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Vladimir Lenin

2009-08-01T01:26:00.004-07:00

Vladimir Lenin : Founder of modern Communist Russia who was responsible for the successful Soviet revolution of October- November 1917. He wrote “Not a single problem of a class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence”. Lenin’s mausoleum is in Red Square, Moscow.

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

2009-08-01T01:26:00.003-07:00

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee :(W. C. Bonnerjee) He was the first President of the Indian National Congress, and a notable part in the setting up of the League of Nations.

Yukta Mookhey

2009-08-01T01:26:00.002-07:00

Yukta Mookhey : The 20 year old Miss India was crowned Miss. World at the last Miss World Beauty Pageant of the Millinneum (1999) held in London. She is the third Indian beauty to bag the title in a decade, after Aishwarya Raj (1994) and Diana Hayden (1997).

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

2009-08-01T01:26:00.001-07:00

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee :(W. C. Bonnerjee) He was the first President of the Indian National Congress, and a notable part in the setting up of the League of Nations.

Veerasalingam Pantulu

2009-08-01T01:25:00.003-07:00

Veerasalingam Pantulu :Kandekeeri Veerasalingam Pantulu was a great social reformer of Andhra Pradesh. He started a monthy journal in Telugu, Vivekavardhani and expressed his enlightened views on widow remarriage. The Widow’s Home in Rajamundry was founded by him.

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

2009-08-01T01:25:00.002-07:00

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit :She was born on August 18, 1900. She was younger to Jawaharlal Nehru. Mrs. Pandit had several firsts to her credit. She was the first Indian woman to become a Cabinet Minister, when appointed as the Minister of Local Government & Health in the Congress Ministry of U.P. from 1937-1939. She was the first woman Ambassador, the first woman to lead a delegation to the U.N. General Assembly (1946-51) as well as first President (1953-54). Also led the first Indian delegation to China after the Communist regime was established. Also the first woman to head a London diplomatic mission in 1954 when she became the High Commissioner for India in London.She served as the Governor of Maharashtra for two years from 1962. The first woman to be accorded the unique honour in international diplomacy, she treated her election as President of the U.N. General Assembly more as an honour to India.Her autobiography “The Scope of Happiness” and “Selection of Speeches” are two of her well-known books. [She was awarded the “Padma Vibushan” by the Government of India and the “One world award” and medal for services to humanity in the U.S.]Her death on December 1, 1990 symbolises the fading of an era, a powerful voice that had led India’s prestige soaring in international diplomacy.

Visvesvarayya, M.

2009-08-01T01:25:00.001-07:00

Visvesvarayya, M. :A great engineer of Mysore who distinguished himself by building the dam across Cauvery in Mysore. He was also a recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award.

Viswanathan Anand

2009-08-01T01:25:00.000-07:00

Viswanathan Anand :The Grandmaster became the First Indian as also Asian Chess Player to clinch the world chess title winning the FIDE World Chess Championship in Teheran on December 24, 2000 by defeating Alexei Shirov of Spain (3.5-0.5). He was formally crowned 15th World Chess Champion.

Varahmihira

2009-08-01T01:24:00.004-07:00

Varahmihira :A distinguished astronomer, mathematician and philosopher of early India. He was one of the nine gems who adorned the Court of King Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II).

Tulsidas

2009-08-01T01:24:00.003-07:00

Tulsidas : He was a great Hindu religious preacher and wrote famous Ramacharitamanas in which he has described life story of Lord Rama.

Uday Shankar

2009-08-01T01:24:00.002-07:00

Uday Shankar :He was the famous artist and exponent of Indian dance. He was the elder brother of the famed sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Usha P.T.

2009-08-01T01:24:00.001-07:00

Usha P.T. : The Sprint Queen and Golden Girl, who is also known as Payyoli Express of Indian athletics with a long span of 23 years as a sports career, was named as female sports person of the Century by Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on December 28, 1999. She was conferred Arjuna Award in 1983 and Padma Shri in 1985.

Valmiki

2009-08-01T01:24:00.000-07:00

Valmiki : A celebrated Sanskrit poet of Ancient India. He wrote the Famous “Ramayana”.

Todar Mal

2009-08-01T01:23:00.003-07:00

Todar Mal : He was Akbar’s Revenue Minister and one of the nine gems of Akbar’s courts. He was famous for his land revenue reforms.

Thomas Alva Edison

2009-08-01T01:23:00.002-07:00

Thomas Alva Edison :A great American inventor. He began life as a newsboy and then served as a telegraph operator. He has more than 1,000 inventions to his credit including motion pictures, gramophone, electric bulb, etc.

Thyagaraja

2009-08-01T01:23:00.001-07:00

Thyagaraja : He was saint of South India and a great composer of South Indian Music and devotional songs.

Tipu Sultan

2009-08-01T01:23:00.000-07:00

Tipu Sultan : He was an able ruler of Mysore. He was not only a valiant soldier but also a General. He got the title “Tiger of Mysore”. He waged three wars against the rulers of East India Company.

Swami Vivekananda

2009-08-01T01:22:00.003-07:00

Swami Vivekananda :A great Hindu saint and religious leader, born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863 and his original name was Narendranath Datta. A disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he championed the greatness of Vedantic philosophy. He founded the Ramakrishna Mission to carry on his humanitarian and social work. He represented Hinduism in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago (U.S.A.).

Tata, Jamshedji

2009-08-01T01:22:00.002-07:00

Tata, Jamshedji: The Indian industrialist founded the Tata Iron & Steel Co. in Bihar and thus started the industrial progress of India. Tenzing Norgay : Nicknamed the “Tiger of Snows”, the ace mountaineer, who with Edmund Hillary was the first to climb Mount Everest (8,848 metre-high) was awarded Padma Bushan.

Sun Yat-sen

2009-08-01T01:22:00.001-07:00

Sun Yat-sen : The founder and first President of Chinese Republic played a prominent part in the 1911 Revolution of China.'

Surendranath Banerjee

2009-08-01T01:22:00.000-07:00

Surendranath Banerjee : A great Indian Patriot of Bengal who held the Presidentship of the Indian National Congress twice. The pioneer of the Nationalist agitation in India. He founded the “Indian Association” aiming to make it the centre of the Indian National Congress. Eminent leader in the agitation against the partition of Bengal.

Stalin Joseph

2009-08-01T01:21:00.003-07:00

Stalin Joseph : He was a leader of 1917 Russian Revolution. He helped to make Russia a great power.

Subash Chandra Bose

2009-08-01T01:21:00.002-07:00

Subash Chandra Bose : Called “Nethaji”, was a true patriot of India. The British Government interned him in his own house at Calcutta.On 26th January, 1941, it was found that he had mysteriously disappeared. During the World War II, he organised a regular army and called in the Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauz in Singapore. They gave good fight to the British forces in Assam Hill. Their war song was - “Advance step by step, sing the song of joy, your life belongs to the nation, sacrifice it for the sake of the nation”. After the surrender of Japanese, he is said to have been killed in an air crash accident. He was the founder of Forward Bloc Party. His slogans “Jai Hind” and “Dilli Chalo” are inspirations of our nationalism.

Subramania Bharati

2009-08-01T01:21:00.001-07:00

Subramania Bharati : Subramania Bharati born in Ettayapuram is a poet, journalist, patriot and philosopher. His birth centenary year was observed in 1981. He had a dramatic impact in Tamil literature. He had spotlighted the unbroken evolution of Indian culture from the ancient times to the 20th century.

Subramaniam. C

2009-08-01T01:21:00.000-07:00

Subramaniam. C : The father of India's Green Revolution and elder statesman died in Chennai on November 7, 2000 at the age of 90. A recipient of Bharat Ratna, C. Subramaniam was one of the members of Constitutent Assembly. He played a significant role as Minister in the erstwhile cabinets of C.Rajagopalachari and K. Kamaraj in Tamil Nadu. He later served as Union Minister handling various portpolios under four Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Charan Singh, besides being a Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He was appointed Governor of Maharashtra in 1992.