Vijay Tendulkars Ghasiram Kotwaland Sakharam Binderstir up social issues and prove to be crowd-pulling blockbusters.
Vijay Tendulkars Ghasiram Kotwaland Sakharam Binderstir up social issues and prove to be crowd-pulling blockbusters.
Protima Bedi pouts,streaks, marries Kabir Bedi. Then meets Odissi, goes from brazen bimbette to cultural crusader in well-chronicled mo
Kanu Sanyal launches the CPI(ML) in Calcutta in 1969. Co-led by Charu Mazumdar , the first major strike is at Naxalbari village. Soon, the movement spreads to the cities, where student protests are met with S.S. Rays ruthless police guns.
The graceful left-arm Bishen Bedi and freak right-arm leggie B.S. Chandrashekhar form the core of the formid -able Spin Quartet with E.A.S. Prasanna and S. Venkataraghavan.
Sunny Gavaskar makes a dramatic debut in 1971,slamming 774 runs in four Test matches against the West Indies. He goes on to score more than 10,000 Test runs and hit 34 centuries.
Ajit Wadekar and his boys prove a winning combination,only to be destroyed in the 1974 England series. Wadekar quits.
Vijay Amritraj is spoken of as the A of the ABC (with Borg and Connors) of world tennis. He fails to live up to the billing but along with Anand makes a big impact on the world circuit.
Indira Gandhi after the Pokharan explosion on May 18, 1974; Benazir is a rage in Shimla in 1972 while Zulfiqar Bhutto thrashes out an accord; railway minister L.N. Mishra is killed in a bomb blast at Samastipur on January 2, 1975; as Sikkim joins the Indian Union on May 16, 1975, the deposed Chogyal attends a flag-hoisting at Gangtok.
1970: The English film monthly, Stardust, using liberal doses of Hinglish, revolutionises the concept of the fanzine.
April 19, 1975: First Indian satellite Aryabhatta is launched from the Soviet Union.
October 24, 1975: Bonded labour is abolished by an ordinance.