Featured Sports Personality |
Kapil Dev Nikhanj |
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Kapil Dev Nikhanj emerged on the cricket scene just when the era of great Indian spinners was in its twilight. The country needed wicket-taking pace bowlers more than ever and the stu...[read more] |
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Featured Political Personality |
Rajeev Gandhi |
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Born in Bombay and educated at University of Cambridge and Imperial College, London. His grandfather was Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and his mother was Indira...[read more] |
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Featured Philosopher |
Swami Vivekananda |
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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] |
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Featured Scientist |
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan |
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In the '60s, as a cytogeneticist and administrator of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, he made major scientific advances, pioneering solutions to major agricultural problem...[read more] |
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