| Featured Sports Personality |
| Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha |
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Ask Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha what difference one-hundredth of a second can make to one's life. The 'Payyoli Express' learnt her lesson the hard way when she was edged out by...[read more] |
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| Featured Political Personality |
| Bipin Chandra Pal |
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Born on November 7, 1858, in a village in Sylhet (now Banglagdesh), of well-to-do parents, Pal had to cut short his education at the Intermediate stage. He came under the influence of...[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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