@Evening: 👑 Dive Into The Life And Times Of Shivaji — The Great Maratha

🙏 What a time to remember him!

"He really set the tone for what India should be."

• This is what Vikrant Pande, an IIMB-graduate-turned-writer, had to say on a Swarajya audiobook centred around the great Shivaji Maharaj.

• Pande, who has translated 12 Marathi bestsellers into English, is in conversation with Ratnadeep Chakraborty in connection with Pande's translation of Ranjeet Desai's book Shivaji: The Great Maratha.

• The duo discusses various aspects of Shivaji Maharaj's life — his childhood, his fierce opposition to the Mughals, his incisive strategic thought, his coronation leading to the Maratha Empire, revival of Hindu practices, and so much more.

• Listen in, it's on our all-new, good-looking app ;)

The Great Maratha. Shivaji Maharaj was not a cultural reaction, but a civilisational response.

• His importance in Indian history lies not just in the fact that he came up with an extensive response to Islamic colonisation, but that his response was powerful enough to defeat the Islamic states of that time and robust enough to sustain itself in power even after him.

• The 350th year since the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj comes at a time when once again the Hindu nation is reclaiming intellectual, cultural, and political territory and trying to restore balance in the nation-state relationship.

• If the remembrance of a common past is one of the necessary conditions for a community to call itself a nation, then the celebration of Swarajya becomes a national duty.

• For that reason, we've published a special collector's edition to mark 350 years of Swarajya.

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