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Nation Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

WATCH 75 STORIES OF 75 HEROES OF FREEDOM IN

THE SWARAJ SERIAL ON DOORDARSHAN

The Amrit Mahotsav of Independence is a festival not only of new resolutions and ideas, but
also of telling the next generation about the heroes who gave their lives in the fight for freedom.
Doordarshan has taken a significant step in this direction with the Swaraj serial

oordarshan has launched "Swaraj: The Whole of National channel. Also, episodes are being re-
DIndia's Freedom Struggle," an initiative to retell telecast during the week. Not only this, this serial,
the inspiring stories of more than 550 freedom originally produced in the Hindi language, has started
fighters who contributed to the freedom struggle broadcasting in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
and to familiarise the younger generation with the Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali, and Assamese
unsung heroes. The narrative is told in the form of regional languages from August 20.
a serial. On the occasion of Amrit Mahotsav, 75
episodes of this serial will be aired over the course INNOVATIVE INITIATIVE OF THE MINISTRY OF
of 75 weeks. On August 14, it began every Sunday INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING
at 9 p.m. After attending a special screening of the The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
serial at Parliament's Balayogi Auditorium on August has taken a new initiative in the form of the Azadi
17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to Quest mobile game to enable our children to
watch it in his "Mann Ki Baat" programme. "This is a know about the hero of freedom and our freedom
fantastic initiative to familiarise the country's younger struggle. This game has been launched on the
generation with the efforts of unsung heroes and occasion of Amrit Mahotsav year of independence.
heroines who participated in the freedom movement," Its purpose is to bring the story of the Indian freedom
he said. I strongly advise you to go see it for yourself. struggle to the people. This online learning mobile
WHAT MAKES 'SWARAJ' UNIQUE? game series has been developed in association
This show opens in 1498, when Vasco da Gama with Zynga India. "This game is one of a
first set foot on Indian soil. The Portuguese, French, series of efforts made by the government to
Dutch, and British then attempted to set up colonies acknowledge the contribution of our freedom
in India. This serial has been cherished since that fighters and unsung heroes in the freedom
time until India's independence and the pride saga of struggle," I&B Minister Anurag Thakur said at the
our freedom heroes. game's launch. The first two games of Azadi Quest

75 WEEKS, 75 EPISODES are "Azadi Quest: Match 3 Puzzle' and "Azadi
It airs every Sunday from 9 to 10 p.m. on the DD Quest: Heroes of India".

return, the local rulers worked against nationalist underground. The boycott movement started by
sentiments by supporting British imperialist policies. Dhebar also inspired the fighters of other princely
The nationalist movement in India began to intensify states. Junagadh later joined the Indian Union
in the first and second decades of the twentieth and got freedom from autocratic rule under the
century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Dhebar leadership of Dhebar. He played an important
emerged as a prominent leader of the independence role in the formation of the state of Saurashtra
movement in Rajkot. In the late 1930s, he led the which came into existence on 15 February 1948 by
Kathiawar movement. He played a key role in the merging several princely states and administrative
formation of Samyukta Saurashtra. In October regions. Dhebar was appointed the first Chief
1947, when the Nawab of Junagadh tried to annex Minister of Saurashtra on the same day. In 1973, in
Junagadh into Pakistan, Dhebar led the movement view of Dhebar's public services, he was awarded
and announced an economic boycott of the princely the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second highest
government, forcing the Nawab of Junagadh to go civilian award. He died on 11 March 1977.

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