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Even during the early days of their establishment, The founders of Gita Press aimed big. Famous names such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, S. Radhakrishnan and Premchand have all, at one point, written for Kalyan. Hanuman Prasad Poddar the founding editor-in-chief of Kalyan was a huge contributor to the massive success of the magazine. To […]
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Men and women went to the temple to see their Hindu Gods. It was only after 1923, that the Gods began to visit the houses of Hindi reading believers through the pictures depicted in the religious books published by Gita Press. They are the biggest publisher of Hindu religious books. Gita Press Gorakhpur was one
It was in 1894 when famous Indian painter and artist Raja Ravi Verma, also regarded as the father of modern art in India, established his lithographic press in Girgaum, Bombay. In September of the same year, the chromolithographs of goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati were launched. Expensive and exclusive pieces of Verma’s art started to circulate
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March 25, On This Day Mythology (and movie) maestro If you’re a followed of Hindu mythology, you may have invariably come across the works of Sambanand Monappa Pandit or SM Pandit, who was born in Kalaburagi, Karnataka, on March 25 in 1916. One of the most sought-after painters of his time, Pandit subscribed to the
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