Jawahar Lal Nehru  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 636, Hits: 12549]
During his life time, Jawahar Lal Nehru went through the variety of individual and collective reactions...
Manpreet Malik  Updated On: 11/9/2009
Tags: Nationalist Movement, Indira, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian National Congress Party, Trinity College, Muslim League, First Prime Minister Of Independent India, Inner Temple, Socialist Party, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Congress at Calcutta, Muslim League, Gandhian philosophy, Motilal Nehru, Nationalist Movement, Kamala Kaul, INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS party, Nepotism of Mahatma Gandhi, Longest serving Prime Minister of India, Hindu refugees from Pakistan, War with Pakistan, Toward Freedom, Gandhi, Indira, Rajeev Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1539, Hits: 60346]
"More than his words, his life was his message". These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and all the world's peace movement have followed in his footsteps...
Salman Rushdie  Updated On: 11/7/2009
Tags: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, International Gandhi, Gandhi-as-guru, M. K. Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Gandhis achievements, Martin Luther King Jr., Dalai Lama, World peace movement, World Non-Violence Day, Corporate philosophy of Apple, Richard Attenborough, Oscar movie Gandhi, G. V. Desani, Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Kasturba Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Porbandar, Gujarat

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Ayn Rand  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 42, Hits: 787]
[1905 - 1982] A Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism...
Updated On: 10/4/2009
Tags: Ayn Rand, St. Petersburg, Russia, French magazine, European writer, Victor Hugo, Kerensky Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, Crimea, American history, High school, Pola Negri, Hollywood: American Movie City, State Institute for Cinema Arts, New York City, Career as a screenwriter, Cecil B. DeMille, The King of Kings, Frank O Connor, RKO Radio Pictures Inc, We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, For the New Intellectual, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, The Art of Fiction, The Art of Nonfiction, Ayn Rand Essay collections, The Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, The Romantic Manifesto, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, Philosophy: Who Needs It, The Voice of Reason, The Ayn Rand Column, Red Pawn, Night of January 16th, Love Letters by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Film, Early Ayn Rand, Objectivist periodicals, Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 39, Hits: 1367]
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (5 September, 1888 – 17 April, 1975), was an Indian philosopher and statesman...
Updated On: 10/1/2009
Tags: Tirutani in Tamil Nadu, Madras Presidency, British India, Tirutani, Tirupati, Zamindar, Primary Board High School at Tirutani, Hermansburg Evangelical Lutheral Mission School, Tirupati, Voorhees College, Vellore, Madras Christian College, Masters degree in Philosophy, M.A. degree, The Ethics of the Vedanta, Dr. A.G. Hogg, Sivakamu, Traditional Indian arranged marriage, Sarvepalli Gopal, Professor of Philosophy, University of Mysore, Journal of Philosophy, International Journal of Ethics, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, Genuine manifestation of the Indian spirit, The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy, King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science, University of Calcutta, International Congress of Philosophy at Harvard University, Principal J. Estlin Carpenter, Manchester College, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, Fellow of All Souls College, Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya, Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Represented India at UNESCO, Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union, First Vice President of India, Second President of India, Teachers Day, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Krishnarpan Charity Trust, Prasthana Trayi, Bhagavadgita, Upanishads, Brahma Sutra, Fellow of the British Academy, Radhakrishna Chevening Scholarships, Radhakrishnan a biography, British knighthood, Bharat Ratna

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Habib Tanvir  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 163, Hits: 1217]
One of the most popular Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor...
Updated On: 7/11/2009
Tags: Habib Ahmed Khan Tanvir, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Hafiz Ahmed Khan, Laurie Municipal High School Raipur, Morris College Nagpur, Aligarh Muslim University, Hindi playwrights, Theatre director, Poet and actor, Charandas Chor, Agra Bazar, Chhattisgarhi tribals, Naya Theatre, Theatre company, Nacha, Gaon ka Naam Sasural, Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Member of Upper House of Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Foot Path, Rahi, Staying On, Gandhi, Yeh Woh Manzil to Nahin, Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Hero Hiralal, Prahaar, The Burning Season, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, Black and White

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Rabindranath Tagore  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 529, Hits: 6055]
Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal...
Manpreet  Updated On: 5/7/2009
Tags: Debendranath Tagore, Brahmo Samaj, Bengal, Gandhi, modern India, British Government, Yogayog, Ghare-Baire, Manasi [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali [Song Offerings], Gitimalya[Wreath of Songs], Balaka [The Flight of Cranes], English renderings, The Gardener, Fruit-Gathering, The Fugitive, Tagore short stories, Autobiographies, Musical dramas, Dance dramas

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Feroz Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 241, Hits: 1853]
Feroz Khan was born in Bangalore, India. His father was Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli...
Updated On: 4/26/2009
Tags: Feroz Khan, Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli, Pathan, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, Akbar Khan, Didi Movie, Low-Budget Thrillers, English-Language Film, Tarzan Goes to India Movie, Simi Garewal, Oonche Log Hindi Film, Arzoo Movie, Film Aadmi Aur Insaan, Filmfare Award, Film Mela, Film Dharmatma, Hollywood Film The Godfather, Horror Film Nagin, Movie Qurbani, Nazia Hassan, Janbaaz Movie, Cinematography, Film Nayagan, Janasheen Movie, People for Animals, Animal Cruelty, Sanjay Khan, Sameer Khan

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Walter Gropius  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 270, Hits: 3225]
On Walter Gropius work, a series of books entitled The Walter Gropius Archive was published covering his entire architectural career...
Updated On: 3/25/2009
Tags: Berlin, Germany, Walter Adolph Gropius, Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber, Composer Alban Berg, Violin Concerto, Walter Gropius, Utilitarian School, Adolf Meyer, Werkbund Exhibition, Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning, English architect Maxwell Fry, Isokon Group, England Architectural Tradition, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Martin Gropius

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R Venkataraman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 363, Hits: 2392]
Shri Ramaswamy Venkataraman was the 8th President of the Republic of India, serving from 1987 to 1992. Before his election as President...
Updated On: 1/27/2009
Tags: Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Republic of India, 8th President of India, Vice-President of India, Indian National Congress Party, Pattukottai, Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, City of Madras, Master Degree in Economics, High Court, Madras, Britains Colonial, Quit India Movement, Defence of India Rules, Japanese Occupation, Madras Provincial Bar Federation, Labour Law Journal, Law and Trade Union, Metal Trades Committee of International Labour Organisation, Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Doctorate of Law, University of Madras, Madras Medical College, Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Roorkee, Doctor of Law, Nagarjuna University, University of Burdwan, Freedom Struggle, Soviet Land Prize, Sat Seva Ratna, Sankaracharya of Kancheepuram

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V. P. Singh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 488, Hits: 2537]
V. P. Singh entered local politics in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh during the Nehru era. He soon made a name for himself in the state Congress Party for his unfailing rectitude...
Updated On: 11/27/2008
Tags: Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Politics in Allahabad, Janata Party, National Publicity, Rajiv Gandhi, Images of Flowers, Pencil Sketches, Figuration of Bengal School, Romantic Symbols, Connoisseur of Naive Art, Varanasi, Mathura, Faizabad, Janata Party, Rajiv Gandhi, Finance Minister, Extraordinary Powers, Dhirubhai Ambani, Amitabh Bachchan, Defence Ministry, World War II, Secular Values, Hindu-Muslim Massacres, Freedom Struggle

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