Freedom Fighters

Hawa Mahal ( “Palace of Winds” or “Palace of the Breeze”), is a palace in Jaipur, India. It was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, and designed by Lal Chand Usta in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. Its unique five-story exterior is also akin to the honeycomb of […]

Tenzin Gyatzo – Born on July 6, 1935 in Tibet, is 14th Dalai Lama, a Buddhist noted public speaker, spiritual leader revered among the people of Tibet. In 1950 the army of People’s Republic of China entered in Tibet, he managed to escape and came to India. In 1959 he set up the ”government of […]

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) won Nobel Prize for Peace, “Exemplary Charity and Social Service” in the year 1979. She was born in Skopje (Yugoslavia). She founded ‘missionaries of charity’ in Kolkata. She also received Bharat Ratna Award in 1980 and Magsaysay Award in 1962. Other awards to her credit were Padma Shree in 1962, Jawahar Lal […]

Har Gobind Khorana – Born on January 9, 1922 in Multan, after completing his education from Punjab University in 1945, he completed his Ph.D. in 1948 from University of Liverpool, where he want on a Govt. of India fellowship. He received Nobel Prize 1968 in medicine for his work “Interpretation of the genetic code and […]

Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman – Born on November 7, 1888 at Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu and died on November 21, 1970 in Bangalore. Knighted in 1929 with ‘Sir’, recipient of Bharat Ratan and Lenin Peace Prize. He became first Indian scientist to receive Nobel Prize in 1930 for his work on scattering of light, named after him […]

Rabindranath Tagore – (May 7, 1861-Aug. 7, 1941) commonly known as Gurudev, was a Poet, Philosopher, Musician, Educationist & Social activist. He founded Shantiniketan known as Vishwa Bharti University. Writer of Indian National Anthem “Jan Gan Man”, he had also written “Amar Sonar Bangla (Now National Anthem of Bangladesh). He was conferred with Nobel Prize […]

Joseph Rudyard Kipling – Born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay and died on January 18, 1936 in Middlesex hospital in London, England. He had written a lot of short stories, Novels, poems and was a renowned journalist. Nobel Prize was conferred on him for his notable work “The Jungle book” in 1907. He was […]

Shankar Dayal Sharma (Hindi: शंकर दयाल शर्मा) (19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was the ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Dr. Sharma had been the 8th Vice President of India under President Ramaswamy Venkatraman. He was also Chief Minister (1952–1956), Cabinet Minister, holding the portfolios of […]

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 – 11 February 1977) was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977. Ahmed was born on 13 May 1905, in Delhi, India, to Lt. Colonel Zulnur Ali Ahmed, a Gujjar[1] surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, and Sahibzadi Ruqqaiya Sultan Begum, a daughter of Mirza Baqar ‘Ali […]

The last Mughal king, Bahadur Shah, better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, was born in 1775 at Delhi. He was the son of Akbar Shah from his Hindu wife Lalbai. After the death of his father, he ascended the throne in 1837, during the British rule, when he was little over 60 years of age. […]

Mangal Pandey (July 19, 1827- 8 April 1857) also known as Shaheed Mangal Pandey was a sepoy (soldier) in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) of the English East India Company. Pandey was born in the village of Nagwa in district Ballia (U.P.). He joined the British East India Company forces in […]

Tantya Tope (1814-1859) also known as Ram Chandra Pandurang, was an Indian leader in the Indian rebellion of 1857. Born in at village Yeola in Maharastra, he was the son of Pandurang Rao Tope, an important noble at the court of the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II. His father shifted his family with the ill-fated […]

Veera Pandiya Kattabomman (Veera= brave) hailed from Panchalankurichi (present day Tirunelveli), Tamilnadu. His father Aadi Kattabomman was a minister in the court of Jagaveera Pandiyan, a descendent in the pandiyan line, Jagveera Pandiyan was issueless and declared Kattabomman as his successor. Since Kattabomman was the first of the new clan, he came to be known […]

Born in a village in Maharashtra’s Kolaba district on September 11, 1895. He was drawn to Mahatma Gandhi and his unique “weapon-less-war” as a youth. Acharya Vinoba Bhave was a scholar, saint, man of God, moral tribune, beacon of hope and solace to millions in India and abroad. Vinobaji ran many movements like Bhoodan (Gift […]

C.R. or ‘Rajaji’ was close to Gandhi. A stalwart, who imbibed Gandhi’s ideology and practiced it privately & publicly. Rajaji was born in Thorapalli village of Salem District, Tamilnadu on 10th of December 1878. In 1906 he attended Indian National Congress at Surat. He actively supported Lokamanya Tilak. By 1918, the rift between moderates (Gokhale […]

Lala Lajpat Rai was born in 1865. After his schooling, he joined the Govt. College at Lahore in 1880 to study law. There he came in contact with patriots like Lala Hans Raj and Pandit Guru Dutt. The three became fast friends and joined the Arya Samaj founded by Swami Daya Nanda. Lalaji provided immense […]

Chadrasekhar Azad was born on July 23, 1906 in Badarka (Unnao). Earlier he was Chandrasekhar Tiwari, but after a court incident he became famous as Chandrasekhar Azad. Although Gandhi was appalled by the brutal violence, Azad did not feel that violence was unacceptable in the struggle, especially in view of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919; […]

Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907 in the village Banga of Layalpur. At an early age, Bhagat Singh started dreaming of uprooting the British Empire. The Gadar Movement left a deep imprint on his mind. At the age of 16, he used to wonder why so many Indians could not drive away a […]

Born on January 23, 1897, also known as Netaji “Revered Leader”, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress for two consecutive terms. However, he had to resign from the post in the face of a motion of […]

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on May 28, 1883 in the village of Bhagpur near Nasik. Vinayak lost his parents when he was young. Vinayak’s patriotic spirit found an outlet through an organization ‘Mitra Mela’ that he formed. He encouraged the members of the Mela to strive for, “absolute political independence.” Through Mitra Mela Savarkar […]

Born May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, amidst turmoil of British and Indian relations. He was the sixth child to born to Sarada Devi & Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. Tagore, unlike most of the other freedom fighters of his time, exposed the depravity of the British rule by chronicling all his adversities with British imperialism through poetry […]