Featured Sports Personality

Kapil Dev Nikhanj 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]

Featured Political Personality

George Fernandes He is known as 'the giant killer.' Avowedly socialist and left-leaning, George Fernandes, is now ironically a minister in the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government -- one of th...[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

Satyendra Nath Bose Born in Calcutta, he graduated from the University of Calcutta and thereafter taught at the University of Dacca from where he came to Calcutta in 1945. He is an Indian mathema...[read more]