Amartya Kumar Sen
…its price rose rapidly due to factors that include British military acquisition, panic buying, hoarding, and price gouging, all connected to the war in the region. In Poverty and Famines,…
K R Naraynan
…is regarded as an independent and assertive President who set several precedents and enlarged the scope of the highest constitutional office. He described himself as a “working President” who worked…
2nd Lieutenant Arun Khaterpal
…still working and I will get these bastards.” Then he set about destroying the remaining enemy tanks. The last enemy tank, which he shot, was barely 100 metres from his…
R Venktaraman
…Bar Federation. Venkataraman acquired, early in his legal career, an abiding interest in the law pertaining to labour. On his release from prison in 1944, he took up the Organisation…
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)…
Golden Temple
…or sex. The only restrictions are that the person must not drink alcohol, eat meat or smoke cigarettes or use other non prescription drugs while in the shrine. Visitors are,…
Lotus Temple
…be appropriate for the siteThe major part of the funds needed to buy this land was donated by Ardishír Rustampúr of Hyderabad, who gave his entire life savings for this…
Govind Ballabh Pant
…several weeks for organizing a Salt March inspired by Gandhi‘s earlier actions. In 1933, he was arrested and imprisoned for seven months for attending a session of the then-banned provincial…
The Lake Palace
…built in 1743- 1646 under the direction of the Maharana Jagat Singh II (62nd successor to the royal dynasty of Mewar) of Udaipur, Rajasthan as a royal summer palace and…
Bidhan Chandra Roy
…of Bengal was announced while Bidhan was in college. Opposition to the partition was being organized by nationalist leaders like Lala Lajpat Rai, Arvinda Ghosh, Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal….