Swami Vivekananda

• 12th January, 1863 -  161st birth anniversary
• National Youth Day
• 1893: Maharaja Ajit Singh of the Khetri State: Vivekananda
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had called him "the maket of modern India"
• Neo-Vedanta
• World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893
• Swami Vivekananda talked about the four pathways of attaining moksha from worldly pleasure and attachment in his books. Which is Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga.

Organisations

• Ramakrishna Mission (1897)
• Belur Math, West Bengal (1899):  He died here in 1902 

“Arise! Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached.”

 “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD)

• 17th edition, Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Why Celebrated?

• January 9 was selected as it was the date when Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915.

The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award

Mahatma Gandhi

• 2nd October, 1869 Porbandar (Gujarat)
• Gandhi Peace Prize
• International day of Non-Violence 
• 30 January, 1930: Martyrs' Day

South Africa

• 1893-1915
• Satyagrah
• 1899-1902: The Boer War: Awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for serving the British Empire
• Phoenix (Durban)
• Tolstoy Farm (Johanessburg)
• 1911: Gopal Krishan Gokhale (Political Guru)  Visited South Africa
• Viceroy Hardinge

9th January, 1915: Return to India: Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

Satyagraha Movements

• 1916: Champaran (Bihar): 1st CDM, Rajkumar Shukla, Problems of Indigo Planters, Tinkatiya System (3/20), Rajendra Prasad, Anugrah Sinha
• 1917: Kheda (Gujarat): 1st NCM, Sardar Patel, Indulal Yagnik
• 1918: Ahemdabad (Gujarat): Mill Workers: 1st hunger Strike, Anusuiya Sarabai
• 1919: Nationwide Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act (1919)
• 13 April,1919: Jallianwalla Bagh: Called off the Movement
• 1920: Non-Cooperation Movement: Calcutta Session: Support Khilafat
• Dec 1920: Nagpur Session: Non-Cooperation Movement Addopted
• 1922: Withdrwa the NCM after the Chauri Chaura Incident
• 1930: Salt March: Civil Disobedience Movement: Sabarmati to Dandi
• 1931: Gandhi Irwin Pact: Called off CDM: 2nd Round Table Conferenece
• 1934: Relaunched CDM
• 1942: The Quit India Movement

Social Work

• Poona Pact (1932): Dr B.R. Ambedkar
• The Hindustani Prachar Sabha (1942) at Wardha (Maharastra)

Books

• Hind Swaraj
• My Experiments with Truth

News Paper

• Harijan (Gujarati)
• Indian Opinion (South Africa)
• Young India (English)

"I cannot possibly bear the idea that a man who has got wealth should get the vote but a man who has got character but no wealth or literacy should have no vote, or that a man who honestly works by the sweat of his brow day in and day out should not have the vote for the crime of being a poor man…".

Millet

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to declare 2023 as the International Year of Millets. 

Good Governance Day

• 25 December
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• announced in 2014 (Narendra Modi)

e-Governance

• "Good Governance through e-Governance"

Good Governance Report

• Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Good Governance Index

• 2019
• The Department of Administration Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG)

Swami Vivekananda

• Founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
• January 12: National Youth Day

Books

• Raja Yoga
• Jnana Yoga
• Karma Yoga

Khongjom Day: 23 March

• Paid Homage to the martyrs of 1891 War
• Anglo - Manipur War
• The Kingdom of Manipur and the British Empire

Paona Brajabasi

• A military officer

Muga Silk

• GI Tag
• Assam
• Golden Silk
• GAMOCHA: The Pride Of  Assam
• National Handloom Day: 7 August

Kargil Vijay Diwas

• 26 July

World Press Freedom Day

• 3rd May

 World Press Freedom Index

• published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
• Theme: "Journalism under digital siege"
• India ranked 150th among the 180 countries.

Source: The Indian Express

Elephant

 

• Asian elephants' ears are smaller compared to the large fan-shaped ears of the African species

PYQs

With reference to Indian elephants, consider the following statements:

1. The leader of an elephant group is a female. 

2. The maximum gestation period can be 22 months. 

3. An elephant can normally go on calving till the age of 40 years only. 

4. Among the States in India, the highest elephant population is in Kerala. 

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?[CSE 2020] 

(a) 1 and 2 only 

(b) 2 and 4 only

(c) 3 only

(d) 1, 3, and 4 only

Ans.[A]

Summer Solstice

• June 21: Longest day in the Northern Hemisphere
• Because of the Earth's tilt-23.5

PYQs

In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year normally occurs in the :[CSE 2022]

(a) First half of the month of June 

(b) Second half of the month of June 

(c) First half of the month of July 

(d) Second half of the month of July

ANS:[B]

JUNETEENTH DAY

• End of Slavery In US
• Emancipation Day
• Abraham Lincoln

Pink washing

• LGBTQ+ community has emerged as a unique consumer base, one that corporations market to in the name of support. This concept is called pinkwashing.
• June month: Pride month for LGBTQ+ community

International Day of Yoga

• PM and MINISTRY of Ayush will organize an event in Mysuru to mark the eighth International Day of Yoga on June 21.