Ricky Martin is a popular music singer, born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico on December 24, 1971.Born as Enrique Martin Morales, Martin has achieved worldwide success, starting with his selection to substitute Ricky Melendez in Menudo in 1984 until 1989. His meteoric ascent to fame started in Menudo’s homebase, Caguas, site of his first concert. […]
Sir Richard John Hadlee (born July 3, 1951), New Zealand cricketer and universally regarded as their best-ever. A bowling ‘all-rounder’, in an 86-Test career he took 431 wickets (at the time the world record) at the excellent average of 22.29, and made 3124 test runs at 27.16, including 2 centuries and 16 fifties.For Nottinghamshire, on
Raman Maharshi (1879-1950) was a great Hindu mystic of the Advaita Vedanta stream. Born in a village called Tirucculi near Madurai in southern India, he was given the name Venkataraman . His father died when he was twelve, and he went to live with his uncle in Madurai, where he briefly attended American Mission High
Ramprasad Bismil was a brave revolutionary who gave up his life smilingly for the sake of the Motherland. He was persecuted by an enraged foreign government, hunted by the police and betrayed by fellow comrades. And yet he lit the fire of revolution to burn down the slavery. He was the brave leader of the
Raj Kapoor was the son of well-known Indian actor Prithviraj Kapoor, who acted both in film and on stage. After apprenticing in the Bollywood production studios of the 1940’s, at 24 years of age Raj Kapoor produced, directed and acted in Aag (1948), with his new company, RK Films. His next production, Barsaat (1949), was
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to
Ravi Shankar is an internationally known Indian sitar maestro. As an exponent of Indian music and incomparable Sitarist, Pandit Ravi Shankar enjoys great popularity all over the world.Ravi Shankar received training in sitar from Ustad Alauddin Khan.His musical performance have an aesthetic appeal. The first Indian to compose music for foreign films, he has made a
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an internationally renowned world class flautist from India. He is credited with popularising Indian Classical music in India and abroad through various experiments and innovations he made with the traditional music. Born on July 1, 1938 in Allahabad, to a family of wrestlers he was drawn to the sound of the flute
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who holds a legendary status in Indian Classical music was born in Gadag (Karnataka) on 14 February 1922. His unique style and mastery over ragas has made him unparallel to any other vocalist in the country.A conservative schoolmaster’s son, Bhimsen Joshi had a passion for music even from his early childhood. The
Princess Diana was born Diana Frances Spencer in Sandringham, Norfolk on July 1, 1961.Diana was the youngest daughter of Viscount Althorp who became 8th Earl of Spencer and the Hon Mrs Shand-Kydd. Diana had two elder sisters, Jane and Sarah, and a younger brother, Charles.Diana was only six when her parents separated: her mother, Frances
Prakash Padukone is one of the noted Badminton player of India. He was born on 10th June 1955, in Bangalore. At the age of 14, he became the National Junior Badminton Champion and at 15, the National Champion.He was the National Badminton Champion for nine consecutive years during 1970-78. When he was only 15, he
Plato (427 BC-347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish or Persian, he is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge.Plato lectured extensively at the Academy but he also wrote
Brazilian footballer, Edson Arantes do Nasiemento aka Pele was born on 23 October 1940.Pele is regarded by many as the greatest footballer to have played the beautiful game.Born in Tres Coracoes, Minoas Gerias, Brazil, Pele was dicovered at the age of 11 and a few years later was brought to Sao Paulo to play for
Paul Newman was born on 26 January 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio.Actor, director, producer, Paul Newman’s career spans full fifty years. From his earliest appearances in films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), to his more recent roles like in 2002’s The Roadto Perdition, Newman has been a major player in the cinema
Patanjali, is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, a major work containing aphorisms on the practical and philosophical wisdom regarding practice of Raja yoga. (‘Yoga’ in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to the one common soul, God.Various references suggest he lived between 200 BC and 400