Bahadur Shah Zafar (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862)
…over 60 years of age. The British had curtailed the power and privileges of the Mughal rulers to such an extent, that the Mughal rule was confined to the Red…
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015)
…is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer. Kalam played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the…
Swatantra Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966)
…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,…
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945)
…invasion of the USSR, he headed for Japan and helped to organize, and later lead, the Indian National Army, put together from Indian prisoners-of-war and plantation workers from Malaysia, Singapore…
Chidambaram Subramaniam
…organisations and prominent citizens on issues crucial to the community. He had to resign after a newspaper reporter overheard and published an informal remark of his criticising the style of…
Amartya Kumar Sen
…of Cambridge[1], where from 1998 to 2004 he was Master[2], the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is known as “the Mother Teresa of Economics”[3] for his…
Naik Jadu Nath Singh
…an attack on Naushahra was imminent. Brigadier Usman of the 50 Para Brigade had made adequate preparation to thwart this attack by establishing strong pickets on possible enemy approaches. One…
Lala Lajpat Rai (28 January 1865 – 17 November 1928)
…that it was important for the national cause to organize propaganda in foreign countries to explain India’s position as the freedom struggle had taken a militant turn. He left for…
Bhupen Hazarika
…then 10 years of age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assames Filmmaker and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet,…