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G. Sankara Kurup, (3 June 1901, Nayathode, Kingdom of Cochin (now in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India) – 2 February 1978, Vappalassery, Angamaly, Ernakulam district, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G), was the first winner of the…
Shripad Satwalekar was born in 1867, at Kolgaon, District Ratnagiri in the erstwhile Bombay State, India. Satwalekar started his career as an artist and photographer with a studio in Lahore, Punjab State. His mainly painted portraits of Maharajas and other prominent personalities of the day.…
Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri (Urdu: فراق گورکھپوری, Hindi: फ़िराक़ गोरखपुरी), was a writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets…
Mariadas Ruthnaswamy CIE, KCSG (1885–1977) was a leading educationalist, statesman and a writer in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), India. He was educated in Secunderabad, Hyderabad and in Cuddalore in the then Madras Presidency he went on to study in…
Dr. Radhanath Rath (6 December 1896 – 11 February 1998) was born on 6 December 1896, in a village named "Radhanathpur Shashan" of Aathgarh. He started his education in the Jubilee School of Balasore where his uncle Lokanath Mohapatra was…
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian-born, naturalised American, mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has…
Manikonda Chalapathi Rau (also known as MC and Magnus) (1910 - 25 March 1983)was an Indian journalist and an authority on the Nehruvian thought. Rau was editor of the English-language daily National Herald of Lucknow for over thirty years from 1946. The National Herald…
Dr Brahm Prakash (21 August 1912 – 3 January 1984), was a metallurgist known for his work with nuclear materials in India. Born in Lahore (now in Pakistan), Brahm Prakash had his college education in chemistry, and pursued his doctoral…
Benjamin Peary Pal, FRS (26 May 1906 - 14 September 1989) was the first Director of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was one of the foremost scientists in Wheat genetics and breeding. Pal completed his Bachelor of Science and…
Dr Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (4 October 1916 – 11 November 2005) was an Indian ophthalmologist. Dr. Modi is believed to have performed a record half-a-million (five-lakh) eye surgeries. He travelled to remote villages and towns of India to hold mass…