Dualism), Tarak Brahma
He established four Math (Monastery) at Shingeri, Puri, Dwaraka and Badrinath for
propagation of Sanathana Dharma.
His Books: Bhashya- commentaries on Gita and other texts; Prakaran Granths.
Government wants to declare his birthday 11th May as National Philosophers day and Adi
Sankaracharya as National Philosopher.
But, Adi Shankaracharya was opposed to Buddhist philosophers. Therefore, theHindu
columnists criticizing Modi for this idea.
Further Self-Study: NIOS Culture PDF, Chapter 8 on six schools of Indian Philosophy- page 117
onwards. Free Download (https://les.secureserver.net/0fdAWETp4sONW5)
Jyotiba Phule: 125 th Birth Anniversary
Born in Mali caste in Satara, Maharastra on 11th April 1827. His family was in business of selling
vegetables and owers, hence the surname Phule.
Founded- Satyasodhak samaj for 1. social service 2. spread of education among women and
lower caste 3. widow remarriage
He opened rst girls school at Poona. (1851)
Published: Tritiya Ratna, sarvajanik satyadharma, gulamgin etc.
He was against casteism and Sanskritik Hinduism. He used symbol of Raja Bali as opposed to
the Brahmins symbol of Rama.
Why in news? 125th Anniversary in 2016. Maharashtra government to make a Rs.10 crore
movie on his life.
Further Self-Study: Tamilnadu Class12 History book Ch.13. Free Download
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Komagta Maru: 102 years & Canadian Apology
18th May 1914: Indian migrants, mostly Sikhs had boarded Japanese Ship Komagata Maru to
reach Vancouver, Canada.
But they were not allowed to land, when the ship returned to Calcutta but British forces opened
re killing 19 of them.
102 years of the Komagta Maru incident, the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau ocially apologize
for it in the Canadian Lok Sabha (House of Commons.)
Nirankari sect
Founder: Dayal Das and his disciples Darbara Singh, Ratta Ji.
They accept authority of a living Guru. [Other Sikh sects believe that after 10th Guru Gobind
Singh- no more living Gurus, only Adi Granth Sahib ji is the eternal Guru of all Sikhs.]
They believe god is formless (Nirankari)
They disapprove militant brotherhood of Khalsa. They aim for standardized birth-deathmarriage-rituals based on Sikh scripture, but free of cost.
They advocate against meat, liquor and drugs.
Sant Nirankari Mission & Savinder Kaur
It was Established in 1929 by Buta Singh, a member of Nirankari sect. Its separate from the
original Nirankari sect..
Savinder Kaur becomes the rst woman to head this sect/mission, after sudden death of her
husband Baba Harvdev Singh in a plane crash in 2016.
History: misc days
21st May
1991
Dead in News
Alex Lowe and
David Bridges
Balraj Madhok
Rajdev Ranjan
Sahara
mothers death.
CM Akhilesh Yadav, Bollywood Star Amitabh and many other big-wigs
came to attend.
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He was former chief economic advisor of India.
New book The rise and fall of nations: Ten Rules of Change in the post crisis world.
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Ruchir Sharma is the Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Other books in news- May 2015
Anand
Teltumbde
Arjun
Sumbramaniam
Dr. K.P.Mathur
IAS
autobiography
Indology
David Shulman won Israel price for research on India. Hell donate the money to Pal
Perumal
Murugan
This controversial authors Tamil novel on love, caste, intolerance has been translate
with title Pyre.
Music Movies
Movie directed by Tony DSouza, this movie revolves around former Indian
Azhar
Salma
Agha
AIB
AIB groups Comedian Tanmay Bhat in trouble after creating a controversial spoof
video on Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar.
Veerappan
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma, where Sandeep Bhardwaj plays role of the forest
brigand and sandlewood smuggler Veerapan who operated in the jungles of
Karnataka and Tamilnadu.
Zubin
Mehta
Music director, and Conductor in Orchestra- turned 80 years old. Some demanding
Bharat Ratna for him.
Redink
Award
Trac
Movie about organ donation- how police creates a green corridor to transport a
donated heart to patient.
Mehul
Kumar
States in News
Gujarat Current Aairs: May-2016 for GPSC
New Agro-Business policy launched (2016-21): rms will be given subsidy on
capital investment, long term loans etc.
Dahod: Here BJP President Amit Shah launched PM Ujjwal Yojana for LPG
connection to BPL families.
HRD Minister Shmriti Irani visited her adopted village Manghrol, in Anand district
Schemes
Death
Education
Sri Mast Ram Vinay Higher secondary school- it has lowest pass rate 19.27% in
class10. This school is located in Utavali village, many students have to cross
river each day to visit it.
Gujarat university will provide grace marks and gap years to students pursuing
Startup business, says VC MN Patel.
Cultural Capital of Gujarat Vadodara , didnt get shortlisted in rst round of
Smart City project. So now VMC ordered all ocers to wear t-shirts with smart
Vadodara
city logo and use caller tunes to create hype- to get Vadodara shortlisted as a
smart city in second round of selection this year.
Vadodara to launch rst Smart police station in Bapod area.
PM Modis mother Heeraben given Nari Jagran Samman 2016
Amul Managing director R.S.Sodhi gets extortion call from Ravi Pujari gang for
Misc.
Rs.25 crores.
Because of the low sex ratio among Patidar community, now theyve begun
marrying orphan women from other states, residing in the government shelter
homes of Gujarat.
Rajasthan
Kerala
Maharashtra
Railway had sent Rs. 2cr bill for transporting water to Latur. But later with
newspaper controversy, they took back the bill.
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Baba Harder Singh died in Car crash not in plane crash. Nice article though.
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amazing stu .. thank you so much mrunal sir ..\,,/ little autocorrect here
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Its 190th birth anniversary and 125th death anniversary of phule.kindly
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