| 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 |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
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Born in Calcutta, into a wealthy family, the son of the Philosopher Maharishi Debendranath Tagore. His name in Bengali is Rabindranath Thakur. Influenced by his cousin Jyoti Parkesh, ...[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 |
| 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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