Featured Sports Personality

Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha 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]

Featured Political Personality

Inder Kumar Gujral Born in Jhelum on December 4, 1919 the Gujral family migrated to India after Partition. Gujral became a civil servant and then entered into politics in and around 1964. He bec...[read more]

Featured Philosopher

Mother Teresa 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]

Featured Scientist

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Born in Lahore, nephew of Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (CV Raman), who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. Chandrasekhar was educated at Presidency College, at the Uni...[read more]