Featured Sports Personality

Milkha Singh Till date the 'Flying Sikh' is the only Indian to have broken an Olympic record. Unfortunately, he was the fourth athlete to reset the mark and thus missed the bronze medal in the 400...[read more]

Featured Political Personality

Jyoti Basu Jyoti Basu, the octogenarian Chief Minister of West Bengal, is one of the most dynamic leaders the country has seen. The leader of the longest running democratically elected Communist...[read more]

Featured Philosopher

Swami Vivekananda Narendranath Dutt was born into an upper-middle-class Kayastha family in Bengal. His education was in a western-style university where he was exposed to western philosophy, Christiani...[read more]

Featured Scientist

Har Gobind Khorana 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]