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He held on to this record for 28 years. The last episode aired on the 6th of June This was not a surprising statistic at the time. In April , people in Washington DC and , people in San Fransisco marched to protest against the war which only ended in The official cause of death was listed as heart failure.
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On August 15, , the country observes the 75th anniversary of national independence — what has been called the Amrit Mahotsav. Additionally, this December 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the famous victory in the war for the liberation of Bangladesh. Both occasions are significant in their own way. And the surrender of the Pakistani army in Dacca signified, in my mind at least, the first national military victory for over a thousand years — a landmark event for a nation long ravaged by invasions, occupation and military defeat.
Nothing in either recent or remote history moved India as much. There is an invented tradition around the invoked patriotism of Independence Day and the colourful pageantry of Republic Day. But without undermining the undeniable importance of both those days in national life, can it really be said that they help us to remember?
Rather, have we collectively applied our minds towards creating an occasion that involves something more meaningful than raising the flag, distributing sweets to school kids, and watching a Manoj Kumar film on TV? What Indian nationhood truly needs is an enduring invocation of collective memory — something that reminds us of who and what we are and something that can be passed on to future generations. The project is daunting for two reasons.
Firstly, history — or perhaps the history we choose to disseminate — does not appear to leave an indelible mark on the Indian mind. To upturn the belief of the 10th-century Arab traveller Alberuni that Hindus have no sense of history will take some doing. Secondly, an unintended consequence of the deepening of democracy is the celebration of cacophony.
In real life this means that the idea that a nation should be broadly governed by the same set of impulses is anathema. If India is to remember, it must first exorcise the ghosts that have fogged our minds and haunted us into becoming a land where nothing matters and anything goes.
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The crew made it safely back to Earth on February 9th after nine days and brought back over 90 pounds of lunar rocks and samples to be examined. The first crew arrived a few days after its launch but they were unable to dock and had to abandon the mission. It was not until June that the Soyuz 11 became the first crew to board the space station and spent a record-breaking 23 days there. The Salyut 1 space station orbited for a total of days before it was purposefully de-orbited and disintegrated above the Pacific.
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