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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 ...
Chokhamela, poet and saint from Maharashtra, India during 13th–14th century [80] [81] Ravidas, Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th–16th century CE. [82] Harichand Thakur, established the Matua sect of Vaishnavite Hinduism [83] Swami Achhootanand, 20th century Indian social reformer, established the Adi Hindu ...
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was voted the "Greatest Indian". The Greatest Indian was a poll sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, announced on 11 August. A program associated with the poll ...
Sam Agarwal, Ex-Indian former cricketer of Oxford University; Sandhya Agarwal, former captain of Indian women's cricket team; Subhash Agarwal, Arjuna Award winner, coach of India's national billiards team; Krishnan Kumar Aggarwal, Kenyan field hockey player at 1964 Summer Olympics; Neha Aggarwal, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Indian table ...
Dadasaheb Phalke Award named after him for lifetime contribution to cinema and is the highest official recognition for film personalities in the country [61] Girish Karnad, film director who received India's top literary prize, the Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992 [62]
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
Gopal Raju, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media; Aneesh Raman, first Indian-American presidential speechwriter under President Barack Obama, former CNN Middle East correspondent; Alpana Singh, television personality; Lakshmi Singh, NPR's national midday newscaster; Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent for CBS News and the PBS NewsHour
Ajit Jain – Indian-American business executive [21] Anshu Jain – Indian-born British business executive [22] Bhavarlal Jain – Chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. [23] Rakesh Gangwal – Co-founder and owner of Indigo Airlines [24] Tarang Jain - billionaire businessman, the CEO and owner of Varroc, an Indian two- and four-wheeler ...