chandra kumar naranbhai patel
L aser is the acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". Though i...
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charlie chaplin
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C harlie Chaplin is the endearing figure of his Little Tramp was instantly recognizable aro...
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chintamani nagesa ramachandra rao
W hen eleven-year-old C. N. R. Rao and his classmates did very well in science, their teacher took ...
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darashaw nosherwan wadia
T here was nothing in the childhood of Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia to suggest that he would become a g...
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dattaraya ramchandra kaprekar
M athematics can be a fascinating game. Of course, few ever learn enough to play it. But Dattaraya ...
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dayanand saraswati
S wami Dayananda Saraswati was born in Tamil Nadu. He became a swami as a young man and was the ass...
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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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douglas adams
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D ouglas Noel Adams (March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001) - also known as Bop Ad or Bob after his...
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dr. avtar singh paintal
W hen people, whether young or old, climb a mountain, they are easily tired. If they still over exe...
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erik weihenmayer
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E rik Weihenmayer, 33 years old is not just any other blind guy to climb Everest. He was mu...
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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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gopalasamudram narayana ramachandran
W hen in 1952 the University of Madras made Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran head of a departme...
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govindjee
T o re-live the area of discoveries in photosynthesis, a mock seminar was conducted at the Universi...
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har gobind khorana
H ar Gobind Khorana was born of Hindu parents in Rajpur, a little village in Punjab, which is now p...
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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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johann wolfgang von goethe
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G enerally recognized as one of the greatest and most versatile European writers and thinke...
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k s krishnan
I n 1955 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences invited K.S. Krishnan to be guest speaker at its ann...
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kalidasa
K alidasa is arguably India’s greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist, his title Kavikulaguru (...
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kamla kant pandey
I t was the agriculture science period for the ninth class at the Kshattriya High School at Jaunpur...
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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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laurel and hardy
M asters of slapstick buffoonery, Stan Laurel, [Born in Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, Eng...
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leo tolstoy
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C ount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy listen (September 9 (August 28, O.S.), 1828 - November 20 (...
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mambillikalathil govind kumar menon
M ambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, a renowned physicist, learned the “beauty of the scient...
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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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margaret thatcher
T he Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October ...
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marlon brando
A n enigmatic genius whose creative work transformed an entire art form, Marlon Brando continues to...
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meghnad saha
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I n 1905, when the British Government divided Bengal into East and West, the people were ou...
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mirza ghalib
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M irza Asadullah Beg Khan Ghalib1 (also known as Mirza Ghalib) (December 27, 1797 - Februar...
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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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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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neil alden armstrong
T he American astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong, b. Wapakoneta, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1930, was the first pers...
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omar e. rivera
O mar E. Rivera, 43, employee of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will never forget t...
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panchanan maheshwari
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I n the heyday of science at Allahabad University students from all parts of the country us...
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phineas taylor barnum
P hineas Taylor Barnum, born in Bethel, Connecticut, USA, July 5, 1810, was America’s most fa...
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prafulla chandra ray
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T he neighbours did not know what to make of the young man. That he was a college lecturer ...
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prasanta chandra mahalanobis
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M ost beds are of standard size. Especially those put in dormitories. The result is that th...
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rabindranath tagore
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R abindranath Tagore rabIndranAth thhAkur May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941 in the Bangla Calen...
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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...
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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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robert ross
R obert Ross, who is now 82 years of age and lives in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. made his fortu...
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