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Vikram Samvat began in 57 BCE, so the Vikrami year is obtained by adding 57 to the Christian year; this is the era printed on wedding invitations and traditional almanacs in northern India and is the official calendar of Nepal.

The Saka reckoning is most often linked with the Kushana ruler Kanishka, and it is the era on which the Indian National Calendar is built, so the Saka year is about 78 less than the Christian year.

The national calendar begins on 1 Chaitra, which corresponds to 22 March in an ordinary year and to 21 March in a leap year, so that the year opens near the spring equinox.

That day was 1 Chaitra 1879 of the Saka era, and the calendar came into use on the recommendation of the Calendar Reform Committee, which had reported in 1955.

The national calendar counts its years in the Saka reckoning, which began in 78 CE, so a Saka year is found roughly by subtracting 78 from the Christian year; it is printed in the Gazette of India and read out in the news bulletins of All India Radio.

The words, meaning touch the sky with glory, come from the eleventh chapter of the Gita, where the universal form of the Lord is described, and they were adopted as the motto of the Indian Air Force.

Speaking at Patna in 1974 during the student movement in Bihar, he asked for a total revolution covering social, economic, political, cultural and educational life, and the movement he led became the gathering point for the opposition to the government of the day.

Two words promising the removal of poverty carried her to a very large majority in the general election of that year, and the phrase has been quoted in Indian politics ever since.

He repeated the line constantly in his lectures to Indian youth after returning from the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893, and the thought is drawn from the Katha Upanishad.

The full line is Satyameva Jayate Nanritam, meaning truth alone triumphs, not falsehood, and the first two words were inscribed in Devanagari below the Lion Capital of Ashoka when the State Emblem was adopted in 1950.

He wrote the song in Sanskritised Bengali and placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882; it was sung at the Congress session of 1896 and became the chief song of the national movement, and the Constituent Assembly later gave it the same honour as the national anthem.

He used the line while raising and addressing the Indian National Army in South East Asia during the Second World War, asking his soldiers for the ultimate sacrifice in return for the freedom of the country; Dilli Chalo and Jai Hind come from the same years and the same army.

The Urdu poet and nationalist, who was also among the first to demand complete independence, coined the phrase in the early nineteen twenties, and it means long live the revolution.

A socialist leader who later became Mayor of Bombay, he coined Simon Go Back for the protests that met the Simon Commission in 1928, and in 1942 he suggested the two words Quit India, which the Congress adopted as the name of its last great movement.

He raised the slogan in 1965, when the country was fighting a war on one side and facing a shortage of food grains on the other, and the two words placed the soldier and the farmer side by side as the twin defenders of the nation.

The Maratha leader, called Lokmanya and described by the British as the father of Indian unrest, declared that swaraj was his birthright and that he would have it, and the sentence became the rallying cry of the extremist wing of the Congress in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Cleanliness was a lifelong concern for him; he cleaned latrines himself at Sabarmati and Sevagram, insisted that every satyagrahi do the same, and declared on more than one occasion that sanitation mattered more than political freedom, because a nation that could not keep itself clean would not know what to…

The chess grandmaster received the award in its first year, 1991-92, when it was called the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; it was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2021 and remains the highest sporting honour of the country.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics of 2000, in the sixty-nine kilogram category, and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal of any colour.

The Malayalam poet received the first Jnanpith Award in 1965 for his collection Odakkuzhal, meaning the bamboo flute; the award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith for outstanding writing in any of the languages recognised by the Constitution.