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Youth Icons of the 2010s came from politics, music and sports

Saquib Salim The 2010s saw India ruled by a stable government after more than two decades of coalition politics. It also saw a surge in the use of the internet and social media, and economic reforms. The youth had many to idolize, and these are my top five icons of the decade: Honey Singh In the new millennium, if there was one person who had changed the way India listened to music, it is Honey Singh. Initially ridiculed and critic...

Youth Icons of new India in the 2000s

Saquib Salim The first decade of the millennium witnessed economic growth and the rise of the Indian middle class. The icons represented a new India. The five important youth icons are listed below. Chetan Bhagat I was studying engineering in the mid-2000s. Chetan Bhagat's debut novel Five Point had created an euphoria on the campus. It was the time when elders lamented that the Indian youth were becoming averse to books. Bhaga...

The Indian Youth Icons of the 2000s

Saquib Salim The first decade of the millennium witnessed economic growth and the rise of the Indian middle class. The icons represented a new India. The five important youth icons are listed below. Chetan Bhagat I was studying engineering in the mid-2000s. Chetan Bhagat's debut novel Five Point had created an euphoria on the campus. It was the time when elders lamented that the Indian youth were becoming averse to books. Bhaga...

Youth Icons of the 1990s: God of cricket to Indian global beauty queen

Saquib Salim The 1990s were turbulent times for India. It witnessed the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, insurgencies in Punjab, Kashmir, Assam, Mizoram, and Nagaland, and the Bombay bomb blasts. Many communal riots and terrorist attacks rocked the nation, and at the end of the decade, Pakistan invaded the Indian territory in Kargil. The Pokhran nuclear tests, too. The Indian youth were inspired by many young achievers, of whom five are bein...

Indian youth icons of the 1980s conquered space and sports

Saquib Salim The decade of the 1980s saw the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Operation Blue Star, the Indian cricket team winning the World Cup, communal riots, and the rise of regional politics. During this decade, five youth icons who impacted the Indians are: Rakesh Sharma One of the most common career choices for a child growing up in the 1980s was space exploration. “I want to go to space,” would be the reply f...

The Indian youth icons of the 1980s

Saquib Salim The decade of the 1980s saw the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Operation Blue Star, the Indian cricket team winning the World Cup, communal riots, and the rise of regional politics. During this decade, five youth icons who impacted the Indians are: Rakesh Sharma One of the most common career choices for a child growing up in the 1980s was space exploration. “I want to go to space,” would be the reply ...

Five Indian youth icons of the 1970s

Saquib Salim The 1970s were the most tumultuous; they changed the nation’s direction in many ways. India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran, and gave a crushing defeat to Pakistan in the 1971 war - this created a triumphant environment in the country. This phase was followed by the imposition of emergency, a dark chapter in Indian politics, and the subsequent rise and fall of the Janata Party. The churning in this period...

The Indian Youth Icons of the 1970s

Saquib Salim The 1970s were the most tumultuous; they changed the nation’s direction in many ways. India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran in, defeating Pakistan in the 1971 war, creating a triumphant environment. This phase was followed by the imposition of emergency, a dark chapter in Indian politics, and the subsequent rise and fall of the Janata Party. The era gave us the following five youth icons: Kiran ...

A war hero to Miss World: 5 youth Icons of Indians in the 1960s

Saquib Salim The 1960s were a tumultuous decade, marked by the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, invasions from China and Pakistan, the liberation of Goa, the merger of Sikkim, the emergence of Indira Gandhi on the political scene, and the green revolution led by Lal Bahadur Shastri. Here are five young Indians who became heroes for the Indian youth in this decade: Havildar Abdul Hamid CLR James once wrote, “A national Hero must...

5 youth icons of India of the 50's

Saquib Salim The 1950s, as the first decade after independence saw India go through its first general elections. The period also saw the emergence of art, films, sports, and education from the shadows of colonial rule. The newly independent nation needed new heroes to follow and new ideas to idolise. Here is my selection of five youth icons from the decade. Nargis Dutt What should an ideal Indian woman be like? The answer for...

5 icons of the 1940s who made Indians proud and dream big

Saquib Salim The 1940s were a happening decade in Indian history. Millions perished in a man-made famine in Bengal, and other millions were killed or displaced in the aftermath of the partition. The country was partitioned along religious lines. The newly independent nation looked for heroes, especially. This is a list of five youth icons of the 1940s in India. Brigadier Mohammad Usman Brig Usman declined an offer from Mohamma...

The youth icons of1940s

Saquib Salim The 1940s were a happening decade in Indian history. Millions perished in a man-made famine in Bengal, and other millions were killed or displaced in the aftermath of the partition. The country was partitioned along religious lines. The newly independent nation looked for heroes, especially. This is a list of five youth icons of the 1940s in India. Brigadier Mohammad Usman Brig Usman declined an offer from Mohamma...

Young men and women who inspired Indians in the 1930s

Saquib Salim Have you ever wondered who our grandfathers or great-grandfathers were and who their idols were? I have tried to cobble a list of five influential popular Indian youth icons from the 1930s. The list could include more names, but we chose to feature those who made a huge impact on a generation. Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh became an idol of the entire nation in his boyhood. The man who inspired the Indians for almost a cen...

The Indian Youth Icons of the 1930s

Saquib Salim Have you ever wondered who our grandfathers or great-grandfathers were and who their idols were? I have tried to cobble a list of five influential popular Indian youth icons from the 1930s. The list could include more names, but we chose to feature those who made a huge impact on a generation. Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh became an idol of the entire nation in his boyhood. The man who inspired the Indians for almost a c...

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Saiyaara celebrates the unpaid labour of women’s intellect

Saquib Salim In her book A Room of One’s Own, (1928) Virginia Woolf argues, “it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty”. I had never imagined that in 2025, Indian youth wou...

Gandhi's recollection of Mazharul Haq's role in Champaran Satyagraha

Saquib Salim “Mazharul Haq had registered his name on a standing list of helpers whom I might count upon whenever necessary and he made a point of looking in once or twice a month. The way in which he associated with us made us feel that he was one of us, though his fashionable habit gave a stranger a different impression.” A Slice Of History This is what Mahatma Gandhi wrote about the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917. This...

Tipu Sultan’s sons engineered the Vellore Mutiny

Saquib Salim “The Christian drummers were seized, taken to the palace where Tippu's sons were confined, and made to beat the "general" ; lights flashed in the palace, refreshments were brought out; a mob of sepoys called on the princes to place themselves at their head; Tippu's own flag, green stripes on a red field, was nailed to the flagstaff. Prince Muizuddin (son of Tipu Sultan) ordered his horse to be saddled, ...

Chief of Nizam's army Raja Rao Rambha performed azadari on Muharram

Saquib Salim Raja Rao Rambha Jayawant Bahadur Nimblakar was the highest commander of the army of Nizam of Hyderabad during the early 19th century. In one of the monographs attached with the Census of India 1971, it was noted that Raja Rao Rambha used to put aside allowances for tazia (procession for 10th of Muharram), marsiyakhwans (singers of mourning songs in processions). He participated in Muharram processions. The monograph notes,...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: Unsung genius who wove India’s statistical fabric

Squib Salim When we recount the architects of modern India, the names of Nehru and Patel echo loudly in our collective memory. But there are other names, less celebrated but no less significant—a name that quietly stitched together the statistical soul of a nation. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, whose birthday on June 29th is commemorated as National Statistics Day, is a testament to how one man’s passion for numbers...

How Indian freedom fighters Sufi Amba Prasad and Ajit Singh landed in Iran

Saquib Salim “I will pay Rs. 2000 each for the delivery of Amba Parshad and Ajit Singh. Do you have any further information about them?” This is the text of a telegram from the Deputy Director of Criminal Intelligence, Simla, to The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire (Bushehr in Iran) on 29 June 1910. Sufi Amba Prasad and Sardar Ajit Singh were important revolutionaries who had fled from Punjab, and the British...

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