| 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 |
| Aruna Asaf Ali |
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Born into a Bengali Brahmin family in 1909 at Kalka in Punjab, Aruna broke conventions at 19 to marry Asaf Ali, a prominent figure in the freedom struggle and 20 years her senior. Her...[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 |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
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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] |
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