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

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

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]