INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -C Subramania Bharati was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu, India. He belonged to the Extremist wing of the Congress party. He participated in the historic Surat Congress in 1907 and supported Tilak’s extremist views.

Detailed explanation-2: -To escape his arrest, Bharati fled to the French ruled Pondicherry. While there, Bharati edited and published the weekly Journal India and Vijaya, which the British banned to suppress his nationalist outputs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bharati’s best-known works included Kaṇṇan pāṭṭu (1917; Songs to Krishna), Panchali sapatham (1912; Panchali’s Vow), and Kuyil pāṭṭu (1912; Kuyil’s Song). Many of his English works were collected in Agni and Other Poems and Translations and Essays and Other Prose Fragments (1937).

Detailed explanation-4: -Editor of Tamil India and English Bala Bharati, Subramania was greatly influenced by Sri Aurobindo and VVS Iyer, and later by Mahatma Gandhi. To symbolize the spirit of national unity he adopted the turban as popularly worn by the Sikhs of Northern India.