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A controversial new history of the Indian Mutiny, which broke out 150 years ago and is acknowledged to have been the greatest challenge to any European power in the 19th century, claims that the British pursued a murderous decade-long campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up against them.
In War of Civilisations: India AD 1857, Amaresh Misra, a writer and historian based in Mumbai, argues that there was an "untold holocaust" which caused the deaths of almost 10 million people over 10 years beginning in 1857. Britain was then the world's superpower but, says Misra, came perilously close to losing its most prized possession: India. ... Full Story

A Prout Convention was organised at 'Mahanayak Uttam Mancha', Kolkata on the 9th of September, 2007, by Proutist Universal (PU), Kolkata. Various eminent speakers spoke on different aspects of the socio-economic philosophy of Progressive Utilisation Theory (Prout), propounded by the great philosopher Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Three sessions were held during the convention apart from the inaugural session. The first session was on the 'Agricultural and Rural Development Policies of Prout'. The second session was on the 'Industrial and Economic Policies of Prout', and the final session was on 'Prout and Sadvipra Samaj'. During the lunch and breaks informative posters displaying the policy stances of Prout were displayed.

More than 500 people attended the Convention, which was convened by Ac. Tanmayananda Avt. on behalf of Proutist Universal.

"They stood up together to protect the honor of the sound that issued from the lips of a new-born babe churning the very core of his existence, the utterance that sanctified for him his first lesson of humanity" (~ Hasan Hafizur Rahaman ~)

There are certain days which remain ever memorable and sacred to certain communities. This applies to the 21st February. On this very day the people of East Bengal attained martyrdom by fomenting a revolution to save Bengali language as the official language of their country.

On 2nd - Universal Proutist Student Federation (UPSF) district conference. Fifty students attended. The conference was conducted by Central Organizing Secretary Ac. Tanmayananda Avt. Students distributed leaflets to colleges about the reservation policy (admission in educational institutions) of Prout. They also submitted memorandum to the District Magistrates about the defective reservation policy of the government.

Socio-economic units will not only have to fulfill peoples social and economic needs, but also their cultural aspirations. Culture denotes all sorts of human expressions. Culture is the same for all humanity, though there are differences in cultural expression. The best means of communicating human expressions is through one's mother tongue, as this is most natural. If people's natural expression through their mother tongue is suppressed, inferiority complexes will grow in their minds, encouraging a defeatist mentality and ultimately leading to psycho-economic exploitation. Thus, no mother tongue should be suppressed.

Statesman News Service, MIDNAPORE, April 15. - As the hour for polling draws close, the CPI-M's acts of intimidation seem to be intensifying. It appears the Marxist cadres did not even spare an Opposition woman candidate.

Yesterday, Mrs Aparna Dutta, the Amra Bangali candidate from Assembly constituency No. 223 of Midnapore, was attacked by about 100 CPI-M hoodlums at Goaldanga in Midnapore Sadar block. She had gone to the place to campaign.

It is not proper that one person will snatch away the morsels of food from the mouths of others. So there has been a need to introduce a system where all human beings would distribute the entire wealth among the collective body in a collective way. Unfortunately, no great person ever did this in the past, nor did even Ta'raka Brahma [the advent of the Supreme Liberator] do it. It was not done, therefore the problems and difficulties in collective life have continued. Because of these shortcomings, human life is full of pain and misery.

Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar is well known as a social philosopher, political revolutionary, poet, and linguist. He has also been described as the complete renaissance man.¹ These descriptions come as a result of his numerous books and articles in the fields of natural sciences, world history, art, health, and political-economy, his creation of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) and his role as spiritual teacher of the social service, spiritual movement Ananda Marga.²

People's News Agency (P.N.A.), January 24, 2006, Kolkata: On the occasion of the 110th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the world-renowned freedom fighter, the thunderous jewel of courage and valour, a shining comet in Indian politics and flaming meteor of mobility and dynamism, the Bangali Bahinii (The Bengali Brigade) and Amra Bengali jointly organized a-thousand strong colourful procession of youths on 23 rd January 2006 on the main thoroughfare of Kolkata. The procession originated from Deshapriya Park in South Kolkata and reached Netaji Bhavan at Elgin Road at 12.14 hours, the birth time of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. There the brigade presented a guard of honour to Netaji and wreaths were placed on the Memorial Pedestal by Shri Subodh Kumar Mitra, the secretary of Amra Bangali, and Shrii Pradiip Guha, the joint secretary of Bangali Bahini.

[PU Editorial Note: 23rd January is celebrated by all the patriotic Indians as the Birth Anniversary of their beloved leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Shrii P. R. Sarkar had mentioned the name of Subhas Chandra Bose in many of his discourses with great reverence. He adorned the great leader of India by using attributions like:

…… apostle of the juvenile heart of modern Bengal, thunder like jewel of manliness, the blazing comet of politics, and the flaming meteor Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

On the 109th Birth Anniversay of the great thinker Subhas Chandra Bose, a person with a freedom loving soul, Proutist Universal is publishing the article “The Man and the Ideology” in which the Author Shrii P. R. Sarkar presents the uniqueness of Netaji’s ideological, intellectual and political caliber.]