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Lala Lajpat Rai ;Punjab Kesan ,Lion Of Punjab(Sher-i -Punjab).Biography and Photos

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Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928, Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਲਜਪਤ ਰਾਯ, Urdu: لالا لجپت راے; Hindi: लाला लाजपत राय) was an Indian author, freedom fighter and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. He was popularly known asPunjab Kesari (The Lion of Punjab) or Sher-e-Punjab meaning the same. He was also associated with activities of Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company in their early stages.

Early life

Lajpat Rai was born in an Agarwal family in Dhudike (now in Moga district, Punjab) on 28 January, in 1865. His grandfather was a Svetambara Jain while his father practiced Islam. Lala Lajpat Rai had his initial education in Govt. Higher Secondary School, Rewari(now in Haryana, was earlier in Punjab), in the last 1870s and early 1880s where his father Radha Krishan was an Urdu teacher. Lala Lajpat Rai was influenced by Hinduism and Manusmriti and created a career of reforming Indian policy through politics and writing.(When studying law in Lahore, he continued to practice Hinduism. He became a large believer in the idea that Hinduism, above nationality, was the pivotal point upon which an Indian lifestyle must be based.) Hinduism, he believed, led to practices of peace to humanity, and the idea that when nationalist ideas were added to this peaceful belief system, a non-secular nation could be formed. His involvement with Hindu Mahasabhaite leaders gathered criticism from the Bharat Sabha as the Mahasabhas were anti-secularism, which did not conform with the system laid out by the Indian National Congress. This focus on Hindu practices in the subcontinent would ultimately lead him to the continuation of peaceful movements to create successful demonstrations for Indian independence.

Commission protests

In 1928, Lajpat Rai led a procession with Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya to demonstrate against the Simon Commission. During this procession, Rai became the target of a lathi charge (a form of crowd control in which the police use heavy staves or `lathis' in Hindi) led by British police.During World War I, Lajpat Rai lived in the United States, but he returned to India in 1919 and in the following year led the special session of the Congress Party that launched the noncooperation movement. Imprisoned from 1921 to 1923, he was elected to the legislative assembly on his release. When the commission visited Lahore on 30 October 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led the protest against Simon Commission in a silent non-violent march, but the police responded with violence. The police were particularly brutal towards Lala Lajpat Rai, who died later on November 17, 1928.

Travels to America

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Rai traveled to the US in 1907, and then returned during World War I. He toured Sikh communities along the US West Coast; visitedTuskegee University in Alabama; and met with workers in the Philippines. His travelogue, The United States of America (1916), details these travels and features extensive quotations from leading African American intellectuals, including W.E.B. DuBois and Fredrick Douglass. The book also argues for the notion of “color-caste,” suggesting a sociological similarities between race in the US and caste in India. The term comes from sociological work done at Columbia University during the 1910s.

Inspiration and memorial

The Lala Lajpat Rai Trust was formed in 1959 on the eve of his Centenary Birth Celebration, to promote education. The trust was founded by a group of Punjabi philanthropists (including R.P Gupta and B.M Grover) who have settled and prospered in the Indian State of Maharashtra.

A statue of Lajpat Rai stands at the central square in Shimla, India. Lajpat Nagar and Lajpat Nagar Central Market in New Delhi, Lajpat Rai Market in Chandani Chowk , Delhi. Lala Lajpat Rai Hall of Residence at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur and Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology(LLRIET), Moga are named in his honor. Also many institutes, Schools and Library in his hometown of Jagraon, district Ludhiana are named after him. The bus terminus in Jagraon, Punjab, India is named after Lala Lajpat Rai. Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital, Kanpur is also named in his honor.

Gulab Devi Chest Hospital

Lala Lajpat Rai's mother, Gulab Devi, died of TB in Lahore. In order to perpetuate her memory, Lala Lajpat Rai established a Trust in 1927 to build and run a TB Hospital for women reportedly at the spot where she had breathed her last.

The Trust purchased 40 acres of land in April 1930 from the then Government which gave a free grant of an additional 10 acres on Ferozpur Road (now Sharah-e- Roomi).Construction work was started in 1931 and completed in 1934 when the Hospital gates were opened to TB patients.

A marble plaque bears witness to the opening of the Hospital on 17 July 1934 by Mr. Mahatma Gandhi. On the migration of trustees to India in 1947, the Government invited Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan, Syed Maratab Ali, Professor Dr.Amiruddin and some other notables and philanthropists to become acting Trustees of the Hospital in July 1948.They constituted a Managing Committee with Begum Raana in the Chair, for running the Gulab Devi Chest Hospital.

Lala Lajpat Rai
Born	January 28, 1865 Dhudike, Punjab British India(now India)
Died	November 17, 1928 (age 63) Lahore, British India (NowPakistan)
Organization	Indian National Congress, Arya Samaj
Political movement	Indian Independence movement

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)(Les Paul).

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Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible". He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and they sold millions of records.
Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[ He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an "architect" and a "key inductee" along with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed.

Background information
Birth name	Lester William Polsfuss
Born	June 9, 1915 Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Died	August 12, 2009 (aged 94) White Plains, New York, United States
Genres	Jazz, Country, Blues
Occupations	Innovator, Inventor, Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica
Years active	1928–2009

Photos of Les Paul's Life in Music

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Born in Wisconsin in 1915, the "Wizard of Waukesha" played country music gigs at a drive-in restaurant as a teenager. He experimented with electric amplification to reach the outdoors audience by placing a pickup behind the strings of his acoustic guitar and wiring it to a radio speaker.

Les Paul's Photo

Les Paul's Photo

Break
Dissatisfied with the scene in Wisconsin, Paul and two friends left for New York. In the Big Apple, they failed an audition for one big band, only to encouter Fred Waring, another big band leader while waiting for the elevator, and, after a lightning-fast recital — timed to end before the elevator arrived — landed a gig on Waring's NBC show.

Les Paul's Photo

Les Paul's Photo

 Les Paul's Guitar;
Paul's second great gift to the musical world was the solid-body electric guitar. Although the hollow-body electric guitar had existed for a number of years, Paul complained that it "was such an apologetic instrument. On the bandstand, it was so difficult battling with a drummer, the horns, and all the instruments that had so much power...With a solid-body," — such as this 1952 Gibson Les Paul — "guitarists could get louder and express themselves," he said. "Instead of being wimps, we'd become one of the most powerful people in the band. We could turn that mother up and do what we couldn't do before."

Les Paul's Photo

Les Paul's Photo

Come Back
After retiring for a while in the 1960's Paul re-emerged in the mid 80's Paul with a regular gig at the Greenwich Village club Fat Tuesday's, above.

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Friends in High Places
Paul shared a 1976 Grammy with Chet Atkins, shown above at right, for their album "Chester and Lester."

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Les Paul's Masters
Paul was honored at a 1988 tribute concert by guitar titans like B.B. King, above.

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Farewell
Game-changing inventor and virtuoso performer, Les Paul was, in the words of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, "the man who started everything. He's just a genius." He was 94.

R.I.P. Les Paul

The guitar legend, who literally carved an indelible mark on the history of the electric guitar and multi-track recording, has died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains hospital in New York (via AP). He had a storied career as an artist and innovator, and continued performing in more recent years every Monday night at NYC’s Iridium jazz club, a residency which a good many of us are kicking ourselves for never having attended. He was 94.

R.I.P. Les Paul A Musical Legend
Les Paul was a Grammy Award-winning guitarist and inventor whose innovations helped shape the sound of rock and roll. Paul, shown above in a 1935 photo, pioneered the shift from the acoustic to electric guitar and later developed multitrack recording, which allowed groups to record different parts of their compositions at different times.

Les Paul's 96th birthday

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The legendary Les Paul, widely regarded as one of the pioneer's of the electric guitar, would have celebrated his 96th birthday today (June 9).
Described by Aerosmith's Joe Perry as a “true genius”, Les Paul built one of the world's first solid-body guitars, which was adapted by Gibson in 1961.
Featuring Jimmy Page, Noel Gallagher, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Gigwise's tribute shows the Les Paul being played as it was meant to be - on stage.
Les Paul died in 2009 and tributes were paid from across the musical world, including U2's The Edge, who said his “influence on Rock and Roll will never be forgotten”.

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