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Lal Bahadur Sastri "Second Prime Minsiter of India"

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  source-: www.careerindia.com He was the second Prime Minister of Independent India. He promoted the White Revolution to increase the production and supply of milk also promoted Green Revolution in 1965 to increase the food grain production, especially in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Sastri ji gave the slogan " Jai Jawan Jai Kishan ".He Dedicated more than 30 years to the country and he came to be known as a man of great integrity and competence. Early Life Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 in Mugalsarai, Uttar Pradesh in a kayastha Hindu family.. Sastri was two brothers and one elder sister, he was younger child of Ramdulari Devi and Sharda Prasad.  His father was a teacher, later he became a clerk in the Revenue Officer in Allahabad. In 1906 Sarada Prasad was died in an epidemic of plague. After few month she gave birth to Sundari Devi, Sastri's family grew up in the house of maternal grandfather, Hazari lalji. Sastri was sent to Varanasi where he stayed with h...
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Major Dhyan Chand "Magician of Hockey"

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   Source-: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dhyan_Chand_closeup.jpg                                   Faizhaider Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player who was considered to be one of the greatest players of all time popularly Known as " Magician of Hockey " due to his extraordinary goal-scoring feets, in addition of earning three Olympic Gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936. In respect of Major Dhyan Chand every year 29 August celebrated as the National Sports Day to pay  respect the legendary and classy hockey player.   Dhyan chand Singh, who won India a gold medal at the Olympic Games.  Early Life  Major Dhyan Chand Singh was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) in Rajput family. At the age of fourteen, he held the hockey stick in his hand for the first time. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Army's Punjab Regiment and soon he was g...
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Dadabhai Naoroji "Grand Old Man of India"

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    Image Credit -: essaybiography         Dadabhai Naoroji also known as the " Grand Old Man of India " and " official  Ambassador of India "   re sp onsible for the establishment of other important organizations like the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay and the East Indian Association in London among many others. Dadabhai Naoroji believed in the equal treatment of both men and women and was a forerunner that advocated for education among the women . Early Life    Dadabhai Naoroji was born to a Parsi family on the 4th of September, 1825 in Bombay of British India. He was a man who strongly professed his faith of Zoroastrianism and throughout his life laid foundations to many institutions and organizations that spoke of the ways of the Parsi faith. Dadabhai Naoroji was also a frequent writer where he preached the beliefs of Zoroastrianism in a local Gujarati publication called Rast Goftar which literally translates to ‘ The Tru...
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Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (J.R.D TATA ) "The father of Indian civil aviation"

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source-: http://photodivision.gov.in/writereaddata/webimages/thumbnails/49953.jpg   Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was an Indian aviator,  entrepreneur,  industrialist and chairman of Tata Group. He was the son of popular businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his wife Suzanne Brière. His mother was the first woman in Indian to drive a car and, in 1929, he became the first licensed pilot in India. He is also best known for being the founder of several industries under the Tata Group, including Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Titan Industries, Tata Salt, Voltas. and Air India. Under his tenure, the Tata group’s assets climbed from Rs. 620 million in 1939 to over Rs. 1,00,000 million in 1990. The Tata group started from 14 companies but under his leadership he amalgamated 95 enterprises valued in billions in dollar such as chemicals, automobiles, tea, information technology and many more.   Early Life  J. R. D. Tata was born as Jehangir on 29 July 1904 into...
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Sucheta Kriplani "First Women Chief Minister of India"

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Source-: https://www.thequint.com/ Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first woman Chief Minister , serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967. It was a remarkable feat given the small number of women in politics during her time, and she maintained a reputation for being a firm administrator.  Early Life Sucheta was born on 25th June 1908 in Ambala, Haryana , into a progressive Brahmo family. Her father worked as a medical officer, posted differnent states so she attended a number of schools, her final degree being a Master's in History from St Stephan ' college, Delhi. She was a shy child, self-conscious about her appearance and intellect, as she points out in her book, An Unfinished Autobiography. When Sucheta was 10 years old, she and her siblings had heard their father and his friends talk about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre then Sucheta and her sister Sulekha  went out in anger on some of the Angl...
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Dr Rajendra Prasad

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  Image Credit-: indianpersonalities Rajendra Prasad was an Indian independence activist, lawyer and the first President of India.Prasad joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian Independence Movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar. A supporter of Mahatma Gandhi, Prasad was imprisoned by British authorities during the Salt Satyagraha of 1931 and the Quit India movement of 1942. Early Life Dr. Rajendra Prasad was born  3 December 1884    into a big joint family in Ziradei village of Siwan district near Chhapra of Bihar. His father, Mahadev Sahay was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit language while his mother Kamleshwari Devi was a religious lady. When his age was five Rajendra Prasad was placed under the tutelage of a Maulvi to learn Persian, Hindi and Mathematics. Later he was transferred to the Chhapra Zilla School and went on to study at R.K. Ghosh's Academy in Patna along with elder brother Mahendra Prasad. At the age of 12, ...
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

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Image credit-: https://www.ndtv.com/  Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader of Indian Nationlist movement and became the first Prime Minister of India. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving India as Prime Minister from its establishment in 1947 as an independent nation, until his death in 1964. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children knew him better as Chacha Nehru and every year 14 November celebrated as Children day.   In 1955, Nehru was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. President Rajendra Prasad awarded him the honours without taking advice from the Prime Minister as would be the normal constitutional procedure. Early Life Nehru was born to a family of K ashmiri Brahmans who had migrated to Delhi early in the 18th century. He was a son of Motilal Nehru , a renowned lawyer and leader of the Indian independence movement, who became one of Mohandas...
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