Harda Surdas  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 485, Hits: 2349]
Blind since birth, Harda has added Surdas to his name. His disability in no way lessens his energy...
Updated On: 12/8/2008
Tags: Blind Since Birth, Harda Surdas, Lessens his Energy, Sing on Invitation, Effortless, Almora Singer, Folk Singer

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Ganna Maharaj  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 525, Hits: 2173]
Ganna Maharaj is the kind of artiste who earns his living singing at weddings and other functions...
Updated On: 11/23/2008
Tags: Ganna Maharaj, Traditional Songs, Upper Caste Families, Professional Singers, Professional Artists, Allahabad Folk Singer, Singing at Weddings

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Shyam Bihari Gaud  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 610, Hits: 2178]
Shyam Bihari was a 'Lohar', a blacksmith by profession till he discovered the aptitude he had for music...
Updated On: 11/23/2008
Tags: Blacksmith by Profession, Group of Musicians, Dancers, Rustic Folk, Allahabad Folk Singer, Folk Artist, Indian Folk Artist

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Smita Agarwal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 540, Hits: 2267]
Smita Agarwal is a vocal artiste for All India Radio, Light Music...
Updated On: 11/18/2008
Tags: Vocal Artiste, Light Music, All India Radio, Author of Wish-granting Words, Professor of English, University of Allahabad, Mehndi Songs of Uttar Pradesh, Hema Bhargava, Kumud Bua, Classical Vocal, Shri Ram Sevak Tewari, Kirana Gharana, Shri Vimal Srivastava

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Lallan Singh Gahmari  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 541, Hits: 2200]
Lallan ji lives in Allahabad though he belongs to the Bhojpuri region...
Updated On: 11/18/2008
Tags: Bhojpuri Singer, Folk Songs in Bhojpuri, Research on Music, Bhojpuri Folk Singer, Allahabad Folk Singer, Music Passing, Folk Bhojpuri Songs

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Shyam Lal Begana  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 539, Hits: 2177]
Shyam Lal Begana lives with his family in a house by the Naini road. Well known in the village as the 'Biraha' Kalakar...
Updated On: 11/12/2008
Tags: Biraha Kalakar, Performs in AIR, Biraha Competitions, Live Performance Folk Songs, Trademark of Biraha, Style of Singing

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Ram Kailash Yadav  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 564, Hits: 2530]
Ram Kailash ji has been singing for at least the last six or seven decades and singing for All India Radio since 1949...
Updated On: 11/12/2008
Tags: All India Radio, Famous Folk Singers, Biraha Songs, Allahabad Folk Singer, Indian Folk Singer, Biraha Singers

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Annaswamy Ranganath Rao  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 335, Hits: 2496]
Annaswamy Ranganath Rao, who pioneered the concept of maths labs, which CBSE took up 32 years later...
Updated On: 7/28/2008
Tags: Annaswamy Ranganath Rao, Central Board of Secondary Education, 100-year-Old Mathematics Professor, Concept of Maths Labs, Vikram Sarabhai Community Science Centre, Salem District of Tamil Nadu, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Wilson College in Mumbai, Bahauddin College in Junagadh, Principal of a Bhavnagar College, Pythogoras Theorem, Gaussian Curve, Quadratic Equations, Ramanujans Number, Aspects of Geometry, Concept of Mathematics Labs, Professor of Mathematics in Ahmedabad, UNESCOs Prestigious Kalinga Prize, Bertrand Russell, David Attenborough, Arthur C Clarke

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Narendra Jadhav  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 347, Hits: 2837]
Growing up in the heart of a Wadala slum, eight-year-old Narendra Jadhav knew what he wanted to be when he grew up: a gangster...
Updated On: 7/9/2008
Tags: Narendra Jadhav, Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank of India, Vice-Chancellor of Pune University, Bombay Port Trust, SSC Exam, Ruia College Mumbai, MA in Economics, Reserve Bank of India, University of Indiana

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Ahmed Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 524, Hits: 2207]
Ahmed Khan, Founder of KK Plastic Waste Management, discovered a unique and an innovative way to use the waste...
Updated On: 4/21/2008
Tags: KK Plastic Waste Management, Bangalore City, Ahmed Khan, Plastic Acts, Road Construction, Bangalore Mahanagara Palike

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