I got complete information from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri
Brahmarishi Vishwamitra is credited as the mantra-dhrishta(Mantra was revealed to him) of the Gayatri Mantra.
Originally the personification of the mantra, the goddess Gayatri is considered the veda mata, the mother of all Vedas and also the personification of the all-pervading Parabrahman, the ultimate unchanging reality that lies behind all phenomena. Gayatri Veda Mata is seen by many Hindus to be not just a Goddess, but a portrayal of Brahman himself, in the feminine form. In Hinduism, there is only one creation who can withstand the brilliance of Aditya and that is Gayatri. Some also consider her to be the mother of all Gods and the culmination of Lakshmi, Parvati and Sarasvati.
In Hinduism, the Adityas are a group of Devas or celestial gods, the sons of Aditi and Kashyapa.
In the Rigveda, the Adityas are the seven celestial gods, sons of Aditi, headed by Varuna, followed by Mitra:
1.Varuna
2.Mitra
3.Aryaman
4.Bhaga
5.Ansa
6.Dhatr
7.Indra
Though the goddess Gayatri is considered the veda mata, there is no mention of goddess Gayatri in Vedas.
The Gayatri Mantra is a highly revered mantra in Hinduism and Adi Dharm religion. It consists of the prefix :om bhur bhuvah svah a formula taken from the Yajurveda, and the verse 3.62.10 of the Rigveda (which is an example of the Gayatri mantra). Since all the other three Vedas contain much material rearranged from the Rig Veda, the Gayatri mantra is found in all the four Vedas. The deva invoked in this mantra is Savitr, and hence the mantra is also called Savitri. In Atharva Veda, the Gayatri mantra is different from the regular Gayatri mantra.
Gayatri Mantra is devoted to God Savitr. Savitr refers to Sun. Sun here does not imply the sun of our solar system. Rather it implies a Sun of all suns. Sun that is the source of eternal light that provides life, knowledge and enlightenment. Light that can illuminate the soul.
By many Hindus, the Gayatri is seen as a Divine awakening of the mind and soul, and within it a way to reach the most Supreme form of existence, and the way to Union with Brahman. Understanding, and purely loving the essence of the Gayatri Mantra is seen by many to be one, if not the most powerful ways to attain God.
Like all other Mantras of Rigveda, Gayatri Mantra is full of praise for the God or Savitr. The beauty of this mantra is that after praising the God, we have admitted that we do not know any better. We are seeking the knowledge to know Him better.
By Brahmos of the Adi Dharma religion, the Gayatri symbolises the pre-Aryan Unity of all forms of Godhead as Brahma "there is always infinite Singularity".
oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
(a) tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
(b) bhargo devasya dhīmahi
(c) dhiyo yo naḥ prachodayāt
Translation
(a, b) "May we attain that excellent glory of Savitr the God:"
(c) "So may he stimulate our prayers."
The Gayatri Mantra is first recorded in the Rig Veda (iii, 62, 10) which was written in Sanskrit about 2500 to 3500 years ago, and by some reports, the mantra may have been chanted for many generations before that.
Many of the greatest prayers, such as the Gâyatrî Mantra from the ancient rishis of India, the Fâtiha which was received by the prophet Muhammad, and the Lord's Prayer which was given to us by Jesus, all share some magnificent similarities, illustrating the highest and noblest principles of prayer.
MEANING
OM - The Omnipresent
BHUH - The Impeller of All Existence
BHUVAH - The Consciousness
SVAH - The Embodiment of All Happiness
TAT - That Supreme God
SAVITUH - The Creator of Existing Universe
VARENYAM - The Very Best Of All
BHARGO - The Purifier
DEVASYA - The Provider of All Types of Prosperity
DHEEMAHI - We Meditate, We Pray
DHIYAH - The Wisdom
YAH - That God
NAH - Our
PRACHODAYAAT - Please Guide & Inspire Us To Follow The Path Of Truth & Good Character & Please Keep Us Away From The Path Of Unrighteousness & Bad Character.
SIMPLE MEANING OF GAYATRI:
He is diversely omnipresent through out the world. He is the Impeller of all existence. He is the creator of this world. All types of fame & prosperity are blessed by him. He is the embodiment of all happiness. He is the best of all. He is the purifier & is the pure consciousness. We meditate upon that Supreme God. We pray him to guide & inspire us to follow the path of truth & good character. We also pray him to keep us away from the path of wrong doings & bad character. Because nobody is equal to him and nobody is higher than him. He is our father, king and Justice provider.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Great Puducherry people
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Puducherry people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) N. Rangaswamy (born August 4, 1950) is Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry from 2001 to 2008. He belongs to the Congress party. Under his dynamic leadership, Pondicherry was turned into a prosperous State. In the India Today Survey 2006, Pondicherry was acclaimed as the best state to live, and awarded as one of the Best States by the Vice President of India.
His Mid-day Meal Scheme and Breakfast schemes for the poor school children has won accloades from masses. His new schemes like reimberising the school and college tuition fees to students has wiped tears from the largely dominated lower and middle class society of Pondicherry. His welfare schemes include distribution of Wheat through PDS for the poor Diabetics who have crossed the age of 60.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) N. Rangaswamy (born August 4, 1950) is Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry from 2001 to 2008. He belongs to the Congress party. Under his dynamic leadership, Pondicherry was turned into a prosperous State. In the India Today Survey 2006, Pondicherry was acclaimed as the best state to live, and awarded as one of the Best States by the Vice President of India.
His Mid-day Meal Scheme and Breakfast schemes for the poor school children has won accloades from masses. His new schemes like reimberising the school and college tuition fees to students has wiped tears from the largely dominated lower and middle class society of Pondicherry. His welfare schemes include distribution of Wheat through PDS for the poor Diabetics who have crossed the age of 60.
Great Jharkhand People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Jharkhand people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Rani Avantibai (died March 20, 1858) was the wife of Vikramaditya Singh, the ruler of the Indian state of Ramgarh. When he died, leaving his wife with no heir, the British placed Ramgarh under their administration. Avantibai vowed to fight the British to regain her land and her throne. She raised an army of four thousand and personally led it against the British in 1857. When, after a few months' struggle, she saw that her defeat was imminent, she killed herself with her own sword.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Rani Avantibai (died March 20, 1858) was the wife of Vikramaditya Singh, the ruler of the Indian state of Ramgarh. When he died, leaving his wife with no heir, the British placed Ramgarh under their administration. Avantibai vowed to fight the British to regain her land and her throne. She raised an army of four thousand and personally led it against the British in 1857. When, after a few months' struggle, she saw that her defeat was imminent, she killed herself with her own sword.
Great Uttarakhand People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Uttarakhand people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (1934-) is an Indian social activist best known for his association with the Chipko Movement, for which he has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2005.
Bhatt was born on June 23, 1934 and raised in Gopeshwar, Chamoli District of Uttarakhand in India, which was still a very small village, during his youth. Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad was eventually forced to work in the plains, becoming a ticket clerk in Rishikesh for the bus company.
In 1983, he was awarded the Padma Shri award by the Government of India.
In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India.
2) Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat was an Indian soldier who won the Mahavir Chakra Bravery Award.
It was the final phase of the Sino-Indian War in November 1962. Even as his company was asked to fall back, Jaswant Singh remained at his post at an altitude of 10,000 feet and held back the rampaging Chinese for three days single-handedly. It is presumed that he shot himself when he realized that he was about to be captured. It is alleged that the Chinese cut off Jaswant Singh's head and took it back to China. However, after the ceasefire, the Chinese commander, impressed by the soldier's bravery, returned the head along with a brass bust of Jaswant Singh. The bust, created in China to honor the brave Indian soldier, is now installed at the site of the battle, a location now known as Jaswantgarh. Jaswant Singh's saga of valor and sacrifice continues to serve as an inspiration to all army personnel posted in this sector.
Army personnel passing by this route, be it a general or a jawan, make it a point to pay their respects here. Jaswant, who was awarded a Mahavir Chakra for his bravery is not the only soldier to be honored thus. There are several memorials built along the way. One of them in fact is right on the border at Bumla honoring Subedar Joginder Singh who won a posthumous Param Vir Chakra for his bravery.
3) Dr. Shekhar Pathak is a historian from Uttarakhand, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 and is Professor of History at Kumaun University in Nainital for the past two decades Once every decade, in 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2004, he has undertaken a padayatra, a trek. from Askot-Arakot.
In 2007, he took upon a three-year project to study the Himalayan people along with Magsaysay Award winner, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, traversing the Himalayas, from Leh to Arunachal Pradesh.
4) Gaura Pant 'Shivani' (October 17, 1923[1] – 21 March 2003), better known as Shivani, was one of the most popular Hindi authors of the 20th century and a pioneer in writing Indian women based fiction[2]. She was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Hindi literature in 1982.
Upon her death in 2003, Government of India released in a press note described her contributions to Hindi literature as, "...in the death of Shivani the Hindi literature world has lost a popular and eminent novelist and the void is difficult to fill".
5) Sundarlal Bahuguna is a very noted activist and philosopher in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and an environmentalist who has fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas as a member of the Chipko movement. In Hindi, "Chipko" literally means "to stick". This movement is famous as Appiko in Karnataka.One of Bahuguna's notable contributions to that cause, and to environmentalism in general, was his creation of the Chipko's slogan "ecology is permanent economy." He helped bring the movement to prominence through a 5,000 kilometer trans-Himalaya march conducted from 1981 to 1983, and met with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. That meeting is credited with resulting in Ms. Gandhi's subsequent green-felling ban.He was a also a big fan of Gaura Devi.
6) Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.
Shiva was born in the valley of Dehradun, to a father who was the conservator of forests and a farmer mother with a love for nature. She was educated at St Mary's School in Nainital, and at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Dehradun.Shiva was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Western Ontario in 1978. Her thesis was titled "Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory"[2] She later went on to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
7) V.C. Agrawal is an electrical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Roorkee.
He is the current Managing Director of IBP, a group company of IndianOil, since July 2006.
8) Ashok Soota was the President of Wipro from 1984 to 1999. He co-founded MindTree Consulting in 1999, which is currently a leading name in IT consulting. He has played a major role in the development of the IT industry in India.
Chairman and managing director of MindTree Consulting, Ashok Soota co-founded the company in August 1999 along with nine other industry professionals.
Soota holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of Roorkee (now called Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.
9) Major Rajesh Singh Adhikari, MVC was an Indian Army officer who died during the Kargil War. He was posthumously awarded the second highest Indian military honour - the Maha Vir Chakra for bravery on the battlefield.
When heavy fighting broke out in the Kargil region of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir owing to planned infiltration by militants backed by the Pakistan army, the Indian Army was ordered to clear the heights of those intruders. Many tough battles took place in the region. It was one of the most significant battles, the Battle of Tololing, where Rajesh made a valiant sacrifice. He was posthumously awarded the second highest Indian Army decoration - Maha Vir Chakra for his actions in the battle.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (1934-) is an Indian social activist best known for his association with the Chipko Movement, for which he has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2005.
Bhatt was born on June 23, 1934 and raised in Gopeshwar, Chamoli District of Uttarakhand in India, which was still a very small village, during his youth. Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad was eventually forced to work in the plains, becoming a ticket clerk in Rishikesh for the bus company.
In 1983, he was awarded the Padma Shri award by the Government of India.
In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India.
2) Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat was an Indian soldier who won the Mahavir Chakra Bravery Award.
It was the final phase of the Sino-Indian War in November 1962. Even as his company was asked to fall back, Jaswant Singh remained at his post at an altitude of 10,000 feet and held back the rampaging Chinese for three days single-handedly. It is presumed that he shot himself when he realized that he was about to be captured. It is alleged that the Chinese cut off Jaswant Singh's head and took it back to China. However, after the ceasefire, the Chinese commander, impressed by the soldier's bravery, returned the head along with a brass bust of Jaswant Singh. The bust, created in China to honor the brave Indian soldier, is now installed at the site of the battle, a location now known as Jaswantgarh. Jaswant Singh's saga of valor and sacrifice continues to serve as an inspiration to all army personnel posted in this sector.
Army personnel passing by this route, be it a general or a jawan, make it a point to pay their respects here. Jaswant, who was awarded a Mahavir Chakra for his bravery is not the only soldier to be honored thus. There are several memorials built along the way. One of them in fact is right on the border at Bumla honoring Subedar Joginder Singh who won a posthumous Param Vir Chakra for his bravery.
3) Dr. Shekhar Pathak is a historian from Uttarakhand, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 and is Professor of History at Kumaun University in Nainital for the past two decades Once every decade, in 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2004, he has undertaken a padayatra, a trek. from Askot-Arakot.
In 2007, he took upon a three-year project to study the Himalayan people along with Magsaysay Award winner, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, traversing the Himalayas, from Leh to Arunachal Pradesh.
4) Gaura Pant 'Shivani' (October 17, 1923[1] – 21 March 2003), better known as Shivani, was one of the most popular Hindi authors of the 20th century and a pioneer in writing Indian women based fiction[2]. She was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Hindi literature in 1982.
Upon her death in 2003, Government of India released in a press note described her contributions to Hindi literature as, "...in the death of Shivani the Hindi literature world has lost a popular and eminent novelist and the void is difficult to fill".
5) Sundarlal Bahuguna is a very noted activist and philosopher in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and an environmentalist who has fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas as a member of the Chipko movement. In Hindi, "Chipko" literally means "to stick". This movement is famous as Appiko in Karnataka.One of Bahuguna's notable contributions to that cause, and to environmentalism in general, was his creation of the Chipko's slogan "ecology is permanent economy." He helped bring the movement to prominence through a 5,000 kilometer trans-Himalaya march conducted from 1981 to 1983, and met with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. That meeting is credited with resulting in Ms. Gandhi's subsequent green-felling ban.He was a also a big fan of Gaura Devi.
6) Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.
Shiva was born in the valley of Dehradun, to a father who was the conservator of forests and a farmer mother with a love for nature. She was educated at St Mary's School in Nainital, and at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Dehradun.Shiva was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Western Ontario in 1978. Her thesis was titled "Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory"[2] She later went on to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
7) V.C. Agrawal is an electrical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Roorkee.
He is the current Managing Director of IBP, a group company of IndianOil, since July 2006.
8) Ashok Soota was the President of Wipro from 1984 to 1999. He co-founded MindTree Consulting in 1999, which is currently a leading name in IT consulting. He has played a major role in the development of the IT industry in India.
Chairman and managing director of MindTree Consulting, Ashok Soota co-founded the company in August 1999 along with nine other industry professionals.
Soota holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of Roorkee (now called Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.
9) Major Rajesh Singh Adhikari, MVC was an Indian Army officer who died during the Kargil War. He was posthumously awarded the second highest Indian military honour - the Maha Vir Chakra for bravery on the battlefield.
When heavy fighting broke out in the Kargil region of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir owing to planned infiltration by militants backed by the Pakistan army, the Indian Army was ordered to clear the heights of those intruders. Many tough battles took place in the region. It was one of the most significant battles, the Battle of Tololing, where Rajesh made a valiant sacrifice. He was posthumously awarded the second highest Indian Army decoration - Maha Vir Chakra for his actions in the battle.
Great Chhattisgarh People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Chhattisgarh people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Teejan Bai (born 1956) is an exponent of Pandavani, a traditional performing art form, from Chhattisgarh, in which she enacts tales from the Mahabharata, with musical accompaniments.
Teejan Bai was born in April 24, 1956, in village Ganiyari, 14 km north of Bhilai, to Chunuk Lal Pardhi and his wife Sukhwati.
Her big-break came, when Habib Tanvir, a famous theatre personality from Madhya Pradesh, noticed her talent, and she was called to perform for then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. There was no turning back from then on, in-time she received national and international recognition, a Padma Shri in 1988, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1995, and Padma Bhushan in 2003.
2) Dr. B.S. Moonje was born on 12 December 1872, at Bilaspur, currently in Chattisgarh province. He took his Medical Degree from Grant Medical College in Mumbai in 1898 and was employed in Bombay Municipal Corporation as a Medical Officer on handsome salary. He left this peaceful and dignified job to participate in Boer War in South Africa through his Medical Wing as King's Commissioned Officer because of keen interest in military life. Moonje started his medical practice in Nagpur after returning from Africa. He invented the method of operating “Cataract” after testing his skills on dead bodies of goats. He also presented his Thesis in Medical Association but since it had British domination he could not receive credit. He could not pursue the claim afterwards since he became involved in social and political activities, dedicating his life to India's freedom struggle, thus leaving his stable Medical Practice in early age. He was also a Sanskrit scholar.
Moonje was a prominent freedom fighter and a strong supporter / follower of Lokmanya B G Tilak. Congress Party’s annual session was held at Surat (Gujarat) in 1907. Trouble broke out between the moderate (Soft Faction) and the extremist (Hot Faction) factions of the party over the selection of the new President of the Congress and the party split into two factions. The extremists were led by Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipinchandra Pal (known as LAL-BAL-PAL). Dr Moonje and his followers literally gave physical protection to Tilak when he was attacked by people throwing chairs. From there onwards the relationship between Tilak and Moonje became very close. Dr Moonje toured entire Central India and collected huge funds for Tilak on many occasions. Dr Moonje also introduced Ganesh and Shivaji Festival in Central India and also accompanied Tilak to Calcutta for this purpose. He was General Secretary of Central Indian Provincial congress for many years (known as C. P. and Berar).
3) Karri Sriram (born 1973) is an English-language Indian writer.
Karri Sriram was born in 1973 in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh (now part of Chattisgarh) to Lakshmi and Arvind Kumar.
He was studying in the South Eastern Railway (English Medium) School at Bilaspu, when a national scholarship conducted by the Ministry of Human Resources Development took him to Daly College, where he finished his schooling. He was selected for the National Defence Academy (88th course, 5th rank in UPSC topper's list for Air Force), but owing to a medical objection, finished his graduation, Bachelors of Arts (History, Economic and Political Sciences), from BVK College, Visakhapatnam.
As a journalist, he was among the earliest journalists in India writing on IT, Software, Web, IT Education, and handling the website for a news publication, besides writing on innumerable subjects, predominantly including civic matters, public interest, social trends, political analysis, city life, education and careers, among others.
He moved from being a journalist to a corporate career, and has been part of the communications, strategy and branding of leading IT corporates including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Satyam Computer Services. He was also part of the communications team of the Indian School of Business and as an associate editor, brought out the school's magazine, Insight.
4) Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 – 1531) was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India, following the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (Pure Non-dualism).
He is regarded as an Acharya and Guru within the Vaishnava traditions as promulgated and prescribed by the Vedanta philosophy. He is often associated with Vishnuswami,the founder of Rudra Sampradaya. Within Indian Philosophy he is known as the writer of sixteen 'stotras' (tracts) and produced several commentaries on the Bhagavata Purana, which describes the many lilas (pastimes) of the avatar, Krishna. Vallabha Acharya occupies a unique place in Indian culture as a scholar, a philosopher and devotional (bhakti) preacher. He is widely considered as the last of the four great Vaishnava Acharyas who established the various Vaishnava schools of thought based on Vedantic philosophy, the other three (preceding him) being Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya and Nimbarkacharya. He is especially known as a lover and a propagator of Bhagavata Dharma. He was born in Champaranya near Raipur in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Teejan Bai (born 1956) is an exponent of Pandavani, a traditional performing art form, from Chhattisgarh, in which she enacts tales from the Mahabharata, with musical accompaniments.
Teejan Bai was born in April 24, 1956, in village Ganiyari, 14 km north of Bhilai, to Chunuk Lal Pardhi and his wife Sukhwati.
Her big-break came, when Habib Tanvir, a famous theatre personality from Madhya Pradesh, noticed her talent, and she was called to perform for then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. There was no turning back from then on, in-time she received national and international recognition, a Padma Shri in 1988, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1995, and Padma Bhushan in 2003.
2) Dr. B.S. Moonje was born on 12 December 1872, at Bilaspur, currently in Chattisgarh province. He took his Medical Degree from Grant Medical College in Mumbai in 1898 and was employed in Bombay Municipal Corporation as a Medical Officer on handsome salary. He left this peaceful and dignified job to participate in Boer War in South Africa through his Medical Wing as King's Commissioned Officer because of keen interest in military life. Moonje started his medical practice in Nagpur after returning from Africa. He invented the method of operating “Cataract” after testing his skills on dead bodies of goats. He also presented his Thesis in Medical Association but since it had British domination he could not receive credit. He could not pursue the claim afterwards since he became involved in social and political activities, dedicating his life to India's freedom struggle, thus leaving his stable Medical Practice in early age. He was also a Sanskrit scholar.
Moonje was a prominent freedom fighter and a strong supporter / follower of Lokmanya B G Tilak. Congress Party’s annual session was held at Surat (Gujarat) in 1907. Trouble broke out between the moderate (Soft Faction) and the extremist (Hot Faction) factions of the party over the selection of the new President of the Congress and the party split into two factions. The extremists were led by Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipinchandra Pal (known as LAL-BAL-PAL). Dr Moonje and his followers literally gave physical protection to Tilak when he was attacked by people throwing chairs. From there onwards the relationship between Tilak and Moonje became very close. Dr Moonje toured entire Central India and collected huge funds for Tilak on many occasions. Dr Moonje also introduced Ganesh and Shivaji Festival in Central India and also accompanied Tilak to Calcutta for this purpose. He was General Secretary of Central Indian Provincial congress for many years (known as C. P. and Berar).
3) Karri Sriram (born 1973) is an English-language Indian writer.
Karri Sriram was born in 1973 in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh (now part of Chattisgarh) to Lakshmi and Arvind Kumar.
He was studying in the South Eastern Railway (English Medium) School at Bilaspu, when a national scholarship conducted by the Ministry of Human Resources Development took him to Daly College, where he finished his schooling. He was selected for the National Defence Academy (88th course, 5th rank in UPSC topper's list for Air Force), but owing to a medical objection, finished his graduation, Bachelors of Arts (History, Economic and Political Sciences), from BVK College, Visakhapatnam.
As a journalist, he was among the earliest journalists in India writing on IT, Software, Web, IT Education, and handling the website for a news publication, besides writing on innumerable subjects, predominantly including civic matters, public interest, social trends, political analysis, city life, education and careers, among others.
He moved from being a journalist to a corporate career, and has been part of the communications, strategy and branding of leading IT corporates including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Satyam Computer Services. He was also part of the communications team of the Indian School of Business and as an associate editor, brought out the school's magazine, Insight.
4) Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 – 1531) was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India, following the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (Pure Non-dualism).
He is regarded as an Acharya and Guru within the Vaishnava traditions as promulgated and prescribed by the Vedanta philosophy. He is often associated with Vishnuswami,the founder of Rudra Sampradaya. Within Indian Philosophy he is known as the writer of sixteen 'stotras' (tracts) and produced several commentaries on the Bhagavata Purana, which describes the many lilas (pastimes) of the avatar, Krishna. Vallabha Acharya occupies a unique place in Indian culture as a scholar, a philosopher and devotional (bhakti) preacher. He is widely considered as the last of the four great Vaishnava Acharyas who established the various Vaishnava schools of thought based on Vedantic philosophy, the other three (preceding him) being Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya and Nimbarkacharya. He is especially known as a lover and a propagator of Bhagavata Dharma. He was born in Champaranya near Raipur in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Great Goa People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Goa people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Bruno Coutinho is a prominent football player from Goa, and winner of the Arjuna Award in 2001, a national Indian award for excellence in sport.
Among his other achievements are representing India in the President's Cup in 1989 in Dhaka, heading the Indian Under-23 team for the 1991 pre-Olympics, for the SAF Games in 1995 and 1996 and the Asia Cup in Malaysia.
2) Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (July 31, 1907-June 29, 1966) was an Indian mathematician, statistician, and polymath, who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambi's map function. He is well-known for his work in numismatics and for compiling critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts. Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, his father, had studied ancient Indian texts with particular emphasis on Buddhism and its literature in Pali language. Damodar Kosambi emulated him by taking interest in his country's yesteryears. Professor Kosambi was also a historian of ancient India who employed the historical materialist approach in his work. He was critical of the policies of then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, which, according to him, promoted capitalism in the guise of democratic socialism. He was an enthusiast of the Chinese revolution and its ideals, and, in addition, a leading activist in the World Peace Movement.
After a few years of schooling in India, in 1918 D.D. Kosambi and his elder sister, Manik Kosambi, traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts with his father, who was assisting Harvard University professors in compiling a critical edition of the Visuddimagga, a book on Buddhist philosophy. There he spent a year in the Grammar school and then was admitted to the Cambridge High and Latin School in 1920. He became a member of the Cambridge branch of American Boy Scouts.
3) Charles Correa (born in Hyderabad, India on September 1, 1930) is an Indian architect, planner, activist, theoretician and a fundamental figure in the world-wide panorama of contemporary architecture. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after which he established a private practice in Bombay in 1958. His work in India shows a careful development, understanding and adaptation of Modernism to a non-western culture. His early works attempt to explore a local vernacular within a modern environment. His land-use planning and community projects continually try to go beyond typical solutions to third world problems.
He is a recipient of the civilian awards in India, Padma Vibhushan (2006) and Padma Shri (1972). In 2008 he resigned his commission as the head of Delhi Urban Arts Commission amongst ridicule and accusations of incompetence.
4) Maestro António Fortunato de Figueiredo (August 20, 1903-1981) was a famous Goan conductor and violinist. He was India’s first maestro in Western classical music.
António was born in Nacordá, near Loutolim, in Goa, then known as Portuguese India, the son of Gabriel de Figueiredo and Ermelinda Parras e Figueiredo. He learnt the first rudiments of music at primary school under the local teacher. Whilst studying at the Lyceum of Panjim, he learnt the Violin and soon became an accomplished player. He went to Portugal in 1927 to pursue an Arts degree at the University of Lisbon, but transferred to the National Conservatory of Lisbon (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa in Portuguese), graduating with a Higher Education Degree in Violin in 1932. He then proceeded to Paris to further his musical studies in Musical Sciences and Composition & Harmony at the Faculty of Music and Musicology at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne).
5) Manohar Parrikar (born December 13, 1955, Mapusa, Goa) is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005.
He is a graduate from IIT Bombay, the first IIT graduate to become the Chief Minister of any Indian state ever.
He is from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first from his party to become the Chief Minister. He was first elected to the Second Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa in 1994. He was the leader of the opposition from June to November 1999. He first became the Chief Minister of Goa on October 24, 2000 but could only last till February 27, 2002. In June 2002, he was re-elected to the assembly and was elected Chief Minister again (on June 5, 2002).
6) Julio Francis Ribeiro, (born May 1929, Goa) is a former Indian police officer who is best remembered for his role in ending Punjab insurgency .
Ribeiro joined the Indian Police Service in 1953 and rose to be the Commissioner of Mumbai Police from 1982 to 1985, Director General of Central Reserve Police Force; Director General Police of Gujarat and Director General of Punjab Police during its worst years of terrorism in Punjab. In 1987, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award for his services.
Julio Ribeiro is married to Melba Ribeiro and has two daughters Neena and Anna. He is also working as non executive Director to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited.
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1) Bruno Coutinho is a prominent football player from Goa, and winner of the Arjuna Award in 2001, a national Indian award for excellence in sport.
Among his other achievements are representing India in the President's Cup in 1989 in Dhaka, heading the Indian Under-23 team for the 1991 pre-Olympics, for the SAF Games in 1995 and 1996 and the Asia Cup in Malaysia.
2) Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (July 31, 1907-June 29, 1966) was an Indian mathematician, statistician, and polymath, who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambi's map function. He is well-known for his work in numismatics and for compiling critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts. Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, his father, had studied ancient Indian texts with particular emphasis on Buddhism and its literature in Pali language. Damodar Kosambi emulated him by taking interest in his country's yesteryears. Professor Kosambi was also a historian of ancient India who employed the historical materialist approach in his work. He was critical of the policies of then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, which, according to him, promoted capitalism in the guise of democratic socialism. He was an enthusiast of the Chinese revolution and its ideals, and, in addition, a leading activist in the World Peace Movement.
After a few years of schooling in India, in 1918 D.D. Kosambi and his elder sister, Manik Kosambi, traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts with his father, who was assisting Harvard University professors in compiling a critical edition of the Visuddimagga, a book on Buddhist philosophy. There he spent a year in the Grammar school and then was admitted to the Cambridge High and Latin School in 1920. He became a member of the Cambridge branch of American Boy Scouts.
3) Charles Correa (born in Hyderabad, India on September 1, 1930) is an Indian architect, planner, activist, theoretician and a fundamental figure in the world-wide panorama of contemporary architecture. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after which he established a private practice in Bombay in 1958. His work in India shows a careful development, understanding and adaptation of Modernism to a non-western culture. His early works attempt to explore a local vernacular within a modern environment. His land-use planning and community projects continually try to go beyond typical solutions to third world problems.
He is a recipient of the civilian awards in India, Padma Vibhushan (2006) and Padma Shri (1972). In 2008 he resigned his commission as the head of Delhi Urban Arts Commission amongst ridicule and accusations of incompetence.
4) Maestro António Fortunato de Figueiredo (August 20, 1903-1981) was a famous Goan conductor and violinist. He was India’s first maestro in Western classical music.
António was born in Nacordá, near Loutolim, in Goa, then known as Portuguese India, the son of Gabriel de Figueiredo and Ermelinda Parras e Figueiredo. He learnt the first rudiments of music at primary school under the local teacher. Whilst studying at the Lyceum of Panjim, he learnt the Violin and soon became an accomplished player. He went to Portugal in 1927 to pursue an Arts degree at the University of Lisbon, but transferred to the National Conservatory of Lisbon (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa in Portuguese), graduating with a Higher Education Degree in Violin in 1932. He then proceeded to Paris to further his musical studies in Musical Sciences and Composition & Harmony at the Faculty of Music and Musicology at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne).
5) Manohar Parrikar (born December 13, 1955, Mapusa, Goa) is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005.
He is a graduate from IIT Bombay, the first IIT graduate to become the Chief Minister of any Indian state ever.
He is from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first from his party to become the Chief Minister. He was first elected to the Second Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa in 1994. He was the leader of the opposition from June to November 1999. He first became the Chief Minister of Goa on October 24, 2000 but could only last till February 27, 2002. In June 2002, he was re-elected to the assembly and was elected Chief Minister again (on June 5, 2002).
6) Julio Francis Ribeiro, (born May 1929, Goa) is a former Indian police officer who is best remembered for his role in ending Punjab insurgency .
Ribeiro joined the Indian Police Service in 1953 and rose to be the Commissioner of Mumbai Police from 1982 to 1985, Director General of Central Reserve Police Force; Director General Police of Gujarat and Director General of Punjab Police during its worst years of terrorism in Punjab. In 1987, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award for his services.
Julio Ribeiro is married to Melba Ribeiro and has two daughters Neena and Anna. He is also working as non executive Director to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited.
Great Nagaland People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Nagaland people.
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1) Angami Zapu Phizo was a Naga leader from India. Under his influence, the Naga National Council inclined towards seeking secession from India. The Naga secessionist groups regard him as the "Father of the Nagas" and as a freedom fighter.
In his youth, A Z Phizo had collaborated with the Japanese army in Burma. He grew disillusioned with the political motives of the newly independent Indian government.
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1) Angami Zapu Phizo was a Naga leader from India. Under his influence, the Naga National Council inclined towards seeking secession from India. The Naga secessionist groups regard him as the "Father of the Nagas" and as a freedom fighter.
In his youth, A Z Phizo had collaborated with the Japanese army in Burma. He grew disillusioned with the political motives of the newly independent Indian government.
Great Manipur People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Manipur people.
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1) Suraj Lata Devi is the former captain of the India women's national field hockey team and hails from Manipur.
She led the team to the Gold for three consecutive years: during the 2002 Commonwealth Games (the event which inspired the 2007 Bollywood hit film, Chak De India), the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, and the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.
2) Gurmayum Anita Devi is a noted mountaineer from Indian state of Manipur . She was awarded Padma Shri award by Government of India in 2004 .
3) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, (born May 1, 1935) is a leading exponent, choreographer and a guru of Indian classical dance form of Manipuri, including the Pung cholom and Raslila. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1984 and the Padma Shri in 1986 for his contribution to the Manipuri dance.
Guru Singhajit Singh and his wife Charu Sija Mathur, who is also a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award recipient, have established, Manipuri Nrityashram, a Manipuri dance school, in New Delhi.
4) Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami (1937-2006) original name Dr. Thoudam Damodar Singh was a scientist, spiritual teacher (Acharya), teacher and poet. He is known for his pioneering efforts for more than thirty years to interface and explore the harmony between both science and religious wisdom and was the international director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute which promotes the study of the relationship between science and Spiritual Wisdom (Vedanta).
He was also a founding member and regional director of United Religions Initiatives, a member of Metanexus Institute and founding rector of University of Bhagavata Culture in the State of Manipur (India) as well as being a leading member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna Movement). He also authored and edited several books and organized a number of significant conferences and world congresses around the world.
Thoudam Damodar was Born in Toubul, part of the Bishnupur district, Manipur, India,on 9th December 1937 to Sri Yogendra Singh and Srimati Kanyahanbi Devi. During World War II on May 10, 1942, the Japanese began bombing Imphal, the Capital of Manipur. Yogendra Singh took his family to shelter in a barrack on the banks of the Yangoi river. In 1944, Yogendra died of typhoid. The war eventually came to end, his uncle poor Thoudam Ibomcha Singh (85 years now) struggled through tough times to support him and shortly thereafter Thoudam Damodar was separated from his mother and younger sister. His elder sister Srimati Ahanbi Devi began to look after him. As a young boy, he learned how to till the land left by his father to help maintain himself and his sister. In 1949, his sister got married and he was left alone. Not wanting to burden anyone, he used to cultivate paddy for his livelihood. Living through hardships, Thoudam Damodar planned to give up schooling. Seeing his adversity, Sri Thokchom Yadav Singh, his primary school teacher, approached his colleague Sri Thoudam Kerani Singh and requested to help Thoudam Damodar. Sri Kerani agreed, and Thoudam Damodar moved into Sri Kerani's home.
He received his B.Sc. with honors from Gauhati University in 1961, his Master of Technology degree with honors from Calcutta University in 1964, his M.S. in chemistry from Canisius College in Buffalo in 1969, and in 1974 completed his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at the University of California at Irvine. Since then he has been involved in dialogues with scientists and religious leaders such as the Dalai Lama in the quest for a scientific understanding of the world through the vedantic paradigm.
5) Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi is the most decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlifting.
Born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal in Manipur, Kunjarani Devi started taking interest in sports while still in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Resident High school in 1978. And by the time she finished her graduation from the Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlifting had become her first choice. She joined the Central Reserve Police Force she went on to make waves in the Police Championships and captained the Indian Police team from 1996 to 1998.
Kunjarani claimed the gold medal at the 2006 She is a recipient of Arjuna award in 1990 and shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes for the year 1996-1997. In the same year she also won the K.K.Birla Sports award.
6) Rani Gaidinliu was one of the active participants in the fight for freedom from British rule in India. Born in Nangkao village of Manipur She joined freedom struggle at the age of 13. She led a socio-political movement to drive out the British from Manipur and Naga areas.
She was arrested in 1932 at the age of 16 and imprisoned for life. She was freed in 1947 after India gained freedom.
After her release she continued to work for the uplift of her people. She organised a resistance movement against the Naga National Council (NNC)-led insurgents in 1966 and had to go underground. She was honoured as a freedom fighter and was also awarded a Padma Bhushan. Rani Gaidinliu died in 1993. The Government of India issued a postal stamp in her memory.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Suraj Lata Devi is the former captain of the India women's national field hockey team and hails from Manipur.
She led the team to the Gold for three consecutive years: during the 2002 Commonwealth Games (the event which inspired the 2007 Bollywood hit film, Chak De India), the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, and the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.
2) Gurmayum Anita Devi is a noted mountaineer from Indian state of Manipur . She was awarded Padma Shri award by Government of India in 2004 .
3) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, (born May 1, 1935) is a leading exponent, choreographer and a guru of Indian classical dance form of Manipuri, including the Pung cholom and Raslila. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1984 and the Padma Shri in 1986 for his contribution to the Manipuri dance.
Guru Singhajit Singh and his wife Charu Sija Mathur, who is also a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award recipient, have established, Manipuri Nrityashram, a Manipuri dance school, in New Delhi.
4) Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami (1937-2006) original name Dr. Thoudam Damodar Singh was a scientist, spiritual teacher (Acharya), teacher and poet. He is known for his pioneering efforts for more than thirty years to interface and explore the harmony between both science and religious wisdom and was the international director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute which promotes the study of the relationship between science and Spiritual Wisdom (Vedanta).
He was also a founding member and regional director of United Religions Initiatives, a member of Metanexus Institute and founding rector of University of Bhagavata Culture in the State of Manipur (India) as well as being a leading member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna Movement). He also authored and edited several books and organized a number of significant conferences and world congresses around the world.
Thoudam Damodar was Born in Toubul, part of the Bishnupur district, Manipur, India,on 9th December 1937 to Sri Yogendra Singh and Srimati Kanyahanbi Devi. During World War II on May 10, 1942, the Japanese began bombing Imphal, the Capital of Manipur. Yogendra Singh took his family to shelter in a barrack on the banks of the Yangoi river. In 1944, Yogendra died of typhoid. The war eventually came to end, his uncle poor Thoudam Ibomcha Singh (85 years now) struggled through tough times to support him and shortly thereafter Thoudam Damodar was separated from his mother and younger sister. His elder sister Srimati Ahanbi Devi began to look after him. As a young boy, he learned how to till the land left by his father to help maintain himself and his sister. In 1949, his sister got married and he was left alone. Not wanting to burden anyone, he used to cultivate paddy for his livelihood. Living through hardships, Thoudam Damodar planned to give up schooling. Seeing his adversity, Sri Thokchom Yadav Singh, his primary school teacher, approached his colleague Sri Thoudam Kerani Singh and requested to help Thoudam Damodar. Sri Kerani agreed, and Thoudam Damodar moved into Sri Kerani's home.
He received his B.Sc. with honors from Gauhati University in 1961, his Master of Technology degree with honors from Calcutta University in 1964, his M.S. in chemistry from Canisius College in Buffalo in 1969, and in 1974 completed his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at the University of California at Irvine. Since then he has been involved in dialogues with scientists and religious leaders such as the Dalai Lama in the quest for a scientific understanding of the world through the vedantic paradigm.
5) Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi is the most decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlifting.
Born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal in Manipur, Kunjarani Devi started taking interest in sports while still in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Resident High school in 1978. And by the time she finished her graduation from the Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlifting had become her first choice. She joined the Central Reserve Police Force she went on to make waves in the Police Championships and captained the Indian Police team from 1996 to 1998.
Kunjarani claimed the gold medal at the 2006 She is a recipient of Arjuna award in 1990 and shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes for the year 1996-1997. In the same year she also won the K.K.Birla Sports award.
6) Rani Gaidinliu was one of the active participants in the fight for freedom from British rule in India. Born in Nangkao village of Manipur She joined freedom struggle at the age of 13. She led a socio-political movement to drive out the British from Manipur and Naga areas.
She was arrested in 1932 at the age of 16 and imprisoned for life. She was freed in 1947 after India gained freedom.
After her release she continued to work for the uplift of her people. She organised a resistance movement against the Naga National Council (NNC)-led insurgents in 1966 and had to go underground. She was honoured as a freedom fighter and was also awarded a Padma Bhushan. Rani Gaidinliu died in 1993. The Government of India issued a postal stamp in her memory.
Great Mizoram People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Mizoram people.
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1) Zoramthanga (born July 13, 1944) is the Chief Minister of Mizoram, India since December 1998.
Zoramthanga was born to Mr.Darphunga and Mrs.Vanhnuaichhingi to be the second youngest child of their eight children. He has five brothers and three sisters. Pu Zoramthanga was born on July 13, 1944 at Samthang village.
He joined primary School in the year 1950. In 1954, he joined middle school at South Khawbung and finished at the school in 1956 after he passed standard six. In 1957, he went on to join Champhai Gandhi Memorial High School as a student of standard seven. He finished his high school at Champhai from Samthang village in 1960. He finished his college from D.M. College, Manipur.
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1) Zoramthanga (born July 13, 1944) is the Chief Minister of Mizoram, India since December 1998.
Zoramthanga was born to Mr.Darphunga and Mrs.Vanhnuaichhingi to be the second youngest child of their eight children. He has five brothers and three sisters. Pu Zoramthanga was born on July 13, 1944 at Samthang village.
He joined primary School in the year 1950. In 1954, he joined middle school at South Khawbung and finished at the school in 1956 after he passed standard six. In 1957, he went on to join Champhai Gandhi Memorial High School as a student of standard seven. He finished his high school at Champhai from Samthang village in 1960. He finished his college from D.M. College, Manipur.
Great Tripura People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Tripura people.
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1) Jayasri Burman is a contemporary Indian artist. She studied at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, and the Visual College of Art, Kolkata. She went to Paris and studies print-making under Monsieur Ceizerzi.
She is a member of an extended family of eminent artists: Her husband, Paresh Maity; uncle Sakti Burman who lives and works in France, though he is considered an Indian artist; and her cousin, Maya Burman. In 2005, she helped create an exhibition called "The Family" featuring work of all these artists.
Burman works mainly in watercolor, using rich strong hues and bold themes with a mythic element -- strange hybrid animals with human heads, female figures. She has won several prizes for her art. Her work has been exhibited in India, and overseas.
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1) Jayasri Burman is a contemporary Indian artist. She studied at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, and the Visual College of Art, Kolkata. She went to Paris and studies print-making under Monsieur Ceizerzi.
She is a member of an extended family of eminent artists: Her husband, Paresh Maity; uncle Sakti Burman who lives and works in France, though he is considered an Indian artist; and her cousin, Maya Burman. In 2005, she helped create an exhibition called "The Family" featuring work of all these artists.
Burman works mainly in watercolor, using rich strong hues and bold themes with a mythic element -- strange hybrid animals with human heads, female figures. She has won several prizes for her art. Her work has been exhibited in India, and overseas.
Great Arunachal Pradesh People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Arunachal Pradesh people.
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1) Talom Rukbo was a literary and social worker in Arunachal Pradesh. He was the father of Donyi-Polo, a religious movement based in Arunachal Pradesh. He has made scathing criticism of Christian missionaries for fraudulent conversion practices in the Northeast of India.
Because of his contribution to the Adivasi way of life, Rukbo has been named one of the inspirations for the Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram project run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
2) Mrinal Miri (born August 1, 1940) is an Indian philosopher and educationalist.
He was awarded a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1966 and gained his doctorate in 1970. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Stephen College under the University of Delhi, before moving to NEHU. Professor Mrinal also served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 1993 to 1999. He has been awarded a Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of education and literature. He is a member of the National Advisory Council established by the Manmohan Singh government.
He is marred to Sujata Miri a fellow philosopher.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Talom Rukbo was a literary and social worker in Arunachal Pradesh. He was the father of Donyi-Polo, a religious movement based in Arunachal Pradesh. He has made scathing criticism of Christian missionaries for fraudulent conversion practices in the Northeast of India.
Because of his contribution to the Adivasi way of life, Rukbo has been named one of the inspirations for the Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram project run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
2) Mrinal Miri (born August 1, 1940) is an Indian philosopher and educationalist.
He was awarded a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1966 and gained his doctorate in 1970. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Stephen College under the University of Delhi, before moving to NEHU. Professor Mrinal also served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 1993 to 1999. He has been awarded a Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of education and literature. He is a member of the National Advisory Council established by the Manmohan Singh government.
He is marred to Sujata Miri a fellow philosopher.
Great Meghalaya People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Meghalaya people.
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1) Biraja Sankar Guha (August 15, 1894 Shillong-October 20, 1961 Ghatshila, Bihar) was an Indian physical anthropologist, who classified Indian people into races around the early part of the 20th century.
B. S. Guha did his graduation in philosophy from the Scottish Church College and earned his post-graduate degree (also in philosophy) from the University of Calcutta. He worked as a research scholar in anthropology in the Government of Bengal in 1917. In 1920, he received the A.M. degree in anthropology from Harvard University, with distinction, and became the Hemenway Fellow of the University. During 1922-1924 he worked as a research scholar at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Boston), American Museum of Natural History (New York), and the Bureau of Ethnicity of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. In 1924, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Harvard University, for his thesis on "The Racial basis of the Caste System in India". In the process he became one of the earliest recipients of the doctorate in that discipline in the world and certainly, the first Indian citizen to do so.
2) Queenie Rynjah is a noted social worker and educationist from Indian state of Meghalaya. She was awarded Padma Shri award by Government of India in 2004 for her contribution.
3) Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya,India, to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession. Her brother had schizophrenia and committed suicide, possibly while under the influence of drugs of abuse. She spent her childhood in Ayemenem or Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard DaCunha.
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1) Biraja Sankar Guha (August 15, 1894 Shillong-October 20, 1961 Ghatshila, Bihar) was an Indian physical anthropologist, who classified Indian people into races around the early part of the 20th century.
B. S. Guha did his graduation in philosophy from the Scottish Church College and earned his post-graduate degree (also in philosophy) from the University of Calcutta. He worked as a research scholar in anthropology in the Government of Bengal in 1917. In 1920, he received the A.M. degree in anthropology from Harvard University, with distinction, and became the Hemenway Fellow of the University. During 1922-1924 he worked as a research scholar at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Boston), American Museum of Natural History (New York), and the Bureau of Ethnicity of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. In 1924, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Harvard University, for his thesis on "The Racial basis of the Caste System in India". In the process he became one of the earliest recipients of the doctorate in that discipline in the world and certainly, the first Indian citizen to do so.
2) Queenie Rynjah is a noted social worker and educationist from Indian state of Meghalaya. She was awarded Padma Shri award by Government of India in 2004 for her contribution.
3) Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya,India, to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession. Her brother had schizophrenia and committed suicide, possibly while under the influence of drugs of abuse. She spent her childhood in Ayemenem or Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard DaCunha.
Great Assam People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Assam people.
Today i want to share few great people from Assam.
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1) Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942-), also Indira Goswami and popularly Mamoni Baideo, is a well known writer from Assam. She teaches Assamese literature at the University of Delhi with a research interest on the Ramayana. One of her novels, "The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker" was made into an Assamese film by Swantana Bordoloi in 1996 starring Tom Alter - Adajya which won international awards. Several biographical films have been made on her highly turbulent life and notable among them are "Words from the Mist" by Jahnu Barua and "Aparajita" by Kuntala Sharma. In the arena of modern Indian literature, she is one of the most powerful voices and one of the very few who has attempted to use literary tool as a means for social change. Since several years she has kept herself busy in bring the banned ULFA militants of Assam and the central government of India to the discussion with the purpose of ending the twenty-seven years old bloodshed in Assam. Her involvement has given the problem adequate focus and a peace committee has been formed in the name of People's Consultative Group to take forward the task. She modestly claims herself as an "observer" of the whole peace process rather than a mediator or initiator.
Born in Guwahati on 14th November, 1942 on Children's Day, the birthday of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, she was named Indira Goswami by her father Umakanta Goswami. She studied in Pine Mount School, Shillong, which was a part of undivided Assam then. After that she completed her studies from Cotton College, Guwahati with a major in Assamese Literature. In 1962, she published her first collection of short stories called Chinaki Morom while she was a student.
At a very early age she received the Sahitya Akademi Award and then in 2000 she received India's highest literary award Jnanpith Award for writing for the subalterns and marginalisedd.
2) Gopinath Bordoloi (1890-1950) was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian freedom-fighter. He was a follower of the Gandhian principle of non violence as a political tool.
After India's Independence, he worked closely with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to secure the sovereignty of Assam against China on the one hand and East Pakistan on the other. He also helped to organize the rehabilitation of millions of Hindu refugees who had fled East Pakistan due to widespread violence and intimidation in the aftermath of Partition. His work formed the basis for ensuring communal harmony, democracy and stability which effectively kept Assam secure and progressive right up to the 1971 war over East Pakistan's independence. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1999.
3) Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva (1449-1568) , saint-scholar, playwright, social-religious reformer, is a colossal figure in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India. He is credited with providing a thread of unity to Assam straddling two major kingdoms (Ahom and Koch kingdoms), building on past literary activities to provide the bedrock of Assamese culture, and creating a religion that gave shape to a set of new values and social synthesis. The religion he started, Mahapuruxiya Dharma, was part of the Bhakti movement then raging in India, and he inspired bhakti in Assam just as Ramananda, Kabir, Basava and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu inspired it elsewhere.
In reverence to his personality, teachings and oeuvre, he is a Mahapurusha---'Great Man'.
4) Robin Banerjee (12 Aug 1908 - 06 Aug 2003) was a noted wildlife expert, environmentalist, painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker who lived at Golaghat in the Indian state of Assam.
He was awarded the Padmashree in 1971, an honorary Doctorate of Science from Assam Agricultural University (AAU) in 1991, and also an honorary Ph.D. from Dibrugarh University.
5) Pratima Barua Pandey (1935-2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in lower Assam's Dhubri district. Barua Pandey, a national awardee, best known for her immortal Goalpariya songs Hastir Kanya and Mur Mahut Bandhure, was the niece of filmmaker Pramathesh Barua of Devdas fame.
Pratima Barua Pandey was awarded the Padmashree and Sangeet Natak Akademi for her pioneering efforts in popularising Goalpariya lokageet. A documentary flim made on her life and works by noted filmmaker Prabin Hazarika, Hastir Kanya, won national award for best biographical film in 1997, earned great appreciation and created waves at the South Asia film festival in 1998.
6) Monalisa Baruah Mehta is a renowned table tennis player of Assam. She received an Arjuna Award in 1987 and is an important Assamese sports personality.
She is married to Kamlesh Mehta, a former national table tennis champion.
Today i want to share few great people from Assam.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942-), also Indira Goswami and popularly Mamoni Baideo, is a well known writer from Assam. She teaches Assamese literature at the University of Delhi with a research interest on the Ramayana. One of her novels, "The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker" was made into an Assamese film by Swantana Bordoloi in 1996 starring Tom Alter - Adajya which won international awards. Several biographical films have been made on her highly turbulent life and notable among them are "Words from the Mist" by Jahnu Barua and "Aparajita" by Kuntala Sharma. In the arena of modern Indian literature, she is one of the most powerful voices and one of the very few who has attempted to use literary tool as a means for social change. Since several years she has kept herself busy in bring the banned ULFA militants of Assam and the central government of India to the discussion with the purpose of ending the twenty-seven years old bloodshed in Assam. Her involvement has given the problem adequate focus and a peace committee has been formed in the name of People's Consultative Group to take forward the task. She modestly claims herself as an "observer" of the whole peace process rather than a mediator or initiator.
Born in Guwahati on 14th November, 1942 on Children's Day, the birthday of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, she was named Indira Goswami by her father Umakanta Goswami. She studied in Pine Mount School, Shillong, which was a part of undivided Assam then. After that she completed her studies from Cotton College, Guwahati with a major in Assamese Literature. In 1962, she published her first collection of short stories called Chinaki Morom while she was a student.
At a very early age she received the Sahitya Akademi Award and then in 2000 she received India's highest literary award Jnanpith Award for writing for the subalterns and marginalisedd.
2) Gopinath Bordoloi (1890-1950) was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian freedom-fighter. He was a follower of the Gandhian principle of non violence as a political tool.
After India's Independence, he worked closely with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to secure the sovereignty of Assam against China on the one hand and East Pakistan on the other. He also helped to organize the rehabilitation of millions of Hindu refugees who had fled East Pakistan due to widespread violence and intimidation in the aftermath of Partition. His work formed the basis for ensuring communal harmony, democracy and stability which effectively kept Assam secure and progressive right up to the 1971 war over East Pakistan's independence. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1999.
3) Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva (1449-1568) , saint-scholar, playwright, social-religious reformer, is a colossal figure in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India. He is credited with providing a thread of unity to Assam straddling two major kingdoms (Ahom and Koch kingdoms), building on past literary activities to provide the bedrock of Assamese culture, and creating a religion that gave shape to a set of new values and social synthesis. The religion he started, Mahapuruxiya Dharma, was part of the Bhakti movement then raging in India, and he inspired bhakti in Assam just as Ramananda, Kabir, Basava and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu inspired it elsewhere.
In reverence to his personality, teachings and oeuvre, he is a Mahapurusha---'Great Man'.
4) Robin Banerjee (12 Aug 1908 - 06 Aug 2003) was a noted wildlife expert, environmentalist, painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker who lived at Golaghat in the Indian state of Assam.
He was awarded the Padmashree in 1971, an honorary Doctorate of Science from Assam Agricultural University (AAU) in 1991, and also an honorary Ph.D. from Dibrugarh University.
5) Pratima Barua Pandey (1935-2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in lower Assam's Dhubri district. Barua Pandey, a national awardee, best known for her immortal Goalpariya songs Hastir Kanya and Mur Mahut Bandhure, was the niece of filmmaker Pramathesh Barua of Devdas fame.
Pratima Barua Pandey was awarded the Padmashree and Sangeet Natak Akademi for her pioneering efforts in popularising Goalpariya lokageet. A documentary flim made on her life and works by noted filmmaker Prabin Hazarika, Hastir Kanya, won national award for best biographical film in 1997, earned great appreciation and created waves at the South Asia film festival in 1998.
6) Monalisa Baruah Mehta is a renowned table tennis player of Assam. She received an Arjuna Award in 1987 and is an important Assamese sports personality.
She is married to Kamlesh Mehta, a former national table tennis champion.
Great Sikkim People
Today i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Sikkim people.
Today i want to share few great people from Sikkim.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Kazi Lhendup Dorjee (1904 – July 30, 2007) also spelled Kazi Lhendup Dorji or Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa, was the first chief minister of Sikkim from 1974 to 1979 after its union with India. He was popularly known as Kazi Saab in Sikkim.
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee was born in 1904 in Pakyong, East Sikkim, Sikkim. He was born into the Khangsarpa family, who were Sikkimese nobility.
Dorjee was honored by the government of India with the Padma Vibhushan in 2002. He was also awarded the Sikkim Ratna by the state government of Sikkim in 2004.
2) Pawan Kumar Chamling (born 22 September 1950) is the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Sikkim. He is the fifth Chief Minister of the state, since it joined India in 1975. Chamling belongs to the Sikkim Democratic Front party, which has governed Sikkim for three terms since 1994, winning the 1994, 1999 and 2004 elections.
Awards
The Greenest Chief Minister of India - 1998.
Today i want to share few great people from Sikkim.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Kazi Lhendup Dorjee (1904 – July 30, 2007) also spelled Kazi Lhendup Dorji or Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa, was the first chief minister of Sikkim from 1974 to 1979 after its union with India. He was popularly known as Kazi Saab in Sikkim.
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee was born in 1904 in Pakyong, East Sikkim, Sikkim. He was born into the Khangsarpa family, who were Sikkimese nobility.
Dorjee was honored by the government of India with the Padma Vibhushan in 2002. He was also awarded the Sikkim Ratna by the state government of Sikkim in 2004.
2) Pawan Kumar Chamling (born 22 September 1950) is the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Sikkim. He is the fifth Chief Minister of the state, since it joined India in 1975. Chamling belongs to the Sikkim Democratic Front party, which has governed Sikkim for three terms since 1994, winning the 1994, 1999 and 2004 elections.
Awards
The Greenest Chief Minister of India - 1998.
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Great Bihar People
Today i and my wife Sneha have started reading about great Bihar people.
Today i want to share few great people from Bihar people.
With this we have completed reading Great Bihar People.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha (Sammasambuddha) of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians date his lifetime from c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, however, at a specialist symposium on this question,the majority of those scholars who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death, with others supporting earlier or later dates.
The prime sources of information regarding Siddhartha Gautama's life are the Buddhist texts. The Buddha and his monks spent four months each year discussing and rehearsing his teachings, and after his death his monks set about preserving them. A council was held shortly after his death, and another was held a century later. At these councils the monks attempted to establish and authenticate the extant accounts of the life and teachings of the Buddha following systematic rules. They divided the teachings into distinct but overlapping bodies of material, and assigned specific monks to preserve each one. From then on, the teachings were transmitted orally. From internal evidence it seems clear that the oldest texts crystallized into their current form by the time of the second council or shortly after it. The scriptures were not written down until three or four hundred years after the Buddha's death. By this point, the monks had added or altered some material themselves, in particular magnifying the figure of the Buddha.
2) Ashoka , "He who is the beloved of the Gods and who regards everyone amiably") and Dhamma "Lawful, Religious, Righteous") (304 BCE – 232 BCE) was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests. His empire stretched from present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Iran in the west, to the present-day Bangladesh and Assam states of India in the east, and as far south as the Mysore state. His reign was headquartered in Magadha (present-day Bihar state of India).[1] He embraced Buddhism from the prevalent Vedic tradition after witnessing the mass deaths of the war of Kalinga, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest. He was later dedicated in the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.
3) Jayaprakash Narayan October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP, was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution. His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Ramavriksha Benipuri.
Narayan was born in Sitabdiara village between Ballia District of UP and Saran District of Bihar. His father Harsudayal was a junior official in the canal department of the State government and was often touring the region. Jayaprakash, called Baul affectionately, was left with his grandmother to study in Sitabdiara. There was no high school in the village, so Jayaprakash was sent to Patna to study in the Collegiate School. He excelled in school. His essay, "The present state of Hindi in Bihar", won a best essay award. He entered the Patna College on a Government scholarship.
4) Ramavriksha Benipuri (1902-1968) was a Hindi writer. He was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family, in a small village named Benipur in the Indian state of Bihar. He had spent eight years in prison for fighting for India's independence. Rambriksh Benipuri hailed from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and took active part in the Indian freedom movement. He was also an eminent journalist of Hindi Literature and started several newspapers like Yuvak in 1929 and regularly contributed in various others to spread the idea of nationalism and freedom from British rule.
Benipuri wrote mostly short stories, dramas and essays. His dramas covered mostly historical events. For example, Ambapali depicts the life of the famous courtesan Ambapali who turned into a Buddhist after meeting Buddha. Likewise Netradaan (that is, Gift of Eyes), another drama, is based on a historical legend involving Ashoka and his son Kunal.
5) Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) is Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Patna University and an eminent historian of Ancient India.
He has taught at Delhi (1973-85) and Toronto Universities. It was during the tenure of Professor R.S. Sharma as the Delhi University Dean of History Department in the 1970s that major expansion of the Department took place. The creation of most of the positions in the Department owes to Professor Sharma's efforts. He was the first (founding) Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
Till date he has written 115 books published in fifteen languages.
6) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (September 23, 1908 – April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academician, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. Dinkar emerged as a rebellious poet with his nationalist poetry in pre-Independence days. His poetry exuded veer rasa, and he has been hailed as a "Rashtrakavi" ("National poet").
In his early days, Dinkar supported the revolutionary movement during the Indian Independence struggle. But later, he became a Gandhian. However, he used to call himself a 'Bad Gandhian' because he supported the feelings of indignation and revenge among the youth. In Kurukshetra, he accepts that the war is destructive, but says that it is necessary for the protection of freedom.
Dinkar was three times elected to Rajya Sabha, and he was the member of this house from April 3, 1952 CE to January 26, 1964 CE, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1959.
7) Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (Sinha) (born 18 April 1901) was India's first ambassador to Nepal and later an ambassador to Japan (from 1958) and also the Governor of Punjab in 1953 and then governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1980 to 1985. A distinguished educator, an able administrator and an inspiring leadership interpreter of Indian Culture, Shri C.P.N. Singh was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 1977 for his meritorious services rendered to the country.
He was born in Parsgarh, Bihar.
8) Ramananda Prasad (born 1938) is the founder of the International Gita Society. He has translated the Bhagavad Gita into English in 1988 from the original Sanskrit texts and the book is currently in its fourth edition.
Prasad was born in a small hamlet, Hargawan, near Bodh Gaya in Biharsharif District of the Indian state of Bihar to a farmer who had three acres of land and six children to support[citation needed]. Ramanand had his pre-school education in the village from the late Mazahirul Haque, a Muslim headmaster who taught him English and Mathematics. After finishing his high school education at Mahadeva High School, Khusrupur, he passed his high school from Patna College in 1953. He attended Patna Science College from 1953 to 1955 and is a 1959 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, obtained his Master's Degree from the University of Toronto and earned his doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. Since then, he has been involved in research, teaching, engineering and consulting and worked for the U. S. Navy Corps of Engineers before retiring in 2000. He is presently a professor of Civil Engineering at San Jose State University and an adjunct professor of religion and psychology at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
9) Chandreshwar Prasad "C P" Thakur (born 3 September 1931) is a current member of Rajya Sabha, a former minister in the Government of India ,a physician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was minister from 1999 to 2004 in the BJP government.
He was born in 1931 in Muzaffarpur District in Bihar in a Bhumihar Brahmin family.He got his education from Patna Medical College, Patna University, Royal College of Physicians, London and Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh and Royal College of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London .
10) Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born September 9, 1987 in Patna, India) is a scientist but is most well known as a child prodigy and holder of a Guinness World Record. He set a hat-trick in world records in academics: he completed high school at the age of nine, earned a B.Sc. at the age of ten and a M.Sc. at the age of twelve.
At present he is a Senior Research Scientist, working for his Ph.D at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His topic of research is quantum computing. He aims to work for society and believes that scientific innovations are the best way to do so.
Today i want to share few great people from Bihar people.
With this we have completed reading Great Bihar People.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha (Sammasambuddha) of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians date his lifetime from c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, however, at a specialist symposium on this question,the majority of those scholars who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death, with others supporting earlier or later dates.
The prime sources of information regarding Siddhartha Gautama's life are the Buddhist texts. The Buddha and his monks spent four months each year discussing and rehearsing his teachings, and after his death his monks set about preserving them. A council was held shortly after his death, and another was held a century later. At these councils the monks attempted to establish and authenticate the extant accounts of the life and teachings of the Buddha following systematic rules. They divided the teachings into distinct but overlapping bodies of material, and assigned specific monks to preserve each one. From then on, the teachings were transmitted orally. From internal evidence it seems clear that the oldest texts crystallized into their current form by the time of the second council or shortly after it. The scriptures were not written down until three or four hundred years after the Buddha's death. By this point, the monks had added or altered some material themselves, in particular magnifying the figure of the Buddha.
2) Ashoka , "He who is the beloved of the Gods and who regards everyone amiably") and Dhamma "Lawful, Religious, Righteous") (304 BCE – 232 BCE) was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests. His empire stretched from present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Iran in the west, to the present-day Bangladesh and Assam states of India in the east, and as far south as the Mysore state. His reign was headquartered in Magadha (present-day Bihar state of India).[1] He embraced Buddhism from the prevalent Vedic tradition after witnessing the mass deaths of the war of Kalinga, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest. He was later dedicated in the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.
3) Jayaprakash Narayan October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP, was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution. His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Ramavriksha Benipuri.
Narayan was born in Sitabdiara village between Ballia District of UP and Saran District of Bihar. His father Harsudayal was a junior official in the canal department of the State government and was often touring the region. Jayaprakash, called Baul affectionately, was left with his grandmother to study in Sitabdiara. There was no high school in the village, so Jayaprakash was sent to Patna to study in the Collegiate School. He excelled in school. His essay, "The present state of Hindi in Bihar", won a best essay award. He entered the Patna College on a Government scholarship.
4) Ramavriksha Benipuri (1902-1968) was a Hindi writer. He was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family, in a small village named Benipur in the Indian state of Bihar. He had spent eight years in prison for fighting for India's independence. Rambriksh Benipuri hailed from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and took active part in the Indian freedom movement. He was also an eminent journalist of Hindi Literature and started several newspapers like Yuvak in 1929 and regularly contributed in various others to spread the idea of nationalism and freedom from British rule.
Benipuri wrote mostly short stories, dramas and essays. His dramas covered mostly historical events. For example, Ambapali depicts the life of the famous courtesan Ambapali who turned into a Buddhist after meeting Buddha. Likewise Netradaan (that is, Gift of Eyes), another drama, is based on a historical legend involving Ashoka and his son Kunal.
5) Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) is Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Patna University and an eminent historian of Ancient India.
He has taught at Delhi (1973-85) and Toronto Universities. It was during the tenure of Professor R.S. Sharma as the Delhi University Dean of History Department in the 1970s that major expansion of the Department took place. The creation of most of the positions in the Department owes to Professor Sharma's efforts. He was the first (founding) Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
Till date he has written 115 books published in fifteen languages.
6) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (September 23, 1908 – April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academician, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. Dinkar emerged as a rebellious poet with his nationalist poetry in pre-Independence days. His poetry exuded veer rasa, and he has been hailed as a "Rashtrakavi" ("National poet").
In his early days, Dinkar supported the revolutionary movement during the Indian Independence struggle. But later, he became a Gandhian. However, he used to call himself a 'Bad Gandhian' because he supported the feelings of indignation and revenge among the youth. In Kurukshetra, he accepts that the war is destructive, but says that it is necessary for the protection of freedom.
Dinkar was three times elected to Rajya Sabha, and he was the member of this house from April 3, 1952 CE to January 26, 1964 CE, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1959.
7) Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (Sinha) (born 18 April 1901) was India's first ambassador to Nepal and later an ambassador to Japan (from 1958) and also the Governor of Punjab in 1953 and then governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1980 to 1985. A distinguished educator, an able administrator and an inspiring leadership interpreter of Indian Culture, Shri C.P.N. Singh was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 1977 for his meritorious services rendered to the country.
He was born in Parsgarh, Bihar.
8) Ramananda Prasad (born 1938) is the founder of the International Gita Society. He has translated the Bhagavad Gita into English in 1988 from the original Sanskrit texts and the book is currently in its fourth edition.
Prasad was born in a small hamlet, Hargawan, near Bodh Gaya in Biharsharif District of the Indian state of Bihar to a farmer who had three acres of land and six children to support[citation needed]. Ramanand had his pre-school education in the village from the late Mazahirul Haque, a Muslim headmaster who taught him English and Mathematics. After finishing his high school education at Mahadeva High School, Khusrupur, he passed his high school from Patna College in 1953. He attended Patna Science College from 1953 to 1955 and is a 1959 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, obtained his Master's Degree from the University of Toronto and earned his doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. Since then, he has been involved in research, teaching, engineering and consulting and worked for the U. S. Navy Corps of Engineers before retiring in 2000. He is presently a professor of Civil Engineering at San Jose State University and an adjunct professor of religion and psychology at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
9) Chandreshwar Prasad "C P" Thakur (born 3 September 1931) is a current member of Rajya Sabha, a former minister in the Government of India ,a physician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was minister from 1999 to 2004 in the BJP government.
He was born in 1931 in Muzaffarpur District in Bihar in a Bhumihar Brahmin family.He got his education from Patna Medical College, Patna University, Royal College of Physicians, London and Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh and Royal College of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London .
10) Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born September 9, 1987 in Patna, India) is a scientist but is most well known as a child prodigy and holder of a Guinness World Record. He set a hat-trick in world records in academics: he completed high school at the age of nine, earned a B.Sc. at the age of ten and a M.Sc. at the age of twelve.
At present he is a Senior Research Scientist, working for his Ph.D at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His topic of research is quantum computing. He aims to work for society and believes that scientific innovations are the best way to do so.
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Great Uttar Pradesh People - Final Part
Couple of Days back i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Uttar Pradesh people.
Today i want to share remaining great people from Uttar Pradesh.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul (1908-2001) was an Indian politician and the only Muslim woman to be a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.
A widely traveled person, Begum Rasul was a member of Prime Minister’s Goodwill Delegation to Japan in 1953 and Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Turkey in 1955. She also took keen interest in literature and authored the book Three Weeks in Japan and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. Her autobiography is titled From Purdah to Parliament: A Muslim Woman in Indian Politics.
2) Asifa Zamani is an eminent Indian scholar of persian language. She was awarded Padma Shri in 2004 by Government of India for her outstanding work. In 1999 she received 'President of India Certificate of Honor in Persian.
3) Shrilal Shukla (born December 31, 1925, Uttar Pradesh) is a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He also worked as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. He has written over 21 books, including, "Umraonagar men Kuchh Din" and "Suni Ghati ka Suraj".
Shukla has highlighted the falling moral values in the Indian society in the post independence era through his novels. His writings expose the negative aspects of life in the rural and urban India in a satirical manner. His novel Raag Darbari has been translated into English. A soap opera based on this continued for several months the national TV network in 1980s. It is a little known fact that he also wrote a jasoosi novel entitled Aadmi ka Zahar which went generally unnoticed by his fans and critics alike.
Shukla received the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, for his novel Raag Darbari in 1969, He received the Vyas Samman award in 1999 for the novel "Bisrampur ka Sant", and in 2008, he received the Padma Bhushan.
4) Abdul Waheed Khan (Born in 1947 of Indian nationality) holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication (1973) and a master's degree in Agricultural Journalism (1970) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a Masters in Agricultural Extension (1965) from Agra University (India).
He has been working as Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris since July 2001, where he is responsible for UNESCO’s programmes and activities in communication and information. He is also responsible for coordinating UNESCO’s contribution to the UN ICT Task Force and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Khan has extensive international experience in designing, planning and managing communication and information technology applications in education, sciences and culture.
5) Rangeya Raghav (17 January 1923 – 12 September 1962), birth name Tirumalla Nambakkam Viraraghava Acharya, was born in Agra, a city of Uttar Pradesh state, India. A prominent Hindi writer of the 20th century, he completed his post-graduation studies from St. John's College, Agra, and later completed his Ph.D. on Guru Gorakhnath. He started writing at the age of 13 years, and during his short life of almost 40 years, he was endowed with a number of prizes. His wife lives in Jaipur and is an associate professor.
6) Syed Waheed Akhtar (August 12, 1934—December 13, 1996) Was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, distinguished orator, and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the century.
Syed Waheed Akhtar a poet, literary critic and scholar was born on 12th of August, 1934, in the city of Aurangabad (Deccan) of erstwhile Hyderabad State of Nizam (present day Maharashtra), in a family which migrated from [Nasirabad]-Jais (Jais-birth place of poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi/[1]), boroughs of Sa'adat inhabitants in Raebareily (or Raebareli) district of Uttar Pradesh. His father's name was Syed Nazr-e Abbas, and mother's name was Syeda Aliya Begum. They had seven children. Waheed Akhtar was the second child, among six sons and one daughter. After spending his childhood in Aurangabad, and completing high school and intermediate, he went to Hyderabad, to enroll at Osmania University as a bachelor of art student. He was in Hyderabad for eight years until he completed his Ph. D. and got appointment as lecturer at Aligarh Muslim University. Years in Hyderabad were crucial for moulding his personality as a poet and writer. Although, after Police Action Hyderabad acceded to the Dominion of India, it was still a very strong feudal society, dominated by rich and elite. At the same time, lot of muslims who held positions of importance had become defeatist, thinking they had lost their voice and authority in the conditions prevalent at that time. Hyderabad was still, the only University in subcontinent to teach modern sciences including medicine and engineering in Urdu, which was the fruit of Allamah Shibli Nomani's hardwork. Waheed Akhtar was not the one to resign to defeat, nor overwhelmed by the times and existing system. He was a born fighter and he made his ideas and voice heard in his writings. He was independent minded, freedom loving man who was well aware of Political and Literary Movements of his times around the world. He wrote prolifically in Urdu from very early age. During his initial years he adopted the pen name "Barq".
His early education took place at Chelipura High School, a government school in Aurangabad. He was educated at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and received his bachelor's degree in arts, and master's and Ph. D degrees in Philosophy. He was appointed lecturer of philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University and went on to settle in Aligarh for the rest of his life, where he retired in 1995.
7) Jagdish Gandhi born Jagdish Agarwal is a Lucknow-based educator who is the founding chairman of City Montessori School. The school has 20 branches in Lucknow with over 30,000 enrolled students, which has earned it a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.The Peace and other initiatives of Jagdish Gandhi are indeed praiseworthy. His annual conference of Chief Justices of the World at Lucknow is a unique attempt to create a common enforcable international law for the global village.
8) Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861-1946) was an Indian politician, notable for his role in the freedom struggle and his espousal of Hindu nationalism. He was one of the founders of scouting in India.
Malaviya was born to an orthodox Hindu family at Allahabad on December 25, 1861. He studied the scriptures from an early age.
With Mahatma Gandhi he represented India at the First Round Table Conference in 1931.
Malviya Nagar in Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Jaipur are named after him. A postage stamp has been printed in India in his honour.
9) Meghnad Saha FRS (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.
Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Shaoratoli village near Dhaka (in present Bangladesh). Son of Jagannath Saha, Megh Nad Saha belonged to a poor family and struggled to rise in life. He had his initial schooling at Dhaka Collegiate School, and later moved to Dhaka College. He was also a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata; a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938, and thereafter a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta until his death in 1956. He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. He was president of the 21st session of the Indian Science Congress in 1934.
10) Padma Bhushan Syed Zahoor Qasim (born December 31, 1926 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is one of India's leading marine scientists. Qasim is known as the man who lead India's maiden exploration to Antarctica and successfully organized and guided the other seven expeditions to the frozen continent from 1981 to 1988.
He was Member of Planning Commission of India from 1991-1996. Qasim is Honorary Professor of many universities, including Aligarh Muslim University, Madurai Kamraj University, Anna Malai University, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Jamia Millia Islamia.
Qasim did his schooling from Majidiya Islamiya Intermediate College Allahabad, and then moved to Aligarh Muslim University, where he obtained a B.Sc. degree in 1949 and an M.Sc. degree in Zoology in 1951. He stood first in the order of Merit for which he was awarded University Gold Medal. For a few years, he was a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Aligarh before proceeding to the United Kingdom for higher studies in 1953. In 1956 he completed his D.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University College of North Wales (UK).
11) Y.P. Varshni (born 1932) is a scientist in the areas of physics and astrophysics.
Varshni studied at Allahabad University, where he obtained his B.Sc in 1950, his M.Sc. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1956. He published his first research paper in 1951 at the age of 19. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Dept., Allahabad University for the period 1955-60.
Varshni immigrated to Canada as a postdoctorate fellow at the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada in July 1960. For the next two years he worked in theoretical physics under Ta-You Wu, a distinguished physicist who in China taught T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. In July 1962, Varshni was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa. He became Associate Professor in July 1965 and Full Professor in July 1969. He retired in June 1997 and was then appointed as Emeritus Professor. Varshni has worked in a number of areas of physics and astrophysics. He wrote on the Plasma Laser Star Theory of quasars.
12) Bhagwati Charan Verma (August 30, 1903 -October 5, 1981), was one of the leading writers in Hindi. He wrote many novels, but his magnum opus was 'Chitralekha', which was made into two successful Hindi films, 1941 and 1964.
He was awarded the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi, for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra and in 1971 the Padma Bhushan, one of India's civil honours and nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978.
13) Swami Kalyandev (June 21, 1876? - July 14, 2004) was an ascetic who was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, for his years of social work in the villages of India.
Kalyandev was born as Kaluram in Kotana village in the district of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh to Bhoi Devi, wife of Pherdudatt. He grew up in the village of Mundbhar in the Muzaffarnagar district. In his youth he travelled to Ayodhya and Haridwar with few belongings and begging along the way to sustain himself. At Haridwar, he heard of Swami Vivekananda's visit to Khetri. He travelled to Khetri to meet Vivekananda.[3]
In 1982, he received the Padma Sri award, and in 2000, the prestigious Padma Bhushan. He was also awarded an honorary D.Litt. by Meerut University. In the late 1980s, Vishwanath Pratap Singh came to Shukatal to pray along with his wife and Swamiji told him to do his first rally near Bhayla. VP Singh's career had taken a nosedive and Swamiji's advice essentially brought him back to political centrestage culminating in his becoming the Prime Minister of India. In 2002, Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then prime minister of India, had printed The Seer of Three Centuries: Swami Kalyandev.
14) Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian-born philosopher and the author of Belief and Meaning, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity, as well as various articles in Philosophy of Mind as well as in Political and Moral Psychology. Some of his articles in these latter subjects speak to issues of current politics in their relation to broader social and cultural issues. He has also increasingly joined debates in the pages of larger-circulation periodicals such as The New York Review of Books and The Nation. Bilgrami is currently the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York.
Bilgrami received a degree in English Literature from Bombay University before switching to philosophy. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, leaving with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Chicago with a dissertation titled "Meaning as Invariance," on the subject of the indeterminacy of translation and issues concerning realism and linguistic meaning. He joined Columbia’s Philosophy Department in 1985 after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
15) Arjan SinghA former hunter turned avid conservationist and author Feisty 'Billy' Arjan Singh is a conservationist recognised by most tiger lovers. Born in Gorakhpur in 1917, he joined the British army in 1940 and fought in World War II. Upon his return to India he purchased a farm on the edge of Dudhwa National Park in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of India. He still lives here in a residence he designed and calls 'Tiger Haven'.
Singh was honoured for his conservation efforts with Padma Shri in 1995. One of India's highest national awards it is conferred on people who distinguish themselves in different fields. This was closely followed by the world wildlife gold medal in 1996, then the Order of the Golden Ark only a year later and the lifetime award for tiger conservation in March 1999.
In 2004, when in his eighties, Billy Arjan Singh received the J.Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award - a global honor administered by the World Wildlife fund - in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international conservation. He has been honored by several awards including the Padma Bhushan in 2006.
16) Harsh Narain is an Indian author. He has a Ph.D. from Lucknow University, and was a professor at Benares Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and North Eastern Hill University.
He wrote on Buddhism, Islam, Vedanta, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Iqbal. He wrote for the Urdu Encyclopedia, the Hindi Sahitya Kosha and the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. He speaks Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu.
17) Naresh Chandra Saxena (1934-) is a Padma Vibhushan awarded Indian Civil Servant.
Born in Allahabad on August 1, 1934. He was educated at Allahabad and obtained M.Sc. (Maths) degree from the Allahabad University. He was a lecturer in the Allahabad University for a short period.
He was conferred Padma Vibhushan award in 2007.
Today i want to share remaining great people from Uttar Pradesh.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul (1908-2001) was an Indian politician and the only Muslim woman to be a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.
A widely traveled person, Begum Rasul was a member of Prime Minister’s Goodwill Delegation to Japan in 1953 and Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Turkey in 1955. She also took keen interest in literature and authored the book Three Weeks in Japan and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. Her autobiography is titled From Purdah to Parliament: A Muslim Woman in Indian Politics.
2) Asifa Zamani is an eminent Indian scholar of persian language. She was awarded Padma Shri in 2004 by Government of India for her outstanding work. In 1999 she received 'President of India Certificate of Honor in Persian.
3) Shrilal Shukla (born December 31, 1925, Uttar Pradesh) is a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He also worked as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. He has written over 21 books, including, "Umraonagar men Kuchh Din" and "Suni Ghati ka Suraj".
Shukla has highlighted the falling moral values in the Indian society in the post independence era through his novels. His writings expose the negative aspects of life in the rural and urban India in a satirical manner. His novel Raag Darbari has been translated into English. A soap opera based on this continued for several months the national TV network in 1980s. It is a little known fact that he also wrote a jasoosi novel entitled Aadmi ka Zahar which went generally unnoticed by his fans and critics alike.
Shukla received the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, for his novel Raag Darbari in 1969, He received the Vyas Samman award in 1999 for the novel "Bisrampur ka Sant", and in 2008, he received the Padma Bhushan.
4) Abdul Waheed Khan (Born in 1947 of Indian nationality) holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication (1973) and a master's degree in Agricultural Journalism (1970) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a Masters in Agricultural Extension (1965) from Agra University (India).
He has been working as Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris since July 2001, where he is responsible for UNESCO’s programmes and activities in communication and information. He is also responsible for coordinating UNESCO’s contribution to the UN ICT Task Force and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Khan has extensive international experience in designing, planning and managing communication and information technology applications in education, sciences and culture.
5) Rangeya Raghav (17 January 1923 – 12 September 1962), birth name Tirumalla Nambakkam Viraraghava Acharya, was born in Agra, a city of Uttar Pradesh state, India. A prominent Hindi writer of the 20th century, he completed his post-graduation studies from St. John's College, Agra, and later completed his Ph.D. on Guru Gorakhnath. He started writing at the age of 13 years, and during his short life of almost 40 years, he was endowed with a number of prizes. His wife lives in Jaipur and is an associate professor.
6) Syed Waheed Akhtar (August 12, 1934—December 13, 1996) Was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, distinguished orator, and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the century.
Syed Waheed Akhtar a poet, literary critic and scholar was born on 12th of August, 1934, in the city of Aurangabad (Deccan) of erstwhile Hyderabad State of Nizam (present day Maharashtra), in a family which migrated from [Nasirabad]-Jais (Jais-birth place of poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi/[1]), boroughs of Sa'adat inhabitants in Raebareily (or Raebareli) district of Uttar Pradesh. His father's name was Syed Nazr-e Abbas, and mother's name was Syeda Aliya Begum. They had seven children. Waheed Akhtar was the second child, among six sons and one daughter. After spending his childhood in Aurangabad, and completing high school and intermediate, he went to Hyderabad, to enroll at Osmania University as a bachelor of art student. He was in Hyderabad for eight years until he completed his Ph. D. and got appointment as lecturer at Aligarh Muslim University. Years in Hyderabad were crucial for moulding his personality as a poet and writer. Although, after Police Action Hyderabad acceded to the Dominion of India, it was still a very strong feudal society, dominated by rich and elite. At the same time, lot of muslims who held positions of importance had become defeatist, thinking they had lost their voice and authority in the conditions prevalent at that time. Hyderabad was still, the only University in subcontinent to teach modern sciences including medicine and engineering in Urdu, which was the fruit of Allamah Shibli Nomani's hardwork. Waheed Akhtar was not the one to resign to defeat, nor overwhelmed by the times and existing system. He was a born fighter and he made his ideas and voice heard in his writings. He was independent minded, freedom loving man who was well aware of Political and Literary Movements of his times around the world. He wrote prolifically in Urdu from very early age. During his initial years he adopted the pen name "Barq".
His early education took place at Chelipura High School, a government school in Aurangabad. He was educated at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and received his bachelor's degree in arts, and master's and Ph. D degrees in Philosophy. He was appointed lecturer of philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University and went on to settle in Aligarh for the rest of his life, where he retired in 1995.
7) Jagdish Gandhi born Jagdish Agarwal is a Lucknow-based educator who is the founding chairman of City Montessori School. The school has 20 branches in Lucknow with over 30,000 enrolled students, which has earned it a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.The Peace and other initiatives of Jagdish Gandhi are indeed praiseworthy. His annual conference of Chief Justices of the World at Lucknow is a unique attempt to create a common enforcable international law for the global village.
8) Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861-1946) was an Indian politician, notable for his role in the freedom struggle and his espousal of Hindu nationalism. He was one of the founders of scouting in India.
Malaviya was born to an orthodox Hindu family at Allahabad on December 25, 1861. He studied the scriptures from an early age.
With Mahatma Gandhi he represented India at the First Round Table Conference in 1931.
Malviya Nagar in Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Jaipur are named after him. A postage stamp has been printed in India in his honour.
9) Meghnad Saha FRS (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.
Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Shaoratoli village near Dhaka (in present Bangladesh). Son of Jagannath Saha, Megh Nad Saha belonged to a poor family and struggled to rise in life. He had his initial schooling at Dhaka Collegiate School, and later moved to Dhaka College. He was also a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata; a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938, and thereafter a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta until his death in 1956. He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. He was president of the 21st session of the Indian Science Congress in 1934.
10) Padma Bhushan Syed Zahoor Qasim (born December 31, 1926 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is one of India's leading marine scientists. Qasim is known as the man who lead India's maiden exploration to Antarctica and successfully organized and guided the other seven expeditions to the frozen continent from 1981 to 1988.
He was Member of Planning Commission of India from 1991-1996. Qasim is Honorary Professor of many universities, including Aligarh Muslim University, Madurai Kamraj University, Anna Malai University, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Jamia Millia Islamia.
Qasim did his schooling from Majidiya Islamiya Intermediate College Allahabad, and then moved to Aligarh Muslim University, where he obtained a B.Sc. degree in 1949 and an M.Sc. degree in Zoology in 1951. He stood first in the order of Merit for which he was awarded University Gold Medal. For a few years, he was a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Aligarh before proceeding to the United Kingdom for higher studies in 1953. In 1956 he completed his D.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University College of North Wales (UK).
11) Y.P. Varshni (born 1932) is a scientist in the areas of physics and astrophysics.
Varshni studied at Allahabad University, where he obtained his B.Sc in 1950, his M.Sc. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1956. He published his first research paper in 1951 at the age of 19. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Dept., Allahabad University for the period 1955-60.
Varshni immigrated to Canada as a postdoctorate fellow at the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada in July 1960. For the next two years he worked in theoretical physics under Ta-You Wu, a distinguished physicist who in China taught T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. In July 1962, Varshni was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa. He became Associate Professor in July 1965 and Full Professor in July 1969. He retired in June 1997 and was then appointed as Emeritus Professor. Varshni has worked in a number of areas of physics and astrophysics. He wrote on the Plasma Laser Star Theory of quasars.
12) Bhagwati Charan Verma (August 30, 1903 -October 5, 1981), was one of the leading writers in Hindi. He wrote many novels, but his magnum opus was 'Chitralekha', which was made into two successful Hindi films, 1941 and 1964.
He was awarded the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi, for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra and in 1971 the Padma Bhushan, one of India's civil honours and nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978.
13) Swami Kalyandev (June 21, 1876? - July 14, 2004) was an ascetic who was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, for his years of social work in the villages of India.
Kalyandev was born as Kaluram in Kotana village in the district of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh to Bhoi Devi, wife of Pherdudatt. He grew up in the village of Mundbhar in the Muzaffarnagar district. In his youth he travelled to Ayodhya and Haridwar with few belongings and begging along the way to sustain himself. At Haridwar, he heard of Swami Vivekananda's visit to Khetri. He travelled to Khetri to meet Vivekananda.[3]
In 1982, he received the Padma Sri award, and in 2000, the prestigious Padma Bhushan. He was also awarded an honorary D.Litt. by Meerut University. In the late 1980s, Vishwanath Pratap Singh came to Shukatal to pray along with his wife and Swamiji told him to do his first rally near Bhayla. VP Singh's career had taken a nosedive and Swamiji's advice essentially brought him back to political centrestage culminating in his becoming the Prime Minister of India. In 2002, Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then prime minister of India, had printed The Seer of Three Centuries: Swami Kalyandev.
14) Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian-born philosopher and the author of Belief and Meaning, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity, as well as various articles in Philosophy of Mind as well as in Political and Moral Psychology. Some of his articles in these latter subjects speak to issues of current politics in their relation to broader social and cultural issues. He has also increasingly joined debates in the pages of larger-circulation periodicals such as The New York Review of Books and The Nation. Bilgrami is currently the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York.
Bilgrami received a degree in English Literature from Bombay University before switching to philosophy. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, leaving with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Chicago with a dissertation titled "Meaning as Invariance," on the subject of the indeterminacy of translation and issues concerning realism and linguistic meaning. He joined Columbia’s Philosophy Department in 1985 after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
15) Arjan SinghA former hunter turned avid conservationist and author Feisty 'Billy' Arjan Singh is a conservationist recognised by most tiger lovers. Born in Gorakhpur in 1917, he joined the British army in 1940 and fought in World War II. Upon his return to India he purchased a farm on the edge of Dudhwa National Park in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of India. He still lives here in a residence he designed and calls 'Tiger Haven'.
Singh was honoured for his conservation efforts with Padma Shri in 1995. One of India's highest national awards it is conferred on people who distinguish themselves in different fields. This was closely followed by the world wildlife gold medal in 1996, then the Order of the Golden Ark only a year later and the lifetime award for tiger conservation in March 1999.
In 2004, when in his eighties, Billy Arjan Singh received the J.Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award - a global honor administered by the World Wildlife fund - in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international conservation. He has been honored by several awards including the Padma Bhushan in 2006.
16) Harsh Narain is an Indian author. He has a Ph.D. from Lucknow University, and was a professor at Benares Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and North Eastern Hill University.
He wrote on Buddhism, Islam, Vedanta, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Iqbal. He wrote for the Urdu Encyclopedia, the Hindi Sahitya Kosha and the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. He speaks Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu.
17) Naresh Chandra Saxena (1934-) is a Padma Vibhushan awarded Indian Civil Servant.
Born in Allahabad on August 1, 1934. He was educated at Allahabad and obtained M.Sc. (Maths) degree from the Allahabad University. He was a lecturer in the Allahabad University for a short period.
He was conferred Padma Vibhushan award in 2007.
Monday, 3 November 2008
Great Uttar Pradesh People - Part2
Yesterday i and my wife Sneha started reading about great Uttar Pradesh people.
Today i want to share few great people from Uttar Pradesh.
Tomorrow i and my wife Sneha will read remaining great people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Brigadier Mohammad Usman was the highest rank officer of Indian Army killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, who as a Muslim became a "symbol of" India's "inclusive secularism". At the time of partition of India he with many other officers declined to move to the Pakistan Army and continued to serve the Indian Army. He died in July 1948 while fighting the raiders in Jammu and Kashmir.
An Indian journalist, K.A. Abbas, wrote about his death, "a precious life, of imagination and unswerving patriotism, has fallen a victim to communal fanaticism. Brigadier Usman's brave example will be an abiding source of inspiration for Free India". Brigadier Usman was awarded the Indian military honour Mahavir Chakra posthumously.
2) Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla was an officer of the Indian Navy and the Captain of the INS Khukri, who went down with his ship during the 1971 war on the old tradition, "captains don't abandon their ships.". He was awarded Maha Vir Chakra posthumously for displaying conspicuous gallantry and dedication to duty.
He was born on 15 May 1926 in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and was commissioned in the Indian Navy on 01 May 1948.
His action and behaviour and the example he set have been in keeping with highest tradition of Military of India.
3) Kamlesh Kumari was a recipient of Ashoka Chakra Award, India's highest peacetime award. She was a constable of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) who died defending the parliament of India from terrorist attack on 13 December 2001.
Constable Kamlesh Kumari joined the force in 1994 and was first posted with the elite 104 Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Allahabad. Soon after, she was posted at the 88 Mahila Battalion on July 12, 2001. She became part of the Bravo Company, which is deployed in Parliament when in session.
She is survived by Avdesh, her husband, and their daughters Jyoti and Shweta. They hail from the village Sikandarpur in Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh.The family was earlier staying in Vikaspuri, Delhi.
4) Bhagwan Das (January 12, 1869 - September 18, 1958) was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of undivided India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest. As an advocate for national freedom from the British rule, he was often in danger of reprisals from the Colonial government.
Born in Varanasi, India, he graduated school to became a deputy in the collections bureau, and later left to continue his academic pursuits. Das joined the Theosophical Society in 1894 inspired by a speech by Annie Besant. After the 1895 split, he sided with the Theosophical Society Adyar. Within that society, he was an opponent of Jiddu Krishnamurti and his "Order of the Star in the East". Das joined the Indian National Congress during the Non-cooperation movement and was honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1955.
With Besant he formed a professional collaboration which led to the founding of the Central Hindu College, which became Benaras Hindu University. Das would later found the Kashi Vidya Peeth, a national university where he served as headmaster. Das was a scholar of Sanskrit, from which he added to the body of Hindi language. He wrote approximately 30 books, many of these in Sanskrit and Hindi. Das received the Bharat Ratna award in 1955.
5) Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a major political leader of the Congress Party, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first and one of the longest-serving prime ministers of the Republic of India. He was also a key figure in international politics in the post-war period (in which he was considered the leader of Non-aligned Movement interests) and patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family, one of the most influential forces in Indian politics. He is popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar) and Pandit Nehru.
The son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal Nehru, Nehru became a leader of the left-wing of the Indian National Congress at a remarkably young age. Rising to Congress President under the mentorship of Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic, radical leader, advocating complete independence from the British Empire, and was eventually recognised as Gandhi's political heir. A life-long liberal, Nehru was also an advocate for Fabian socialism and the public sector as the means by which long-standing challenges of economic development could be addressed.
6) Purushottam Das Tandon August 1, 1882 – July 1, 1962), was a independence fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi (Etymology: Raja + Rishi = Royal Saint).
He tried for the position of the President of the Congress Party unsuccessfully against Pattabhi Sitaramayya in 1948 but contested successfully against Acharya Kriplani in the controversial and difficult 1950 election to head the Nagpur session. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952 and the Rajya Sabha in 1956. He retired from active public life after that due to indifferent health. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award in 1961.
7) Bharat Ratna Govind Ballabh Pant (September 10, 1887 - March 7, 1961) was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand (then in United Provinces) and of the movement to establish Hindi as the national language of India.
As a lawyer in Kashipur born into a poor but cultured Marathi Karhade Brahmin family, Pant began his active work against the British Raj in 1914, when he helped a local parishad, or village council, in their successful challenge of a law requiring locals to provide free transportation of the luggage of travelling British officials. In 1921, he entered politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
After independence in 1947, Pant became Chief Minister of the United Provinces, which he renamed Uttar Pradesh. Among his achievements in that position was the abolition of the zamindari system. He was called on to succeed Kailash Nath Katju as Home Minister in 1955; in that position, his chief achievement was the establishment of Hindi as an official language of the central government and a few states. In 1957, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
8) Lal Bahadur Shastri 2 October 1904 - 11 January 1966) was the third (second, and acting, being Gulzarilal Nanda) Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, United Provinces, British India as Lal Bahadur Srivastava. His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad. When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home. Lal Bahadur's parents lodged a complaint with the police, who traced the child, and returned him to his parents.
9) Justice V.N. Khare was Chief Justice of India from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 until he was elevated to the position of Chief Justice of India.
Justice Khare was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour in 2006.
10) Irfan Habib (born 1931) is an Indian historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University.[1]
Habib is the son of Mohammad Habib, a noted historian and freedom fighter. His mother Sohaila was the daughter of Abbas Tyabji, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.
Irfan Habib completed his M.A. from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and his D.Phil. from New College, Oxford. He was Professor of History at Aligarh from 1969-91, as well as Co-ordinator/Chairman of the Centre of Advanced Study in History, AMU, during 1975-77 and 1984-94.
11) Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider (January 20, 1926, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh – August 21, 2007, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh) was an Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. She was one of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of the famous writer Sajjad Haidar Yaldram, (1880-1943). Her mother Nazr Zahra (who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazr Sajjad Hyder) (1894-1967) was also a writer and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.
Born on January 20, 1926 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, (though her family were from Nehtaur, UP), Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder is one of the most celebrated of Urdu fiction writers. She was named after a notable Iranian poet Qurrat-ul-Ain Tahira. Qurratul Ain, translated literally means 'eyeball' but is used as a term of endearment. A trend setter in Urdu fiction, she began writing at a time when the novel was yet to take deep roots as a serious genre in the poetry-oriented world of Urdu literature. She instilled in it a new sensibility and brought into its fold strands of thought and imagination hitherto unexplored. She was widely regarded as the "Grande Dame" of Urdu literature.
Her death has been condoled by the President and Prime Minister of India, and Chief Minister of her home state Uttar Pradesh.
12) Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born August 20, 1940, Nainital, India) is an economist and environmental scientist who has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. Pachauri is also the director general of the The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, an institution devoted to researching and promoting sustainable development.
To honor his contributions to the environment, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in January 2001.[1] On December 10, 2007, Dr. Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, along with co-recipient Al Gore.
Pachauri was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow[2] and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He began his career with the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, where he held several managerial positions. Pachauri joined the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, a PhD in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Economics, and also served as Assistant Professor (August 1974 -- May 1975) and Visiting Faculty Member (Summer 1976 and 1977) in the Department of Economics and Business.
13) Sandeep Pandey is a social activist from India,. He co-founded Asha for Education with Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating in 1991, he returned to India to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He founded a people's group named Asha Parivar that focuses on strengthening democracy at the grassroots.
His work at Asha Parivar is focused on Right to Information and other forms of citizen participation in removing corruption and improving the efficiency of governance. He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.[citation needed]. NAPM includes groups like "Fish Workers Forum" led by Fr. Tom Kochery, who organized protests against specific religious groups[1]. NAPM includes representatives of organizations like Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Madurai[2], and attracts activists like Mercy Mathew (a nun working among the Gond tribe who uses the name Dayabai)[3]
Pandey lead an Indo-Pakistan peace march from New Delhi to Multan in 2005.
14) Harish-Chandra (11 October 1923-16 October 1983) was an Indian-born American mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. From 1968, until his death in 1983, he was IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, in Allahabad, India, is named in his honour.
Harish-Chandra (Harish Chandra Mehrotra) was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore), British India. His was educated at BNSD Intermediate College, Kanpur, and at the University of Allahabad. After receiving his Masters Degree in 1943, he moved to Bangalore for further studies. In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge as a research student of Paul Dirac. While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work. The two were to become life long friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. He obtained his PhD in 1947 and during the same year he moved to the USA.
15) Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966 in Allahabad) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Dr. Somenath Biswas.
He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2006 Gödel Prize (along with his co-authors). This is the first deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n.
16) Vinod Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA[1]). Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and since August 1998. Borrowing $100 from a bank to get started, it has grown from a one-man operation to a global employer of over 5,000 with revenues of $750 million.
He was recognized in Bill Clinton’s book Giving, describing the company as one that “has made a concerted effort to hire people who were on welfare, as well as people who are disabled or who have to support themselves after getting out of unsafe domestic situations.”
He was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He is the director of a mutual fund in the Everest mutual fund family. Mr. Gupta was also nominated and confirmed to be the United States Consul General to Bermuda as well as nominated by the President to be the United States Ambassador to Fiji
17) Harish Chandra Verma is an Indian nuclear experimental physicist and educationist whose chief interest lies in Condensed Matter and Materials Applications. He is also interested in Earth Science problems, such as meteorites and extinction boundaries. Verma is famous for his book, Concepts of Physics, Part 1 and Part 2, a general reading Physics textbook at intermediate level that is useful for a good understanding. Currently, he is writing a text book on Quantum Mechanics.
Verma obtained his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, working under the supervision of Professor G.N. Rao. He subsequently worked as a lecturer and then Reader at Patna University in India. Presently he is working on nanocrystalline magnetic materials and alloy systems at the Physics department of IIT Kanpur where he joined in 1994.
18) Raj Shankar (2 April 1947, Gorakhpur, India-22 August 2000), was an Indian biochemist. [1] His main fields of specialization were neurobiochemistry and clinical biochemistry. His contributions on neurochemistry are well recognized and he had been invited to deliver lectures in various prestigious conferences.
Shankar studied developmental neurobiology with special emphasis on malnutrition during the brain growth spurt. His work clearly established that undernutrition during brain development causes some irreversible changes. In 1991, work carried out in Texas and Yale with Magnetic Resonance Imaging by other workers confirmed some of the conclusions of Shankar's work. Work done during last few years of his life on developing brain show that signal transduction mechanisms are affected due to nutritional stress during brain development.
19) Kamla Kant Pandey is a notable plant geneticists in the world. He is the head of the Genetics Unit, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand. In 1975 he made discovery of a revolutionary technique in plant breeding . By this technique selected genes of a flowering plant can be transferred to another plant.
He was born in December 1926 at Varanasi in India. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He joined the John Innes Institute in London to pursue research on plant genetics. After completing PhD in 1954 he settled in New Zealand. In 1966 he was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a rare honour for any botanist. In 1970 he got the DSc of the University of London. He has also put forward a theory of vertebrate evolution in animals.
20) Sucheta Kriplani (born Sucheta Mazumdar) (June 25, 1908 - December 1, 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of any Indian state.
She was born in Ambala, Haryana to a Bengali family. Her father, S.N. Majumdar though a government doctor was a nationalist. Educated at Indraprastha College and St.Stephen's College, Delhi she became a lecturer at the Banaras Hindu University. In 1936, she married socialist, Acharya Kriplani and became involved with the Indian National Congress.
Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement. She later worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi during the Partition riots. She accompanied him to Noakhali in 1946. She was one of the few women who were elected to the Constituent Assembly and was part of the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution. She became a part of the subcommittee that was handed over the task of laying down the charter for the constitution of India. On 15th August, 1947 she sang Vande Mataram in the Independence Session of the Constituent Assembly.
21) Subrata Roy Sahara is the chairman and Managing Worker of the Sahara Group of companies based in India. Sahara India Pariwar is today the largest first generation conglomerate of India. The group is successfully diversified into the fields of Finance, Real Estate, Media & Entertainment, Tourism & Hospitality, Services & Trading and Consumables. From an asset base of USD 43 in 1978 when it was founded, the group has today exponentially grown to become a conglomerate with assets having a Market Value of more than INR 2,15,000 crores (USD 50 billion).
22) Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE DL was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London.He hails from Lucknow, India.
He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a Board member of the British Muslim Research Centre, and also the Ethnic Minorities Foundation. He is an Executive member of the Maimonides Foundation and a Trustee of the Little Foundation. Dr Hameed supports various charities and was awarded the Sternberg Award for 2005 for his contribution to further Christian - Muslim - Jewish Relations. He has received several national and international honours from various countries including the United Kingdom.
In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. The peerage was gazetted on 27 March 2007 as Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.
He was also named British Asian of the year 2007.
Today i want to share few great people from Uttar Pradesh.
Tomorrow i and my wife Sneha will read remaining great people.
Few quotations i want to share with you about these great people.
1) Brigadier Mohammad Usman was the highest rank officer of Indian Army killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, who as a Muslim became a "symbol of" India's "inclusive secularism". At the time of partition of India he with many other officers declined to move to the Pakistan Army and continued to serve the Indian Army. He died in July 1948 while fighting the raiders in Jammu and Kashmir.
An Indian journalist, K.A. Abbas, wrote about his death, "a precious life, of imagination and unswerving patriotism, has fallen a victim to communal fanaticism. Brigadier Usman's brave example will be an abiding source of inspiration for Free India". Brigadier Usman was awarded the Indian military honour Mahavir Chakra posthumously.
2) Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla was an officer of the Indian Navy and the Captain of the INS Khukri, who went down with his ship during the 1971 war on the old tradition, "captains don't abandon their ships.". He was awarded Maha Vir Chakra posthumously for displaying conspicuous gallantry and dedication to duty.
He was born on 15 May 1926 in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and was commissioned in the Indian Navy on 01 May 1948.
His action and behaviour and the example he set have been in keeping with highest tradition of Military of India.
3) Kamlesh Kumari was a recipient of Ashoka Chakra Award, India's highest peacetime award. She was a constable of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) who died defending the parliament of India from terrorist attack on 13 December 2001.
Constable Kamlesh Kumari joined the force in 1994 and was first posted with the elite 104 Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Allahabad. Soon after, she was posted at the 88 Mahila Battalion on July 12, 2001. She became part of the Bravo Company, which is deployed in Parliament when in session.
She is survived by Avdesh, her husband, and their daughters Jyoti and Shweta. They hail from the village Sikandarpur in Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh.The family was earlier staying in Vikaspuri, Delhi.
4) Bhagwan Das (January 12, 1869 - September 18, 1958) was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of undivided India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest. As an advocate for national freedom from the British rule, he was often in danger of reprisals from the Colonial government.
Born in Varanasi, India, he graduated school to became a deputy in the collections bureau, and later left to continue his academic pursuits. Das joined the Theosophical Society in 1894 inspired by a speech by Annie Besant. After the 1895 split, he sided with the Theosophical Society Adyar. Within that society, he was an opponent of Jiddu Krishnamurti and his "Order of the Star in the East". Das joined the Indian National Congress during the Non-cooperation movement and was honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1955.
With Besant he formed a professional collaboration which led to the founding of the Central Hindu College, which became Benaras Hindu University. Das would later found the Kashi Vidya Peeth, a national university where he served as headmaster. Das was a scholar of Sanskrit, from which he added to the body of Hindi language. He wrote approximately 30 books, many of these in Sanskrit and Hindi. Das received the Bharat Ratna award in 1955.
5) Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a major political leader of the Congress Party, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first and one of the longest-serving prime ministers of the Republic of India. He was also a key figure in international politics in the post-war period (in which he was considered the leader of Non-aligned Movement interests) and patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family, one of the most influential forces in Indian politics. He is popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar) and Pandit Nehru.
The son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal Nehru, Nehru became a leader of the left-wing of the Indian National Congress at a remarkably young age. Rising to Congress President under the mentorship of Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic, radical leader, advocating complete independence from the British Empire, and was eventually recognised as Gandhi's political heir. A life-long liberal, Nehru was also an advocate for Fabian socialism and the public sector as the means by which long-standing challenges of economic development could be addressed.
6) Purushottam Das Tandon August 1, 1882 – July 1, 1962), was a independence fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi (Etymology: Raja + Rishi = Royal Saint).
He tried for the position of the President of the Congress Party unsuccessfully against Pattabhi Sitaramayya in 1948 but contested successfully against Acharya Kriplani in the controversial and difficult 1950 election to head the Nagpur session. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952 and the Rajya Sabha in 1956. He retired from active public life after that due to indifferent health. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award in 1961.
7) Bharat Ratna Govind Ballabh Pant (September 10, 1887 - March 7, 1961) was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand (then in United Provinces) and of the movement to establish Hindi as the national language of India.
As a lawyer in Kashipur born into a poor but cultured Marathi Karhade Brahmin family, Pant began his active work against the British Raj in 1914, when he helped a local parishad, or village council, in their successful challenge of a law requiring locals to provide free transportation of the luggage of travelling British officials. In 1921, he entered politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
After independence in 1947, Pant became Chief Minister of the United Provinces, which he renamed Uttar Pradesh. Among his achievements in that position was the abolition of the zamindari system. He was called on to succeed Kailash Nath Katju as Home Minister in 1955; in that position, his chief achievement was the establishment of Hindi as an official language of the central government and a few states. In 1957, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
8) Lal Bahadur Shastri 2 October 1904 - 11 January 1966) was the third (second, and acting, being Gulzarilal Nanda) Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, United Provinces, British India as Lal Bahadur Srivastava. His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad. When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home. Lal Bahadur's parents lodged a complaint with the police, who traced the child, and returned him to his parents.
9) Justice V.N. Khare was Chief Justice of India from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 until he was elevated to the position of Chief Justice of India.
Justice Khare was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour in 2006.
10) Irfan Habib (born 1931) is an Indian historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University.[1]
Habib is the son of Mohammad Habib, a noted historian and freedom fighter. His mother Sohaila was the daughter of Abbas Tyabji, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.
Irfan Habib completed his M.A. from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and his D.Phil. from New College, Oxford. He was Professor of History at Aligarh from 1969-91, as well as Co-ordinator/Chairman of the Centre of Advanced Study in History, AMU, during 1975-77 and 1984-94.
11) Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider (January 20, 1926, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh – August 21, 2007, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh) was an Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. She was one of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of the famous writer Sajjad Haidar Yaldram, (1880-1943). Her mother Nazr Zahra (who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazr Sajjad Hyder) (1894-1967) was also a writer and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.
Born on January 20, 1926 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, (though her family were from Nehtaur, UP), Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder is one of the most celebrated of Urdu fiction writers. She was named after a notable Iranian poet Qurrat-ul-Ain Tahira. Qurratul Ain, translated literally means 'eyeball' but is used as a term of endearment. A trend setter in Urdu fiction, she began writing at a time when the novel was yet to take deep roots as a serious genre in the poetry-oriented world of Urdu literature. She instilled in it a new sensibility and brought into its fold strands of thought and imagination hitherto unexplored. She was widely regarded as the "Grande Dame" of Urdu literature.
Her death has been condoled by the President and Prime Minister of India, and Chief Minister of her home state Uttar Pradesh.
12) Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born August 20, 1940, Nainital, India) is an economist and environmental scientist who has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. Pachauri is also the director general of the The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, an institution devoted to researching and promoting sustainable development.
To honor his contributions to the environment, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in January 2001.[1] On December 10, 2007, Dr. Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, along with co-recipient Al Gore.
Pachauri was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow[2] and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He began his career with the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, where he held several managerial positions. Pachauri joined the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, a PhD in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Economics, and also served as Assistant Professor (August 1974 -- May 1975) and Visiting Faculty Member (Summer 1976 and 1977) in the Department of Economics and Business.
13) Sandeep Pandey is a social activist from India,. He co-founded Asha for Education with Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating in 1991, he returned to India to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He founded a people's group named Asha Parivar that focuses on strengthening democracy at the grassroots.
His work at Asha Parivar is focused on Right to Information and other forms of citizen participation in removing corruption and improving the efficiency of governance. He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.[citation needed]. NAPM includes groups like "Fish Workers Forum" led by Fr. Tom Kochery, who organized protests against specific religious groups[1]. NAPM includes representatives of organizations like Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Madurai[2], and attracts activists like Mercy Mathew (a nun working among the Gond tribe who uses the name Dayabai)[3]
Pandey lead an Indo-Pakistan peace march from New Delhi to Multan in 2005.
14) Harish-Chandra (11 October 1923-16 October 1983) was an Indian-born American mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. From 1968, until his death in 1983, he was IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, in Allahabad, India, is named in his honour.
Harish-Chandra (Harish Chandra Mehrotra) was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore), British India. His was educated at BNSD Intermediate College, Kanpur, and at the University of Allahabad. After receiving his Masters Degree in 1943, he moved to Bangalore for further studies. In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge as a research student of Paul Dirac. While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work. The two were to become life long friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. He obtained his PhD in 1947 and during the same year he moved to the USA.
15) Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966 in Allahabad) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Dr. Somenath Biswas.
He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2006 Gödel Prize (along with his co-authors). This is the first deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n.
16) Vinod Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA[1]). Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and since August 1998. Borrowing $100 from a bank to get started, it has grown from a one-man operation to a global employer of over 5,000 with revenues of $750 million.
He was recognized in Bill Clinton’s book Giving, describing the company as one that “has made a concerted effort to hire people who were on welfare, as well as people who are disabled or who have to support themselves after getting out of unsafe domestic situations.”
He was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He is the director of a mutual fund in the Everest mutual fund family. Mr. Gupta was also nominated and confirmed to be the United States Consul General to Bermuda as well as nominated by the President to be the United States Ambassador to Fiji
17) Harish Chandra Verma is an Indian nuclear experimental physicist and educationist whose chief interest lies in Condensed Matter and Materials Applications. He is also interested in Earth Science problems, such as meteorites and extinction boundaries. Verma is famous for his book, Concepts of Physics, Part 1 and Part 2, a general reading Physics textbook at intermediate level that is useful for a good understanding. Currently, he is writing a text book on Quantum Mechanics.
Verma obtained his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, working under the supervision of Professor G.N. Rao. He subsequently worked as a lecturer and then Reader at Patna University in India. Presently he is working on nanocrystalline magnetic materials and alloy systems at the Physics department of IIT Kanpur where he joined in 1994.
18) Raj Shankar (2 April 1947, Gorakhpur, India-22 August 2000), was an Indian biochemist. [1] His main fields of specialization were neurobiochemistry and clinical biochemistry. His contributions on neurochemistry are well recognized and he had been invited to deliver lectures in various prestigious conferences.
Shankar studied developmental neurobiology with special emphasis on malnutrition during the brain growth spurt. His work clearly established that undernutrition during brain development causes some irreversible changes. In 1991, work carried out in Texas and Yale with Magnetic Resonance Imaging by other workers confirmed some of the conclusions of Shankar's work. Work done during last few years of his life on developing brain show that signal transduction mechanisms are affected due to nutritional stress during brain development.
19) Kamla Kant Pandey is a notable plant geneticists in the world. He is the head of the Genetics Unit, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand. In 1975 he made discovery of a revolutionary technique in plant breeding . By this technique selected genes of a flowering plant can be transferred to another plant.
He was born in December 1926 at Varanasi in India. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He joined the John Innes Institute in London to pursue research on plant genetics. After completing PhD in 1954 he settled in New Zealand. In 1966 he was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a rare honour for any botanist. In 1970 he got the DSc of the University of London. He has also put forward a theory of vertebrate evolution in animals.
20) Sucheta Kriplani (born Sucheta Mazumdar) (June 25, 1908 - December 1, 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of any Indian state.
She was born in Ambala, Haryana to a Bengali family. Her father, S.N. Majumdar though a government doctor was a nationalist. Educated at Indraprastha College and St.Stephen's College, Delhi she became a lecturer at the Banaras Hindu University. In 1936, she married socialist, Acharya Kriplani and became involved with the Indian National Congress.
Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement. She later worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi during the Partition riots. She accompanied him to Noakhali in 1946. She was one of the few women who were elected to the Constituent Assembly and was part of the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution. She became a part of the subcommittee that was handed over the task of laying down the charter for the constitution of India. On 15th August, 1947 she sang Vande Mataram in the Independence Session of the Constituent Assembly.
21) Subrata Roy Sahara is the chairman and Managing Worker of the Sahara Group of companies based in India. Sahara India Pariwar is today the largest first generation conglomerate of India. The group is successfully diversified into the fields of Finance, Real Estate, Media & Entertainment, Tourism & Hospitality, Services & Trading and Consumables. From an asset base of USD 43 in 1978 when it was founded, the group has today exponentially grown to become a conglomerate with assets having a Market Value of more than INR 2,15,000 crores (USD 50 billion).
22) Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE DL was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London.He hails from Lucknow, India.
He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a Board member of the British Muslim Research Centre, and also the Ethnic Minorities Foundation. He is an Executive member of the Maimonides Foundation and a Trustee of the Little Foundation. Dr Hameed supports various charities and was awarded the Sternberg Award for 2005 for his contribution to further Christian - Muslim - Jewish Relations. He has received several national and international honours from various countries including the United Kingdom.
In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. The peerage was gazetted on 27 March 2007 as Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.
He was also named British Asian of the year 2007.
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