prafulla chandra ray
145c
T he neighbours did not know what to make of the young man. That he was a college lecturer ...
prasanta chandra mahalanobis
1439
M ost beds are of standard size. Especially those put in dormitories. The result is that th...
rabindranath tagore
27d4
R abindranath Tagore rabIndranAth thhAkur May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941 in the Bangla Calen...
raj chandra bose
O nly a few days were left for his B.A. examination. Raj Chandra Bose was lost in his books. But hi...
raja ramanna
O n May 18, 1974, India tested its first nuclear device in the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan. The cre...
robert ross
R obert Ross, who is now 82 years of age and lives in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. made his fortu...
s. k. mitra
A shot was fired and a huge balloon rose up, carrying a man with it. The assembled crowd at the Ca...
sabeer bhatiya : the founder of hotmail.com
S abeer Bhatiya an ordinary guy from banglore came to Los Angeles eleven years ago, in September 19...
satyendra nath bose
14d3
W hen that great educationist, Asutosh Mookerjee, founded the University Collage of Science...
sawai jai singh
195b
I t was all very, very romantic. The night sky above the Amber fort, atop the craggy hills ...
shanti swarup bhatnagar
13e9
A British company was drilling for oil near Rawalpindi, when it came across an unexpected ...
sir c.v. raman
S ir Chandrasekhara Venkata Roman was one of the greatest scientists of India and was awarded the N...
sir vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul
BORN : 1932 in Chaguanas
1971: Booker Prize
1986: T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writ...
soheila helal
I n the walled garden of her house, Soheila Helal waged a quite rebellion against the Taliban. On a...
steven spielberg
A s one of the most acclaimed directors of the late 20th Century, Steven Spielberg’s work has...
subrahamanyan chandrasekhar
I n 1946, a boyish-looking man was driving once every week from Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin to ...
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