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Pradip Baijal (born c.1944), IAS and former chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) [11] Sri Niwas, (1946–2012) geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate; Vinita Gupta (born 1949), founder, CEO of Quick Eagle Networks and first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public [12] Anirudh Agarwal (born 1949), Indian character ...
Chokhamela, poet and saint from Maharashtra, India during 13th–14th century [81] [82] Ravidas, Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th–16th century CE. [83] Harichand Thakur, established the Matua sect of Vaishnavite Hinduism [84] Swami Achhootanand, 20th century Indian social reformer, established the Adi Hindu ...
Radhika Coomaraswamy (1953–), Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict; Roy Padayachie (1950–2012), Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa; also served in the economics desk of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal and as deputy head of local government portfolio; consultant to UNICEF, UNESCO and the ...
B. R. Ambedkar was voted the "Greatest Indian". The Greatest Indian was a poll sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, announced on 11 August. A program associated with the poll aired ...
He has been featured in leading print media in India including The Hindu, [9] DNA, [10] The Times Of India, [11] Midday, [12] My Bangalore, [1] [13] and Sikkim Mail. [ 14 ] Gurung was a founder of a Bangalore-based social group Oh My India (OMI) [ 14 ] which created awareness across India to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle [ 15 ] domestic waste.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak - an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. He was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities called him "Father of the Indian unrest". Tilak used to run his two newspapers, Kesari, in Marathi and Mahratta [7] in English.
Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (4 April 1889 – 30 January 1968), also called Pandit ji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. Nathuram ...
Rulers of Venad trace their origin to the Vel family related to the Ay chiefs of the ancient southern India (c. 1st - 4th century AD). Venad - ruled by hereditary chiefs, acting with the help of a military entourage - emerged as a chiefdom in the state of the Cheras of Kodungallur in c. 8th century.