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The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...
By contrast, Gandhi is "given full credit for India's political identity as a tolerant, secular democracy." [363] Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is a national holiday in India, Gandhi Jayanti. His image also appears on paper currency of all denominations issued by Reserve Bank of India, except for the one rupee note. [364]
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
Vijaya Raje Scindia (12 October 1919 – 25 January 2001), born Lekha Divyeshwari Devi in Nepal and known popularly as the Rajmata of Gwalior in India, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj , as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior , Jivajirao Scindia , she ranked among the highest royal figures ...
Gaidinliu Pamei (1915–1993), Naga spiritual and political leader who led a revolt against British rule in India A. Z. Phizo (1913–1990), leader of Naga National Council Isak Chishi Swu (1929–2016), chairman of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland
One Indian Girl is a 2016 novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. [citation needed] The story follows Radhika Mehta, a senior employee in the distressed debt group at Goldman Sachs.
This is a list of eminent people from Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana State of India. A person from Hyderabad is called a Hyderabadi . People born in Hyderabad , of Hyderabadi descent, or those who have spent a large part of their career in Hyderabad are included.