Bhuvan Bam
Bhuvan Avnindra Shankar Bam (pronounced [ˈbʱʊʋən baːm]; born 22 January 1994) [1] [2] is an Indian comedian, writer, singer, actor, songwriter and YouTube personality from Delhi. He is known for his comedy channel on YouTube named BB Ki Vines. He received the Bollywood Hungama Style Icons award in 2023. Early life and education Bam was born on 22 January 1994 in Vadodara, Gujarat into a Marathi Hindu family to Avnindra and Padma Bam. Later on, his family moved to Delhi. He attended Green Fields School in Delhi and graduated from Shaheed Bhagat Singh…
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Sandeep Maheshwari
Sandeep Maheshwari, born on 28 September 1980 in New Delhi, is an Indian entrepreneur, photographer and motivational speaker. He founded ImagesBazaar, a stock-photography business focused on Indian imagery, and later became widely associated with public talks about self-belief, personal development and goals. His official biography links these speaking activities to his earlier experience in photography and business. [1] Photography and early business experience In a 2010 interview with YourStory, Maheshwari described first trying modelling after school…
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Arnab Goswami
Arnab Ranjan Goswami (born 7 March 1973) is an Indian news anchor, journalist and media executive. [1] He is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network. [2] [3] [4] Goswami began his career at The Telegraph before joining NDTV. He was the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of Times Now from 2006 to 2016. [5] [6] On Times Now, he anchored The Newshour and Frankly Speaking with Arnab which propelled him to widespread fame. [7] [8] [9] [10] In November 2016, Goswami resigned as editor-in-chief of Times Now. [11] [12] His news…
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Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Prakash Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) [1] is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, and YouTuber. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2010. [2] Several of his novels have been adapted into films, including One Night at the Call Center, Half Girlfriend, 2 states, 3 Idiots . Early life and education Chetan Bhagat was raised in a traditional Punjabi Hindu family. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, and his mother worked as a scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research…
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Ravish Kumar
Ravish Kumar (born Ravish Kumar Pandey ; 5 December 1974) [1] [2] is an Indian journalist and author. He worked for the Hindi-language television news channel NDTV India from 1994 to 2022, eventually becoming its Senior Executive Editor. He hosted a number of the channel's programmes including its flagship weekday show Prime Time as well as Hum Log , Ravish Ki Report , and Des Ki Baat . [3] [4] [5] In 2022, Kumar resigned from NDTV, following its acquisition by the Adani Group, and started a YouTube channel. [6] [7] Kumar has twice been conferred with…
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Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author and poet. His first novel, The Room on the Roof , published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which include 69 books for children. [1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra . He was awarded the Padma Shri Award in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan Award in 2014. [2] Life Bond was born on 19 May, 1934 [3] [4] in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. His father, Aubrey Alexander…
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Sudha Murty
Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni ; born 19 August 1950) is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation. She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy. Murty was nominated as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha on 8 March 2024 for her contribution to social work and education. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for social work by the Government of India in 2006. [2] In 2023, she was awarded the Padma…
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R. K. Narayan
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), [1] better known as R. K. Narayan , was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. In 1980, he received the AC Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1981 he was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Narayan is the author of more than 200 novels, as well as short…
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore [1] (Bengali: [ˈrobind̪ɾonat̪ʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ] ⓘ ; 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941) [3] was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. [10] [11] [12] In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. [13] [14] A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national…
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: [ʃot̪ːod͡ʒit̪ rae̯] ⓘ ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), [13] The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) , Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992). [1] Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and…
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar [1] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to Hans Eysenck, "he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them…
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Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Often regarded as the " Father of Indian space program ", [2] Sarabhai was honored with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 1972. Early life and education Vikram Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 in a Gujarati Śvetāmbara Shrimali Jain family, in Ahmedabad, India. [3] [4] [5] His father was Ambalal Sarabhai, a major industrialist committed to the Indian…
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C. V. Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (/ˈrɑːmən/ RAH-muhn ; [4] IAST: Candraśēkhara Veṅkaṭarāmaṉ; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist [5] known for his work in the field of light scattering. [6] Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light they called modified scattering , was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering . In 1930,…
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Homi J. Bhabha
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the…
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