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.
19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858 Lakshmibai,the Rani of Jhansi was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of... read more
April 24, 1973 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian former cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of the modern... read more
26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.,commonly known as Mother Teresa , was an... read more
August 15, 1872 – December 5, 1950 Sri Aurobindo, born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose, was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter,... read more
December 3, 1884 – February 28, 1963 Rajendra Prasad was the first President of the Republic of India. An Indian... read more
December 11, 1969 Anand became India’s first grandmaster in 1988. He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi... read more
November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work... read more
July 19, 1827 – April 8, 1857 Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in events... 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
July 23, 1906 – Feb 27, 1931 Chandra Shekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association... read more
