Category: Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant (August 30, 1887 – March 7, 1961) was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand (then in United Provinces) and of the movement to establish Hindi as the national language of India. Early life Govind Ballabh Pant was born […]

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, popularly known as Sir M. Visvesvaraya, was one of India’s greatest engineers, administrators, and nation-builders. He was born on 15 September 1861 in Muddenahalli village (present-day Karnataka). His life is remembered for extraordinary contributions to engineering, public administration, and industrial development in India. Sir M. Visvesvaraya was a brilliant civil engineer and is […]

Bhagwan Das (January 12, 1869 – September 18, 1958) was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest. As an advocate for national freedom from […]

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his work on the molecular scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him. Biography Early years Born to R. Chandrasekhara Iyer[1] in […]