18 September - International Red Panda Day in 2021

 

International Red Panda Bear Day, celebrated third Saturday of September every year, aims to raise public awareness and support for red panda conservation issues.

Endemic to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, red pandas are facing the threat of extinction due to poaching, habitat destruction and fragmentation and inbreeding depression.

The exact number of individuals of the species that exist in the wild is not known today, but some estimates report it to be as low as 10,000 mature individuals; therefore the IUCN List classifies it as an ‘endangered’ species.

17 September - Maqbool Fida Husain known as M. F. Husain born in 1915

Maqbool Fida Husain better known as M. F. Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was a controversial Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style.He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artists of the 20th century.He was one of the founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.

Husain's later works have stirred controversy, which included nude portrayals of Hindu deities, and a nude portrayal of Bharat Mata. Right-wing organizations called for his arrest, and several lawsuits were filed against him for hurting religious sentiments. He remained in a self imposed exile from 2006 until his death in 2011, accepting Qatari citizenship in 2008.

In 1967, he received the National Film Award for Best Experimental Film for Through the Eyes of a Painter.In 2004, he directed Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, a film he worked on with his artist son Owais Husain, which was screened in the Marché du film section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

 

17 September - Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam founded in 1949

 

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK); is a political party in India, particularly in the state of Tamil Nadu and Union Territory of Puducherry. It is currently the Opposition party in Tamil Nadu and is part of the Indian political front the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

DMK is a Dravidian party, adhering to the social democratic and social justice principles of C. N. Annadurai and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy.It was founded in 17 September 1949 by Annadurai as a breakaway faction from the Dravidar Kazhagam (known as Justice Party until 1944) headed by Ramasamy.

DMK was headed by Annadurai (as Secretary general) from 1949 until his death on 3 February 1969

17 September - International Country Music Day

 

Country music is one of the most popular types of music in the world and this special type of music originated in the USA. International Country Music Day was established in the 1950s and is held each year on September 17th. On this special day, country music festivals are held at various venues around the world. Lovers of country music gather to listen to live music acts while drinking and dancing. Line dancing is popular during International Country Music Day and competitions are often held to determine the best dancers.

16 September - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

 

September 16 was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. This designation had been made on December 19, 2000, in commemoration of the date, in 1987, on which nations signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The closure of the hole in the ozone layer was observed 30 years after the protocol was signed.Due to the nature of the gases responsible for ozone depletion their chemical effects are expected to continue for between 50 and 100 years.

10 September - USA celebrates Grandparents Day in 2023

 

Grandparents Day in the United States is a special holiday celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day, which typically falls on the second Sunday in September. The primary purpose of Grandparents Day is to honor and show appreciation for the important role that grandparents play in the lives of their grandchildren and to strengthen intergenerational bonds.

t's important to note that the way Grandparents Day is celebrated can vary widely among families and communities. Some people use the occasion for large family gatherings, while others may have more intimate celebrations with their grandparents.

Overall, Grandparents Day is a heartwarming and meaningful observance that celebrates the wisdom, love, and intergenerational bonds between grandparents and their grandchildren in the United States.

 

08 September - Tripuraneni Gopichand born in 1910

 

Tripuraneni Gopichand (8 September 1910 – 2 November 1962) was a Telugu short story writer, novelist, editor, essayist, playwright, film director, and a radical humanist. Gopichand was the son of renowned social reformer and play writer Tripuraneni Ramaswamy. Gopichand, inspired by M.N.Roy's Radical Humanism, became the first state secretary of the Radical Democratic Party (India) Andhra Pradesh.His second novel Asamardhuni Jivayatra (Bungler: A Journey Through Life), was the first psychological novel in Telugu literature.Gopichand was posthumously awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Pandita Parameswara Sastri Veelunama in 1963, the first Telugu novel to win this award.His novels typically features gloomy, incomplete, unsatisfied and unsatisfying protagonist tortured by a sense of guilt.

His novel "Asamardhuni Jeeva Yatra", is part of the syllabus for APPSC examinations in Telugu literature as an optional subject.

A postal stamp in his honour was released on 8 Sep 2011 by the Government of India on his 100th birthday. 

08 September - Dr. Bhupen Hazarika born in 1926

 

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (08 September 1926 – 05 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha (सुधाकण्ठ, meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated"). His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam (India), West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1977), and Padmabhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He was posthumously awarded both the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012, and the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019.Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.

06 September - Sarat Chandra Bose birth anniversary

 

Sarat Chandra Bose (6 September 1889 – 20 February 1950) was an Indian barrister and independence activist.

The 131st birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Bose will be celebrated on September 6, 2020.This assumes significance as an occasion to make known various aspects of his multifaceted personality which found expression in his roles as a humanist, a patriot and a freedom fighter, a political thinker, parliamentarian, legal practitioner, journalist, a philanthropist, and a man with the most exemplary qualities of head and heart.

05 September - The Non-cooperation movement in 1920

 

The Non-cooperation movement was launched on 5th September, 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi with the aim of self-governance and obtaining full independence as the Indian National Congress (INC) withdraw its support for British reforms following the Rowlatt Act of 20 March 1919, and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919.

Noncooperation movement, unsuccessful attempt in 1920–22, organized by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, to induce the British government of India to grant self-government, or swaraj, to India. It was one of Gandhi’s first organized acts of large-scale civil disobedience (satyagraha).