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

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

Swami Vivekananda 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]

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]