B. R. Ambedkar
…for future constitutional reformers. Poona Pact By now Ambedkar had become one of the most prominent untouchable political figures of the time. He had grown increasingly critical of mainstream Indian…
Founder
…21km. long race, at the age of 56. After donating blood number of times, Mr. Gupta has now pledged to donate all his organs and body tissues (Cadaver Organ Donation)…
Nanaji Deshmukh
…no funds to meet even day-to-day expenses. He had to stay in a Dharmashala but had to keep on changing Dharmashalas as no one was allowed to stay there for…
R Venktaraman
…the U.N. Administrative Tribunal. The title of “Sat Seva Ratna” was conferred on him by His Holiness the Sankaracharya of Kancheepuram. Death On 12 January 2009, Venkataraman was admitted to…
Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey
…Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) designed and constructed an apartment complex for veterans in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh and named it for Pandey as Manoj Vihar. The National Defence Academy named…
Rajendra Prasad
…Rajendra Prasad was sent to the Chhapra District School. At the age of 12, Rajendra Prasad was married to Rajavanshi Devi. He, along with his elder brother Mahendra Prasad, then…
Govind Ballabh Pant
…the British Crown in their war effort, and Subash Chandra Bose‘s faction, which advocated taking advantage of the situation to expel the British Raj by any means necessary. In 1934,…
Bidhan Chandra Roy
…in his college days. Bidhan did his I.A. from Presidency College, Calcutta and B.A. from Patna College with Honors in Mathematics. He applied for admission to the Bengal Engineering College,…
K R Naraynan
…from the direction I had just come. I turned to see Panditji [Nehru] beckoning me to come back. He had opened the letter as I left his room and read…
Red Fort
…royal family. The layout of the Red Fort was organised to retain and integrate this site with the Salimgarh Fort. The fortress palace was an important focal point of the…