Famous Personalities

                                                                                                             Anand Mahindra , Born on 1st May, 1955 in Mumbai, India into a well-known business family.  Mr. Anand Mahindra is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, India largest automobile company and he is  the third generation in the Mahindra family  . Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is an India-based company.   Anand G. Mahindra graduated with Honours  from Harvard  College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1977. In 1981 he secured an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, Boston,  Massachusetts . He returned to India that year and joined   M...

                                                                                                                     Arundhati Roy , full name  Suzanna Arundhati Roy , (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel  The God of Small Things  (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights  causes.  Roy’s father was a Bengali tea planter , and her mother was a Christian of Syrian descent who challenged India's  inheritance laws by successfully suing for the right of Christian women to receive an equal share of their fathers’ estates. She spent her teena...

                                                                                                                 Narayana Murthy was born on August 20, 1946, in Mysore, Karnataka . He came from a poor but an educated family. From his childhood days, Narayana Murthy was academically brilliant. He was passionate about Mathematics and Physics and always had the thirst and the desire to gain more knowledge in these fields.   Hence, he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore and later, received his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Narayana Murthy began his career as a chief systems programmer at IIM Ahmedabad. He then s...

                                                           Saina Nehwal was born in Hisar, Haryana on 17th March 1990 to Usha Nehwal and Dr. Harvir Singh , a scientist at the directorate of oilseed research. Both of Saina’s parents were badminton champions in their native state, Haryana. Saina however grew up in Hyderabad . She   is a badminton player who made history by becoming the first Indian to ever win a Super Series tournament when she won the Indonesian open in 2010. She is also the first Indian woman to rise to the quarter finals of the Olympics. She is considered as one of the most successful Indian sportspersons and credited with increasing the popularity of the sport of badminton in India. She has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, as well as the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna from the Government of India. She i...

                                                                              Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam usually referred as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India for the term 2002 to 2007. Popularly known as the People's President he was the chief brain behind India's attainment of the nuclear status in the global arena and was known as the ‘ Missile Man of India ’ for his work on development of ballistic missiles and space rocket technology. I t was unknown to parents Jainulabdeen and Ashiamma that one day their son will become the first citizen of India.  Dr A.P.J Kalam served the country as its 11th President since year 2002 till 2007.  The pure heart of the child got its nurture and care in the humble surroundings of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu ...

                                                                      Pranab Mukherjee was born on 11th December 1935 in the village of Mirati in Birbhum district in West Bengal. His father's name is Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, who was an activist in the Indian independence movement. His mother was Rajlakshmi Mukherjee . He married Suvra Mukherjee on 13 July 1957. Pranab Mukherjee took his education at Birbhum . He got MA degree in political science and history and also an LL.B degree from the department of law of the University of Calcutta. He began his career as a clerk in Post and Telegraph Department in Calcutta. He also worked as a journalist with the ' Desher Dak' before entering politics.  Pranab Mukherjee became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1969. He was re-elected to the house in 1975, 1981, 1993 a...