The legendary shehnai player, Ustad Bismillah Khan was one of India’s most celebrated classical musicians. Bismillah Khan has been credited with taking the shehnai from the marriage mandap to the concert hall.Bismillah Khan was born on March 21, 1916 at Dumraon, Bihar.His ancestors were court musicians in the princely state of Dumraon in Bihar.Ustad Bismillah […]
Pandit Birju Maharaj, internationally renowned Kathak dancer, was born on 4th February 1937 in an illustrious family of dance masters of the Lucknow gharana. Birju gave Kathak Dance a new dimension by developing his own unique style and popularised this classical dance of North India all over the world. Birju alias Brij Mohan Nath Mishra mastered
Born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States she is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.In 1965 she married Mr. Lawrence King and since then has been better known under her husband’s family name. Billie Jean King won the triple crown
Bill Gates is one of the most influential people in the world. He is cofounder of the most recognized brands in the computer industry with nearly every desk top computer using at least one software program from Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine Gates is the wealthiest man in the world and has been in the
President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name. He excelled as a student and as
Bhagat Singh (28 Sept., 1907-23 March, 1931) was born into a Jat Sikh family to Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati in Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab. As a child, he was deeply affected by the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre that took place in Punjab in 1919. When Mahatma Gandhi started
On January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born. He was a native of Massachusetts, born in the harbour town of Boston. Professionally, Franklin was a printer and publisher, but he was also a philosopher, experimenter, inventor, activist, statesman, and ambassador. To sum it up, Ben was a doer.He made a great contribution to public education
Mussolini’s (29 July 1883-28 April, 1945) rise to power was rapid; his Fascist Party Blackshirts marched into Rome in 1922, a year before Hitler’s failed first attempt to seize power, the Munich Beer Hall Putch, landed the German in prison. By the time Hitler became the Fuehrer (Leader) of Germany, Mussolini had been ‘IL DUCE’
Benazir Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was born on June 21, 1953, at Karachi. She attended Lady Jennings Nursery School and then Convent of Jesus and Mary in Karachi. After two years of schooling at the Rawalpindi Presentation Convent, she was sent to the Jesus and Mary Convent at Murree. She passed
Ban Ki Moon became Secretary-General of the United Nations in January of 2007, succeeding Kofi Annan of Ghana. A career diplomat, Ban has a professional reputation as a calm and efficient consensus-builder. He graduated from Seoul University in 1970 and joined the Korean Ministry ofForeign Affairs the same year.Over the next 25 years he served
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an English actor.Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. His father, Harji Bhanji, was a Kenya-born medical doctor of Indian (Gujarati) descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary, was a fashion model and actress; one of his maternal grandparents was a Jewish immigrant from Russia.Young
The Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chatterji (1838-1894) was the first writer to use the Western form of the novel successfully in an Indian language.Bankimchandra Chatterji was born on June 26, 1838, in the village of Kanthalpara near Calcutta. His father, Jadavchandra, an orthodox Kulin Brahmin, was a deputy collector of revenues. Bankimchandra received much of his
She was the first Indian woman to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest, in 1984. Her father was a border tradesman who took atta and rice from India to Tibet on mules, horses and goats. He eventually settled near Uttarkashi, where he married and they raised their five children. Bachendri, the middle child, was
Murlidhar Devidas Amte (born December 24, 1914), or Baba Amte, as he is fondly known, was born in Wardha in a family of jagirdars. Trained in law, Baba Amte started a lucrative practice at Wardha, but, moved by the poverty he saw around him, he decided to dedicate himself to social justice.One of India’s most
Azim Hasham Premji, founder of Wipro Limited, India’s biggest and most competitive IT company based in Bangalore, was born on July 24th 1945 in Bombay. Premji was forced to leave his studies in computer science from Stanford University, California, USA at the age of 21 to take over the familybusiness of vegetable oils when his father