Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Roy’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author.
23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and... read more
Jan 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902 Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century... read more
October 31, 1875 – December 15, 1950 Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the... read more
January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952 Yogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a devout family.According to... read more
January 6, 1966 Allah-Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist.Described as the world’s most... read more
September 28, 1929 Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made... read more
19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858 Lakshmibai,the Rani of Jhansi was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of... read more
March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003 Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal, India. She was the first Indian-American astronaut... read more
November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work... read more
December 28, 1932 – July 6, 2002 Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani,better known as Dhirubhai Ambani, was an Indian business tycoon who... read more
