Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Powerful Quotes in Hindi & English

Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Powerful Quotes in Hindi & English

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajaya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Hamara desh ek ped hai jiska tana swarajaya hai aur shakhayein swadeshi aur bahishkaar hai.

Early Life & Career

Keshav Gangadhar Tilak was born on 23 July 1856 in a Hindu-Brahmin family in Ratnagiri. He completed his graduation at Deccan College in Poona in 1876, he earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and Sanskrit. Tilak then studied law, receiving his degree in 1879 from the University of Bombay He then turned to the task of awakening the political consciousness of the people through two weekly newspapers that he owned and edited: Kesari (“The Lion”), published in Marathi, and The Mahratta, published in English. Through those newspapers, Tilak became widely known for his bitter criticisms of British rule. Tilak joined the Indian National Congress in 1890. He opposed its moderate attitude, especially towards the fight for self-government. He was one of the most-eminent radicals at the time.

It may be providence’s will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Kya pata ye bhagwan ki marzi ho ki mai jis vajah ka pratinidhtav karta hu, usse mere aazad rehne sezyada mere dukhi hone se adhi labh mile.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Yadi hum kisi bhi desh ke itihaas ke ateet me jaye to hum ant me mithko aur parampraon ke kaal me pohch jate hain jo aakhirkaar abhedya andhkaar me kho jata hai.