sawai jai singh
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I t was all very, very romantic. The night sky above the Amber fort, atop the craggy hills ...
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fight against odds
“W hy am I autistic, and you aren’t?” He expresses himself with the help of the a...
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jagadish chandra bose
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O n May 10, 1901, the hall of the Royal Society in London was packed with eminent scientist...
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margaret thatcher
T he Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October ...
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nagarjuna
P erhaps no man in his time has more tales spun around him than Nagarjuna. He was said to be in com...
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satyendra nath bose
14d3
W hen that great educationist, Asutosh Mookerjee, founded the University Collage of Science...
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beavis & butthead
Beavis and Butt-head was an American animated television series created by Mike
Judge. A...
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lata mangeshker
T he Nightingale of India , Lata Mangeshkar , with her three octaves spinning, honey-sweet voice, h...
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sir vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul
BORN : 1932 in Chaguanas
1971: Booker Prize
1986: T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writ...
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jayant vishnu narlikar
H ow did the universe, which is composed of stars, galaxies, nebulae, come into being? Philosophers...
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maqbul fida husain
Y ears ago, I had accompanied Husain to a Hindi movie. Barely 10 minutes after it began Husain was ...
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meghnad saha
1a51
I n 1905, when the British Government divided Bengal into East and West, the people were ou...
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raja ramanna
O n May 18, 1974, India tested its first nuclear device in the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan. The cre...
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devendra lal
A t 6.00 p.m. G.M.T. on November 22, 1973, an American astronaut, Edward Gibson, came out of Skylab...
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soheila helal
I n the walled garden of her house, Soheila Helal waged a quite rebellion against the Taliban. On a...
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laurel and hardy
M asters of slapstick buffoonery, Stan Laurel, [Born in Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, Eng...
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monkombu sambasivan swaminathan
S waminathan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultu...
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shanti swarup bhatnagar
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A British company was drilling for oil near Rawalpindi, when it came across an unexpected ...
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prasanta chandra mahalanobis
1439
M ost beds are of standard size. Especially those put in dormitories. The result is that th...
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s. k. mitra
A shot was fired and a huge balloon rose up, carrying a man with it. The assembled crowd at the Ca...
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