Bahadur Shah Zafar (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862)
…him as their Commander-in-Chief. In the initial stages, the freedom fighters were successful, but later on the strong and organized British forces defeated them. Bahadur Shah, who was proclaimed as…
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
Chidambaram Subramaniam (Tamil: சிதம்பரம் சுப்பிரமணியம்) (commonly known as CS)(January 30, 1910 – November 7, 2000), was the man who ushered in an era of self-sufficiency in food production in India….
Amartya Kumar Sen
…skewed ratio results from the better health treatment and childhood opportunities afforded boys in those countries, as well as sex-specific abortion. Governments and international organizations handling food crises were influenced…
Naik Jadu Nath Singh
…superb leadership and used his small force in such a manner that the enemy retreated in utter confusion. When four of his men were wounded he re-organised the battered force…
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
…30 June 2011. He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011. His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the…