Featured Sports Personality

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar What makes a great player stand out from an ordinary one is the ability to defy the law of averages. What makes a charismatic one is the courage to be himself. What has made Sunil Man...[read more]

Featured Political Personality

Vallabhbhai Patel Vallabhbhai Patel was born in Gujarat. He studied law in England but returned (1915) to India and practiced in Ahmadabad. Influenced by the nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi, he join...[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

Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis Coincidence he died on his birthday. P.C. Mahalanobis was the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute. Mahalanobis had his early education in the Brahmo Boys School in Calcutta an...[read more]