Let's salute to our Indian Army together, We are proud to be Indian.
Let's salute to our Indian Army together, We are proud to be Indian.
Rt. Rev. John Richardson was an Indian Anglican bishop and politician. Richardson was born on June 6, 1896 in a Car Nicobarese family. In 1906 he was sent to Burma, to attend school at S.P.G. Mission in Mandalay.He was confirmed…
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: বলাইচাঁদ মুখোপাধ্যায়) (1899–1979) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and physician who wrote under the pen name of Banaphul (Bengali: বনফুল) (meaning "the wild flower" in Bengali). He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.He got d.lit(Doctor…
Dr. Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (Marathi: वासुदेव विष्णु मिराशी) (1893–1985) was a Sanskrit scholar and a prominent Indologist of the 20th century who hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was an expert of his times on stone and copper inscription and coinage of ancient India. For his vital contribution to Indian history he was…
Pancheti Koteswaram (1915–1997) was an Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, atmospheric physicist and the Director-General of Observatories of Government of India.He was a Professor at University of Chicago, University of Hawaii, University of Miami and Tehran University and served as a research associate at National Hurricane Research Laboratory, Miami, and the National…
Darab Jehangir Jussawala (1915–1999) was an Indian medical-cum-surgical oncologist, medical writer and the director of Tata Memorial Centre.He was the co-founder of Indian Cancer Society, along with Naval Tata in 1951,and the founder of the Indian Cancer Rehabilitation Centre in Parel, Mumbai, in 1956, the first such…
Padmanabha Krishnagopala Iyengar (29 June 1931 – 21 December 2011; best known as P. K. Iyenger), was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely known for his central role in the development of the nuclear program of India. Iyengar previously served as the director of BARC and former chairman of…
Madhav Sadashiv Gore (1921–2010) was an Indian social scientist, writer, academic and the vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.He was the Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai and a recipient of…
Asima Chatterjee (23 September 1917 – 22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.Her most notable work includes research on vinca alkaloids, the development of anti-epileptic drugs, and development of anti-malarial drugs. She also authored…
Dilbagh Singh Athwal (12 October 1928 – 14 May 2017) was an Indian geneticist, plant breeder and agriculturist, known to have conducted pioneering research in plant breeding. He was a former professor and the Head of the Department of Plant…
Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar (7 October 1914 – 30 October 1974), was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra, and Thumri genres of Hindustani classical music. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and later, Padma Bhushan, posthumously by…
