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Jawahar Lal Nehru  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 636, Hits: 12569]
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: 60530]
"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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Manna Dey  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 18, Hits: 165]
One of the greatest playback singers in Hindi and Bengali films...
Updated On: 10/28/2009
Tags: Kolkata, Sulochana Kumaran from Kerala, Mere Huzur, Tamanna, National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer, Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2007, Madan Ghose Lane, Simla, Purna Chandra Dey, Sangeetacharya Krishna Chandra Dey, Indu Babur Pathshala, Scottish Church College, Krishna Chandra Dey, Ustad Dabir Khan, Ustad Aman Ali Khan, Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan, Sachin Dev Burman, Rabindra Sangeet, Indian classical music, National singer, Padmasree, Padmabhusan, Lata Mangeshkar Award award, Kamala Devi Roy Award, Anandalok Lifetime Award, Special Jury Swaralaya Yesudas Award, First AKSHAYA Award, Dadasaheb Phalke Award

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Ayn Rand  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 42, Hits: 794]
[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: 41, Hits: 1398]
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: 164, Hits: 1229]
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: 530, Hits: 6064]
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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Yusuf Arakkal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 229, Hits: 1545]
Leaving the comforts of his house behind, the boy Yusuf left for Bangalore, lonely but with a passion to become a painter...
Updated On: 5/4/2009
Tags: Kottakkal Kerala, Royal Family of Arakkal, Muslim Royal Family, Keyees, Kozhikode, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Graphic Print, National Academy Community Studios, Lorenzo De Medici Gold Medal, Florence Internazionale Biennale, Child and Priest Painting, Lorenzo de Medici, Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures, Murals, Paper Works, Karnataka Lalithkala Academy Award, Asian Art Biennale, Thalassery

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Ratnadeep Adivrekar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 266, Hits: 1568]
The sense of realness present in an image becomes rarified, when a photograph is painted on canvas...
Updated On: 4/29/2009
Tags: M. F. Husain, Contemporary Artist, Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar, Gopal S. Adivrekar, Sir J. J. School of Art, Pictures of Asia, Larasati, Singapore, Chelsea Art College, Art Award, Harmony Emerging Artist Award, Photographic Documentations, Mechanical Technology, Refraction of Ideas

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Feroz Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 241, Hits: 1861]
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: 3246]
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: 365, Hits: 2404]
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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Manjit Bawa  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1050, Hits: 3387]
Bawa's older brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the School of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat and B.C. Sanya...
Updated On: 1/5/2009
Tags: Mythological Paintings, Sufi Philosophy, Michelangelo, Dalhousie, Wealth of Wisdom, Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat, School of Art New Delhi, Indian Painter

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Aamir Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 378, Hits: 3544]
Khan began his film career as a child actor in a home production, produced and directed by Nasir Hussain, titled Yaadon Ki Baraat...
Updated On: 12/22/2008
Tags: Yaadon Ki Baraat, Ketan Mehta, Filmfare Best Director Award, The Rising, Nasir Hussain, Mansoor Khan, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Film, Dil Film, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin Boolywood Movie, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar HIndi Movie, Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke Film, Rangeela Film, Andaz Apna Apna Movie, Salman Khan, Mangal Pandey Movie, Real-Life Sepoy, Filmfare Critics Award, Rakeysh Omprakash, Rang De Basanti Movie, BAFTA Awards in England, Movie Fanaa, Reena Dutta, Lagaan Movie, Ashutosh Gowariker, Tahir Hussain

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Harda Surdas  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 485, Hits: 2354]
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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V. P. Singh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 488, Hits: 2545]
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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Shyam Bihari Gaud  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 611, Hits: 2186]
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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Ganna Maharaj  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 527, Hits: 2180]
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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Smita Agarwal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 543, Hits: 2272]
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: 543, Hits: 2206]
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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Ram Kailash Yadav  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 566, Hits: 2538]
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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Shyam Lal Begana  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 540, Hits: 2184]
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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B.R. Chopra  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 597, Hits: 2570]
Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials. Most known for Hindi social films like Naya Daur...
Updated On: 11/10/2008
Tags: Baldev Raj Chopra, Hindi Social Films, Naya Daur Movie, Kanoon, Gumrah, Mega TV Series Mahabharat, Highest Award in Indian Cinema, Chandni Chowk, Meena Kumari, Dilip Kumar, Vyjayantimala Bali, Singer Mahendra Kapoor, Ravi Chopra, Yash Chopra, Indian Television History

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Michael Crichton  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 455, Hits: 2442]
John Michael Crichton, was an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels...
Updated On: 11/10/2008
Tags: Film Director, Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller Novels, Andromeda Strain, Zula Miller Crichton, Congo, Disclosure, Rising Sun, Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, Author of Jurassic Park, Chicago, Illinois, John Henderson Crichton, Harvard College, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Henry Russell Shaw, Harvard Medical School, Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Court of Queen Consort Henrietta Maria, Kathy St. Johns, Suzanna Childs, Joan Radam, Anne-Marie Martin, Sherri Alexander, Jurassic Park III

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Joseph De Torre  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 446, Hits: 1955]
Born in Madrid and educated in Spain and Italy, Joseph M de Torre was ordained in 1955. He was with Opus Dei. He spent his first 13 years as a priest in Ireland and England, pursuing pastoral and educational work...
Updated On: 10/28/2008
Tags: Madrid, Opus Dei, Educational Work, Social Ethics, Vatican II, Political Ethics, Catholic Mass Media Awards, Moral Life, Asian Catholic Book Fair, Judeo-Christian Tradition, Western World in Science and Technology, Creative Arts. Christian Philosophy, Body of Philosophical, Christian Thinkers, Theologians, Philosophers, Poets, Historians, Natural Logic of Human Mind

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Roger Scruton  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 492, Hits: 1910]
Roger Vernon Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture...
Updated On: 10/19/2008
Tags: Roger Vernon Scruton, Philosopher and Public commentator, Specialised in Aesthetics, Music and Architecture, Cultural Debates, Polemicist, Art and Imagination, Exploration of Aesthetics, Topic in Philosophy, Libretto, Characterises Britain, Ethic of Social Justice, Educational Institutions of Society

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Ibn Rushd  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 572, Hits: 2361]
Ibn Rushd or Averroes, was a Muslim philosopher, physician, and a master of theology, Maliki law, astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, physics and psychology...
Updated On: 10/13/2008
Tags: Ibn Rushd, Averroes, Muslim Philosopher, Master of Theology, Maliki Law, Astronomy, Geography, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Psychology, School of Philosophy, Averroism, Secular Thought in Western Europe, Translations of Aristotles Works, Concept of Existentialism, Eccentric Deferents, Ptolemy, Concentric Model of Universe, Human Dissection and Autopsy, Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction, Erectile Dysfunction, Oral Medication, Transurethral, Parkinsons Disease, Material Body

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Rexhep Qosja  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 436, Hits: 2165]
Rexhep Qosja is prominent Albanian literary critic, and a pro-Albanian rights advocator. He has been active as a writer and political figure in the struggle for freedom in Kosova...
Updated On: 10/5/2008
Tags: Albanian Literary Critic, Pro-Albanian Rights Advocator, Freedom in Kosova, Albanological Institute in Prishtina, Scholarly Monographs, Anthologies, Scholarly Monographs, Ethnic Albanians, Human Rights, Kosovo War, Albanian People, Albanian Nation, Historically Inevitable, Balkan Peninsula, Great Powers, History of Albanian Literature, Greater Albania, Romantic Period

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Paul Newman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 499, Hits: 2687]
In a business where public scandal and bad-boy behavior are the rule rather than the exception, Paul Newman is as much a hero offscreen as on...
Updated On: 9/29/2008
Tags: Public Scandal, Newmans Own Food Company, Philanthropist, Kenyon College, Cleveland, Athletic Scholarship, Stock Company in Wisconsin, Actress Jacqueline Witte, Yale School of Drama, Warner Brothers, Hollywood, The Silver Chalice, Desperate Hours Movie, Boxer Rocky Graziano, Joanne Woodward, Tennessee Williams, New Brando, The Long Hot Summer Movie, Academy Award Nomination, Oscar Nomination, Harper Hollywood Movie, Pocket Money, Auto racing enthusiast, Emmy award, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Color of Money, The Hustler, The Verdict, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Mahendra Kapoor  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 504, Hits: 3513]
Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Mumbai. He was inspired by Mohammed Rafi and won the All-India singing competition, which lead to his debut as a playback singer in V. Shantaram's Navrang in 1958...
Updated On: 9/29/2008
Tags: Gumrah Movie, Hamraaz Hindi Film, Patriotic Songs by Mahendra Kapoor, All-India Singing Competition, C. Ramchandra, B.R. Chopra, Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dhund, Songs Of Mahendra Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Upkaar, Purab Aur Paschim, Marathi Movies, Dada Kondke, Yash Chopra, Filmfare Award, Enchanting Songs, Reality TV Show Antakshari, Rohan Kapoor, Chalo ek baar chalo, Gumraah, Neele gagan ke taale, Humraaj, Mere Desh Ki Dharthi, Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi, V. Shantaram Navrang

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Thomas Pogge  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 532, Hits: 2136]
Pogge is a prolific writer and lecturer, who has written extensively on moral and political philosophy, including books on cosmopolitanism, global justice and extreme poverty...
Updated On: 9/28/2008
Tags: Leitner Professor of Philosophy, International Affairs chair, Yale University, Professorial Fellow, Philosophy and Research Director, Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Harvard University, Prolific Writer and Lecturer, Books on Cosmopolitanism, Global Justice and Extreme Poverty, World Poverty and Human Rights, Works on Global Justice, Pharmaceutical Patent Regime, Advanced Medicines, Global Institutional, Basic Socioeconomic Rights, Charles Beitz

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Onora O'Neill  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 462, Hits: 2286]
Onora O'Neill is a prominent political philosopher, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords...
Updated On: 9/22/2008
Tags: Psychology and Physiology, Oxford University, Harvard University, Professor of Philosophy, Principal of Newnham College, Political Philosophy and Ethics, International Justice, Bioethic, Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Human Genetics Advisory Commission, Bio-Medical Issues, Life Peer, House of Lords, Universalist and Cosmopolitan, Professor Onora O Neill

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Loretta Napoleoni  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 512, Hits: 1900]
Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst, well known for having calculated the size of the terror economy...
Updated On: 9/14/2008
Tags: Italian Economist, Loretta Napoleoni, Terror Economy, Masters in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, M.Phil. in Terrorism, London School of Economics, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rome, Guide Books in Italian, Terror Incorporated, New Economy of Terrorism

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Kishore Mahbubani  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 501, Hits: 2187]
Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore...
Updated On: 9/6/2008
Tags: Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore Foreign Service, UN Security Council, US Policies, US-Trained Elites, World Bank, Global Institutions

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Bernard-Henri Lévy  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 581, Hits: 1962]
Bernard-Henri Lévy was a founder of the Nouveaux Philosophes school...
Updated On: 8/31/2008
Tags: Vanity Fair, Flamboyant Lifestyle, French Actor Arielle Dombasle, Death of Sarajevo, War Against Taliban, The French Ideology, Sri Lanka, Angola, Burundi, Colombia, Nouvelle Philosophie, New Philosophy, Nouveaux Philosophes School, SOS Racism

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Daniel Kahneman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 433, Hits: 1969]
Kahneman has written of his experience in Nazi-occupied France, explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology...
Updated On: 8/25/2008
Tags: Nobel Laureate, Princeton University, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Israeli-American Psychologist, Hedonic Psychology, Nazi-Occupied France, Behavioral Finance, Jews, Star of David

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Steven Paul Jobs  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 312, Hits: 2941]
Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios...
Updated On: 8/18/2008
Tags: Steven Paul Jobs, Apple Inc, Pixar Animation Studios, Steve Wozniak, IBM PC, Graphical User Interface, Business Markets, NeXT, Fortune Magazine, Most Powerful Businessman of 2007, Lucasfilm Ltd, Walt Disney, Entertainment Industries, Daniel Kottke, Philosophical Enlightenment, Traditional Indian Clothing

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Michael Ignatieff  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 408, Hits: 2421]
Ignatieff is a recognized historian, a fiction writer and public intellectual who has written several books on international relations and nation building...
Updated On: 8/11/2008
Tags: Gelber Prize, Book Blood and Belonging, New Nationalism, Human Rights Issues, Historian, Canadas Liberal Party, Harvard University, Human Rights Policy, New York Times Magazine, Top 10 Canadian, Sexiest Cerebral Man, British Arts Council, Terrorism, Democratic Institutions

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Vaclav Havel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 371, Hits: 2062]
Vaclav Havel is a Czech writer and dramatist...
Updated On: 8/6/2008
Tags: President of Czechoslovakia, First President of Czech Republic, Political Prisoner, Soviet Era, Velvet Revolution, Democratic Market Economy, Slovakia, Liberal International, Prize For Freedom, Philadelphia Liberty Medal, Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award, Prague Society, International Gandhi Peace Prize, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Government of India, Human Rights, Ambassador of Conscience Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Champions of World Democracy

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Annaswamy Ranganath Rao  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 335, Hits: 2501]
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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Neil Gershenfeld  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 409, Hits: 1959]
Physicist and computer scientist, Gershenfeld heads the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Updated On: 7/28/2008
Tags: Physicist and Computer Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, Personal Fabrication, Physics and Computer Science

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Francis Fukuyama  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 334, Hits: 1820]
Fukuyama is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end...
Updated On: 7/22/2008
Tags: The End of History, Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Neoconservative Legacy

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Shirin Ebadi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 372, Hits: 2035]
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her advocacy on behalf of Iranian dissidents and others, especially women and children, Shirin Ebadi is a human rights lawyer in Tehran...
Updated On: 7/15/2008
Tags: Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, Human Rights Lawyer, Iranian Revolution, Conservative Clerics, Law Expert, Iranian Periodicals, Islamic Republic, Nobel Award Ceremony, President Mohammad Khatami, Scientific Nobels, Human Right

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Narendra Jadhav  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 347, Hits: 2842]
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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Jared Mason Diamond  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 325, Hits: 1789]
Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author...
Updated On: 7/6/2008
Tags: Jared Mason Diamond, Professor of Geography, UCLA, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book Guns, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Environment and Civilisation, National Medal of Science, Professor of Physiology, UCLA Medical School, New Guinea Birds, Environmental History, Environ-Mental Health Sciences, New Guinea Language, New Melanesian, Molecular Biology, Zoologist Mark Ridley

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John Maxwell Coetzee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 324, Hits: 1734]
Coetzee is known as reclusive and eschews publicity to such an extent that he did not collect either of his two Booker Prizes in person...
Updated On: 6/30/2008
Tags: John Maxwell Coetzee, Novelist, Literary Critic, 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prizes in Person, South African Author Rian Malan, Coetzees Fiction, Times of Michael K, Peter Carey, Analytical Brilliance, Moral Nature

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Ian Buruma  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 368, Hits: 2063]
Ian Buruma is an Anglo-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan...
Updated On: 6/22/2008
Tags: Anglo-Dutch Writer, Asian Culture, Murder in Amsterdam, Moral Relativism, Syndicated Columnist, Ian Buruma, 2008 International Erasmus Prize, Social Science in Europe, 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, Complexities of Asia, Japans History, Commodore Matthew Perry, Military Dictatorship, Pseudo-Western-Style Democracy, Western Powers

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Kwame Anthony Appiah  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 389, Hits: 2104]
Kwame Anthony Appiah, is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory
Updated On: 6/16/2008
Tags: Ghanaian Philosopher, Ghanaian Philosopher, Political and Moral Theory, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Laurance S. Rockefeller University, Princeton University, Philosophy of Language, African Literature, Poetry Anthologies, German Philosophers Hegel, W E B. DuBois, Avenging Angel Novel, University of Cambridge, Nobody Likes Letitia Novel, Death in Venice Novel, Theories of Afrocentrism, Appiah Argues

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Slavoj Zizek  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 327, Hits: 2454]
A self-described Marxist philosopher, sociologist, and cultural critic, Slavoj Zizek is senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana...
Updated On: 6/9/2008
Tags: Marxist Philosopher, Sociologist, Cultural Critic, Slavoj Zizek, Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, University of Paris, Jacques-Alain Miller, Francois Regnault, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Iraq War, Fundamentalism, Capitalism, Tolerance, Political Correctness, Globalization, Subjectivity, Human Rights, Lenin, Myth, Cyberspace, Postmodernism, Multiculturalism, Postmarxism, David Lynch, Orthodox Lacanian Stalinist

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Edward Osborne Wilson  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 420, Hits: 1882]
He is Pellegrino University professor emeritus of entomology at Harvard University. Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism....
Updated On: 6/2/2008
Tags: Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University, Advocacy for Environmentalism, Secular Humanist Ideas, International Academy of Humanism, Natural History, Rock Creek Park, Entomologist, World War II, Ants of Alabama, Social Behavior of Animals, Sociobiology

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 415, Hits: 2194]
Springsteen's lyrics often concern men and women struggling to make ends meet. He has gradually become identified with progressive politics. Springsteen is also noted for his support of various relief and rebuilding efforts in New Jersey...
Updated On: 5/21/2008
Tags: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, American Songwriter, E Street Band, Numerous Awards, Grammy Awards, Academy Award, Albums Born to Run, New Jersey, Rock Album, Somber Folk-Oriented Works, Iconic Status Stems, Party Rock and Roll Songs, Nickname The Boss, Club Gigs, Presidential Campaign

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Roger Randall Dougan Revelle  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 451, Hits: 2619]
One of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates...
Updated On: 5/12/2008
Tags: Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, University of California, San Diego, Global Warming, Movement of Earths Tectonic Plates, Scientific Giant, Revelle College, International Oceanic Commission, International Geophysical Year, Committee on Climate Change and the Ocean, Population Studies, Harvard University, Application of Science, UC San Diego, Professor of Science, STPA, Political Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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François Quesnay  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 457, Hits: 2723]
François Quesnay was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. The physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth of nations was derived solely from the value of land agriculture or land development...
Updated On: 5/5/2008
Tags: French Economist, François Quesnay, Physiocratic School, Laissez Faire, Theory of Economics, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, Economic Table, Louis XV in Versailles, Medical Doctor, Quesnays Theoretic Views, First Modern School, Classical Economics

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 489, Hits: 2160]
Pavlov contributed to many areas of physiology and neurology. Most of his work involved research in temperament, conditioning and involuntary reflex actions...
Updated On: 4/28/2008
Tags: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Phenomenon of Classical Conditioning, Experiments on Digestion, Surgically Extracting Portions, Transmarginal Inhibition, Work of Conditioning Animals, Nervous System, Painful Experiences, Traumatic Stress Disorder, Pavlovs Dog, Pavlovian Conditioning, Aldous Huxleys Dystopian Novel

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Ahmed Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 524, Hits: 2210]
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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Kenichi Ohmae  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 464, Hits: 2724]
Kenichi Ohmae is one of the world's leading business and corporate strategists...
Updated On: 4/21/2008
Tags: Kenichi Ohmae, Business and Corporate Strategists, Mr Strategy, 3Cs Model, McKinsey, International Management Consulting Firm, Strategic Management Practice, Consumer Electronics, Financial Institutions, Photographic Equipment, Industrial Machinery, Worlds Top Five Management Gurus, Global Business Domination, Ohmaes Classic Work

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Frederic Ogden Nash  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 490, Hits: 2158]
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse...
Updated On: 4/15/2008
Tags: Frederic Ogden Nash, American Poet, Funny Light Verse, New York Times, Droll Verse, Unconventional Rhymes, Producer of Humorous Poetry, New York, Streetcar Card Ads, US Postal Service, Stamp Featuring Ogden Nash, The Turtle Poem, The Cow Poem, Crossing The Border Poem, The Kitten Poem, The Camel Poem, Lime Rick Poem, First Stamp in the History of USPS, Word Sex

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Norman Kingsley Maile  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 519, Hits: 2164]
Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism...
Updated On: 4/7/2008
Tags: American Novelist, New Journalism, Norman Kingsley Mailer, Journalist, Essayist, Poet, Innovator of Creative Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, The Naked and the Dead, Military Service, World War II, New York Times Best Seller, Best American Wartime Novels, One Hundred Best Novels in English, Film Director

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Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 409, Hits: 6613]
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was elected as the chairman of the drafting committee that was constituted by the Constituent Assembly...
Updated On: 3/28/2008
Tags: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Independent India, First Law Minister of India, Bharat Ratna, Mahar Caste, British Army, Baba Saheb, Caste Discrimination Right, Satara Maharashtra, Bombay University, Elphinstone College, Political Science and Economics, Job in Baroda, Maharaja of Baroda, Scholarship, National Dividend for India, Historical and Analytical Study, Baroda Government, Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, Mooknayak

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Evel Knievel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 419, Hits: 3362]
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr was an American motorcycle daredevil...
Updated On: 3/17/2008
Tags: American Motorcycle Daredevil, Evel Knievel, Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Televised Motorcycle Jumps, Snake River Canyon, Twin Falls, Evel Knievel On Tour, George Hamilton, Guinness Book of World Records, Fanfare Films, Idaho, Evel Knievel Story, American Eagle Motorcycles, California

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Juan Ramon Jimenez  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 483, Hits: 3168]
Juan Ramon Jimenez was a Spanish poet...
Updated On: 3/11/2008
Tags: Modern Poetry, Pure Poetry, Nobel Prize In Literature, Poet Ruben Dario, Mental Institution In France, Sanatorio de El Rosario, Juan Ramon Jimenez, University Of Maryland, Professor Of Spanish Language, New Generation Of Poets, Spanish Civil War, United States, Puerto Rico

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Kazuo Ishiguro  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 556, Hits: 2005]
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japan-born British novelist...
Updated On: 3/3/2008
Tags: Nagasaki, British Novelist, University Of Kent, University Of East Anglia, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, Creative Writing Course, Whitbread Prize, Science Fiction, Booker Prize

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Homer  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 491, Hits: 3660]
Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet...
Updated On: 2/25/2008
Tags: Melesigenes, Orally Composed Poetry, Poets, Greek Epic Poet, Iliad, Homer, Homeric Studies, Homeric Poems, Shakespeare, Western Imagination, Greek Culture, Trojan War, Greek Cultural Moment, Epic Storyteller

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Galileo Galilei  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 611, Hits: 3802]
Galileo's empirical work was a significant break from the abstract Aristotelian approach of his time...
Updated On: 2/18/2008
Tags: Italian Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Scientific Revolution, Galilean Moons, Kinematics, Astronomy, Science And Technology

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Swapan Mukhopadhay  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 661, Hits: 2205]
Mama to the children in his destitute home, Swapan is a real hero...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Saudi Arabia, West Bengal, Real Hero, Filmmaking, Photography, Music

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WILLIAM FAULKNER  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 471, Hits: 2153]
He is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Nobel Prize, Hollywood Film, The Reivers, Fiction Writers, African-American Education, Rust College, Pulitzer Prizes, Mississippi

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Chewang Norphel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 654, Hits: 2285]
Chewang Norphel fondly known as a glacier man is a retired civil engineer...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Ladakh, Natural Beauty, Cold Desert, Artificial Glaciers, Glacier Man, Water-Starved Fields

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Jai Prakash Dabral  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 656, Hits: 2205]
J P Dabral started a Chipko-style campaign in Tehri, Uttaranchal...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Raksha Sutra, Supreme Court, Powergrid Corporation Of India, Ministry Of Environment, Timber Mafia, Chipko-Style Campaign

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K P Thomas  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 597, Hits: 2206]
Anyone with even a little athletic ambition in Kerala has heard about Thomas Master...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: K P Thomas, Kerala, Kottayam District, Sports School, Young Athletes, Anju Bobby George

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Sunita Krishnan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 321, Hits: 2257]
Sunita Krishnan has been rescuing women and children from brothels...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Brothels, Prajwala, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Trafficking Mafia, Anti-Trafficking Organisation

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Baba Amte  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 466, Hits: 4307]
He was the founder of several ashrams and communities for the service of leprosy patients and other marginalized people that were shunned by society...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Gandhism, Tropical Medicine, Fight Against Leprosy, Anandwan, Warora, Gandhi, Maharashtra, Leprosy Patients, Chandrapur, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Wardha Distric, Quit India Movement, Defence Lawyer, Sevagram Ashram

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 389, Hits: 3392]
Around 1939 he became a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati...
Updated On: 2/12/2008
Tags: Yoga Posture, Administrative Activities, Jabalpur, Allahabad University, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Bal Brahmacharya Mahesh, Transcendental Meditation, United States, China, Shankaracharya, Vedic Literature, Netherlands, Uttarkashi, Traditional Meditation Technique

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Dr. D Ashish  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 640, Hits: 2205]
Kolkata, the City of Joy, is also the city that houses the sick, the starved and the homeless...
Updated On: 2/9/2008
Tags: Unused Medicines, Medical Bank, Kolkata, Collection Drive, Volunteers, Medicines

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Dharnidhar Boro  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 742, Hits: 2202]
Dharnidhar Boro is a forest ranger in Kaziranga who often goes beyond the call of duty in his passion to save the wildlife...
Updated On: 2/9/2008
Tags: Kaziranga National Park, Dharnidhar Boro, One-Horned Rhino, Tigers, Elephants, Forest officer

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 499, Hits: 2152]
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet Russian film director...
Updated On: 2/6/2008
Tags: Political Cinema, Soviet Russian Film Director, Film Theorist, Pera Atasheva, Government Criticism, Use Of Montage, Crowd Movements, Soviet Film Community, Cinematic Visions, Socialist Realism, Brian De Palma, Star Wars, Roger Ebert

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Anil Biswas [1914 - 2003]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 880, Hits: 4180]
Anil Biswas's contribution to film music is multi-faceted...
Manpreet  Updated On: 2/2/2008
Tags: Veteran Music Director, Char Dil Char Raahein, Anokha Pyaar, Barisal, Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Megaphone Gramaphone Company, Sagar Movietone, Rangmahal Theatre, Mehboob Khan films - Aurat, Bombay Talkies, Kismet, Door Hato O Duniyawalon Hindustan Humaara hai, Amirbai Karnataki, Dilip Kumar maiden film Jwar Bhatta, Kuchh Aur Zamana Kehta Hai, TV Serial Hum Log

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Clinton Richard Dawkins  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 760, Hits: 1979]
Clinton Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer...
Updated On: 1/31/2008
Tags: Oxford University, Science Writer, Clinton Richard Dawkins, British Ethologist, The Selfish Gene, Antireligionist, Gene-centered view of evolution, Memetics, Extended Phenotype, Phenotypic effects, Antireligionist, Secular humanist, Sceptic, Darwinian Principles, September 11 2001 attacks, Weird respect, Normal criticism

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MC Marykom  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 829, Hits: 2328]
Manipur boxing champ has big dreams for her students
Updated On: 1/31/2008
Tags: World Champion, World-Class Boxer, Indian Women Boxer, Boxing Championships, Imphal, World Champion, Women Boxing Training Academy, World women boxing championship

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Abhayanand and Anand Kumar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 662, Hits: 2774]
We wanted to help the children who were intelligent but who did not have enough money to pay the IIT coaching fees
Updated On: 1/31/2008
Tags: Coaching For IIT JEE, Bright Future, IIT Coaching Fees, Patna Legends, India, Ashok Rajpath Street, Patna, Panchayat Schools, IIT coaching institutes

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Dr. Subroto Das  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 782, Hits: 2204]
For road accident victims, he is the 'SOS Angel'
Updated On: 1/29/2008
Tags: National Highway 8, Highway Rescue Project, Distress Call, Crashed Vehicle on High Way, Seriously Injured, Gurgoan, India, Ahmedabad, Hospital Ambulances

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Sushma Iyengar - an educator, a catalyst and a learner  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 673, Hits: 2261]
Woman ousts middlemen to empowers Kutch artists
Updated On: 1/29/2008
Tags: Skilled Entrepreneurs, Educator, Health and Family, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanghtan, Strength and Love, Catalyst and Learner, Gujarat, India, Karmabhoomi, Kutch, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, Health, Family planning in India

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Coach Bhgawan Nagarkoche  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 595, Hits: 2214]
A coach who put orphans in Maharashtra on the right track...
Anubha Bhonsle  Updated On: 1/27/2008
Tags: Sainik School, Sagroli, Maharashtra, Nanded, Coach Nagarkoche, scouting law, Armed forces, School playground, Pilot project, Indian urban cities, Vishakhapatnam, Pune, Aurangabad, Mumbai

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 643, Hits: 2570]
In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi outlines his theory that people are most happy when they are in a state of flow...
Updated On: 1/22/2008
Tags: The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, Finding Flow, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience, Psychology Professor, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, Head of department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Department of sociology, Anthropology, Lake Forest College, USA Doctors, Professor, Human Psychology

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Ustad Bismillah Khan [1916 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 739, Hits: 7147]
Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan were awarded the nation’s highest civilian honour — the Bharat Ratna...
Manpreet  Updated On: 1/16/2008
Tags: Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan, Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, Dumraon, Paigambar Khan, Mitthan, Qamaruddin, Shamsuddin, Rasool Baksh Khan, Naqqar khana, Princely states of Bhojpur, Maharaja Keshav Prasad Singh of Dumraon Estate, Shia Muslim, Devotee of Mother Saraswati, Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, Ali Baksh Vilayatu, Shehnai Player, Calcutta All India Music Conference, Hindu Muslim unity in India, Music has no caste, India first Republic Day ceremony, Cultural part of the Independence Day Celebrations, Prime Minister speech from Lal Qila, Old Delhi, Pandit Nehru, Bharat Ratna, Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi, Talar Mausiquee from Republic of Iran, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Tansen Award by Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, All India Music Conference, Calcutta, Best Performer in All India Music Conference, Allahabad, Banaras Hindu University, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shehnai on the First Independence Day of India

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Chaudhary Bansi Lal [1927 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1041, Hits: 4329]
Bansi lal is regarded by many as an "Iron man" who was always close to reality and took keen interest in the up liftment of the community...
Manpreet  Updated On: 1/15/2008
Tags: Chief minister of Haryana, Indian freedom fighter, Senior Congress Leader, Haryana Vikas Party, Modern Haryana, Degrees of Doctor of Law, Doctor of Science, Kurukshetra University, Punjab University Law College, Jalandhar, Haryana, Defence Minister

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Lalit Suri [1946 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1049, Hits: 2227]
'Uncrowned hotel king' of India and a member of the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of India's Parliament)...
Manpreet  Updated On: 1/8/2008
Tags: Uncrowned hotel king, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Member of the Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh, Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi, Alumnus of St. Columbus, Delhi Automobile Ltd, Hospitality Business, Bharat Hotels chain, InterContinental The Grand in Delhi, Grand Hotel at Mumbai, Midday Newspaper, London University Hospital, Jyotsna, Grand Hotel at Bangalore, Grand Hotel at Goa, Grand Hotel at Udaipur, Grand Hotel at Khajuraho

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Manohar Shyam Joshi [1933 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1109, Hits: 2652]
Renowned writer and the Father of Indian Soap Operas - Manohar Shyam Joshi, who revolutionised India's television ...
Manpreet  Updated On: 1/7/2008
Tags: Saptahik Hindustan, English Outlook Saptahik, Netaji Kahin, Father of Indian Soap Operas, TV Serial Hum Log, Buniyad, Indian Novelist, Modernist Authors, Modern Hindi Literature, Hariya Hercules ki Hairaani, Prestigious Sahitya Academy Award, Hindi Journalist, Renowned Indian Writer

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Avicenna - Abu Ali al-husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 527, Hits: 2942]
Abu Ali al-husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, also known as Ibn Seena and commonly known in English by his Latinised name Avicenna was a Persian Muslim polymath and foremost physician and philosopher of his time...
Updated On: 1/7/2008
Tags: Avicennian logic, Aristotelian logic, Medieval European logicians, Albertus Magnus, Propositional Calculus, Aristotelian Metaphysics, The Canon of Medicine, The Book of Healing, Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, De Caelo, The Life of Ibn Sina, Remarks and Admonitions, Essay on the Secret of Destiny, The Book of Scientific Knowledge, Persian, Medicine, Abu Ali al-husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina

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Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 359, Hits: 8067]
First woman ever to serve as Prime Minister of an Islamic country...
Updated On: 12/29/2007
Tags: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Zia Ul Haq, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Youngest Chiefs of State in the World, First Woman Prime Minister of Islamic Country, Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, Pakistani Political Family, Undergraduate Degree at Radcliffe, Oxford University, Military Government of General Zia Ul Haq, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Mir Murtaza, Assassination, Rawalpindi

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee [1922 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 989, Hits: 5998]
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was not only a compelling and heartwarming filmmaker, he was an inspiration to the hearts of all those who whose lives he touched. ...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/23/2007
Tags: Hindi film director, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Aashirwad, Bawarchi, Satyakam, and Namak Haraam, Hrishi-da, B. N. Sircar, New Theatres in Calcutta, Do Bigha Zameen, Devdas, Best Director Award, Chupke Chupke, Amitabh Bachchan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award by the Government of India, National Film Development Corporation, Central Board of Film Certification, Basu Chatterjee, Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai, Golpo Holeo Shotti, Babu Moshay, Raj Kapoor, Krishan Chopra, Dilip Kumar

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Raja Rao [1909 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1183, Hits: 3826]
Indian writer of English-language novels and short stories...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/10/2007
Tags: Hassan, Karnataka state in South India, Madrasa-e-Aliya in Hyderabad, Madras University-Chennai, Government of Hyderabad, Camille Mouly, French teacher at Montpellier, The Serpent and the Rope, Jaya Karnataka, Iqbal Singh, Anthology of modern Indian thought, Ram Mohan Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ahmed Ali, Sri Vidya Samiti, Chetana, Cultural Society for Propagation of Indian Thought, Daughter of the Mountain, Padma Vibhushan, India Second Highest civilian award, Comrade Kirilov, On the Ganga Ghat, Whither India, The Great Indian Way, A Life of Mahatma Gandhi Biography, Cat and Shakespeare, Policeman and the Rose, Chessmaster and His Moves

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Dr. Raj Kumar [1929 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 927, Hits: 5720]
Dr. Raj Kumar entered the film industry at the age of eight years and got his first break as a hero in film "Bedara Kannappa" in 1956. ...
Manpreet  Updated On: 11/30/2007
Tags: Singanalluru Puttaswamayya, Lakshmamma, Lord Muthathi Rai, Rajkumar, Gubbi Veeranna, Ranadheera Kanteerava, Legend of Kannada Cinema, Balakrishna, Pandaribai, Leelavathi, Jayanti, Bharati, Arati, Jayaprada, Madhavi, Geetha, Sarita, B.R. Pantulu, Puttanna Kanagal, Shankar Nag and Nagabharana, S.P.Varadaraju, Gokak Varadi, Padma Bhushan Award from Government of India, Nata Saarvabhowma, Terrorist Veerappan, S P Varadaraju, Kanteerava Studios, Karnataka Ratna

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Dilip Kumar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 578, Hits: 11123]
Release of a number of tragic Bollywood films earned Dilip Kumar the title of 'Tragedy King'...
Updated On: 10/22/2007
Tags: Peshawar, Yusuf Khan, Tragedy King, Love Triangle, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Pathan, Madhumati, Ganga Jamuna, Mughal - e - Azam, Andaz, Kamini Kaushal, Madhubala, Vyjayanti Mala Bali, Asma, Ram Aur Shyam, Saira Bano, Mahboob Khan, Kranti, Karma, Saudagar, Shakti, Raj Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Ram Aur Shyam, Bimal Roy, Devdas, Bombay Talkies

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Swami Ramdev Ji  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1223, Hits: 22806]
Yoga Pranayama Cures 140 Diseases...
Manpreet  Updated On: 5/18/2007
Tags: Yoga, Pranayama, Swami, Ramdev, Divya Yog Pharmacy, Ayurvedic Medicines, Indian politicians, Sharad Pawar, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ambika Soni, Doctorate Degree

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Nandini Sathpathy Nee [1931 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1050, Hits: 2264]
Nandini Sathpathy nee' Panigrahy was the daughter of Oriya writer, Kalindi Panigrahy...
Manpreet  Updated On: 5/16/2007
Tags: Sahitya Bharati Samman Award, Oriya writer, Debendra Sathpathy, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Tathagat Satpathy, Biju Patnaik, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Orissa Gana Parishad, Indian National Congress, Taslima Nasreen Lajja into Oriya, Justice V.R Krishna Iyer, Bhubaneswar

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Nadira [1932 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 927, Hits: 6253]
The first sophisticated vamp of Bollywood...
Manpreet  Updated On: 5/10/2007
Tags: Vamp of Bollywood, Florence Ezekiel, Farhat Ezekiel, Baghdadi Jewish family, Nagpada, Bombay, Sardar Akhtar, Mehboob Khan, Muslim Urdu poet, Filmmaker Naqshab, Bhatia Hospital at Tardeo, Paralytic Stroke, Dil Apna Prit Parayee, Hanste Zakhm, Amar Akbar Anthony, Pakeezah, Bollywood film industry, Temptress, Best Supporting Actress Award, Merchant Ivory films, First Indian actors to own a Rolls-Royce, The Guru and Cotton Mary, Maula Baksh, Bin Phere Hum Tere, Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka, Meri Surat Teri Ankhen, Samundari Daku, Geliebte Corinna

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Naushad Ali [1919 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 783, Hits: 2153]
Naushad Ali is regarded as one of the greatest Music Directors of Indian Cinema...
Manpreet  Updated On: 4/27/2007

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Padmini [1932 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 524, Hits: 6306]
Padmini has acted and danced in over 250 films. She was a top star in Bollywood as well as four other Indian regional cinema's, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, ...
Manpreet  Updated On: 4/27/2007

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Kanshi Ram [1934 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 703, Hits: 3440]
Kanshi Ram - founder of Bahujan Samaj Party
Manpreet  Updated On: 4/26/2007

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Pramod Mahajan [1949 - 2006]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 587, Hits: 6106]
Pramod Mahajan - Bharatiya Janata Party's suave, sophisticated mascot. From Laptop Brigade to Five-Star Politician...
Manpreet  Updated On: 4/26/2007

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Annie Besant  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 561, Hits: 3368]
Founder of Theosophical Society
Updated On: 4/6/2007

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Anita Ratnam  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 598, Hits: 3113]
Classical dancer & Choreographer
Updated On: 3/21/2007

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Alarmel Valli  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 606, Hits: 3329]
Alarmel Valli is a foremost exponent of the Pandanallur tradition in Bharatanatyam.
Updated On: 3/21/2007

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Chitra Visweswaran  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 641, Hits: 2655]
Chitra Visweswaran is famed as one of the leading Bharatnatyam dancer of India.
Updated On: 3/21/2007

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Mallika Sarabhai  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 682, Hits: 4475]
One of the leading exponents of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi.
Updated On: 3/21/2007

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Sonal Mansingh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 744, Hits: 3983]
She has been called a philosopher among dancers for her opinions and interpretations.
Updated On: 3/21/2007

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Sushma Verma  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 821, Hits: 3014]
Sushma Verma has become the youngest student to appear in the Class X board exams.
Updated On: 3/15/2007

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Lakshmi Nivas Mittal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 840, Hits: 9029]
President of the Board of Directors of Arcelor Mittal
Updated On: 3/15/2007

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Bal Thackeray  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 888, Hits: 9252]
The founder and president of the Shiv Sena
Updated On: 3/3/2007

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Dhirubhai Ambani  [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 1596, Hits: 63193]
Founder of Reliance Industries
Updated On: 3/3/2007

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Abhishek Bachchan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 787, Hits: 9130]
Famous Indian Actor
Updated On: 2/15/2007

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Bipasha Basu  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 835, Hits: 13780]
Bollywood Actress and a Supermodel
Updated On: 2/15/2007

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Sir Donald 'Don' George Bradman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 540, Hits: 2745]
One of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century
Updated On: 2/14/2007

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Madhubala  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 599, Hits: 9195]
One of the most beautiful actresses to have graced the screens of Bollywood
Updated On: 2/14/2007

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Guru Dutt  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 538, Hits: 5418]
Guru Dutt was an Indian film director, producer and actor.
Updated On: 2/14/2007

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Hema Malini  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 432, Hits: 50227]
Hema Malini is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer...
Updated On: 2/12/2007

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Rani Mukherjee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 681, Hits: 15172]
Since her first break on celluloid in 1996, Rani Mukherjee (also known as Rani Mukerji) has appeared in nearly 40 films...
Updated On: 2/12/2007

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Karan Johar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 502, Hits: 4565]
Karan Johar has been emerging as one of India's young thought leaders and was chosen as one of 250 Global Young Leaders by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum 2006...
Updated On: 2/12/2007

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Indira Gandhi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 449, Hits: 11168]
The first women Prime Minister and an important world stateswoman...
Updated On: 2/12/2007

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Akshay Kumar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 876, Hits: 30839]
A popular Bollywood actor
Updated On: 2/12/2007

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Kumar Sanu  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 571, Hits: 6675]
One of the most prolific singers ever to work in the Indian film industry...
Updated On: 2/10/2007

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Sonu Nigam  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 983, Hits: 17364]
Sonu Nigam has become a major force in the music industry...
Updated On: 2/10/2007

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Ravi Shankar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 428, Hits: 5858]
As a prolific composer he was the first to interface with western musicians to make the space for fusions of all sort which have followed in his wake...
S. Kalidas  Updated On: 2/10/2007

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Mohammed Rafi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 426, Hits: 12233]
Mohammed Rafi's songs ranged from traditional classical melodies to patriotic songs, artistic Ghazals, sad and romantic melodies, traditional qawwalis, ghazals and bhajans...
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Dr. Balamurali Krishna  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 479, Hits: 3931]
Carnatic Musical Genius
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 347, Hits: 2508]
Subbulakshmi has been the recipient of the highest awards and honours the nation could bestow upon an artist and significant international recognition.
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 503, Hits: 3467]
Tansen of Today
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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K. S. Chithra  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 549, Hits: 7337]
K. S. Chithra is a singer who has made her mark in the Indian (film) playback industry.
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Allah Rakha Rahman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 680, Hits: 5364]
Best known for composing film scores and soundtracks...
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Mukesh Chand Mathur  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 426, Hits: 5320]
The Man With the Golden Voice
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Raj Kapoor  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 384, Hits: 7209]
A legendary Indian actor, director, and producer of Bollywood movies...
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Lata Mangeshkar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 531, Hits: 11337]
The melody Queen of India
Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Dev Anand  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 468, Hits: 5000]
A famous Indian actor and film producer...
Sandeep Sangwan  Updated On: 2/8/2007

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Rahul Sharad Dravid  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 757, Hits: 23832]
Integral part of the Indian National Cricket Team
Updated On: 2/7/2007

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Asha Bhonsle  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 453, Hits: 8714]
The famous playback singer, Asha Bhonsle has sung over 20,000 songs...
Updated On: 2/7/2007

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Sushmita Sen  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 523, Hits: 12305]
First Indian to win the Miss Universe
Updated On: 2/7/2007

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Kapil Dev  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 434, Hits: 6264]
Indian Cricketer of the Century
Updated On: 2/7/2007

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Anil Kapoor  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 502, Hits: 13543]
Popular Indian Actor
Updated On: 2/7/2007

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Sunil Manohar Gavaskar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 416, Hits: 5032]
Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1980
Updated On: 2/6/2007

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Sourav Chandidas Ganguly  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 521, Hits: 10553]
One of the best Indian Cricketer
Sandeep Sangwan  Updated On: 2/3/2007

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Priyanka Chopra  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 359, Hits: 2214]
Bollywood Actress
Updated On: 2/1/2007

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Kishor Kumar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 512, Hits: 19400]
Finest Indian male playback singers of all time: Singer, Actor, Director, Musician
Updated On: 1/26/2007

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 732, Hits: 2545]
Theory of white dwarfs, stellar dynamics, theory of Brownian motion, Theory of radiative transfer, Theory of stellar atmospheres, Quantum theory of negative ion of hydrogen, Theory of planetary atmospheres, Theory of the Illumination, Polarization of the sunlit sky...
Manpreet  Updated On: 1/24/2007

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Sunil Bharti Mittal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 488, Hits: 8821]
The man with the Midas touch: Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Group
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Sunita Williams  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 434, Hits: 2568]
From samosas to spacewalks
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Hrithik Roshan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 528, Hits: 2335]
Time to Dhoom
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Rajkumar Hirani  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 834, Hits: 2008]
Youth icon hai mamu
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Teesta Setalvad  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 574, Hits: 2163]
The battle has to be fought
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Ramesh Ramanathan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 553, Hits: 2607]
There is no desh like swadesh
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Prasoon Joshi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 476, Hits: 3143]
Where there's a will, there's a way!
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Mukta Gupta  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 766, Hits: 2045]
Satyameva jayate...
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Kiran Desai  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 636, Hits: 2037]
A literary inheritance
Updated On: 1/4/2007

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Indra Nooyi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 391, Hits: 3786]
The Goddess of fizz
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Jeev Milkha Singh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 817, Hits: 2016]
Tee-Time learnings
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Jaspal Rana  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 895, Hits: 1975]
Bull's Eye! Three gold medals in Asian Games 2006 Pistol Events at Doha - Best Sportsperson' of the Asian Games
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Himesh Reshammiya  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 505, Hits: 2096]
Competing with his alter ego
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Suhas Gopinath  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 529, Hits: 3880]
An entrepreneur at 14, founder of Global Solutions Inc.
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Rahul Bose  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 730, Hits: 1985]
Life has many side effects…
Updated On: 1/3/2007

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Phoolan Devi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 643, Hits: 2052]
Bandit Queen
Updated On: 12/29/2006

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Aishwarya Rai  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 690, Hits: 5765]
Beauty Pageant Queen: Model, Miss World, Actress
Updated On: 12/29/2006

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Brian Charles Lara  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 412, Hits: 3963]
The Prince of Port-of-Spain
Updated On: 12/29/2006

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Sania Mirza  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 398, Hits: 2877]
Professional female tennis player from India.
Updated On: 12/29/2006

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Shahrukh Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 451, Hits: 3103]
King Khan
Updated On: 12/29/2006

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P. T. Usha  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 472, Hits: 7032]
The queen of Indian track and field for two decades.
Updated On: 12/20/2006

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Sachin Tendulkar  [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 1496, Hits: 50481]
Little Master Blaster
Updated On: 12/20/2006

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Amitabh Bachchan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 380, Hits: 6501]
Badhshah of Bollywood and Superstar of the Millennium
Updated On: 12/19/2006

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Manish Wazalwar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 901, Hits: 2347]
From washing cars to owning a fleet of 33
Reeti Pandharipande  Updated On: 12/18/2006

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Dieter Zetsche  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 956, Hits: 1723]
Act II for The Man Who Fixed Chrysler
Peter Gumbel  Updated On: 12/11/2006

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The Skype Guys  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 602, Hits: 1729]
Telephone Revolutionaries
James Gosling  Updated On: 12/11/2006

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Huang Guangyu  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 636, Hits: 1724]
The Richest Man in China
James Mcgregor  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 499, Hits: 3280]
How New Music Now Gets Heard
Sharin Foo  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Franz Beckenbauer  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 653, Hits: 1820]
The Emperor of Soccer
Henry A. Kissinger  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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The Flickr Founders  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 994, Hits: 1729]
The creators of the website Flickr, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield.
Josh Quittner  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Sean (Diddy) Combs  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 712, Hits: 1953]
Marketing the Realities of Urban Life
Vivienne Tam  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Nandan Nilekani  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 571, Hits: 3213]
The Indian at the Center Of the Global Economy
Thomas Friedman  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Steve Wynn  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 799, Hits: 2217]
He Didn't Invent Las Vegas. He Just Makes It Work
Joel Stein  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Brian France  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 596, Hits: 1847]
The Man Who Made NASCAR Fly
Darrell Waltrip  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Jim Sinegal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 511, Hits: 1985]
Costco's Discount CEO
Daren Fonda  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Jamie Dimon  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 560, Hits: 3082]
The Banker Who Thinks Big
Daniel Eisenberg  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Anne Mulcahy  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 412, Hits: 2483]
Keeping Xerox Out of Trouble
Dody Tsiantar  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 581, Hits: 1739]
Dubai's Builder Of Big Dreams
Scott Macleod  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Patricia Russo  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 610, Hits: 1909]
How She Acquired A French Accent
Wilson Rothman  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Eddie Lampert  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 437, Hits: 2562]
The Best Investor on Wall Street?
Daniel Kadlec  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Omid Kordestani  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 480, Hits: 1973]
Meet the Other, Other Google Guy
Donny Deutsch  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Tom Freston  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 796, Hits: 1723]
The Ageless Hipster And His Pop Empire
Jyoti Thottam  Updated On: 12/9/2006

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Michelle Wie  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 765, Hits: 1793]
Golf's Teenage Sensation
Jeff Chu  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Wynton Marsalis  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 962, Hits: 1723]
Saving New Orleans
Aaron Neville  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Bill Clinton & George H.W. Bush  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 668, Hits: 1731]
Proving The Power Of Two
Michael Duffy  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Steve Nash  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 419, Hits: 1993]
Why the NBA Needs This Man
Charles Barkley  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Orhan Pamuk  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 858, Hits: 1727]
Teller of the Awful Truth
Howard Chua-Eoan  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Elie Wiesel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 865, Hits: 1737]
He Taught Us How to Answer Evil.
Oprah Winfrey  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Al Gore  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 891, Hits: 1724]
America Takes a Fresh Look at "Ozone Man"
Karen Tumulty  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Katie Couric  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 817, Hits: 1733]
The New Anchor Is Shaking Up The News
James Poniewozik  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Ralph Lauren  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 541, Hits: 1731]
The Dream
Richard Lacayo  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Jan Egeland  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 886, Hits: 1726]
The World's Conscience
Sanjay Gupta, M.D.  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Angelina Jolie  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 706, Hits: 1724]
Taking on Her Toughest Role
Mark Malloch Brown  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Paul Simon  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 840, Hits: 1736]
Bringing Depth and a Global Touch To Pop Music
Josh Tyrangiel  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Pernessa Seele  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 955, Hits: 1723]
Her Best Weapon Is Faith
Christine Gorman  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Wafa Sultan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 522, Hits: 2861]
A Daring Voice Calls For a New Islam
Asra Q. Nomani  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Vikram Akula  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 510, Hits: 1942]
Finding Novel Ways to Support India's Poor
Julie Rawe  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Ian Fishback  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1029, Hits: 1725]
Blowing the Whistle on Torture
Coleen Rowley  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Chen Guangcheng  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 795, Hits: 1729]
A Blind Man with Legal Vision
Hannah Beech  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Joey Cheek  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 731, Hits: 1725]
The Speedskater With a Heart of Gold
Dan Jansen  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Mukhtaran Bibi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 824, Hits: 1744]
A Pakistani Rape Victim Fights Back
Gloria Steinem  Updated On: 12/8/2006

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Hillary Rodham Clinton  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 694, Hits: 1732]
How She Is Reshaping U.S. Politics
Lindsey Graham  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Condoleezza Rice  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 665, Hits: 2248]
Master of the Universe
Leslie Gelb  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Ayman al-Zawahiri  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 881, Hits: 1725]
How He Became Bin Laden's No. 1
Peter Bergen  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Pope Benedict XVI  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 898, Hits: 1729]
The New Pontiff Finds His Voice
Peggy Noonan  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Ehud Olmert  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 319, Hits: 2945]
Israel Turns to The Inside Man
Zev Chafets  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Pervez Musharraf  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 830, Hits: 1724]
Why Pakistan's Leader May Be The West's Best Bet for Peace
Daniel Benjamin  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Bono  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 690, Hits: 1881]
"I Knew That He Was Genuine."
Jesse Helms  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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John Roberts  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 651, Hits: 1803]
The New Face Of America's Highest Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Ismail Haniya  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 828, Hits: 1732]
Hamas' New Heavy
Dennis Ross  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Bill & Melinda Gates  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 732, Hits: 1728]
Giving Money and Hope to the World.
Amanda Bower  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Junichiro Koizumi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 364, Hits: 2587]
The PM Who Shook Up Old Japan
Ian Buruma  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Archbishop Peter Akinola  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 633, Hits: 1812]
The Strength of a Lion
Rick Warren  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Jigme Singye Wangchuk  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 340, Hits: 1794]
The Surprising King of Bhutan
Pico Iyer  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Angela Merkel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 697, Hits: 2161]
Why Germans Are Smiling Again
Michael Elliott  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Wen Jiabao  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 627, Hits: 1724]
China's Mr. Pragmatic Gets to Work
Orville Schell  Updated On: 12/7/2006

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Jimmy Wales  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 587, Hits: 1766]
The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia
Chris Anderson  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Bill James  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 769, Hits: 1725]
Baseball's Sultan of Stat
John Henry  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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John Jones  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 892, Hits: 1729]
The Judge Who Ruled for Darwin
Matt Ridley  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Ma Jun  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 919, Hits: 1730]
The Man Who Would Save the People's Water
ED Norton  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Steven Levitt  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 734, Hits: 1731]
Thinking Way, Way Outside The Box
Malcolm Gladwell  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 627, Hits: 1731]
Iran's High-Stakes Nuclear Gambler
Azadesh Moaveni  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Andrew von Eschenbach  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 858, Hits: 1723]
Entering the Fray at the FDA
Michael Jacobson  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Muqtada al-Sadr  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 821, Hits: 1724]
Iraq's Shadowy Power Broker
Kenneth M. Pollack  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 846, Hits: 1724]
Africa's First Female President
Laura Bush  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Hugo Chavez  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 669, Hits: 1725]
Leading the Left-Wing Charge
Tim Padgett  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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George W. Bush  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 601, Hits: 1723]
Trying to Salvage an Administration
James Carney  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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John McCain  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 650, Hits: 1984]
The Maverick Gunning for the Oval Office
Ralph Nader  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Jacques Rossouw  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 883, Hits: 1760]
Women's Health Is His Passion
Barbara Ehrenreich  Updated On: 12/6/2006

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Matt Drudge  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 905, Hits: 1723]
Redefining What's News
Ana Marie Cox  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Dane Cook  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 518, Hits: 2200]
Standing Out in the Art of Stand-Up
Richard Zoglin  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Zahi Hawass  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 788, Hits: 2068]
The Guardian Of Egypt's Antiquities
Elizabeth Peters  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Kerry Emanuel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 699, Hits: 1724]
The Man Who Saw Katrina Coming
Jeffrey Kluger  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Kelly Brownell  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 824, Hits: 1736]
Battling America's Obesity Epidemic
Mike Huckabee  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Tyra Banks  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 740, Hits: 2458]
Supermogul with A Business Model
Heidi Klum  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Mike Brown  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 917, Hits: 1724]
Pluto's Worst Nightmare
Michael D. Lemonick  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Stephen Colbert  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 898, Hits: 1723]
What's So Funny About This Guy?
Brian Williams  Updated On: 12/5/2006

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Arianna Huffington  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 942, Hits: 1740]
The Woman Who Made a Sharp Left
Al Franken  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Ang Lee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 800, Hits: 1723]
The Cross-Cultural Cowboy of Film
Ziyi Zhang  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Renzo Piano  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 768, Hits: 1808]
The Bellissimo Builder
Richard Rogers  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Rain  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 389, Hits: 2095]
The Magic Feet from Korea
Bryan Walsh  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Meryl Streep  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 518, Hits: 1891]
You Should Hear Her Sing
Robert Altman  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Jeff Skoll  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 717, Hits: 1725]
The Maker of Take-Action Movies
Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Kiki Smith  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 607, Hits: 1970]
Delighting in the Debased
Chuck Close  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Will Smith  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 571, Hits: 4479]
Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an African American actor and rapper. He is one of few people who has enjoyed success in the three major entertainment media in the United States: movies, television, and the music industry.
Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Zadie Smith  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 724, Hits: 2162]
Chronicler of Cultural Clash
Janice C. Simpson  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Howard Stern  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1005, Hits: 1725]
New King of Satellite
David Spade  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Daddy Yankee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 734, Hits: 1793]
Reigning Champ Of Reggaeton
Carolina A. Miranda  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Rachael Ray  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 527, Hits: 3022]
Turning Up The Heat At Home
Beverly Keel  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Rob Pardo  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 441, Hits: 2207]
Architect of Virtual Worlds
Lev Grossman  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Reese Witherspoon  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 530, Hits: 1779]
The Look of a Competitor
Luke Wilson  Updated On: 12/4/2006

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Lushin Dubey  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 644, Hits: 2035]
Crusader on stage
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Aamir Raza Hussain  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 451, Hits: 2134]
Break from tradition...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Amjad Ali Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 780, Hits: 1984]
Music Without Boundaries
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Anjolie Ela Menon  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 810, Hits: 1970]
Different Strokes
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Sushma Swaraj  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 649, Hits: 2134]
High on Histrionics
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Arun Jaitley  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 558, Hits: 2251]
The Gentleman Politician
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Kapil Sibal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 766, Hits: 2072]
Packing A Punch
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Dadi Pudumjee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 609, Hits: 2088]
With Strings Attached
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 533, Hits: 10976]
Presiding Spirit
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Anjali Bhardwaj  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 595, Hits: 2144]
Information Warrior
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Birju Maharaj  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 673, Hits: 1994]
Dancing to different Beats...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Jatin Das  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 976, Hits: 1975]
Multi faceted Artist
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Zila Khan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 700, Hits: 2466]
Classical Touch
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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William Dalrymple  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 792, Hits: 1981]
Connected to Delhi
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Pavan Varma  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 662, Hits: 2088]
Diplomat-Author Extraordinaire
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Manju Kapur  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 433, Hits: 3217]
A Novel Approach
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Mushirul Hassan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 892, Hits: 1982]
Fighting for Secularism
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Prakash Karat  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 515, Hits: 2534]
The Makeover Man
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Anil Wilson  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 537, Hits: 2107]
Principled Defender
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Mark Tully  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 703, Hits: 1991]
A Native Indian
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Ellen DeGeneres  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 325, Hits: 2131]
The Bravest Comedian In Show Biz
Bob Newhart  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Empowering Teacher  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 761, Hits: 1972]
Meenakshi Gopinath
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Jyotiraditya Scindia  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 498, Hits: 2140]
Prince in Waiting
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Philip Seymour Hoffman  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 691, Hits: 1724]
The Actor Who Is Always "There"
Vanessa Redgrave  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Wayne Gould  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 824, Hits: 1727]
Sudoku's Typhoid Mary
Will Shortz  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Dixie Chicks  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 832, Hits: 1725]
Country's Defiant Darlings
Richard Corliss  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Nicolas Ghesquiere  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 472, Hits: 1921]
Meet Fashion's Double Threat
Kate Betts  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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George Clooney  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 741, Hits: 1905]
Hollywood's Man of Mystery
Belinda Luscombe  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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J.J. Abrams  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 749, Hits: 1723]
The Double-Threat Storyteller
Tom Cruise  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Fight Against Odds : Tito Rajarshri Mokhopadhyay  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 700, Hits: 2209]
Tito was declared "Mentally Challenged" when he was three...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Robert Ross  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 970, Hits: 2206]
At the age of 13, he started distributing papers in some large apartment buildings. He use to get up 4 in the morning...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Erik Weihenmayer  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1221, Hits: 54289]
He is not just any other blind guy to climb Everest. He was much confident of what he was doing...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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To Ground Zero : Omar Rivera and his guide dog Salty  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 511, Hits: 2205]
He and his yellow Labrador retriever, Salty, escaped unharmed with many of his co-workers from the 71st floor office...
Manpreet  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Soheila Helal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 951, Hits: 2199]
Behind the Burka : Women Subtly Fought Taliban
Amy Waldman  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Romila Thapar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 830, Hits: 2035]
Thapar is professor emeritus of Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, also author of many seminal works on the history of ancient India.
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 718, Hits: 2389]
Man Behind the Mask...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Vikram Seth  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 597, Hits: 2017]
Golden Writer
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Anil Joshi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 535, Hits: 3930]
The preacher of self-reliance helps Himalayan villagers tap local resources and encourages activities that open up new avenues to their well-being...
Vijay Pushkarna  Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Anuradha Bakshi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 729, Hits: 1996]
We shall overcome...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Javed Abidi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 933, Hits: 2597]
Able Crusader
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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P. Chidambaram  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 454, Hits: 2655]
Minding the Money Matters
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Sanjay Kaul  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 515, Hits: 1983]
Fighting for Your Rights
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Satish Gujral  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 655, Hits: 1996]
Music in Murals
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Rahul Gandhi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 586, Hits: 2316]
To the Manor Born
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Michael Jordan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 657, Hits: 2085]
With speed, leaping and shooting ability - he is known as Air Jordan - is as adept on defense as he is on offense...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Michael Jackson  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 610, Hits: 2145]
The most phenomenal popular - music success since Elvis Presley and the Beatles...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Luciano Pavarotti  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 730, Hits: 1968]
Is one of the principal singers with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and other leading companies...
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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L. K. Advani  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 651, Hits: 3219]
BJP's Iron Man
Updated On: 12/2/2006

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Jahangir  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 540, Hits: 2615]
Jahangir's interest in botany and horticulture was superficial. His observations were mostly confined to how a lotus traps a hornet or how saffron sprouts from the soil....
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/29/2006

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Diana  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 361, Hits: 5706]
Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over?...
Ian Buruma  Updated On: 11/29/2006

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Meghnad Saha  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 531, Hits: 2153]
Saha studied the origin and control of floods and suggested a number of river valley projects. Damodar Valley, Bhakra-Nangal and Hirakud projects are the final products of the work that he started...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/29/2006

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Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 953, Hits: 2150]
Menon conducted studies on cosmic rays at high altitudes over India close to the geomagnetic equator and at great depth below the ground at the Kolar gold mines...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Ananda M. Chakrabarty  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 606, Hits: 2748]
Chakrabarty's now patented 'Superbug' digests hydrocarbons at a far faster rate than naturally occurring bacteria...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Govindjee  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 626, Hits: 2154]
The sites in plants where photosynthesis takes place are called 'chloroplasts'. They contain a green pigment called chlorophyll...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Homi Jahangir Bhabha  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 447, Hits: 6900]
Bhabha encouraged research in electronics, space science, radio astronomy and microbiology. Telescope at Ootacamund is one of his creations...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Raj Chandra Bose  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 487, Hits: 3306]
Everyone knows the Morse Code. It is a code composed of dots and dashes used for sending messages over long distances via wireless telegraphy...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1041, Hits: 2149]
Seshadri was considered an expert in the chemistry of lichens, a fungus-like growth...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Panchanan Maheshwari  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 535, Hits: 4434]
Maheshwari wrote two authoritative books, An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms and Recent Advances in Embryology of Angiosperms...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Raja Ramanna  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 635, Hits: 2160]
Pokhran nuclear test was Ramanna's idea. Dynamite is generally used to dig canals and reservoirs, clear space for dams and harbours and even to make underground storehouses for nuclear wastes...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Srinivasa Ramanujan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 494, Hits: 3024]
Ramanujan was an astrologer of repute and a good speaker. He used to give lectures on subjects like God, Zero and Infinity...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1033, Hits: 2173]
Krishnan studied how heat is distributed in solids of various shapes, namely rods and coils, when heated in a vacuum...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 11/27/2006

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 571, Hits: 3170]
V.S. Naipaul has been awarded a number of literary prizes, among them the Booker Prize and the T.S. Eliot Award...
Manpreet  Updated On: 11/25/2006

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Maqbul Fida Husain  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 456, Hits: 2124]
A restless mind, controversies apart, his quest for the new has lent vibrancy to Indian art...
Ram Kumar  Updated On: 11/25/2006

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Sonia Gandhi  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 803, Hits: 2983]
President of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
Updated On: 11/25/2006

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 576, Hits: 3227]
The Father of Political Unrest (1856 - 1920 AD)
Sandeep  Updated On: 1/23/2006

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Florence Nightingale  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 490, Hits: 3172]
English nursing pioneer (1820 - 1910)
Sandeep  Updated On: 1/23/2006

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Ashoka - The Great  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 696, Hits: 16931]
Mauryan Emperor (273-232 B.C.)
Sandeep  Updated On: 1/23/2006

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Manmohan Singh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 565, Hits: 6880]
Man of the Moment
Updated On: 12/31/2005

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Kocheril Raman Narayanan : President of India  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 701, Hits: 1748]
Narayanan led an illustrious life as a teacher, journalist, diplomat, vice-chancellor, Member of Parliament, vice-president, minister and finally President...
Manpreet  Updated On: 5/5/2005

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Vikram A. Sarabhai  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 328, Hits: 2697]
Sarabhai realized that the study of cosmic rays would help in understanding terrestrial magnetism and atmosphere, nature of sun and outer space...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 4/5/2005

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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 616, Hits: 2566]
According to Narlikar, a 'black hole' can absorb tachyons and reduce its own surface area...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 4/5/2005

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Satyendra Nath Bose  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 708, Hits: 2247]
Bose become a great mathematician like Pierre Simon Laplace and Augustin Louis Cauchy...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 4/5/2005

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Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 768, Hits: 2150]
Wadia was an expert palaeontologist. Among his important discoveries of invertebrate fossils and plants is one of the skull fragments of Stegodon Ganesa, shaped like an elephant...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 665, Hits: 3327]
Hirakud Hydroelectric Project is based on Mahalanobis statistical studies and so is the Damodar Valley multipurpose hydroelectric project...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1183, Hits: 2154]
Swaminathan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 720, Hits: 2157]
Laser is called solid, liquid or gas laser depending on whether its source for atoms is solid, liquid or gas. In the case of gas laser, the atoms or molecules of the gas or gases are 'stimulated' to generate laser light...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 796, Hits: 2224]
Biometry is the mathematical study of measurements in biology such as height, skull size, size of tail and geometry of flowers...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Devendra Lal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 816, Hits: 2259]
Lal made extensive studies of meteorites, of lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the ocean bed...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 690, Hits: 2293]
Kaprekar is also recognized for his significant contributions to Demlo numbers and other recreational mathematics problems...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Jagadish Chandra Bose  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 479, Hits: 3864]
Bose was the first to fabricate the device that generated microwaves-radio waves of very short wavelength...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Kamla Kant Pandey  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1024, Hits: 2166]
Pandey researches, cross-pollinating plants can now be 'made' self-pollinating. Bees are no longer essential for cross-pollination...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Prafulla Chandra Ray  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 882, Hits: 2155]
Ray read that 'sulphuric acid is the mother of industries'. Therefore, he tried to produce the acid...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 950, Hits: 2153]
Ramachandran and his students established the way molecules are arranged in collagen. It has a triple helical structure...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 726, Hits: 2152]
Rao research work is mostly confined to 'solid state chemistry'. Using various sophisticated tools of spectroscopy, Rao has tried to understand the inner structure of solids...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/24/2005

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Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 356, Hits: 3101]
Salim Ali began an ambitious project in collaboration with S. Dillon Ripley, an ornithologist of international repute, to bring out in ten volumes Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/2/2005

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Subrahamanyan Chandrasekhar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 820, Hits: 2150]
Chandrasekhar calculated his 'limit' purely on mathematical equations, astronomers have found that all the White Dwarf stars in the sky have masses within his prescribed limit...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/1/2005

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Dr. Avtar Singh Paintal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 584, Hits: 2324]
Paintal introduced new techniques in medical research which have led to discovery of other receptors in the lungs, heart and intestines...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/1/2005

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Birbal Sahni  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 586, Hits: 3255]
Discovered some new genus of plants like Homoxylon rajmehalense, Rajamahalia paradora and Williamsonia sewardiana...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/1/2005

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Benjamin Peary Pal  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 792, Hits: 2175]
Pal done significant research on roses and developed more than forty varieties of them...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/1/2005

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 607, Hits: 2385]
Bhatnagar did research to make wax odourless, refine kerosene to increase flame height and utilize petroleum waste in the oil industry...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 1/1/2005

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Kanada  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 648, Hits: 2265]
Kanada’s atomic theory was far more advanced than those forwarded later by Greek philosophers, Leucippus and Democritus...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Nagarjuna  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 671, Hits: 2152]
Extraction of metals such as silver, gold, tin and copper from their ores and their purification were also mentioned in the treatise...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Sawai Jai Singh II  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 601, Hits: 2153]
Jai SIngh's collection included the English astronomer, John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica, Pere de la Hire's Tabulae Astronomicae, Ulugh Beg's tables, Zij Ulugh Begi, and Ptolemy's Almagest...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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S. K. Mitra  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 730, Hits: 2152]
Haringhata Ionosphere Field Station was installed and the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics founded in Calcutta...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Brahmagupta  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 471, Hits: 3183]
Brahmagupta declared that addition or subtraction of zero to or from any quantity, negative or positive, does not affect it...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Varahamihira  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 502, Hits: 2346]
Varahamihira made some significant observations in the field of ecology, hydrology and geology...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Patanjali  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 675, Hits: 2151]
Nadi, chakra, kundalini, yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Bhaskara  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 495, Hits: 4053]
Bijaganita dealt with algebra, Coladhyaya with spheres and Grahaganita with planetary mathematics...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/22/2004

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Susruta  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 567, Hits: 4039]
Susruta is today recognized as the father of plastic surgery all over the world...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/18/2004

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Charaka  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 758, Hits: 2563]
Charaka was the first physician to present the concept of digestion, metabolism and immunity...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/18/2004

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Aryabhata  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 566, Hits: 7109]
Aryabhata was the first to deduce that the earth is round and that it rotates on its own axis...
Dilip M. Salwi  Updated On: 12/12/2004

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Bhagat Singh  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 497, Hits: 18710]
After throwing the bombs, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Raj Guru deliberately courted arrest by refusing to run away from the scene...
Manpreet  Updated On: 2/28/2004

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 914, Hits: 5601]
The relative neglect of his tomb suggests that many Indian Muslims may have lost interest in keeping his memory alive...
Prof. Mushirul Hasan  Updated On: 5/3/2003

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Pablo Picasso  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 365, Hits: 8453]
No painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime...
Robert Hughes  Updated On: 3/29/2003

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Tenzing Norgay  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 403, Hits: 4166]
He was the first to scale Everest. Better still, he helped create a 'thousand Tenzings'...
Vijay Jung Thapa  Updated On: 2/8/2003

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Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 799, Hits: 2153]
The German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse emphasized the struggle of man's quest of spiritual enlightenment in his novels and poems...
G. W. Field  Updated On: 11/29/2002

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Gunter Wilhelm Grass  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 831, Hits: 1728]
Gunter Grass is considered one of the foremost literary figures of postwar Germany. His strong commitment to political ideals is manifested in satiric, Rabelaisian novels and plays...
Marilyn Sibley Fries  Updated On: 11/29/2002

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Laurel and Hardy  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 415, Hits: 2794]
The slapstick comedy team of Hardy and Laurel became one of Hollywood's greatest comedy teams in the 1920s and '30s...
Frank Manchel  Updated On: 11/27/2002

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Alfred Hitchcock [1899 - 1980]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 669, Hits: 2182]
Worked as a title designer, script editor, and assistant director in the British film industry before directing his first film, "The Lodger" (1927). He moved to Hollywood in 1939 and released the romantic thriller "Rebecca"...
William S. Pechter  Updated On: 11/27/2002

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Aleksandr Pushkin [1799 - 1837]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 575, Hits: 2153]
The greatest Russian poet of the 19th century, established the modern Russian literary idiom in such works as Boris Godunov and his masterpiece Eugene Onegin...
Frank Manchel  Updated On: 11/27/2002

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Neil A. Armstrong  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 330, Hits: 4989]
Commander of the U.S. Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to step onto the Moon on July 20, 1969. (NASA)...
David Dooling  Updated On: 11/26/2002

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Phineas Taylor Barnum [1810 - 1891]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 577, Hits: 2168]
The "Greatest Show on Earth," the famous circus, was formed in 1881 by P.T. Barnum (1810-91) and his competitor James Bailey. A consummate showman, Barnum maintained, "There's a sucker born every minute." Barnum made a fortune exhibiting such sensational attractions as Siamese twins, midgets, and exotic animals...
A. H. Saxone  Updated On: 11/26/2002

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Bertolt Brecht [1898 - 1956]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 872, Hits: 4788]
An East German playwright, dramatized the Marxist themes of greed and corruption in capitalist society...
Updated On: 9/12/2002

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-1791]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 719, Hits: 2530]
He is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived. He began writing minuets at the age of 5, and by the time of his death at age 35, he had produced 626 cataloged works...
H. C. Robbins Landon  Updated On: 2/12/2002

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749 - 1832]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1144, Hits: 4670]
One of the greatest figures of German culture, encompassed literature, science, music, and philosophy within his work...
H. G. Haile  Updated On: 2/12/2002

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Thomas Mann [1875-1955]  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 501, Hits: 2178]
A leading German writer of the early 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929 for such works as the novella Death in Venice (1912) and his masterpiece, The Magic Mountain (1924)...
Peter Heller  Updated On: 2/12/2002

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Oprah Winfrey  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 432, Hits: 4944]
Winfrey stands as a beacon, not only in the worlds of media and entertainment but also in the larger realm of public discourse...
Deborah Tannen  Updated On: 2/1/2002

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Steven Spielberg  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 334, Hits: 2220]
His edits are too quick; he uses wideangle lenses; he doesn't photograph women very well; he's tricky; he likes to dig a hole in the ground and put the camera in the hole and shoot up at people...
Roger Ebert  Updated On: 12/26/2001

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Sigmund Freud  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 560, Hits: 2289]
As he pursued his medical researches, he came to the conclusion that the most intriguing mysteries lay concealed in the complex operations of the mind...
Peter Gay  Updated On: 12/25/2001

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Adolf Hitler  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 495, Hits: 4160]
Not being a professional historian, I take on this essay with fear and trembling. That's because, although defeated, although dead, this man is frightening...
Elie Wiesel  Updated On: 12/24/2001

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Marlon Brando  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 682, Hits: 1943]
We know too that the faith vested in his example by all the De Niros and Pacinos, and, yes the Johnny Depps and Leonardo DiCaprios, was not misplaced. Marlon Brando may have resisted his role in history, may even have travestied it, but...
Richard Schickel  Updated On: 9/21/2001

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 611, Hits: 3327]
In his short career in power, from 1917 until his death in 1924, Lenin created a model not merely for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler, for Pol Pot...
David Remnick  Updated On: 9/21/2001

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