| Featured Sports Personality |
| Dhyan Chand |
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A man of few words, Dhyan Chand could make a hockey stick talk as no other player could. He was called the wizard of hockey, and each time he played, he mesmerised the world with his ...[read more] |
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| Featured Political Personality |
| Subhas Chandra Bose |
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Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897-1945), Indian nationalist leader, who during World War II led an Indian national army against the British and established an independent provisional governm...[read more] |
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| Featured Philosopher |
| Mother Teresa |
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Daughter of an Albanian grocer, she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, sailing, only six weeks later, to India as a teacher. She subsequently re...[read more] |
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| Featured Scientist |
| Har Gobind Khorana |
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Har Gobind Khorana was born of Hindu parents in Raipur, a little village in Punjab, which is now part of eastern Pakistan. The correct date of his birth is not known; that shown in do...[read more] |
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