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.
October 31, 1875 – December 15, 1950 Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the... read more
Jan 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902 Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century... read more
September 28, 1929 Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made... read more
2 September 1950 Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is a London-based Indian steel magnate. He is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal,... read more
Jan 23, 1897 – 1945 Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in... read more
June 15, 1937 Kisan Baburao “Anna” Hazare is an Indian social activist who led movements to promote rural development, increase... read more
August 20, 1944-May 21, 1991 On the morning of 31 October 1984, his mother was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards... read more
August 27, 1931 – October 11, 2007 Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual master... read more
November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work... read more
Oct 2, 1869 – Jan 30, 1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader and freedom fighter of Indian nationalism... read more
