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  TILAK ..From the available evidence it seems safe to establish the proposition that the credit of introducing Marx and his doctrine of class conftlict to India for the first time goes to Bal Gangadhar Tilak. That Tilak had a genuine interest in socialist thought is evident from the kind of 'selections' he reproduced from foreign journals in the issues of the English weekly, The Mahratta, which he edited from its start in January 1881 , and also from the articles he intermittently wrote championing the cause of agricultural labourers and industrial workers in the Kesari from the time he took over its editorship from G.G. Agarkar in 1886 to his last days in 1920 . An article on nihilism' was reproduced by Tilak in The Mahratta of 17 April 1881.This article, reproduced from the English journal Leisure Hour, noted that nihilism 'manifests itself as radicalism in politics,  as communism in its social aspect,  as theism in its religious tendencies'.  Here, then, perhap...
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Tmk speech

 Skip to Main Content TM KRISHNA SANGITA KALANIDHI ELECT T.M. KRISHNA'S ADDRESS AT THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY  December 15, 2024 ___ Respected Justice S. Muralidhar, former Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court; President of The Music Academy Mr. N. Murali; Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. S Sowmya, Sangita Kalanidhi Bombay Jayashri Ramanth, vice-presidents, secretaries, committee members of The Music Academy, artists of song and instrumental, practitioners of dance, and its accompanying arts, friends and connoisseurs of music, my namaskarams to all of you.     It is indeed an honour to be standing before you on this stage, a proscenium on which I have witnessed – ‘experienced’ would perhaps be the right word – memorable musical moments, some that have transformed my life forever.    I began learning Karnatik music as a young boy with no idea of why I was doing so. Little did I know then that I was entering an aural topography that would so infuse my imagination ...
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